Come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Today, a select subcommittee is pleased to welcome our distinguished panel, dr. Ben bernanke and dr. Janet yellen. Dr. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve by president george w. Bush in 2006 and oversaw the Federal Reserves response to the Global Financial crisis. Before his tenure as fed chair, dr. Bernanke served as the chair of president bushs council of economic advisers. Dr. Yellen served as vice chair of the Federal Reserve until 2010 to 2014, before being appointed chair in 2014 by president barack obama. Dr. Yellen also previously served in the white house as chair of the council of economic advisers. This is the first time that either dr. Bernanke or dr. Yellen has testified before Congress Since stepping down from the Federal Reserve these extraordinary times require congress to seek out advice from expert
Every direction. The s p saw an even bigger gain. The nasdaq up by almost 3. 6 the dow futures also up. Keeping an eye on the Treasury Department seeing how the fed news will play out there the fed news is back about 0. 6 . Sitting at 0. 612 . If you watch oil prices, which has been a big indicator of demand around the globe and what is happening, this morning, wti is up about 16 . All the way back up to 17. 49. Wow, all the way back up. 17 unbelievable lets get an update on the pandemic the number of global cases that we talk about nearing 3. 2 million. I dont know how good that enough is for anything we have more than a million in the United States. New york state cases near 300,000. I dont know of the reliability that state prisons near 7 testing positive breaking overnight, california governor plans to order all beaches and state parks to close tomorrow to avoid repeating last weekends violations hot weather, the police memo leaked to several Media Outlets yesterday. Andrew to put
Order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled Monetary Policy and the state of the economy. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement. Id like to welcome back chairman powell. As i discussed earlier, and at our last hearing with you, i remain very concerned about the president s efforts to interfere with the feds independent Monetary Policy. A recent news story noted that trump has tweeted over 100 times about the fed since your nomination. Many of those tweets appear to be attempting to exercise pressure on the fed. Chairman powell, you and the fed board of governors must not be swayed by these aggressive tactics in upholding the feds independence you should be mindful of public perception. Of course, trump continues to try to claim credit for Economic Growth that was put in motion by the policies of president obama Congressional Democrats and the Federal Reserve, irresponsible tr
Well get into that as well. Deirdre bolton has all the fast moving developments from the big board. Neil what a week, what a week indeed. This is the worst week for the dow weve seen since 2018. Just the volatility alone today. As we can see down 470 points. We were down more than 900 points earlier. I want to highlight quickly some of the stocks that are limiting the losses on the dow. You have two pharmaceuticals, not a huge surprise in the backdrop of these fears about the coronavirus spreading and one staple which also does sell face masks. Merck and pfizer, we know merck has had a long history of developing vaccines. So you do have the stock moving higher limiting some of the losses. Pfizer as well, and 3m which does make the face masks. If you look at some drags on the average, part. Reason today, why were seeing so much weight you have apple, microsoft, two Huge Tech Companies that both have exposure to china. Apple in 2019 got 17 of revenue from china, microsoft about 10 . Both
We bring that to you live. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. The markets. N on the hs is closing shortly and hang seng index sores soars. Carrie lam is going to withdraw her controversial extradition bill. That is the bill that kicked off the last 15 weeks of protests. Some of them with more than an estimated 2 Million People which is an incredibly impressive figure. They got that, hong kong has a total of 7 million citizens. From babies to the elderly. That would be like if you had a protest in america and 100 Million People showed up. Reportthe stock moves on the chief executive carrie lam is going to formally withdraw the controversial extradition bill. We saw moves around europe as well and we even see futures moving higher. Is South China Morning Post reporting the news after months of protests in the city. You can see here, these luxury stocks are getting the biggest boost. Swatch is up, lvmh is up 4 . This is such an important hub for luxury sales, for the chinese, with tons of