Surveillance: U.S. GDP to Drop 12% in 2Q, BofA Says
Bloomberg Surveillance
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🗓️ 20 March 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Steve Wieting, Citi Private Bank Global Chief Investment Strategist, says this is a bad time to sell investments. Patrick Armstrong, Plurimi Wealth CIO, says earnings are going to be decimated for a lot of industries in Q2. Francisco Blanch, Bank of America Global Head of Commodities & Derivatives Research, says the hardest part of this crisis is not knowing the demand growth we'll get in Q2. Michelle Meyer, Bank of America Head of U.S. Economics predicts U.S. GDP will drop 12% in the second quarter.
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| 0:57.2 | Huge, huge credit losses rippling through this market over the last couple of weeks. |
| 1:00.4 | Pleased to say the Wang Gin now, Steve Widing, City Private Bank, Global Chief Investment Strategy, |
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| 1:06.6 | Your focus on credit right now, how much stress are you seeing? |
| 1:09.9 | And it's still too, too, far too premature to think about stepping in. |
| 1:14.0 | Well look I think that there's some interesting dichotomies taking place that's |
| 1:19.4 | functioning in the market seems to be quite bad and we can think about what some of those reasons are |
| 1:26.3 | in terms of secondary market trading for |
| 1:29.2 | on fixed income generally not just US credit. |
| 1:32.6 | But we're also seeing primary issues, for example, we've seen a good number of corporate bond issues, |
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