Moving news from all around the world. Delhi, newg to new jersey and washington come our bloomberg voices are on the ground todays top stories. In asia, you had the pboc lowering the rate it charges on shorterterm loans to lenders. Index added 150 billion yuan into the banking system. Joining us is tom mackenzie. Is this the start of an easing cycle, or a shortterm term liquidity crunch into the new year . Tom it seems like more of a shortterm liquidity crunch. We are looking ahead to january, what it looks like you will get a withdrawal of cash out of the Financial System here of about 450 billion. They take that liquidity out ahead of the chinese new year, which comes in towards the end of january. It does seem like it is more of a seasonal effect. More broadly in the economy, credit has been tightening. We saw today from the pboc was some gradual measures to try and address this queasy liquidity, and a couple of basis points and a sevenday reverse repo as well. About 28ly, you got b
Street about the stock. Well debate. The Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Our Investment Committee at the table today, the Portfolio Manager at eaten vance. We begin where else . The market. Stocks have been ramping in the past 30 minutes, got above the closing high on the s p on a big day for the semis thanks to intel. All but hitting a new record, as well. Names like jp morgan, so many more hitting 52week highs today. We are about a point away from a new high. Is this the beginning of that longawaited ramp that weve been waiting so long for what drove the market was off to a decent start anyway and then the china news. Then the market went to hyperdrive. So if thats the case, if we have a meaningful agreement with china, we really dont know the details, that could, in fact, increase the trading range. So go through it. I thought there was a bias of the upside slightly. Some numbers are good, some are bad. Its very encouraging when you get a print
Sluggish, not just for the foreseeable future but through the holidays. Guy we are watching what is with the pound. The pound is not reacting to mr. Macrons with the pound. Statements. It is more about earnings than anything else. 7 , the dollar is down. 7 on news of that brief truce in syria. Union the european looking for titfortat tariffs with the u. S. Over dispute about illegal aid to aircraft manufacturers. 7. 5 billion worth of e. U. Goods ranging from planes and lots more. He is coming to us from washington, d. C. , where he is attending the world bank meetings. Today is the latest round in tariffs ongoing throughout the world. We also have data out of china suggesting tariffs are impacting growth. What is your outlook for how things progress in the next quarter . Mark i think investors around the world and certainly here at the meeting are focused on this trade issue. We are seeing the tariffs come through into slower Economic Growth. In our global strategy, we are looking mor
Could overwhelm the inflation fight and get fiscal policy under control could mean a big shock for the banking system. Hell lay out the options available both to the fed and lawmakers. The coceo of Morgan Stanleys real estate arm is here to explain her strategy and how its change in the face of higher yield as well as what opportunities shes seeing overseas. Before that, for once, dom, i get to say session highs. Yes. You can say session highs right now. Thats exactly where we sit. If you look at the markets overall, with the s p, remember on friday we talked about that kind of 200day moving average, that longer term trend line, 4233. We are now solidly above it, but it wasnt the case earlier today. We were down as much as roughly 35 points on the s p 500. Right now as you point out, session highs, up 30. Y is its been a fairly large reversal during the course of the day, so you wonder whether or not some traders were out there looking at whether or not we could bounce off the longer t
This hour. These are modest declines. Dow down 71 points. S p futures off 11. Nasdaq down by 44. At this point, the dow is on track for its fourth negative week in the last five and that is because of the treasury yields. They have been pushing higher and higher. The tenyear yield is 4. 95 . In fact, it did cross that 5 line that we were watching. Hovering at 5 . Yesterday, just after 5 00 p. M. , the tenyear yield hit the 5 level briefly. The last time we hit that level was july of 2007. Yesterdays move cameafter fed chairman pojay powell spoke and kept the door open to more rate hikes. We have models for everything and formulas for everything. We have to be focused on what the economy is telling us. Even taking lags into account. What is it telling us . Does it feel like policy is too tight right now . I would have to say no sdp. We will talk about rates and more with Raphael Bostic. Until recently, bostic has said were done. Jay powell said yesterday at the Economic Club of new york