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
Jonathan ferro, Lisa Abramowicz, and tom keene. We welcome all of you to our simulcast on television and radio worldwide. Thrilled you are with us today. Coming up, a really important conversation on the global markets. The new slow today absolutely asked ordinary. We have been absolutely extraordinary. We have really been focused on hong kong, but right now weve got to turn to the american claims, which is surveyed again to be over 2 million. Near 40 a lot of pain, million over the last two months or so, so clearly the labor market is in an absolute mess. It is really painful. I think it would be a mistake to think the policy effort was done. It is not. There is certainly debate in washington on what to do next on the fiscal side. Lets not forget the monetary side either. The ecb has been flirting with doing more. Think we have to move to Forward Guidance. What does future policy look like . That is where the effort transitions in the next several weeks. Tom i agree on the idea that w
So nbc news now has obtained a onepager, in effect, laying out the stage 3 proposal key terms. Thats the mnuchin proposal for about 1 trillion in stimulus and economic backstopping. Heres whats in it, as were going through it in realtime the Airline Industry gets a secured Lending Facility of 50 billi billion. Theyre saying it would be secured by lateral thats specified by the Treasury Department here. Other severely distressed sectors of the u. S. Economy, thats 150 billion. This document not specifying what other sectors might be included here, but theyre saying that it would authorize use of those funds for secured lending on loan guarantees to assist other critical sectors of the u. S. Economy, experiencing distress here. Also, theyre going to temporarily permit use of the Exchange Stabilization fund to guarantee Money Market Mutual Funds. What treasury is saying here is they will temporarily suspend the statutory limitation on the use of Exchange Stabilization fund for guaranteed
Division. At 114 per pound. Not much really you can say. Euro sox reversing. Euro stocks reversing stop euro stocks reversing. Won, ok as far as these are concerned. Korea, crash landing on you. It is amazing how the 10 year right now. Years. Level in 18 7 . T crude down 23 . About rakinglking below 60. Mark, help us put sense into what is happening. Things we were talking about is the process of exposure. N reducing the have been looking at some hard numbers and just in the last three days, bonds and equities are out. Open interest has fallen to the equivalent of 150 billion in the futures market only gives you a snapshot. Withve derivative market 150 billion multiplied several times. That gives you an idea of how much had been going on just in the last few days. That is partly why we are seeing this incredible movement. These movements will add to that picture as well so you can see the move towards cash is really ever. As a Silver Lining here . When i look at crazy price action, alm
The dow down as much as 123. The s p is up and the treasury at this point, it looks like the yield has been something people are watching again you dont want to see these move up too quickly it has shown some strength wti, yesterday was down 24 . That was the third worst day ever for oil prices. 18year low. This morning, wti is up better than 13 last i looked it was around 23. These moves with the dow, s p and massive moves yesterday in the market, all of us were a little relieved when the 4 00 p. M. Bell range. I was happier like you. I dont even know what you are thinking at 2,300. When it comes back 1,000 mike spointed out at one poit the dow was down 2,300 points. Im reaching for straws in the ocean but walmart. New highs. Close to alltime highs. I know why i know all of that if walmart lives, i think im going to live. I hang my head on amazon hiring another 10,000 people you saw amazon hiring like 10,000 people. People are still shopping. Becky, i saw we wrote an article. Higher y