Bloomberg television, starting at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Along the gulf of mexico, the texaslouisiana border is reeling after hurricane laura unleashed a wide swath of destruction, with winds reaching 150 miles an hour after coming ashore. It is now churning over louisiana. It could lead to more than 15 billion in insured losses. One of the top talkers on wall street, meantime, news of wall street joining microsoft to make a joint bid for the social media sensation tiktok. Now aligned with oracle. For more, i want to get to scarlet fu in new york. A lot tied to these remarks from the fed. There was a lot of gyration in jay powells remarks. In the case of equities, the fed moved it higher. The dollar moving higher. Bonds falling. In no rush bank is to raise interest rates. It will let the job market run hotter and inflation run higher, potentially overshooting the 2 target, before taking any kind of action. In the end, we saw financials get a boost. They benefit from a higher yield and a s
If theres anything that kind of went a little right, its that the murder hornets never showed difficult. Even bees deal with coronavirus, they do have to deal with sudden colony collapse. Ironically, they have to deal with hornets. This is video of hornets kidnapping bees. Its fascinating video recorded by a Palo Alto Company called bee hero which has developed sensors to watch for incoming hornets. They have made radar for bees. Now for the record, these are asian giant hornets, not murder hornets. But i dont think the poor bee cares one way or another. Well show you more video later. I promise. Well get to the ceo and cofounder of bee hero. A man forever stuck happily on the bee team. I have so many questions. Lets go with the fact that bees are very important to farms. Farmers actually bring bees in to the farms and the bee keepers release the bees. You dont raise bees, right . Youre not bee keepers. What do you do . Yeah. My cofounder is a bee keeper and thats how i got to know tha
Warning against seating Telecom Infrastructure to china. We get reaction to that. And tesla turned our heads this week. Look back at some of the biggest stories in tech. To our top story, u. S. Equities headed into the Holiday Weekend on a positive note after the release of steady figures for retail cells and with investors continuing to weigh contrasting data from china on the spread of the coronavirus. The s p 500 closed at record high after swinging between small gains and losses in fridays session. To discuss todays Market Performance and technology we are joined by laura kane of ubs. To kick us off, i want to take a look i am showing from my terminal. As you know, the trade of 2019 was u. S. Versus the rest of the world. I was speaking with david kelly, the global cio of jp morgan Asset Management who was trying to make the case for over waiting International Equities. Are you still trying to overweight International Equities or do you think it is u. S. Versus the rest of the worl
Goldman sachs talking up a Strong Economy for 2020. Jpmorgan talking up another market rally next year. And our longterm guest is again talking about a market melt up. Look what we have right now. We will open the dow slightly lower, maybe 40 points down, but the s p is going to go up a fraction and the nasdaq is going to go up about a quarter of 1 percent. Now this, the down side of Americas Energy independence. We are producing so much oil and gas that chevron has had to write down its shale assets to the tune of 10 billion dollars. We are energy independent, that is good, and gas is cheap and getting cheaper, and thats very good, yes, it is, another trump win. Big show as usual. Varney company is about to begin. Im not sure about that animation right there. It is kind of wrong, but i believe weve got a sound bite for you. Are we going to play that one . Yes. There was and never has been any evidence of collusion, and yet this campaign and the president S Administration has been domi
Committee. The meeting will be called to order. The chairman is on his way. He has asked me to gavel in and begin my Opening Statement and then hopefully he will be here. We are very, very honored to have chairman powell. We thank him so much for testifying today. I look forward to hearing your perspective on the current state of the economy, and the potential challenges ahead. Id also like to thank you for your thoughtfulness as you help steer the economy through what in some ways are extremely challenging times. As you have said in your testimony, by some measures, our economy is strong. The National Unemployment rate fell from 10 at its peak during the Great Recession to only 4. 7 when President Trump took office. And it has continued to fall. It now stands at only 3. 6 . The economy has continued to add jobs now for 10 9 consecutive months. More than nine years. Years. Inflation remains low. Below the feds target. Wages are moving up though not as fast as we would like. But it is w