Any time. Members are reminded to keep their video function on at all times. Members are reminded that theyre responsible for muting and unmuting themselves and to mute themselves after they are finished speaking. Consistent with the regulations accompanying the resolution, staff will mute members when not recognized to avoid inadvertent background noise. All house rules relating to order and decorum apply to this remote hearing. [ inaudible ] economy and i know recognize myself for four minutes to give an opening statement. Chair powell, the law that required the Federal Reserve chair to testify before congress twice each year was established back in 1978. However, no fed chair has ever testified before this committee with the economy in the condition that it is in today. More than 116,000 americans are dead from the coronavirus. And just last week, 21 states recorded an increase in their average daily new cases compared to the prior week. The april jobs report was the worst in Americ
Field . On a number of occasions we have issued public statements and communications to our supervisory group. We dont want to be on a hair trigger to classify loans or call them loans or anything like that. We want to look at this as an unusual situation and be flexible and thoughtful about the way we do our jobs. Of course we havent been really supervising. Were only starting to supervise again. At the fed were going to do it remotely. Were not going to be visiting yet but that time will come i think fairly soon. But were doing training for our supervisors and things like that so we want to be we have also by the way, we have encouraged banks to use their buffers. And in a similar way that Mortgage Backed securities can. Do you think that the threat of clo is properly accounted for and can you discuss how the fed has been monitoring this risk . And thats not the case. We have really good information. We include them to the extent and we include them in our stress tests and we stress
Now, testimony from Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Monetary Policy and the state of the u. S. Economy amid coronavirus. He spoke about low Interest Rates, unemployment numbers and what future Economic Growth and recovery could look like. Help in front of the House Financial Services committee, this is three hours. So the committee will come to order. Thank you. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Members are reminded to keep their video function on at all times, even when theyre not recognized by the chair. Members are also reminded that they are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves and to mute themselves after they are finished speaking. Consistent with the regulations accompanying h res 965, staff will only mute members and our witness as appropriate when not recognized to avoid inadvertent background noise. Members are reminded that all house rules relating to order and decorum apply to this remote hearing. T
Surge here. Well speak with the mayor in miami and about the spike with the virus. And an ammicable separation. Match group completing the spinoff. Parent company iac last week theyll discuss the strategy Going Forward and Online Dating during the pandemic. Lets focus on the big stories of bob pisani has the stories. Meg terrell has updates on the coronavirus and Brian Sullivan is covering Warren Buffetts new bet on the energy space. Bob, lets start with you and the markets. Yeah. The important thing about today is were up nicely but were up on lighter volume it is deteriorating a little bit from the earlier part of the day. Were once again falling back upon dependence on the mega cap tech names technology, computer services, Consumer Discretionary all of them tech oriented or continuing to lead the overall market Consumer Discretionary as i mentioned, banks still on the upside not as much as the overall Market Energy has fallen back that was an early leader i keep mentioning the mega
This moment . Expert analysis how you should be positioning your portfolio. Has a deal within reached in washington for more stimulus . Could it be mean more testing and stimulus . Well have more and the answers coming up on making money. Charles markets down for a second day in a road. The hardest hit sectors are not oil. Technology stocks getting absolutely slammed today. We knew after this huge bounce a pullback was inevitable but how deep will it go . How should we be positioned for this . I want to bring in capital wave strategist shah gilani and Divine Capital ceo, dani hughes. Shah, let me start with you. That was amazing vshaped, sharp, strong, stock market recovery, more than probably anyone had anticipated but everyone knew we would pull back. This is part of it. How are you positioning yourself as some people made money buying on the first deep or eager looking at the second dip . If you were lucky enough to time that to get in i wasnt, good luck to you, but i would suggest