Sales way ahead of the season which would be black friday. Seismic shift here to this calendar here. Does this surprise you . Melody, you start to talk about it since june and every year it is further back. It is making me crazy. I admit that is maybe i am old school, everything you just mentioned until after thanksgiving that to me is the official Holiday Season bahumbug amazon is rewriting the script i guess in some way is good for them we have sales, walmart and target during the week and especially in light of this weird environment we are in which is an expectation of stimulus but no actual stimulus here well, we may be the line of misfit tonight there is no question amazon and walmart are the leaders. An acceleration of all these trends we spent so much time talking about fast money of the trends being pushed forward but already in place 49 measured through last month. As you go into the Holiday Season is bigger amazon about 32. 5 it goes to 38 they continue to take market share
Programs and committees as well. We will take you live to the financialal services subcommittee. The subcommittee is now in order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess from the subcommittee at any time. Members of the full committee not on this subcommittee are authorized twopart is abated todays hearing. I remind you to keep your video function on at all times, even when not recognized by the chair. Numbers are recognized recommended not to mute themselves after they are finished speaking. With the regulations , staffnying hrs 965 will only use witnesses as appropriate. Members are reminded that all rules relating to order and a quorum applied to the hearing. Members are reminded that this paycheckentitled, security Economic Perspectives on alternative approaches to protecting workers pay during covid19. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an opening statement. In february, before a pandemic was declared and the economic livelihood of americans was
We have all that and big show on making money. Charles stocks edging a little bit lower today as the street awaits whether we get more stimulus injected into this economy. Of course the reopenings are underway. A lot of Small Businesses need the aid. That is a big contention. Investors got a big bump when the ecb expanded their asset buying program, additional 600 billion euros, a lot more than anyone thought. Now it is 1. 35 trillion euros. In case you missed it here in the United States, we have folks, witnessed the greatest 50day rally in the stock market. People are wonder something this still a bear market rally . We have waltzer Wealth Management president , rebecca walser. Go back to march 23rd, someone says over a brew, next 50 days we set records to the upside, you say, come on. Maybe we were oversold but magnitude of this reversal has been mindboggling. It has, charles. It has been great. This is what we need, we need a rally to encourage the american investor to take a breat
Chinese demand levels almost at precrisis level. Time for todays market moving news from our washington and new york teams. We want to start with fed chair jay powells comments on the economy. In an interview with cbs, he expressed confidence in the recovery, but timing is still hard to predict. Chair powell the economy will recover. It may take a while. It could stretch through the end of next year. We really dont know. Michael mckee, International Economics and policy correspondent, has more. Was there anything new on cbs . Michael nothing really new, just summarizing what we already knew from the fed and from economists and disease experts. He suggested that what it is really going to take is a vaccine before people feel really confident and the economy can start to move back in the direction of where it was before all of this started. He said congress and the central bank may need to do more to keep us afloat during that period. Appropriate government policy could buy time for work
Measures protests in a series of democrat led state, including michigan, a crucial state in 2020. He is going back and forth between whether he is in power or not in power when it comes to these decisions. The main critique for measures he introduced yesterday which will allow states that believe they have it under control to start loosening restrictions is that we still do not have Testing Capacity to catch any outbreaks that might pop up. That is fueling concerns there might be a second wave, either in regions or nationally that would lead us back to having to reimpose shutdown measures. That is the concern right now. Certainly trump once certainly trump wants some states to start moving towards an opening. David the president does not talk that much about testing, but every single Public Health official we saw, that is key. We have to test to know whether we are going too fast too far. We have a sense the white house has their arms around testing and know what testing is available .