Forecasts dont take into account that nodeal possibility. This is a key thing that mark carney is going to have to navigate. Heres been a big divergence a lot slowing rate and of people expect rate cuts. How do they forecast this . Do they make separate forecasts based on a nodeal scenario . What will it mean for the pound . Weve hit the lowest since 2017 in todays session and if mark carney does come out with a little bit more of a dovish statement in any way and that puts further pressure on the pound, that of course then could feed into inflation. So hes talked recently about the fact that he really does need to try to illustrate these market activities. Thats what the focus will be. Also of course on new growth and inflation forecasts. The key thing they said is that the uncertainty means a wide range of parts for the economy. There could be volatility during that News Conference. Lisa as we see the pound weaken, weve seen Inflation Expectations pick up. Lets throw up a chart here
About 5 from their all time highs. Where is it safe to hide in this stock market we have details as power lunch starts right now and here is where we stand right now. The dow was down nearly 600 points at the lows of the day right off the open, weve come a long way back. Now down just about a hundred points with the nasdaq actually in the green, ever, ever, ever so slightly. The two big laggards are energy and financials well explain why, both down about 2 oil sinking to 50 a barrel. Well have more on that later. That would explain why Energy Stocks are down 1 3 4 . The focus is yields banks around the world are cutting rates. This is sending u. S. Investors into a selling frenzy. U. S. Stocks have bounced back, fears remain about what it means for the market we have full Team Coverage to lay it out Steve Liesman is here to talk about the rate cuts, and lets start with you hello, everybody. The important thing is were moving lock step with tenyear yields lets just take a look as yields
Basis points. The front end of the curve is moving quite substantially. We will talk about that in a few moments. A couple of thoughts on the move poster earnings. Snacks are because making a comeback, offsetting weakness and cereals. Western digital up 6 . Ceo digitals guy european stocks going nowhere. We are seeing a bit of a drag. The pound is down and the bank of england will not factor in a no deal brexit. They are going to wait for the government to do that. The german tenyear, yields continue to fall. The amount of negative yielding debt just continues to pileup, and up, and up. England is bank of keeping rates on hold, saying it is less confident than usual. The Federal Reserve yesterday also making its rate cuts. We want to get to Jerome Schneider, our guest the talk about all of the central banking moves. Jerome, thank you for joining. Lets get to the Federal Reserve rate cut first. Were you surprised by the Market Reaction . Jerome the market was surprised by future rate cu
Contemplates as the committee contemplates the future target range of the federal funds rate it will act as appropriate to expand the expansion the vote, 82. Two dissents Esther George of kansas city and Eric Rosengren of boston both wanted to keep rates unchanged. On the Economic Outlook, surprisingly the same from the month or months when they didnt cut rates. They say the labor market remains strong Economic Activity rising at a moderate rate. Unemployment remains slow. Household spending appears to have picked up Business Investment has been soft, thats the one negative. Inflation running below 2 , market based measures have remained low and survey based measures are little changed. Very much the same characterization and actually a little bit better than prior months when they didnt cut rates. The trick will be in the press conference which starts in about 29 minutes time. So far in terms of the power pirouette that needed to happen, what do you think . You know, i think its okay
To sustain the expansion, while continuing to monitor Economic Data coming in for the future path where the rates should go. The fed still sees uncertainty in the outlook Going Forward and acknowledges that business, fixed Business Investment growth has been soft. Consumer spending they do say has picked up. Now the fed lowered payments on excess reserves to 2. 1 . The bottom line a quarter percentage point of a cut in the Federal Reserve federal funds rate and stopping the Balance Sheet roleoff two months early. Back to you guys. Charles that is a lot to digest. Here to do it, the biggest fox business allstar panel of all time, host of varney company, stuart varney, host of mornings with maria maria bartiromo, the man, the host of lou dobbs tonight, you guessed it, lou dobbs and host of cavuto coast to coast, neil cavuto. The market doesnt like what theyre hearing so far which puts more pressure. There was whispering going on to this, could be as high as 50 basis points. Maybe a littl