Cars. First, twitter says it has found and deleted more than 1000 fake accounts created by the Chinese Government used to undermine the hong kong protestant hong kong protests. Facebook said it also acted on a tip from twitter, finding some fake accounts. They say they will no longer accept advertising from state backed media worldwide. We are joined by a fellow from new america and in washington, brett, who set up the first tax first task force to counter disinformation in the white house. Sarah, what exactly do we know . Sarah they are finding these coordinated efforts from china trying to discredit the protesters, calling them violent, saying what they are doing is maybe backed by western resources, just trying to cause tension within the group. Emily twitter says it kicked off 936 accounts. Facebook, seven pages, three groups. We have statements from both companies. They said, overall, these accounts were attempting to sow discord in hong kong. Facebook saying, although the people
Better its very difficult to have an opinion on the market. Tremendous market confusion. I called people the last few days and they said, bob, give me an opinion are we going to have troops in hong kong or not going to have troops in hong kong . Is there going to be progress on the trade talks or not going to be progress on the trade talks just by the end of the year, is the fed going to aggressively cut rates or is the fed not going to aggressively cut rates . And most importantly, bob, can you tell us if the Global Economy will stabilize by the end of the year or not stabilize . This is a lot to model for aflt lot of these growth ml that people have, bond yields are one of the most important components its a difficult situation the one thing that makes me a little optimistic is the bull argument, bob, separate the manufacturing economy from the consumer economy and today we had reports from two of the Big Consumer Companies in the world walmart and alibaba. The big u. S. Consumer com
We should also note that yield curves around the world are feeling the pressure as well we did have on friday the german bund, the 10year, falling to its lowest level ever. As for the asian markets, the nikkei down by 1. 75 hang seng also pressured by what is going on in hong kong in terms of the protests there, down 3 . Shaun hi shanghai down 1. 6 in europe, red arrows across the board. Dax is down 1. 35 . Ftse down, as well we have a stronger dollar against the major currencies weaker crude, wti down 0. 7 . Brent down 0. 75 . Couple safe haven trades working this morning, gold prices are up. They actually have been on a great run. They were under 1300 about two months ago you see them up only slightly, little less than 1 , probably because they had been so strong lately not a lot of oomph year. Bitcoin also getting a little bit of a boost right here. Obviously, a lot of capital and motion across borders. That could help the sentiment toward bitcoin you see it up 7 at 11,750 lets talk
Is there an echo in here . Amazon wants to put alexa in cars. Has foundtter says it and deleted more than 1000 fake accounts created by the Chinese Government used to undermine the hong kong protestant hong kong protests. Acebook said it also acted on tip from twitter, finding some fake accounts. They say they will no longer state advertising from act media worldwide. We are joined by a fellow from new america and in washington, brett, who set up the first tax force first task force to counter disinformation in the white house. Sarah, what exactly do we know . Sarah they are finding these coordinated efforts from china trying to discredit the protesters, calling them violent, saying what they are doing is maybe backed by western resources, just trying to cause tension within the group. Emily twitter says it kicked off 936 accounts. Facebook, seven pages, three groups. We have statements from both companies. They said, overall, these accounts were attempting to sow discord in hong kong.
Rest of the year all the way into 2020. But first back out to that made in america event down there in washington. Things, even though they are running smoothly here at home, theyre looking much rockier overseas for china. For example, china seeing its slowest growth since 1992. Huawei is reportedly planning big layoffs here in the u. S. While more u. S. Companies are ditching operations in china. We begin here with edward lawrence. He is live at the white house with how both sides are responding on this monday. Hello, edward. Reporter good day, blake. Well keep an eye on when President Trump comes out. The president woke up this morning with the economy on his mind. The president it touting in tweets, chinas economy in the second quarter, is the slowest in 27 years. He adds tariffs are having major impact on china with companies wanting to leave china for nontariff countries. Now adding that the president believes china wished it had not broken the original deal in the first place. Th