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Just. On chris colfer welcome to the program chinas Gross Domestic Product last year grew at its slowest pace in almost 3 decades weaker exports and sluggish consumer demand weighed on the worlds 2nd biggest economy slowing Economic Growth to 6 point one percent while that was within the governments target zone and was lower than economists had forecast. The Chinese Government aims to accentuate the positive visit announced the countrys worst g. D. P. Growth since 1990. You suddenly turned up in 2019 the economy grew by 6 point one percent on the Previous Year that meets the projected target of 6 to 6. 5 percent. But those latest figures are an unwanted sign that beijing has failed to improve conditions the way it would have liked. Chinas expansion has been slowing for much of the last decade edging ever closer to the 6 percent mark some analysts say needs to stay above that point to continue generating jobs the latest figure takes it uncomfortably close. The government has already tri
Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We begin in asia. Chinas economy stabilized last quarter, showing greater than expected strength if december. Fourth quarter g. D. P. Rose from the year earlier. Joining us now on the phone from beijing is james, bloombergchina economy editor. Walk me through the details and where the question marks are still Going Forward . Reporter looking at the data that came out today, it really was a surprisingly strong finish for 2019, for chinas economy. I think if we look past the g. D. P. Numbers, chinas g. D. P. Is more a political target than a real indicator of whats going on. If you look at the retail sales, Industrial Production and fixed investment numbers, there was a bit of a rebound in december. Sort of ending the year on a high note. A part of that was, i think, the chinese numbers efforts to sort of support companies is working and also i think the optimism you may have seen in december from the signs that the t
Sources say the ftc is widening its investigation of amazon to include its massive cloud business. And u. S. Senator Marsha Blackburn on the social media app tictoc. Tiktok. We will hear from her after they say they have made changes. But we begin with major changes happening in alphabet. Larry page and sergey brin announced they are stepping down from the tech giant. The google ceo will now be the ceo of both google and alphabet. They will remain active as cofounders and remain on the board. Tuesday. O guests on it was a pretty big surprise. Questions about how much longer sundar might want to be ceo of google. Those questions have been a little bit. Google is under a massive amount of scrutiny. He has a lot of things to juggle. There have been internal protests. This really was a surprise where basically he has had to deal with all these things and he will be back dealing with all of the other things happening under the alphabet umbrella which includes self driving cars and other thi
Widening itsftc is investigation of amazon. We will have details. National Security Risk blackburn on the social media app tictoc. Chinasled it to best detective. We will talk to her after tictoc says it has made changes. We begin with major changes happening at alphabet. Larry page and Sergei Brennan brinnced sergey announced they are stepping down. Remain active and remain on the board. On tuesday it was a pretty big surprise actually. There had been some questions about how much longer send our dar would want to be ceo of google. Google is under a massive amount of scrutiny. There have been internal protests within the company. This really was a surprise. He has basically had to deal with all of these things and now he will be back dealing with all of those things that happen under the apple umbrella, sergey ared visionaries and sundar is an executioner. Where they fit in . Se together founded the Search Engine more than larry and sergey together founded the Search Engine more than