Now, testimony from Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Monetary Policy and the state of the u. S. Economy amid coronavirus. He spoke about low Interest Rates, unemployment numbers and what future Economic Growth and recovery could look like. Help in front of the House Financial Services committee, this is three hours. So the committee will come to order. Thank you. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Members are reminded to keep their video function on at all times, even when theyre not recognized by the chair. Members are also reminded that they are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves and to mute themselves after they are finished speaking. Consistent with the regulations accompanying h res 965, staff will only mute members and our witness as appropriate when not recognized to avoid inadvertent background noise. Members are reminded that all house rules relating to order and decorum apply to this remote hearing. T
Positive impact on very sicko individual patients. And of course, jim, we had the announcement today that the fed will begin buying individual Corporate Bonds, not just the etfs that hold those bonds but the actual bonds themselves. That certainly helped. Whats your take this morning . Well, look, i think each one of these can be debunked took this drug for two months. It was okay. I switched to prednisone suddenly we discovered this was a big breakthrough what were the doctors doing . Did all of the doctors get it wrong . Did they realize it was not swelling around the body and just focused on the lungs. Its like, okay, idiots honestly, i love the doctors, theyre great. But come on, how did they miss this and look, david, the gunners all want the stocks to go higher, right . And the fed is buying bonds that we would normally i mean, maybe the fed buys hertz bonds and takes them up to the point where maybe hertz is good. I dont know, david. Theres a lot of people saying talk pony. The
Well as in london. We begin with a biggie week a busy week for Central Banks. Bank of japan says they will take on unlimited buying of Government Bonds, lifting the cap also on corporate holdings. I, he joins us now. , kitchen sink, we are still throwing it. Michael Central Banks are all as string the question of what you do when you have throwing the kitchen sink. In the back of japans case, you just make the sink a little bigger. The bank of japan already has negative rates, Corporate Bond and etf buying, and an emergency Lending Program, so they just decided to make those programs a bit bigger. Unchanged at rate 10 basis points. Remember, they do yield curve control. They mentioned they would buy as many Corporate Bonds as they need to and expanding access to its Emergency Loan Program for a wider range of banks. For analysts, theres a bit less here than meets the eye. They dropped their ¥80 trillion limit on Government Bond buying, but they werent buying anywhere trillion, so it d
Begin to resume, as many assume in june and maybe be back to something more normal by this summer, i think a v is possible, but i am worried that the outcome will be worse. It really depends to my mind on just how much damage is done during the time that the economy is shut down in the way it is now. How much damage is done joining us is bob dole, chief equity strategist. Thanks for being with us i want to get your thoughts on the potential for this recession and subsequent recovery and specifically how thats factoring into your outlook for the markets . Yeah. Im not using a u or v im using a checkmark, kind of the big decline and then a noticeable, but slower uptake than we had on the downside. As you know we shut the economy off. We turned it off its not something from the outside did it we chose in order to fight coronavirus to do that therefore, we can turn at least some of it back on it will take longer to convince people its safe to come out from under the covers when it told the
Steps. Morgan stanley and wells fargo join european lenders in pledging to preserve jobs during the crisis. Deutsche bank says it will pause future cuts amid its restructuring. Welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. U. S. Futures on the back foot today after the best threeday gain in mere nine decades for the s p 500. The dow is technically in a bull market but it is 25 below the february 12 record. In terms of asia, a mixed picture. Following that emergency 75 basis point cut by the bank of india. A big drop in industrial profits in china. That is the news overnight out of asia. The 10year treasury yeild slipped five basis points. Risk off coming back into these markets after the powerful risk rally. We ask the question whether it is a bear market after the devastating rest jobless claims numbers, so weakness in the dollar. The dollar is hedging for its biggest retreat since 2009. Gold has its biggest weekly advance since 2008 after the effects of the funding squeeze and oil heading fo