Willis testifies about changes to the u. S. Postal service and hes addressing the rise and assault postal workers. Oversight accountability subcommittee hearing is the first congressional appearance two years just over three hours. Good morning, the subcommittee on federal work will come to order and i would like to welcome everybody to this important meeting. May declare a recess at any time. We also have a number of members seeking to be weighed on todays hearing without objection, ms. Mays from South Carolina will committee on oversight accountability today. Also we have the gentleman from South Carolina and the Commerce Committee has asked to be part of this as well as the gentleman from california. The subcommittee of questioning todays hearing. Thank you. I recognize myself for making an Opening Statement let me welcome postmaster general, sometime last week we were preparing testimony and operational needs of the day and i found postmaster general im very thankful for the opport
It has been make sense to me. Matt as bitcoin surges, suddenly everybody is paying attention. It seems to me at all to be outlawed. The business or any socially useful function. I think it is more likely these digital coins move into the mainstream. Bitcoin is undoubtedly a bubble it is not for me, but there are a lot of things that were not for me in the past it worked out very well. Matt that is all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Matt hello and welcome. I am matt miller. This is bloomberg best, your weekly review of the most important Business News analysis and interviews from Bloomberg Television around the world. The week began in the midst of the years most critical days for u. S. Retail. The Pivotal Moment between black friday and cyber monday. We are passed black friday, and the cyber monday and everybody wants to get a scorecard on how retailers are doing. For brickandmortar and ecommerce. We look at the last 10 days before the holiday. That would be thanksgiving and black f
Sto stocks of their 16 years and one of the Worlds Largest Digital Currency markets. Ge trouble shares the mark as the Company Takes a 6 at t 2 billion charge after reviewing the portfolio. It feels 12 days ago the dow passed 20,000. We could see 26 k at the open. Their best start of the year since 2003 it is actually seven trading sessions, jim, a thousand point. Yeah, there were some really good quarters on friday kind of confirming things. It is very positive and almost every single line item wells fargo is surprisingly positive and pnc is pretty good. Blackrock was the most amazing it had a gigantic amount of money coming in and they talked about deaccumulation when it occurred and obviously, no time soon talked about the idea of longevity and the need to be able to save and how money comes into equity. The most important call so far really, blackrock yeah. You saw the piece today on social responsibility and larry fink and not unimportant also. No. I think it was a very good artic
Southern england. At least we have blue sky and sunshine but unfortunately thats not the case for everyone but it was beautiful as you can see by this picture in southwark. However, a weatherfront has struggled across the moment at the moment bringing cloud and outbreaks of rain. Its also introducing something a little less cold for some of us under the cloud and rain. More on that in a moment. The rain will live in South West England, wales into the north of england. Quite a lot of cloud through the end of the day and a few scattered showers into the northwest. Around 7 9d. As we go through the night tonight, we will see the rain pep up a little bit gcioss see the rain pep up a little bit across South West England, wales, Northern England as it gradually d rifts steadily Northern England as it gradually drifts steadily eastwards. Behind it, temperatures falling away. Those showers will be wintry in nature. Under clearer skies, scotland, Northern England, you will see temperatures fall
Its thursday 8th february. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Within the next half hour the leader of the house of Commons Andrea leadsom will be presenting the results of a cross Party Investigation into Sexual Harassment at westminster. Well be taking you there live when it starts, but first the findings show that nearly a fifth of people working in parliament have experienced or witnessed Sexual Harassment in the past 12 months. And the report recommends a new code of conduct and compulsory training to help mps understand and prevent harassment. The review was set up last year after several harassment claims against mps and staff. Our assistant Political Editor norman smith is at westminster. We now have a set of proposals which mps will vote on, to revamp procedures for pursuing complaints of Sexual Harassment, a new investigating process, a new code of conduct, but nothing particularly new in terms of sanctions, and that is what will concern many people who work at w