Expected to hear from rail representatives to prevent train accidents. Good afternoon. Today the committee gathers for a hearing to examine the next steps in positive train control implementation. Im glad to convene this hearing on this important issue with my friend and colleague Ranking Member senator cantwell. I want to thank our panel of witnesses for appearing. Mr. Ron batori, administrator of the railroad administration, susan, director of infrastructure, u. S. Government accountability office. Bob, Vice President of Strategic Development web tech corporation. Chris matthews assistant Vice President of Network Control systems. And jim, chief executive officer and executive director of metro. Todays hearing will evaluate progress, implementation of positive train control, ptc and examine the potential challenges in meeting the final implementation deadline of december 31st, 2020. As recent Committee Hearings have highlighted ptc is an Important Technology which has the ability to
China. Xi jinping ahead of talks with President Trump before the g20. Bayer shares jump as the German Chemicals group bolsters its legal team to address a multibillion dollar litigation challenge around its roundup we weed killer. And h m reports sales of its summer collection are off to a strong start with the firms shares on course for their best day in three months. Good morning a bit of italian data this morning. Italy june Consumer Confidence numbers are just out theyve fallen to 109. 6 verses a consensus of 111. 3 this is the lowest italian Consumer Confidence number since july 2017. Overall Business Confidence has also fallen to 99. 3 versus 102 in may Manufacturing Confidence has also fallen to 100. 8, slightly below consensus of 101 also lower than in may that will paint a picture of slowing confidence in italy. That is the picture for euro, returning flattish around 1. 1370 there hasnt been Much Movement in the euro. The story has been one of dollar weakness rather than Euro
What caused bitcoin to plunge 1,000 bucks in minutes and the surprise winners and losers of the first democratic debate and what big topic surprisingly was missing its thursday, june 27th Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Afternoon, good evening and welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. Im Brian Sullivan futures are higher on the dow. Your chart of the day already on this thursday has got to be bitcoin. If you have not been following it, its been a crazy 24 hours for the crypto all right. This is an intraday chart. 24hour chart of bitcoin yeah bitcoin right now is down 991 all right. We surged past 13,000 here almost touched or basically did hit 14,000 then news that the biggest bitcoin exchange, coinbase, had crashed. Nobody was able to trade on coinbase look at that in minutes, bitcoin fell to about 12,000 14,000 to 12,000 in minutes. Kind of tried to come back now weve been sliding throughout the Early Morning bitcoin down 7 or 1,000 a coin to 11,921. More on th
Any way you want it, thats the way you need it. Any way you want it. She said any way you want it, thats the way you need it. Any way you want it. I was a alone. Cheryl they werent alone last night, that is for sure. Welcome to fbn a. M. Good morning. Im cheryl casone. Lauren good morning. Im lauren simonetti. Lets take a look at how your money is moving this morning. U. S. Futures in the green, dows up 61, s p up 11. Looking to gain for the first time in five days. Cheryl lets take a look at the 10 year, weve been watching the bond market very closely especially after the comments from jay powell this week. The yield, we are at 2. 05 . Lauren investors keeping an eye out for First Quarter gdp and initial walgreens claims. Cheryl we have been watching oil daily as the situation with iran continues. Taking a look at oil, down 37cents, 59. 01. Lauren stocks in asia, investors confident well see some sort of trade agreement with china in the g20. All of them are up. Cheryl european leader
That issue, coming up. And the big business of amazon, the retail giant teams up with a major drugstore chain for package pickup. Find out where youll be able to pick up those orders. Mornings with maria begins right now. Standing on the edge face up. Because youre a natural. Heart of gold. To make it in this world. Yeah, youre a natural. Maria President Trump arrived in japan for the g20 summit. While he is there, he could sign off on a trade deal with china. Take a look. There is the shot of the president just moments ago, departing from air force one and weve got these new details from the journal this morning about what china is planning to frontt to the president in terms of moving this trade deal one step forward. Blake berman is live this morning in ow osaka. He joins me with the very latest. Good morning to you, blake, or good evening, actually. Reporter good evening. It is good morning, good evening. However you want to put it. Its 7 00 local time. You saw President Trump depa