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Day for the Federal Reserve system. It is a meeting of mystery. Our Michael Mckee will be there for the press conference, special coverage this afternoon. But right now, a great conversation on some of the challenges that we are going to see. Jon ferro, to me, the major challenge, with futures up 17, you mentioned this earlier, this morning, is the two americans that are out there, that two americans that are out there right now, jon ferro, are nothing like what john edwards ever thought he would see. Jonathan just compare and contrast, tom, take the airlines on one hand you can take any sector, the retail sector, and compare it to fintech right now. Big tech on fire. Other companies, tom, literally slashing in tens of thousands, and a central bank that has to set policy for both economies. That is a tremendously difficult position to be in as a central bank right now, and that will create distortion. Some would argue that is already happening. Tom Lisa Abramowicz, within your reading,
Enough clarity on the economy to justify restarting payouts yet. That decision is not yet final. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I am Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. It is 1 00 in new york and 1 00 a. M. In hong kong. Welcome to bloomberg markets. I will be speaking with bill ackman. We will discuss the debut of his new Blank Check Company which raised 4 billion in its initial offering. He will weigh in on what kinds of companies he wants to target with the money and other investments. First, lets look at the markets. We are higher. The nasdaq has erased all of its gains. 25 . P 500 is up mark forck at the 70 the you in the. With heating up today expulsion of the envoy from china. I want to point to the fact that we will be talking about in a moment and that is the Blank Check Company that is trading up an ipo today. The expectation was to raise 4 billion and we will be talking
Rally about to hit a wall in 2020 joining us, jeff richards, and paul meeks good morning, guys good to see you. Paul, let me begin with you, ask you why . Is it because things are expensive on a relative basis . Thats right. I have been around a long time i remember with lashes on my back what happened when the internet bubble popped not falling for that scenario. I expect the u. S. To grow at a decent rate, fundamentals of most Tech Companies, not all, to be reasonably good, but the bulk, particularly of marquise tech names are trading at valuations getting me a little scared because i think much too much is priced into some of these names as we roll out of 19 into 20. Jeff, we hear that. On the other hand, you might counter with the fact some of the names got a haircut second half of the year episodes like wework, some argue, are healthy in the long run for staestablishing discipl. What do you think . I remember folks being concerned about tech stocks end of last year, had quite a ru
Sonali welcome to bloomberg markets. Lets look at the markets quickly. We have a lot of red on the screen. We have the s p 500 now down about one half of 1 . The nasdaq 100 is seeing bigger can kleins. The russell 2000 even more than that. Its now down about 1. 5 on the day, quickening its losses and thats on the back of higher yields. The twoyear yield just flying higher. Its above 4. 67 on the day. Thats a three basis point move. You have to remember how far weve come. We will dive into the Economic Data we had this morning that is driving the yields higher. Michael mckee joins us now to bring us up mike mike to date. This is a nerd indicator. Business inventories are just out at the moment. Its not a really good number. 0. 0 after a 0. 3 increase the month before. That is down from 0. 4 . It suggests the u. S. Is not building inventories as much as people might have thought. There was a feeling that because gdp has shown inventories declining for the last months that we would see fa