Small businesses. The Senate Small Business and entrepreneurship heard from witnesses on the drug supply and what Small Businesses needed to stay afloat throughout the outbreak. This is an hour and a half. The [inaudible conversations] i appreciate the witnesses being here into the hearing will come to order. I am going to go through order quickly because senator young has another related topic event thaeventyesterdayeventthat he hi want to recognize him quickly. He wanted to say a few words and i want to make sure hes able to get on the record. Thank you mr. Chairman for holding this important hearing. I first want to get on the record and think the subject matter experts. If theres anything we tgislative leaders ought toif e doing it more broadly the government leaders as listening to the Public Health experts say thank you so much and the experts and some of these discrete areas that will be impacted by the coronavirus. I do regret that in a minute i have another meeting that also p
Thatdominated yesterdays action, that along with chinas currency move. Overnight Chinas Central Bank setting the yuan mid point firmer than many expected. That happened at 9 00. We saw a turnaround in u. S. Equity futures which were down overnight as much as 600 points at the lows. Right now a positive open across the board. S p looking to be up by 11 points dow jones up by 102. The nasdaq looking to recoup 44 points as for u. S. Treasury yields, we saw a 2016 low also. We had the tenyear note at 1. 758 overnight we breached that 1. 7 level. A key level here. We have cnbc reporters everywhere this morning covering the Market Reaction to this escalating trade war willem marx is in london well get to him in a moment, but across the world to china. Eunice yoon is on the ground in beijing. Reporter china strongly opposes being labeled a currency manipulator. The central bank, which manages a floating currentry cy exchang rate called the move unilateral protectionist behavior that violates
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