A weaker u. S. Dollar as well. 105. 38 to the japanese yen. Gold back about 2000. 003. 35 an ounce right now. Walmart benefiting from online orders but store traffic was hampered by the coronavirus. The companies cfo said comp sales growth slowed last month as the government relief waned. Lets bring in Morgan Stanleys Simeon Gutman. How did the Company Managed to get margins around 42 . Comp. they had a 9 rising tides lifts all boats, but they had gross margin in the u. S. Swing from down to 200 basis points to up this quarter. The primary driver is the mix of food and consumables, which tends to be lower margin, was mother in percentage, and a big shift toward general merchandise. A nice swing in gross profit to hire to cover those higher costs of operating, but the results were better sales and gross margins, allowed them to generate that growth. Vonnie walmart was only really getting going in the last couple of quarters. Did the digital improvements help out this quarter . What does
Up next testimony from dacts lien kraniger. She talks about her agencys role in protecting consumers during the pandemic. This hearing will come to order. This hearing is another remote video hearing. Ill go through quickly some of the standard reminders to remind everybody, once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before your picture shows on the screen. To minimize background noise, please remember to click the mute button until it is your and if theres a technology issue, weve move on until it gets resolved. The fiveminute time still some senators say they dont seem to be able to find that. If you go to the righthand side of the screen and move your mouse, some options will show up. One of them is the grid view. If you click grid view, you will see a grid of everybody, and one of the things youll see is the clock. Ill try to gently remind people, because some senator have asked for the reminder because they cant see the clock. Again senator brown and i have agreed to go
Compatible . No doubt, there is a need for intelligence communities to operate, threats exist. Foreign and domestic threats are real. Theyve been real throughout u. S. History. But for over a century in addition to taking action against real threats to the lives of american citizens, bureaus and agencies within the United States government have surveilled those who have expressed what they call Strong Political views that run counter to the prevailing government political paradigm. This challenges the notion that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. I will come back to that later in our discussion. Maybe you adhere to that view, maybe you are on the fence about it, maybe you reject it. That is fine. We will discuss it later. But the history of abuse of surveillance necessitates that discussion. The same tools used to protect can be used against citizens for sometimes nefarious reasons. Going back in history, in 1908, Teddy Roosevelts attorney general creates a squad o
A person be in Court Without being able to interact or communicate with his lawyers who are representing his interests. Residents of towns in northeastern france accuse the belgian neighbors of illegally dumping garbage across the border. Thanks for joining us youre watching the weekly here on art 1st this hour 4 employees of Russia Sputnik news agency in turkey have been released after questioning the editor in chief along with 3 others were detained in ankara and istanbul on saturday sputnik says that Turkish Police have also searched the Istanbul Office although no reason was given as to why to get more on this developing story now from of course for the task to tell you get across it just gives the the nuts and bolts. Well obviously has been grabbing headlines in recent days youve seen those pictures of migrants flooding across its border but this is another story from there thats been slightly over looked so 3 journalists who work for Russia Sputnik news agency in ankara have been
Who are representing his interests. As events of towns in northeastern france accused. Of illegally dumping garbage across the border. Good evening and welcome this is the weekly here marty international. 4 employees of Russia Sputnik news agency in turkey have been released after questioning editor in chief along with 3 others were detained in ankara and istanbul on saturday says that Turkish Police also searched the office for the no reason was given earlier our correspondent taylor brought me the latest details. Has been grabbing headlines in recent days youve seen this picture of migrants flooding across its border but this is another story from there thats been slightly over looked so in 3 journalists who work for Russia Sputnik news agency in ankara have been released now off to several hours in Police Custody and thats because off to questioning no reason was found to hold them. I originally they actually went to the peace of their own free will because they wanted to file a com