The bill nar has the blews these days he will explain why his businesses are struggling and the things that could get worse beyond that and what hes trying to do about that power lunch starts right now yes, it does the nasdaq hitting another all time high today. Its on strachan for its sixth straight day in the green. Bob has more for us. Modest weakness on the day. That tends to mean tech will still out perform. Thats happening today. Its airlines under perform and transports and Logistics Companies like jb hunt and fedex tend to out perform. This has been going on since the coronavirus issue back in february and march and again you can see that happening today. Ben carlson pointed this out the top ten stocks by market caps are up 10 so far this year the top 50 are up 2 but look at the bottom 50. Down 39 thats not a typo. Thats a huge disparity. Its true big stocks tend to be important. They always move the market. Bottom line is they have never been more important than they are right
Any time. Members are reminded to keep their video function on at all times. Members are reminded that theyre responsible for muting and unmuting themselves and to mute themselves after they are finished speaking. Consistent with the regulations accompanying the resolution, staff will mute members when not recognized to avoid inadvertent background noise. All house rules relating to order and decorum apply to this remote hearing. [ inaudible ] economy and i know recognize myself for four minutes to give an opening statement. Chair powell, the law that required the Federal Reserve chair to testify before congress twice each year was established back in 1978. However, no fed chair has ever testified before this committee with the economy in the condition that it is in today. More than 116,000 americans are dead from the coronavirus. And just last week, 21 states recorded an increase in their average daily new cases compared to the prior week. The april jobs report was the worst in Americ
Vaccine and treatments, bringing the futures off of their lows this morning. Still looking a lower open today, but much of this is profit taking after a very strong rally yesterday and last week. Investors saying you know what, im going to take some money off that table. Theres not much stopping big tech, though. We talk about them a lot, every day, but for very good reason. New highs for several of these and one of our bulls will tell us in a few minutes why hes still buying them even at these levels. Happening at the white house today, a big meeting about getting americas children back to school in september. That is a major factor in the economic recovery, if kids are back in school, parents can go back to work. Its a key issue. What about Patrick Mahomes . Hes a recordbreaking deal thats guaranteed for nearly a half billion dollars. I say guaranteed. Hes a very rich young man. We have two pro athletes on the program to talk about that today. Big three lourshours ahead. Im Ashley We
Fast jobs will return to sustain that and to turn that into real consumpti consumption. Ron, were seeing spices in coronavirus infection. Were seeing spikes in hospitalizations as well if you looked at trends in other parts of the world, you know, sometimes those do tend to follow the infection rates is it based on an expectation that may not play out. Maybe we were through the worst of this when in fact there is still quite a bit of Health Mandates just assuming we have a Straight Line up into the future i think there is room for disappointment we have higher infection and hospitalization rates. Sadly i think the death rate is followed up by lag im particularly worried about how many states and local governments will have to push the pause button or reverse on reopening efforts. I think there is choppiness ahead. I think it will be until we get here it can be rolled out basically globally tobias, i know you just had a institutional client poll. As we wrap up this Second Quarter, what
Along with several other members of our committee come of hr 2650, the payment choice act of 2019, a bipartisansupported bill, which would require merchants to accept cash. This legislation, i believe this article, because parts of the country and both leroux and orbit areas are more dependent on the both rural and urban areas are more dependent on the cash economy could i have run out of time did i encourage you to support this bill could thank you, chairman powell. Thank you, chairwoman waters, i yield back. Rep. Waters mr. Hines, you are recognized for five minutes. Thank you. That i would like to explore with you, and the first, who is the beneficiary of the billions of dollars that have been localized in the rescue . Chairman come as you know, people can do three things with money, buy stuff, rent, insurance, raw materials, keep people employed, pay wages, and third, it can serve as a capital structure. It can issue dividends. Chairman powell, as you know, in the Paycheck Protecti