[inaudible conversations] the meeting will be called to order. The chairman is on his way. He has asked me to gavilan and begin my Opening Statement and hopefully he will be here. We are very very honored to have chairman powell. We thank him for testifying today. I look forward to hearing your perspective on the current state of the economy and the challenges ahead. I would like to thank you for your thoughtfulness as you help steer the economy through in some ways what are extremely challenging times. As you have said in your testimony 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 donald trump took office. And it has continued to fall. It stands that only 3. 6 . And jobs for 109 consecutive months, more than nine years. Inflation remains low before the feds target and wages are moving up and not as fast as we would like. It is weak in other ways but other measures tell a different story. Gop
Down by about six basis points. Time now for global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world, from hong kong to taipei, from london to new york and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. In hong kong, a Third Straight day of protests this rep to traffic across the city and shut down Public Schools for the first time. Chinese state media warned of consequences if the violence continues. Going to me on the phone from hong kong is karen leigh. Give us a sense of what is happening there. Karen i feel like i say this every time i talk to you now, but there is a bit of a new dimension here today. Schools were suspended for the first time during these protests. They will not be in session tomorrow. Some universities canceling classes for the month or even the semester. People start to realize that maybe this violence is going to go on longer than just these few days. We saw carrie lam say yesterday she wasnt going to
, not pushing back on the fact ont he will delay tariffs the european auto sector, as people had inspected. We are also seeing continuing weakness in the spanish market. Wait for fed chair powell to address congress, lets bring in Michael Mckee. Yesterdaytting here with me when the present was addressing the Economic Club of new york, and talking about fed chair jay powell and what he should do. Will jay powell just get questions on that today . Michael he may come from both sides, but it is unlikely jay powell will rise to the bait. He will want to stay out of that whole thing. Think the economy is in a good place, and that is partly because of us. This in about these fed appearances is they release the testimony early, so weve already reported it. The bad news is that he didnt say a whole lot. He didnt add to what we know. Basically, his line about the economy is that it is in a favorable place because of the fed cuts. As Monetary Policy operates with a lag, the full effect of adjust
Far too fast an increase and far too slow a decrease. But we all make mistakes, dont we good wednesday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Im carpal kwinquint nilla with Morgan Brennan fed chair powell is expected to testify in just a few moments. Well bring you his testimony in full once it begins. Ahead of that weve got every angle covered. Steve liesman, rick santelli, bob pisani, tom porcoli. Fed chair powell is telling joint congress that rates are on hold unless there is a big change to the outlook. The operative sentence, we see the current stance of Monetary Policy as likely to remain appropriate as long as incoming information about the economy remains broadly consistent with our policies of moderate economic growth. What would it take to change course developments that would cause a material reassessment of our outlook, which is say the bar is kind of high bmo writing the chair stayed true to the patience script, confirming that rates are likely in an extended Holding Pattern p
Dot a big show joining the conversation pain Capitol Management is with us and Mitch Rochelle in editorial page ed tore James Freeman great to see everybody this morning. Thank you so much for joining souse so we have a market following bouncing ball of china President Trump, of course, addressed the Economic Club yesterday a event that i attended futures are down this morning but president was talking about china trade negotiations talking about Strong Economy heres a bit of that. Unploim is recently achieved lowest rate in 51 year. Africanamerican unemployment hispanic and Asian American unemployment have all reached lowest rates in history. Nearly 7 Million People have been lifted off very importantly food stamps, 7 Million People off food stamps. Since my election the s p 500 is up over 45 president obama the dow jones is up over 50 . And the nasdaq is up 60 . Their supply chains are cracking very badly. And they are dying to make the deal. Were ones that are deciding whether or no