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President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence held a call to discuss the coronavirus impact on the economy, according to sources.
Investors on the call included Third Point’s Dan Loeb, Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman, Vista Equity’s Robert Smith, Intercontinental Exchange‘s Jeffrey Sprecher and Paul Tudor Jones, hedge fund manager and co-founder of JUST Capital.
The call with some of Wall Street’s top investors and hedge fund leaders was less focused on potential actions the administration could take to mitigate the impact of the novel coronavirus. Instead, it was more focused on how America’s top money managers are viewing markets and the U.S. economy, the people familiar with the matter said.
The call also included discussion on what more the Federal Reserve could do to support industries that are feeling outsized pressure as a result of the virus and how the central bank could help companies from seizing up.
The call came earlier on Tuesday, before Trump said that he’d like to see the U.S. economy “reopen” by Easter, less than three weeks away.
The president said in a Fox News “virtual town hall” event at the White House that he’d like to unleash the American economy by mid-April despite the protective measures instituted by a slew of states to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.
“We’re opening up this incredible country. Because we have to do that. I would love to have it open by Easter,” Trump said.
“I would love to have that. It’s such an important day for other reasons, but I’d love to make it an important day for this. I would love to have the country opened up, and rarin’ to go by Easter.”
The president and vice president spoke with the aforementioned investors about when might be appropriate to ease some of the restrictions imposed by states in their effort to help slow the virus.
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