Attention to what is happening. Very much what we did earlier. This is it this is what Christine Lagarde says the central bank will do. The governing council will carefully assess incoming information, including developments in the Exchange Rate when it comes to simplifications for the mediumterm inflation outlook. Christine lagarde, president , speaking earlier and joining us now. Christine lagarde basically indicates it is ok until there is an impact on inflation. Three ways the ecb can talk about currency. They can talk about principles, how it is not a part of their policy. They get seriously concerned about the movement currency and it could lead to price stability or the aims to achieve inflation goals being undermined. We can go back to worrying more about covid19, more about the growth prospects, rather than ecb getting too worried today. Whenever you see a headline about policymakers, bear in mind the context of where it is coming from. Those comments are in reference to the q
In march and april. Yeah, and, you know, the market if you want to talk about it being the index certainly is doing that its been steady naturally the most heavily weighted stocks also happen to be the ones that are in th strongest trends they are covering up for a lot of, i think, softness under the surface. Youre not seeing this latest push higher really have the participation of the airlines and all the kind of socalled epicenter sectors that now are under a little more question about a stutter step in the reopening process. I do think the market is trying to be rational about it. Its unclear what would stop these trends, why would apple and microsoft stop going up today when they havent stopped until now except the fact that the nasdaq does look really stretched once again compared to the rest of the market there does seem to be a little bit of frothy speculation happening in some pockets of this market but thats been the case periodically for the last several weeks i guess you wou
Package. The merger between psa and fiat in a move that could force more concessions from the auto giants a new designated driver. Replacing the head of vw brands as the automaker battles with unions over cost cutting plans saudi arabia will no longer cut Additional Oil they say demand is thriving. With we have no whatsoever for lack all of us in the whole World Oil Market have no stomach whatsoever for any type of laxityies. A warm welcome to street signs. European markets have been open about an hour now. It has already been a choppy session. We open in positive territory. Now the main benchmark is down 0. 4 yesterday, the main benchmark dropped 0. 3 what was remarkable was the fact we saw the final recession word enter the mix. Declaring the United States has officially entered a recession just as the nasdaq hit a new record high and raised all losses for 2020. Major difference for what we are seeing in Financial Markets and what we are seeing in the real economy. Begging the questi
Positive things in the jobs report as well. S p up 0. 2 now, but of stocks making big moves on good news, including lululemon, up 8. 5 on analyst comments. Conagra, even though it got a downgrade and started the day lower, is up 0. 6 now. Guy lets get some insight on todays payroll number. It wasnt a headline level miss, but it kind of felt like pretty much what the market was looking for. With us is ira jersey. Ira, did todays number change anything . Ira i dont think it changed much. Like you mentioned, it was really a mixed bag. The number of hours worked, as well as hourly average earnings, was ok. When you look at what i call the paycheck of the economy, the some product of all of those the sum product of all of those things, it is higher than it was last month. Not much, but maybe we are stabilizing here considering average wages were falling for the bulk of the year so far. Vonnie larry kudlow mentioned that in terms of wages, we are now 4 plus over the last three months. Im won
Whether you embrace or reject etfs, they are here to stay. The flows signal Broader Market trends. Lets check in with Eric Balchunas. A snapshot of the flows and the theme is risky assets like the stocks. Eric thank you, scarlet. Im feeling like a broken record. Every week, i am saying people are excited about the fed being accommodative. It felt like about two months. Another week of the same thing. 15 billion into etfs. We have spy, the cuse. You also have ibv and some vanguard funds. Both major player types are buying in. I thought, this seems to have started in the beginning of june when the fed reassured markets. Lets capture june and july. The complexion of the flows is changing and this chart shows it is. June and july, etfs took in 85 billion. That is more than the rest of the year combined. That is a lot of money coming in. U. S. Equity etfs are taking in three times more than they did at the beginning part of the year. More than fixed income. They are now the leaders, which i