We discussed her tenure and the tough job that awaits her replacement. The Trump Administration took a big step towards voiding obama era Net Neutrality regulations. The current sec chairman announced tuesday he plans to hold a vote on overturning the protections. The regulations are intended to prevent broadband providers from favoring their Business Partners offerings or their own video and other content. The fcc would require that all Internet Service providers be transparent about their Business Practices if they are blocking or throttling content. They have to disclose that, and we make clear that the federal trade commission would have authority to police broadband providers if they are behaving in an anticompetitive way. Through those two rules, we would be able to protect consumers Going Forward and promote investment in networks that are necessary to promote digital opportunity. Emily we caught up with a man who led the fcc during the Obama Administration when those protection
The economy faces new threats. Jay powell is going to be facing the Senate Banking committee for his confirmation at 10 00 wall street time on tuesday to be the next chair. I want to bring into half for some reaction. That wes speculation might hear something different. Kathleen this is a 2. 5page statement. The testimony is tomorrow at 10 00 wall street time or 5 00 here in new york. You can see the Senate Banking committee decided to put this out on the table. Lets just run through. As part of our fed team, i received these under embargo. Ive had a chance to look at this. Powell is expecting Interest Rates to rise somewhat further and the size of the Balance Sheet to gradually shrink. Is this a surprise . No. We know this is the path the fed is on. Theres nothing in here about inflation and the fact that it has fallen short of the feds target. The fed must retain flexibility to adjust policy in response to the economy. Subtle, nuanced way for jay powell to make it clear, as fed chair
Hong kong fell, led by 10 . Desolate by tencent. Led by tencent. Chinese regulators are not spending. Approval of mutual funds plan to allocate 80 of other portfolios in hong kong. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Bloomberg. We are looking at markets. Have a look at hong kong. Hang seng down. Down. 9 . This is bloomberg. Emily this is bloomberg technology. This is the Biggest Online spend day of the year. How will cyber monday sales stack up . Where our Consumer Spending . Bitcoin hitting new milestones at a record pace. We will discuss their value. The Koch Brothers back meredith corporation. Will the deal help revive the Digital Strategy . To our lead. It is the big stay for Online Shopping in the u. S. This year. Cyber monday sales are expected to break new records as giants like amazon role at all the deals. Online spending totaled 3. 3 billion. Emma chandra covers the retail industry. Walk us through the trends. You
The coal industrys wearing off on the Trump Administrations plan to appeal a plan to limit carbon emissions. The state is heavily dependent on coal mining. Global news powered by 2700 journalists and analysts in 120 countries. This is bloomberg. Julia live from bloomberg headquarters in new york, [laughter] julia sorry. Scarlet we are 30 minutes from the close of trading. Jay powell talked of deregulation. Joe whatd you miss . Scarlet lets move on to the headlines. We begin with the tax overhaul. The Budget Committee vowed to advance it. John joins us from a third ranking republican in the senate. And a positive picture of the u. S. Economy. For investors it was his take on regulating big banks that stole the spotlight. And the trade agreement was supposed to help jump start the economy but had the opposite effect. Whatd you miss . President trump will speak shortly from the white house. Well bring you the latest when that happens. A scramble to 50. We are trying to get to 50. We do ha
Economistewinning says it should be outlawed. All that to come in the next 30 minutes at first a market check. Fang not doing well, nor are semiconductors. A very interesting divergence for the major averages. The dow up 2 10 of 1 and the tech heavy nasdaq down 1. 7 with the s p 500 down fractionally with a divergence between the s p 500 and the dow, on the one hand a huge selloff for the nasdaq, down 1. 7 . The chip index down 5. 23 , the worst day since brexit in 2016. Seeing a big selloff for the fang and in the chip stocks. A look at the nasdaq 100, big tex is getting hit. Getting hit. Here is the chart. A steady decline on the day, down 2. 2 on pace for its worst day since august. Someone thinks it was not triggered by janet yellen but by bearish or cautious research out of Morgan Stanley, including a few days ago. Lets look at the drags on the nasdaq 100. Apple, amazon, facebook, nvidia. Nothingmazon, facebook, to dismiss nothing too specific outside of cautious comments but in v