Right, i think the obvious answer to that is absolutely. The members of the subcommittee, both the democrats and a number of the republicans really focused in on the power of these corporations over the way we communicate and the way we engage. That was the dominant theme of the hearing. They also got into the god of how these businesses work and how they use their dominance and how theyre engaged in predatory behavior and how they are hurting other businesses, small, medium and everyday families. It was really quite remarkable hearing, night and day from the hearings that we saw just a couple of years ago when members of congress were grilling Mark Zuckerberg. Yesterday was i think a pretty remarkable moment in the Ongoing Investigation into monopoly power in general, but especially in regards to tech platforms and Digital Markets. Host congresswoman comstock. Guest i think yesterday we saw with Congress According to gallup today had an 18 Approval Rating and was attacking four of the
It looks at how much your asset appreciated and the fact that you can only pay tax on what remains. David you will pay a Capital Gains tax, but it will be inflationadjusted. The president says that will create a lot of jobs. Why would it . Laura economists dispute that point and say it does not do much for Economic Growth and incentivizes old investment, not new investment. In terms of the jobs and when economists model this out, it is mainly. 1 for the long run. David how does congress feel about this . Congress gets to decide about taxes. Is there support for this move at least by republicans on the hill . Laura there are some republicans that supported this. Ted cruz has been putting the Trump Administration to do this. This is not political really viable this is not politically viable in congress. You look at joe bidens tax plan, it would double the Capital Gains tax rate. The president saying he is seriously considering this. If he has the power, why doesnt he just do it . Laura i
Andrew is out, so i have to find a way to annoy you what you asked for. Your birthday is tomorrow, right . Tomorrow, not today tomorrow. Its friday. Everybody deserves to be embarrassed. Well do it anyway this is the last day youll be 19 23. Exactly. Anyway, lets check out the futures this morning as joe mentioned, youll see the dow down slightly by about 26 points s p down by four s p off by eight getting ready to wrap up another week the dow up by 2. 5 over the last four days. S p is higher. On track for a Third Straight positive week. A little different story for the nasdaq tech has been on an incredible run. Many of those names have pulled back not by a lot nasdaq down by 1. 4 this week. If you are watching it, the index is up nearly 17 for the year thats about 58 above the march 23 low and above the march intradate high we hit on monday. We are continuing to watch that. The 10year is the one we watch so closely it looks like the 10year is sitting at the 0. 604 . The bottom level o
Kelly, so remember last week we were talking about how value was outperforming growth last week that lasted exactly one week today were back at the old pattern and its basically growth and technology virtually over Everything Else theres the dow flattish on the day, but s p 500 still trying to get over that 3032 hump not easy to do, but tech overplaying, the investments, the bank stocks all did very well last week theyre a little lower today amazon had an awful week, down 8 last week guess what, its regained a good part of that loss today. Alphabet, apple and facebook all on the up side the trend is were back where we were the work from home stuff tends to do very well. This happened since that june 8 high we hit, so the pelotons and zoom videos of the world doing very well. What we call the reopening stocks, the travel and leisure stocks, are not doing very well, and we saw this last week fairly consistently for a while earnings, were about 10 through earnings season. We have about 10
Is going on in terms of economic stimulus. European shares, slipping with u. S. Futures, the dollar snapping a fiveday losing streak. Treasuries edging higher with most european bonds. A full market round up shortly. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news with leighann gerrans. Leighann the u. K. Will pump 3 billion pounds into environmental projects as part of its recovery plan. The investment will be formally announced tomorrow when gives anr sunak update on economic plans. Hes under pressure to introduce a meaningful package after the prime ministers speech last week failed to impress many economists. Emmanuel macron has reshuffled his government. Bruno le maire stays as finance minister. Improve labor affairs, hes moving elizabeth. Orne and ha appended thes National Security legislation imposed on the city last week. Her comments come hours after the government asserted broad new police powers, including warrantless searches, online surveillance, and property seizure. Im glad to