With a big bang and open up our country or certainly most of our country and i think were going to do that soon. You look at whats happening, i would say were ahead of schedule. Now, you hate to say it too loudly because all of a sudden things dont happen, but i think we will be sooner rather than later. Ashley sooner rather than later. The markets responding positively in the premarket today. The dow up 330 points. It is a holidayshortened week. No trading tomorrow. We have long weekend coming up. What will that do to the markets . We will get into that. As for oil, up as opec plus meets. We are likely to hear about a deal between the saudis and russians to cut production, although up until now, they havent seen eye to eye. In the next hour, we will hear from fed chair Jerome Powell and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. Powell could move the market with his remarks on the economy. A half hour ago, the fed announced 2. 3 trillion in new loans available. That helped offset the neg
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Alibaba. Single day after a scorching start as consumers around the world look for bargains. Kathleen lets get to u. S. Stocks and how they ended. You can see the gains on the board are not large. However, go straight to the middle line, thats the s p 500. Another alltime high. 3093. It was a week of dueling trade headlines as chinas Commerce Department and white house Economic Advisor said yes, a phase i deal will involve a phase in tariffs. Tech stocks gains as well. Anything that is good for a trade deal. Global growth certainly helps. Tech shares, the nasdaq closing at another alltime high. 8475. What is interesting is on saturday, President Trump went out of his way to say wait a minute, i have not said yet anything about tariffs. Im not going to get rid of all tariffs. He did not say he would phase in some tariffs reductions. I think he is trained to tell us the deal is not sealed. Im the final say on what is going to happen. We will see how the markets deal with that today. At t
Huge Public Health crisis. Carol and aramcos mega ipo is finally set to go. Jason first, here is joel webber on this weeks issue and the cover story, tesla and the complicated ethics of autopilot. Joel thats right. We all like the idea of driverless cars. It seems like the future, right . But how do we get there . Basically, tesla is in the middle of this grand experiment with autopilot, which is viewed viewed as a stepping stone to driverless cars. But there is this big ethical dilemma. With autopilot, which is viewed this cover story is an ethics course of how do we get there . Tesla is already doing this in real time with autopilot, and other companies have been not quite as bold as what tesla has chosen to do. Carol joel, dilemma is right. The more miles we get on the road with something, the better. There is so much data involved in making this better, but in the interim, youre going to lose some lives. Joel thats right, that is the moral calculus that we are living in right now b
Carol welcome to Bloomberg Businessweek. Im carol massar. Jason and im jason kelly. We are here inside bloomberg headquarters in new york. Carol this week, turkey launches a major offensive in syria, and President Trump says the United States will not stand in the way. The surprise announcement heard around the world, and the not so surprising winner in all of this. Jason plus, vaping closer to home. How juul took on big tobacco and is caught in the middle of a Huge Public Health crisis. Carol and aramcos mega ipo is finally set to go. Jason first, here is joel webber on this weeks issue and the cover story, tesla and the complicated ethics of autopilot. Joel thats right. We all like the idea of driverless cars. It seems like the future, right . But how do we get there . Basically, tesla is in the middle of this grand experiment with autopilot, which is viewed viewed as a stepping stone to driverless cars. But there is this big ethical dilemma. This cover story is an ethics course of h