Communication across vast distances this is an interesting t. V. And Technology Facts the innovations are changing our lives and they are part and parcel to an enormously important portions of our Global Economy so with Technology Companies who are the largest but you can guess number one. Yep apple tops the list they have more than two hundred billion dollars in annual sales and made a profit of forty five billion dollars last year according to forbes fifteen of the top twenty five Tech Companies are from the United States with eight in the top ten including apple course microsoft alphabet i. B. M. Intel Cisco Systems oracle and facebook as we head into the new year is a good time to reflect on the power of our own imagination and how a vision of a Brighter Future back in the star trek days has changed the real world in which we live. On tuesday President Trumps nominee for president of the Us Export Import Bank was rejected by democrats and several republicans on the Senate Banking c
Chinese equities are definitely leading the game. You can see one of the main gauges gaining 2 . We have a little bit of dollar weakness. Pmi isr manufacturing beating estimates. 60. 6. We were in line with expectations. Check out any kind of movement in europe. Look at the german bonds. Coming up up at 11 a. M. London time. The present we going to his outlook for the rest of the year. That includes china but also iran. Midday, the former u. S. Treasury secretary joins us. Towill also be speaking microsoft. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. In iran, the death toll has climbed. 20 people may not die to the demonstrations. In a rare share of displeasure with public leaders. The iraniandefended peoples right to demonstrate. Penceice president mike will visit each of this month. The confirmation came after israeli Prime Minister said its included in the schedule. Its feeling that speculation. Hence had plans to meet with egypts president. The visit was postponed until this month.
And hes written a terrific book on the end of the cold war the bri principal author of the 9 11 Commission Report and hes writing a book on decisions for war in ways that illuminate old crises and old decisions like going to war in 1898 or wilson going to war, reassessing these decisions so were looking forward to phillips next book. At the same time hes doing about a dozen other things none of us can keep track of and sometimes we dont know about. So phillip. Thank you. Thank you. Im sorry to say we need to wait for james wilson to show up and so hes probably out there somewhere having a good conversation. If we can send the search party out. The state department is always late to the table. [ laughter ] one of the messages of this. So far its been a great panel. [ laughter ] its rather intimidating when youre sitting next to somebody who can refer to his book. We had grandchildren here they could sit on it. [ laughter ] oh, here he is. Glad you could join us. Thank you. All right, le
Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. There was an armed sheriffs deputy on duty at the Florida High School where 17 people were shot to death last week. He never went inside and he never engaged the shooter. In washington, President Trump wants to train teachers to carry firearms and he has proposed raising the minimum age to buying an Assault Rifle. John schiumo is here in new york with the details. Good morning, john. Good morning, annemarie. Law enforcement officers in florida are vugling to reconcile the fact that one of their trained First Responders failed to stop the bloodshed. The Broward County sheriff said it made him sick to his stomach to see a new Surveillance Video showing an armed officer at the Florida Parkland School shooting stand by and do nothing. What i saw was a deputy arrive at the west side of building 12 take up a position, and he never went in. Reporter that deputy, scott p
Garner votes . This is Bloomberg Markets asia. It is india budget day. Really facing this choice, populist measures or fiscal prudence . A lot of focus on that over the next couple of hours. All of this happening as the backdrop of china looking at the smaller, private sector. A look at how they are going and growth so far. In terms of equities, looks like the start of february is better than the end of january at least. Rishaad absolutely. The end of january did not quite materialize as many predicted. Looking at longterm rates, alan enspan suggesting we remember him for a rational exuberance. Do we have a rational exuberance . Markets, theian threeday selloff we got in the region. Robust export growth from korea adding to the risk, although gains for the cosby for the kospi. Also this morning a slew of manufacturing pmi surveys that indicated stronger across the region. That could bode well for this synchronized Global Growth. In taiwan, fourthquarter gdp, growth jumped the most in a