It follows violent scenes on monday when demonstrators smashed their way into Parliament Amid fears beijing is tightening its grip on the territory. Chinas ambassador is summoned to the Foreign Office in london after a war of words over britains backing for the hong kong protestors. The uk government chose to stand on the wrong side, it has made inappropriate remarks. Well be asking what the diplomatic consequences could be. Also tonight. Obesity overtakes smoking as the cause of some of the most common kinds of cancer millions are warned their weight puts them at risk. Detectives say a heavily pregnant woman stabbed to death in london at the weekend had been subjected to a sustained and vicious attack. Her baby son also died this morning. A big boost to britains film and tv industry as the american giant netflix opens a new base at surreys world famous shepperton studios. A place in the world cup semi finals for england after a sensational catch from jos buttler helps them thrash new
Guarding a region wants to reduce its dependence on travel savvy brits in the brits. Are welcome to the program. U. S. Lawmakers have urged facebook to halt its cryptocurrency plans they want time to investigate the risks libera poses to the Global Financial system it comes as regulators in europe call for closer scrutiny senior official of britains financial watchdog says the issues raised require deep thought and detail. Introducing lead for a new global currency designed for the Digital World facebook has promised finance for the future with its new crypto currency and im saying its arrival. Would empower billions of people even those without Bank Accounts will be able to send money around the world with these whats more Facebook Says libra will be whats called a stable coin meaning it will have none of the volatility associated with bitcoin and other quick 2 currencies it says it will ensure that by linking its value to other a stop list global monetary systems. Major corporate pla
The same this year what were hoping for, as you go into 2020, is that perhaps 5g starts to be a catalyst for the shares, but youve got to get through the cycle first. What happened to the last half year we spent talking about how services and wearables will make up for whatever weakness there may be in the classic cycle . Yeah, and that hasnt been our call and the problem with the services is that its just too small as a percentage of the total. So services, as one of the examples, you would have to add, for the video service, about the equivalent of ten netflix to offset what the loss you know, the decline in revenue from iphone over the last year so it just gives you a sense of large numbers, because iphone is so large that puts a little context around it. Mike, i mean, apple is trading lower today, but so are the other f. A. A. N. G. Names, as well is this one of those scenarios where we need to be talking about more about the impact that f. A. A. N. G. Has on the Broader Market to
Regulators in europe call for closer scrutiny a senior official of britains financial watchdog says the issues raised require deep thought and detail. Introducing leaper a new global currency designed for the Digital World facebook has promised finance for the future with its new crypto currency and im saying its arrival Mark Zuckerberg said libra would empower billions of people even those without Bank Accounts will be able to send money around the world with these whats more Facebook Says libra will be whats called a stable coin meaning it will have none of the volatility associated with bitcoin and other quick talk currencies it says it will ensure that by linking its value to other established global monetary systems. Major corporate players are already backing libra even if some of the worlds financial leaders are not. The bank of england approaches libor with an open mind but not an open door. And now a group of u. S. Lawmakers has written to facebook asking them to put their cry
Have imposed speed restrictions on parts of the audubon autobahn, which normally has no limits. 100 13n france could hit degrees by friday. Global news 24 hours a day on air and at tictoc on twitter powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Shery im shery ahn. Amanda im amanda lang. Stories we arep following from around the world. Is chinas trade beef intensifies. Plus holding onto a golden rally. Gold prices are taking a slight breather today. Global investors looking at Interest Rates around the world but how long can the party last. Amanda finding the workarounds. U. S. Companies think they found a legal way past the governments while way ban. Lets get a quick check on the major averages. We are seeing some gains protect. You can thank micron for that. We have seen treasuries down today. The yield back up above 2 . Oil. E watching we saw stockpiles fall. We are now seeing the biggest u. S. Stockpiles since 2016. Th