Low. And its projected as the population continues to age in the baby boomers retire that that ratio will continue to rise in an unsustainable fashion. So, the addition to the debt taking what is already a significant problem and making it worse is it is of concern to me, and i think it does suggest that in some future downturn, which could occur just for whatever reason, the amount of fiscal space that would exist for fiscal policy to play an active role it will be limited, it may well be limited. Sam fleming with the financial times. Couple of longer term questions, first of all, midway through the year, hot weather inflation targets might need to be raised. Obviously been a lot more debate and have had systems since then about this it may not be an imminent issue, it may be something the feds may be discussing over the coming years. Some sort of change to the inflation target second of all, the amount of stimulus tools that the fed may have at its expo sal are fairly limited. One of
Heads of organizations. This hour, we will also be speaking to one of the biggest names in private equity, jon moulton, and then later Nicolas Dufourcq. Overall, stocks in asia seem to be dropping a touch. European stocks were mixed and bonds rising as investors focused switching back to Central Banks. Several policymakers were cautious about raising Interest Rates again this year. The dollar weakening a touch, you can see. Thats your business flash. Lets get straight on to the bloomberg first world news. Nejra donald trump has said he will announce whether or not he will decertify the iran nuclear deal, quote, shortly. Thats ahead of the deadline this sunday. Trump has called the agreement a badly negotiated deal. Has denied ever calling for a bigger u. S. Nuclear arsenal. His comments came response to an nbc report that he had asked for a tenfold increase in u. S. Nuclear capabilities. He also questioned whether the broadcast license should be taken away from nbc television. Ofbrusse
The statement the following. I quote. The committee currently expects to implementing Balance Sheet Normalization Program earlier this year, provided that the economy evolves broadly than anticipated. In a separate press release, trish, they outline how all of this will work. Fed will begin to unwind the Balance Sheet by allowing 6 billion to roll off monthly initially, 6 billion at threemonth intervals over 12 months until it reaches 30 billion per month. Separately as relates to mortgagebacked securities, 4 billion a month initially. Will increase to 4 billion over threemonth intervals to 12 months until it reaches 20 billion per month. As far as relates to long term projackses here, the fc projects here, three rate hikes this year. They dropped their projection from march earlier this year, from 1. 9 to 1. 6 . They raised gdp slightly. Longer term relates to unemployment 2018 and 2019 they dropped it down to 4. 2 from 4. 5 . Rate hike of a quarter of a point. Neel kashkari the lone
Oh, snap, oh, oh good morning and welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc im sara eisen. Good morning from me as well. Lets check in on Global Markets, show you what Global Equities are doing after the nasdaq outperformed the three major averages, which were little changed, though you did see big moves, lower for instance in retailers. Walmart was the biggest drag on the dow yesterday. Prime day kicked off last night. Well get to that in a moment. Dow futures are higher, though s p futures are little changed, down less than half a point. And nasdaq futures are down about five points. As for the 10year treasury note yield, lets show you where we stand. We had yields come off recent highs yesterday, though not meaningfully, and were still sitting below 2. 40 on the 10year yield. Still multiyear highs. Yields moving up again today. Seemed like yesterday in europe it was single day of yields slipping a little bit. Data out of asia car sales returned to growth in june with total vehicle sales
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