Of evidence. The comments come after u. S. Satellites allegedly spotted chinese ships on the lets see around 30 times since october. In liberias National Election commission, expected to release provisional approvals today. More than 2 million voters are the soccer star and the countrys vice president. He led the first round of voting on october 10 but did not get enough votes to win outright. Ellen johnson steps down in january. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. This is bloomberg. Julie live from bloomberg World Headquarters in new york, im julia julie hyman. We are 30 minutes from the close of trading in the u. S. The dollar weakened against most peers. What taxwe are 30 minutes from e of trading in the u. S. Reform could mean for private equity firm, we look at a question of how leon black post and how it could alter the wall street model. Plus, betting against boredom, 2017 going down is the least exciting year
At 53 basis points and well discuss. David . David time for an update whats making news in the business world. Good morning, emma. Emma 40 People Killed and dozens wounded this morning in the suicide bombing in the Afghan Capital of kabul. Explosions walked the center and afghan news organizations. Interior Ministry Spokesman said the exact number of attacker is unknown. Islamic state claimed attack. Bility for the in the u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson written an oped defending u. S. Foreign policy under donald trump. He lauded the attack. In the president s move against north korea and Islamic State in his first year in office. Tillerson wrote, quote, in spite of the challenges i remain optimistic about the power of diplomacy to resolve conflict and advance american interests. President trump rejected reports earlier this month he was about to replace tillerson. Nd the u. S. Endured 15 weather related disasters costing 1 billion or more through the month of october. According
For the s p and the dow. The s p is up about half a percent. The best equity gain yesterday in two weeks. We are building upon that as we gains across the board. We are near the intraday highs for the s p and thehead to the. There is Technology Shares that are tumbling, twitter and yelp. Twitter came out with disappointing numbers today. M easily 2 million a measly 2 million active users. Yelp down a record 28 . Part of that has to do with their cutting their Sales Forecast but also cutting back on their National Branding campaign. Lots of analyst cutting their forecast on the stock, rating on the stock. A different story in commodities, inventories in the u. S. Dropped by over 4 million barrels. Were actually a gain which is why youre seeing nymex crude higher than 2 . Giving a dropon in oil prices has gone down. Also looking at industrial stocks and commodity stocks. Ohs are higher today. Lets take a check on those are higher today. We can see selling in the 10 year. 3 for the 30 yea
Those shares have been so volatile in the last several weeks. European equities, meantime, on news of this greek arrangement there, you do have red arrows mostly across the board, and perhaps not surprisingly, greece is the one thats getting the lift by 2. 25 . U. S. Equity futures at this hour . Well, after yesterdays big day breaking that sevenday losing streak, the dow would open lower by nearly 125 points. Here are the big stories were watching today. Greece and its lenders agreeing on bailout terms. A Greek Finance Ministry official tells cnbc there are still some minor details, but they wont affect the completion of the deal. The European Commission expected to comment on the deal at its midday briefing. On todays economic agenda, a few data points of of note for this datadriven fed. At 8 30 eastern, a first read on secondquarter productivity and costs, and then at 10 00, wholesale trade. As for earnings central, the consumer front and center this week. Among the Companies Set to
2013 until december 10, 2014, you served as emergency manager of detroit. Kevyn yes. Brian why did you take the job . Kevyn i have been asked that a lot of times. I was a restructuring professional. Detroit is 82 africanamerican, a city that had gone through several decades of decline. It was a city that needed restructuring. I initially was a little reluctant to take the job. I thought it would be difficult and i was comfortable in my corporate attorney life, my family and i. My managing partner steve and my wife said, look, this could be a call to action. It is important. It is outside your comfort zone, but we have people making the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of their country. This is temporary. And you will still be in an Airconditioned Office in the summer and heated in the winter. Sometimes you have to give back. After some reflection, it seemed like the right thing to do. Brian you are based in washington and a graduate of michigan law school. Did that have anything to do with