This hearing will come to order. This morning well consider the nominations of the honorable shelton to be a member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve system and dr. Hristopher waller to be a member of the board of governors system. Federal reserve welcome and congratulations to each of you for your nominations. Family in the nd room today and i welcome them as well. Were fortunate to have these two highly qualified nominees today. Ng these positions are critical to nsuring a safe, sound and vibrant Financial System and to help the growing economy. The Federal Reserve was created by congress as the nations to promote a stable conomy and a safer, more flexible Financial System. Among the Federal Reserves responsibilities is conducting the nations Monetary Policy the mandate of promoting maximum employment, stable moderate long term Interest Rates. N addition to its Monetary Policy, a significant portion of the Banking Sector including and Community Banks as well as certain
But the e. U. May challenges deal with china. Up ad Morgan Stanley wraps big earnings week for u. S. Banks , with a beat. We are live from the Morgan Stanley global Alpha Investment conference in hong kong. Us trillion markets just open for trade. Sophie. Sophie asx us trillion marketst open for 600 the top smock the top stock market so far this year. Broadly speaking, asian futures are pointing higher and regional stocks are headed to a seventh weekly gain. We will see if the u. S. Tech rally feeds into asia, given bullish guidance. We did have alphabet joining the 1 trillion market cap club. Fed expected to stand pat on rates. Looking ahead to the chinese gdp report, futures in singapore closing higher after a three day drop was posted and the offshore yuan is headed for an eighth weekly rise. Thea top forecaster says yuan will in the year is one of asias worstperforming currencies. Shery lets go to first word news with jessica summers. Jessica the Senate Begins the formal impeachmen
Nominee for the Federal Reserve. To be exact. [gavel] mr. Crapo this hearing will come to order. This morning we will consider the nominations of the honorable judy shelton to be a member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve system. And dr. Christopher waller, to be a member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve system. Welcome and congratulations to each of you for your nominations. I see friends and family in the room today and i welcome them as well. Were fortunate to have these two highly qualified nominees appearing today. These positions are critical to ensuring a safe, sound and vibrant Financial System and a healthy, growing economy. The Federal Reserve was created by congress as the nations central bank to promote a stable economy and a safer, more flexible Financial System. Among the Federal Reserves responsibilities is conducting the nations Monetary Policy with the mandate of promoting maximum employment, stable prices and moderate longterm Interest R
Stronger then expected. It is year on year for the month of december. In terms of fixed Asset Investment, we are looking. Investment for december. Context stabilizing. Of the early indicators are looking robust. Of course, some of at the localimulus government level, supporting fixed Asset Investment. We are looking at the bottom of this slow down. Lets send it to our next guest. Next guest. Theuse i would say that december number was picking up further. Especially with the help of more , i would say that we are turning more bullish. It is the secondbiggest in terms of growth over the last two years or so. Can you elaborate . We have seen that ip demand picking up. More demand coming out from southern china. Been drier than usual. People are waiting to frontload some of the orders, particularly early this year. You probably need to get most things done in the fourth quarter. Into the first quarter, we saw demand and names holding up pretty well yvonne . Retail sales have held around 10
With the United States. We start within a positive note. Nejra funding the deficit, the u. S. Will start issuing twentyyear bonds in the first half of 2020. It comes as Steve Mnuchin continues to review bonds. Welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. The data out of china and the u. S. Putting risk on across markets today, taking a look at asia, green on the screen for the Msci Asia Pacific index. He saw all three u. S. Benchmarks hit records again and tech stocks were leading that rally. Alphabet above a 1 trillion valuation for the first time. Futures look like we could build on those gains. We saw green on the screen yesterday and it looks like another day of gains. Switching out the board to look at other assets, the yen has been posting a little bit of weakness. We are at eight months low. Yield edged up after retail sales data and some other data out of the u. S. Pointed to a stronger consumer. 182 handle is where we sit. We have seen steepening after that announcement from siva mnu