Been configured to maintain 6 foot distances between senators, witnesses and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing, which we have kept to a minimum. For those joining remotely, a few Video Conferencing reminders. Once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before you are displayed on the screen. To minimize background noise, please click the mute button until you ask questions. If there is a technology issue, we will move to the next senator until its resolved. Again, remind all senators and our witnesses that the fiveminute clock applies. Those of you remote should have a clock on the screen showing how much time is remaining. Well try to give you a gavel reminder when your time is almost expired. To simplify the speaking order process, senator brown and i have agreed to go by seniority for this hoogerheide. With that we welcome our witness steven t. Mnuchin, secretary to department of treasury an honorable jerome powell, board of governors of the Fe
Any new stimulus in sight. And that tiktok trade, you cant really trade it, can you, because its not a public company, but bytedance is formally seeking chinas approval for a deal with oracle and walmart, those are two publiclytraded companies. Yes, they are, jim lets talk markets lets start with that. You know, its funny, i dont know what you make of the pull back today, to the extent we are going to have one or what weve been seeing in apple lately. I keep wondering coming back to that softbank option purchase that we kind of we talked about it for a day or two and then we moved on. Right. You know, a number of people have come back on it with me, jim, and sort of said maybe it had a bigger impact than we realized in terms of the run up of some of these names. It did jack the market up in 1999 fashion which, you know, you know, led to 20002001 which was a disaster and it was frankly unnatural other than zoom almost every one of those stocks that they took up have been crushed apple t
For more. Than. One. Hello and welcome to to the point and here are our guests. Is an expert on Turkish Foreign policy and a fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy and berlin and he says in this conflict greece is using the language of International Law and European Solidarity and turkeys using language of fair sharing of Mediterranean Resources and coercive diplomacy and its also a pleasure to welcome choco this to me i he works for. And he is convinced that unlike turkeys adventurous regional ambitions in recent years its Foreign Policy regarding the Eastern Mediterranean is following its traditional line and were also very glad to have with us yes im an aggie and she is a freelance. Its journalist from hamburg who works mainly with the a r d network she says everyones hardline approach in the Eastern Mediterranean is part of his symbolic politics with which he tries to distract from domestic problems in the current conflict hes taking this strategy too far so let me start out with you c
Thats the worst performance in two weeks. The dow has been down. Nasdaq have been down five out of six the tech selloff was worst it continued down 3 led lower by stocks like apple the same old story big volatility coming. Those are really the tail thats been wagging the dog for a while. Youll see the nasdaq is lower once again the other two averages hanging in there the s p on the flat line nasdaq down another 50 points. Fur watching what is happening over the last two months they closed. Dow at the lowest level since the third. The 10year sitting at 0. 66 the story that seems to never end, tiktok. Here we go the owner bytedance applying for an export license in china as it pushes for a deal in oracle and walmart. They did not mention the pending deal and technology it was seeking to support calling the deal dirty and unfair they have no reason to approve it all of this raising questions about that prospect and what that would ultimately look like. What happened earlier in the week we
This hearing will come to order. Todays hearing is a hybrid format. And the hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommendedf foot social distancing between senators and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing which we have kept to a minimum. For those joining remotely a few videoconferencing reminders. Once you start speaking there will be a slight delay before you are displayed on the screen. To minimize background noise please click the mute button until it is your speak or ask questions. If there is a Technology Issue we will move to the next senator until its resolved. I, again, remind all senators and witnesses that the 5minute clock still applies, and those of you remote should all have a box on your screen labeled clock that will show how much time is remaining. Well try to give you a gavel reminder when your time is almost expired. To simplify the speaking order process senator brown and i again have agreed to go by sen you arty for this hear