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This is my favourite story of 2020. The central bank of Nintendo's Animal Crossing game is taking decisive action to prevent hoarding, and has slashed interest rates to near zero. Analysts say it is spurring a hunt for riskier assets like tarantulas. ft.com/content/68f96d…
Like many central bankers, Tom Nook elicits strong feelings. gametruth.com/editorials/tom…
FT readers gunna FT.
Hey @Urbandirt our work here is done.
This piece has made me dip into the wonderful world of Animal Crossing - a game I'd never heard of before the weekend - and try my hand at some topical Tom Nook memes.
The dark side of Tom "Whatever it takes" Nook's interest rate cuts.
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Morgan Stanley: “While we understand the desire for optimism, we also caution that the US outbreak is far from over. Recovering from this acute period in the outbreak is just the beginning and not the end. We believe the path to re-opening the economy is going to be long.”
This is from Matthew Harrison, head of biotech research at Morgan Stanley.
“Investors cannot afford to lose sight of the fact that only a vaccine will provide a true solution to this pandemic.”
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Some good charts from Goldman Sachs's Peter Oppenheimer on just how unusually savage this bear market has been. A thread:
First of all, the size of the decline is (thus far) pretty much average for "event-driven" bear markets.
But in terms of swiftness, it is record-shattering, even surpassing the Great Crash of 1929.
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Bank of America takes a chainsaw to its US economic forecasts, after real-time debit and credit card purchase data point to a collapse in many sectors.
Here are the old versus new forecasts.
The unemployment numbers are going to be BRUTAL. BofA predicts it will spike to a high of 15.6%, and only fall back to levels near previous downturns once the virus crisis fades.
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