Also taking comments from top fed president. Trade turmoil, white house economic adviser larry kudlow signaling new in person trade talks with china and ecommerce on alert a new porch pirate threat that could have Online Shoppers running to protect their picnic baskets. Its friday, august 23rd and Worldwide Exchange begins right now. He faces one of the most divided Central Banks we have seen in ten years. Those comments are due out at 10 00 a. M. And well take you there live on cnbc those comments will be the ones traders pay the most attention to today now the stock futures indicating a higher open. The bond market always a focus right now and the ten year note yield below 1. 65 and the two year note yield 1. 64 . Checking that spread, as you can see here were moving and were pretty much flat at this stage watching that level here, its not inverted but its goingbac and forth between positive and negative well keep an eye on that. Lets go worldwide in the asian trade, to close out the
Purchasing power but dont tell iran. This is the way of business im on in berlin welcome facebooks new crypto currency libra is under scrutiny from e. U. Antitrust regulators according to the Financial Times the newspaper says the European Commission has sought specific information from those of working on the Digital Currency by a questionnaires on tuesday bloomberg reported about the commission had specific concerns over quote potential anticompetitive behavior related to the libor association so far facebook and the commission have both declined to comment. Our financial correspondent joins us now from new york and so what sort of answers is facebook actually supposed to provide here. Well i mean one of the main questions really is in this case at least the possibility of competitive behavior and if you look at facebook they have more users than the combined population of china and the u. S. So there is this claim there and then also facebook will probably face questions if there ar
So far facebook and the commission have both declined to comment. Our financial correspondent joins us now from new york and so what sort of answers is facebook actually supposed to provide here. Well i mean one of the main questions really is in this case at least the possibility of competitive behavior and if you look at facebook they have more users than the combined population of china and the u. S. So so there is this claim there and then also facebook will probably face questions if there are any plans to somehow connect. To some of facebooks Services Like for example or also the Messenger Services but this is really only one of many regulatory issues that facebook is facing with libra and with its other services in general as well now staying on tech giants french president and model and urged the u. S. To get big tech to pay more taxes now is washington washington under any real pressure to do so well i mean if you look at the United States there is old soul that trend and ther
Association so far facebook and the commission have both declined to comment. Our financial correspondent joins us now from new york and so what sort of answers is facebook actually supposed to provide here. Well i mean one of the main questions really is in this case at least the possibility of competitive behavior and if you look at facebook they have more users than the combined population of china and the u. S. So there is this claim there and then also facebook will probably face questions if there are any plans to somehow connect to some of facebooks Services Like for example or also the Messenger Services but this is really only one of the many regulatory issues that facebook is facing with libra and with the other services in general as well now staying on tech giants french president and model mccraw urged the u. S. To get big tech to pay more taxes now is washington washington under any real pressure to do so well i mean if you look at the United States there is old sold the
Different factories mexicos Foreign Ministry says over a hundred of those detained our system. Welcome to the friends twenty four newsroom on eve irvine its good to have you with us. Well 70 of the eaearths land is currently used by us humans are a lot of it for agriculture and if that does not change our planet it is set to get on very pretty hot the latest study from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Says land use needs to chchange adopting or diet and reducing the amount of meat eight and would help reforestation another step in the right direction but the real problem when it comes to Greenhouse Gas emissions of course is our energy sector. So land use would also havave to be given over to b bio Energy Schemes a shirley is a bon takes a closer look. These images of barren fields. Of cattle dying of thirst or no common in many regions in the world. Heat waves are trying out the land land thats over used and damaged by changing weather. Imagine what these fields will loo