It seems investors once again looking past the difficult months that may be ahead. Pricing forwards month statements are nine months ahead hoping we get past the virus. There could be difficult time ahead but this week you will not know it. David i should say. Thank you to Abigail Doolittle for that report on the markets. Overnight we were reminded of the complexities of the u. S. China relationship as a Foreign Ministry spokesman congratulated Vice President biden even as the trumpet ministration was bidding u. S. Investments in unspecified Chinese Company they say is tied to the chinese army. Richard haass published a Foreign Affairs piece called repairing the world in which he lays out the issues that will be in President Bidens inbox the day he walks into the oval office. Welcome. Great to have you with us. China is in the inbox but is not the first thing. The first thing is covid19. Richard i agree. China is in the inbox and will be for president as for the eye can see your the br
Radio. Alongside lisa abramowicz, im jonathan ferro. Tom keene will be back with us on wednesday. Erasing the mornings losses. Monday morning, we are faced with vaccine news. Some other news as well. We are pushing things forward every monday, it seems. Lisa although it seems like the market didnt respond so much to that news. There seems to be a lot of positivity baked in. So my people who came on this show were saying if there is any pullback, which there were likely be which there will. Ikely be, buy that dip that seems to be the feeling as we bleed higher towards the end of the year. Jonathan this morning, but theyre not out this morning, requestplanning to approval for this vaccine. What we have to think about is what would the anchor expectations on the policy side and on the data side. Later this week, the chiasm claims, payrolls the ism claims, payrolls. Do people start to get worried about the nearterm future . We hear from secretary mnuchin and chair powell this week. A bit o
So that is pretty evenly split, actually. Theres certainly quite a lot of recognition that Central Banks need to think about new toolkits. We are going to go to some questions now, but if you want. O use the platform to submit i think larry gave an excellent description of what the core problem is that the developed world faces, that there is a glut of saving and a , and it of investment really means that we have to have fiscal policy, structural policy, and things other than. Ust relying on Central Banks i think Central Banks need to do what can come about they can. Adopting a system called flexible average inflation targeting, i think this is an appropriate change. Somewhat improve the scope of Monetary Policy to show that shortterm Interest Rates are often constrained by the effect of lower bound. I think it is helpful in preventing a cycle of falling inflation feeding falling inflation expectations, but i strongly believe Central Banks need to be independent and need to do everythi
We are going mostly down. Trump has used his executive powers to ban investments in companies that are associated to the Chinese Military. Lets look at some other asset classes. Dollar index unchanged. The euro, which has been under the caution with the dollar. Crude, just dropping below 40 bucks a barrel. We have the surprise stockpile gain in the u. S. Gold price moving up as well. Goldman sachs saying they are bullish on not just gold but also copper. Lets move to what is happening first word news was. We get over to new york and joined karina mitchell. Karina the chances of a new stimulus package in the u. S. Are receiving with the white house saying sources tell us gop leaders will not lead any of the talks. Mitch mcconnell has been more distant from a democrat proposals, reducing the chances of a new deal. The Federal Reserve is again warning fiscal stimulus is required to support the u. S. Economy as potential vaccines may not end the economic fallout from the coronavirus. Chair
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us is the end of a long week with not just americans but everyone following the count in the United States democracy can be a messy process and a particular intricacies of u. S. Politics have played out spectacularly in asia the country with the most at stake is china given the 2 countries rocky yet close relationship so how is china viewed and responded to the events of this week we had only in the studio to tell us more hung on any official reaction from beijing yes beijing has said that the election is the u. S. Domestic affair and that it has no position on it and thats it thats it but is there any hint that beijing preferred one candidate over now. Other well i mean in the beginning chinese leaders probably preferred mr biden because you know because of mr trump the u. S. Sino relationship has plunged to the lowest point in decades but after seeing what miss what kind of chaos mr mr trump has caused in the us i think beiji