both observers and employees of the central federal reserve committee note that they themselves the whole the election campaign was carried out, as they say, without dirt, without black technologies, the candidates did not engage in information attacks, but presented their vision of the future of the country, and in many ways this helped ensure a high turnout. moreover, the 2024 elections featured a record low number of violations compared to all previous election campaigns. this was facilitated by the development of the institution of observers, the very evolution of the russian electoral system, the creation of greater openness and transparency. yes, yuri, welcome, tell us what data you have at this time, what percentage of votes the candidates received, if we talk about how many ballots have now been processed? yes, colleagues, hello, indeed all the information from all over the country from foreign polling stations flows here to the cbircom center, in fact, literally half a percent of the ballots remain uncounted, if you look at the online scoreboard, the numbers are like this, well,

federal reserve chairman will testify before house financial services committee wednesday the senate banking committee thursday this is the annual humphrey-hawkins testimony lawmakers will ask him about, the centralk handling of inflation whether or not cutting interest rates, plans to raise bank capital requirement a big subject as well we had a big week with of jobs data february adp january jolts number on wednesday, followed by important labor department report friday ceo of crossmark chief investment officer bob doll welcome back thank you. good morning. >> what are you expecting from the fed, first talk about jay powell, what do you think he is going to be messaging to congress wednesday and thursday? >> look maria going to walk that fine line too soon to think about cutting rates inflation we've got a couple bad newborns cpi, ppi a couple weeks ago, so he is going to walk that fine line to say we done a lot of work inflation has come down not red to cut because we need more signs heading toward 2% number we target i don't think we get to 2% that is a whole 'nother story. >> sounds present given where we are right bob? look, you've got an economy that is slowing, even though you see good ne