Any time. Members are reminded to keep their video function on at all times. Members are reminded that theyre responsible for muting and unmuting themselves and to mute themselves after they are finished speaking. Consistent with the regulations accompanying the resolution, staff will mute members when not recognized to avoid inadvertent background noise. All house rules relating to order and decorum apply to this remote hearing. [ inaudible ] economy and i know recognize myself for four minutes to give an opening statement. Chair powell, the law that required the Federal Reserve chair to testify before congress twice each year was established back in 1978. However, no fed chair has ever testified before this committee with the economy in the condition that it is in today. More than 116,000 americans are dead from the coronavirus. And just last week, 21 states recorded an increase in their average daily new cases compared to the prior week. The april jobs report was the worst in Americ
Along with several other members of our committee come of hr 2650, the payment choice act of 2019, a bipartisansupported bill, which would require merchants to accept cash. This legislation, i believe this article, because parts of the country and both leroux and orbit areas are more dependent on the both rural and urban areas are more dependent on the cash economy could i have run out of time did i encourage you to support this bill could thank you, chairman powell. Thank you, chairwoman waters, i yield back. Rep. Waters mr. Hines, you are recognized for five minutes. Thank you. That i would like to explore with you, and the first, who is the beneficiary of the billions of dollars that have been localized in the rescue . Chairman come as you know, people can do three things with money, buy stuff, rent, insurance, raw materials, keep people employed, pay wages, and third, it can serve as a capital structure. It can issue dividends. Chairman powell, as you know, in the Paycheck Protecti
Now, testimony from Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Monetary Policy and the state of the u. S. Economy amid coronavirus. He spoke about low Interest Rates, unemployment numbers and what future Economic Growth and recovery could look like. Help in front of the House Financial Services committee, this is three hours. So the committee will come to order. Thank you. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Members are reminded to keep their video function on at all times, even when theyre not recognized by the chair. Members are also reminded that they are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves and to mute themselves after they are finished speaking. Consistent with the regulations accompanying h res 965, staff will only mute members and our witness as appropriate when not recognized to avoid inadvertent background noise. Members are reminded that all house rules relating to order and decorum apply to this remote hearing. T
New york stock exchange. The u. S. china trade war taking a bite out of apple, now on pace for the worst day in over a week as the white houses 15 tariff on a new batch of goods goes into effect over the weekend obviously, a big story for the markets. Apple products expected to be hit this time around include the apple watch, air pods, the home pod, imax, and some beat headphones for more on where the stock may go from here, were joined by an apple bear, Pierre Ferragu has a sell on the stock, a 170 target. Also with us, apple bull, daniel flax, whose target is, daniel . Carl, i cant give you a specific target, but what i can say is that while the nearterm environment certainly remains sluggish with iphone and clearly theres a risk in terms of higher prices from tariffs impacting demand, we see a lot that we like over the medium term and i say that because the iphone install base is continuing to grow the company has opportunities to show additional growth with Newer Services like tv a
Forward with this, wed certainly be looking at that as a characteristic to achieve. Thank you and i think it goes back to resiliency for me. And i know and i think its the concern about resiliency that i had, and we had our discussions here in committee is that if there are concerns about resiliency and its just based on my experience in the private sector when it comes to big data, couldnt you probably address those concerns through the regulatory and Supervisory Authority that already exists in your space were talking about resiliency with the multiple data centers that could be a problem with interoperability do you think resiliency could be something thats a function of what youre doing now and keeping with one faster time Payment System i think im done the gentle woman ms. Pressley is now recognized for five minutes. Thank you, madam chairman and chairman powell. The Federal Reserve can do more to support the needs of hardworking american families. Working families wait days at a