When the time comes, after the crisis has passed, we will put these emergency tools back in the tool box. I would stress that these are lending powers, not spending powers. I will also note that we design our facilities to work for broad ranges of businesses and municipalities. We do not target particular firms or industries. Elected officials make decisions about where to direct such target relief. The cares act and other legislation provide direct help to people, businesses, and communities. This direct support is making a critical difference. Not just in helping families and businesses, but also in limiting long lasting damage to our economy. Public faith in our operations depends on transparency. If the fed were committed to that, particularly in deploying our emergency powers. Thank you. I look forward to our questions. Thank you very much, chairman powell. I now recognize myself for five minutes for questions. As i mentioned in my opening, the pandemic is strengthening and so, to
The developing news this morning, the university of california says its campuses will be opening in the fall despite the covid19 pandemic that is currently shut down most campus activity across the state want to go live now to ucsf with more on how this might look kron fours rain harvey good morning, rain. The morning marty and what i can tell you for certain is that things on the campus going to look very different i just spoke to some ucsf students were getting ready to graduate this year and they told me they do so much physical work. They cant even imagine students join that online mixed with the on campus work. They said the students are really going to be at a disadvantage but theyre trying to make it work here at the u c system so what that could potentially look like it could look like classrooms with less student could be classrooms with physical distancing in place with the deaths you could see campus staff and faculty wearing mask along with students on campus. All these thi
All of that leading to a stronger dollar and weaker commodities like oil. Under armour out with earnings as well. Lets get right to it. Their adjusted loss coming in 0. 34 a share, almost double what we had been expected. Net revenue for the First Quarter coming in at 930 million. That also came in light. They see a significant decline in revenue since midmarch, so no surprise there. Marriott coming out with their numbers as well. As you can tell, it is going to be bad. Marriott international looks at first court or revenue coming in of 4. 68 billion, a decline 6. 6 year on year. A really ugly number. They say they had liquidity about 4. 3 billion as of may 8, so obviously sustainability and solvency these kind of companies , especially hospitality, as well as airlines, really front and center. All of this really winds up depending on when the world can reopen. Lets get to all of our market movie news from new york. In london, u. K. Promised her Boris Johnson announced the first carefu
Coronavirus in new york, Governor Andrew Cuomo saying there have been 481 deaths in the last 24 hours, holding below 500. Also some stabilization to hospitalizations. They are once again basically flat. We had about 1800 yesterday. Governor cuomo saying the curve is on the way down, but at the same time, we need to keep ourselves very vigilant. About 1300 people hospitalized with coronavirus yesterday. Hospitalizations basically flat. Overall virus deaths in new york , now 14,828. Meantime, the markets are registering losses today as well. The s p 500 down 2. 7 right now. Energy companies not doing so well. Neither our travel Companies Like expedia. Crude oil is in a category of its own right now. 3. 31 is what the current months contract is trading at. The dollar index might be more interesting to look at in some sense, at 100. 18. Some strengthening, including the hong kong dollar, which had to defend its peg because it reached the upper bound today. Above 47. The vix bpi ont months
Infections soar at Meat Processing plants across this country, many are wondering will we face a meat shortage soon . All that and so much more on making money. Charles a major read on consumers out this morning not only did the final read for consumers sentiment in april come in better than expected, but it confirms the idea that americans see better days ahead. The read on Current Conditions declined more than 29 . Down more than 40 in the past two months. And then you look at that juxtaposing it for the read for how we see the economy in six months, only down 12 , 22 in two months, it is pretty clear that the consumers and the stock market are banking on this economy reopening soon and the coronavirus continuing to flatten. Many are wondering, though, has the market still come too far too fast . And are consumers and investors being too optimistic . I want to bring in two of the best to discuss this, Wealth Management cio and fox business contributor scott martin, chief investment s