Very latest. Israel is carrying oUt a major Military Operation in the occUpied West Bank. Reports say 11 palestinians are dead. Donald trUmp accUses the Us Department OfjUstice of trying to resUrrect a dead Witch HUnt after it filed Charges HUnt after it filed revised charges against him. Spacex says bad weather has postponed their mission after technical issUes early in the week. In the Paralympic Games begin in paris today, with the Opening Ceremony taking place across the city later. Hello. Welcome. Sir Keir Starmer is visiting berlin, where hes expected to say the Uk has a once in a Generation OpportUnity to reset its relationship with eUrope. The british Prime Minister will be holding talks with the german chancellor, Olaf Scholz. As prime in order to really talk to the eU in a broader sense. Is we have in order to really talk to the eU in a broader sense. Is the have in order to really talk to the eU in a broader sense. Is the first meeting, bUt this is the first official Visit V
Comptroller of the currency, the Senate Banking Committee Received a 6month update on the state of Banking Systems, the impact of covid19 and support for Small Business owners in communities of color. This runs an hour and 45 minutes. Today we welcome to this virtually hearing the federal prudential regulators, Federal Reserve vice chairman Randal Quaries, office of the comptroller, brian brooks, chairman of yellen and mcwilliams, chairman of the National Credit administration rodney hood. We will receive testimony from each agency on efforts, activities, objectives and plans since we last testified before the committee. As well as an update on covid19 related actions. Since the passage of the coronavirus a relief and Economic Security act or cares act your agencies have taken many meaningful steps to ameliorate the Economic Impact of the pandemic as you provide conditions that will lead to a forceful recovery. On october 30th the Federal Reserve announced changes to its facility inclu
Certainly through the channel i mentioned. Thank you. Thanks for taking my question. Chairman powell, [ inaudible ] to the policy framework, is the fed open to other measures of the economy such as income inequality and affordability of housing . So we monitor everything we think is important in the u. S. Economy and in a broad sense, all of it goes into thinking about Monetary Policy. You mentioned inequality. You know, disparities in income and in Financial Wellbeing by various demographic and racial categories, something we monitor carefully, inequality which i would point to its a multifaceted thing but i would point to the relative stagnation of incomes for people at the lower end of the income spectrum and also lower mobility. So those are things that hold back our economy. They are. The thing is, we dont really have the tools to address those. We have Interest Rates and Bank Supervision and Financial Stability policy and things like that, but we cant get at those things through
Wechat on sunday. Back to the race for a treatment for covid and a cure, at least a vaccine roche unveils a new Antibody Test and Vice President calls on trump to step down and tech volatility, the s p and the nasdaq aiming for a rebound to end what has been a turbulent week for stocks. So we will start with tiktok and wechat, jim, just listening to you and andrew a moment ago doesnt sound like you see a whole lot of material to salvage this in the next 48 hours. I think that walmart feels like its given everything it can, i think that the people in the private equity have given everything, oracle, difficult to tell whether they think they can do more, but they had really felt that when pretrump it was looking like it was 43 owned by u. S. , 14 by international, chinese own 45 posttrump they are talking about u. S. Owns 53, international owns 11, chinese own 36 i think its the chinese owning 36 is the Sticking Point david, what level do you think the president would allow this deal or
For splits and which Companies Might be next. Also robin hood finish not the guy in tights, the free stocktrading t. A. R. P. Why its outgrowing the competition. And as investors wait for a covid19 vaccine, powerful new treatments could soon make a difference. We look at the companies racing to test them. On the barrons roundtable, my colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and al root. Ben, let me start with you about stock splits. They used to be common. Weve been through kind of a drought. All of a sudden there are a couple of high profile ones. They dont change the value of a company, its like me giving you a 10 for two 5s, but investors are responding. What do you think is going on . The first thing is we actually are some high profile stock splits. We havent had these in years. Companies have been letting their stock prices just rise well into the thousands in the way they never have before, so now all of a sudden you yet two high you get two high profile companies, supposedly