Background sounds. [background sounds] the task force will not come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee any time that went out objection. There authorized to participate inconsistent we put the practice. Challenges and opportunities. The chair will now recognize himself performance for an opening statement. Thank you everyone for joining us today for what should be a very interesting hearing on the task force to explain the dangerous threat of Identity Theft. Ai is making it easier. How we can safeguard one of the most important things to have in our Digital Economy. That is our identities. Identity fraud is the usually important problem. In 2018 alone, almost 15 billion is estimated to have been stolen from us consumers online. If this doesnt include the more indirect future cost of having a compromise identity. Today criminals have lots of tools. They get sensitive Consumer Financial data, and there is a complicated situation that a member of Congress
Oil prices have soared at the opening of the markets in asia following saturdays drone attacks on two Key Facilities in saudi arabia. The cost of brent crude rose by the most on record, after half the kingdoms output was taken out that accounts for roughly 5 of the worlds oil supply. Iran has dismissed us allegations that it was behind the strikes and accused washington of being deceitful. My colleague mariko oi is in singapore. Bring us up to date on what the cost of crude is doing. There was a huge spike when oil began trading on the global markets. That is right, we saw brent crude prices jumping global markets. That is right, we saw brent crude pricesjumping by almost 20 when they opened and still currently we are seeing the jump still currently we are seeing the jump of10 12 . Still currently we are seeing the jump of 10 12 . A double digitjump that we have really not seen before. The easing of the jump was somewhat because of the us President Donald Trump moving to ease the jump
Background sounds. [background sounds] the task force will not come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee any time that went out objection. There authorized to participate inconsistent we put the practice. Challenges and opportunities. The chair will now recognize himself performance for an opening statement. Thank you everyone for joining us today for what should be a very interesting hearing on the task force to explain the dangerous threat of Identity Theft. Ai is making it easier. How we can safeguard one of the most important things to have in our Digital Economy. That is our identities. Identity fraud is the usually important problem. In 2018 alone, almost 15 billion is estimated to have been stolen from us consumers online. If this doesnt include the more indirect future cost of having a compromise identity. Today criminals have lots of tools. They get sensitive Consumer Financial data, and there is a complicated situation that a member of Congress
To mark battle of britain day. Oil prices have soared at the opening of the markets in asia following saturdays drone attacks on two Key Facilities in saudi arabia. The cost of brent crude rose by the most on record, after half the kingdoms output was taken out that accounts for roughly 5 of the worlds oil supply. Iran has dismissed us allegations that it was behind the strikes and accused washington of being deceitful. Our Asia Business correspondent Karishma Vaswani is in singapore. What the attack says about the vulnerability what are oil prices doing in asia right now . They have come off some of those big is that we saw in the early minutes of asian trade, when traders out here reactive, as many had expected them to, by pushing up the price of crude oil by some 19 in the onset of asian trade. They have come off those prices now. We are seeing them stabilise at about a 10 bump in the price of oil. That is pretty significant and i think underlines the fact that people here are very
Oil prices have soared at the opening of the markets in asia following saturdays drone attacks on two Key Facilities in saudi arabia. The cost of brent crude rose by the most on record, after half the kingdoms output was taken out that accounts for roughly 5 of the worlds oil supply. Iran has dismissed us allegations that it was behind the strikes and accused washington of being deceitful. Our Asia Business correspondent Karishma Vaswani is in singapore. As you can see from the screens, the cost of crude oil is up about 10 for light crude and 11. 3 for brent crude. There was a surge of oil prices at the onset of asian trade, and one viewpoint pointed out a surge at the onset of trade, but now i think that traders are ingesting the information about when we might see a resumption in that shortage of oil supplies coming in from saudi arabia. Remember, asia is particularly exposed to this, given that it particularly exposed to this, given thatitis particularly exposed to this, given that