Institute business and Society Program. It is my great pleasure today to welcome to the screen with me two fellow travelers of the business side a program come longtime friends of her work hoosier deep knowledge i would say about both the forces any ideas that influence business decisionmaking. The business and Society Program as a take a look at rogers book, a couple of for visit to fully engage with, think black hawk, but also to shift the mindset of Business Executives, what you believe to be true and what they design their businesses to achieve. Over these goals are in pursuit of Better Business outcomes. Rogers brandnew just released today book, hank you roger for being part of this writing muste a part of this journey, fits squarely in this domain. The book is called when more is not better overcoming americas obsession with economic efficiency. Both alan and roger are known to many of you. Roger martin is professor and former dean of the school of management at the university of
People across Central America last week, and more than 100 are still missing. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Karina Mitchell. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 5 00 p. M. In london, and 2 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories we are following on the bloomberg and from around the world. Stocks are surging, the dow is up almost 5 , bonds tumbling after a largescale Coronavirus Vaccine study delivered the most promising results in the worst pandemic in a century. This as president elect biden warns of a dark winter ahead. We will get more about that large study that shows that vaccine being developed by pfizer showing more than 90 effectiveness. Tina fordham on a biden presidency and what we can expect from this lameduck session. One thing we can expect, we just got a firing. Mark esper terminated. Tr
Begin with the oracle of omaha well start with the trimming of apple shares hes got more than 900 million we totally get it. Its not like buffetts bailing on apple in any way. It did sell about 36 million shares what is this, do you think is it simply Portfolio Management i think thats exactly right, scott. Its Portfolio Management. Apple being one of the most liquid stocks in the world on any market he could have sold a lot more than that if he had wanted to. So this is just, look, the stocks had a great run, hes pairing back a little bit, got a lot of cash. What i found kind of surprising is that with that much cash, actually not surprising but confirming on the value of the market is that he really hasnt made any big acquisitions. Hes only said hell only buy his stock if he cant find anything else to buy they scooped up 9 billion of their stock in the last quarter. They continue to buy back a lot of stock i do wonder even at the margins, ty any, if this is in any way a statement tha
News cribber john solomon are here, joining me in the you 8 0. Earnings season rolling of on. Big banks on deck this morning. All the numbers as soon as they hit the tape and impact on markets. Broader markets pointing to a gain at the start of trading, dow industrials up 84, nasdaq up 28, the s p 500 up 10 o 10 poin. Yesterday stocks were sluggish over weak Quarterly Earnings and halted covid19 vaccine trials. At the end of the day, the s p 500 was lower by 22. Shiny now apple, the Technology Giant unveiling four new iphone 12s ss for your convenience. Coping tips from outer space, astronauts have isolation advice for the weary public and its making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria is live right now. European markets in the green, take a look. The fq100 up 14, the cac is up 1 andahalf and the dax index higher by 15, fractional moves this morning in europe but to the upside. A mixed story overnight in asia, as chinese president xi jinping is calling for young People Living in h
Really interesting flow out of the United Kingdom. Weve got a very nice lift to the market. I dont want to oversell it, but in the last 20 minutes or so, a lift to the market. I see sterling coming in and even the yield space with a little bit lower yield. Certainly not the risk of agony we saw yesterday. Jonathan sterling lower. Down about 0. 2 on cable. Reuters reporting that the Prime Minister is about to say get ready for an australia style brexit deal. When i say australia, think something closer to no deal. When i say canada, think something closer to a freetrade agreement. If the Prime Minister frustrated with the eu . October 15 was meant to be a deadline. Mr. Prime minister trying to ramp things up to get concessions from the other side, something he has failed to do in the last month. Tom and there is the norway deal. An australian deal is a much more distant deal, a much more traditional agreement. The love and affection of a canada deal where you respect the agricultural pr