Good morning. This hearing will now come to order. I am pleased to welcome our distinguished panels of Witnesses Today on the economic subcommittee focusing on a very important topic and i think theres a lot of bipartisan interest in and that is the economic geostrategic challenge with the rise of china poses for the United States not just today but in the future. The calmness party led peoples republic of china through unfair treatment practices and intellectual property theft market manipulation and very prominently in my view not reciprocal treatment not just in the economic realm but in many realms has been a force in the Global Economy that undercuts the resiliency of the u. S. Economy. Its been one of the worlds fastestgrowing economies averaging close to 10 growth from 1979 to 2015. In 2014 china overtook the United States as the Worlds Largest country in reducing power according to the International Monetary fund. I believe there is a strong bipartisan interest and hopefully we
Focus in china, the unraveling of the chinese stock rally. Seems like things have stabilized after we saw one of the worst selloffs since the gdp eight out of china. You see china targeting large caps, small caps and the latest is kwai chow moutai. Yesterday, climbing back with the stock. Record after we saw a spike in virus cases yesterday. Watching other things with indonesia markets opening up, focusing more on the Bank Indonesia rate cut, cutting rates for the second time as growth sputters, the stocks are up. 4 area strength in the rupiah. Up. 4 . Strength in the rupiah. Nifty, futures pointing to a positive open. Yvonne the Trump Administrationyvonne is turning on some of americas Biggest Companies saying they are pawns of china. Attorney general bill barr says disney, apple and others are working at the expense of u. S. And western democratic values. He said disney and apple have been manipulated by the communist party interchanging strategy to make money. The coronavirus contin
The university of texas on the pandemic. Of then Michael Morris guggenheim securities. You can only go back in florida. Taking a more circumspect view of whether or not these parts should open. Earnings next week are going to be a big theme as well. A lot of the big tech names are going to be in focus. Lets talk about what is happening broadly in these markets. You mentioned the curve steepeners. The curve is flattening. There is pain in that trade. The u. S. 10year yield has come down. A tight rangein over the last month. S year, we saw the 10 year the range as than 60 basis points to 75 basis points. Equity markets have faded. Im struggling to see where the catalyst is coming from, which catalyst to focus on. How markets are going to progress from here. Lets get help with that question. Yields, theg bond curve flattening out. Equity markets are going nowhere in a hurry. We have a. We have virus. We have elections. Where are you focusing your attention . Thank you for having me. When
That the worst of this may be behind us. And they can start thinking about what the recovery is going to look like. Someet i know we have earnings coming out. Romaine travel companies will be reporting after the bell. On booking, what we are looking at, the g1 numbers coming in at 2. 29 revenue. That was the estimate for 2. 15. Well belowitda estimates. The estimate was for 363 million. So, no real forecast here. The company did say that covid19 would profoundly impact the travel industry. We will dig deeper to see if we can find a little bit more about any Forward Guidance for the company, basically saying they would emerge from the crisis in a position of strength. Scarlet right now, this is something that all companies are open for, to come out in a position of strength. For we go, i want to get an idea from you. This is something that Joe Weisenthal posited this morning. How much do you think this equity market rally has been premised on the idea that there will be more stimulus, a
Starting to take tentative steps toward reopening. Numbers released, adding nearly 16 million subscribers and crushing estimates. Taylor, we have to start with oil today. What is happening . Taylor when we spoke yesterday, it felt like the equity markets were not pricing in some of the panic in the oil markets. Today, that changed. Some of the nervousness started filtering through. They are off about 3 or so. Nasdaq off about 3. 5 . What that meant is that these oil markets are really starting to break down. Know that the may futures contracts expire today. Some of the june contracts are starting to roll over. We are getting the sense that if that continues to fall further, this is not a may contract technical glitch, this is more of a macro issue. Concerns remain on the demand side as well as the oversupply. Some nervousness was filtering in the oil markets today. Netflix,ts talk about crushing its own estimates, adding 16 million subscribers. I know i was watching tiger king. The que