40 billion in mortgagebacked securities. They say the path of the economy will be connected to the path of the virus in the statement. One interesting note at the end. Mary dailey, head of San Francisco reserve president mad to cast her vote as alternate. Minneapolis president Neal Kashkari is on paternity leave. He was into the at the meeting. The birth of their second child happened this week. We think, we believe this is the first time a Voting Member missed a vote because of paternity leave. Back to you, charles. Charles that is an interesting tidbit a lot to go through here. Meantime, folks it is another monster session in the market which yesterday had the best ever postelection session. There should be no question that the worry of a blue wave was the main reason for selling last week. But now the question, have investors moved from abject fear to unbridled optimism a little too fast . Moreover with megagrowth leading the way again, what is the best place to be positioned for th
Prices and the economy depends on the course of the virus the committee will maintain its purchases or increase to smooth market funding it repeats for the second time that it seeks inflation moderately above 2 . This is a carbon copy of the last statement i counted seven words changed and none of them really substantial or meant to convey any particular meaning i think that reflects the big changes. Jim was saying last time exceeding the 2 inflation goal and theity si itdesire not to mo many waves while the country counts votes in this president ial election. The other dissenter did not attend the meeting due to the birth of his second child. Congratulations to Neal Kashkari absolutely. Well spend half an hour dissecting those seven words what do you think of jims point, which is the absence of stimulus may have put the fed even more under a spotlight to do even more absolutely. I think thats true. I think the fed will feel pressure to do more, but it creates an interesting quandary,
Speaker pelosi says its absolutely absurdly unconstitutional. What will they do . Go to court to stop people getting the money . Right before an election . Good luck with that. The president s playing political hardball. 84 days to the election and again, the money will flow. Investors like it, by the way. Looking at the futures, the dow industrials will open this morning with a gain of about 100 points. The s ps going to be up about four. The nasdaq, up about 13 as we speak. The president s playing political hardball with china as well and beijing is responding. Jimmy li, a leader of hong kongs democracy movement, has been arrested under the new security law and china has imposed sanctions on u. S. Senators, including marco rubio and ted cruz. Now, that is escalation. Dramatic change may be coming to a mall near you. Amazons in talks with americas largest mall operator, Simon Properties simon group properties, to use some Department Stores as fulfillment centers. Amazon gets cheap spa
Some of the democrats wish list has been taken out but the Kennedy Center for performing arts still gets 25 million and there is a provision which limits the response of Small Businesses to union action. Surely at times like this we should be able to pass a clean bill without measures that have nothing to do with rescuing the economy. It is a 900 page bill. We are still going through it. We are looking for the pork. Now look at the markets. There is virtually no reaction to those really bad jobless numbers. We will open with a very small loss, maybe go to the plus column at the time we open up. Right now we are looking at a 57point loss, 67 points for the dow industrials. Remember, please, this follows backtoback trading sessions where stocks went up. Some think that is a sign of at least a shortterm bottom. Well see. Again, the dow is now down 70. S p down 13. Nasdaq down 21. Lets get to the virus. 200 americans have died in the last 24 hours. The death toll now exceeds 1,000 in the U
That seems to have worked because the dow which had been limit down has now bounced back and at the opening bell, we may be up 400 points. The dow will be up significantly at the opening bell. Same story with the s p and also with the nasdaq. Now, treasury secretary mnuchin, he says the Federal Reserve will have 4 trillion for loans to businesses. He says theres more where that came from and if congress doesnt get something going real fast, then they will go back to congress for more and he says the fed will provide any amount that is needed. Thats what the fed is doing right now. Thats the market. Thats the fed. Thats whats going on in congress. Now look at the price of oil. That has been a problem for American Energy producers and right now, weve got oil all the way down in the low 20s. Thats a continuing problem for texas, north dakota and for the Energy Producers and these energy stocks. How about the price of gas . That is absolutely tumbling. The National Average all the way down