Market meltdown. Hang on, everyone, this is the final hour of trade. Good afternoon. Lets have a look at whats driving the action the lack of a Production Cut deal from opec coupled with a saudi price cut sending prices tumbling down 17 on the day alone. Coronavirus fears remain front and center as global cases top 111,000 and italy locks down a quarter of its population. And the bull market chaos rages on as yields on the tenyear at a low of 0. 31 and remain at the moment below 0. 5 . Joining us for the full first hour of the show, lindsey bell from ally invest they have 7. 85 billion in total customer assets. Shes here along with our team of reporters to break down this massive market sell off. Bob pisani is on the floor of the change Brian Sullivan covering the Oil Price Collapse mike is here to look in the the market mike holland ond transports. Well get to all our reporters the dow is down 7. 25 . B bob. Important thing is the Circuit Breakers hit this morning. Down 7 . Halted for
Road map begins with bracing for the fed. Stocks near records, the market meltup continues as the president weighs demoting the fed chair, lets see what he does. Head winds for facebook, the tech giants cryptocurrency plan greeted by a wall of regulatory and data concerns in washington. And huawei ceo downplaying any revenue impact of a u. S. Ban on the company in an exclusive on cnbc. Federal reserve policymakers will conclude their two day meeting today. A policy statement will be issued at 2 00 eastern time. If the fed does not cut rates today, investors will look for indications it may do so later this year. Powell will hold his usual post meeting News Conference around 2 30 eastern well bring you live coverage obviously. Generally i would say, jim, consensus is no cut today. But maybe clearing the decks for as much as 50 next month i spoke with lance fritz last night, Union Pacific he said something very interesting, he said, listen, he supports tariffs in principle. But understan
The president ripping into the ecb chief for pushing down the euro, saying it is unfair to the u. S. And as you just heard, beyond meats incredible run continues. Shares surging once again. Now up close to 700 since its debut. Facebook is up in the premarket after launching a new cryptocurrency called libra. The move is designed to expand the companys presence in ecommerce and Global Payments also creating a regulated subsidiary called colibra which will roll out a Crypto Wallet based on the libra currency. Earlier, we spoke about the differences between libra and bitcoin. If you want to compare libra with traditional cryptocurrencies, the first big difference is that typically cryptocurrencies have investment vehicles or, you know, Investment Assets rather than being great medium of exchange and this is really designed from the ground up to be a great medium of exchange, very high quality form of digital money that you can use for everyday payments and cross border payments, microtran
Stoxx 600 after a selloff in Technology Stocks. Meeting, we understand that russia and opec will extend their production cuts. Eurodollar, im looking at that, also pound. Maybe finding an agreement. With some of her possible coalition partners. Later on, we talk italian banks and risk with claudio costamagna. Interview yousive dont want to miss as well. Minouche shafik joins us in her first tv appearance since leaving the boe. I, we will talk with the socgen chairman. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Nejra u. S. President donald trump has nominated Marvin Goodfriend to be a governor of the Federal Reserve. A professor at Carnegie Mellon university and a former director of research at the richmond said goodfriend has served on an independent panel of economists known as the shadow open market committee. Opec and russia are ready to extend their Oil Production cuts until the end of next year to ensure global stockpiles keep falling. Viennang to delegates in , all opec members a
For a conversation on Monetary Policy and the possibility of inflation in the u. S. Economy. Former Federal Reserve chair bernanke and Larry Summers speaking. Live coverage just getting underway. Will undoubted lly weighing. Thats the fun. We think that the question of rethinking the two Percent Inflation target is one of the most important questions facing Monetary Policy makers at the moment. You might say the backward looking question that we need to think about which we are thinking about is how did unconventional policy really work and should unconventional policy really be considered conventional policy. We look forward i think you have to argue that one of the biggest questions now is whether given everything we know whether a two Percent Inflation target framework is the right one for Monetary Policy. After all, when it was conceived nobody anticipated we would have so many years of trying to get inflation up to two percent and nor did we think that the long run equilibrium Int