Welcome back to nhk newsline. Im Roger Pradhan with the news in tokyo. People in tokyo are watching with wary eyes as the daily case numbers hover in the mid 100s after topping 200 four days in a row through sunday. Officials confirmed 143 new infections in the captain on tuesday bringing the total number to nearly 8,200 in the city of 14 million. N. Many recent cases are young people who work at or visited nightlife districts. Translator the number of infected people is increasing considerably. We have to deal with the situation with a sense of crisis. In charge of the governments coronavirus response. He says officials and experts will discuss if nightclubs that dont act in accordance with antivirus guidelines should be asked to close. Cluster infections have been confirmed outside nightlife districts. They include about 40 actors, Staff Members and patrons at a theater in central tokyo. The infected theater goers came from across the greater tokyo region. A woman who attended the pe
Florida. I recognize the gentleman from north dakota for five minutes. Bezos, my colleagues brought up they were discussing thirdparty sellers this policy specifically noted possible loopholes that allow amazon to review nonpublic and aggregate data to inform private rams even in instances where there are only a few thirdparty sellers. Where exactly does amazon draw the line . Data would bee more than one seller . The person seeing the report would have no way of knowing how rs are inside that group or what the breakdown would be between those sellers. That is different from a list or product ranking which we do make public. Does amazon allow the use of aggregate data to inform private label amazon brands when there only a few sellers for a product . Does amazon look at i could dictate up when there are only two sellers of a product . Yes, sir. Isand my correct amazon conducting an internal investigation on the use of thirdparty data . Are basically trying to understand some of the ane
Industry. They took questions about the use of thirdparty seller data and allegations of anticonservative bias. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Welcome to todays hearing on marketing power. Amazon, apple, facebook, and google. I would like to remind members we have established a distribution list dedicated to circulating specific motions or other written materials members might want as part of our hearing today. If you would like to submit materials, submit them to the email address distributed to your offices. We will circulate materials as quickly as we can. Thatld also remind members face coverings are required for all meetings in an enclosed space such as Committee Hearings. I expect all members on both sides of the aisle to wear a mask except when you are speaking. I recognize myself for an opening bateman Opening Statement. This committee launched an investigation into Digital Markets to document compe
Good morning welcome to squawk box here melissa lee is hanging out again with us. Becky is off today for some welldeserved vacation well see her next week. As joe said yesterday, one of the first down days weve seen in a while a little better s p up about 13 and nasdaq looking to open about 45 points higher also showing you treasury yields now you can see where those are standing well flip that around to. 628 on the 10year you thinking about refinancing a mortgage anytime soon, guys . Im as low as they go im good if you have an account where you can use assets for credit line or to make an investment or Something Like that, i remember two or three years ago, i locked this ridiculously low rate if they come to me again and offer another one, it will be lower than it was last time. It was like 2 or 1. 5 when you get money that cheap, dont you think you you are in the drivers seat when rates are this low i dont feel bad about borrowing money at rates like that so you are talking about get
Chair, Opening Statement of the Ranking Member, Opening Statement from chairwoman waters, the witness of will be introduced, witnesses were given Opening Statement then will have two and a of witnesses and adjournment. The title of todays hearing is protecting homeowners during the pandemic oversight of mortgage servicers implementation of the cares act. Without objection that shares authorized to declare a recess of the subcommittee at any time. Also without objection members of the committee who are not members of the subcommittee may participate in todays hearing for the purposes of making an Opening Statement and asking questions of witnesses. Members are reminded to keep their video function on at all times, even when they are not recognized by the chair. Members are also reminded they are responsible for muting and and getting themselves. I think this is something thats worthy of repeating because i have made the mistake of not honoring this responsibility. I hope i dont make tha