I know youre loathe to lay into fiscal policy but given forecast for Unemployment Rates, do you think its important that congress extend the extra unemployment benefits. I think were trying to keep our comments on fiscal policy at a high level ill come to your specific question let me just say this, this is the biggest economic shock in the u. S. And in the world really in living memory we went from the lowest level of unemployment in 50 years to the highest level in close to 90 years and we did it in two months extraordinary. Appropriately the response there fiscal authorities has been large, forceful, and very quick by the standards of these things roughly 3 trillion congress has authorized, and thats benefiting households, laid off workers, small and medium businesses, hospitals, state and local governments, 14 of gdp, its in a class by itself in terms of both the size and the speed of it. Its also pretty innovative. Both the ppp and Unemployment Insurance are quite innovative in th
Now projecting anywhere from 100,000 to 240,000 total deaths in the u. S big investors are weighing in. Rosengren says the feed needs to adapt as the crisis proceeds and he expects the Unemployment Rate to rise dramatically weve got a big guest lineup coming for you in just a couple minutes, talking to james gorman from Morgan Stanley. Hell talk about the market volatility and how the banks have fared so far in this crisis lets focus in on the big stories we are watching at this hour, the final hour of trade. Mike santoli watching the market plunge meg tirrell has new details on the state of Virus Testing in america, so important. Micah, first to you on this market were seeing a pretty steep selloff here. A pretty steep selloff sad to say not that unusual after you get one of these crashlike moves, then a rebound. I think a lot of folks were hand capping this to be an area where it would stall out this may be a little more than a stall. Well have to see. This is a twoyear chart we were
Highest level in two years trade headlines have us on record high watch for the s p, a closer call for the dow and nasdaq and would be the 27th record close of the year for the s p. Joining us for the other, stephanie link, good to have you here this afternoon. What does it mean . The computers take each headline as if its fresh what a difference a year makes is all i have to say last year we had tight fed policy, no idea what would happen with trade. This year we have much more accommodating fed and seems were getting some pieces of certainty on trade may not be what we want but making progress. Now i would argue a lot of this is priced into the market given weve had Market Expansion on the multiple but, you do not fight the fed and at the same time the ism and pmis are stabilizing and the data this week has been pretty good on other data points on the economic front we might have risk to the upside in growth for 2020 and thats why the cyclicals are rallying ive been biassed, its been
Giant announces an updated product line. Welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. Good to be back ahead of the most important ecb meeting of the year. Trade ineing a risk on asia, green on the screen for the msci asianpacific index. We have a tweet from the global times talking about china putting measures to mitigate the trade war giving lift to risk assets. We see Sweet Nothings on the s p on a headline level. What has been going on beneath the surface for sector and factor rotation moving from more growth to value. Looking flatres, so another day of perhaps not much to do on the headline level. The big moves have been in bond yields. Jumps into year and 10year. Hitting its highest since august 5, down a touch today but sitting on 1. 66 handle. Great to see you and great to be back. Manus yes, indeed. Yields just off the onemonth high. We will talk about what james gorman had to say. To show the oil market because what has gone on is john out. N, this was the biggest pricing dislocation
you ll see right now the dow futures down triple digits. s&p indicated to open 15 below where it closed yesterday and nasdaq futures are off by 25. and that is likely to change i imagine at 8:30 when we get the big number. walmart holding it annual shareholder meeting this fayetteville, arkansas. this is walle mart s first opportunity to speak to shareholders asince the allegations of bribery broke and an opportunity to vote shares in response. amid the executive presentations and musical performances, shareholder business will take place. results of six proposals will be announced including the annual election for the board. which has been met with some contention. all 15 members are up for re-election. and google s mayer is on the ballot. urging shareholders to vote against a number of current board members. pension funds have cast their votes against the incumbent board members they believe were somehow connected to the alleged bribery. most notably the founding family