They are getting louder and louder, including one from aoc, but she thinks we should just pay people to stay at home. I want to get reaction from congressman andy biggs about that at the bottom of the hour. All that and so much more on making money. Charles it feels like the markets marking time because its marking time. Right now, the s p has moved less than 1 for the week. The nasdaq is up about 1 for the week. The biggest story has been the continued celebration in the oil patch. The blue wave, remember, didnt happen and that was the big play there. The other side of that coin is utilities and thats why they have been actually slammed since the election, including this week. While buy has alternated between growth and value, it was stocks that were deeply hammered that actually enjoyed the greatest revival, particularly brick and mortar retailers. Even today, those names are up on better than expected earnings. All of this creating a dilemma. Do you buy the broken names with the mos
Future signals against are set to continue. Commerce bank swings to a loss in the Third Quarter as the pandemic and restructuring charge hits revenues. We speak with the cfo shortly. Good morning. Plenty to talk about on the u. S. Election front. Breaking news on the bank of england. Maintaining its benchmark Interest Rate at 0. 1 , entirely expected. The bank of england saying that was the news amount around maintaining its Interest Rate. They are raising the total bond target. Unanimousf englands on this Interest Rate and bond purchasing story. We will speak to the governor of the bank of england at 11 00 this morning london time. Stay tuned for that interview. Pound toor a in the this announcement. A pairing of losses coming through. Get some analysis. Dani burger is outside the bank of them went for us. There had been an expectation that as lockdown measures are extended, implemented in england, even if it is less strict than march, we would see more coming through from the bank of
Prices and the economy depends on the course of the virus the committee will maintain its purchases or increase to smooth market funding it repeats for the second time that it seeks inflation moderately above 2 . This is a carbon copy of the last statement i counted seven words changed and none of them really substantial or meant to convey any particular meaning i think that reflects the big changes. Jim was saying last time exceeding the 2 inflation goal and theity si itdesire not to mo many waves while the country counts votes in this president ial election. The other dissenter did not attend the meeting due to the birth of his second child. Congratulations to Neal Kashkari absolutely. Well spend half an hour dissecting those seven words what do you think of jims point, which is the absence of stimulus may have put the fed even more under a spotlight to do even more absolutely. I think thats true. I think the fed will feel pressure to do more, but it creates an interesting quandary,
Im Francine Lacqua. We track the markets and policy. We look at statebystate, the difference between joe biden and donald trump to figure out what will happen overnight. What is clear is we are getting quite a lot of volatility. Volatility spurred on because there is concern there will be civil unrest if certain votes are not counted. There is concern out there in the press we could see civil unrest if the candidates of whoever does not win actually sees people go out in the streets. Stock climbing globally for a is americanbut it president ial election day so currency traders are taking the brunt off for the increased volatility. I spoke with one senior banker yesterday who said in terms of the trading floor, they will have pretty much full staff overnight to see what happens. When i asked about havens, it is difficult, he said, what would constitute a haven. A bit ofee the vix, elevation earlier on. The pound dollar. , for the moment we are looking at some of the currencies. Lets get
Television worldwide, good morning. 11 days to go on the election. What are we trying to do . We are trying to get through friday. This is a serious time, a serious debate last night. This pandemic has worsened worldwide. The challenge of a 3 trillion deficits. The civility of last night was noted. Jonathan it was civil. It was muted. But stark differences on the outlook, particularly over covid. The president promising a vaccine within weeks, and biden focusing on the failures of the administration and the winter ahead of us. The Vice President talking about winning hope over fear. That really goes to one of the themes this week we havent talked about, which is the partition of economic america. Lisa the idea that the jobless rate perhaps is going down, but stagnant at one rate. We got those initial jobless claims. The number of permanently unemployed americans, frankly those around the world, is increasing. It is going to take a long time to remedy some of the scarring taking place.