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Tomorrow, a big day on capitol hill and a big day for silicon valley. The ceos of facebook, google, willbet, apple, and amazon all be testifying before the house antitrust subcommittee. We will speak to a member of that committee, representative hank johnson, in just a moment. First, we want to look at how markets are moving ahead of those reports. I want to bring in bloombergs kailey leinz, who has been following the market move today. Kailey we really saw the downward move heading right into the close. Antitrust course that Committee Hearing tomorrow as well as a fed decision. There is a lot going on overall leading to a risk off tone, especially for the nasdaq, which ended the day lower. It really was tech among the biggest laggards today. Of the barrel. M 1. 5 ties were actually up to 2 . Bond proxy stocks getting a boost. We are now sitting at 58 basis points on the 10 year yield, within four basis points of the alltime re ....
Written materials. You are the ema offices that required for all meetings. I expect all members to wear a mask expect when speaking. I recognize myself for an opening statement. More than a year ago, this subcommittee launched an investigation into Digital Markets. The twoives b have been to document problems and since then, weve received millions as well as conducting hundreds of hours of interviews. There were experts here, the subcommittees Ranking Member. We work closely with all members who have taken this work seriously and study the issues. This is the most bipartisan effort ive been involved with. The purpose of todays hearing is to examine the dominance of amaz amazon, apple, facebook and google. Amazon runs the Largest Online marketplace in america, c capturing 70 of all online marketplace sales. It operates a ....
Moment or someone will be caught offguard. There will be several rounds of questioning after the Opening Statements. We have seen the testimony of all four of the ceos. There is a similar theme. These ceos are emphasizing that they are facing competition all all on all fronts. Tech is the most Competitive Industry in the world. In every facet of every business they run, they talk about how they face competition. Mark zuckerberg focuses on china saying that if there is too much regulation, that will give Chinese Companies an advantage. The ceo of alphabet talking nott how google does necessitate competition. Tim cook talking about the app store, the opportunity that it has given companies around the world and the fact that the vast majority of apps in the app store are free. Jeff bezos his testimony is differe ....
Lot going on as stuart did tell you that whole hearing where the tech giants will gather virtually at least. It is parked back maybe half an hour. I was doing back of the napkin guesstimating on their wealth. That is on, i think is worth about 180 billion. Our Charlie Brady follows this thing would know to the penny. I think it is roughly about that. Mark zuckerberg facebook, close to 90 billion, close to 2 billion, tim cook of apple, thanks to appreciation of that stock, he is at around 2 billion. So lets say you were to add all of this. These are numbers. I added it all up. That is 272 billion collectively. These are among the richest men on the planet, particularly when it comes to bezos and zuckerberg. But putting companies combined market cap at north of 5 trillion. If you were to add microsoft to that bunch, microsoft will not be part of this hearing. They represent the five most valuable companies in the world. Isnt that ama ....