Max, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on the impact of the coronavirus on the economy. This is two and half hours. This hearing will come to order. Todays hearing is a hybrid format and the hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommended sixfoot social distancing between senators, witnesses witnesses and otheren individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing which we have kept to a minimum. For those joining remotely a few videoconferencing reminders. Once you start speaking there will be a slight delay before you are displayed on the screen. To minimize background noise please click the mute button until it is your turn to speak or ask questions. If there is a Technology Issue we will move to the next senator until it is resolved. I again remind all senators and our witnesses that the fiveminute clocks still apply and you should, those remote, stall, box on your screen labeled clock that will show how much time is remaini
Sure, the data is torturing us. Its a simulcast, Bloomberg Radio, bloomberg division. Jon ferro preparing for arsenal liverpool monday. Jim paulsen here on the equity markets. Lisa is focused on 3 00 p. M. Monday afternoon. Jonathan i was just shocked about how kind you were being to me at the top of the hour. Lets get to the turnaround in this equity market. A bounce off the low. In europe, still down hard on the equity benchmark in front ridge, germany in frankfurt, germany. The banks in europe are down for a seventh straight session. It is a tough ride for the financials when the outlook to the economy is not looking good, and the outlook for Interest Rates is just low for a long even longer, given what we have seen in the last couple of weeks. Tom its got to be a major theme into q4. That goes to the energy here on new york wall street, and how banks and global wall street may be will right size into the slower economy. Lisa and how do you write size at this point, given the cuts t
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
We will talk about in a next hour as well. We will be speaking about juneteenth and what companies should be doing to improve diversity and inclusion with vivian hunt from mckinsey. A big event here in the u. S. , lots of events participating in that in the holiday. We will break that down and what it means for renting for u. S. Companies as well. This could be the Third Largest none december exploration on record for Macro Risk Advisors founder. She will be joining us. We also have all this volatility into the squad winching dust into the cour quadruple winching. How does this play out . One of the trends we have seen in Options Market over the last several years that has is that folksated are vying incredibly short dated options, the shortest, as short as one day. Leaderboard is that it expires in one day. It is a unique way of trading. I would not say it is gambling, but it is not exactly investing either. A lot of the stuff rolling off was put on as late as this week. When we looke