Good morning and the meeting will come to work. Welcome todays hearing on the oversight of the general trade commission. On extended a welcome and thank you for appearing. You will all appear roughly this morning. Include fcc chairman joe simons, and noah phillips. Commissioner chopra pretty commissioner Christine Wilson and rebecca slaughter. Cc the established in 1914. Under federal trade commission act. The fcc is chiefly responsible for protecting consumers from unfair, or fraudulent Business Practices in the marketplace. This includes protecting consumers privacy, and security of the data. And harmful uses of technology in combating deceptive advertising and illegal protocols. The fcc is also responsible for educating consumers about fraudulent activity, and predatory Business Practices and Consumer Education is an essential part of their mission. And its intended to inform customer choices help prevent americans from falling victim to fraudsters, cyber criminals another bad actor
Chair connolly the subcommittee chair connolly the subcommittee will reconvene. Are you with us . They are telling me to give them a second. Chair connolly can you unmute and acknowledge that you are with us . I am here, mr. Chairman. Chair connolly if you would stay unmuted so i can swear you in. Ms. Counsel, are you with us . Yes, chairman. Chair connolly and mr. Spires . Yes, chairman. Chair connolly thank you. If all three of you would raise your right hand. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth or affirm the same, so help you god . Let the record show all three of our witnesses in the second panel have affirmed in the positive. Thank you. If you are ready, i will call on you for your fiveminute Opening Statement. And welcome back to our subcommittee. It is good to be back, mr. Chairman. Chair connolly im sorry, i didnt see you. Go ahead. I do not have an Opening Statement. I was told to do something in the Previous Panel, with unanimous consent
Will come to work. Welcome todays hearing on the oversight of the general trade commission. On extended a welcome and thank you for appearing. You will all appear roughly this morning. Include fcc chairman joe simons, and noah phillips. Commissioner chopra pretty commissioner Christine Wilson and rebecca slaughter. Cc the established in 1914. Under federal trade commission act. The fcc is chiefly responsible for protecting consumers from unfair, or fraudulent Business Practices in the marketplace. This includes protecting consumers privacy, and security of the data. And harmful uses of technology in combating deceptive advertising and illegal protocols. The fcc is also responsible for educating consumers about fraudulent activity, and predatory Business Practices and Consumer Education is an essential part of their mission. And its intended to inform customer choices help prevent americans from falling victim to fraudsters, cyber criminals another bad actors. And recently discussed and
Will see the 2020 democratic ticket on stage, together for the very first time. What well do then is take you live to wilmington delaware where former Vice President joe biden will kickoff his campaign with his new president ial runningmate, as Vice President , california senator Kamala Harris each step of the way, what were going to do for you in this final hour is watch the markets, sectors, stocks, commodities for tick by tick reaction. Check it here markets in rally mode for the most instant reaction right now while its tempting to focus on the really huge jump for the nasdac look at this were up 235. Folks the index to watch is the s p. It is now within lets call it just under two points from its first record close since february, the number to watch, 3,386 were at 3,384 and change right now. All right, for months wall street has been gaming just who joe biden might pick as a runningmate and kind of fretting over you who the markets would react. Lets get to one of the top voices o
The cash trade is one hour away. Lets get your top headlines for you off the bloomberg terminal. Trump signsnald executive orders blocking u. S. Residents from doing business with tiktok and wechat. Shares in tencent plummet. The white house and democrats failed to strike a deal on stimulus. Trumps chief of staff says the differences are still significant as the july jobs report looms. We will speak shortly with Standard Life aberdeens deals, flows,bout and his successor. Results are crossing the wire as we speak. Annmarie, what do you see . Annmarie looks like it is a beach. Eps comes in at 7. 0 pounds. And then the first half adjusted pretax is 190 5 Million Pounds. The estimate was just under 180 so that is a beach and we will dig down deeper into these earnings when we have the ceo, next. I know you have some news coming out of berlin right now. Matt that is right. We have Industrial Production right now out of germany. Pretty backward looking because it is data from the month of j