And subcommittee on Global Competitiveness will come to order. I know this seems a little strac strange with an empty room except for three witnesses live in front of me and many of our colleagues are going to be joining us virtually. But i want to welcome all of you nonetheless to this important hearing. This subcommittee continues to do its work in exploring the unfair trade practices of foreign governments, especially china and russia. The topic of censorship in china is a common one because it is growing effect on business in the United States as well as culture. Last fall, for example, the National Basketball association had the Market Access blocked in china because an individual american citizen using a media platform not allowed in china expressed a political opinion. Now the topics have become more manufactu important. The timely information about the spread of covid19 due to chinese censorship has contributed to the havoc wreaked on our economy and health and indeed the pande
Senate committee on finance, subcommittee on International Trade customs and Global Competitiveness will come to order. I know this seems a little strange, with an empty room, except for three witnesses live in front of me and many of our colleagues are going to be joining us virtually. But i want to welcome all of you nonetheless, to this important hearing. This subcommittee continues to do its work in exploring the unfair trade practices, a foreign governments especially china and russia. The topic of censorship in china is a common one, because its growing effect on business in the United States. Is as well as culture. Last fall for example, the National Basketball association has its Market Access locked in china. Because an individual american citizen, using a media platform not even allowed in china, expressed a political opinion. Now the topic has become much more important, the lack of timely Accurate Information about the spread of covid19, due to chinese censorship has contri
And online censorship by countries such as china. Richard gere chaired the International Campaign for tibet testifies at the Senate Finance subcommittee hearing. The Senate Committee on finance come subcommittee on International Trade cousins and Global Competitiveness will come to order. I know this seems a little strange with an empty room except for three witnesses live in front of me and many of our colleagues are going to be joining us virtually, but i want to welcome all of you nonetheless to this important hearing. This subcommittee continues to do its work in exploring the unfair trade practices of foreign governments, especially china and russia. The topic of censorship in china is a common one because its a growing effect on business in the United States. Last fall, for example, the National Association had its Market Access blocked in china because an individual american citizen using a media platform not even allowed in china expressed a political opinion. Now the topic has
Floodwaters in michigan last week and ended up maine galing with toxic chemicals from a dow Chemical Plant i have fair and cousins from drill our magazine to talk about it this is pretty disturbing article i mean if youre a resident or a farmer around that plant youre in big trouble right now but ill tell you the take on it was it was so odd to me the take on it was well the federal governments responsible no the federal governments not responsible for what happened here theyve allowed the infrastructure to fall apart and theyve allowed dow chemical to do everything they wanted to do with their toxins in that Middle America that nobody to blame but them i really dont see anybody to blame but no right and this is a you know were suddenly dealing with this issue but these were failures that were set up for decades as you mentioned the infrastructure the superfund site the dow chemical was running or or you know not cleaning up basically they needed to clean up the infrastructure there to
Which most ceos sounded positive in some aspect of the business. Is where we are on the s p 500. Some Tech Companies leading that higher. We had alphabet coming out, very positive for the markets today. Some conflicting headlines on gilead right now, though i will say, different tests for different things. Some tests prove some things, other tests fail. That doesnt mean it wont be a tool in the fight against covid19. Thats for sure. The 10 year yield at 59 basis points. We saw a little bit of buying after the gdp data. We were obviously expecting a terrible number. Crude is trading a bit higher, but at 15. 46, nothing to write home about. A slightly comber vix today. A slightly comber vix today. Guy guy the Banking Sector one of the bestperforming here in europe today as we continue with the European Bank reporting season. Deutsche, standard chartered, butlays all trading higher, still bracing for the full impact of the virus pandemic. Heres what some of the executives at some of those