Runs just under two hours. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being with us, or being near us, at least in the technology since. I welcome all of you to todays hearing that weve entitled, examining the response to the covid19 pandemic. The subcommittee at the sound of the gavel will come to order. As the nation continues to fight the unprecedented Public Health crisis, americans worked to protect against further spread of the virus while trying to maintain a certain degree of normalcy, including maintaining a job and earning a paycheck. There is not a corner of the u. S. Economy that has not felt the impact of the pandemic todays discussion will talk about the harmful effects on the Manufacturing Sector. During this pandemic, many in the Manufacturing Community have adapted their operations to help provide products needed to prevent the spread of the virus. Distributionlesale company that pivoted to manufacturing face masks in response to a dire National Supply shortage, or a cart
Not a pretty chart. How concerned is the governor of the bank of england . Governor is extremely concerned. We also had forecast this morning from the ob are, the fiscal watchdog, suggesting unemployment is going to remain extremely elevated and is likely to rise into next year. That will make the governors job in the chancellors job very difficult. The real question is, where does the stimulus come from . Does it come from the treasury in westminster, or does it come from the bank of england . I suspect it will be the bank that does the heavy lifting, not the treasury. Both will have to do some, but the onus is going to fall on the governor. Tom this is the theme of surveillance today. Now that we drift to the end of july, the middle of july, we begin to see gdp data from may and june, the change to Political Economic dialogue. In new york city without first word news come here is ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. Vice president mike pence told u. S. Governors to protect their citize
The half. Im scott pop ner the next flicks numbers hours away now, those earnings coming up can the beaten up stock get back on track it is 12 00 noon and this is the Halftime Report. Announcer netflix facing its final quarter of calm before the streaming wars with apple and disney begin, but investors need to tune into retail sales falling for the first time in seven months are cracks beginning to form in the consumer and what does it mean for the market . Amazon getting a huge price hike ahead of its earnings next week the traders take their position. The Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Good to have you with us on this wednesday, our Investment Committee, joe chenova, steve wise the count down to the netflix numbers, competitors lining up to do battle with that company pete, you own it. I do. I think you are the only one on the desk who does doc, you do. John, pete its not the same we have a lot of different strategies going on. There is competi
And check out the nasdaq. Also at record levels, a whopping 44 this year. Did you guys all have your money in nasdaq stocks this year . As you know, were not allowed to hold individual stocks. But you can hold nasdaq and qqqs. Its on pace to have the best performance in 2003. You act like you didnt have it. I have a 401 k . You want me to ask. Where do you have europes, steve . In a boat, a couple of boats. Yes, thats right the s p, half a percent. That index is up just 24 this year. And, of course, you made some money in treasuries as well if you invested at the right time. Take a look at treasury yields. There we go. 4. 01 on the 30year, 3. 87 on the 10. 3. 87 on the 5, and 4. 29. I dont know. Do you think 2024 is the year when we disinvert . Thats a question we have to be watching. Yeah, definitely, absolutely. Do you think happens . Why has it been inverted for so long is the question . As the fed does its thing, you would expect a disinversion yield curb. Eventually. It may not ha
Stock, futures is down sharply healthcare stocks are under pressure this morning and amazon entering the health business, pa partnering with berkshire, finding ways to cut the cost of healthcare mcdonalds reporting a major spending boost for thousands of new stores and digital upgrades. Dow and the s p 500 remains on pace for a 10 consecutive months of gain i think it is true. You come in and when you see stocks, when you read the release and the mcdonalds release in the lets just say in the cave and not look at these you would say wow. These are great numbers. The markets set up to go down you have this team up that we talk about all morning with jai jaime dimon. It is generic, yeah, it is been up a lot and i want to take profits ahead of the president whos going to take credits for a good mark. Ye market you come in and let them take credit we got thursday is National Earnings day so there is a lot of reasons to take profits and not a lot of reasons to say you know what, once to the