Quorum call quorum call mr. Sanders madam president. The presiding officer the senator from vermont is recognized. Sorry. Mr. Sanders thank you. Madam president , since last week the senate has been quote, unquote, debating the presiding officer senator, were in a quorum call. Mr. Sanders i would ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Sanders madam president , since last week, the senate ostensibly one of the great deliberative bodies in the world, supposedly, has been quote, unquote, debating the 740 billion National Defense authorization act. Its been a very, very silent debate because of the 700 amendments that have been filed to this bill. There has been no roll call votes on any of them. I do understand that in the managers amendments have been accepted, and thats fine, but weve had a vigorous debate but nobody in the world has heard that debate because theres not been one amendment here on the floor. And knowing the way the senate does
Damage the coronavirus crisis, he says, raises those longterm concerns that he was talking about. The u. S. Response to that point he says has been swift and forceful the fed has acted with unprecedented speed and force. He cites a survey that shows in the month of march, 40 of households making less than 40,000 has lost a job carl lets get to the webcast. Here is the fed chair. Its very hard to imagine we could have anyone better than jay powell thank you for coming back to the Peterson Institute, chairman powell thanks very much, adam. Its great to be back. I have some brief remarks and then ill look forward to our discussion the coronavirus has left a devastating human and economic toll in its wake as it has spread around the globe. This is a Worldwide Public Health crisis and Health Care Workers have been the First Responders showing courage, determination and earning our lasting gratitude. So have the legions of other essential workers who put themselves at risk every day on our b
Therapeutics, the whole thing. Europe is down 5, oil below 25, that will take you back to 2002. So, yesterdays gains are obviously in jeopardy, since february 24th, the first big day of the virus selloff, the average daily move of the s p, up or down, 4. 9 jim, dont need to tell that you is unprecedented the market is trying to figure out how to deal with these Uncertain Times when you have Financial Health on the line and, of course, what we were talking about with separation, actual health. Its not processing it very well in part because the liquidity is not there, but also because weather in a highly emotional moment yesterday it looked like the market was up. The indices lie. What was really up were things like hormel. When we put shutters across the country, one of the first things to do was put in spam. Yesterday it was chef boyardee the wrong stocks are going up. The companies we invoked during thermonuclear war time that is what was up in the index, that and drug stocks a halfh
Market meltdown. Hang on, everyone, this is the final hour of trade. Good afternoon. Lets have a look at whats driving the action the lack of a Production Cut deal from opec coupled with a saudi price cut sending prices tumbling down 17 on the day alone. Coronavirus fears remain front and center as global cases top 111,000 and italy locks down a quarter of its population. And the bull market chaos rages on as yields on the tenyear at a low of 0. 31 and remain at the moment below 0. 5 . Joining us for the full first hour of the show, lindsey bell from ally invest they have 7. 85 billion in total customer assets. Shes here along with our team of reporters to break down this massive market sell off. Bob pisani is on the floor of the change Brian Sullivan covering the Oil Price Collapse mike is here to look in the the market mike holland ond transports. Well get to all our reporters the dow is down 7. 25 . B bob. Important thing is the Circuit Breakers hit this morning. Down 7 . Halted for
Wall street watching washington today. Stocks set for a lower open. Google, the banker. The search giant reportedly planning to offer Checking Accounts next year and nikes amazon challenge, the sports wear retailer set to stop selling its clothes and shoes directly to the ecommerce giant. Wall streets going to pay close attention to events on capitol hilld chair powell will testify before the joint Economic Committee of congress and the nation will hear public testimony from house impeachment witnesses for the first time the inquiry surrounding the president s actions toward ukraine, for our purposes, jim, well see what powell says first as we expect him to say the economy is in a good place. Yesterday was a punitive moment with President Trump calling for negative rates and i think that a lot of what lets just call all of our watchers who are in the professional side of things, i think were unanimous in what was that about, thats off the reservation. I think jay powell is immune to it