In placen, and the fog on fiscal stimulus. It has crept up on us after the dueling debates of last week, but there it is on thursday in nashville, with a mute button. It will be interesting. Jonathan we know this campaign is unhappy, not with the mute button, but with the topics. They want this debate to be about Foreign Policy. I imagine the president wants that to be about Foreign Policy, and he will do his best to make it just about that. Tom he will do that. You wonder if it will be the uproar over the bidens in the out york post article front of our giuliani interview the other day, but help me here, lisa. This is really important. Does Foreign Policy matter in a president ial election . I am not sure it does. Lisa i would argue in this case it does, not so much with russia, but with china. We have seen an increasing amount of betting on the chinese economy, not because they have handled the virus arguably better than we have come about because they believe joe biden will be a lit
Arrows dow futures indicated down by about 260. Weve seen down 300 this morning. Nasdaq also down sharply down by 200 points and the s p 500 down by about 37 so significant declines after two other days of losses also playing out in the treasury markets as well. If you want to take a look at what is happening there, yields have gone down, right now the ten year is yield iing below 0. a lot of this has to do with renewed lockdowns in europe. Lets get to karen cho who has more on what is happening there. Thank you very much we are witnessing losses across the markets as we contend with more news flow around more severe restrictions. Weve been hearing the last couple hour 24s that there may moves announced later on today, reports from various Media Outlets suggesting that london will move to a tier two restrictions the london mayor has spoken suggesting that the Health Secretary will reveal the changes in the house of commons. No mingling between households currently there is a rule of si
But the equity markets are open. We are up by 1. 2 . Earnings season getting up tomorrow with j. P. Morgan, but stimulus talks are not going anywhere. The german tenyear yield, yields are going lower. We are also seeing some pressure caught in periphery. We are getting awful close to a has 100 spread that basis points on it, and that is certainly something we are watching very carefully. We note the comments from mr. Lane over the weekend. The other thing we are noting as well is what is happening with chinese currency. The pboc over the weekend basically putting two way risk back into that currency pair. The question is, will that be marketto stabilize this and keep the pboc happy, or is further action ultimately going to be required . Kailey joining us now is mark mccormick, Td Securities global head of fx strategy. Lets talk about the u. K. First. More restrictions to stop the spread of the virus there. The market doesnt really seem to blink at any of these new additional restrictio
That is a big headache for the ecb that meets next week. Alix one of the worst performing currencies in march. Scarlet is here to look at those. Scarlet a new trend. Alix that is me. Thelet i was hoping for return of summer. Weakness in the u. S. Dollar is index felle bluebird fiverounding up straight months of losses. When you look at who performed better versus the dollar everyone except brazil. Commodity currencies for the biggest gainers. Down 6. 3 rial is down 6. 3 . A note published today says the dollar moved further than the shifting growth expectations would justify. The positioning to get the dollar down has been extreme, but what triggers a correction is not for castable. The feds leadership was more pressure on the dollar because lower rates for longer continue to pound the dollar. Forever and a day is the phrase i like the best now. The fed is willing to tolerate higher inflation to get fuller, higher employment. As much as we use the dollar index as shorthand for the perf
Record highs that has the nasdaq setting a record as well better than expected home sales in the u. S strong activity numbers out of europe as well uk, australia to name but a few. Were up, sarah, nearly 1 on the s p 500. Ahead on todays show, a big first on cnbc interview with howard marks fresh off his latest memo. He said the odds are not in investors favor and whether he sees any opportunities right now in the market plushgs connecticut has certainly seen an encouraging dropoff in coronavirus numbers of late. Well ask governor lamont about his advice for states like florida, arizona and texas that are seeing their cases swell and how hes trying to keep those cases out of his state lets focus in on the big stories were watching mike santoli tracking todays rally. Meg terrell has the highlights from Anthony Faucis congressional testimony and phil lebeau is covering another volatile session with the Airlines Start us off with the Broader Market on the three month anniversary of the ma