Thats the key. As we look at businesses, its always, hey, is this something that the market needs . Is this something that can stand on its own . Can this scale and become a big company, something that can make a meaningful impact . So many of these companies we see are single apps. Theyre important apps. They can deliver a lot of value. They can save lives, but how do you then make that into a platform . How do you make that into a company . Thats real why it struggles that we try to ferret out early on as we think about is this a team . Its really about execution. We talk about technology, integration, implementation, but its really a team that makes a difference. We try to find are these people someone that have done this before . Can they do this . Do they have the network in health care . A lot of it is still a people business in health care. Do you know the right people at these hospitals and payers that can help you get this adopted. Stephanie, you might have perspective on this
Indiana. Also the cato institutes ian vasquez looks at the future of u. S. cuban relations in a trump administration. Postfidel castro. And Boston University assistant professor linda spraug martinez looks at a new report looking at the safety of young people of color and what impact the lack of access to overall support and opportunity has on them. Cspans washington journal. Live beginning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern saturday morning. Join the discussion. At a pentagon briefing today, Afghanistan Military Operations Commander general John Nicholson wrapped up 2016s military operations and counterterror efforts in the country. This is about an hour. Folks, weve got about 45 minutes and ten minutes of opening comments. Ill be calling questions for general nicholson. Sir, all yours. Thanks, jeff. Good morning, everyone. Great to be back with you all again. Want to thank you for covering our mission in afghanistan. What id like to do this time since my last update in september is review 2016 an
Much more. Daniel your in will join us and find out where he things oil is headed. Alex hill is here and that means one thing. Oil and copper. Down by a 10, the underperformance on the dax in frankfurt down by almost 138 points. The losses in asia as well, with shanghai having its biggest drop. To the bond market, yields on treasuries grind low on. 60 . 62 . Ono sterling approaching that particular pair. We will be over those for you. Lets get you up to speed on the top stories and check in with the Bloomberg Team. Is on the markets. Megan murphy in washington on the latest reaction from clinton and trump on the worst mass shooting in u. S. History. With begin with brexit growing anxiety over the u. K. Exiting the european union. Anna edwards is live. Lead in one poll for leave and it is looking to close to call. 10 days to go until we get to the Eu Referendum in the u. K. The pound is under pressure. En and gold surging the pound down against the yen and the dollar. By the most in nea
The general says the failed coup in crackdown will have an effect on u. S. Efforts. The Coalition Fighting Islamic State is dependent on turkey for basing resources. From new york, i am mark crumpton. Bloomberg west is next. Emily im emily chang and this is bloomberg west. Alphabet shares getting an afterhours bump. We will break down the numbers are eight amazon seeing doubledigit revenue gains after record sales of fire tv. A 59 surgedline, in revenue from its cloud business. Another day, another another multibilliondollar tech takeover. Lead tradeur alphabet shares gaining afterhours as googles. Company proves its dominance in mobile advertising. Sales, excluding some payments to partners, rose 22 to more than 17. 5 billion. One of the benefits of the alphabet reporting structure is that investors have a better moon shots are doing, things like this all driving car, science research. The so called other bits 859 for the 859 million quarter. The numberso put into perspective, Forrest
Push things up. Joe Consumer Discretionary is leading the way. Overall it was a pretty quiet direction less day. Scarlett scarlet alix turkish stocks surprisingly posting their longest rally in a must for years despite the terrorist bombing we have seen over the weekend. Muddling along but a lot of action happening overseas. Fairly quiet day in the bond market. The two year yield and the flat on the day. 10 year yield and it down a little bit. Not much happening in the u. S. Curve today. Scarlet the market drifted higher, paring some of its losses for the last two weeks. Egypt valuedank of its currency by a must 13 . There is the dramatic move. To conserveas foreigncurrency reserves and to boost its competitiveness. We are in a competitive devaluation world. At one point oil sells the most is the beginning of february, it is surprising stocks do not sell up as much. You name it it was down. Gold was down, iron ore was down. All the previous winter suffering quite a loss today. One comm