To beat this disease maybe it even needs a bear market which is where we are today and the dow plunged and s p and nasdaq nose dived 4. 7 coron as coronavirus is a Public Health crisis wreaking havoc all over the country and it hasnt effected that many people yet but we know it will. And we thought we could keep it out and then thought it could be contained and then as it kept spreading we were told there was no big deal. Theres so few cases and so few why all the fuss and we discovered the Term Community spread we heard about the outbreak in Washington State and then the suburbs of new york and then the fiasco it dawned on us when they say novel as novel coronavirus, novel means we have no immunity to it. We have no vaccine if you dont, try not to get it. We have no tamiflu once you get it were all against this unseen nightmare. Novel, steven king novel all right. Were cancelling big Public Events what happens next. The two ways to do this, two ways to play it, pile on once again and
Guy johnson in london. Lets get the first word news. China is on a mission to create an Aircraft Carriersized investment bank. They are opening up 45 trillion financial industry would also wants to beef up its own players to go toe to tell giants. At the moment chinas brokers dont have much of an international presence. Adding together the 131 brokers have about as many assets as Goldman Sachs by itself. Germany expects the nord stream 2 two gas pipeline to be delayed but it should be completed in the second half of next year. Costs are rising after sanctions u. S. Sanctions on the project. Of japan and south korea are holding their first formal meeting in 15 months amid a longstanding historical dispute that hit trade in the region. It also had a trilateral meeting between the three. Theyve reached International Cooperation on dealing with north korea. 2019 has been a good year for the superrich. Almostrichest man added 17 billion to his wealth this year. Over 11 billion. , bernard,nn
Our second panel is chris brummer, Research Professor director, institute of economic law, and University Law center. Our second witnesses katerina pastore, and columbia law school. Gendler who is professor of the practice of Global Economics and manager. Mit sloan school of management Senior Advisor to the director, Mit Media Lab and codirector of. The next witness will be robert wiseman, president , public citizen, and the final witness will be chief Strategy Officers. Welcome to all of you. Without objection, your written statements will be made part of the record. Each of you will have five minutes to summarize your testimony and with one minute remaining a yellow light will appear. At that time i will ask that you wrap up your testimony so that we can be respectful of both witnesses and Committee Members times. You are recognized for five minutes to present your testimony. Thank you so much. Members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify. Im here in my academic cap
We have a Good Opportunity if we enable more people to participate to offer services that can generate revenue. This is supposed to be a Nonprofit Organization, is in the . Im talking about the calibra wallop which will directly impact facebook. Is it going to be a nonprofit . No, calibra is a forprofit entity and the entity that will dold the wallet that will be offered to facebook consumers. Is Digital Currency illegal in some parts of the world quick skinny touch on that . Gets congressman there are an number of countries that prohibit buying selling or using Digital Currencies. I also want to mention privacy violation concerns things that americans have been concerned with. The american consumer, do they trust facebook and do they feel comfortable with your company . Congressman i believe we have a lot of work to do to earn Peoples Trust and we have two definitely make though strong commitments when it comes to privacy and make good on those commitments for long periods of time. I
Welcome to bloomberg surveillance bloomberg surveillance. Im mark barton in london. Festival of Central Banks, we have the ecb to come, the bank of england, the fed here. Down 1 5 of 1 . Uro, little change unchanged since the last ecb season, october 26. Hasnt fallen to one dollar 1587 on November November 7. Sterling up by 1 10 of 1 today. Today, but its politics thats affecting sterling today, having risen since fps last night. Theyre changing their governments planned legislation, so they guarantee they will get a meaningful vote on the final deal to leave the eu in negotiations for 2019. Coming up today on bloomberg surveillance, we will discuss markets with paul donovan, hear from the s p governor thomas jordan. But get to bloomberg first word news with Sebastian Salek sebastian the fed has raised rates by 25 basis points as widely expected. We also have a growth forecast next year, but maintaining projection of hikes 3 hikes in 2018. Saiding chair janet yellen this underlines tha