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Restrictions as the resurgence in infections effects in everyday life all of the continent. Underscore the man in charge of african football says he will seek reelection it is aiming to stay in the job despite being the subject of an ethics investigation by the world governing body for. We begin with breaking news out of france 3 people have been killed in a knife attack at a church in the Southern City of nice several others have been injured the attacker was wounded by police and is in custody in hospital but its with reports. A place of worship now a crime scene inside not a dumbass silica early on friday people have been praying when a man armed with a knife started to attack them 3 people were killed one of the victims. A woman was decapitated according to the Police Another victim was the churchs warden. But i still imagine him i still see lighting the candles and now im thinking hes not there in. The we are always with him hes always there he spends the day that he shares his li
Tomorrow, a big day on capitol hill and a big day for silicon valley. The ceos of facebook, google, willbet, apple, and amazon all be testifying before the house antitrust subcommittee. We will speak to a member of that committee, representative hank johnson, in just a moment. First, we want to look at how markets are moving ahead of those reports. I want to bring in bloombergs kailey leinz, who has been following the market move today. Kailey we really saw the downward move heading right into the close. Antitrust course that Committee Hearing tomorrow as well as a fed decision. There is a lot going on overall leading to a risk off tone, especially for the nasdaq, which ended the day lower. It really was tech among the biggest laggards today. Of the barrel. M 1. 5 ties were actually up to 2 . Bond proxy stocks getting a boost. We are now sitting at 58 basis points on the 10 year yield, within four basis points of the alltime record low we saw back in arch. Does lly emily we are continu
To get things started off. The dow is down by 17 points but the s p and the nasdaq is there. Nasdaq is indicated up by 47 points this is after a strong month of july for all three of the averages the dow up by 2. 4 for the month. The s p saw its best july by ten years. It was up by 5. 5 . Thats nothing compared to the nasdaq today is the first trade ding d of august. Thats out at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time today also take a look at treasury yields you did see yields under extreme pressure or ten year closing at its lowest level since all the way back to march 9th. Right now it is a little bit higher 0. 546 stimulus talks in congress. Trump administrations officials and House Speaker nancy pelosi are set to resume negotiations today on their competing visions of a bill. The Sticking Point continues to be a boost set at 600 per week in march that lapsed on friday he and Speaker Pelosi are on the same page about the need of direct Cash Payments of 1,200 to most americans. Andrew. And big co
We are going to call the legislative branch of the Committee Fiscal Year 2021, subcommittee mark up to order. Welcome to our subcommittees markup. I very much appreciate the hard work and attitude of all the subCommittee Members and particularly the contributions and cooperation of our Ranking Member, mr. Butler. Thank you for being so great to work with. There are lots of needs and good causes within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee. We have tried to take care of the highest priorities throughout the bill with the amounts available to us. Fundamentally, and the bill provides increases to support staffing and other resources needed by congress to do its job well, to maintain and build analytic capacity in the legislative branch. For example, the bill provides a 25 Million Dollar increase for the members representational allowance, which covers staff, District Office space and other necessities. I also believe this funding is sufficient to address our new normal as members move to h