We have a vote at 1030 a. M. In order to allow more centers time to ask their questions, agreed brown and i have to submit our Opening Statements for the record. Witnesses to shorten their Opening Statements to a couple minutes each. To ask theim going senators to be very careful to follow the fiveminute allocation for their questions. First we receive testimony from ,he honorable Sigal Mandelker and following her we will hear testimony from ms. Susan thorton. Without anything further, lets proceed. Please proceed. Mandelker i am honored to appear before you to discuss our strategy to combat the oppressive actions of north korea. This administration is applying maximum economic and diplomatic pressure to counter this threat. Are essentialls to this campaign and it become among the semester nations top kinetic tools of choice. Today i will share with you aspects of our strategy, which we are executing at a rapid pace. At a rapid pace were focused on attacking the Financial Vulnerability
Brothers. Sinking on weak pc sales while they jump on the profit forecast. Ubers global head talks about how the ride sharing firm could be carrying more than passengers in the future. Well always be growing were capable of doing a lot more. Were making investments all around the world and in business opportunities. Hi, everybody. Welcome back. Were glad to have you with us. Theyre talking about how they see the rising of a market sell off. She says that its a low level of financial Systemic Risk in the euro area and an increased risk of abrupt increases in risk preed yum at a global level amply identified by low market liquidity a faster than expected fed tightening could push the yields higher according to the ecb and that Financial Vulnerability for the emerging markets sin creasing. China they point out as being a particular concern they talk about low profitabilitiened Systemic Risk. Lets talk more about geo politics. Russian president Vladimir Putin said turkish authorities purpo
Business confidence there down for the first time in five months. Our roadmap begins with the nasdaq looking to turn around a second consecutive slide in biotechs, deterioration in what some of these momentum stocks we say. Cloud storage firm box planning to raise over 250 million in an ipo and list under the ticker box. Reports that manager knew of the gm ignition problems prior to the launch of the cobalt and withheld some vehicle data. First up the nasdaq hoping to rebound the morning after the selloff which saw the index closing at 5 1 2 week lows and biotechs took a hit and tesla and netflix. We talked about it yesterday, and wonder if this is a longerterm dynamic in terms of leadership. I think that gilead comeback yesterday was significant but a lot of the others didnt. You know, were going to be talking about box filing and i look at that offering and i say or drop box, too, i say, these are the kind of companies that are putting a lot of pressure on the rest of the companies.
And theres just hours to go in transfer deadline day in the premier league. Everton sign defender ben godfrey from norwich city in a £25 million deal. Hello, good afternoon. Number 10 says an investigation has begun into the error which meant that the close contacts of nearly 16,000 people with coronavirus were not traced last week. Public Health England has blamed what it described as a technical issue, and the investigation will look into why the problem wasnt discovered sooner. Although those testing positive were informed, their details were not passed on to the test and trace system to alert those theyd been in contact with. The bbc has been told by Senior Public Health officials a significant proportion of the unreported cases are from the north west of england. Phe says the issue has now been resolved, but labour has called the situation shambolic. The Health Secretary matt hancock is to make a statement to mps this afternoon. Heres our Health Correspondent cichard galpin. Test
Active as you people in california, no and quake like this 5. 1 is not particularly uncommon, even though it does wake everyone, uh, gets their attention, okay . And real quick before we have to let you go here, don, should we be preparing for another bigger one in the minutes to come . Or do you have any indication that this 5. 1 was the big event . Well theres no way to predict earthquakes, so i cant tell you yes or no, a larger one is going to come but typically the way earthquakes work is youll have the main shock and then the following earthquakes in the same spot will be smaller and therefore we call them aftershocks, but a small percentage of times who will have a larger quake later. Okay isnt there to predict that so we cant say no, it wont happen, but usually the largest in the series happens first. Okay don blakeman, a geophysicist at the usgs, joining us from golden, colorado. Thank you so much for joining us here is were bringing this breaking News Coverage to our viewers.