Market. In the we want to begin in washington, where the u. S. Passed a record 2. 2 trillion economic rescue package. The house will vote potentially on friday. Going this is kevin cirilli. Walk us through some of the highlights here. Kevin shortly before midnight, the senate, in a resounding 960 trillionsed the 2 economic stimulus bill. That puts pressure on the house of representatives to get this done quickly. Theres been some comments from farleft progressives and far right republicans that they may have some issues with this version of the bill. I do not it is about that being enough to significantly stop this from being passed, based upon my reporting. I can tell you that the likely vote will come friday, and President Trump has said he is going to sign this virtually immediately once it lands on his desk. Alix thanks so much. As i mentioned earlier, europe really stepping up its effort to deal with the fallout from the coronavirus. The latest is the ecb started buying bonds, but
Concerns. And the proclaimed arrogance of Silicon Valley. Ripples ceo has called Facebooks Libra pitch to lawmakers somewhat sumptuous presumptuous. We asked how it is impacting the broader Crypto Market. To our top story, facebook, tesla, alphabet, all reporting secondquarter earnings. Amazon and alphabet reported thursday. For atbat, it was about sales and regulation. Two guests waited. Weighed in. 85 of revenue in google is from the ad business. I think that given the competition they will be facing, you do not want to be in a spot where you have north of 80 of revenue coming from advertising. So i think they will place a bigger emphasis on the cloud. Usiness how much successful they have . They ared to say facing massive competition against microsoft and amazon who have had a lot of success and put significant dollars so i think it will be something that is hard to get out of there but still out of. But still a significant part. Emily they did by look or earlier this year and i ask
Im Francine Lacqua, lets check on your markets. European stocks are a little undecided. They were lowered today following things in asia. We saw a little bit of a volatile session for the japanese equities. Opec meets on thursday. , Peter Oppenheim or joins us shortly Peter Oppenheimer joins us shortly. Morning, wen the will speed to british billionaire investor David Harding. We will talk about Artificial Intelligence and its impact on market performance. Here is the first world news. Of julius baer has resigned. Bernhard hodler will replace him. He has been a member of the executive team since 1998. In the u. S. , republican lawmakers are scrambling to lock up the votes needed to put a tax bill on Donald Trumps desk by the end of the year. The cbo estimated the effect of the bill on the deficit that has not had time to look at employment or economic. A federal judge will decide which of the two people runs the Consumer Protection bureau. English, Deputy Director english liandra asked
Manifold the charges hes facing. Well theres a long list of charges here in this thirty one page indictment of the special prosecutor Robert Muller the charges include conspiracy against the United States working as an unregistered Foreign Agent for the then government of ukraine then was from two thousand and six to two thousand and fourteen when men a fourth worked for the party and the government of Viktor Yushchenko which was then the president of ukraine a pro russian president who had to flee to russia in two thousand and fourteen after the fro vest and. Done uprising and. Portman afford and richard gates didnt disclose that their work as lobbyists for this government therefore as Foreign Agents a technical term that is used there and then of course there is tax evasion and Money Laundering for the money that the two earned from the you know code which government and were talking about lots of money here tens of millions of your dollars that men afford and gates did not disclose
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