It also says it will purchase additional treasury assets as part of an accommodative policy. It repeat language from previous statements, where it sol it will use the full range of tools to support the economy the statement says weak demand and oil prices are holding down inflation, but the path principally depends on the virus. It says it poses considerable risk to the mediumterm outlook. There were two dissets, from the dallas and minneapolis fed, differences in what they wanted. Capellan wanted more flexibility. Let me tell you about the outlook for gdp. They actually dramatically well, they were looking for a 6. 5 gdp decline, now looking for a 397 decline they were looking for nine and change, now looking for 7. 6. Ill go directly to the actual table here and put my glasses on, and tell you what it says here inflation they have upgraded from 0. 8 to 1 mounta. 2 there it is, folks the path of policy 0. 1 for 2020, 0. 1 for 2021 0. 1 for 2022, and drumroll, please, 0. 1 for 2023 the
Currency is falling and thats i think what were seeing is that is this this fall has been accelerating recently as you said and. To the moon i think ive got a nice comparison for you here i mean weve saw this billions and actually trillions of money printing recently in the small calculation so the feds expanded the Balance Sheet by 3 trillion within a very short time recently so what is 3 trillion 1. 03 trillion dollars if you make a staple of 1. 00 coin this is a mind boggling staple of 3003700000 miles and this is a chilly. 20 light seconds so this is actually several times to distance to the moon and this was just. Rate it out of nothing within a few weeks and thats i think the real problem which we are facing and and people are waking up to this problem and i think thats a very interesting time when a good analogy there with the staples and all that stuff its amazing when you put these graphics and you look at them how really incredible trillions and trillions of dollars as now of
People saying we are going to get this rotation out of growth, into value. That rotation seems to be overdone. I wonder if you are still going to get people trying to push that narrative. Jonathan yields higher off the back of the ppi data yesterday. Friday. Y, retail lisa we are expecting a little bit of an increase, kind of like what we saw yesterday. It is going to be interesting to see whether weve got a further selloff in bonds. We will get another record sale of u. S. Treasuries on the long end, selling 10 year notes. Yesterday we saw that three year auction come in very strong. Interesting to see whether that happens again. Today we are going to be hearing from the Vice President afterate Kamala Harris joe biden selected her as his running mate. They will be speaking in delaware later today. Jonathan lets start with the fx market. Eurodollar starting to push just a little bit higher, up 0. 3 . In the equity market this morning, equity futures up by around 25 points, up around 0.
It is extending its emergency Lending Program. Twoday meeting coming to a close today and fiery hearing on capitol hill between william barr and democrats. The hearing appeared to have more questions than answers at least that were allowed. Ag had a question of its own, how long will we let cities burn. Federal agents pulling out of seattle now. Other cities following on spike of violence. Gulleny giuliani this morning. Its all here right coming up. Markses this morning meanwhile look at this, fractional moves as stimulus uncertainty and economic hit companies are taking due to coronavirus, few losses on wall street yesterday, s p 500 up 7. Plus stores using facial recognition, what you need to know about information being gathered from your image. Mornings with maria is live right now. Global markets this morning are mixed, take a look at european indices with ftse 100 up 20 points, dax index lower by 15 points in germany. In asia overnight markets mostly higher, take a look, coronavi
Today. With the dow jones average skyrocketing 530 points, s p 1. 32, nasdaq 1. 72, one point before more saber rattling with china. All sorts of beaten down stocks, though, were higher. While the covid19 winners, well, they got slammed theres just one tiny problem with this action we dont actually have a vaccine. Does that mean the stock market is getting ahead of itself lets unpack the issue first this rally is based not just on hopes of a vaccine but a firm belief that the whole virus problem isnt nearly as dire as we thought a lot of people feel it has been blown out of proportion by the media, and the president s right, the people feel the president s right when he says we should open up everything betting on a vaccine makes sense. Since the beginning of the pandemic they warned us a vaccine would take a long time the fastest was the mumps which took four years. Every day were bombarded about another attempt to end this nightmare. Today we heard merck is working on a Magic Technol