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Other economic policies. His is almost an hour. Mr. Powell good afternoon veryone and welcome. My colleagues at the Federal Reserve and i are dedicated to serving the american people. We do this by steadfastly pursuing the goals that congress has given us, stable employment and we are committed to making the best decisions we can based on facts and objective analysis. Today, we decided to lower Interest Rates. We will keep the u. S. Economy strong in the face of notable developments and provide ...

Decoupling markets in asia and europe were slightly weaker but here in the u. S. Were in the green. Treasury yields at this hour as well, we have seen some better than expected german labor data cause some firming in the global bond markets right now the 30 year is just sitting at a 2. 15 yield the tenyear, 169 and the twoyear at 164. That story that really dragged our markets on friday. We finished off the lows on friday any way only down half of 1 on the s p 500 by the close, but clearly if th...

Official think lowering to a negative rate will not provoke a backlash. Attention on the trade war. The deficit seen widening last month. Lets get a quick check of asian futures right now. In japan we got the nikkei futures pointing modestly higher. A similar story and south korea. While here in australia we have got futures pointing higher. New zealand been trading for an hour now. Not a great deal of action to report. Paul shery ahn u. S. Futures not doing much of the moment. After stocks drif...

1800flowers coming in, new seasonal hiring, wait till you see how many people they are hiring. The ceo of equinox. Director of center for chinese strategy michael here on hong kong and the latest, fox news senior judicial analyst judge Andrew Napolitano on antiprobe into google and napolitano, dont miss a moment of it, weve got the futures right now showing pretty good rally, things accelerated moments ago when we got the news that extradition bill is now going to be completely withdrawn, your r...

Washington stands by with Emergency Oil reserves with President Trump saying the u. S. Is locked and loaded chinas industrial output growth slows to more than 17year low in august and another sign the u. S. china trade war is weighing on the worlds second largest economy well, our top story this morning, crude prices are trading sharply higher after a series of attacks that shut down output at two of saudi arabias Biggest Energy facilities. Jones hit the biggest Oil Producing fields both owned b...

Is reinforcing his governments hard line against facebooks plans to launch their own Digital Currency libra which specialists are eager to point out is not actually a crypto currency joining us now just doesnt tell is cryptocurrency analyst ben swan then its good to have you here keeping the Virtual Currency be hot while christie is on assignment so 1st of all ben lets just get to the basics here what did the french finance minister Bruno Lemaire have to say about libor he seemed to make a reall...

The netherlands opposing it. Does that mean when madame lagarde comes in, she might encounter the same sort of obstacles to extending the stimulus . Yvonne the cap that open ended. Rishaad they will go even lower and that is a ball in the court of the likes of germany and france to have the ease to borrow more, should they want to. Lets look at the reverberations in this part of the world, in the absence of trading in south korea, taiwan, and autumn festival in china. The bazooka coming through ...

The 1996 Communications Decency act regarding the content users post on their platforms. The American Enterprise institute hosted the discussion. It is about an hour and a half. Good morning. Event youvec chosen to attend, watch online or view on cspan is should we reform section 230. Off with an interpretive reading of the 1996 commit case and and decency act, provider or user of an Interactive Service shall be treated as a publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information...

Shall be treated as a publisher or speaker of any information provided by a another information content provider. After more than 20 years, since the birth of the internet age as we know it, section 230 has provided websites immunity from what they are users post. Legal and policy framework has allowed for youtube users to upload their own videos, amazon and yelp to offer countless user reviews, and facebook and twitter to offer social networking to billions of internet users. Given the sheer si...

Of a uk election still looms, despite the governments double defeat in the house of commons 48 hours ago he was leading the chants of stop the coup, let the people vote. Now hes saying, stop the election, stop the people from voting two year treasury yields hit the lowest level since 2017, while Goldman Sachs ceo tells cnbc exclusively a recession could be on the horizon. Bond market is reflecting a sentiment there is anxiety about the prospect of a recession, in the u. S. Less evident in the da...