marija veitmane, senior multi-asset strategist, state street bank. coming up, policy mistakes by central banks anxious to tame inflation is the biggest downside. that is according to a survey of fund managers. we will discuss that, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ francine: welcome back to the open, 15 minutes into the european trading day and a lot of equities are supported by prospects of a central bank accommodation. the europe stoxx 600 getting 0.5%, similar across the board with the cac, dax. we will find out tomorrow what the fed is thinking. central banks are keen to bring down inflation. there are risks with policy mistakes seen is the biggest downside for stocks, according to a bloomberg survey of investors. geopolitical risks are also high . marija veitmane, senior multi-asset strategist, state street bank is still with us. you are confident equities will be on the rise and central banks will do the right thing, or it is priced in. what is your number one concern? marija: for me, i'm not far thinking of the central bank but i am concerned with th

the state bank of pakistan increasing the rate by 100 basis points. its inflation points -- inflation forecast for next year. yvonne: with us as the central bank governor. thank you for joining us. you are the most hawkish central banker in asia. your hike rate, 275 basis points. what is the outlook moving forward? >> i think that the right way to think about monetary policy in pakistan and a few other central banks is in the context of the economic recovery out of covid. first point to note is pakistan remains brisk. we expect economy to go 5% per year. this comes on the back of 4% the freebie is here -- the previous year and a contraction of 5%. my point is the economy is growing quite well. i know toby, car sales group 41% year on year. our textile imports grew 29%. tax collections were up 27%. the second point is this economic recovery, but more importantly, the global development including recoveries around the world and supply chain disruptions have caused a sharp hike and a global commodity prices, which of pushed up our deficit as well as infla

that means sanctions against big russian state banks, investment agencies, and a broadening of sanctionsially areas like mining, metals, and shipping and state owned companies could be in their. it could possibly mean cutting off access to this with banking system. that is the nuclear option. nord stream 2 is a big deal. it is one that was definitely discussed yesterday. according to the ukrainians, there are 94,300 russian troops near ukraine's border, in the northeast, the east, and crimea. we saw on friday u.s. intelligence declassified estimates. we think the u.s. government thinks that russia will increase its troop numbers to 175,000. an invasion could, as likely as january 2020. i disagree with victor, who made a powerful case that invading ukraine is not in russia's natural --natural--national interests. there is a case to me made it is serious this time. we do not know if putin has made up his mind. this may be an elaborate ruse. he may be putting huge pressure on ukraine and the united states to give in at the negotiating table. that is possible but vladimir putin might be thin

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so that probably means sanctions against big russian state banks and investment agencies. it probably means a broadening of sanctions to maybe potentially areas like mining metals and shipping and state own companies could be in there. and then it could possibly mean using the cutting off access to the swift banking system. and that's sort of the nuclear option nor stream to though is, is a big deal. and it's one odd that that was definitely discussed yesterday. according to the ukrainians. there are 94300 russian troops near ukraine's border in there in the northeast. there in the east and they're in crimea, and we saw on friday us intelligence a declassified some estimates the end. and we think the u. s. government thinks that russia will increase it true. it's true numbers to a 175000. and that invasion could come as likely as january 2020. i disagree with with victor. victor made a quite a powerful case that, that invading ukraine is not in russia's national interest. well, i think that there's a case to be made that, that it's serious this time. victor victor's right.

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think the, the main message is for us johnson's christmas address, where as he say, get through state banks to everyone that's been toiling in the national health service. and that he hopes that this christmas will be better than the last. in many ways, this was a classic johnson speech full of johnson is inside may, may they be kind of familiar cultural references or ambitious rhetorical segue. he was talking about the families who might need a bigger turkey this year. have more sprouts to appeal, need more washing up to do. he said, that's all to the good because that means that more people are able to get together with their families and with their loved ones. he's talking about if you have more scrum pulled up wrapping paper again. that's good because it's shows that people have been giving each other the invaluable presence of vaccines which has enabled them to get together more than they were last year. he, he interesting rhetorical segue as well. perhaps in saying that that jesus would have wanted us to get vaccine or something along those lines. that loving your neighbor is somethin

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bank. thank you so much for joining us. so how to grow the business, and how would you describe the state of banking yourself and your companymorning. yes, india is coming out of an ailing economy. but let's presume it is a manageable situation. things are looking good. i don't think i have been as optimistic about the year ahead as we have been the last couple of years. we had a lot of issues. generally the outlook for the year at this point in time looks quite good. and if you look at our recent quarter that went by, we did see a meaningful pickup in our businesses. the one we are in seems to reflect a similar outcome. i am quite optimistic about the year ahead. we have some strategic partnerships which are helping us reach out to a segment of the market where we are not prominently present. our core strength is looking good, so i am optimistic about how things will shape up, but i will caveat that by saying that we can't let up. yvonne: in terms of your competitive advantages, what do you think you need in terms of sharpening your tools and certain things that give you that edge as you try to compete with these stronger a

we have also heard from the federal reserve and the united states central bank right there. they are also not increasing rates yet. they are seeming a bit more radical on this. >> people want to know that prices are going to come down. >> they probably will eventually but we can't say they will not be more inflation through the first few months of 2022. we still have people spending. we have demand rising. >> people are getting out and about more. they want to buy stuff because of this pent up demand over the past couple of years. but the supply chains can't keep up. producers can make this stuff up as much as -- as fast as it is being sold. we are not out of the inflation woods yet. brent: we have to get through the holiday season and all that. as always, thank you. some sports news now, outbreaks of covid-19 at some football clubs that have because the english premier league to postpone half of the matches this coming weekend. the league announced that saturday's game between manchester united and brighton will not take place as scheduled after a rash of positive tests at

this raises red flags for many state central banks and the financial committee more generally. we are continuing to review. it is a complicated and challenging issue but that is the status and the reason why there is not any update on that. >> i wanted to talk about the joe manchin meeting. what is the president's message to the senator? it is within a month and a half that you guys -- since you guys announced a framework that you thought would work. what is the message today? sec. psaki: the president looks forward to speaking directly with senator manchin about why you think this legislation should move forward. he felt that there connotations have always operated in good faith and he expects this to follow that same approach. senator manchin has been in touch over the last week with senior members of the white house staff and we specked this to be a continuation of that conversation. i will let senator manchin speak for himself. the president looks forward to communicating directly with him this afternoon. >> i just wanted to ask you about the january 6 committee. over the w

in the states the banks have fdic insurance.take away woke banks and the fdic charter, those are tools that conservative have to address this wokism happening in the banking industry. we will continue to follow this. -- it will be an increasing phenomenon across the country. australia turning into a hellhole. a person forced into quarantine camp joins us next with an update on the tyranny. >> sean: joe biden wants trillion dollars to build back better. he could print the money and probably will. if that doesn't work joe biden needs to make sure he can get the money which he plans to do through taxes. his administration will leave no stone unturned. the irs reminded americans in 2021 guidelines that stolen property must be reported to the federal government. if you steal property you must report its fair market in the year you steal it unless you return to the owner in the same year. the irs must expect billion dollars in new reported income next year. in case there are drug dealers out, the irs reminds americans that income from

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indian state of karnataka aims to turn transport from gray to green by 2030 at the latest the state capital bank. a low roof is expected to lead the way, but only $5000.00 electric cars are on the roads here right now. price is a major obstacles. e cars cost 2 to 3 times as much as their gasoline powered counterparts. marsha raunchy works as a lawyer and a legal firm and can afford to buy this model made by a local manufacturer. but most of the cities inhabitants simply can't afford and e scooter like hers. yet, the need for them is huge. 70 percent of all vehicles in the city are motorbike san motor scooters. in this unremarkable workshop in the southeast of bank of europe, business man brackish m k is working on a pre magic an affordable solution. his melody company converts conventional motor bikes and a hybrid, once they can run on battery or gasoline is needed. the conversion costs 240000 rupees 450 euro's retrofitting is a common man saw solution. so when he has his existing a sick and he wants to convert or to nevi, we have a mortal with gets returned onto the existing rad real office pho

indian state of karnataka aims to turn transport from gray to green by 2030 at the latest the state capital bank. a low roof is expected to lead the way, but only $5000.00 electric cars are on the roads here right now. price is a major obstacles. e cars cost 2 to 3 times as much as their gasoline powered counterparts. marcia raunchy works as a lawyer and a legal firm i can afford to buy this model made by a local manufacturer, but most of the cities inhabitants simply can't afford and e scooter like hers. yet, the need for them is huge. 70 percent of all vehicles in the city are motorbike san motor scooters. in this unremarkable workshop in the southeast of bank of europe, business man brackish m k is working on a pre magic in affordable solution. his melody company converts conventional motor bikes into hybrid once they can run on battery or gasoline is needed. the conversion costs 240000 rupees 450 euro's retrofitting is a common man saw solution. so when he has his existing a sick and he wants to con, worked, or to nevi, we have a mortal with gets returned onto the existing rad real office ph

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. >> my standout moment, i think it's 15 republican states that looked to woke banks who aren't goingoing to bank gun dealers, listen, if you want to be woke in the way you bank, you're not going to bank with our state government, i think that's a fascinating development. it's only going to continue in 2022. >> woke capitalism, maybe we hit peak woke in 2021. suresh what's your highlight for the year. >> my highlight is a truly remarkable accomplishment of modern science and the world working together to produce a vaccine that 70% of americans have taken and it's a remarkable feat of modern science and i think that the dividends of taking 30 years of investment in technology and research and cramming into one year is going to pay for the next decade. >> i think that's an excellent note to end on. we can agree on that and give thanks for the ex straightforward may -- extraordinary scientific advance. thank you for joining us you. i'll be back next we're with more interviews on the wall street journal at large. thank you for joining us and have a very merry christmas. ♪ >> welcome to a

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africa, latin america, these are areas of intense investment by the chinese state-owned banks as well as smaller capital enterprises. they invest heavily in metals, oil and gas. >> what is the rationale, why is china doing this. >> there is a number of reasons why china has excess capital. has excess capacity. investing abroad is an economic strategy. it's also geopolitical strategy to extend its influence. it has deals in places in africa, even in australia. australia is the least supportive darwin to china for 99 years. nobody forced australia to do that. but china is the number one trading partner of australia the number one trading partner of south africa and another of another country. this makes the united states very nervous. understandably. i view this as big power competition. i don't personally take sides i think you could look at the world in terms of nations and to compete in a game of who's gonna hoard the most. i don't think that is a competition. i don't feel part of that competition. i think the rest of us no matter where you are don't really benefit from that. >> next

london school of economics, and beijing, where her father is president of one of china's largest state-owned banksin: president xi envisions what he calls a "modern, socialist economy" for china, a much more restricted capitalism. president xi is with the people. he is with the peasants, the middle class. and unlike his predecessors, he doesn't really care so much about what happens to elites. >> stahl: his attitude towards elites became clear about a year ago when he humbled jack ma, china's most famous billionaire. founder of alibaba, the country's biggest e-commerce company, jack ma had long tested beijing's patience with his global hobnobbing. the boiling point came in october 2020, when ma gave a speech criticizing the government's rules and rule- makers as outdated and stifling innovation. >> jin: i was sitting in the third row. >> stahl: did he take your breath away? >> jin: no, i wasn't that surprised, because he tends to be very vocal. >> stahl: he tended to be very vocal. >> jin: he tended to-- thank you for the correction. he tended to be very vocal. >> stahl: after the speech, alibaba

bank solvent. can't let those dollars go into default, and that drives the huge money printing by the fed. and that now is turning into inflation in the united states. right? well, i'm not going to suffer from turkey problem. the american banks and the banks so contain the turkish bank. so the foreign kurdish banks, or the us and european had offices, may go under, but it's not going to threaten the united states at all. turkey doesn't really matter what those matter to the united states and turkey of being lost to nato altogether. and turkey was becoming politically unpredictable. country that made move much closer to russia or china if they choose to help with that. but doesn't that fall under the category of the quote, tristan dilemma? explain how that is. i don't, i just described it, you know, where the global reserve currency. we've got to print dollars to keep the empire going. and when these things start to fall apart, we end up having to finance the entire globe, which has a blow back, essentially to buy, undermine air on economy. it seems like it's got the whole term driven. the women, i think is a misnomer. the dilemma was the us running

indian state of karnataka aims to turn transport from gray to green by 2030 at the latest the state capital bank. a low roof is expected to lead the way, but only $5000.00 electric cars are on the roads here right now. price is a major obstacles. e cars cost 2 to 3 times as much as their gasoline powered counterparts. marsha raunchy works as a lawyer and a legal firm and can afford to buy this model made by a local manufacturer. but most of the cities inhabitants simply can't afford and e scooter like hers. yet, the need for them is huge. 70 percent of all vehicles in the city are motorbike and motor scooters. in this unremarkable workshop in the southeast of bank, a lurid businessman, brackish m k, is working on a pre magic, an affordable solution. his melody company converts conventional motor bikes and a hybrid, once they can run on battery or gasoline is needed. the conversion costs 40000 rupees, 450 euros. retrofitting is a common man saw solution. so when he has his existing a sick and he wants to con, what are 2 nevi? we have a mortal, which gets freaked out onto the existing rad real off

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the taliban's plea came as many afghans are out of work and the country's banking system is struggling to function. the united stateses to refuse to release $9 billion in central bank reserves for afghanistan or lift sanctions imposed on a number of taliban leaders. former republican u.s. senator johnny isakson, who reprented georgia, died today. isakson was a state legislator when he was first elected to congress in 1998. he was elected to the senate in 2004 and was seeking a third term in 2015, when he was diagnosed with parkinson's disease. he won reelection, but in 2019, after fracturing four ribs in a fall, isakson announced he would retire with two years remaining in his term. senator isakson was 76 years old. for more national and international news, visit pbs.org/newsur. >> sreenivasan: president biden's prosed "build back better bill" did not make it through the senate before the holiday recess, and faces even more trouble as senator joe manchin announced his opposition today to the close to $2 trillion dollars in spending. that means the administration is facing the possibility it will achieve only one of

instead, however, something like seven billion dollars of the afghan central banks reserves are here in the united statesand the united states, after losing the 20-year war to the taliban, took the step of freezing all of those assets. so something like nine plus billion dollars of afghans own money. not ours, afghans own money, is completely off the table for them. and the steps that the biden administration is taking to allow some aid groups to work there, that is going to be round and around the banking system. so unless the united states comes to terms with the fact that it lost this 20-year war and allows afghans access to their own money, money in a system that the united states and the international community set up and shepherded them as pawns in the geopolitical struggle that the u.s. has just -- i reiterate -- lost. how many millions of afghans are going to starve as a result? >> this is such an important point and i'm glad you laid it out this way. the sort of freezing of the foreign reserves that we had custody of that, you know, essentially -- the lifeblood of the banking system, it's been f

money because they are essentially bankers there's almost no banks the bank of north america created in pennsylvania but most of the states have no banks there lending money to their neighbors that's political call comes back as paper which says i promise to pay in gold and silver but it doesn't appreciate that is what madison is concerned about as a consequence is a veto given to the congress overall state legislation before it can become law of the kind of the central government get it approved but it's so impractical that you can't imagine an intelligent man clinging to this and yet he did the heads prevailed and said that's crazy can you imagine all the 50 states sending it to washington and deciding should we deal with this or not. so practical that is thrown out and transferred section ten of the constitution which is a series of transition on what the states can do. they can't pass tariffs, they can't coin money and they can't. paper money is a legal pendant. those are crucial things. madison is dissolution he tells jefferson and that was so central and he has to accept it. don short is how the constitution gets cr

states. the world health organization and the world bank say the cost of health care fished more than half a 1000000000 people into extreme poverty. at the height of the pandemic, the w h o once government speedo packets to make health care accessible to everyone . encouraging the introduction of universal health cover in el salvador, thousands of demonstrators on protesting against the governments. they're calling for an independent judiciary and accused president ny kelly. being a dictator, natalie bennett has become the 1st is really prime minister to make an official visit to the united arab emirates. he's met crime, prince mohammed bins. i, it's not him. and those are the headlines. keep it here on al jazeera upfront is up next. who we understand the differences, americans have cultures across the round. so no matter how you take it out here, we're bringing the news and current to fast comp matter to you count his era every year in estimated 500000 people from central america attempt a dangerous journey crossing mexico to make it to the united states. southern border, these migrants are

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the united states and a world banks froze nearly $10000000000.00 of afghan money after the taliban took control because of sanctions that prevent the taliban blood prevent the dealing with the taliban. so the united nations has been warning that more cash is needed in the country in order to prevent mass starvation. they warn that half the country is now on the facing food and security. and the situation could get much worse because of the lack of cash because of a drought and cove it and so on. so this resolution a clarifies that aid can get to, into the country for humanitarian purposes. initially, the united states had wanted aid to be reviewed on a case by case basis. certain members of the council, namely china and russia, had argued that against that they said that humanitarian aid should be allowed in full stop without any conditions. and that, that was the changes that were, were made were to accommodate back concerns. so essentially what is in the resolution is that the united nations, after 6 months, will present to the council. it's view of what has been happening with this m