Every day of Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court confirmation hearing on cspan, online at cspan. Org or listen live on a free radio app. Candidates for pennsylvania 17 Congressional District and comment democrat connor lam and republican sean parnell participate in the televised debate. Wp ex itb sponsor the tree fiveminute event. The district served the northwestern suburbs of pittsburgh. Good evening and welcome to the district 17 congressional debate here in the wp excise duty overtime the morning news anchor catherine. We all know by now da 17 is one of the biggest races in the u. S. House this november and we are very excited to be with you tonight for the next 30 minutes but lets get right to it and meet our candidates. Standing in alphabetical order the incumbent democrat connor lam who is been in Congress Since 2018. The challenger, republican sean parnell was hired on the ranger running for office the first time. We posted the rules for tonights debate online and earlier we flippe
Official cash rate being kept on hold, 0. 25 . They are prepared to provide additional stimulus. Just keeping you crossing these additional lines coming through. Monetary policy needs to support the economy for a long time. The economic recovery is on track. The funding may be ready before the end of the year. There is progress being made on additional monetary calls. There has been a rise in unemployment and an increase in firm closures. These lines crossing the terminal now. They kept that cash rate on hold as expected. Just keeping calm and carry on. You mentioned that november review of the Monetary Policy tool. A lot of questions that they will deploy are negative Interest Rates. This is what the market seems to be pricing in. You see that new zealand 10 year yield ever so slightly get into those record those for yields right now at 47 basis points. Lets check the markets to see what else we were expecting. A lot of central bank action. At these newg zealand assets right now. We a
A look at the week ahead in washington and to do that this week we are joined by Daniel Strauss, a senior political reporter with the guardian and steve dennis, reporter with bloomberg. Now that supplemental is passed, the money is on his way out the door, what tools does congress have left in its toolbox to respond to the coronavirus p what should we look for on that front . Talking aboutre assorted other things to get done. Everything from paid sick leave for workers, a quarter of the workers the United States on have sick leave and there sort of other things they want including making sure testing is free, the treatments are affordable, that sort of thing. It will be interesting to see if they can get any of this on the floor this week. Theres a lot of other things going on this week. With markets plunging this morning and all the futures, you might hear more talk of doing some kind of stimulus. The last time we had this market shock was 2008. Remember what happened then. There were
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Authorities have opened a judicial probe in a tainted baby milk scandal that caused a recall of several million products over fears of potential salmonella contamination. Health authorities have said 31 contractedoss france salmonella in recent months after consuming baby milk. None died, though 16 were hospitalized. The recalls affected 30 countries. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. I am the bill ackman. The i am nabila ahmed. This is bloomberg. Scarlet live from bloomberg World Headquarters in new york, i am scarlet fu. Joe i am joe weisenthal. Julia chatterley is off today. Scarlet we are 30 and its away from the close of trading in the u. S. And stocks are modestly lower. Oil surging to its highest in a yearandahalf. Joe the question is what did you miss . Scarlet bitcoin rallies past 15,000 as traders of the Digital Currency look to draw a line under the recent slump. Apple having a not so merry christmas, w