An eye watering loss. Costsosses and rising mean bonuses are set to disappoint. We are seeing u. S. Futures flat. This, of course, after we had the regular session seeing record highs. At one point, topping the record reached in february before the pandemic. Every sector on the s p 500 was in the green. We have nikkei futures moving higher as we have the japanese yen under pressure. We have seen it fall against the u. S. Dollar for the past four sessions. Right now trading around the weakest in three weeks. In sydney, futures higher. We have the aussie dollar listed a little bit higher. We have a softer u. S. Dollar, not to mention higher commodity prices. We have kiwi stocks at the moment gaining ground after seeing the worst day in a month. This as we have rbnz expanding their qe program. Gains in the currency returns, commodity exports, unr holdings qnr holding steady. U. S. And chinese negotiators plan to discuss progress in the phase one trade deal. Pushing toset to be widen the a
The corporate world and had he first kind of fullblown lifestyle brands, which is an idea we all take for granted now, but these were companies that for the first time were declaring that their Business Model was not to sell products but to sell ideas, a lifestyle, a sense of belonging, they could then extend into kind of self enclosed brants cue couldnt and nike ways to first one to do this, didnt ever own their factories and the main thing learned when i was researching no logo is there was a relationship between the aggressive kind of marketing that was constantly sort of trolling Youth Culture to find the most cutting edge ideas, to get adds into places that had never had ads before, like schools, to cobrand with every like Music Festivals and so on. There was an inverse relationship between that aggressive marketing and the cutting good jobs on aufner the economy because the way that these companies were freeing up money to spend on this much more aggressive kind of Lifestyle Mark
elliott, let s talk about these documents. these are the same documents that meadows turned over to the january 6th select committee. what is the significance of them now being shared with the doj? what s the big picture view here? yeah, i think the big picture view, don, is number one, most people actually comply with subpoenas. so much focus has been on who hasn t been complying. at the end of the day, there s a tremendous risk that someone takes by not doing so. i don t know what mark meadows calculation was here, but clearly, the risk of prosecution is pretty great. by not complain. big picture, think about all of the things that text messages to and from mark meadows could provide evidence of help support. obviously, there is the white house s response to violence on the day of january 6th. that certainly the most obvious. then there s the questions of how congress was itself obstructed. as a governmental body or is congress itself. and certainly, questions may have co
just shows you they re working behind the scenes when most people don t know it. elliott, let s talk about these documents because these are the same documents i believe that meadows turned over to the january 6th select committee. what is the significance of them now being shared with the doj? what s the big picture? yeah, the big picture, don, number one, most people actually comply with subpoenas. so much focus has been on who hasn t been complying but at the end of the day there s a tremendous risk for those that don t. i don t know what his calculation was but the risk of prosecution was pretty great by not complying. big picture, think about all of the things that text messages to and from mark meadows could provide evidence of or help support. obviously there is the white house s response to violence on the day of january 6th. that s certainly the most obvious. then there s questions of how congress itself was obstructed as a governmental body or as congress itself
that the messages were missing back in february the ig didn t push the department on why the texts were deleted nor did he try to retrieve those messages. these missing records are just a part of a mountain of missing pieces of the puzzle related to january 6th that pose a challenge for the january 6th select committee as well as the justice department s probe into the insurrection. that poses a to investigate the actions of the inner circle. a spokesperson for the select committee telling nbc news that the panel is sharing 20 witness interview transcripts with the department of justice. that news was first reported by politico which adds this, quote, the committee did not indicate which transcripts would be part of the initial tranche provided to the justice department, however prosecutors recently deposed two top aides to former vp mike pence, mark short and greg jacob who both had previously interviewed with the committee and it would be of high interest to investigators