Tablet wars. An Israeli Company wants to turn your furniture into the newest digital device. Good monday morning, everybody. You are watching Market Makers on bloomberg television. Im Erik Schatzker. And im scarlet fu in for stephanie ruhle. Lets get you to the business top stories around the world. Investors are not as a doozy ecig about the Global Economy as they were just not as enthusiastic about the Global Economy as they were just a few months ago. This compared to the last poll taken in january. That separatists in ukraine overwhelmingly supported independence. The government is calling it a farce and saying the votes are illegal. Allergan hasr officially rejected it a takeover offer from valley and. Valeant. Drew armstrong is covering the story now. Hat is next . We will be going back and forth on this thing for a little while. Apparently, allergan had gone to some other Big Companies and gotten i dont know where. And there was talk with maybe glaxosmithkline. It leaves them in
Congressional leaders and white house negotiators continue their negotiations over a new Coronavirus Relief package. Three democratic sources telling nbc news the aid could include a 400 weekly boost for unemployment payments. The number of coronavirus patients has surpassed 4. 8 million with more than 159,000 deaths. That toll translates to one death from coronavirus every 80 seconds. Lets say that again. One death from coronavirus every 80 seconds. For all you people out there who say, oh, its just a cold. In the meantime, the number of tests being performed in the United States is dropping. The Associated Press says the number of tests per day slid 3. 6 over the past two weeks. That is down in 22 states. Weve got alarming news from the state of georgia. A second grader there has tested positive for the virus after attending the very first day of school. And in illinois, Chicago Public schools announcing all remote classes this fall semester. Our team of reporters is stationed across
Nugget that we need to make a full picture of what is going on. Your students deal with Public Domain issues should you be doing more in the Public Domain . There has been a movement over the years to try to doheade g20. Its a good to have a list of u. S. And foreign officials in the sequence kicked off with governor cook. We have a little bit of pride today that we are, for the First Time Since covid, having a meeting with a lunch and people present in this puts an extra spring in their step. We look forward to continuing to have these hybrid events first and foremost, our global audience with streaming videos but also our friends and neighbors in person who were able to join us on these occasions. In addition to lisa, governor cook, over the next week we can have, we look forward to this afternoon with the presentation of the semi annual Global Economic prospects by karen diamond and accompanied in speaking by olivier blanche art and that will take up some of the same themes from a d
Markets. To australia where the a sx 200 is falling for a third day as the Australian Dollar maintains its rebounds. Is the number there. This is the move. It is adding 100 points and then some. It is higher. Hired to then is u. S. Dollar. It is hopping with some exports. The be oj starting the policy meeting today. Ospi isa, the k fractionally higher. It just below that 2000 mark. From computers to drinks. Lenovo may be focused on snatching up the ibm server unit. John dawson has the details on both of the stories. Breaking news. They are actually confirming they are in preliminary talks. This is four . 5 billion. They are saying that talks broke down a couple of months ago about the price. Wants to spend more. Says they are ready to sign the money within cheeks. Dell may be looking to account. We are looking for an exciting move that did in fact fell to agree. There are lower Profit Margins to exit hardware. Software. They still have the pc business in 2005 to even it all out. Lenovo
Full schedule, go to booktv. Orge pleased to be joined with Rajiv Chandrasekaran, an associate editor at the was post, and most recently the author of this book, Little America about the war in afghanistan. But where did the term Little America come from . It came from a remarkable project in the 1950s, led by a team of American Engineers, to develop parts of southern afghanistan to dig irrigation candles, build dams, in the very same terrain that the current troop surge unfolded in. Back then, these American Engineers decided to build a model town for themselves. Right smack dab in the middle of the desert in the province. Eight square blocks. Four blocks by two blocks. Instead of traditional afghan homes, big tall walls, they built suburban style american homes, ramblers with white stucco walls. Man cured front lawnsle them countrys first and only code high coed high school, and a Swimming Pool where boys and girls could square together. And weekly square dances and a bar tender who