Welcome back ourwitnesses and i now recognize the gentle lady from washington. Thank you mister chairman and thank you all for your very informative testimony. You all touched on this but a common refrain we hear from companies is during the course of this committees investigation but also just on my own i have many of them in my district is that they cant possibly be violating antitrust laws and the primary argument is that its because many other products either cheap or free and therefore consumers are inherently benefiting. You all have indifferent ways talk about this. To me the big question of course is is free really free . Consumers i think its increasingly clear are paying for the products that they use read theyre paying in data, theyre paying in privacy and often dont know theyre giving up and of course the Big Tech Companies use that data to build these massive empires of information about consumers then give them spectacular advantage over newcomer businesses, allow these c
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President trump is expected to sign the bill into law. Jay powell saw elevated threats including Global Growth and trade. Sophie macro uncertainty over trade in hong kong certainly looming large, given what we stocks. N so far in ozzie shares opening to the. 1 after being tracked lower wednesday. Aussie bonds are climbing for a Third Session tracking the rally we saw in treasuries overnight, to flatten. Ontinued the move to the downside while treasury futures a fourthing a bid for straight session. All itsstronger against peers. Checking in on what is going on im actually looking at the terminal right here because i wanted to show you it is testing the 100day moving average, some that level. We are hearing google is changing its political add policy, limiting audience targeting. We know twitter has been political ads on its platform. We know facebook has not, but we google will no longer allow political advertisers to target voters because of political affiliation. The company said it
You know usually talks to reporters on the way out. Well keep an eye on that. Im Melissa Francis in new york. This is after the bell. Hey, connell. Connell hey there, melissa. Im connell mcshane. We welcome you to the state of wisconsin. Back in 2016 we didnt realize how important this traditionally blue state in president ial politics. One year out from the next president ial election there is far more attention on wisconsin. So, if you look at it, even as job growth is being celebrated around the country, this state is one of the few where jobs have been lost this year. The nonfarm employment in wisconsin down 2800 in 2019. That is in thanks to decline of 6500 manufacturing jobs. We come to you from Racine County. Not far from milwaukee. This area is heavy on manufacturing. It is a type of area president Trumps Campaign desperately want to keep red. Doing so might be challenging well get into as well. Our location . Were live from racine brewing company. It is Small Business started
The marine layer in the bay and temperatures are chilly in santa rosa but in San Francisco it is 45 degrees. Good morning to san jose. The wind is calm and it is not dramatic but it will bring some moisture. We have got zero visibility right now in can aleta. Be careful if youre going there. On the upside, we have some moisture in the area and during fire season, that is a very good thing especially considering we have High Pressure blocking any rain from coming in. That is going to be across the next 5 to 7 days but we have a little patchy fog and sunny skies today. We are in the low 70s and low 80s today for our temperatures. I will send it back to you. Here we are. I am looking at the morning commute and i am looking at the Richmond Bridge and you can see traffic is going to be moving a little slower and these lanes have had no major problems and the traffic is going to be okay. There is a little slow traffic. There we go. It is slow around the macarthur maze. There have been no maj