Offerings. Sta instacart delivers from sephora and best buy and ewinger eats. So will they be overwhelmed or perfectly positioned i think this is the big question everyone swondering as is wondee ecommerce take a big jump door dash had a face plant weechlt talk abo well talk about that i want to point out our own Melissa Repco on cnbc. Com has a great piece about exactly this brick mortar issue doorbesters not really happening this year. The retailers dont want you busting down the doors they want you staying at home and ordering and theyre putting incentives in that direction all right. Moving on for now. Astrazeneca, the latest pharma giant out with positive vaccine news maybe some of the vaccines will help to get to be door busters. After the citizen kashgs the Third Company to come out with the efficacy results these are a little more mixed when you compare them with the others lets take a look. The reason theyre mixed is because they had two different dosing regimens. One of them
[inaudible conversations] the hearing will come to order. Today we will receive testimony from david marcus head of libra at facebook. On may 9 senator brown and i sent a letter shortly after it was reported that company was recruiting Financial Institutions and online merchants to launch a cryptocurrency based Payment System using a social network. We asked space bar for more information how the system would work, access and use of Consumer Financial information and facebooks access to use of information on individuals or group of individuals for credit or insurance or housing i appreciate facebooks response last week. Shortly after the letter was sent facebook formally announced its intention to launch the Payment System libra and issued a white paper providing information on the project. Since then us and Global Regulators have taken notice including the Federal Reserve, reserve, Uk Financial Conduct Authority and a stability board, g7 and others for the last week during the Federal
Discussion on slave refugee camps during the war. Watch American History tv tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan 3. This past june, facebook announced plans for its own crypto currency called libra. The cocreator of Libra David Marcus answered lawmakers concerned over the Digital Currency before the Senate Banking committee. This is about 2 1 2 hours. This hearing will come to order. Today we will receive testimony from david marcus, head of libra at facebook. On may 9, senator brown and i sent a letter to facebook shortly after it was reported that the company was recruiting Financial Institutions and online merchants to help launch a cryptocurrency based Payment System using its social network. Our letter asked facebook for more information about how the system would work. Its access to and use of Consumer Financial information, and facebooks access to and use of information on individuals or groups of individuals in credit, insure, employment or housing. I appreciate facebooks res
Hour the hearing is still going on behind me, but already there have been several fiery moments, including some from senator sherrod brown, the ranking democrat on the committee. In his opening statement, he compared facebook to a toddler playing with matches and said that it would be delusional for anyone to trust facebook with their finances, when the company has already broken so many promises on privacy. He then tried to get david marcus, a facebook executive whos testifying to make his own promise, and that is to receive his salary in libra. Senator, if your question is whether i would trust all of my assets in libra, the answer is yes. Do you trust this enough to make your compensation paid fully in your currency senator, i would, because it is backed one for one with a reserve. You could have said yes at the beginning of the question, then senator, with respect, i wanted to clarify that were not trying to compete with Bank Deposits he has said that statement repeatedly, that fac
Procession leaders accused of sedition former Vice President or anyone who says he was refused bail to stop him from running in the regions election later this month thats on the twenty first of december right those are the headlines on aljazeera do stay with us counting the cost is coming up next thank you very much for watching. News. But the message is simplistic and misinformation is rife listening to provides a critical counterpoint challenging Mainstream Media narrative at this time on aljazeera. Oh im has im sick of this is counting the cost on to your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week Oil Sweet Spot what price does a barrel of oil have to be so that consumers and producers benefit also this week bitcoins making headlines again but the biggest names in finance cant agree on what its worth plus african and European Union leaders have condemned the refugee slave trade in libya but still no real details on how to stop the smuggling. So what is the ideal p