Jerome powells chairman testimony tomorrow what he will tell the House Financial Services committee. Just released a more upbeat tone than he was in his last appearance before congress. He is going to say the Second Quarter gdp is largest drop in history. The coronavirus was met with swift action, swift and Decisive Action by both congress and the Federal Reserve. He will say because of that action he believes longterm damage to the economy may have been limited. Now powell welcomes a bounceback in Economic Activity he has been seeing. He says though the path forward remains uncertainty and a full recovery will be unlikely until people feel confident that the coronavirus has been contained and it is safe to go outside. Now he says Interest Rates will remain near zero until they are confident the Federal Reserve is confident that the economy has recovered. He says, the Federal Reserve will use their full range of tools in order to support the economy. Were looking at low Interest Rates
Hour as he is in wisconsin right now, far northeast port of that state in the city of marinet. As the president will be at a shipyard there, you reason he is there, the ship in the back of the picture there, that Company Involved is getting a 5. 5 billion contract to build 10 of those very exact ships. 1000 jobs to come into that area. You will likely hear the president tout that and job creation in wisconsin. That state, the badger state has been a focus for the white house and the Trump Campaign this week. There is a pretty good reason why, when you look at the history there, democrats won seven consecutive president ial elections. President trump flipped that state in 2016, winning less than 1 , 22,000 votes. 10 electoral votes are in play in november. The polls right now, if you listen to them, look at them, believe them, not looking good for the president , the real clear politics average he is down to joe biden by eight points. Highly respected Marquette University law has same e
Jackie deangelis in the newsroom and Edward Lawrence in washington. Lets kick it off with jackie on todays market rally. Jackie. Reporter good afternoon, melissa. Stocks were slightly higher on the blowout retail sales report in may, an increase of 17. 7 , the biggest monthly increase. Aprils sharp decline was revised lower this is good news as states are reopening and economy is getting up and running, there does appear to be a lot of pentup demand from folks not shopping while they were unlockdown orders but buyer beware. As you said in beijing, another lockdown after a cloughster of new coronavirus cases showing reopening may not be as easy as everyone is hoping it will be. Meanwhile stimulus hopes are helping stocks too. Reports considering the Trump Administration is considering a one trillion dollar infrastructure plan to help the conry recover. The money is expected to include things like roads and bridges and 5g infrastructure. Washington post, facebook, google, the ceos of tho
From a record high, the nasdaq fighting to close at a record high. It had crossed a new high earlier today. Fox Business Team coverage for you now. Blake burman at the white house, Lauren Simonetti is watching the markets, and Edward Lawrence is in washington with those rock star jobs numbers. Lets kick it off with edward. Reporter yeah, melissa, the private sector actually created 3. 1 million jobs and government jobs you lost 585,000, thats where we settled for a net gain of 2. 5 million. All the estimates thought there would be huge losses on this. If you go inside the numbers, theres actually some very interesting statistics here, Digging Deeper into this. Just take a look at this. Leisure and hospitality creating 1. 2 million jobs, construction adding 464,000 jobs. Another 424,000 jobs created in education and health services. Get this, Dentists Office alone hiring back 245,000 people and retail up 368,000 jobs. President donald trump calling this start of a rocket ship recovery.
New york city, blake burman with the latest from the president and Lauren Simonetti is watching the markets. Lets kick it off with kristina. Reporter ive been all across the city. Now we stopped in the diamond district. Iconic, on west 47th. What we can see pretty much sound looks like a construction site as many businesses with the exception of this one here are clearing out all of their goods, boarding it up with wood. This comes at a time when new york city has enact ad curfew, a much, much earlier curfew 8 00 p. M. Tonight. Many shops, trader joes are closing much earlier. Signs are closing at five to 6 00 p. M. So store clerks get home as safely as well. You have almost 2,000 arrests just over the past five days in new york, primarily a lot of these looters, just over the past 48 hours, targeting stores all across the city. 700 arrests just within the last 24 hours alone. One store, rolex, talking about the diamond district, got to mention rolex, they lost roughly almost 2 1 2 Mil