40 billion in mortgagebacked securities. They say the path of the economy will be connected to the path of the virus in the statement. One interesting note at the end. Mary dailey, head of San Francisco reserve president mad to cast her vote as alternate. Minneapolis president Neal Kashkari is on paternity leave. He was into the at the meeting. The birth of their second child happened this week. We think, we believe this is the first time a Voting Member missed a vote because of paternity leave. Back to you, charles. Charles that is an interesting tidbit a lot to go through here. Meantime, folks it is another monster session in the market which yesterday had the best ever postelection session. There should be no question that the worry of a blue wave was the main reason for selling last week. But now the question, have investors moved from abject fear to unbridled optimism a little too fast . Moreover with megagrowth leading the way again, what is the best place to be positioned for th
Prices and the economy depends on the course of the virus the committee will maintain its purchases or increase to smooth market funding it repeats for the second time that it seeks inflation moderately above 2 . This is a carbon copy of the last statement i counted seven words changed and none of them really substantial or meant to convey any particular meaning i think that reflects the big changes. Jim was saying last time exceeding the 2 inflation goal and theity si itdesire not to mo many waves while the country counts votes in this president ial election. The other dissenter did not attend the meeting due to the birth of his second child. Congratulations to Neal Kashkari absolutely. Well spend half an hour dissecting those seven words what do you think of jims point, which is the absence of stimulus may have put the fed even more under a spotlight to do even more absolutely. I think thats true. I think the fed will feel pressure to do more, but it creates an interesting quandary,
Moderately above 2 inflation, moderately is what it says in the statement but does not define exactly what moderately means. There are two centers to this action, Robert Kaplan wants to see the statement to the way it was pretty wants to statement to read the economy or stance will remain the same until the economy has weathered the storm and the economic storm we have here. Well cash on the other side dissented because he wants more dovish language in this. On implement rates, statistics are very interesting here. They have reduced now the planet rates rates and estimation of this year to 7. 6 by the end of 2020 grid that is down from 9. 3 from their june projection and then also 5. 5 from on a plummet rates in 2021, 4. 6 and 2022 and 4 in 2023. The real gdp prediction cut in half for the losses they are paired they are now saying its a loss of 3. 7 at the end of this year with a bounce back of 4 next year. The inflation, fed estimates that pce inflation is 1. 2 this year up from 1. 7
A room and the afghans to. A very warm welcome to you youre watching Aussie International with me here on. The island has called on moscow to clarify how a military grade nerve agent was reportedly used on russian soil referring to the case of opposition activist Alexei Novell me and russia in turn urged the west to stop politicizing his condition and a message relayed by the countrys top diplomats to his german counterparts with more on developments hes trying to. Well at least a phone conversation between the 2 ministers is better than nothing because at one point the talks got canceled altogether one. Chose not to fly to berlin after the russian side realized that high cost decided to cut down the planned time for their conversation to one and a half hours. An update on the Russian Foreign Ministry Website shows that the chat wasnt easy at all so here are moscows key points russian officials are and will be open to all kinds of cooperation with germany and European Countries on this
Well i dont know maybe they dont mean. I will go down a great. Part. Around one. Route. This is the one business show you cant afford to miss from bridgeboro in washington coming up the Federal Reserve has spoken and now its a plan to hold rates steady as the u. S. Economy is slowly bell. Think back straight ahead we think an indepth look at the moves of the nations central bank has the future of volatility in the wake of copan 1000 remains uncertain gold has seen a spike in value as investors flee to safe haven assets but what does the future hold but well get into that with a packed show today so lets dive right in. The Federal Reserve held another policy meeting wednesday as part of an effort to determine where to go with u. S. Interest rates and what it will take to get the economy moving again overall there was some positive news as members of the Federal Reserve board upgraded their forecast for the economy to show a smaller contraction in Gross Domestic Product and a lower Unemp