The committee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Members will have five legislative days to submit extraneous materials for the record. This is the purpose of receiving the semiannual testimony of the chair of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve system on Monetary Policy on the estate on the state of the economy. Recognize myself for an opening statement. Since we last convened on Monetary Policy, there have been encouraging economic headlines. Onfidence is up unemployment remains low, as does inflation. But it rests too much on incredibly low participation payment high disability participation rights. Both paychecks and savings for working Americans Still have room to grow after eight years of distortionary Economic Policy under the Previous Administration. On the fiscal front, help is on the way. House republicans have passed the American Health care act to lifted the burden of obamacare on our economy and the finan
Her term ands in february. Inwhen her term ends february. The committee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Members will have five legislative days to submit extraneous materials for the record. This is the purpose of receiving the semiannual testimony of the chair of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve system on Monetary Policy on the estate on the state of the economy. Recognize myself for an opening statement. Since we last convened on Monetary Policy, there have been encouraging economic headlines. Onfidence is up unemployment remains low, as does inflation. But it rests too much on incredibly low participation payment high disability participation rights. Both paychecks and savings for working Americans Still have room to grow after eight years of distortionary Economic Policy under the Previous Administration. On the fiscal front, help is on the way. House republicans have passed the American Health care act to l
Economic condition and possible fed actions in the future. You look like nervous. Im much more nervous, like yeah. Yeah. At work it will be eight or nine days away, but it can happen any time. I hope so. Im better than that. Lets talk about schedules. The committee will come to order without objection and they declare a recess of the committee at any time. All members will have five legislative days within which to submit extraneous material to the chair for inclusion in the record. The hearing is for the purpose of receiving the semiannual testimony and the board of governors on the Federal Reserve system on Monetary Policy and the state of the economy. I now recognize myself for three minutes to give an opening statement. Since we last convened to take chair yellens on Monetary Policy, headline remains low as does inflation, but the headline Unemployment Rate still rests too much on an incredibly low Labor Participation rate and regrettably high disability payment Participation Rate.
Im sara eisen im dominic chu in for wilfred frost. Always nice to wake up to a little carlos santana. We always have a good soundtrack on Worldwide Exchange to get you going lets check out the global markets. The dow closed at its 31st record high of 2017 yesterday. The gape gains are set to conte thanks to apple. Dow futures up 34 points nasdaq futures up 41 s p is flat to slightly higher apple set to open at a record high after Third Quarter results last night the company topping expectations more on that in a few moments. Let me run you through some highlights the guidance for revenues next quarter, which everyone was looking for as an indication of what theyre expecting in terms of the next big launch of the iphone 8 was strong. Coming in up to 52 billion. Analysts expected 49 there Services Revenue grew 22 , became a fortune 100 company as tim cook promised. Even ipads grew more than expected so did iphones in what was traditionally supposed to be a weak quarter, a bottom of the c
Quintanilla joined by sara eisen. Our top story today is going to be apple hitting the alltime highs. The company beat on the top of the bottom lines last night issuing stronger than expected guidance for the september quarter. Strong device shipments are building the best Revenue Growth in seven quarters, jon, with unit Revenue Growth in all categories and surprise ones ipad, i was looking for more than half the ipads life now, it has been in decline so this performance up year over year, at least sparked some hope that that might be shifting. But i want to see a couple more quarters before being confident of that. The two things that seem most significant to me off this call were the low inventory levels, the big sell through they had in this quarter, and the aggressive guide into the start of what we expect to be an iphone launch, given that so many people had expected the highest iphone to be delayed somewhat. What does this mean . Are we going to have more Iphone Models out than w