Contributor. What do we look out for . Spin is the only substantive issue to discuss with respect to this debate, but theres a Closing Argument to be made here by both President Trump and joe biden. Joes Closing Arguments have been about coronavirus. We see spiking in the midwest, and globally a worsening of the situation. Donald trump has chosen to tackle issues such as hunter biden and corruption within the biden family, which is a repeat of his Closing Arguments against Hillary Clinton in 2016. We will see if they have the same impact. Americans have already voted. Why will tonight move the dial . Rick well, it moved the dial in the first debate a bit. No question, the polling taken after the first president ial debate had biden consolidating his lead in almost all of the battleground states and nationally. Some of that has been given back to the field. Donald trump has improved since then. His numbers in states like pennsylvania and a little bit nationally. We know that people are
That broadly speaking if we dont get that, there would certainly be Downside Risks certainly through the channel i mentioned. Thank you cnn. Thanks for taking my question chairman powell, give us an update to the policy framework and repeated calls for this and this event, is the fed open to other parts of the economy such as income inequality and Affordable Housing we monitor everything we think is important in the u. S. Economy. In a broad sense, all of it goes into thinking about Monetary Policy you mentioned inequality so disparities in income and Financial Wellbeing demographic and racial categories, something we monitor carefully, inequality, which i would point to its a multifaceted thing, stagnation of nat the lower end of the income and lower mobility those are things that hold back our economy. They are the thing is we dont really have the tools to address those. We have Interest Rates and Bank Supervision and Financial Stability policy and things like that, but we cant get a
Moves down again. Tom im looking for an entry point here. Purves ofael tallbacken make a separation of the equity activity we saw yesterday from bonds, and particularly from fx. Kit juckes said the same thing as well. This is very discrete to the equity markets yesterday. See it with the vix in almost two points some hour or so ago. Some improvement there. Jon i would agree with that. The japanese yen did nothing in the last 24 hours. Treasuries did nothing in the last 24 hours. The question we have to ask, is it just an equity event, or does it raise really serious questions about folio construction from here on . Lisa especially given the fact that people are talking about the death of the 60 40 portfolio. What will act as a hedge if you get a risk off move . This was a nero selloff just as the rally was a narrow rally, as there seems to be a blowing off afteram, a reevaluation things got pretty heady given the is more backdrop of Economic Data we are seeing. Jonathan it is payrolls
President respond to it today. I am not going to go into it at length, but let me cut to the chase. And arizona are where new york and new jersey were 85 days ago. That is what you need to know. It is extremely important to understand that something has changed in the last 24 hours. This is the story front and center today. Jonathan the numbers are worrying. They are concerning. I am not going to get excited about 3 billion of trade between the eu and the United States. This has got to be about the reopening process. Does it constrain policymakers ability to push forward in states like texas . It. you just nailed consumer confidence, i think, is probably going to be one of the biggest drivers. We are already seeing this anecdotally across the country. Meanwhile, we have economists trying to get their hands on around just what this means. We will get projection from the imf on their latest earth outlook. They already pretty good the deepest recession globally and almost a century. We ar
Edward tom good morning. Wfh, as the jargon now, you work from home. When do we all get back to the office . We thank you for watching. A really interesting wednesday. There are a lot of political moments, theres international relations. In the market, im sorry. I started out this morning with on, and all much going now a bid to equities once more. Jonathan you the word crosscurrents. I think that is the right word this week. We have betterthanexpected data in the United States. I think the data right now is absolutely critical. The Federal Reserve has played a huge role in this market, and clearly that is exacerbating this, but the veracity comes from the betterthanexpected data. You have to say that this rally tracks that pretty well so far. Tom lisa abramowicz, what have you learned about the efficacious nature of fed policy . Is it helping right now . Lisa it is helping to push down yields and push up prices of assets across the board, and certainly hoping to encourage companies to