He will testify on possible links between russia and President Trump associates. Nato has confirmed the assassination of a leading politician and is calling on serbia and kosovo to return to associations in brussels. Negotiations in brussels. A conservative political leader was shot to death by unknown attackers in northern kosovo. The Trump Administration is cutting 65 million in funding from the United Nations relief and work agency, a social service body for palestinian refugees. That is less than half of its expected contribution. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im alisa parenti. This is bloomberg and Bloomberg Technology is next. Emily im emily chang and this is Bloomberg Technology. Coming up, bitcoins tumble. The cryptocurrency sees its 2015. Ailey declined since will we see more selling in days to come . Plus, we catch up with arianna huffington. What she has to say about current ideal plans and the me to
And welcome to power lunch. The dow is up above the 25803, holding on to 26,000, up by. 9 of a percent and big games in ibm and boeing. More ahead and Goldman Sachs shares taking a hit on the back of the earning. Well take a deeper dive into the numbers in a few moment. Thank you. Welcome, im tyler mathisen. And here is what else is happening at this hour facebook, google and twitter fold up to capitol hill and are telling congress they are going beyond screening and removing extremist content from their services they are actively fighting against that content and terror. Senate Banking Panel voting again to approve j. Powells nomination for the next fed chairman the vote advances his nomination to the full senate floor and home builder confidence slipping this past month but still hovering near an 18year high melissa. The dow back on the upswing after yesterdays selloff. Bob is at the New York Stock Exchange tracking the action so bob, is it back volatility i mean . There are a lot of
Business is over 40 of earnings, that should only increase from here. Lets now, the shutdown showdown with washington. This is deadline bloom, it feels like they have the economy on President Trump. Apple prepares to bring home overseas cash and announces plans to spread it around. This is 20,000 jobs. , this is business from a political perspective. This is Clean Energy Investment. China is far and away the world leader in terms of the most amount of capital been deployed and the most of the equipment. About 53 of new sales will be electric. Conversations from the north American International auto show. There is more to come. Our group is coming from a degree of buoyancy from the markets but this is market share growth. They can have the option of delegate intact to that vehicle that their grandfather never expected, including, never crashing. It is all i had on bloomberg best. Ahead on bloomberg best. Hello and welcome, i am juliette. Is bloomberg best, your weekly review of the most
Billions of dollars in overseas cash to the u. S. We have the stories. Now to our lead. Amazon has narrowed the field for hq2, its second proposed headquarters in the u. S. 20 cities made the cut. Among them, new york, boston, chicago, miami, and austin. The project is expected to cost 5 billion and create 50,000 jobs. We caught up with our reporter for amazon along with a ceo. I wouldnt read too much into the three areas around washington, d. C. , because amazon is likely targeting labor pools, and those very often cross geographic lines. Even though that could simply be amazon focusing on that general area, but it has to negotiate with different political groups because of geographic boundaries. I know your intel has been digging into the tech hubs in the country. What did you find . Did many of them line up with what amazon has released . We looked at a lot of our data, which we have on almost half a billion people in terms of their skills and capabilities. What you find is that a l
Designing also, caution is in the air as President Donald Trump prepares to address the nation and the world. He will call for unity after a deeply divisive year. Yvonne just starting things off with breaking news out of south korea, Industrial Production numbers missing by a longshot here, here are your numbers, falling 6 for the month of december. We were expecting that we would see a bit of a rebound here of a contraction of 1. 5 . We were expecting in october 6 soe saw that plunge in we have not seen the momentum yet when it comes to these numbers even though export growth still remains quite strong. There is a lot going on with the south korean economy in general. Something to watch here, the month over month numbers not looking good as well. The territories down half of 1 . In the meantime, we have been talking about the red across the screen for the last 24 hours. We are expecting day three of decline here in the asiapacific. As we mentioned, we saw a Global Equity in general. S