You heard me. Were expecting it this weekend. Good morning, its wednesday, november 16th. Hump day. Im tia ewing. Meteorologist Samantha Roberts is in the first alert weather day tracking the drastic changes coming for the weekend. Brian cant wait, sam. Samantha its the first one of the season. We can have this one, and we can have one on christmas and back to the 70s, right . No, i dont think so. Time is 6 01. Weve offo this morning. Just a few clouds around. Partly to mostly cloudy depending on your location. I am watching a little light rain over lake erie, and if that holding together, you can run into a few raindrops on your windshield this morning. I dont think well see anything of significance, but be prepared to dodge a few sprinkles. Nothing measurable or anything like that. 40s for that morning drive. So a little bit better than the nobody is in the 20s this morning, so that is excellent news. Your evening drive, were dry and quiet. Partly to mostly cloudy and temperatures to
Disney. U. S. G to expand in the over in hong kong, Police Used Tear Gas and pepper spray on demonstrators. Protesters angry over jenna but his plan for the hong kong 2017 leadership election all coming to a head now. Report that pimco for 10 billion in assets. More on the fallout of pimco, Erik Schatzkern with an interesting take on what bill grosss departure means. First, mary, tell us about the 10 million. That is relatively small compared to what they manage. That is true. The 10 billion is really a drop in the bucket. People are very nervous or there is a report that there is maybe 30 of their assets. A major threat for them. Meetings onse big friday. They deployed all of their investors trying to control of all out and saying, it has it is the same it is oh is been. This will be seamless. Everyone loves stan dan and thinks he is a great investor. It was learned bill gross was leaving. This all goes to your point about how difficult it is when firms become closely identified with
Combination of visionary and executing very well the short to medium term. Youre generally one or the other. A very impressive person to work with. I am grateful i am here to witness those things and see that happen. Last question, where is messenger five years from now, 10 years from now . 10 years from now is a longtime. In five years, when we succeed, i think messenger will become a more central part of your life and you will be able to munich it with more people and we will build an ecosystem around it that will be extremely valuable for everyone in the ecosystem. It will matter more in the lives of people than it does now. All right. Thank you so much for joining us. We will watch as you try to get to one billion. Thank you for being here. That does it for this edition of bloomberg west. Bottom line is up next. From bloomberg World Headquarters in new york am i am Olivia Sterns in today for mark crumpton. This is bottom line. To our viewers in the United States and those of you jo
Cap have, and what they jobs are still open. You see monks here at a temple in tokyo ringing bells to celebrate the new year. They are right outside, as you can see. New years is getting underway already in tokyo and overseas. New zealand started off this morning. Welcome to our new years eve edition of market makers. The final day of the year. We have breaking Economic News as well. Consumer confidence numbers are just coming out. We get a better than expected reading in Consumer Confidence for the month of december. Eric, you are just checking that this is the highest since when . September. Calexico decline has been revised higher to a read of 72. It is in line with what we have in seeing. University of michigan, confidence index, all rebounding from lows they saw a couple months ago. So we are coming off of base here. This is certainly a way to tie in how people are feeling as we head into the new year. It is backward looking because it included the runup to the Holiday Shopping se
Exclusive. A nineyearold mystery partially solved. Swiss scientists now say Yasser Arafat was poisoned, but we still dont know who did it. First though found poison in his clothes. Then they found it in his bones. The Scientists Say they clearly say polonium with 85 confidence. The family received a letter from their lawyer. If i was judge and jury, this is stone cold certain. This is beyond any doubt in my opinion that it was polonium that caused the death of Yasser Arafat. Reporter for widow and daughter, it was 100 prove. It was as if they told me he just died. I will not stop. Me and my daughter will go to all courts to all over the world to punish whoever did this crime. Now that i have proof that he was poisoned i feel relief, closure, now i need to know who killed him, the motion and ambition behind it 2346 more than 40 years of reas much has led scientists to knowledge how about the amount of polonium in the skill. It was several times higher than normal. The report rules out a