Stocks surging yesterday trump saying the two will meet in china discord in the ranks as pricing pressures mount opec pushing off next weeks planned meeting in vienna. We will tell you when they will finally have a meeting and maybe have to confront iran. Its wednesday, june 19th. Worldwide exchange begins right now. All right. See what they did there. A lot of news out of asia, you got the band good morning, good afternoon, good evening wherever you are. Im Brian Sullivan we have a huge wednesday hour for you including our exclusive sit down with that man, the founder of huawei. Well get to thatin a moment first well start with the markets. The u. S. Major averages are points away from hitting fresh alltime highs following 1 gains or more across the board yesterday. All the major averages, the dow, the nasdaq, more than 20 up from their december lows right now futures are fairly muted. Well call them flat bonds have been a billion dollar story as well. Probably more of a trillion doll
Tensions on college campuses. Last night, officials at nyu asked the nypd to remove pr protesters from the campus. The palestinian protests had not been authorized and asked police to enforce trespassing violations. Students and faculty among those arrested. And then at columbia university, classes for the semester would be hybrid and remote when possible as billionaire donors are rethink going support of columbia. In a statement, patriots owner robert kraft, is not comfortable supporting the university until corrective action is taken. When asked if he would pause support, leon cooperman said i cannot say that yet. He doesnt hold the administration possible for the demonstrations. He said the kids are out of control. Cooperman will join us live this morning at 8 00 a. M. To talk about the protests and donations and other plans as well as views, of course, of the market. Back to corporate news. We are watching novartis. Reporting better than expected First Quarter results and raised fu
Cofounder and re codes managing editor. Good to see you. Good stuff to talk about. Markets higher by 51 points. Amazing three hours with Warren Buffett this morning. He talked about the election, the economy and technology. Becky quick is live in omaha to bring us highlights. Reporter great to see you again. Warren buffett is not known as a leading technologist. You could probably call him the antithesis to that but he can spot a winning Business Strategy from a mile away. When it comes to winning Business Strategies there are plenty in the world of technology. Thats part of the reason that over the weekend he gave a shutout to jeff bezos. A shareholder had asked a question about trends and buffett said we are not going to outbezos him. He added this morning with additional comments. Listen to what he had to say. There are certain people do you not want to try to beat at their own game. Certainly jeff bezos would be number one. That would be like me playing chess with bobby fisher 40 y
Interviews as leaders tackle issues surrounding Climate Change. It is now or never. It is not too late, but almost too late. Mark and ecb gives emergency cash for greek banks. Tempers flare. Creditors ahead of the meeting mark welcome to countdown. Im mark barton. Im anna edwards. Im manus cranny. Cvs is said to be in advanced talks to buy on me omnicare. Anna lets bring you up to speed with what has been happening in the asian markets. We have a look at the chinese manufacturing numbers, which remain sluggish. Good morning. It slipped to a 13 month low. What is behind those numbers . I think it is worth noting is it is the initial gauge that comes out for the third week of the month. The final hsbc reading we got contraction. Lower than expectations. Another thing to note is it is a private survey. Smaller in scope. Less companies. It is where the pain is being felt the most. You look at what the shanghai composite has done so far. 4500. This is when the data came out. These levels ar
European headquarters here in london. And i am Francine Lacqua live from davos. We have a huge lineup of guests for you today. We will be speaking to Boris Johnson and Antony Jenkins, the mayor of london and the ceo of barclays. Then we will delve deeper into iran. We have some top ceos discussing iran and whether they want to do business there. I spoke to the nissan ceo. He said there is a lot of potential for the french carmakers to the big in iran. Need so much more investment that there is real potential for business deals and contracts here in davos. Is this what everybody is talking about at davos . You have an event taking place in the ukraine that is capturing the headlines as well. Rouhani seems to be the center of attention looking in. It is the first time we have an iranian president arriving in davos in a decade. I spent a lot of time trying to speak to him yesterday. I did have a couple of brief moments but he was backtoback meeting with the Prime Minister of the netherlan