Won, i want the gold i watched a couple hours of it unbelievable, right . Im still trying to understand you try to get it in the center thing or not you want to new york the other guy out. Whats the hammer if you have the hammer. I dont know the terminology come on i know we won by knocking them out those guys are intense. This guy has been there for several olympics when the guys get what is he called . Who does the pushing . Yeah. They score. Hes like 9 or something. When the guy on the other side is holding the brush i think theyre getting rid of the friction in between to make sure it goes the right direction. I know, but the guy at the other end, he is not moving, theyre aiming it . Theres a lot more skill involved than we have given them credit for yeah. And what if theyre running down and a foot hits is that a technical they have to be careful it is slippery theres a deal breaking not a curling deal. General mills buying blue buffalo for 8 billion in cash or 40 a share. Blue buf
Discussed 8 00 a. M. We are two hours away from the open of asias first major market opening for the trading week. Betty it is already after 6 00 p. M. On sunday evening in new york. We are kicking off to what will week ony adventurous wall street, a lot of focus on President Trump who has wrapped up his trip to the middle east, on to israel, or in israel soon and into italy. That will likely be the key event investors are watching for. Also watching for economic numbers coming out including housing in the u. S. Lets roll up what happened on friday as you were enjoying the weekend in asia. You did see quite a nice rally, sort of a bounceback in the dow, the s p, both of. Up. Still on awork losing streak, given the big tumble we saw. This as markets certain to price in the uncertainty from washington. We will see. This will be a key litmus test for how investors will absorb continuing uncertainties out of washington. Haidi that is right. It feels like we continue the misadventures in th
We have the world covered here on daybreak asia with the wrapup from the trade ministers meeting over the weekend. Help President Trump fared in riyadh shortly. This is daybreak asia. I am betty liu in new york. A. M. In just after 7 00 hong kong. Political risk will be dominating the headlines once again this week. The first leg of President Trumps middle east trip. It seems as so far so good, the opec meeting, the fed meeting this week, but plenty on investors place. Ceos like lots and lots of money being invested in their own home country, so pretty smooth sailing as you say, but there are still a lot of questions about the Political Risks. You saw Goldman Sachs taking down their target for the 2. 75 , ayield down to bearish a signal there. Markets have been choppy, but we have not seen total collapse. On jamesld depend comey when he testifies this weekend whether we get new information over the russian meddling scandal. See how things going. Asia kicking off so far, following the l
And, asiapacific trade ministers concerned about rising protectionism, but no mention of it in their postsummit statement in hanoi. The start of the brandnew asian trading week. It is all about oil. We are fast approaching that meeting in vienna. The markets have pretty much priced and that ninemonth extension. Latest over the weekend, we are hearing that saudi arabia saying all opec producers are up for this extension. Take a look at this chart in terms of where Price Expectations are going. That front month the vti with the nearest expiration contract, converging at 50, so whether the news has 10 baked in or there is further upside when it comes to that oil price, even if we get that extension, and the flip side of that story is where u. S. Shale production goes from here, because the biggest opecion has not been producer sticking to their end of the bargain as opposed to whether their efforts are being undermined by increasing levels of u. S. Production. We have seen u. S. Inventori
You want a competitive role. My number one job is to rebuild trust with all of our stakeholders. Jonathan plus the easy be ecb prepares to unwind qe. It is only fair if you leave the club, you settle the accounts. They seem to be fully and in command. They are in a position where they will be surprised by what we do. Jonathan that is all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Jonathan hello, and welcome. Im jonathan ferro. This is bloomberg best your weekly review of the most business important news, analysis and interviews from Bloomberg Television around the world. This week began with an unexpected change from one of the big three u. S. Automakers. Vonnie a management shakeup at ford replacing the ceo. It was a bit of a surprise. There have been some pressure for ford because the stock had fallen so much during mark fieldss tenure, and it was last week during the shareholder meeting, bill ford was defending the company to the shareholders, but he never mentioned mark fields by name. It k