Concerns over software and tech stocks lower weve been up, down, all around for the markets today. As we stand, though, with 59 minutes, were higher on the dow, lower on the s p. Joining us for the full hour, from capital usa, keith, good afternoon to you. Thank you, wilf. Earnings been Strong Enough so far or have they been resoundingly strong this week . Theyve been strong so far. I think the markets have been less than vigorous, shall we say, the last couple of months i think well enter a period less vigorous than it was before thats going to be a key component for how we evaluate the economy and market Going Forward. Lets check in on the markets. S p 500 down by about 0. 1 and the dow higher by four points so far. Retail sales, and eamon javers has the latest on trade lets start with wilf on the banks. Bank of america reported this morning. They continue to feed from yesterday, the impact of low rates, while negative, has been less bad than feared that interest margin was down only
Cspan is brought to you by your local cable and satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Next a Congressional Panel looks at Online Platforms and impact on entrepreneurship in the u. S. Well hear from google, apple, facebook and amazon officials who talk about ecommerce. This portion of the house judiciary hearing is is an hour and 50 minutes. Good afternoon. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to the second of our series of hearings investigating competition in the digital markets. This one on innovation and entrepreneurship. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. 30 years ago the First Software for the worldwide web was released into the Public Domain to create a Global Communications network. Within a few years, search and browsing services were built onto the software to give people tools to communicate, share and explore information throu
Employees and if you break a company like that up, if you can manage it do it, theres going to be unattended consequences. Tonight at 8 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. Next on cspan3, a house judiciary subcommittee on whether Big Tech Companies like google, apple, facebook and amazon engage in anticompetitive practices that hurt smaller online companies. Rhode island congressman David Cicilline chaired the hearing. Good afternoon. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to the second of our series of hearings investigating competition in the digital markets. This one on innovation and entrepreneurship. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. 30 years ago the First Software for the worldwide web was released into the Public Domain to create a Global Communications network. Within a few years, search and browsing services were built onto the software to give people tools to c
Page. Boris johnson will suspend parliament next month to limit debate on a no deal divorce. Joining chinas internet leaders to discuss the future of Artificial Intelligence. This trip threatens to annoy President Trump. Marketset a check of and how they closed at the end of the u. S. Session. The dow adding 258. 12 s p 500 was down. 7 . Everyone was in the green except for utilities. Energy shares beating utilities. The u. S. For more than expected. The volatility was low. Not volatility, but volume. Trading was around 15 below average. And lets look at how we are setting up in asia. Nexta we are set for a open in asia. We are waiting for the latest on the trade headlines as investors are held captive. But we did get positive news that chinese negotiators are talks. D to come for it looks like nikkei futures will open a bit lower, down about. 1 right now. That is going to be reversing the gains of two Straight Days. Futures like half the have little change and we saw it open up around
Tenyear, and we are looking at a situation where the euro is going down. Basically, olli rehn has said we are going to get the bazooka out in september. It needs to be impactful. We are going to deliver in september, and when we do deliver, it is probably better we go too far rather than not far enough. That is the effect on the euro. Vonnie in the u. S. , we are seeing the s p 500 trade higher by about 2 10 of 1 . Broadly higher for most of the major indices. The 10 year yield is at 1. 55 , so continuing to decline. The spread is staying positive, marginally. Guy a little bit of breaking news. The Swiss Stock Exchange is said to be considering buying an eu for somerd, looking diversification. Story. Y be yesterdays we will come back to that. Trade concerns causing some fluctuations in the market right now. Treasuries resuming a rally that pushed the 30 year below 2 overnight. Joining us now, patrick spencer, baird vicechairman of equities. What have you made of the last 48 hours . Pat