Reporter good afternoon to you, melissa. Lets look at the market as theyre settling out. The dow looks like it is finishing down by 524 points. You mentioned the s p 500, that is important too, down 8 1 2 from the record high on september 2nd. 3580. You see the s p closed to 3236. You mention what dragged us down, it was selloff in tech late in the day. Well get to that in a moment. There was optimism early on in the session with respect to coronavirus vaccines, Johnson Johnson entering the latestage three trial that was a little bit positive for investors to get their heads around but again look at these dow losers here. Sales force. Chevron. Apple was one of the big ones, amex and boeing. On nasdaq, losers, fedex, amazon, netflix, align and liberty global. It was a rough day when it came to some of these stocks. It was sort of stock specific and then dragging all the indices down together. Remember this has been choppy for the last couple weeks right now as were heading in and gettin
The President Donald Trump will walk out of walter reed medical hospital or military National Hospital in about 2 1 2 hours to go back to the white house either by car or by marine one. Well have to see which route he takes, his physician, dr. Sean conley, said they will do everything necessary to make sure he is safe while working in the residence or the white house. Listen. Were in a bit of uncharted territory when it comes to a patient that received therapies he has so early in the course. So were looking to this weekend, if we can get through to monday, with him remaining the same or improving, better yet then we will all take that final deep sigh of relief. But as i said, 24 7 world class medical care surrounding him down there. Reporter down there at the white house is what he was talking about. Here at walter reed the president getting all treatments basically. New developing treatments for the coronavirus at some point during the stay here this is what he received. Supplemental
The last 19 seconds. We are up 52. The nasdaq up 223. So heres the situation. We are indeed about to get an update from the president s physician on the president s condition and breaking news of the timing of his discharge. We will take you straight to Walter Reed Army Medical Center as soon as the briefing begins. We are told 3 00 p. M. Eastern. Its right now, 3 00 p. M. Eastern. We are watching it. Little moving target but we have the cameras set up. The testing storm that whipped through the white house since the president tested positive last friday is shining a bright light on xpresspa at this hour. Tomorrow it will roll out its Rapid Testing site at jfk in new york. Diagnosis in five minutes for anybody at the airport now, passengers, workers and first responders. Ahead of that, you are about to get an exclusive first look, the walkaround at the brand new Testing Center from the ceo who is there on site. A full 24 hours before they open. And the latest entrant in the electric ve
Certainly through the channel i mentioned. Thank you. Thanks for taking my question. Chairman powell, [ inaudible ] to the policy framework, is the fed open to other measures of the economy such as income inequality and affordability of housing . So we monitor everything we think is important in the u. S. Economy and in a broad sense, all of it goes into thinking about Monetary Policy. You mentioned inequality. You know, disparities in income and in Financial Wellbeing by various demographic and racial categories, something we monitor carefully, inequality which i would point to its a multifaceted thing but i would point to the relative stagnation of incomes for people at the lower end of the income spectrum and also lower mobility. So those are things that hold back our economy. They are. The thing is, we dont really have the tools to address those. We have Interest Rates and Bank Supervision and Financial Stability policy and things like that, but we cant get at those things through
Why not, with the latest. Reporter why not. You heard it there, zero Interest Rates basically until through 2023. The Federal Reserve in their Committee Statement saying that they will maintain the accommodative stance until monetary policy, until their goals are achieved in the monetary policy. The Federal Reserve aims to have inflation moderately above 2 . To reach the two target a period of time. This is what chairman jay powell said what is moderate and for how long. Listen. We want to achieve inflation that averages 2 over time and if we do that, Inflation Expectations will be right at 2 and that will help us achieve 2 inflation over time and avoid the situation where the central bank loses its ability to support the economy. Reporter he would not define what moderate was, for how long. Powell fiercely defended Forward Guidance on rates being zero. The fed also made their economic projections, they revised it up. Unemployment rate 7. 6 . 9. 6 in june they thought. End of this year