We just saw the chunz delegation depart the office of the u. S. Trade representative en masse every the hours of negotiations the president moments aigt saying it went well. He confirmed he will meet with the chinese top negotiator tomorrow he also answered a question about a possible investigation that he requested china do last week to look into the family of joe biden and possible corruption according to the president that he believes went on there he said its up to china to look into whatever it wants to. But this is an interesting comment given a wrinkle today. Where an outside adviser to the president Michael Pillsbury at the Hudson Institute made comments to the Financial Times saying he raised the issue of the biden was china. Later he acknowledged he discussed the bidens with china well back to fast money. A scene in shanghai china but it was china that brought it up and not a discussion at the earlier today as the brooklyn behest of the president. Thats a cloud hanging over a
Joining us for the hour stephanie link from nuveen, a tiaa company so we lost the gains is it on fears ha a trade 2k5e8s getting pushed snout is the market expecting a trade deal at this point i think were a little more optimistic about a trade deal most recently and thats why we rallied as much as we did and thats why rates actually increased over the last couple of weeks but yeah, i think the commentary today about trade kind of pushed us down. But i really think were still trying to digest what the fed said yesterday i do think it was a hawkish cut but i also thought that powell walked it back why was it a hawkish cut . Because you have the dissenters and you were talking about it yesterday you were right on it as soon as it came out yesterday about the dissenters and i totally agree with you on that heres the quandary. The Economic Data in the sfats is not bad we had great housing data yesterday, pretty good data on housing, i. P. , retail sales. Jobs continues to be good. So if he
Mr. President , thats your job. Thats your job. If he wins, joe biden has pledged to listen to advice from the nations top Infectious Disease expert, dr. Anthony fauci, who has spent much of his time during the Trump Administration correcting the record from Donald Trumps disinformation lies and outright medical quackery. Something he had to do yet again yesterday when donald trump touted a Conspiracy Theory that the virus death toll is lower than has been reported. By the way, i saw a statistic come out the other day, talking about only 6 of the people actually died from covid, which is very that they die from other well, they had comorbidities, which youve gotten criticized for, because there are comorbidities, as the italians show, i think its every covid death, i think 70 , had two or three comorbidity, but the covid may have been the key morbidity to hit them. It could be, but its an interesting statistic. The point that the cdc was trying to make that a certain percent had nothin
The U.S. military is drafting plans to ensure House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's safety on a trip to Taiwan later this year, his first major foreign trip as speaker.