Any time. Before i deliver my opening remarks, i want to note today the committee is meeting virtually and announce a couple of reminders to the members about conduct of this hearing. First, members should keep their video feed on as long as theyre present in the hearing and members are responsible for their own microphones. Please keep your microphones muted unless youre speaking. If members have documents they wish to submit for the record. Please email them to the Committee Clerk whose email address was committed prior to the hearing. Good morning, id like to welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses, members and those viewing remotely. Todays subcommittee hearing, cybering security at nasa. Ongoing challenges and increased telework during covid. In early 2020 the world was caught off guard with the rapid and dramatic onset of the coronavirus. Nasa and many agencies and consistent with the committee of budget. To ensure the health and safety of more than 17,000 Civil Servant empl
Now. Power lunch starts now thanks welcome to power lunch broadcasting from a secure and undisclosed location the nasdaq on pace for its first negative week since june lets go to bob for more on the marks. Bob. Choppy trading but very narrow trading range bio tech sb flat energy, oil has been hugging 40 for a month now. Were down today but up overall in the week. Banks are down but up on the week and had a pretty good week. Amazon down about 8 this week one of the worst week its had in a long time all the damage in netflix has opinion today. The problem is when you have megagabe kaplerture ecagabe kacm players. Thats a head and shoulders, folks round trip the same situation with netflix, really netflix was 500 a couple of weeks ago. It goes to 580 and then its back down to below 500 thats another semi head and shoulders. We keep trying to get over 3230. Were just keep knocking on the doorp that guys have a good weekend. The same to you the Trump Administration is ramping up its rhetori
Accommodative policy and more from that interview with Christine Lagarde stepping down from the imf taking the top job of the ecb president in november take a listen to her view of the u. S. Economy right now its the longest period of growth in our country. The unemployment numbers are at rock bottom. Its in a very good place. Her thoughts on trade, china, and the likelihood of a global recession all coming up. First, mark tepper, ceo of Strategic Wealth partners, welcome back youve been surprised, impressed at the resilience of the market during september, which is not seasonally a very strong month september a usually a very sleepy month historically. Its down somewhere between half a percent and a percent, but so far this month, were up about 2 , so thats pretty good. I feel like were in a tina situation, where theres really no better laplace to invest your monday yields have come down on bonds its really not interesting to invest in the euro zone. Tina, there isno alternative. Ther
Bond market barely budged today. Was todays rally the last best chance to sell we dont want to rain on anybodys parade we are sure a lot of people out there are very happy that stocks rallied today, but at the same time for an asset class, the bond market that has moved so, you know, extraordinarily in the past week and a half or so, for it to barely move today, thats a head scratcher. First of all, lets be clear. Love mariah carey whenever i can get her, especially in the heat of the august summer season. But what you are talking about is treasury is at three basis points we havent been here since 2007. You have a dynamic with the bond market, long bond about to set historical lows. Lets talk about the rest of the world. In germany theres zew Economic Confidence back in 2011 levels when we were talking about green chutes or so it seemed. If you think about the equity markets euphoria today and is it a gift from santa or truly just a reminder that the market is responding to headlines
Commissioner bridges and commissioner servais is not in attendance today. We do have a quorum right. Thank you. Can i ask you, madam secretary, to turn your volume up a little . Can you do that . Its sort of. Is that better . Better better. Item number two, communications. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment periods. There will be an opportunity for general Public Comment at this meeting after closed session and there will be an opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. Each item each comment is limited to two minutes. Public comment will be taken both in person and remotely by calling for each item, the board will take Public Comment first. People attending the meeting in person and then from people attending the meeting remotely. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available by phone by calling. 56550001. Access. Code 26605203021. Then pound, then pound again when connected you will hear the meet