Procedural vote for the nominee for the Credit Administration board. Now live coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore t senate will co to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will the chaplain let us pray. Eternal master, continue to be our shelter from lifes storms and winds. You have provided us with your presence and a reminder in hebrews 13 5 that you will never leave or forsake us. May this knowledge of your watchcare sustain our senators through this challenging season. Grant that their work will become more meaningful and effective as they cultivate a greater awareness of your divine companionship. We pray in your loving name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united stat of america, and to the republic fowhich it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer t senator from iowa. Mr. Graley one minute for morni
Declining. We saw a constructive things. Waiting for the eighth or ninth year of expansion is not a perfect strategy. There is an issue of wanting to do as much as we can to avoid exacerbating the longstanding inferences and get back to a Strong Economy or we can start making progress again, which is what we were doing in february. Senator smith as the fed chair and at the fed you have the mission of low unemployment and managing inflation. And this need to spur job growth. We said there is not been a big worry about inflation. What if the fed were to lower its target for employment, even under 3 . What impact might that have on addressing longterm needs for addressing inequality. Changeowell we made a in our operating framework which addresses that directly. We will have an estimate of the natural rate of unemployment. We will not act on that, even if unemployment goes below that, unless we see inflation or some other problematic thing that seems to be late to where our rates are. We
The British Government told businesses today to be ready for big changes when the u. K. Makes its final break from the eu in one month. Opec and its allies need more time to reach a deal on Oil Production policy. A meeting today broke down today without any agreement. Again ministers will try thursday to allow more time to figure out whether to delay a planned increase in output starting in january. Supporters say the market is too fragile to absorb more oil. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im mark crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 6 00 p. M. In london, and 2 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories we are following on the bloomberg and from around the world. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and jay powell testifying earlier before congress on the cares act. Itsla says the fed will use tools until
Well have a live report on that. President obama says Americans Care more about cheap gas than they do from the environment. Well hear from steve moore, whether this was a cheap shot. All that and a lot more on making money. Stay tuned. David its a huge market day. Nasdaq hitting alltime highs once again today after surging more than 10 last month. Vaccine hopes stronger than expected Economic Data and rumblings on capitol hill of a bipartisan covid relief bill are boosting market optimism. Joining me two markets experts to break it all down for us. Bellpointe chief strategist, david nelson. Great to see david again. And nicole webb. Let me start with the big picture. We didnt mention the fed announced, frankly nothing moves market more than free money. They said essentially there will be a lot more free money as long as they dont see any signs of inflation, the money printing will go on ad infinitum to pay all the bills but we still have a fear in the market of a more antibusiness, at
Years. That is the best month of the year, im connell mcshane. This is the closing bell. Time for news of the hour. Jackie deangelis in new york, blake burman in white house, Hillary Vaughn with the president elect in delaware and Edward Lawrence in washington with the latest on the covid19 relief deal. A lot of moving parts well get into. The market is back in rally mode. Good afternoon, jackie. Reporter good afternoon, connell. Well talk about the records we set today with the s p 500 and also the nasdaq. Look at the gains there we beat what we were expecting handily. You only needed 16 points on the s p and only needed seven on the nasdaq. This was a strong broad based rally today what is interesting big tech continues to gain on this momentum and continues to go higher from there. Facebook, apples, amazon, microsofts of the world are continuing to climb up. That is something you expect to hear. Again it wasnt just tech, it was broadbased. Look at the dow winners you can see we have