Provisions in a decade and a vote on the virus. South korea heads to the polls in an election seen as a referendum on president moons pandemic performance. Shery we are seeing qe stocks gaining ground again, now at the highest level in over a month. And this after the u. S. Really finished at a one month high for the s p 500 jumping. We had gains in tech giants. U. S. Futures at the moment under pressure, down 1 . Nikkei futures not doing much right now. We have the japanese yen Holding Steady but this after four sessions of gains. We had safe haven demand as we continue to see concerns of the coronavirus outbreak. Wti at the moment rebounding after plunging more than 10 in the u. S. Session to the lowest level in two weeks. This despite that historic opecplus agreement. Closedave south korea today for parliamentary elections. Happening right now, President Trump having his daily coronavirus presser. He said that he hoped u. S. Funding to the World Health Organization failed in its bas
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As a public service. Brought to you today by your television provider. Now on the communicators we want to introduce you to sarah miller. She is the executive director of a group called the American Economic liberties project. Which is what . Sarah we are an organization based here in washington that is focused on what we see is a crisis, a concentrated economic power in the country. Essentially monopolies and Financial Institutions that facilitate that monopolization across the economy. That is what we are focused on. We have concerns about the power of Big Technology platforms. In general, we think a lot of the economic and social problems that we are experiencing today can trace back or be exacerbated by these a outside levels of corporate power. Host how did you come to that view . Sarah we looked around at the world, essentially. If you look at market structure, you will find whether it is large markets like media, telecom, health care, online , watch components, software, you hav
Okay, apologies for being late. And let me thank those of you who are here for being here. This afternoon we will be hearing from miss Melinda Young and miss nani colaretti have been nominated to serve as deputy secretary of omb and i want to thank both miss young and miss colaretti for your many yearsof public service. And thank you to your friends and family members who you have brought with youtoday. As we all know the omb is responsible for pairing the president s budget, reviewing federal regulations and providing the proper oversight of agencies. It is a very ulimportant task and i know that both of you are more than capable of leading omb. Since last march, ms. Young has been serving as acting director of omb again, the senate has previously confirmed both of these nominees to highranking positions in the past on strong bipartisan votes. I hope and expect we will do so again in short order. This is our first Budget Committee hearing of 2022. We are facing many challenges as a na
Okay, apologies for being late. And let me thank those of you who are here for being here. This afternoon we will be hearing from miss Melinda Young and miss nani colaretti have been nominated to serve as deputy secretary of omb and i want to thank both miss young and miss colaretti for your many yearsof public service. And thank you to your friends and family members who you have brought with youtoday. As we all know the omb is responsible for pairing the president s budget, reviewing federal regulations and providing the proper oversight of agencies. It is a very ulimportant task and i know that both of you are more than capable of leading omb. Since last march, ms. Young has been serving as acting director of omb again, the senate has previously confirmed both of these nominees to highranking positions in the past on strong bipartisan votes. I hope and expect we will do so again in short order. This is our first Budget Committee hearing of 2022. We are facing many challenges as a na