And moderated by cogswell omak. My name is donna rapaccioli. As you may realize, 2020 marks 100 years of purpose driven his education at fordham. Since our inception we believe in the power of partnerships to inform and to lead change. I very much would like to thank the Gabelli Center for Global Security and analysis and our wonderful partners, the museum of American Finance and the society of new york for sponsoring todays conversation. The centennial series was designed to shine light on emerging and important trends. One of the things we had realize is that reflecting on our history provides new insights into the current challenges that have disrupted and change industries and Business Models. Todays session focuses on the challenges that leaders at that j. P. Morgan chase and company faced, and survived, as is seen in jpmorgans fall and revival how the wave of consolidation changed americas premier bank. Im very proud to say that j. P. Morgan is a largest employer of Gabelli Schoo
From facebook. Julia boorstin has been following the story. Its two reactive and slow about the hate speech. Auditors saying they watched the company make painful decisions that are serious setbacks and has not devoted enough assets to address these issues this report advocating they bring in more civil rights experts to the country, take steps to address concerns dedispute that post violating facebooks broader policies. Sheryl sandberg responding to the findings as hard as its been to expos o they echo the criticisms by the civil rights a groups behind the boycott that met with facebook management yesterday. They called the meeting disappointing. Now, facebook has said it would not fall not fold for pressure, but it does seem they could be compelled to take some of the recommendations. Julia, thank you. Lets get to steve weiss steve, it looks like facebook is under a lot of pressure when it comes to the issues of up civil rights and hate speech. It is im sticking with it ultimately i
Then Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Good to have you with us. Our Investment Committee is here with us today. Want to get right to the markets where stocks have hit an air pocket within the last 30 minutes. About 100 points on whi s off ow on the dow and the ten year yield lowest since early february a spike in gold. And by the way, has everybody searches for answers as to what is going on, karl says that iphone sales in china may fall by 40 to 50 in february and march compared with the same period last year so we have to keep our eye on all of that. Goldman sachs wonders whether were all underestimating the impact of coronavirus on earnings and the market at large. Very possible we could be and i think that it is important to remind everyone that it is a lot of fun when you have five or six stocks that are so gigantic that rallies in those names take the entire index with it but when people get concerned about for example an apple and take the n
And jack lew. Brendan it is like the president and harry reid. They are all members of the same party. It is more who is responsible for the party. Tom i want to know about the german parliament. As move on to top headlines. He was vonnie quinn. Vonnie good morning for you later today the Federal Reserve is releasing minutes from last month policy makers meeting. Investors are waiting to see whether there is a consensus that september is the right time for the first Interest Rate increase in nine years. More than 75 of the economists surveyed say the fed will raise race will raise rates. The annan has devalued vietnam has devalued its currency for the third time this year. The government wants to make sure that exports continue to grow. Biggest trade its partner for at least eight years. Lawmakers in germany appear ready to back a third greek bailout. Angela merkel lobbied members of the lower house of the german parliament, trying to keep members from voting against the 95 billion aid
Points. The s p having the best day since march. This after treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin talked about tax reform. Heres that developing story. Melissa, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin started to cool as part of the administrations plan for tax reform. He said that there are other ways to raise the 1 trillion in revenue that the adjustment board would have provided. He was careful to say hes not been taken off the table. The retailers got a bump off his comments. The xrt started climbing about 3 00 p. M. When mnuchins comments went live. Mnuchin has waffled on the request ein the past, always saying there is some concerns and that theyre studying it. Hes even raised the issue of how the curbs rency would adjusn this plan. At the very least, we have not yet seen the phenomenal plan that the president promised back in february. And democrats in the senate are lining up to oppose. So if there is no tax cut this year, is the hope of a tax reform enough to keep this rally going . Guy,