Economic damage can be avoided. Speaking today, the ecb president Christine Lagarde said there is no doubt the pandemic will have a longterm impact on the global economy. It is clear that covid19 will cause lasting changes to our economies. Ourill not necessarily suck economy potential, if we act powerfully. But it will cause sectoral and societal shifts against which we have to guardian be prepared. Mark according to a new ecb report, governments and Central Banks face a tricky balance between shocking the economy if they and the pandemic support to soon and undermining it if they keep measures in place to long too long. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 6 00 p. M. In london, and 2 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories we are following on the bloomberg an
Sort of currency to place that and this earlier this week we saw it your own power stated that he would dread a day that Digital Currencies take over the Current System and the u. S. Dollar would not be the old reserve currency anymore rightists like in history people dread it the day that gas lights are no longer around no one to electric lights and they dreaded the day that cars took over and we didnt have horse drawn carriages anymore and you know things change when he cant do anything to stop at your own peril he could be the last fed chairman in the United States before the big coin to take over and so this is just all part of life i think its more like the day that you know the french royal family dreaded the day that democracy and a republic would form rather than the peasants be. Happy with brioche so here hes saying i hope the peasants remain happy with this can tell you in effect that is part and parcel of a system whereby we the Central Banks create money and we give it to t
Nominate janet yellen to his treasury secretary. She would become the first woman to hold the position. Janet yellen has pushed for more fiscal spending during the pandemic. Credentials could covid passports restart International Travel . We will discuss the latest strategy with its ceo this afternoon, and before then, we are joined by the chief executive of the dutch flag carrier. Do not miss that conversation. It is 6 00 a. M. In london and 7 00 a. M. In zurich. A little bit of breaking news on novartis and we will come back to that in a moment but there is a Share Buyback of up to 2. 5 billion. So we will touch on that in a moment but i think we are in this momentum and we have almost got this goldilocks between a vaccineon starting, narrative, and janet yellen did not get Elizabeth Warren so thats probably part of the cheer on the streets. Certainly. I think wall street will embrace it but also the progressives will embrace her but with this pick which is historic, the first female
We are at the end of a fee out era and weve been kind of warning of preparing for that for the past 10 years of this series 11 years now and you could see that even Jerome Powell an acting sitting head of a central bank the u. S. Consul bank is even saying this member last year mark carney said that as he was exiting the bank of england he said that the dollar is no longer fit to be the worlds reserve currency and that we need these additional currency sort of s. T. R. Sort of currency to replace that and this earlier this week we saw at your own pow stated that he would dread a day that Digital Currency is take over the Current System and the u. S. Dollar would not be the old reserve currency anymore right its like in history people dreaded the day that gas lights are no longer around we want to electric lights and they dreaded the day that cars took over and we didnt have horse drawn carriages anymore and you know things change and he cant do a thing to stop at your own pallet he cou
If confirmed, she would be the first woman to hold the position. Promising stynes leader to have u. S. Coronavirus Vaccine Program says astrazenecas shot could halt severe covid. Welcome to the program. Futures in europe pointing higher. Futures in the u. S. Pointing higher and a number of uncertainties removed from the markets thinking over the last 24 hours or so. One of them is who is going to be treasury secretary. Somebody the that market knows ery well in the shape of janet yellen, somebody that has considerable monetary experience and fiscal experience. The other uncertainty is the transition at the white house. That seeps to be looking a little smoother given the headlines we have seen over recent hours. The asian picture benefiting from all of that removal of uncertainty i described. Something more complicated happening to the japanese market which had been doing well prior to being closed. It seems the Trump Administration in its last days still has some tough time to be toug