Professionals, carers, Public Health officials, and volunteers across the country, and the exceptional efforts of the sco abroad. U. K. Citizens the bank of englands role is to help households manage through an economic shock that could prove large and sharp, but temporary. That is why the bank is announcing a comprehensive timely package of measures to help u. K. Households and measures bridge across the economic disruption caused by covid19. These measures will keep firms in business and people in jobs, and they will prevent a temporary disruption from causing longer lasting economic harm. Maximizing our response requires ordination across all of the banks coordinating committees. That is why all policy committees are simultaneously theng today, maximizing effectiveness of our response requires working in concert with treasury. Ys that is why we are acting on budget day, when the chancellor will announce a series of government initiatives to support u. K. Households and businesses. A
Indonesia as well has been the laggard when it comes to its performance against the dollar. That is also seeing some decent gains. We are up 4. 5 . Yesterday, we saw a stunning rally, jumping the most in 20 years. May just be a technical rebound given how extreme the drop had been before. Brent and crude, we are still seeing some decent gains. We could be in a freefall given the shutdowns we have seen across the globe. Australia. Hing the only laggard today, down about 1. 5 . Still has been a stunning rebound. E. M. Having a good run. Jay powell has been reassuring americans the fed still has plenty of tools and plenty of tools to blunt the economic damage from the coronavirus. He is urging the house to pass the 2 trillion stimulus package. Kathleen hays is here with what happened today and what happens next. Is the stimulus package a one and done deal . It looks like it is going to pass. The Senate Passed it 960. The first vote was 4747. Finally, after days of backandforth, democrats
Yields down by about eight basis points, once again under 1 for the 10 year. Time now for global exchange. From hong kong to washington to new york, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Want to beginning asia. Total coronavirus cases around the world is now above 95,000. Cases seem to slow in south korea, while switzerland reported its first death. With us now is sophie kamaruddin. Is reporting an increasing number of recovery patients, roughly 62 of those who have been diagnosed who have been discharged from hospitals. The number of fatalities reported wednesday totaling 31, all of which were in hubei province. Jinpings scheduled visit to tokyo has been delayed, and Prime Minister shinzo abe did reveal tighter border controls and japan, including two weeks of quarantine from visitors arriving from china and iran, as well as south korea, where cases have topped 6000, but the daily count has slowed has monday at the country been testing hundreds of thou
Order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled Monetary Policy and the state of the economy. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement. Id like to welcome back chairman powell. As i discussed earlier, and at our last hearing with you, i remain very concerned about the president s efforts to interfere with the feds independent Monetary Policy. A recent news story noted that trump has tweeted over 100 times about the fed since your nomination. Many of those tweets appear to be attempting to exercise pressure on the fed. Chairman powell, you and the fed board of governors must not be swayed by these aggressive tactics in upholding the feds independence you should be mindful of public perception. Of course, trump continues to try to claim credit for Economic Growth that was put in motion by the policies of president obama Congressional Democrats and the Federal Reserve, irresponsible tr
Manus a warm welcome to daybreak europe. The numbers have dropped on hsbc. Job cuts. Share buybacks have been abandoned. A hugest impression is restructuring with a kitchen over 7 billion. That is a reality check on growth. Cost cuts are aggressive. And the reaction in hong kong not great, dropping as much as 3. 2 . The buyback and the plan to suspend those could be part of that. You talked about the 7. 3 billion charge and the bank still looking for a permanent ceo. That was Something Else we were looking out for. There were some changes in personnel but not at the very top. And cost cuts. Says it has hsbc yet to factor in the impact of that virus. Manus the fact that they have ripped the heart out of the Share Buyback which is one of the reasons why you believe that quinn can turn the business around. He has not been anointed or appointed. They are prevaricating. The goodwill impairment comes down to 4 billion in the investment essentially, they want to reallocate some of the freed u