Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla Julia Boorstin and jon fortt are with us for the hour the dow session alone was down 236. Were slightly off that s p 500 is off the early lows as well zoom helping to lead the nasdaq 100, john. Looking forward to disney and cisco earnings to night. That is definitely true, carl the big themes, protect investors today. Number one, game on. The play station 5 from sony is shipping and in stores as of today. Joining the x box series x this marks the start of the biggest console refresh. Really the only major console refresh in seven years its happening during pandemic lockdown and then youve got china. I mean coming off of a record breaking singles day where the chinese Online Consumer is flexing. We have to think about that exposed deadline for tiktok to do a deal in the u. S. For those assets i dont know if the president is interested in shutting down tiktok anymore fair to say his attention is elsewhere. Thats right, jon today was the day wh
Office. That event getting underway momentarily. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] bythis period is marked mostly difficult, negative news, with one good news at the very end of this period of six months, the announcement of the agreement between the european union, 20 years in the making. Whether the agreement will be obviously, remains, a question mark that we will detail in negotiations. Different elements of the agreement. It is a complicated manner, but it is important that the agreement has been confirmed. The, quite important is lift of the veto the United States had on negotiations between brazil and the oecd this isrds brazil a very important information, very important development, was an accomplishment of president bolsonaros visit here in washington in april. Again, remains to be seen how the negotiations between br
This period is marked by mostly difficult, negative news, with one good news at the very end of this period of six months, the announcement of the agreement between the european union, 20 years in the making. Whether the agreement will be implemented remains, obviously, a question mark that we will detail in negotiations. Different elements of the agreement. It is a complicated manner, but it is important that the agreement has been confirmed. Also, quite important is the lift of the veto the United States had on negotiations between brazil and the oecd geared toward brazil. This is a very important information, very important development, was an accomplishment of president bolsonaros visit here in washington in april. Again, remains to be seen how the negotiations between brazil and the member countries will develop. We know that this was accomplished thanks to the white house over the objections of ustr and commerce department. So we start in a scenario where it is uncertain. Uncerta
Democracy. Next, on capitol hill policy advocates testify on ways to protect consumers from unsafe online counterfeit goods. The Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing focused on the rapid growth of counterfeiting on ecommerce platform. This is about an hour and a half. [background noises] this will come to order like to thank our witnesses for participating today. I would also like to thank a Ranking Member tillis and his staff for working in a collaborative way to put this hearing together. I would like to welcome senator geraldo. This is our fifth hearing of the subcommittee this year. Center tillis you and your team continue to be great partners in moving forward. Just to set the stage more broadly on the focus of this hearing, Online Shopping has expanded your dramatic has exploded in recent years. Last year, sales exceeded 1 trillion for the first time as millions and millions of americans turn to Online Platforms for ebay to amazon to find the brands they trust at the prices they
This is al jazeera. Live from studio fourteen Harrod Al Jazeera headquarters and. Youre watching the news grid. In Papua New Guinea a police have forced Asylum Seekers out of a decommissioned prison camp they refuse to leave about fifty were taken away in buses but more than three hundred remain saying that they fear for their safety we hear the very latest from our reporter on the scene. Also on the great man agrees to take thousands of wrecking jail refugees who fled to bangladesh at least six hundred thousand have a state since the military crackdown began in august well delve into the details and the role the u. S. Secretary of state played in all of this plus three months ago deadly Hurricane Harvey made landfall in texas today more than eighty people it was the most expensive tropical fike turn on record two hundred billion dollars worth of damage in around his county hundreds still remain homeless he didnt live to tell that story and im leah hardy and us from in sanaa sixteen is