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In our road map, time warner, 21st century fox and cbs reporting a mixed set of results. Tesla shares sharply higher despite a wider than expected loss. And groupon down almost 30 in the premarket on a trio of negative news. First, stocks looking to maintain upward momentum a day after the nasdaq 100 closes at that record high. Adp said the private sector added 182,000, trade deficit narrows in december to a sevenmonth low. Fed chair yellen set to testify on capitol hill in the next hour. Late yesterday at the deal book conference, Andrew Sorkin asked legendary investor stanley drunk drukenmil...

Internet caucus taking a look at internet privacy and personal data protection. The chair of the Federal Reserve, janet yellen, testified on the u. S. Economy and Monetary Policy appearing before the House Financial Services committee on wednesday for about three hours. The committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to suggest a recess for the committee at any time. This is the annual testimony on the Federal Reserves supervision and regulation of the Financial System. I now recognize myself for three minutes to give an opening statement. The dodd frank act require...

Reforms along with her description of how the fed is using the flexibility embedded in doddfrank to tailor regulations appropriate to the sizes and risks of different types of banks. Congress specifically permitted the fed to differentiate among companies on an individual basis or by category considering their capital structure, riskiness, complexity, size and other factors. The fed should use this authority. Likewise, doddfrank provided the fed with new responsibility to collectively regulate the activities of systemically risky nonbank entities such assurance companies, aig, whose near failu...

The economy. The other thing is, if you act too soon and you decide, oops, we acted too soon, you get you put yourself in a position where you have a zigzag policy and you will face criticism from that by people i know. Second, if you then want to go in the other direction, you only have a quarter point to play with. If you hit the brakes too soon, you dont have gas. With that in mind, im concerned about the effect raising Interest Rates now would have on the real estate recovery and i would ask you what you would think the impact would be of raise zing Interest Rates on the housing recovery a...

Thank you very much. Thank you for calling this hearing, mr. Chairman, and trying to get to the bottom of some of these questions. I appreciate the line of questions. I want to follow up, i believe mr. Pummill made a statement to the extent i think you said it was virtually impossible to fire a gs employee . Could you clarify and explain that a little more from your experience . In my experience its not very much. Ive been with the va for five years. The Civil Servants i believe this is federal government wide have incredible protections and safeguards so the process of taking care of a proble...