Portfolios. And nba players boycotting basketball games following the Police Shooting of an unarmed black man in wisconsin. Were going to get the thoughts of one of the black speakers at the Republican National convention. Mark meadows and nancy pelosi scheduled to speak at 2 30 does any of this job news wake up congress . Ill ask senator Marsha Blackburn. Weve got a big show for you on making money. Charles its been a day of significant news that keeps really a positive tone to the overall market. First off, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell announced significant changes to policy approach in part to really the goal he says is to truly create maximum employment that would help all americans. Meanwhile, abbott labs receiving approval for a 5 covid19 test which further underscores we are getting closer to containing the virus. Its no coincidence the dramatic incline in cases coincides with the dramatic rally. The conundrum for investors is whether to chase the winners or buy the la
Conversation that is going on right now. But were definitely monitoring that and well try and plug into that process when the opportunity presents itself. President tsen okay. Thank you. Okay. So the next item, please. Its adjourned. President tsen all right. Thank you. Director richardson before we adjourn. Yes. Director richardson i have two statements to make. Just to acknowledge mr. Jim smith for helping us out through the technical glitches today. And i would love to with your permission to adjourn this meeting in the memory of the late congressman john lewis and it was put eloquently, some thoughtful recognition of this great man. And we are all in gratitude to mr. John lewis for his life long fight in systemic racism and injustice. So he was a leader by all measures. And may his soul rest in peace. And thank you. President tsen thank you very much. With that, well adjourn. Thank you, all, for a great meeting. Thank you. [roll call] we have a quorum. You may begin the meeting. Th
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Inm Francine Lacqua here london. Happy thursday. Lets check in on the markets. A lot of focus about the turkish keene is alsom all over. He is really on what could happen in the near term. Apart from the turkish lira, there is quite of lot going on, and stocks are dropping in much of the world after the fed signaled continued concern on the pandemic, and that is weighing on the worlds biggest economy as well as treasuries advancing. The other thing i am watching out for is daughter holding, gold edging higher, and then we not need to talk about wheel, declining from a high after the fed and opec both sounding cautious we need to talk about oil. And lets get to the bloomberg first word news. We start with china, which says it is planning to hold talks after last weeks talks were canceled by donald trump. This is six months after the pack. The russian opposition leader, navalny has fallen ill, allegedly due to poisoning, unco
So we are looking at case counts going up and in equity market going up. We are seeing treasuries coming off, you see three bits today, but what we are seeing as well is a steeper and steeper curve. What does that signal, and ultimately will we see Central Banks stepping on that . What we have coming up for the rest of this program, we have a great our lined up. Lets talk about the highlights coming up later in the hour. We are going to get more oversight as to what is happening in china. Alpine chief strategist will be coming alpine macros chief strategist is joining us. Here in europe, the ecb is warning that the eurozone faces about two years of downward pressure during a webinar this weekend. The ecb president , Christine Lagarde said she does see a turnaround after that. Inflation dynamics will be impacted with disinflation to begin with, and then inflation that will occur, that we will have to anticipate, that we will have to measure, but it will be most likely based if we have a
This year at 9. 3 . Then recovering next year to five or 6. 5 in 2021. Now pce inflation under 1 . Longterm federal funds rate again, they see it at 2 1 2 , getting back to that. But again no raise in rates for the next two years. Now in the statement, theyre very interesting language. They put in financial conditions have improved in part reflecting policy measures to support the economy and the flow of credit to u. S. Households and businesses. They have had weaker demand it says on, as well as oil prices have kept inflation historically low. Federal reserve is committed they say to use the full range of tools to support the economy. This was a unanimous decision but again, charles, holding the federal funds rate where it is at least through 2022 is their projections. Back to you. Charles edward, thank you very much, my friend. Hopefully well come back to you for some Additional Information but right now i would like to bring in to discuss, kaltbaum Capital Management president , gar