Means, what healthy competition means, julia, in this era that were in my take thus far is that theres been a difficulty applying kind of legacy, antitrust law to technology will new ground get broken here because congress, as we learned in elementary school, makes the laws absolutely. And theres been a lot of talk about the need for new, different types of laws. But jon and carl, what i think is really interesting here is the question of how much of todays hearing will really focus on the antitrust issues, which are the purported focus here, and how much will we hear other criticisms, other questions about the likes of hate speech, manipulation, voter manipulation and the spread of misinformation on these platforms such as, you know, youtube which is owned by google as well as on facebook so i think there are a lot of Different Things at play here. While antitrust will be at the center, carl, dont you think well see this veer off into other directions as well yeah. Thats sort of my qu
Im carl kiquintanilla and melis lee. We turn to black friday and all things retail. We might get records for the s p and the nasdaq at least at the open euro at the sixweek high against the dollar having the best run since july. Europe is up and oil is the other story, thats a two and a half year high and that opec meeting next week. Our roadmap begins with the season for shopping. Retailers have focused on the holiday shortened day. Macys hoping the post thanksgiving spending free will end a threeyear sale slump. A massive data breach made public on tuesday and now reports the new ceo has known about the hack for months. It is black friday, the official start of the Holiday Shopping season many shoppers already got a head start. By last night consumers had spend 1. 5 billion online. Consumer spending up nearly 17 year on year until 5 00 p. M. Last night according to adobe analystics which tracks Online Transactions at the top 100 retailers. I think the headline in the journal today on
On this black friday, were still here at post nine. Im Carl Quintanilla with melissa lee. Dow up 15 points a holidayshortened session today. Markets are going to close in an hours time and eventually we will get to kelly evans and bill evans for closing bell. All eyes on retailers as it is black friday. We saw strength in macys in particular and some curious weakness in shares of target which have been the real standout laggard, at least in the retail space. A lot going on, whether its retail, black friday or oil, by the way, which got close to 59 earlier and right now 58. 83. Busy week next week packed with powells confirmation, yellen testimony and then that opec meeting and even more reports today about a potential framework between at least russia and opec. Right, and you were mentioning some of the alltime highs in todays session, even though its quiet. The alltime highs are in fact notable. Amazon really being helped, of course, by black fridays strength here. Facebook is also an
Weak so far. The dow and s p 500 even with those losses on wednesday are on pace for the best week in five nasdaq with the biggest week in seven weeks. In morngs ding dow futures up b5 points, s p up by 3, and the nasdaq up by 6 overnight in asia, the nikkei ended up just slightly. Up by 27 points. The hang seng by a half percentage point in europe this morning, with some of the early trading, it looks like the dax is up by 0. 3 the cac in france up bay half percentage point stocks are slightly weaker in london, but italian and spanish stocks are in the green. Also look at crude oil prices. Crude jumping on wednesday by 2. 1 , setting a 2. 5year high. It was sitting at 58. 02. This morning were up again, 63 cents higher to 58. 65. A couple of corporate stories were watching Teva Pharmaceuticals will lay off thousands of employees in israel and the United States they will be reportedly sending termination letters to 10 of its 10,000 employees earlier this month we heard teva said it wou
Ben at top of the hour. Now on bbc news. Hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, im steven sackur. Can and should anything be done to halt the inexorable rise of the western worlds Global Technology giants, the likes of amazon, google and facebook . Over the past decade, weve seen these tech titans come to dominate data collection, cloud computing, retail, social media, publishing the list goes on. But now there is pushback from antimonopoly lawyers and sceptical politicians. My guest, American Lawyer lina khan, is in the vanguard of the movement to tame big tech, but whose interest is she serving . Lina kahn in dallas, texas, welcome to hardtalk. Thanks for having me. Do you believe there is a new momentum behind the push to tame the big, the giant Technology Companies in the western world . Yes, i think there absolutely is. I think weve seen a transformation in Public Opinion over the last few years and the public case for how these firms have so much power and how theyre