Recognized by the chair. Members are also reminded that they are responsible for muting and on muting themselves and to commute to themselves after they finished speaking. Consistent with the regulations accompanying House Resolution 965 will only mute members and witnesses as appropriate. When not recognized for inadvertent background noise. Members are reminded that our house rules relating to the order and the decorum of the hearing. This hearing is entitled insuring against a pandemic challenges and solutions for policies and i now recognize myself for three minutes to begin with an opening statement. According to the Congressional Research service, 110 Million People could enter a state of extreme poverty do that to the Global Economic contraction and here in the united states, 67 Million People filed for Unemployment Insurance since march of this year. The harmful effects of this pandemic are the stability of Small Businesses like restaurants cannot be overstated. Thereve been li
Exchanges. Regulators criticize the lack of access. Goldman sachs is set to be preparing a second round of job cuts in three months as a moratorium on firing amid covid19 comes to an end. Howi lets take a look at we are setting up in the first couple minutes of sydni trading. We have had a pretty cautious trading session this week ever since we had a Technical Glitch that essentially put the asx out of action for monday. We are seeing a little bit of a flight back to the opening session as we get more clarity in terms of the ongoing trade tensions between camera and beijing. Still on the back foot trading at the moment. We are seeing outside of half a percent trading in new zealand stocks. Shery we continue to see pressure in the futures markets. U. S. Futures down. 1 after stocks pulled back from record highs. We are seeing nikkei futures down 0. 4 , coming down from the highest level since 1991. The japanese yen unchanged, although one of the biggest gainers. Virus concerns. And wti
Little point in continuing to talk. Global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im karina mitchell. This is bloomberg. Rishaad carrie lam with a lengthy policy address on wednesday. She laid out her vision for greater integration with the mainland. Benefiting from its proximity to the mainland and longstanding support, hong kongs Economic Development will be given new impetus. The key is to somehow open up the border with china, because we are part of china, and the homecoming hong kong economy was not just set for domestic consumption. It was really set for 1. 4 billion people across the border. In any case, most of the key Investment Decisions will be driven by how china is operating and the Big Companies in hong kong are all chinese oriented. So i dont really think a policy address will be of that much difference to investors as it might be elsewhere. Stephen engle has been covering
Disaster. Monetary policy works through emulating aggregate demand and that is important now. Ultimately, there is a job to replace lost income. Our congress stepped in and there has not been a faster or stronger response from congress to an economic emergency since the great depression. The cares act and other laws have been passed to more than offset lost income in the aggregate. There will be people for whom that is not true. You see high levels of savings on the Balance Sheets of households. Not experienced the downward cases we were worried about of mass insolvencies of businesses so far. So far, so good, i would say. There are no full recoveries without confidence. Do, which ipart to think we have done. The path forward will be challenging for a number of reasons, and i am sure we will get into some of them. Congresso do more and might need to do more with fiscal policy. The particulars of that are up to congress and not up to us. It is likely more will need to be done in time. O
Dakota. This program is of vital importance to the Financial Wellbeing of the schools as it reimburses them for revenue shortfall in reduction or absence of local tax because of federal property. Toin determine the program, schl districts must annually calculate students that they have enrolled while generally aapproved during the pandemic during this type of count has presented a new set of challengesus for administrators. Impact aid Coronavirus Relief act is a common sense a partisan approach that would not cost a dime yet provide financial ability to School Districts by allowing them to use lastth yeas student headcount on impact aid accounts they are completing this fall. Prevents reporting of noticeable but likely temporary decline in student enrollment that would lead to reduced impact aid payments next year. Its collecting student data more challenging as well. Expanding lines student headcount due to parents temporally homeschooling children during the pandemic. Unless Congress