He said simply, this doesnt matter, and december could be green. Could be grim. Jonathan the markets are looking at the data in the second half of 2021, not 2020. Tom jon will get to the data of a market lifting and all of that. This ecb announcement a bit ago is buried, and im sorry, it just sets up the theme of extend and pretend into 2021. They are going to extend bond buying forever and ever. It is Central Banks to the rescue. Jonathan the ecb wants you to focus on the duration of the Bond Buying Program and not the size of the package they might announce this week. That has been a big push on the communications side. I imagine that will be the focus for them when they communicate with us. For us, we are all getting used to the idea that Central Banks will be there for us. Weve been conditioned by that all year. The biggest challenge through 2020 was to somehow divorce how you feel about the world around you from your view on financial markets, on where we will be 12 months out. Th
To the economy. Today my colleagues on the foc and i kept Interest Rates near zero and maintained her sizable asset purchases. These measures along with our strong guidance on Interest Rates on our Balance Sheet will ensure that Monetary Policy will continue to deliver powerful support to the economy until the recovery is complete. The path of the economy continues to depend sidibe drama course of the virus but a resurgence in recent months and covid19 cases hospitalizations and deaths is causing great hardship for millions of americans and displaying on economic and cavities. Following a short rebound of economic at tivoli last summer at the pace of their coverage is moderated in recent months with the week is concentrated in the sectors of the economy most affected by the resurgence of the virus by greater social distancing. Household spending on Services Remain low especially in sectors that require people to gather closely including travel and hospitality. Household spending on goo
It is presumed that he may exit. We will see huge election , insures upon the president uproar last night. I cannot convey coasttocoast the uproar of his road trip taken in the evening here of a perfect east coast autumn day. But i would also focus on the rest of the world, and the news out of paris to me is distressing with the debt is locked down the right word . I dont know, but there are some strict things happening in paris. Francine lets call it restrictions, extra restrictions also happening in london. We have part of new york where we see School Closures and restrictions, but this will be something in the next couple of months that we will have to watch out for. It is the first time we have seen aggressive restrictions from certain officials. Lets get straight to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika there is confusion over how President Trump is being treated for the coronavirus. In public, his doctors remained upbeat. One says the president could be relea
Zealand is set for a shallower recession than previous years. The pandemic may have a lingering impact when it comes to government expenses. We bring you the numbers breaking this hour. Lets get you started with our lets get you started with a quick check of our markets trading at this hour. We had a mixed finish. Stocks, in fact, fell, erasing earlier gains after that selloff intensified. Tech fed chair powell not sure if this economic recovery will continue, that really dampening the moon. Tech communications leading declines. Switch of the board and you can see what small and midcaps did with the russell 2000, outperforming, look at that, up 9 of the close. We had the fed really keeping rates low, helping that entire sector. Pressure, andf that paired most of its losses with treasury yields climbing after chair powell also said the current size of the Asset Purchase Program was appropriate, the 10year yield hanging around the highest levels in almost a week. We also have the 530 yie
Abramowicz and tom keene in new york. Good morning on Bloomberg Radio across the nation. Good morning on Bloomberg Television worldwide as well. Theferro, without question most mysterious jobs report ive ever witnessed. Jonathan we talked about the wide range all morning. Lets talk about it again. At the top, 2. 4 million. Thats the high estimate. Below, 100,000. The pace of the recovery is slowing. I wonder if we have seen more evident if we are seeing more evidence of that a little later this morning. Tom i thought of one of your good questions earlier, the idea of this shift to the new unemployed. Forget about furloughed. Forget about all of the other language. It is people terminated. Lisa people are becoming permanently laid off. Initially it was temporary. My question today is going to be is bad news good news, and is good news bad news . The idea that if we get a worse than expected report, we will get into this for some as we will get impetus for some kind of fiscal support we