Senator angus king and congressman Mike Gallagher. If i lived further north congressman al gore would be my member of congress. We are pleased to welcome Suzanne Spaulding who ill introduce people more formally prior to their also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all i want to thank the cochairs and that commissioners for the important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction over the working hard to evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law of these recommendations can be done through executive action. What id like to spend my time just enter my formal written state into the record, i just want to talk about two of the commissions recommendations. When i i got here in the congrs in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. Its not going away. I remember the buzzword back ban is we
Book the world. Francine lacqua in london. Extraordinary markets yesterday. Francine extraordinary yesterday but today they are taking a breather. On folks yesterday was moderna. Say if we haveto better news on the early trial of this vaccine. There is a huge fund being put in place by Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel. Again now, a bit more temperament or a little bit slower as we expect some countries to go against it. More subdued markets than yesterday. Tom interesting. Markets pulling back in the last few hours. With over a world news in new york city. Federal reserve chairman says the central bank is prepared to use its full range lendingd plans on rate neil zero than rate to near zero. Ritika President Trump is taking the antimalaria drugs he has promoted as a treatment for coronavirus. That is despite government warnings that hydroxychloroquine can have serious side effects. The president says he has been on the drug for about a week and a half. Mike pences press secretary test
Number for the company. Quarterly sales were down 43 year on year. The stock is pretty much flat, though. The bad news now, just how bad would let actually be . Sales roseommerce about 74 . They still need people to come into the store to really make a lot of money. Their comp sales were up by over 10 , if you backout fuel. Clearly a lot of stocking up. Clearly good for walmart. Kohls suspended its Share Buyback program. That stock now off by about 1 in the premarket. Overall, no doubt we are obviously going to take a bit of a pause as we digest earnings and that monster rally. The question is whether the new was that or a bear market rally. Is that really being reflected in equities . We need the Economic Data to really match. Lets get to the news from overseas, as well as here in the u. S. We want to start with the walmart numbers and look ahead to fit your jay powell. Michael mckee has more. Just in case we werent sure that people were hoarding toilet paper, we get walmart. Michael
Balance of opening our business, but they will only be as successful as the Customer Confidence that is there to patronize those businesses. That is not just for the hospitality. That is true for all business. Retail has been the hardest hit. My understanding is over 2 of businesses have closed permanently already. How are we to address this Consumer Health issue . I know this is something you have talked about. What should we be doing . Chairman powell it affects different sectors of the economy differently. The ones we talked about are the ones we are exposed to. Other sectors of the economy may be able to recover much more quickly, and we certainly hope so. Thing is people believing it is safe to go back to work. That is about having a sensible, thoughtful reopening of the country, something we all want. Something we are in the early stages of. That is what it will take for people regain confidence and resume their activities. At a different pace depending on the nature of the busin
1 2 3 boeing is having a big day today. The reopening trade is in full effect Piper Sandler is up today. They say the pain trade is up. They reiterate their 3,600point yearend target for the s p, which sounded crazy when they first put that out, but now i wonder if we have to start looking at that as a coming formali formality, as crazy as that sounds look, ive been adding capital to the market and if you asked me a month ago what i would be doing, i would tell you, i would be down 50 in my exposure not for performance, but for taking money off the table this has sort of hit the frenzied period. The reason why its doing that is because its a valuation holiday, its a fundamental holiday. And when you see things that are happening in the real world, the social injustice, the division in the u. S. , the division in terms of International Relations with merckel not wanting to come to g7, with the relationships of china, you would say, you know what, the markets getting through that so i fe