Will we had that 2 as we continue to get a trade deal . Time now for global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. From hong kong to beijing, london and washington, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. In asia, chinese economy is showing signs of stabilization and regaining some kind of growth momentum in november. Chinas Industrial Production and retail sales both meeting estimates. Joining me on the phone is in an. Current is enda curr give me some of the details in the data dump we saw overnight. Enda these clearly signal that the economy is ending the year on a better note. 8 . Il sales climbed Industrial Production rose 6. 2 . Theres some caution around the fixed Asset Investment number, which only grew 5. 2 , but nonetheless, the take away among economists was it showed that the stimulus the government is rolling out is having some traction. There were some seasonal effects as well. But when you have a trade ag
Trade, the president declining to provide more details on the negotiations with china this morning, saying, quote, well see what happens Broader Markets at the moment down about 0. 6 on the s p the dow is down 192 points the low of the session for the dow 250. So we are off the loan he lows t recovering a little bit in that final hour of trade. Joining us for the full first hour of the show is bespokes paul hickey. How you doing . Good. Do you think it makes sense well start on a soft footing given the great run we saw in november we saw a big strong run to close out the month of november here and dont put too much weight into the first trading day of the month. I dont know if you recall, but last december, we were up 1 on the first trading day of december and i think we all remember what happened the rest of that month. If we can get the opposite of what happened last december, ill take it fair enough lots to discuss with paul throughout the full first hour of the show. Lets focus in
Renewed china trade optimism set to fuel further gains of the open retails big week and the tariff impact into the holidays. Best buy, dicks, dollar tree, abercrombie among the retailers reporting today. And ford challenging tesla to a apples to apples tug of war between pickups and elon musk says bring it on three major indices saw record closes, top trade negotiators from the u. S. And China Holding a phone call earlier this morning the two sides continue to work toward a phase one trade agreement. Trade rep lighthizer, mnuchin, both participated in that call and both sides agree to remain in contact over remaining issues on twitter, you said the phone call last night was very important in terms of furthering a deal yeah. It is real ive been skeptical. This was a real call phase one probably happens Financial Services get opened up president may believe that intellectual property is for real that instead of just a soybean buy, a promise to they would respect intellectual property. Do
Investments ever. Were closing in on new records in the markets, this amid new optimism for that potential china u. S. Trade deal as you saw stocks are set to open higher. And the tech lash heads to the states a major multistate investigation into antitrust practices at google, set to be announced later on this afternoon. David, kick us off on t. Interesting here. In so many ways. 3. 2 billion as you said the stake from elliott, the largest single investment i believe they made at the company, a long letter comes out this morning detailing the reasons why this could be a 60 stock within lets call it three years or so, 2021 is what theyre talking about. 65 or so upside to todays stock price. They believe 5 in dividends and 55 stock price, you could get to 10 earnings per share grower with significant margin improvement, what theyre calling for. And buyback. Something i want to make sure people understand here, it is interesting, people who know the company well, but sort of are vaguely
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