The bill awaits signoff from the president. Akron turns up the heat. France threatens to veto a brexit deal if it does not like the terms, piling pressure on the e. U. Not to make further concessions. Welcome to the program, everybody. 7 00 in london. 8 00 in paris. Lets look at the futures. We are fairly flat on futures. The young stock x50 futures flat. Yesterday, we saw some decent gains for the ftse, up by more than 1 and that was a standout compared to the rest of europe which was more mixed. It was mixed in the u. S. Session as well. We did actually see a bit of a late rally in u. S. Equity trading, up to some of those new highs we were talking about in headlines. All of that in the context of the hopes and dreams around u. S. Stimulus. The concern about what can legitimately be done in the shortterm and a lot of hope around vaccines. Perhaps oncent day some parts of the equities space and a late rally in the u. S. Yesterday and we are now pausing. We are pausing somewhat here. W
Disaster. Monetary policy works through emulating aggregate demand and that is important now. Ultimately, there is a job to replace lost income. Our congress stepped in and there has not been a faster or stronger response from congress to an economic emergency since the great depression. The cares act and other laws have been passed to more than offset lost income in the aggregate. There will be people for whom that is not true. You see high levels of savings on the Balance Sheets of households. Not experienced the downward cases we were worried about of mass insolvencies of businesses so far. So far, so good, i would say. There are no full recoveries without confidence. Do, which ipart to think we have done. The path forward will be challenging for a number of reasons, and i am sure we will get into some of them. Congresso do more and might need to do more with fiscal policy. The particulars of that are up to congress and not up to us. It is likely more will need to be done in time. O
Covid surges to its highest level since 2018 disney jumping after hours julia . Better than expected top and bottom line results. Ending the quarter with 73 million subscribers. The company also announcing it will forego its next semiannual dividend and thats due to the cause of coronavirus. Disney shares giving up some of those gains, now about 3. 5 . The ceo saying in the call going on right now, the disney direct to consumer business is its bright spot. The growth of disney plus speaks volumes about the strength of our ip, our unparallel granting franchises and creators, all part of the disney difference that sets us apart from everyone else and when you look across our full suite of streaming services, we have exceeded 120 million paid subscriptions worldwide. Meanwhile, a smaller than expected loss. Losing 2. 4 billion due to covid, but down from the 3. 5 billion. The Company Also Reports that they are reassured by booking trends at Walt Disney World and urging california to allow
Impact its going to have on markets plus one of the major giants in the kobe 1000. 00 vaccine race has hit the brakes probably an unexpected event in trials we bring you up to speed on the slowdown and where the world stands in the sport for a cure and major markets for major major Global Regulators have come to an agreement on road rules for Digital Currency moving forward later on well have an indepth in tech and now with this with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with the International Monetary fund lightly more positive outlook for the Global Economy in the wake of the kobe 1000. 00 pandemic now according to the i. M. F. The Global Economy is now projected to shrink by 4. 4 percent this year and upward revision from junes us that of 4. 9 percent contraction now the organizations chief economist spoke about the factors which caused the upward revision during a briefing tuesday. As a result of. Eased lockdowns and Rapid Deployment of blood money in f
International Monetary Fund the slightly more positive outlook for the Global Economy in the wake of the kobe 1000. 00 pandemic now according to the i. M. F. The Global Economy is now projected to shrink by 4. 4 percent this year and upward revision from joins us from it of 4. 9 percent contraction organizations chief economist spoke about the factors which caused the upward revision during a briefing tuesday. As a result of eased lockdowns and Rapid Deployment of both monthly and fiscal policy support. The ones hes coming back from the depths of his collapse in the peak of this crisis which was the 1st half of the. Employment levels have partially rebounded after having plummeted to historically knows. That said this crisis is far from over. The ascent out of this calamitous Great Lockdown is like. To be long and even highly uncertain it is therefore essential a tricycle in Monetary Policy support and not treatment surely would draw on as best possible the i. M. F. Also altered its pr