I wanted to start with comcast. It is another story in the features section. What i loved about it is that it is kind of an old, stodgy Media Company that is transforming to the next generation. Joel this is a fun one. The son of the ceo, Tucker Roberts, is the guy leading the companys foray into esports. They are doing it in philadelphia, where the company has its roots, and they have even built a singleuse stadium for esports which is a crazy way you can really double down and try and make a big bet. But the question is, will it work . David another question has to be g. E. Betting on a new ceo. Market cap has been falling, what is the update on g. E. . Joel this is the most iconic american company, and it has hit every rung on the way down when last year it even fell out of the dow. The ceo came out of retirement to try to save the company. And it is really a question of, can he do it . It is the ultimate ceo test. The jury is still out. That is what we dug into. Taylor another stor
Traditional Media Companies. All of that ahead on bloomberg west. Zynga shares are down in extended trading. Secondquarter sales and earnings per share beat the street, but monthly active users continue to drop. Joining us is Chris Paul Mary in l. A. , and dan the cofounder of molecular in chicago and lewis on the phone. Chris, i will start with you. 100 million users last quarter down to 83 million this quarter. That sounds significant. Chris it does sound bad, but part of mark p givess strategy mark he gpinkuss strategy is that there are not as many games available for players. Emily he returned to the company in april. What sort of lose to you get about how he will turn his company around, or if it is even possible . Chris i think it will be it has been a tough slog. I think they are focused on some core franchises and some core genres that make sense to me, but it is difficult because they are relatively late to the mobile game and its hard to make headway. Other companies are alre
Case ifespecially the you look at currency markets. Absolutely nothing happening. Yields, fixed income, fairly mixed in the broad market. Let me mention malaysia, we are down about three fourths of 1 . The only market thats actually spiking up. Oil prices remain subdued. Forecastersot of thinking that the currency will weaken further. Last i checked, the koc i was roughly at 1680. About 10 points above the december 2014 low. That takes us back all the way to early 2013. Several cities in taiwan will be closing offices, 6 00 p. M. Is evening local time as the typhoon approaches. Lly a category two currently a category two. It is expected to be upgraded when it makes landfall. It was 550 kilometers about an hour ago. Southwest of naha in okinawa. Stay safe, stay dry. China Railway Signal making a slightly positive trading debut in hong kong. The first major listing since the stock route. Tell me how it all went in the end. It was a pretty exciting day here at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
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This is a sad but important story in which you guys loop in a lot of stuff. Tell us about what happened in kansas and why this is such an important event to put in perspective right now . We are proud of the story and the journalism at the heart of it and reporting. We have gone back to a community in olathe, kansas where two indian born engineers who worked for a Company Called garmin were shot, one of them was killed. One was shot in the leg in february this year by men who yelled, get out of my country. Oliver what happened that night in the bar . They were just drinking at the bar, like they do. We sent photographers to this bar, it is not unusual to see a mixedrace group of people having beers. Sharing stories with colleagues. Just like everyone does. The only thing that is a little bit interesting about this is just how mixed this community was. The people dont know the investment these companies are making. This is a town that has a hindu temple. There were cricket leaks. League