Extension of credit from private lenders. They are designed to support the functions of private markets, not to replace them. These are lending, not spending powers for others, alone that can be difficult to repay might not be the answer in these cases direct fiscal support may be needed. Our economy will recover fully from this difficult period we remain committed to using our full range of tools to support the economy for as long as needed thank you. Thank you very much chair powell i now recognize myself for five minutes for questions. I am very appreciative of the explanations that youre giving, but all of the questions that we have about main street and other facilities each of them can keep the facility as an option in the futu future, and the guam governor urged it be made available to the territories. The Congressional Budget Office director and staff economist for president george h. W. Bushs n council of advisors said the mist try to me is the treasury using half a trillion d
We saw a push higher in the session when the governor of the bank of england toned down the speeches we have seen as of late when it comes to negative rates. We will see whether ultimately he has to deliver on negative rates. Apparently the mood music has improved on that for today. Politics when it comes to the btp markets, today we have seen a significant pushback for the Prime Minister against mr. Salvini in local elections. The market has taken that positively. Alix just to pipit off what i said earlier. The eu Leaders Summit is postponed as the eu councile president was quarantined. You had a Security Guard test positive. That Leaders Summit will be postponed. Movement in the market, the dollar jumping higher. Charlie evans says the fed could raise rates before inflation gets to its 2 target. Interesting to see we get that reaction before we get fed chair powell. You are all seeing Maxine Waters speak right there. Lets break down what to expect. Emily wilkins joins us now. Will th
First, i would ask all members on the webex platform to keep themselves muted when theyre not being recognized. This will minimize disturbances while members are asking questions of our witnesses. Members on the webex platform are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves. The staff have been instructed not to mute members except where a member is not being recognized and there is inadvertent background noise. Members on the platform are reminded they may only attend one remote hearing at a time. So if you are participating today please remain with us during the hearing. Members should try to avoid coming in and out of the meeting particularly during the question period. If during the hearing members wish to be recognized the chair recommends that members identify themselves by name so as to facilitate the chairs recognition. I would also ask that members be patient as the chair proceeds given the nature of the Online Platform the committee is using. In addition the chair informs
Morning. And the nasdaq is down by 182 points a lot of this is whats happening in europe right now. You dont just look at the oversees market but were going to take our queues from what is happening there. You can see the ftse down by 3. 4 and the other markets are down by more and a lot of this is coming in the last few hours. They could be considering a second lock down as covid cases there have soared theyre back to the levels in may. Theyre concerned about whats happening with the number of cases and the hospitalizations admissions doubling every 8 days theyre now looking at 6,000 cases a day and again theres been some talk of a potential second lock down there now they want to make sure that schools can stay open and that some businesses could stay open but just the threat of that, the potential for the second wave coming is enough to push all of the stocks in europe into the red. If you take a look at whats been happening with travel and leisure stocks they were down by 6 earlier
Coming after yesterdays euphoria that is part of the momentum growth trade materials and industrials are the only sectors in the green. We have a few more ipos and awaiting more news on tiktok and oracle it will be busy coming up on todays show, mohammed elerian will join us on the on going stimulus stalemate and well speak with Jim Fitterling and shares of Cybersecurity Firm Palo Alto Networks up 80 from the march lows as companies boost protections for employees working from from home the ceo will join us to discuss that trend and much more lets focus first of all on the big stories youre watching. Mike santoli is tracking to days volatile Market Action we have the latest on stimulus in washington and sara has new reporting on the oracletiktok sag yachlt mi saga mike, markets down 1. 4 . The ive been heavy tape all day. We continue this process of sort of undoing that august overshoot to the upside. Ive been focused on levels that we saw back on august 11th thats about 3333 we closed