You should have a box on your screen that shows how much time is remaining. Some trouble and ive had senators tell me they just cant find that box or they dont see it. Last hearing one of the senators asked me to give them a reminder. I will do that this time for everybody. So at 30 seconds left on your clock, there will be a tone, a bell ring to remind senators and witnesses that their time is a most expired, then at the end of five minutes, another bell will ring. That way we can all know how the clock is working even though we dont find it on our screens. Today we will receive testimony from the securities and Exchange Commission chairman jay clayton regarding the work and the. Genda of the sec thank you for your appearance before the committee today which is essential to our oversight of the sec. And welcome. You last appeared before this committee in december of last year. The covid19 pandemic hit the United States shortly after that hearing and thesec has taken many important ste
World is a good investment lets get straight to julia who has all of the details on this news. The big question of what content social media giants should allow users to share is in the spotlight as facebook and twitter limited the distribution of a New York Post story that claims to show smoking guns and video related to President Biden and his son. A story the Biden Campaign refute saying it wasnt asked about key items in the article twitter blocked the story on wednesday saying it violated its policy of distributing material with hacked material with personal and private information. This comes after President Trump filed an order that the scope does not permit companies to editorialize activity. Today it was said that he intends to move forward with a rule making. Now following this announcement, two democrat fcc commissioners have come out in opposition they say he should not do the president s bidding. This seems different in that twitter and facebook have sensored the distributi
1. 1859. Bond markets also turned around. Higher in moving terms of the yield lower in terms of price. That is reflecting what is happening on the bond market as well and by the equity market. Alix, things are turning around a little bit here. Slightlyut to be a more bumpy end of the week than anticipated. Alix watching quadruple witching as me head to the close here in the u. S. The London Stock Exchange is in talks to sell boris teliana to euronext and two institutions. Joining us now from paris is the ceo of euronext, stephane boujnah. We have learned and there were other bids higher than yours but won. Can you give me insight about how that deal came about, and why . I dont know the levels of the bids, and i dont have information on the computing bids. What i know is that the board of directions decided to enter two different positions with us following the process which was run efficiently. Finalizew trying to the signing of this transaction as soon as practical. An options proces
The tech giants in the us are dominating the business agenda today. Jeff bezos is stepping down as amazons Chief Executive. The Online Retail giants founder will move to become the compa ny s executive chairman. He will be replaced as ceo by andy jassy, the current boss of amazons Cloud Computing business. And this comes as the firm reported 386 billion in sales in 2020, thats up 38 on the year before. Their profits almost doubled, rising to 21. 3 billion. So whats been the reaction to the news bezos is stepping to the side, and what do we know about the new boss . Duncan howe is e commerce strategist at cheil uk, which is a Digital Marketing and advertising agency. Duncan, welcome to the programme. Executive chair man still means he will have a lot of control and very much involved in and is on, but it is the day to day responsibility. What do you think about this move . I responsibility. What do you think about this move . I think it is a bit of think about this move . I think it is
Seemingly inknockous app as the latest threat to americas security. Speaking of bans, when apple ejected a small email service app a couple of weeks ago, the man behind that app launched a david versus goliath battle with the Silicon Valley behemoth and lived to tell. The co founder and ceo of an email parent base camp is here in a fox business exclusive in why this fight with apple may be far from over. Markets looking to close out their second straight week propelled by a major positive development on the vaccine front. The dow popping back above 26,000. And right now were slightly below it at the moment, but were still up 273 points. The s p up 21. And the nasdaq is heading for its third record close in a row, but the high spirits could change come next week if Second Quarter earnings season gets hit with the ugly stick. A stop economist is here to tell us how a top economist is here to tell us how it is going to play out and you can avoid getting bruised. A massive storm is bearing