Particular group of industries and people that are directly exposed to the pandemic. Who come ofople their old jobs may struggle to come back them because people will take their time in going back to certain activities that involve a lot of direct contact with other people. I think the right thing to do and the smart thing to do for the long run is to continue to support those people as they return to their old jobs or find new jobs in different sectors of the economy. Great. When you spoke to us in 2018, the fed was just at the beginning of reevaluating their framework. That younce learned are particularly keen on some of the estimates that you showed of how the phillips curve and inflation trends had flattened over the last decades. Those realizations helped inform the feds decision to engage in the average inflation targeting model. In the spirit of careful what you wish for, should we actually see some of those trends start that itt, do you worry may actually be difficult to turn s
Day for the Federal Reserve system. It is a meeting of mystery. Our Michael Mckee will be there for the press conference, special coverage this afternoon. But right now, a great conversation on some of the challenges that we are going to see. Jon ferro, to me, the major challenge, with futures up 17, you mentioned this earlier, this morning, is the two americans that are out there, that two americans that are out there right now, jon ferro, are nothing like what john edwards ever thought he would see. Jonathan just compare and contrast, tom, take the airlines on one hand you can take any sector, the retail sector, and compare it to fintech right now. Big tech on fire. Other companies, tom, literally slashing in tens of thousands, and a central bank that has to set policy for both economies. That is a tremendously difficult position to be in as a central bank right now, and that will create distortion. Some would argue that is already happening. Tom Lisa Abramowicz, within your reading,
Market. Three year and 10 year bond options coming in superstrong. Watch how that winds up performing. Time now for todays top market moving news from our new york team and washington team. We want to begin with economic the u. K. Economy shrinking on the 6 in march. Predicting what could be its deepest contraction in more than three centuries. Bloombergs Michael Mckee has more. Michael ask not for whom the bell tolls. It is the u. K. This time. Just one week under lockdown was still enough for a 2 contraction during the first quarter. As you mentioned, a 6 contraction during the month of march. Britain plunging into what may be its worst depression or recession, at least, since 300 years ago. Three centuries, according to those who have been figuring out. Tourism fell by 46 , air transport down 44 . Engine ofpending, the the economy, down 1. 7 in the first quarter, the largest drop since the financial crisis. We got data from the British Retail Consortium saying total sales down 19. 1
Signaling that it may need to do more to the boe, signaling that it may need to do more to combat lower growth. Bloombergs Francine Lacqua spoke to andrew bailey, the bank of england governor, following that policy decision. Gov. Bailey we are keeping options open on that. Im very clear on that. Other members of the committee thought it was a sensible decision to take in our next meeting, when we may have more information. Francine are we any closer to negative rates, or is that not an option right now . Gov. Bailey we are not ruling anything out because it would be unwise of us to rule anything out in terms of responses. I dont want to say we are nearer to negative rates, but we are not ruling anything out. Francine under what circumstances will we get negative rates . Gov. Bailey its a complicated question. You have to view it in the context of the times, also in the context of the financial structure we have, and what are the consequences of it. I just want to caution, we are nowher
Money away for loan loss reserves. Alison Williams Joins me now. What were some of your takeaways. [no audio] actually, we are still working on her audio, so lets go to Annmarie Hordern first. Part of what we heard was from fatih birol of the iea talking about how bad demand would be, despite any production deal. Annmarie some seriously drastic headlines out of the iea. The other part is what they are talking about what this means for storage. It is testing the logistic capacity to the limit. On the demand side, they see april serious demand destruction, down 29 Million Barrels a day. For the year, what that means is 9. 3 Million Barrels a day, the worst we have ever seen on record in terms of demand. What the opec cuts probably did was maybe pull us back a little bit from the brink, but not doing that much. You can see that with what is talking about in storage. They say that could be exhausted by the middle of the year. All of this putting downward pressure on the future prices. Wti