On this afternoon. In asia, the nikkei was down the hang seng was up 0. 23 for european markets, the dax is slightly lower you see slight gains for the cac, the ftse 100, stocks in italy and in spain look at the Treasury Department. The tenyear is yielding 2. 090 . We have a very busy day going on in the markets. From wall street to washington, lets get you through the squawk planner. On the earnings front, three big banks on the docket starting with jpmorgan that will come at about 6 45 a. M we have Goldman Sachs coming in with its earnings. Those should be announced around 7 30 wells fargo earnings should cross the tape at 8 00 a. M Johnson Johnson will also report at 6 50 a. M. Eastern time well bring you a first on cnbc interview with the cfo right after that report. On the data front, we will be getting june retail sales, import and export prices as well that all hits at 8 30 a. M. The other big event on the planner is big tech is back in washington today the house judiciary subco
Which he struck a very humble but sort of defensive tone in saying that libra is not intended to be an investment vehicle. Its intended to be a payment vehicle that the crypt okurancy will not be used for monetary policy, and sort of defending this as a way for facebook to provide Economic Opportunity to its users. But of course, he is going to be facing a very hostile environment when he testifies tomorrow, and certainly well see if that same tone is echoed by the treasury secretary when he speaks in just a few minutes. This is most notable because this comes just days after President Trump tweeted specifically about libra as well as cryptocurrencies, that could be construed, Steven Mnuchin is approaching the podium lets go to him right now. Recently, as you know, theres been a great deal of interest about Digital Assets, including cryptocurrency such as bitcoin and libra. There are many regulatory and supervisory questions regarding libra, virtual assets, and virch wal currencies but