At 4. 8 , premuch in line with expectations. 1. 8 , worse than expected. Retail sales are the weakest link in the recovering story in china. Than what the market was expecting. Property investment year to date coming in pretty much at 1. 9 . Versus an estimate of 1 . We also have the jobless rate coming in a tad better at 5. 7 versus 5. 9 . Which was expected by the market. Overall when you look at the economy, it looks like it is adding to signs the economy is picking up momentum. China probably will be reflecting in the rest of the world. Yvonne one of the key disappointments is still the consumption side with retail side still amiss in a negative fringe for a fourth straight months of 120 . About theuestions back half of the year. But the gdp is still the stand out. Take a look at the adjusted quarter on quarter. We are talking double digit growth of 11. 5 . The highest quarter on quarter at least nine years for china. This is how we are seeing things play out in the markets. Seeing
Lets get your global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. From hong kong to munich to paris washington to sarasota, florida and new york, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. There are questions about transparency for china. Rishaad salamat joins us from hong kong. Walk us through some of the latest. Now with63,000 cases the death toll up by 121, but the inconsistency in the numbers has led to a lot of questions. Some of them are not being answered, and that has led to people thinking that this disease is not really going away at the moment. We had some optimism a couple of days ago, but that has receded somewhat. Weve also got bickering between washington and beijing. The u. S. Saying they have been denied that. On a microeconomic level, weve got companies such as Fiat Chrysler halting production in one of its plants in serbia. They cant get enough parts out of china. If you want to buy a barbie doll in the future
But unfortunately, two of our panelists will not be able to attend tonight. Nonetheless, we are excited with todays discussion and excited with the panelists that will join us for the conversation. With that, we are glad to be joined by our panelists. We have greg, a Community Outreach coordinator in the office of u. S. Senator dick durbin. He serves as dick durbins liaison to elected officials and other constituencies throughout the chicago and metro region. We also have richard driggers, the Deputy Assistant of the office of Cyber Security communications at the department of Homeland Security. In his role, he supports the implementation of operational programs designed to strengthen the security of the nations Critical Infrastructure. We have ambassador doug lute, the senior fellow in the future of democracy project at the Harvard Kennedy school. A Senior Adviser at cambridge global advisors, and a former career army officer and former u. S. Permanent representative to nato. Our mode
Excited with todays discussion. We are glad to be joined by our parents. He serves as the liaison to elected officials. And other constituencies throughout the chicago and metro region. He supports the development. We also have the ambassador investor who is a senior fellow. The cambridge global advisors. Our motto in there today is jake burns. The ceo of cambridge global advisors. He teaches Cyber Security policy. For the Cyber Security. Please join me in welcoming the panel. [applause]. Welcome. As i was mentioned. The cyber policy at the university of chicago. I want to thank the council for having us here today. Just to put in a plug for the organization. Is definitely worth every penny. Its fitting that we have this event here in january. The first event i did on Election Security last year was in january on the stage. Whats going on with tech in the elections. In that panel which i think was one of the first in the country was really the first one saint saying what the heck does
25 dragging the rest of the building sector higher. Standard charter trades higher in hong kong after pretax profit jumps 17 5 beating forecasts. Sky shares rallied to a 17year high on news that comcast entered the bidding battle the u. S. Cable giant unveiled a 22 billion pound offer this morning representing a 16 premium to the dealready on the table from 21st century fox. Because both companies create and distribute content, it is said the combined group would be stronger than if 21st century fox takes full ownership of sky. However he says he is willing to coown the company as long as he has a 51 stake. Lots of ins and out. Steve, what can you tell us . A lot of analysts have been looking at this one for a large amount of 2017 comcast is the owner of this company, as you said we want to keep reminding people of that. They need to diversify away there are great pressures on the cable industry neil campo saying the revenue and annuity stream could be of primary appeal to Brian Robert