The market moving news from around the world. Joining us on the phone from hong kong is karen lee, from london, emma chandra, and here in new york is michael mckee. First we want to kick it off and hong kong come over the chief executive carrie lam spoke at a briefing following 12 straight weekends of protests in the city. Lam the government is confident we can handle a months long disturbance. I think it is a common goal and hong kong to handle this by ourselves. Alix bloombergs karen lee has the latest. Where are we at . Carrie lam speaking publicly after another weekend of violence, saying they can handle unrest without assistance from chinese forces, and that she still wants to hold talks with protesters. This comes after beijing issued its most direct warning yet, saying in a commentary on state media that the government has the Legal Authority to halt what it said had become a revolution, even though analysts still say such a move remains a last resort. There are calls now for an
Going down. Look, i have the i have a list in my hands, like senator mccarthy of 54 known stocks in the s p and how they would do inverted the top 20 ive been working on. Three are hurt 17 that win. If everybody decides that theyre going to pay less for every stock because of this, all lose the algorithms are set to make sure all these use our economy is not as uniquely sensitive. These are not exporters that need to have a dollar weaker dollar is just getting stronger. Extraordinary rally in the dollar dont want to see it i struggle to reach a conclusion that this is all bad given the fact that germany had rates for some time and the market is not doing that badly, even though they have an export economy and their dax, real terms, is up even though theyre exporting right to china in and those sales are weak as we see the numbers from china it is not the end of the world or the German Market would be down. No one is asking if it is the end of the world if it is the end of the cycle, ri
The American Economy slowing, but not as bad as expected will it affect the feds next move and have stocks already priced in a friendly fed plus a big upgrade on the big banks, buffett making a play too. Is it time to get bullish on the financials the Halftime Report starts right now. It is good to have you with us on this friday. Not as hot a friday as it was last weekend our Investment Committee today, joe, stephanie, zarod, josh brown and ron. I havent this many friends around me in a long, long time. Since high school thats good. Yeah. The s p 500 record highs nasdaq and nasdaq 100 hitting new alltime highs as well with the fang trade front and center. Lets start with amazon versus alphabet who wants to talk alphabet sure. Go. I mean, i own it. It was a very good quarter i think that google sites growing 21 , Constant Currency up from 19 from last quarter shows you last quarter was the aberration you didnt see this massive deceleration that was lasting. Thats good to see a resell r
Her 1st day of school in the jungle. First including listen to the full band doris crane the moment arrives. Join during a tank on her journey back to freedom. In our interactive documentary. Coming in 10 returns home on d w dot com bring it tangs. Is facebooks new crypto currency a threat to Central Banks leading g 7 economies say they need to act fast to contain libra before it debuts in 2020 we have the details. And next time you buy a lever guinea take a good look at the hood fakes are popping up from brazil to i read. This is your Business Report im stephen beards in berlin thanks for watching. How seriously are governments taking facebooks plans to launch its crypto currency currency libra next year serious enough that finance ministers from 7 leading global economies spent much of wednesday talking about how to rein in the coin they focused on concerns like Money Laundering and Data Security but they also worried about what libra might mean for the global monetary system. The ca
Business report im stephen beards in berlin thanks for watching how seriously are governments taking facebooks plans to launch its cryptocurrency currency libra next year serious enough that finance ministers from 7 leading global economies spent much of wednesday talking about how to rein in the coin they focused on concerns like Money Laundering and Data Security but they also worried about what libra might mean for the global monetary system. The castle north of paris provided grand surroundings for the big discussion of the day arriving in shanty financial leaders said they were determined to ensure the regulator reground was prepared for the arrival of Facebooks Libra the given finance bill g 7 finance ministers and central bankers sitting together here all have grave concerns about facebooks proposals of 7 cells the goal of very carefully checking that all current regulations are being complied with and checking whether the rules need to be changed for the future so that we can e