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The ECB is not yet at the stage where it would have a lasting impact on inflation and, therefore, require a monetary policy response.

"US companies will generate no earnings growth in 2020. Our reduced forecasts reflect the severe decline in Chinese economic activity in 1Q, lower end-demand for US exporters, supply chain disruption, a slowdown in US economic activity, and elevated uncertainty."

Of course, with the global economy grinding to a halt due to the coronavirus pandemic, what happened in Q4 is now completely irrelevant.

...durable goods orders are still down 2.3% YoY - in contraction for 8 of the last 9 months...

...while the media is crowing that “reflation is on the horizon,” the commodity complex is suggesting that whatever bump there was from the “trade deal,” is now over...

...inequality is not the societal plague that socialists allege it to be.

This follows a 92% drop during the first two weeks of February...
 

The outbreak of COVID-19 came at a particularly vulnerable point in the global business cycle... the risk of outright global recession in the first half of 2020 seems like a distinct possibility...

...the predicate of central bank omnipotence should now be swept into the dustpan of history.

"If anything, the risks to our forecasts for Italian growth this year are now tilted firmly to the downside."

And that's largely without the impact of the coronavirus. 

...was the virus scare just the right 'crisis not to waste'?

“It’s all stopped...zero,”

That was worse than the lowest estimate from analysts...

Anything to restore confidence in the market.

US home price growth accelerated for the 5th straight month in December (the latest Case-Shiller data), rising at 2.85% YoY - the fastest pace in almost a year...

One month after the start of the Lunar Near Year, China's economy remains completely paralyzed.

...a wealth of infographics highlighting the various ways the European Union is declining: the rise China, the rise of euroskeptic populism, weak militaries, poor quality migrants, and weakness on R&D and tech.

“When can everyone come back to work? No one knows"

"This is the most difficult time I have ever experienced"