Quorum be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Schumer well, mr. President , for more than a year and a half, leader mcconnell and Senate Republicans have refused to take action on the housepassed for the people act. At a time when our democracy is under siege in so many ways, the for the people act is a bold proposal that will restore Peoples Trust in our democratic system, a trust that is fading. It is under it is for the people. In order to make a more perfect union. It would shore up our elections from threats from abroad. Thats something we have just recently read more and more about. Why arent we doing more on that . In fact, when senator van hollen a few days ago put on the floor the an act u. C. Of an act that would say russia should have sanctions imposed on it if they interfere with our elections, the other side blocked it. I hope theyre not following Donald Trumps obeisance to russia and his view that putins just okay. It would also dismantle systemat
And retired vide admiral james stockdale, who is a Vice President ial nominee law for independent candidate ross perot. [applause] now the ground rules for tonights debate, each candidate will have two minutes for an opening statement. I will then present the issues to be discussed. For each topic, the candidates will have a minute and 15 seconds to respond. This will be followed by a five minute discussion period, in which they can ask questions of each other if they so choose. Now, leo theyre up, responses to be determined by a draw. And we will rotate with each topic. At the end of the debate, each candidate will have two minutes for a closing statement. Already our tv audience should know that the candidates were giving given equal allocations for his supporters. So i would like to ask the audience, here in the theater, to please refrain from applause or any parties and demonstration once the debate is underway, because it takes time away from the candidates. So with that plea from
We welcome all of you today. A most interesting day. Chairman powell to speak later on. He managed the message yesterday to say the least. I am thrilled to tell you, particularly those hammered by whiplash, a quiet data check this morning. , nottle lift in the market question. The vix with a 33 level, much better than the agony of thursday and friday out at a 44 level. Coming in sprightly and maybe take a pause. Lets view the Economic Data within the data check, which was a shock of the unemployment report, and then the huge shock yesterday of the nice rebound in retail sales. We had good conversations on that as well. Within that is what yield does. All in all i would say yesterday was remarkably quiet versus the gyration of the equity market. There is substantial news this morning. Lets go to our first word news. Here is ritika gupta. Jerome powell is sticking to his message that there will be an uncertain path to u. S. Recovery. He has the second day of Video Conference testimony be
Stock is surging to an all time high well have more on teslas big move in a bit. Right now, power lunch begins. Yes, it does the nasdaq at a record high today. The s p is about 7 below its all time high. Lets get to dominic for more. The markets like that camera, were higher. They are coming down now but still in positive territory. At the highs of the day is dow is up roughly 469 points they are up 277 right now. Pretty much 1 gains across the board. The s p 500 hovering right around 3150 and the nasdaq, well put a star next to it here because its created a new record intraday high two places in technology that are really moving. Check out these Etfs First Trust dough jow joan inte. Every single one of these tech oriented etfs has hit a record high some of it is covid related but watch those moves. Both of these showing pretty strong gains opinion surging in todays trade. Good time for some companies tyler, to be in the ipo market back over to you thank you very much lets talk about t
The pound is leading the way across the u. S. Dollar. Thes up about 0. 7 against dollar. It is time now for the global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. Lets start by going over to hong kong, bracing for more this option after christmas protests led to clashes between demonstrators and riot police. Igh joins us on the telephone. Give us a sense of what is in store. It sounds like theres more planned for friday and going into the new year. Karen theres protests planned for this evening in an area of the city that has seen some of the worst protests over the past six months, and again over the weekend in an area near the chinese border. All of this is leading up to a day, rally on new years led by organizers that have led some of the biggest protests since this began. The level of anger we are going to be seeing at the clashes willen protesters escalate, and we are looking for what this