Moving news from all around the world from frankfurt, to london, taiwan, our bloomberg two iowa, our bloomberg voices are on the ground. Commodities leading the charge for the quarter. Here for more is bloombergs sonali basak. Income net interest coming in above analyst expectations is a great thing for bank of america because it shows the bank is doing what a bank should do. That is loan growing, deposits growing. Investment banking mergers and acquisition fell short than expectations, but we are seeing that across the board. We want to see confidence among corporate clients now that we know consumers are holding steady. Alix what were some of the worries through the quarter . Sonali the expenses were up, but bank of america was a costcutting story. Something we are hearing from all of the banks is the propensity to keep investing because the cycle is getting competitive at this moment. Alix thank you very much. Now i want to go to the latest on trade. President trump is ready to sign
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Look at what to some other action was taking place in the markets. What were you watching, abigail . Abigail im going to talk about the risk assets but on a longerterm basis this comes from bank of America America lynch. He joined us for charting features. What we are looking at and yellow is the s p 500 going back to january, 2018. In blue, highyield bond index. In white, that investmentgrade bond index. We see as the s p 500 was putting an alltime high and a strong january, those bond indexes were sliding. As the s p 500 climbed into its september alltime high, they were climbing a little bit but pretty tepid. Out of the Fourth Quarter bottoming, a huge rally for stocks, investmentgrade bonds and highyield bonds. Believe a steve to new alltime high is ahead for the s p 500. Emma of course, the big move in markets today came in the oil markets. Both wti and brent crudes rising about 4. 5 . Should be able to show you a chart that shows as the highs of brent crude, the biggest intraday
Equity markets are higher and higher. The fed and the boj coming through. How do we phrase this . Where we go from here . Dust of the few minutes ago we were talking about how the boe and the bank of canada raising rates in the fourth quarter. Requiring it to throw the conversation for next year. Have a look at this chart, the question really is how much can the likes of the boe and the bank of canada, given how strong their currencies have become, continue to follow the fed on its current rate policy . At what point does a policy notngthen, and become inflationary . Charts, whatat the it shows you is financial conditions in the United States in the bottom part. They are still fairly loose, and what that means is that despite the fact that you have a weak u. S. Dollar and currencies like the pound trading at fairly strong levels, it is not yet creating conditions where you would actually see disinflation coming through. In other words, there is scope for a lot of these big Central Bank
Hope to stabilize around the target for the mediumterm. The Committee Says that is monitoring inflation developments closely. 1. 6 this year, 2 on average in 2018. Minneapolis fed president deal kashkari, on top of the Monetary Policy is this. A plan to reduce the Balance Sheet, which they plan to begin longmenting this year as as the economy stays on track. They will taper reinvestment in treasury and mortgage security, 10 billion a month. Steps every three months for a year until they reach a total of 30 billion a month. Increasing 4 billion a quarter until it reaches 20 billion. That will allow the Balance Sheet to decline in a predictable manner until the Federal Reserve is holding no more security than necessary to implement Monetary Policy efficiently and effectively. They dont say how much that is. Below, butciably larger than before the financial crisis. On how best to implement Monetary Policy, they will learn more. Reaffirmed the rate is their primary tool for Monetary Policy