At any time and without objections, members not on the task force are allowed to participate consistent with the committees practice. And this is entitled robots and ai and the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Financial Service industry. Thank you all for joining us for what is an interesting hearing of the task force. Today, we are looking at exploring how a. I. Is being deployed in the Capital Markets from automated trading to port follow allocation to Investment Management decisions. We are also going to consider how the use of this technology is changing the nature of work in Financial Services and rendering some jobs obsolete, and changing the skillset needed to service others. It is not an exaggeration today to say that wall street is quite literally run by computers and long gone are the days when the traders would be screaming on the floors of the new york stock exchange, and they would use t. I. Calculators and pour over the ticker tape to determine the companys value.
Next, financial analysts review the impact of Artificial Intelligence on Capital Markets. House Financial Services subcommittee examined ais impact on minorities. Cyber security measures, encouraging more young people to Study Technology and how the us can remainglobally competitive. The task force will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized todeclare a recess at any time without objection. Members of the full committee not on this task force are authorized to participate in todays hearing. This hearing is entitled robust onwall street, the impact of ai on Capital Markets and jobs and the Financial Services industry. The chair will now recognize himself or five minutes or an Opening Statement area thank you all for joining us today for what should be avery interesting hearing of this task force. Today were looking at exploring how ai is being deployed at Capital Markets from automated trading to Portfolio Allocation to Investment Management decisions. Were going to co
The task force will now come to order. Without objection the chairs authors to declare recess of the committee at any time without objection. Members of the full committee not on this task force are authors to participate in todays hearing consistent with the committees practice. This hearing is in title robots on wall street the impact on iaa ai on the financial. First off thank you all for joining us today for what should be a very interesting hearing of this task force. Today we are looking at scoring how ai is being deployed in Capital Markets from trading to portfolio allocations to Investment Management decisions. We are also going to consider how the use of this technology is changing the nature of work in Financial Services rendering some jobs obsolete and changing the skill sets needed to excel in others. It would not be much of an exaggeration today to say that wall street quite literally is run by computers. Long gone are the days where traders would be screaming on the floo
Data right now Barclays Says yes, the economist joins us to make the case. We are at historic lows and housing inventory, why thats pushing home prices down and rents down and how that will impact inflation reits and households well get to that. First, lets get a check on the markets. There is differentiation and the outperformance is coming in the blue chip Dow Jones Industrial average. Its been an underperformer with the broader s p and the nasdaq composite, todays trade has a lot of those kind of valueoriented type stocks one in the blue chip index and the dow is up 250 points and 1 higher and four companies are making the bulk of those gains and its United Health and amgen and also mcdonalds and boeing so if you take a look at some of those stocks and thats whats powering the dow and up about 30 points and right near session highs and we were up 32 points and up about 13 at the low and a positive day twothirds of 1 gain so far the nasdaq composite is an underperformer and reversion
There is a chapter in here on federal tax reform and many others also covering the tax treatment of healthcare and global tax competition. I want to introduce Chris Edwards was editor of Debbie Debbie debbie that downsizing. Org. Before joining cato he is a senior columnist on the congressional joint Economic Committee. Thank you for coming here i think some of you may have had to be involved in the president ial motorcade. Im going to provide a brief overview of tax reform janie foster. President trump and republicans are pursuing tax reform. The basic idea is to cut individual and business tax rates to close the loophole and to improve the treatment of savings and investments. What we need tax or from . It can spread Economic Growth which will raise Living Standards for everybody. It can simplify the code and tax reform can also increase fairness by creating more equal treatment between taxpayers. The other reason we need tax reform is because we have not had major tax reform since 1