Themselves as a platform investors seem to be buying it with that stock up 13 this week it just keeps going up nearly 4 today and it laid out the case for longer term growth and ironically, it will come from the good old phone, right a lot of that conference was focused on the zoom phonewhich basically enables you to take it wherever you go. And there is s ais an axios rept saying that uber may be looking to celebrate its elevate unit, the moon shot flying taxi unit it reflects obsession with profit ability, but i might argue that it reflects his obsession to please sharehold s shareholders backing away from some of the longer term ambitions such as freight, elevate now and as well as selfdriving cars, it does raise a few questions. Yes, it may give the share price a bump in the short term, about where does it position uber lon term yeah, when these companies dont have a clear business Start Talking about that were a Media Company or a Helicopter Company or were a freight company, real
Let us quickly check on the markets. Quite a lot going on. I am looking at the stoxx 600 in europe which is gaining a touch on the backs of gains in Energy Companies and a bullish outlook from one of the sectors bellwether. Looking at the dollar. And the fed and what we will hear from powell. Therude oil including impact of the opec meeting. We need to wait a little more to see how long we will cut production. A lineup our lineup today is looking pretty good. We feature some of the top names in banking and economics including Tidjane Thiam. We speak strategy and outlook on the Global Economy. And jim oneill. He speaks u. K. And emerging markets. Later, we will also speak with John Studzinski from blackstone. Let us get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Nejra in the u. S. , the Senate Tax Bill is headed for a debate. Should it pass, Republican Leaders will have to hammer out a compromise. Two republican members of the senate what your say they may not agree to vote the measure
Eurodollar. We are seeing a little bit more of dollar strength. We did hear from the European Central bank. One of its Board Members saying it should adjust its policy guide before the summer. It shouldnt have any problems in the inside of the asset purchases. Thats got the moves a little bit jittery. Its having an impact on eurodollar. Seeing a little bit of movement on those german bonds. , we have information from trumps first year. Later on, we get a view on trade in the global economy. Still to come, jim oneill. He talks emerging markets. To the firstaight word news. Nejra brent crude has gone through 70 for the first time in three years. Closing level yesterday. Hedge funds hit bullish bests. A view that opec and its partners will end their supply cuts early is spreading. All predicting a wind that will start from the middle of the year. Offeringgovernment is a proposal to bring on the taps. According to three people with knowledge, they are considering a plan to raise expenditur
In the meantime, this is what im looking at. The euro having a little bit lower. Spain continuing to be on edge after its Prime Minister moved of thethe authority region. The nikkei up 1. 11 . Sent thees election region to elect to a record. Thats your market check. Lets get to the bloomberg first world news. Catalan separatists are meeting today to formulate their response. Catalan president is set to be ousted, but he vowed to fight on. His allies are signaling he could be declaring independence this week. Rex tillerson is calling on european allies to support new sanctions on iran. He is warning that companies doing business with tehran are doing so at their own risk. He was in riyadh for talks trying to bolster a new alliance between saudi arabia and iraq. Saudi arabia has rebuffed his requested in the fourmonth isolation of qatar. Mays efforts to get brexit legislation through parliament has hit a low new load lock new roadblock. Political political fragility was underlined by the
Well, i agree 100 , mr. President. Thank you very much and again, a tremendous honor to have you in the United States and at maralago. Thank you very much. That is the president. With the president of china. As kayla told you a few minutes ago, no translation in the room. We have had somebody who speaks mandarin listen to that tape and rough translation, but equates to Something Like this meeting has very important meeting for the relationship for china and america. The president was very welcoming. We talked in depth about a lot of issues and built a trust and friendship between china and america and we want to keep developing building that relationship. Probably considered the most bilateral of his tenure so r far. I cant imagine anything other that that could be the case especially give p the economic implications between these two. China, a huge country. I found President Trumps comments to be fascinating because he started with calling the chinese delegation, interesting to be wit