Recommendations for the next pandemic. Several members also pay tribute to representative john lewis who sat on the house ways and Means Committee. Appreciate everybody joining us today. This is a terrific turnout, considering all of the activity and turmoil going on around us. Many of us are back in washington today. We are holding this committee virtually in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings pursuant to House Resolution 965. This authority allowed us to continue to do our work on behalf of the American People, while keeping our staff, families, and the Broader Community safe. We have all started to become familiar with navigating this technology, i do want to remind members of a few procedures. First, consistent with the regulations, the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for unmuting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for their five minutes. Members and witnesses must have thei
That is coming up next. I mentioned if the goldman shares soaring after reporting 93 revenue trading in the second quarter. The analyst call is underway. What are some of the highlights you can tell us . There is or uncertainty. David solomon did say violet has been very uncertain as far as outlook for reopening, he gave us expectations on what to expect. The expectations for the u. S. Have gotten better. For the globe, worse. This number is equates to a and more than 6 globally next year. If you think banks are undervalued now and you are seeing this type of expansion next year, you are in better shape. That uncertainty still exists. Goldman also gets credit for being able to improve their capital ratios closer to where the fed wants them to be. By selling off assets here and there, we saw a big insurance sale last week to kkr, and being able to offload assets such as leverage loans of the sword. Of the sort. Carol guy talk about the ratio, they have come up 13. 6. Does that mean inve
Smartphone sales. Details about the beijing security law. Shery this is quite a reversal from the deficit we saw in the previous month. We had seen south koreas current account falling to deficit for the first time in about one year but the numbers have recovered and we are seeing a rebound with our current account surplus topping 2 million. When it comes to goods, the trade surplus coming in at 2. 5 billion for the month of may. This is quite a recovery given that we had really fallen to the lowest level since 2008. Good trade surplus numbers. A much better than expected number out of south korea when it comes to the current account surplus and also the goods trade surplus for the month of may. Lets see how markets are trading at the moment. We are seeing now nikkei futures unchanged. Same for u. S. Futures. This after we had stocks here in new york jumping following the holiday weekend. We had seen five sessions of gains for the u. S. Now unchanged at the moment. The japanese yen Hol
In the corporate world office cash and apologies for historic racism. Critics say people want more than just words and serious action is needed. Lets get you a look at the markets. We had a whipsaw session as these comments from jay powell really causing investors to take a step back and consider the amount of risk being put on the table with this record rally weve seen this year. We are seeing on the downside when it comes to trading in u. S. Futures. Down by 4 10 of 1 . Chicago futures, also pointing like a down stock when it comes to trading. Over in tokyo, i should say. In sydney, a downside of 1. 4 . Interestingly, we are seeing that strong rotation from gross into value stocks in the australian market. New zealand, on the downside of. 25 despite rough data that suggests credit card data for may saw a bounce in consumer spending. Story, back to our top the Federal Reserve sent the most dovish signal it could after they didnt. Make a policy change Kathleen Hays is here. She has pow
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