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Since at least early 2016. King dollar continuing to shine. When we came in this morning, we had that big story overnight out of hong kong come out of china with the markets there taking a dive for the worst. Didnt appear to be any real news, any catalyst, but the structure of things going on in terms of the economy over there, as well as the geopolitical situation in hong kong. Guy lets talk about whats been happening here in london. There has been an incident within the last halfhour thats tak...

On 110 billion of product. The apple watch among products subject to the new levy. China responds with incremental duties on 75 billion of u. S. Goods. Official pmis for china show a Manufacturing Sector that is still in contraction. The u. S. The u. K. Labour party readies legislation to prevent a no deal brexit as Boris Johnson pledges billions in domestic spending when parliament returns tomorrow. Good morning. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Im looking at bones. We are seeing that actually the...

It will be another record close. On the week, the dow on pace for its first two week decline since august. Some who think this pullback we are seeing today and on the week could continue. This is a great chart that Katie Stockton shared with our new weekly charting segment earlier this week. This basically suggests we could see a bit of a pullback before stocks climb higher. This is the s p 500 in white over the last year. Katie is saying its likely to move down toward this area theed the cloud,...

She was 60. Al news, 24 hours per day global news, 24 hours per day. This is bloomberg. Bloomberg technology is next. This is bloomberg technology. Holiday cheer echoes for amazon. What tech gadgets one out. Nvestors can hack it sony apologizes after its twitter account is compromised. Steve ballmer unplugged. Americas richest sports owner sounds off on bill gates and donald trump. Now to the lead. The consumer came roaring back this holiday. Consumer confidence came in better than expected, mak...

Lets get you up to speed. We got the jobs data finally the key metric that was going to tell us where the u. S. Economy was at. This is the very latest. 178,000 gain. Lets pull up the chart on the bloomberg and get a better sense of where we are. 178,000. The market was looking for 180 thousand gain, slightly lower than the market had expected. Also the unemployment rate, nineyear low. Thats the bottom half of that chart. It was not all positive p review are looking at comments from the morgan c...

The cfo tells us everything is going to plan. Committed. Eel we are executing. Things are under control. Anna and sums up for facebook, as the social media giant has mobile revenue surging. A very warm welcome to countdown. I am an edwards. Manus i am manus cranny. Anna we had Credit Suisse numbers earlier. Bmp reporting secondquarter q k n÷numbers, secondquarter nt profit at 2. 56 billion, ahead of the 2. 1 billion estimates. They had again from selling a stake in visa europe. We know now they...

Right now in the room across the way, governor christie is about to speak and be interviewed by our john harwood later in the day nelson peltz and scott walper is back. We have special guests as well. And so, hello to john, kate, josh. Three big themes from delivering alpha that i want to bring you up to date on. Number one, treasury secretary jack lew there should be a Corporate Tax rate. Maybe 28 as the basic rate for corporate earnings which would bring us back down more in line with some of ...

Out of this as they possibly can by opening up last night, 5 00. When you talk about the doorbuster deals, though, and you talk about the next couple of days, how much this meant or the last couple of days, Retail Federation says about 90 Million People last year or shopped black friday, thanksgiving, representing some 4. 3 of all holiday sales. Theyve been doing it since yesterday. Ashley . Ashley and i can tell by the crowds behind you, are they looking at things, or are they actually buying ....

Also, toyota talking about under the hood, keeping its top spot in auto sales rankings so far this year topping rivals gm and volkswagen. Japanese car sales topping 7. 4 million vehicles. Thats up. 1 from a year ago. Strong sales in the u. S. Offset slowdowns in thailand and china. Joe, whats going on in washington . In washington this week the redskins are probably dealing with what was a disappointing because they were ahead. They were ahead by two touchdowns right at the beginning of the seco...

So, Current Conditions 112. The expectations component 103. 3 in august versus the reuters consensus of 103, so a little bit broader. Ifo has no revisions to the july indices. Lets get a breakdown on this. On the phone from munich, an expert at the Ifo Institute, helped to compile this story. Doctor, good to speak to you. Its been a while. Thanks for joining us this morning. Whats the key takeaway from what this survey says about the state of the German Economy . The strongest increase at this m...