This is the must broadcasting around the world and covering all aspects of business and how it affects you im christiane and im british born washington here that we have on deck today u. S. Markets are surging following the signing of the phase one trade deal between the United States and china the water markets around the globe are reacting and what can we expect in the markets as we approach to negotiators to do walking the Simpler Trading is on hand to dig into the details. Of just some new developments in the feds a sector as a Major Players are making moves in the field bring you up to speed with our analysis of the Welcome International magazine for attorney Myles Edwards to give us the love on the regulations and in the face we have so much to get to the lets get to it. While the m. S. C. I. World and next and the u. S. Markets are at record highs following the signing of the face. One trade deal between china and the us most analysts do not attribute the rally to this much ado about nothing agreement instead this equity rally is mainly driven by the Central Bank Policies and its constant money pumped. Everybody assumes rightly so in my view that the Central Banks around the world are going to print money as long as is necessary the japanese has said they will the europeans the english you know the Federal Reserve i mean this is madness were all going to pay a price some day but in the meantime theres a lot of fun for a lot of people. And one of the trade deal provided some measure relief there werent any positive surprises for the market it only provided a psychological relief for the market temporarily calming the volatility in asia however the nikkei and flat the shanghai composite fell half a percent and in the all his press interview he did not characterize this as a quote groundbreaking move moment instead he summed it up as to what weve been saying all along it help to alleviate the current tensions in trade friction and eliminate market uncertainty it is to stabilize expectations and enhance confidence over in europe and also didnt react to president from self promotion the dax and the footsie traded down and the cac was virtually unchanged likewise the us markets continue to rally were also not predicated on this trade agreement but rather on the back of Strong Bank Earnings coming out of Morgan StanleyGoldman Sachs and j. P. Morgan. And now i want to market we actually bring in t. J. Watkins director of stocks a Simpler Trading so that was extremely anticlimactic after all this drama all this hype of dragging this out for over a year and a half now the Market Reaction was crickets so is space to going to be the same thing or that the markets learn now after phase one that nothing ever really changes. Well there was a bit in the market a bit of a bump in the market anyway it could have been with the banks and financial and stuff like that but overall it has alleviated some tensions and generally were happy about it there has been a lot of chaos surrounding the trade war and trade tensions and this is one step that has been telegraphed by the trumpet ministration for a few months and so far happened with our january 16th signing so you know were were fairly ok with this and im curious to see where phase 2 does go they were talking quite a bit of big words during that ceremony yesterday and now as part of phase one china continues to open up its markets its markets are chinese Financial Institutions able actually cope with foreign competition at this time. Yeah i dont see any reason why they wouldnt its not like theyre 3rd world country coming into a 1st world although theyve had some experience they have a Financial System theyre doing just fine if anything they should bring a little bit more out there and i think that theyre up for the task and can do just fine as competition stiffens and they get more out there so we are seeing kind of a Global Market melt up right now and 6 cellaring at a pace of the central bank cant really restrain bridgewaters the Largest Hedge Fund in the world issued a starting to report that as a result of the coming inflation surge and the ballooning u. S. Budgets the status of the u. S. Dollar as a World Reserve currency could be threatened what do you think about that. That sounds like a whole lot of doom and gloom honestly im not sure what other currency would be used i mean the dollar is all around the world most countries really prefer it and it is the the main currency that everybody uses and so i just dont see where were looking at is trying to replace that one thing the bridgewater did say is that they see a rise in gold and i definitely agree that in fact a simpler trade in myself weve been directing people to start looking into gold and gold related products as a way to kind of hedge but to have some defensive plays to combat against inflation but what about countries such as russia and china and india who are actively taking the u. S. Dollar out of their currency reserves rotation theyre actually starting to decrease it from over 30 percent of their portfolio down to less than 20 and theyve been doing that for the big hat for them but they are happy 2019 and contained to do sell referring to trade and settle their trades in their own National Currency whether its the ruble the r. And b. Or in india with their currency it seems to me that a bad might be more of a political situation how were saying america 1st they want to maybe go back and say hey wed like to strengthen our own economy and give a little bit more to our own people and say this is our country this is what were going to do and we dont need to necessarily rely or. Divvy up everything in american dollars so i think it comes more from a different aspect as opposed to more of an economical one like that. Continue on to another trade kind of situation that were in here the u. S. Said it also just passed the u. S. Embassy a deal on thursday replacing the 26 year old nafta how is the market digesting this news and is it making any changes over the north american markets here. So far were going to have to just wait and see how things kind of change and as these rules and how the agreements and new trade talks go were going to have to just give a little bit more time to see how that actually functions Companies Need time to adjust you know Business Plans need to adjust the other thing is we kind of need to figure out whats actually in this thing you know a lot of people argue that well the u. S. Embassy is just a redone ok im sure there are some differences i got to dig through that thing and really see what what the changes are but i know that trump and the trumpet ministration really have been. A big proponent of it and id like to see what some of those differences are but so far id say lets go ahead and in them so far the markets are doing well with it and all of this is great for president optically but one of the big issues with the u. S. Embassy as well as the u. S. Tied craig name it its all them down to enforcement this has always been like the central issues surrounding this how are they coping with that. Meant as always the case for any kind of law or rule or trade agreement i mean you think about all the things that were arguing about in the country you know if we talk about immigration well you know it doesnt matter if we put rules and laws on the books if nobodys in forcing it and so it really does come down to an important factor of weve got to stick to these things its on the books we need to enforce it and i think that the trumpet ministration generally has been pretty strong about enforcing things in the laying down the law and sticking to it so if they come out with new rules i think that theres no reason to doubt that they wouldnt be strong about enforcing them to you walk ins dr stock thats simply trying thank you so much for your insight. Thank you its. Electric vehicle maker tesla is planning to build a design and Research Center in china to create what they characterize as quote chinese style and quote vehicles the company made the announcement by their official we had account writing in order to achieve a shift of made in china to design in china tesla c. E. O. Elon musk has proposed a very cool thing set up a design and Research Center in china now the post so we chat was a recruitment call of sorts asking for applications from designers and other staff by the 1st of february along with the post tesla included design drawings that could indicate what theyre looking for in the near future now at this time it is unclear where this facility would be located and when it would be good again designing tesla vehicles last week while celebrating teslas 1st public delivery event for model 3 vehicles made in china musk said the company will also design an electric car in china intended for a Global Market. Pay 200000000. 00 for north. And i start up that specializes in bringing intelligence to Smart Devices apple is now on an acquisition spree to make up for lost ground in a Key Technology area. Runs Machine Learning on edge devices that those are smart appliances that operate beyond the reach of traditional Cloud Data Centers that handle most of the processing now this has become an important aspect in ai as it allows the data to be kept on the device rather than in the cloud a very important differentiation as apple competes with google and facebooks offerings this Technology Reduces the network demands caused by and allows the application to run even if it loses connection to the cloud apple has been on a choir for an increasing amount of Smaller Companies in the past 2 years ever since john sheehan and the former head of. Search and ai at google joined the space other acquisitions in the space include laser like dr silk lads lattice data tool of john and terry. And now kristie this is actually quite a fascinating because we were just talking about this off the air yesterday about the fact that siri was purchased about 10 years ago for 200000000. 00 by apple and now thats actually kind of become one of their flagship products in its kind of a i but its really a personal of say the Voice AssistantStyle Technology but could this be the next big thing that is really a flagship product for apple i think it really is because right now they are losing market share in the in their Smartphone Technology area so right now i think they are branching more to smarter appliances and once they have this Edge Computing technology on edge devices they will basically be able to control your own home imagine Edge Computing on your smartphone similar to what Silicon Valley referenced especially when youre not really references specially when youre not actually using the cloud to do this computing it also could have helped with privacy as well so thats something to really keep in mind here so its time now for a quick break but here. With the space expanding at a breakneck pace the cryptocurrency field is seeing some new Major Players move into the sector we break down the latest issues facing cryptocurrency and what the future of the future of regulation holds for the state of fin tech as we go to break here the numbers at the close. To 0. The study just one magic bullet you could actually come up with something to talk about his baby bond talking about ways we get Access Capital in capitalism capitals important so we could actually have programs that actually help folks who want to do that but when you give everybody a 1000. 00 im a poor person im going to consume that and if youre rich youre going to invest that equity the wealth the spirit is going to grow because youre youre not using your money to do it can so youre literally buy more crazy things and then my landlord knowing that i got a 1000. 00 and you just go raise my rent so then you get your inflation going on and there. 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Digital payments is becoming mainstream nearly 22 years since pay pal started to disrupt the way money gets transferred after 22 years Digital Payments has finally outpaced traditional cash and checks the Federal Reserve reported that the number of checks payments in 2800 fell below the number of automated Clearing House debit transfers for the 1st time ever Online Shopping now has made mobile payments like ben momar popular but with the rise of additional payments privacy and security are now problems and those are starting to crop up now shopping and transact online could expose a customers personal information such as Online Shopping activities purchases and even card information for the most part of the u. S. Privacy laws do not limit the personal information institutions can collect about a customer and what they can do with that data that means that businesses can use bits and pieces of your personal data to put together a complete profile about you your habits spending trends your credit worthiness preferences your medications your family and household this in turn will paint a picture of your lifetime value to the business which they will then carefully target to extract every bit out before selling your profile to the next business. In the chairman of the u. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission says big quote in a theory of our commodities but the classification of ripple is still up in the air during an interview with the chatter earlier this week c f t c chair Heath Tarbert said are right now because underneath there are the 2 that we think fall under our jurisdiction now when asked about the status of ripple c. F. C. Chief added his or her. Sation has been working with the securities and Exchange Commission over the last year to figure out which falls in what box meanwhile the former head of the c. S. T. C. J. Christopher john carlo known as crypto dad if for his support of crypto currencies is launching a think tank to push the idea of digitizing the u. S. Dollar giancarlo who left his post as chairman of the c f t c last year says the nonprofit Digital Dollar Foundation will investigate converting the u. S. Dollar into a fully electronic currency using Block Chain Technology so with all of this i think we need to do a bit of a crypto classification one o one here kristie because i like to look at you as one of our key experts in this space so. This is been an issue with the crypto space for a long time so you see says that things are securities unless we say theyre not securities now to see if you see chair says bitcoin theorem the other commodities but ripple well it could be a security it could in fact be a commodity so is crypto a commodity is it a security or is it something altogether different well i think its really unfair to blanket all of crypto currencies under the blanket term of security until its proven otherwise unless its like have a trial by air a kind of basis i think this is really unfair for the entire industry and it has stagnate the entire industry because security laws are complicated and theyre very expensive and most of these companies they start to i. C. A. O. Are imo whatever the new fundraising method is nowadays in order not only to not to purposely circumvent regulation but rather because at the fish and con a cost basis for that sufficient to file for registration under security a law that says hundreds of thousands of dollars most mainly what science cant really afford and now if were playing if were playing devils advocate here on the whole commodities versus securities idea now i know you would venture to be previously that its hard to say its a commodity because its not like oil or gas but i look at it as like a precious metal thats used in. Our cell phones today right so those may not have a whole other lot to their uses but their use for electronics could we look at the block chain as kind of a commodity because this is a technology that may be used in every aspect of our life in the near future i mean it certainly is more of a commodity than a security but i would actually argue that the entire cut the space as a whole should be considered a different Asset Classes and thats actually what japan is doing and theyre doing a really good job now that they have their board that regulates security they have a board that regulates monies and then they create the f. S. A. Who now regulates cryptocurrency its considered an entirely different asset class and the reason why i say is is because if you look at Portfolio Managers traders the people who use the stop the most in their portfolios they separated to stocks bonds securitized asses real estate and they have a completely separate division for crypto currency sim