Welcome to this hearing on the subcommittee on antitrust policy and consumer rights. Today we are pleased to have with us the chairman of the federal trade commission, joseph simons, and the assistant attorney general for the antitrust division at the department of justice, makan delrahim. Welcome to both of you. As an initial matter, as a matter of housekeeping, we have been informed we may have a block of more votes starting about an hour from now. The practical matter, we may be able to push it to an hour and a half from now, but before we hit the recess at some point we will likely have to go to recess to cast a few votes. We will have to play some of that by ear. I apologize in advance. Theres no way to predict these in advance. It does seem to be an uncanny event, with antitrust subcommittee hearings. It seems to be a good predictor, albeit an unintentional predictor of when votes are going to occur. As both of you know, ive been critical of the fact that we have two federal agen
Lets check in on your markets and see how things are doing in terms of yields. You can see the u. S. 30 year yield coming down further. 1. 96 . Yield at. 98 . R i feel like i must be seeing something wrong because that would be insane. It is actually 1. 47. Im sorry, italy, thats what got me off track. I thought i was looking at u. S. Treasurys, that would be nuts, dropping 50 basis points in minutes. That is the italian 10 year coming in below 1 . With stocks opening down and turning higher after we had some positive trade comments out of china. Lets get first word news in new york. We begin in italy, where conte will get a mandate to form a new government after the former alliance collapsed in chaos. The new administration will include the fiveStar Movement and the democratic party. Those rivals have little in common other than a desire to avoid an election. Country isa, the looking to extend maturities on over 100 billion of debt. They want to delay repayments to the imf after a col
They were a little lighter than estimates, but still up by about 1. 6 . This is on the heels of Dollar General, that really crushed it. Heres a negative. They might see earnings on the higher end for the full year. They do not see revenue on the higher end for the full year. They see 43. 6 billion. They had seen 43. 9 billion. That could be a marginal weakness. David stock is up in the premarket a little less than 1 . You mentioned Dollar General, which has a strong showing. Alix blew outcome a really. Raised their guidance, they see fullyear sales forecasts rising. They did point out there are a large number of sales in their lower margin products, so margins will be an interesting story for them, but i think it always is for the Dollar Stores. David absolutely. The beat on earningspershare for the Second Quarter, and comp sales were up 4 . You can see they are up about 6. 5 in the premarket. Alix this will add some early optimism in the markets. S p futures up by a solid 1 , over 290
Almost two weeks. Youre following through on that rally today, up 0. 6 . Eurodollar around key support levels. It is a broadly stronger dollar story. The bond market obviously in focus. No doubt we are going to talk about that terrible, no good, seven year bond option. I wonder, is that a threshold . Or was that just a fluke . David or was it late august . Globalime now for exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Joining us in london is tony ahrens, on the phone from hong and on theen leigh, phone from when is a race from buenos aires is caroling a milan is carolina milan. Three activists in hong kong were arrested by police head of a rally. Karen leigh joins us with the latest. Karen Hong Kong Police arresting a number of prominent Hong Kong Police arresting a number of prominent speakers, including warning protesters that they could share that same space at illegal demonstrations this weekend. These are really raising tensions ahead of a 13th
Care, but also the costs of that care and the sort of wrenching decisions we have to make. Thats what we are trying to address with. Health maintenance organizations 40 years ago. And i think thats where we have to turn today. Great. Thank you. We have to wrap things up. Unfortunately. The Volker Alliance is a nonpartisan nonprofit founded by the former head of the Federal Reserve board of governors paul volcker and dedicated to advancing his vision of an empowered Public Sector workforce. Sometimes in very nicely with the theme of the day. I want to thank fill up and mr. Is a good friend and that helps for hosting us today at columbia and we have a great set panelists for this third panel we have two people joining us on zoom Neil Ferguson and, jen parker and up here we have paul light to my right, to my left, and then richard roth joining us. So well turn first to neil on zoom. He is the milbank family senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and also a senior f