Quote, dont go to crowded places. Look, thats going to slow the economy. We dont know by how much. Remember, friday, larry kudlow was on the show, told us that targeted stimulus is being considered. The fed is being urged to take steps, too. Were watching for any announcement. Heres the other big problem. The price of oil is tumbling. The saudis have launched a price war, promising to flood the world with a glut because russia wouldnt agree to production cuts. American drillers will take a huge hit. They cant make a profit at 30 bucks a barrel. 31. 89 right now. Look at this. Money pouring into treasury securities, pushing the yield way down to yet more record lows. Takes your breath away. We were down to 0. 31 at one stage. Now we are 0. 41 . Extraordinary. It has to be said, the United States is in a better position to weather this storm. That jobs report was a blockbuster. Look at italy. Its locking down a quarter of its population, locking it down. That lwill ensure a deep recessio
And thats when the Trading Halted it slowed some of the panic selling, the machine selling and at the end of the day, still down more than that for the dow futures for the dow a decline of more than 2,000 points. Youre looking at a big bounceback but only half of the declines from yesterday. Up by 1100 . It found some support and then it was down 5 and then it closed about where it was indicated to open. Right. But we kept saying what if the garden variety correction is 12 we got a pandemic whats a decent where do we got an additional 18 or 19 yesterday. Well, in total. Down down 18 or 19. Yeah. If it goes from here up 1,000 today youll once again be the call of the bottom you will be ill take it. I hope im the call of the bottom. I hope you are too. But its just consensus. Just the feeling that everyone has at the same time that you express. Thats all it is thats many times that is the indicator. Do you think do you think we have more to go . Well, i understand the focus on the equity
She prepares his new years address. Is set to be ghosn in lebanon. One source tells us he fled japan ahead of a trial and financial misconduct charges. Markets in asia are winding down for the year. Australias equity market closes early this new year. Sophie has a final session how is the final session of the year looking . Sophie some pressure coming through. The aussie share market off 1. 2 , trimming the yeartodate gain but still set for the best year since 2009. Eminis little changed. Nikkei futures in singapore off by 1 and the bloomberg dollar index extending declines for a fourth straight session as the greenback is set for the Fourth Annual drop since 2010. Let switch out the board to check in on what markets are closed this new years eve. Indonesia, the philippines, and china closing along with south korea and japan entering a sixday new year holiday. We will be waiting to see whether we have yen like we saw earlier this year. Paul. Paul thanks very much, sophie. Breaking news
Been Holding Interest rates at abnormally low rates right this is nuts it only encourages it increases this behavior absolutely this is kind of what drove everybody to borrow more because debt is cheap why not take on more debt and thats actual thats must been happening corporates have now been issuing junk bonds at record levels record levels and they are deeply Indebted Companies that d are actually using debt to pay off equities so theyre kind of just like borrowing money just to prop of your own share values and thats been working because youve seen the Massive Equity rise and as you pointed out well all time highs right now we only have like 15 seconds when i ask you about this real quick Federal Reserve just injected another 104 1000000000. 00 into markets overnight again on thursday and ran over night into friday the Federal Reserve is just a huge part of this right continuing to dump cheap money at lowest Interest Rates and its not good for the economy unless were not only that
Private debt its even more concerning even though Government Debt thats the most attention private nonfinancial day in the u. S. Is at 27 trillion versus public debt is at 19 trillion and the reason why private debt is so much more dangerous is because its more problematic is because public debt has more impact on the economic and the economic landscape shirt right now if you look at the past the roaring twentys the japanese boom of the eightys and most recently the u. S. In the early 2000 what did all 3 of those have in common its a huge levels of private debt low relatively low public debt but huge huge unsustainable levels of private debt that kind of just funded the incredible binge and rise you know theres also been a study in the not just of this borrowing taking place right because its really borrowing money that doesnt exist but as part of the Central Banks have been Holding Interest rates at abnormally low rates right this is nuts it only encourages it increases this behavior