Concerns. They stopped short of a fullscale breakup, leaving estors questioning how big how quickly she can recover. Thats your Bloomberg Business flash. Matt thanks for a much for that. The president of zimbabwe is said to be step down. After a week of confrontation with the government, the forces have said action was needed to stave off a violent conflict. He is 93 years old. Whats the latest . It seems the situation is extremely fluid. Himself planning to step down. Theres a lot of secrecy. Not a lot coming through in regards to news on a regular basis. But we are hearing news that deal fore is negotiating a he and his wife to leave the country peacefully. This is the one people are looking to to take over at this point in time. Would it be guy what are the southeast south africa . What would they leave behind . South africa would probably be the first destination. Politicians seek asylum enzo oblique from here as well. A would say we offered it to use so you need to offer to us as
Good tuesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley, joining me is jon fortt and sara eisen. Also joining me walter eisen and a lot to get to with walt this morning. Among it, apple, as berkshires Warren Buffett nearly triples his stake in the company to more than 19 billion. Stock hit yet another alltime high this morning. Walter, lets take a quick listen to what buffet said amid all of his mea culpas of miss in amazon and missing alphabet why he is increasing his stake in apple. The shares when we bought them were much more reasonable in relation to current earnings. Apple didnt have to do a lot better in the future than they were doing at the current time. When you get into a google or amazon, you are paying for the future more. The future may be more than justified. So, walter, here we have a very smart man who laments missing a big chapter in tech, doubling down on this one. What does that tell us . Well, it tells us that apple is a very secure, stable, good company because Warren Buffe
The states haven safe haven and you mentioned the dollar index up by. 3 and you have retail sales and potentially more support for the dollar in the next couple of hours. David its time for the morning brief and we will get the retail sales that alex referred to alix referred to. Nafta talks and Missile Defense talks get underway. Walmart reports secondquarter results. York, today wew have President Trumps returned to trump tower for the First Time Since his inauguration and the chief washington correspondent has come to new york with the president. Kevin cirilli joins us from midtown manhattan. Welcome to new york. Let me ask you, why is the president in new york today . What does he have on his agenda . Events. Ot much public later this afternoon, President Trump will be signing some sort of executive order and action regarding infrastructure. According to a white house official, he will be establishing discipline and accountability in the Environmental Review process. No other detai
Good morning. Today we are going to vote on senator sessions nomination to serve as attorney general. After we look on senator sessions, we will turn to legislation and other committee housekeeping business on the agenda. I would like to mention a few things before we proceed. Except for the Ranking Member, i will ask everyone to try to limit the remarks to five minutes. That is how i handle lynchs nomination and by my count, every democrat on this committee except for two that i know about, has already announced that the intent to oppose the nomination so there is no mystery how this thing may go today. As far as the final vote is concerned. With everyones cooperation we should be able to move forward in an orderly way. Three weeks ago senator sessions testified before this committee. For more than 10 hours. Throughout that testimony, the American People had the opportunity to hear and learn directly from senator sessions. What all of us on this committee already knew to be true becau
Good morning. Today we are going to vote on senator sessions nomination to serve as attorney general. After we look on senator sessions, we will turn to legislation and other committee housekeeping business on the agenda. I would like to mention a few things before we proceed. Except for the Ranking Member, i will ask everyone to try to limit the remarks to five minutes. That is how i handle lynchs nomination and by my count, every democrat on this committee except for two that i know about, has already announced that the intent to oppose the nomination so there is no mystery how this thing may go today. As far as the final vote is concerned. With everyones cooperation we should be able to move forward in an orderly way. Three weeks ago senator sessions testified before this committee. For more than 10 hours. Throughout that testimony, the American People had the opportunity to hear and learn directly from senator sessions. What all of us on this committee already knew to be true becau