Jimmy li will join me this hour in this exclusive interview. Markets on the upswing to begin futures. Take a look at dow industrials 344 points. Nasdaq up 109. Thats almost 1 . S p higher by 9 points. The dow posting best month since 1987 with gain of almost 12 , other averages also higher by 12 and 11 all this as we await key testimony from federal jay powell and jimmy mnuchin today and unused covid relief funding. Return to high seas, we are taking you on a port on how they are getting ready. Another missing monolith moved. Making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria live right now. Maria all right, european markets meanwhile look like this as rally is underway on wall street. European markets higher across the board. Ftse up 123 points. Almost 2 , cac quarante up 62 and dax index up 135. British factories reporting fastest growth in 3 years. Purchasing Managers Index rising to 55. 6 in the month of november. In asia overnight green across the board. Chinas manufacturing pmi54. 9
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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 last hour after fed chair Jerome Powell and treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin did the same in a hearing before congress. It comes as the cdc panel is meeting right now at this very moment to decide exactly who will be the top priority to get the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine. And then who gets to be in the levels after that. We are going to get you a live report. And one russell 2000 company is making a huge transformation from an Artificial Intelligence chatbot giant to the bank of the future. The ceo of live person introduces us to bella, the banker with a twist. Youve got to hear this. If cryptos are too cryptic for you, you are missing out on the bitcoin boom. The ceo and cofounder of chainalysis is here to explain how he makes Bitcoin Investment secure for everyone from wall street whales to the u. S. Government and irs. You got to meet this company. We are t minus 58 minutes from the cdc voting on just who should get the first batch of covid19 vaccines. The belief is
3, 2, 1. This hearing will now come to order. Is in a hybrid format and the hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommended six foot social distancing between senators, witnesses and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing, which we have kept to a minimum. , a those joining remotely few videoconferencing reminders which you should be familiar with at this point. Once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before your display on the screen. To minimize background noise, click the mute button until it is returned to speak or ask questions. Issue,e is a technology we will move to the next senator until it is resolved. I remind senators and our witnesses the fiveminute clock still applies. Those remote should have on your screen one of the boxes labeled clock which will show how much time is remaining. Weve had some trouble getting those boxes to everyone screen or at least getting everybody to be able to find them and follow them. We are going