Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
Expected to remain in place until after novembers election. Steve mnuchin says there are no side agreements ahead of the phase one China Signing today. Equities fall on concern that trade tensions arent over yet. That is a report suggests the u. S. Is drafting rules to block. Ore sales to huawei ubs embarks on a sweeping round of job cuts as Morgan Stanley promotes the fewest number of people to its top ranks since 2002. Goldman sachs reports later today. Just under an hour away from the start of cash trading. Lets take a look at what features are showing us. They are red arrows across the board. Not big in terms of side size. A few drops in dax and ftse futures. Futures, there. Are red arrows. Early on in the game, 7. 5 hours to go until the nys be brings its opening bell. We see s p, nasdaq, and down jones features down. What do you see . Anna something negative on the asian equity session. Asian equity markets headed to their first job in five sessions. Drop in five sessions. We see
Is waiting to see, even when you look at the market it looks like the 10year is sitting above 4. 3 the 2year well above 5 then youve got crude oil prices that are creeping closer and closer to 100 actually this morning theyre off by 1 , back to 22. It was around 93 yesterday. A lot of concerns over at Goldman Sachs. Theyre suggesting they they 12 months from now the price will be 100 for a barrel of wti. Weve been talking about this it would filter through, but the you know, it depends on how you believe. Theres two sides to everything, it seems like. I could debate either side it does hurt demand. Were going to be about 4 a gallon and that may cause people to rein in spending on other things its deflationary and inflationary i could see both ways. It works its way into every single thing from items that have to be delivered to manufacturing. The one thick we did see from bank of america, remember we had them in and we talked about what they saw over the last month much more went to en
That was when the Supreme Court issued its Citizens United ruling. If you listen to a lot of people especially democrats though say that was a terrible day because it let all kinds of money and influence back into elections. I would argue itwas a scary date for a different reason. Not anything to do with dark money or more money, more money is good for free speech but for another reason and that was democrats had come to rely on a lot of these campaignfinance rules and freespeech rules to keep their opponents from speaking in elections and when all that went away, the Supreme Court opened up the gates again for people to speak. They said okay, if we cant outright bar them we will do the next best thing. We will threaten, we will harass, we will intimidate and tell them they will pay a political price if they continue to take part in elections. We had conversations about this online and these were the discussions had right after that we saw in congress to do that with legislation that w
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