Looking for a bit of a down open, perhaps. Crude oil, where is it . Where is it . I want to talk about the cushion and things i heard yesterday about the im there. Below 50 again on the allimportant wti. And the tenyear, after yesterday, of course fed minutes, we saw prices up yields down. And we are still lower certainly than we were yesterday at least because i remember we were at least 2. 1, if not almost 2. 2 on the day. Our road map starts with walmart, earnings beat on the bottom line. And this very important announcement, its going to raise the pay for roughly 500,000 employees. The markets, well volatile. Yes, they are. Premarket germany rejecting greeces debt plan. Oil is sliding. Earnings beats from tmobile marriott priceline. Those stocks moving higher. First, lets get to carl. Hes in arkansas. Hes got more on todays news from walmart. Carl . Yeah interesting, david. The quarter looked pretty good 1. 61 beats 1. 54 estimate. U. S. Comps up 1. 5, better than expected. Recall
I will be joined by two entrepreneurs who just merged to give go pro a run for its money with the first Live Streaming camera. Thats ahead on bloomberg west. First to our lead. Jony ive has a new role, the first chief design officer for apple. He will be shaping the look and feel of apples products and take on current design products, new ideas, future initiatives. He has two deputies who will be taking up his daytoday managerial duties starting july 1, but what are the implications of this unprecedented move . Joining us, tivos chief experience officer who has helped Companies Like google and twitter come up with strategies and we also have two other guests. Thank you for joining us, all of you. This is the first time i have ever heard of a chief design officer. Not a common thing to do. What does this really mean . Does this increases power . Does it change his level of the influence . Oliver i think it is just a titular recognition of stuff he is been doing already. In some ways, th
I started looking at my apartment, my brother, his wife, my mom. I was look at my silverware store. I have two teaspoons. How do you buy teaspoons alone . You cant, you have to buy the entire flatware, the spoons, knives, to get four teaspoons. Thats all you wanted was four . Well, that makes six. Do they match . No, but it doesnt matter. Were talking about spoons. Then i reallied i dont have cups. So today im going to bed, bath and beyond after this because we have to get cups. That is so funny. If you are not fond of your inlaws coming for the holidays, David Letterman had something so funny. He did this on his show last night, so just take a listen to this. Finally, a Major American Company is addressing this problem for the holidays. Do you hate the hassles of holiday air travel almost as much as you hate the tedious, awkward thanksgiving dinner with family . Announcing United Airlines reluctant traveler service. For a nominal fee, well book you on a pretend united flight, with a p
Im matt lauer. This latest conflict is now a week old. The president has decided to take a steep step. Hes sending in the secretary of state. Shes on a plane headed to israel in an attempt to push the ceasefire talks along. Well get a live report on all of it in just a moment. Also ahead, more on the Severe Weather front that is pummeling the Pacific Northwest. It turned deadly overnight. Were going to have more on that story as well. Then shes been called a reallife Sleeping Beauty but this is no fairy tale. Its a serious condition. A 17yearold girl who suffers from a rare disorder. It causes her to sleep, sometimes for months on end. Well talk to her and her doctor about that. And we have a very excited crowd out on the plaza. Kesha is here for a live performance, part of an unbelievable thanksgiving week of concerts outside. And well get to that in our 8 30 half hour. But we begin on this Tuesday Morning with the violence in the middle east and the breaking news overnight that secre
And in a speech be he delivered on the 10th of december this year, so a couple of days a he said there is no excuse for 750 billion u. S. Dollars in food waste per year. When we only need 80 billion u. S. Dollars to feed the hungry. And this comes from a businessman, one of the biggest businessmen there is. So he is really sincere. Im very convinced he is. Nevertheless, roughly i onethird of our food is waste, and i think others you will have better figures of that, but lets say in kilograms or pounds or whatever measurements, but onethird lets keep it at onethird. And it gets lost or it gets wasted. This washington causes emissions to the environment, pesticides, fertilizers, methane, and that is 23 times more potent greenhouse effect than co2. Than the food leads to loss of amounts of labor income, water, you know, agriculture uses loads of water. Its the first user of waters which, fresh water we have lack of in the world as well. Fertile soils get lost. In developing countries, of