Small and mediumsized businesses that were in sound Financial Condition before the virus impact of the economy we will hear from the head of the fed in boston and banking and business leaders. Will come tog order. This is a hybrid hearing meaning some of our commissioners are appearing in person and witnesses will testify remotely. Let me offer a few Video Conferencing reminders. Before you start speaking there will be a slight delay before you are displayed on the screen. Click the mute button until your turn to speak or to ask a question. If there is a technology issue, well move to the next speaker until it is resolved. You should all have one box on your screens labeled clock to show you how much time is remaining. Congressional Oversight Commission pursuant to section 4020 of title 4, subtitle of the cares act, the Commission Must conduct oversight of the 500 billion authorized for the Exchange Stabilization fund. As a part of our oversight work, the commission has decided to hold
Commission has decided to order ourselves alphabetically. With that welcome to this virtual hearing convened by the Congressional Oversight Commission pursuant to section 4020 of title 4, subtitle of the cares act, the Commission Must conduct oversight of the 500 billion authorized for the Exchange Stabilization fund. As part of our oversight work, the commission has decided to hold this hearing today which will exam examine the main Street Lending facilities. The Federal Reserve established the main Street Programs to support small and immediate you yumsized business answer Nonprofit Organization that is were in found sentence condition before the onset of the covid19 pandemic. The program operates through five facilities which we will learn more about this morning. The programs being administered by the Federal Reserve bank of boston todays hearing will have two panels. President eric rosengry. N, Federal Reserve bank of boston will testify during the first panel. Second panel will i
Unprecedented disruption the swiss luxury giant flags a strong recovery in china heineken trades lower as the beer maker plunges prompting the group to intensify cost cuts. In frankfurt, the ecb faces a crucial test will look to prove that it has more fire power needed we bring you more coverage to this runup to decision time. The chinese stock markets plunged into the close despite encouraging growth data. Shanghai composite 4. 5 lower. Marking the worst daily performance in each index since february the china gdp grew rebounding from the First Quarter recession as they use the lockdown and First Quarter stimulus more on the chinese data. A bounce back from growth from q 2 after strict lockdowns and travel restrictions and some of that stimulus kicked in if you look at that key data for the month of june, industrial output lead to the recovery and third output growth of 4. 8 suggesting demand is improving fixed asset improvement fell 4. 81 . Also better than expectations and retail sa
With looking at you, sorkin you are on a huge, huge screen you havent seen that. No one has a tv set. How big is that thing . 108 can you get one of these. A little too close. Back it up a little. I almost said this morning, futures down this morning after yesterdays yesterdays 300point gain so, okay they are down today. How do you sell this it was weird yesterday, wasnt it all morning long virus and all of this. End of the day, i looked it up up 300 i dont know look, the problem is that these swings we are seeing, weve all become kind of unnerved to it that was only after a loss from the day before we are looking at these up and down swings. The dow right now is still down for the week the nasdaq is indicated up for the week well continue to watch that looking at u. S. Equity futures the dow was up 300 points and the s p up 33. Nasdaq up 107 points also up about 1. 7 this morning, nasdaq is hanging in there up about 6 points and s p is off just over 3. 5 points. Yesterday, the 10year
Well, tech is holding up well given it has high multiples coming into this part of the reason tech is the answer to some of the issues particularly working from home, things like krits tricks, zoom, microsoft, amazon, have outperformed it appears this is going to be somewhat of a permanent change theres a spike but even coming out they could benefit we would like to see more breadth within tech. Its been big and focused. Last week was interesting. As we started to get a rally in tech we got a sense for whats going to perform on the other side, services,semis, smaller cap names. We dont think were there yet but looking for infection rates to come down, pmis to improve. The economy is on the mend and then hopefully on the other side steve, its interesting over the past day we see some little moves in this environment that might suggest something. Yesterday microsoft announced changes to office 365, calling it microsoft 365 planning to open up access to teams and features in teams to more