Once again along the gulf coast. The story of this storm, this hurricane will be that of the flooding rainfall. Were talking about a catastrophic and lifethreatening flooding situation. As you mentioned from southern mississippi all the way over into southern alabama including the mobile area, also into the panhandle of florida where the conditions have been very serious out towards pensacola. Now the wind, intensity of the storm coming down, moves further inland this afternoon. It is slowly crawling inland, neil. Only five miles an hour. It means relentless rain will continue over the same hours for hours and hours, resulting in that flooding. If that flooding that were alerting people and businesses to across the southeastern United States as the storm continues to move off to the north and east, that risk for serious flooding is going expand into georgia and up towards the carolinas the next couple days. It is really important that people and businesses be prepared in those areas. T
And low inflation. The topic is regularly salient since last week, following an 18month review of his Monetary Policy strategy, the fed released a revised revision of its goals and Monetary Policy strategy. We are honored to have governor Lael Brainard to hear her thoughts on the topic. After we hear from governor brainard, there will be time for questioning and answers from the audience, then we will convene a panel to discuss the new said framework with ben bernanke, janet yellen, and roberto poley of cornerstone , and Julia Coronado of the university of texas. If you would like to post a question to lael on the panel, you can do so by emailed brookings. Edu. Governor brainard has had a long career of Public Service and in academia. She took office as a member of the feds board of governors in june, 2014. Before that, she served as undersecretary of the u. S. Department of treasury from 20102013, and transferred to secretary of the treasury in 2009. I had the opportunity to have work
The simultaneous listing could bring evaluation of 225 billion dollars and may raise more than aramcos record sale. Day twot lady headlines of the republican convention. The theme is the land of opportunity as Melania Trump makes the case for her husband winning four more years. Working news at the moment. We are getting confirmation that the u. S. Business will be charged in a generic drug pricefixing probe. This coming from the department of justice, saying the Pharmaceuticals Company was charged for its role in a saying teslas u. S. U. S. Mers tevas consumers were charged 350 million. It was charged for conspiracy including landmark and glen tech. Nd apple it is falling more than 4 in postmarket trading. Teva pharmaceuticals being charged with conspiring to raise prices for generic drugs. This is after years of pricefixing in the generic drug market. The doj saying it is the seventh company to be charged with generic drug pricefixing. Teva was charged for pricefixing. You can see th
Shares boosts as iphone shares surge. The Ukraine Airlines flight that crashed outside tehran was likely shot down by an Iranian Missile, as intelligence from the u. S. , uk and canada suggests the tragedy could have been unintentional. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to this edition of street signs. We made it to the end of the week and what a week it was, starting off with huge concerns that seem to have shifted into the back seats in the last 24 hours. We had record highs yet again for wall street, all of the majors making fresh closes also some of the sub sectors as well, the tech industrials, discretionary and health care all hitting fresh record highs in the u. S the Communications Services has seen its highest close since 2001 so the market has shut off a lot of the concern that we saw earlier on in the week as for european markets, you can see its fairly split, a bit of a mix, 50 50 on the map as were seeing right now but overall, the stock is trading above the flat line,
To begin i would like to say a few words about volker. He served as Federal Reserve chair from 1979 to 1987. He accomplished many things during his long and distinguished career and elsewhere and best known for leading the fight to detain them placement that he inherited as chair the foundation for the prosperity and price stability we enjoy today. But what is most admirable, more than his accomplishments is his character. He believed there is no higher calling than Public Service and he dedicated the lion share of his life. With courage, integrity and tenacity he pursued the policy that he believed would ultimately benefit all americans. My colleagues and i draw inspiration from his example. Turning to todays meeting my colleagues and i decided to leave the policy rate of lowering it three quarters of a rate of the previously three meetings. We base our decisions on judgment of how best to achieve the goal congress has given x mom employment of price stability. It remains a favorable