A lot of the jobs that have been lost since the pandemic are being recovered. No question it was a much better number than was expected with the headline being 1. 4 million jobs added and the Unemployment Rate going below double digits for the First Time Since the pandemic adding it all up we now have recovered since april a total of about 10. 6 million jobs, which is huge progress, but it also leaves a huge hole we still have 11. 5 million fewer jobs than we had in february which was the month before the pandemic so weve still got to dig ourselves out of the hole and weve still got to look at the permanent impact of all of this. One in the numbers i went to first in this report is the number of people seeing permanent job losses it did rise by about half a million. Its 3. 4 million so that is the highest level since 2013 and does point to the fact that there is going to be some permanent scarring despite the fact, carl, that we are seeing progress, its moving in the right direction. T
Shrinks, but it doesnt set the u. K. Up for a good spot Going Forward. We are seeing the relationship between fiscal and Monetary Policy really evolve the u. K. We will break that down over the next few hours. You are seeing bond markets bid across the board, as we are koff develop. We want to kick it off with Michael Mckee. Theld central bank mike,entral banks if i say mmt, am i wrong . Anyway. Yeah, [laughter] its confusing, though, what is going on with the economic philosophy called mmt. Yes, it is unlimited cash in unlimited amounts for unlimited periods of time until we get through this. Youre still going to work your tail off today before we get to 4 00 p. M. Lets start in london come over the bank of england is going to finance Government Spending for the time being by lending money directly to the treasury. It is called the ways and means facility, a shortterm credit the last used during great financial crisis. Government and the bank say any borrowing will be repaid by the en
Everyone watching parts of the economy shut down all at the same time is like nothing we have ever seen. Superlatives to compare past plunges, but everyone is trying to compare it to what experiences is this similar to. I have heard from people today, and no one had some obvious analogy, whether the cry natural whether the financial crisis, the wake of 9 11. Everyone of these past events was in some way a reminder of this, and that is what makes this so extraordinary. Scarlet and economic damages going to get worse. We heard from france that they are going to shut down all the schools and universities. New york is banning public gatherings a more than 500 people. It is only Getting Started in terms of the realworld effects. Romaine a lot of emotion, a lot of intangible things. Lets get back to some tangibles. Taylor riggs is going to look a little deeper. Taylor let me try to keep it tangible for you. I have three good charts. The first, lets just recap the day, because it has been a l
Sanctions. Partslan to sell vehicle to help its turnaround and get back on track. It is also still looking for a new ceo. Shery lets check the markets. U. S. Futures unchanged at the moment. U. S. Stocks struggled throughout the session. S p 500 slumping after the fed rate decision. Markets taking it is a hawkish cut. In fact it did recover towards the end but it finished basically unchanged. We also had Energy Stocks dragging on the index. Crude falling for the last two sessions after that 15 gain we saw monday. At the moment unchanged, below 60 a barrel. Financials gaining ground today. We had yields plunging after the fed intervened and the repo markets injecting cash to soothe the money markets. That was paired back a little bit after the fed rate decision. 10yearold 10 year yield finishing around 1. 80. Paul some breaking news on the bloomberg terminal. The Hong Kong Monetary authority is cutting its base rate to 2. 25 . Pretty much as expected after the fed move today. So we have
1. 5 two year just below that at 1. 478 overnight in china, look at those stocks and youre going to see the nikkei was up by 2 , 2. 1 in shanghai, market there up by a percent and hang seng closed flat and then if youre looking at what has been happening in europe with the early trading taking place this morning, you will see mostly green arrows there. The cac up by. 9 . So is the dax. The ftse down by half a percent. Cnbc has you covered for all of the big global stories that are moving markets today were going to take you to hong kong for the latest comments from carrie lam. An update on the political crisis in the uk over brexit exclusive update on the tariff fallout for small retailers. Lets start in washington now, with the news that the the big news that is moving the markets now, trade talks with china, set to resume next month. What do you got here the news breaking last night out of beijing, the Foreign Ministry issuing a statement, here is the cnbc translation of the Foreign