A piece over the weekend diving into the tech giants Cloud Computing arm saying its quote snuffing out the competition. Joining us now to discuss with us on set. Happy monday. Good to have you. The central question i think here is when is this sort of behavior selling your house brand not okay Grocery Stores do it. Best buy does it. You know, they got best buy internal brand tvs and what not. Is amazon so powerful and got good market share that this becomes kind of a soul crushing and anticompetitive activity. This is one of the Biggest Companies in america inside one of the Biggest Companies in america. If you spun it off it would be massive within amazon which has been accused of this kind of thing around retail, around all kinds of services it offers, its not a great look for it. Actually, this company even though google and others have gotten into the business, it still dominates and keeps it rating feature after feature after feature. If youre a Small Software player, youve got to
With more. Thank you, andrew the Commerce Ministry said negotiators agreed to canceling tariffs in stretches the additional tariffs or some of them had to go. Also the Ministry Said from beijings perspective, the tariffs needed to be lifted at the same time by the same amount, how much could be negotiated the time and place of the deal signing has yet to be decided. Since then, the state media has been really focused on the point that if the u. S. Wants to have a trade deal, there has to be a removal of tariffs the state meeting says these have to be removed together saying this shows them as equals separately today, the authorities here sentenced nine people to joail including one with a suspended death sentence for smuggling fentanyl into the United States. As a sign that there was some calculated move behind this decision, the commission had said after the sentencing that the decision was made in accordance with the consensus reached between president s xi and President Trump. Sugge
Good morning. Ll. Welcome to our online viewers as well. And Oregon International Economic Policy and m. Delighted to welcome you. This is part of a series that we do in this generously supported videby alcoa foundation. We do a lot of things and it would be topical so we have a dream team up here after that but let me first make some announcements in the case of some sort of security event with the stairs down to the alley. And to number 2b will do a break and there will be coffee and restrooms. And finally if you have any fonds or noisemaker put them on silent we would appreciate that. I have been watching trade for decades there have been heated debates. But i dont think because ever been like this. Item remember a time it was this much controversy around the topic of trade and trade policy. There are some underlying trends that our worrisomeowing o with said gdp. Grown fa with the protectionism and then to have the global trade negotiations. With the multilateral negotiations with
Good morning. Ll. Welcome to our online viewers as well. And Oregon International Economic Policy and m. Delighted to welcome you. This is part of a series that we do in this generously supported videby alcoa foundation. We do a lot of things and it would be topical so we have a dream team up here after that but let me first make some announcements in the case of some sort of security event with the stairs down to the alley. And to number 2b will do a break and there will be coffee and restrooms. And finally if you have any fonds or noisemaker put them on silent we would appreciate that. I have been watching trade for decades there have been heated debates. But i dont think because ever been like this. Item remember a time it was this much controversy around the topic of trade and trade policy. There are some underlying trends that our worrisomeowing o with said gdp. Grown fa with the protectionism and then to have the global trade negotiations. With the multilateral negotiations with
Good morning. Welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc, im sara eisen. Im wilfred frost. Good morning to you from me as well. A pinch and a punch, first day of the month. Do you remember that one . No. First day of the month. Is that a british thing . A pinch and a punch . For the first day of the month. Lets check in on markets. We did see gains across the board for these three indices for the month of january. Albeit we ended down about 0. 6 for the dow. The nasdaq and the s p basically flat for the day. As i said, gains for january. There they are. The nasdaq the best performer, up 4. 3 . The dow up 0. 5. Back to the futures today, we are expecting a positive open. Gains around the rest of the world as well. 38 points higher for the dow. S p 500 higher by 5, nasdaq higher 2. 5. Yesterday we saw a broad riskoff day. The tenyear trefasury note slipped down to 2. 44. The yield on the tenyear, 2. 4 . One factor that could be helping the dow, its our top corporate story, apple. Shares of th