Better than sxiktestimates. Road map begins with slowdown concern, tariffs and decelerating Global Growth weighing on the economy in q2. Top white house economic adviser larry kudlow will join us first on cnbc. We have investors buoyed this morning by strong earnings from tech giants such as alphabet, twitter, and intel all of those stocks pointing to a higher open. And starbucks rallying as well as sales surge. The coffee retailer raising its outlook. Kevin johnson joins us first on cnbc this hour futures are higher on those upbeat earnings. Gdp did slow to 2. 1, but beat expectations earnings big picture today googles parent beating big on both the top and the bottom lines. Twitter also beat the street, reporting 139 million monetizable daily users, more than the street had been looking for. Biggest number in about two years. Amazon did miss on earnings, revenue was ahead. First time in five quarters that amazon did not post a record profit, taking a hit from shipping costs the thesi
1 . 2. 1 . Ericsson right now is down more than 10 . It as well giving a sober picture of asia, saying that it may be a little bit too optimistic on profitability 2020. S for back to the main story in the United States, bank of america with record secondquarter earnings on the Interest Income despite a beat on trading revenues. Bank of america following peers lower. Here with more is the gentleman owner and finance reporter. Stocks are up, clearly not disappointing too much, but a net interest margin. The stock is up i think because the trading results are good. Fixed income trading revenue is unchanged from a quarter of the year ago and that is surprising because all of the other banks that have reported, the big banks including goldman, they had sizable declines in fixed income trading. Bank of america held on to its revenue and thats a good sign. Equities is down but sort of almost everybodys was down. So that matters just as much for these big banks in the u. S. Is what happens on
Than a fewp more percentage points. When you look at the s p 500, we are not close to oversold conditions. We are not elevated but when you look on an aggregate basis, we are below that line where people start to get worried about a potential for things being too overenthusiastic. The major indexes have recovered, the s p gaining 1. 7 . Last week, it had declined. Were back on the slow glide higher. What are you watching . Asked fed next wednesday and i am thinking about bonds, 10 year yields in particular. The 10 year yield the last four weeks it has closed down three out of those higher three out of those four weeks. Bonds are sliding into the fed, perhaps making the case that the rate cut is priced in. This is a longterm chart. You see the great bond bull market. There is two different trend channels, the 10 year yield bouncing off of the higher when. , ithe tenure you hold 2 suggests that any rate cut or future rate cut may be priced into some degree as this happened in the past wi
Our second panel is chris brummer, Research Professor director, institute of economic law, and University Law center. Our second witnesses katerina pastore, and columbia law school. Gendler who is professor of the practice of Global Economics and manager. Mit sloan school of management Senior Advisor to the director, Mit Media Lab and codirector of. The next witness will be robert wiseman, president , public citizen, and the final witness will be chief Strategy Officers. Welcome to all of you. Without objection, your written statements will be made part of the record. Each of you will have five minutes to summarize your testimony and with one minute remaining a yellow light will appear. At that time i will ask that you wrap up your testimony so that we can be respectful of both witnesses and Committee Members times. You are recognized for five minutes to present your testimony. Thank you so much. Members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify. Im here in my academic cap
[gavel] this meeting will come to order. 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 Fede