Investigation into meddling. News, 24 hours a day, 27 hundredmore than journalists and analysts in more than 27 countries, this is bloomberg. This is bloomberg technology, coming up, amazon globals gobbles up whole foods. We go over every angle of this stunning development, including the implications for. Rickandmortar stores why the worlds ecommerce giants diving back into the space it has disrupted. Shockwaves rippling across upon. Why the competition should be concerned that amazon may have a plan in the pipeline. Amazon upsets the grocery cart. Agreed to by whole foods by 13. 7 billion. New sent shares of both whole foods and amazon are trading higher on friday and then shockwaves of ross online and offline worlds. It is a highly ambitious world to give amazon the ability to dominate every part of a customer shopping experience. Majorzon has become a distributor of tv and movies. Physical bookstores and changed the future of homes. Now it is taking on groceries, a massive and noncy
Defense secretary jim mattis has not decided to increase troops in afghanistan, that is according to the pentagon. Previous reports said that the u. S. Was sending 4000 more american troops there. Mattis says that he doesnt have enough forces to help afghanistans army fight the taliban. Rod rosenstein now has plans to recuse himself from the Russian Investigation into meddling. It comes a day after President Trump tweet targeting him. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im Alisa Parenti. This is bloomberg. Emily im emily chang and this is bloomberg technology. Coming up, amazon gobbles up whole foods. We go over every angle of this stunning development, including the implications for brickandmortar stores. Why the worlds ecommerce giants diving back into the space it has disrupted. Plus, the shockwaves rippling across the pond. Why the competition should be concerned that amazon may have a plan in the pipeline to ex
Thats right, steve, allison. We know he has been using his opinion lot in the last few days signing many executive orders including yesterday push ago head with those couldnt vaersial Oil Pipelines Keystone Oil Pipeline and Dakota Access pipeline then signal oingen twitter there will be more to come. Heres tweets saying big day planned on National Security tomorrow among nangy other things well bull the wall well those other things include hiring more Border Patrol agents and financial penalties force socalled sanctuary cities that dent doe taken or arrest immigrants. And they restrict the flow of refugee in the United States according to sources. As for immigrant children trump wants to periodically deport theres some reprieve. Priority is 1st and foremost focused on people who pose a threat to people in our country. Now trump insistence mexico would pay for the wall brought wild cheers at fans at Campaign Rallies and mexico said it will not pay for any border wall. Those executives a
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Good morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt with post nine, sara eisen and wilfred frost. Worldwide alley we can call it this morning. Like it. Squawk exchange. Lucky wilf another hour with me. Meantime top story stocks tumbling here you might have caught early in the premarket action this morning after Trumps Health care fail. So whats next for the markets as it weighs its next step in washington . Joining us now to discuss it, terry haines, evercores isi political analyst. And joining us ceo of labenthal holdings. Welcome back. Thank you. Lets start with the narrative in the markets that the first test of the trump agenda doesnt bode too well for the next pro growth policies like tax reform and infrastructure. Is that right . How are you telling your clients to trade it . Well, what were telling clients is the story is still to be written. I think this is a stumble and not something thats irreversible politically. But congress and trump have about four to six weeks to execute