And town but not out walmarts ceo admitting his company fell behind amazon but now the pressure is on to play that catch up game. And finally peter thiel doubling down on his attacks against google why he says the search giants dealings with china should be a huge red flag for the feds its tuesday, july 16th. Worldwide exchange begins right now. Good morning welcome to Worldwide Exchange from wherever you are in the world you may be watching. Im dominic chu in for Brian Sullivan live pictures here, a screen shot of capitol hill where today congress will be Holding Hearings on Big Technology well take you there live in a moment first heres how you and your money are setting up right now the Global Markets are setting up their day stock futures indicating the dow will open just about flat, off by 4 points. Not much movement. There the s p up by 1 point. The nasdaq up by 6 to 7 points this after the major averages capped off another day of, yes, record highs the dow hitting its fourth rec
Recently as you know theres been a great deal of interest about Digital Assets including crypto currency such as that claim and libra. There are many regulatory and supervisory question regarding Virtual Assets and Virtual Currencies but i will focus narrowly on the concerns the treasury has regarding the growing misuse of the currencies via money launderers, terrorist financiers and other bad players. This week representatives of the project will go to capitol hill to discuss the proposal for a crypto currency. At the Treasury Department across the u. S. Government with the International Financial community, theres been a great deal of activity recently related to the regulation and treatment of Digital Assets in crypto currency. Id like to give some brief explanatory remarks about what we have been doin been giving bt since theres lots of interest and then i will open up questions. Last month the association, a consortium of 28 businesses including a facebook subsidiary announced it
On this afternoon. In asia, the nikkei was down the hang seng was up 0. 23 for european markets, the dax is slightly lower you see slight gains for the cac, the ftse 100, stocks in italy and in spain look at the Treasury Department. The tenyear is yielding 2. 090 . We have a very busy day going on in the markets. From wall street to washington, lets get you through the squawk planner. On the earnings front, three big banks on the docket starting with jpmorgan that will come at about 6 45 a. M we have Goldman Sachs coming in with its earnings. Those should be announced around 7 30 wells fargo earnings should cross the tape at 8 00 a. M Johnson Johnson will also report at 6 50 a. M. Eastern time well bring you a first on cnbc interview with the cfo right after that report. On the data front, we will be getting june retail sales, import and export prices as well that all hits at 8 30 a. M. The other big event on the planner is big tech is back in washington today the house judiciary subco
Which he struck a very humble but sort of defensive tone in saying that libra is not intended to be an investment vehicle. Its intended to be a payment vehicle that the crypt okurancy will not be used for monetary policy, and sort of defending this as a way for facebook to provide Economic Opportunity to its users. But of course, he is going to be facing a very hostile environment when he testifies tomorrow, and certainly well see if that same tone is echoed by the treasury secretary when he speaks in just a few minutes. This is most notable because this comes just days after President Trump tweeted specifically about libra as well as cryptocurrencies, that could be construed, Steven Mnuchin is approaching the podium lets go to him right now. Recently, as you know, theres been a great deal of interest about Digital Assets, including cryptocurrency such as bitcoin and libra. There are many regulatory and supervisory questions regarding libra, virtual assets, and virch wal currencies but
This coming after an explosive hearing at hill between democratic lawmakers and former i. C. E. Chief tom homan. Im extremely frustrated. Im not calling on you, sir. Of course not. Your comments are disgusting. I find your comments disgusting as well sir. I served 34 years. Charles National Border Patrol Council president , workers at one minnesota shipping facility using amazon prime day to go on strike, what they are going, what are we going to find out how we impact that juggernaut that is amazon. All that and so much more on making money. Charles treasury secretary steve mnuchin. Thank you for being here. Recently as you know there has been a great deal of interest about Digital Assets including cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and libra. There are many regulatory, and supervisory questions regarding libra, Virtual Assets and Virtual Currencies but i will focus primarily on the serious concerns that the treasury harassing growing misuse of Virtual Currencies by money launderers, te