Good wednesday morning, im Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt. The president this morning set to tour the mac pro Assembly Plant with apple ceo tim cook. Eamon javers will raise the curtain on that this morning. Reporter youre playing just the two of us and it is going to be about just the two of them. The unlikely relationship between donald trump, the president of the United States, and tim cook, the ceo of apple cook has spent the past several months cultivating a relationship with donald trump largely, im told, by going through the trump family having conversations about technology with Melania Trump at dinner at the white house. Talking with ivanka trump about workforce issues hes cultivated that phone call relationship with the president. I asked the president why he seems to have such a good conversational ability with tim cook the president told me a couple of weeks ago, the reason is because cook is the one ceo in incorporate america who actually picks up the p
Also apple day stocks under pressure because of iphone battery and production cuts for the iphone 10 it is down premarket. Look at this. Facebooks stock is well it is nice higher only Media Company that i can remember that urges its users to use it less. [laughter] but its profits and sales are seller up she goes. All right quickly microsoft Strong Financial performance. But maybe not strong enough. It will open lower to the tune of a buck 26. Overall, this market is headed south at the opening bell. Well be off more than 150 points this thursday morning o. All right. Politics today, dominated by the memo. This make the day when we get to see it. I sure hope we find out what fbi was up to before and after a and during election did they really protect hillary and undermine. Another day for politics and your money and thats what we do. Varney company is about to begin. If Congress Sends me a bill before christmas, the irs this is just out. This is breaking news has just confirmed that am
President en and the may be on different paths next year. We have world coverage here on daybreak asia. We will be live in San Francisco later on to talk about the latest person to leave uber. Betty we are counting down to james comeys testimony, the former fbi director. We will have an update shortly. This is daybreak asia, live from bloombergs u. S. And asia headquarters. I am betty liu here in new york where it is just after 7 00 p. M. Yvonne it is just after 7 00 a. M. Here in hong kong. I am yvonne man. Super thursdarsday is here. Not sure how i will keep up between the ecb conference, james comey testimony, and the u. K. Election. What you watching out for the most . Betty it has got to be comey. Saying yesterday, must see tv. I think the entire country will be glued one of the most anticipated hearings in decades on capitol hill. The markets did rebounded today. Not a lot, but we did see banking shares helping lead the index is higher. That writtene testimony from james comey, n
Joe manchin will not join President Trumps cabinet as energy secretary. The idea surfaced last week as a possible way to let the states new republican governor name a successor. Trump is i cant david meeting with his defense and Foreign Policy team to discuss the future role in afghanistan. Secretary mattis and secretary tillerson attended, so did Vice President pence, Steve Mnuchin and jeff sessions. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. This is bloomberg. Emily i am emily chang. This is bloomberg technology. The battle raging between the board and founders of one of indias a guest Software Services providers. We will discuss the criticism that pushed out the ceo and the road ahead for the asian tech powerhouse. Could soon beeen taking center stage inside americas living rooms. We will explore potential new Hollywood Partnership that could change the movie landscape and the rest for new blockbuster releases. The first to
Weekend three months. Australias market is at a 2016 high. Set to pop in tokyo after u. S. Shares soar 27 . You can let us know what you think of todays top stories by following me on twitter. Dont forget to include trendingbusiness. Lets begin today with breaking news from the south of france, where a truck has driven into a crowd, killing 77 people in nice. They are now calling it a terror attack. We are live from paris. Tell us what you have on the latest news. Basically the latest we know now is that in the past 15 minutes, Francois Hollande has returned. He was celebrating bastille day. Right now in terms of what has happened in nice, 77 people confirmed dead. We are reporting about 100 others have been wounded, and this occurred earlier this when one person, at least one person as we so far no, was driving a large, white a crowd of into revelers watching the fireworks celebration for bastille day on , a promenade des anglais popular area for revelers and visitors to the city of n