Testimony who heads the federal Housing Finance agency. This hearing will come to order. Room has been configured to maintain the recommended six that socialco distancing between senators, witnesses and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing which we have kept to a minimum. Some members will be here and arpresent. The witnesses were here in person and others will be coming in by videoconference. I remind everyone once you start speaking there will be a slight delay before youve are displayeyou are displayedon theg in remotely to minimize background noise please click on the mute button until it is your turn mun to speak or ask questi. If theres any Technology Issue as usual, we will move to the next senator until it is resolved. I will remind all the fiveminute clock still applies. You should all have a box on your screen so those of you operating remotely will show the time that his remaining. After 30 seconds im going to try to remember to tap the gavel to rem
As he calls them unchecked monopolies big plans for the big apple. Finally out with a reopening plan and why the novelty of working from home may be wearing off on all of you it is friday, may 29th, youre watching Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. Thung for joining us right here on Worldwide Exchange. It looks like it may be a weak end to your week dow futures down about 73 points stocks having a good week so far. But right now, market nerves seem elevated a a bit waiting on the president s speech about china. Well get more on that in a moment despite yesterdays drop, the dow, nasdaq, s p, all the major indexes are on trial court for their succeed strakt month of gains. The nasdaq leading the charge among the broader index up 5. 5 . Now less than that small caps the real winners this week up nearly 8 as investors begin slowly to look past the lockdowns, this may be the story that may mo
Spending and chicago pmi fed chair with alan blinder in a few moments. Steve liesman will give us a curtain razor on that. Hey, steve. Good morning, carl. Yeah, were wondering whether powell continues a cautious tone, much more cautious tone than the market seems to embrace and in a way his cautious tone seems to give the market a green light because it means more stimulus or the fed being around for a long time here among powells concerns hes expressed in the past that the employment and growth rebound could take longer than it anticipated, some businesses wont survive the downturn, a possible second wave of the virus and the stimulus will run out and think about more stimulus on the other side you can see the effects of the stimulus carl alluded to in the income and spending numbers this morning. Quite astonishing. Every one of the numbers youre about to see are historic, never been there before. 11 month to month rise in income well tell you why that happened in a second. 13 month t
Roll out some responses to Chinas Hong Kong law as the showdown with twitter gets escalated around the minneapolis protests oil near 33, the focus is squarely on twitter and this rule violation that the president s account got slapped with, and then the white house account, the official white house account retweets were all kind of confused, as marc benioff, who is against this obscure regulation that gives these companies an exception todo this, many are confused it seems President Trump wants to create his own enemy with if you start regulating these Companies Rather than having the exception, theyre always going to have to put a counter to what President Trump wants. I think what he may not understand is free speech is nasty. What he had until this was a great run of things. Its going to make it tough for him to be aggressive on twitter. He doesnt have press conferences that work because of all the displeasure he had with regular reporters. Hes disintermediating himself from the pub
Order to support Economic Growth following the coronavirus pandemic. This News Conference runs an hour. Good afternoon everyone. Thank you for joining us. Our country continues to face a difficult and challenging time as a pandemic is causing tremendous hardship in the United States and around the world. People have lost loved ones and many millions have lost their jobs and there is great uncertainty about the future. At the Federal Reserve we are strongly committed to using our tools to do whatever we can and for as long as it takes to provide some relief instability to ensure the recovery will be a strong as possible and to limit lasting damage to the economy. The most important response to the crisis has come from a healthcare workers and on behalf of the Federal Reserve look me express our dedicated individuals who put themselves at risk day after day and service to others and to our nation. Let me also think the essential workers across the country who have helped meet our basic n