Fed set 2022 and what the chairman will say and what i assume will be a Virtual Press conference today. Ofncine we will have plenty market action. We will look at the markets every 15 minutes, including what is happening in treasuries. We had the oecd coming out with their economic outlook. That was released about an hour ago, and the oecd, it is a smarter way of doing it, tom. Forecasting the pandemic would cause a Global Economic slump of 6 here, but if there is a second wave, that becomes a seven point 6 slump. It is a good way of visualizing percent comes a 7. 6 slump. By thewas taken aback differentials between the bar charts of europe and the United States. I did not have in my head how much worse the guesstimate is for gdp decline in the europe verses in the u. S. It is a very good report. Francine it is also because of where europe was in the economic cycle. Lets get straight to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. A warning from jeffrey gund
Discussing enough what the Standard Chartered bank and hsbc is doing where they are saying they are going to agree to whatever with new security rules of hong kong. How big a deal of this in your london . Francine well, it was quite a big deal when they announced it. I think you and i spoke to stephen engle. He reminded us, it goes to show may be the influence that beijing has on some of these companies if they want to have licenses in mainland china. This is actually quite difficult to dig into the deep root of it. Now, we understand that there is a backlash from investors. Just yesterday, we had o aviva, one of the biggest investors in a lot of these banks, saying it is decisionable with the of hsbc and Standard Chartered, it is uncomfortable about the banks decisions. Tom absolutely fascinating what we see their. We have got lots of coverage through this hour and on through bloomberg surveillance. Theill be joined from school of chicago, the former leader of the central bank of indi
Getting out to 2021 and even trying to have our central bank centralbank measure 2022. Jonathan looking forward to that conversation in a couple of hours right here on bloomberg surveillance. Weve also got to talk about the projections. We have not had projections from the Federal Reserve since the summer of last year, and they were looking for 3. 5 unemployment in 2020, and gdp growth in and around 2 . Nobody saw the revisions that would have to be made just half a year later. Absolutely extraordinary. You see it within the economic at a have been talking about. As Olivier Blanchard mentioned in our show open, the challenge forward is on policy. I know you were long amazon and apple yesterday, driving forward the nasdaq. Was. Han i wish i not just yesterday, but through the year as well. Tremendous performance in this equity market. Who would have thought we would have the revisions we are about to get later, and this equity market would be higher versus where it was in december . Spe