A leaked email criticizing u. S. Administration. Free media both to protect society from the abuse of power. Helps release the full potential of a nation. And a global conference for Media Freedom is underway in london r. T. And russian News Agencies but nick from entry. Live from the russian capital this is national with me south welcome to the program. And fast a u. S. Federal judge has told washington must stop alleging that a russian pharmac used of election meddling was funded by the kremlin all face of range of potential sanctions the court found that such unsubstantiated claims against. The internet we such agency which are not included in the 20008. 00 stat risk prejudicing a jury. Reports the Mueller Report the us investigation the media everyone accuses russia of carrying out a sweeping Systematic Campaign meddling campaign in the us election into in 2016 they did it via 2 methods the 1st one was. Intelligence Agency Hackers g. R. U. Had his who broke into the d. N. C. System
The week as a whole for the three indices. Road map starts with 30 minutes after the jobs number, good news is bad news again. Over 200,000 added in the month of june. That has stock records in the rear view mirror as data may ease pressure on the fed to cut rates. Futures in retreat, moving sharply lower to start the morning. While the u. S. Is on holiday, europe took out the elegant gun on big tech. Both parties in the uk back to target big tech and france moving forward on attacks on the likes of facebook and google the employment rate ticked up to 3. 7 as more people entered the workforce. Wage growth slowed a little bit in june, but remained at 3. 1 year over year for a second straight month perhaps more importantly, though, we did see average Hourly Earnings 0. 2 versus the 0. 3 expected. Mike, your take on this as to whether it really alters the chance of a 25 basis point cut in july. Not very much it injects a little bit more uncertainty than probably traders were hoping for to
Shazam is this an Artificial Intelligence play . Were going to look. Whats to buy ahead of tax reform debate on whether Airline Stocks could be the big beneficiaries of any tax bill. But we do start with the story thats taken wall street, main street, any street, frankly, by storm, and that is bitcoin. Bitcoin futures popping in their first full day of trading on the cboe Cnbcs Bob Pisani joining us with that story. Bob, everybody is talking about it. It is and its finally happened the good thing is at least trading has happened and relatively orderly we passed 18,000, folks. Bitcoin futures opened 6 00 last night eastern time, 15,000, moved up very, very quickly. Here you see its over 18,000. So its been small, 3,600 contracts, figure the math here. 17,000 p 17,000, 18,000 about 60 million. Thats not a lot but its a start at least heres whats important. Lets go over what exactly a futures contract is, why this is so important first of all, its just agreement to buy or sell a commodity
Koreawith north and south over a music g group playing at the upcoming wintergreen winter games in the south. South koreas promoting next months event as the peace olympics after the north agreed to send athletes to the games. Also coming up, and business, we will look at one of the largest construction groups in britain that has been forced to go into liquidation. An apology from french film icon Catherine Deneuve after she bashed the metoo movement. First, our top story live from paris. Genie iraq was rocked by twin suicide bombings today. At least 38 people died in the attacks in baghdad with close to 100 hertz. Z. 100 hurt. No immediate claim of responsibility, but similar attacks have c come from the Islamic State group. Lets bring in our reporter in baghdad. What can you tell us about what happened today . That it is a very bloody baghdadad morning with te suicide bombers. They attacked the crowded square in downtown baghdad called tayran square. Place forthering workers in the e
But not without controversy. The battle over who carries the American Flag and the figuring skating flop overnight kicking off the games, were live in south korea for all the action. Right here on gma. Good morning, america. And so much excitement this morning, just moments ago team usa arriving at the olympic Opening Ceremony. And amy is there in south korea. We cant wait to talk to her in a little while. There she is waving back at you, amy. A lot of drama there and back here at home as well starting on capitol hill overnight. The government shut down for the second time in three weeks over a funding bill. It was forced by senator rand paul making a point about the deficit but lawmakers were able to scramble, strike a deal just moments ago. Mary bruce coming off an allnighter. Good morning, mary. Reporter good morning, george. Weve never seen anything quite like this. Two Government Shutdowns in three weeks and there was a Government Spending bill on the table ready to go that could