Do. It is that common sense that literally had us look inwards and put together a plan for the department moving forward. Governor nixon was a huge proponent of that. He was very big on making sure we had a strategy and that we were following the strategy and making certain we were addressing all the needs that needed to be addressed. The items brought up by our two private sector panelists, on the slide here, you will see key economic indicators. I wanted to take an opportunity to tell you about some of the other key advantages we have that are not readily available or recognizable. To that point, we are smack dab in the middle of the United States. Our location is key to the success of the state of missouri. It is location, location, location. If you look at missouri, one of the things you will find, within 600 miles of our state are 62 of all the manufacturing plants in our state. In addition to that, we have an interstate system that spans all across the state, but we are fortunate
Examination. The white house will lay out a vision of greater freedoms in a speech in havana. Global news 24 hours a day powered by our journalists in 150 news bureaus around the world. Im mark crumpton. Bloomberg news is next. Cory im emily emily im emily chang. This is bloomberg west. I speak with brian chesky about his vision and the companys plan for an ipo. Google pulling back on the robotics business selling the Robot Company boston dynamics after they bought it two years ago. What does it mean . Is it finally take off time for Virtual Reality . Today we check out sony hardware. First, to our lead. Google putting its boston dynamics unit up for sale. You see a twolegged robot maintaining its balance. Pushing the be envelope but a different story was playing out behind the scenes. According to two people, executives at google decided boston dynamics will not produce a marketable product in the next two years or generate revenue. For more we are joined by brad stone and jack clark.
Senator Lindsey Graham is endorsing residential candidate ted cruz. Graham if you kill ted cruz on the floor of the senate and the trial was in the Senate Nobody would convict you. Rallying around ted cruz maybe the only way to stop donald trump. A judge in brazil blocks the lula. Ntment of the guatemal will not meeta with fidel castro during his historic visit to cuba next week. Emily im emily chang. This is bloomberg west. I speak with brian chesky about his vision and the companys plan for an ipo. Google pulling back on the robotics business selling the Robot Company boston dynamics after they bought it two years ago. What does it mean . Is it finally take off time for Virtual Reality . Today we check out sony hardware. First, to our lead. Google putting its boston dynamics unit up for sale. You see a twolegged robot maintaining its balance. They seem to be pushing the envelope but a different story was playing out behind the scenes. According to two people, executives at google dec
So, mark, north american truck of the year, truck trend. Urban wheels. Right, award, what makes this f150 so hot . First off, we are honored to win a lot of the awards and we are more honored to bring a great truck to our customers. What we did, we revolutionized the full size pick up. Its all alluminum, under pinned by a hey strength frame. And by doing that, we took over 700 pounds of weight out of the vehicle. So it allows customers to get more payload, more towing and more fuel economic. And we all want that. We do. How is the price point relative to other f150s. If you look at the base truck versus this model, its slightly more than the 400 more than the other model. You get all of the capability for the 400 increase and we are just shipping them to customers right now, and as soon as they are at the dealerships, they are going off the lot. Its a hot truck. When you drive it, it drives very comfortably and you have to understand, a lot of our customers that buy the trucks they use
Well see if we make another go to close above that level. And were going to get the outlook for stocks in general with famed Hedge Fund Manager Stanley Druckenmiller. Hes been shorting ibm for whitequite a while. We touch on a wide range of issues. I bet talking a little bit about the fed. Auto little bit little bit. You dont hear from him that often so its even better. Take a look at the markets. Dow is up by 122 points. Theres the nasdaq as kelly said, about 4. 5 points back below the 5,000 level, but it was a historic day earlier in the day over at the nasdaq and thats where we see it is right now. The s p 500 is up just shy of nine points. Time now for our Closing Bell Exchange with darren wolfburg margie patel from Wells Fargo Fund management Jeff Killburg from kkm financial, joe tannous and our own rick santelli. Joe, what should we be thinking about this day . Should we be celebrating or fearing it . I wouldnt necessarily be fearing it. I think its nice to see the nasdaq hit the