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Increase sanctions on iran road map begins with watching the fed. Investors expect the second rate cut in a decade. Stocks mostly lower ahead of the open. Fedex is falling this morning. Shares down in the premarket over trade worries policy uncertainty, of course, as well continuing to weigh on the delivery giant and right idea, wrong approach, House Speaker nancy pelosi sitting down with jim youll hear what she had to say about the president s china trade strategy as we said, a few moments ago, the president tweets, ive just instructed the secretary of the treasury to substantially increase sanctions on the country of iran. So nice that our country is now Energy Independent the u. S. Is in better shape than ever before, Strongest Military by far, biggest economy, no longer even close, number one in energy, maga e ....
Welcome to this hearing on the subcommittee on antitrust policy and consumer rights. Today we are pleased to have with us the chairman of the federal trade commission, joseph simons, and the assistant attorney general for the antitrust division at the department of justice, makan delrahim. Welcome to both of you. As an initial matter, as a matter of housekeeping, we have been informed we may have a block of more votes starting about an hour from now. The practical matter, we may be able to push it to an hour and a half from now, but before we hit the recess at some point we will likely have to go to recess to cast a few votes. We will have to play some of that by ear. I apologize in advance. Theres no way to predict these in advance. It does seem to be an uncanny event, with antitrust subcommittee hearings. It seems to be a good predictor, albeit an unintentional predictor of when votes are going to occur. As both of you know, ive been critical of the fact that we have two federal agen ....