Like never before. And, sonos sues google. System the custom sound company showing trademarks of a takeover . We will talk about the survivability of upstarts in the big tech era . Breaking news. U. S. Treasury has named no currency manipulators in its fx report, effectively taking china off of being a currency manipulator. Again, the u. S. Treasury has ine no currency manipulators its foreignexchange report. We know that china was put on that designation list in august, being removed today. I want to get back to our top story. It is all about earnings season here. To reportnks set earnings this week after having spent billions on technology in 2019. That could be bringing a big change to the bonus culture as traders are being forced to unlearn some of their most basic assumptions about making money. Us, our Bloomberg Finance reporter. What are we learning about unlearning the bonus culture on wall street . What we are unlearning is that bonuses or maybe a thing of the past. In the pas
Cue ramy on right on cue, the foreign minister put out his response to this that the act out of the United States is an active International Act of terrorism. Were going to get you more details on this story, information thats been for the lastough two or three hours or so. The state of the markets are looking like this. In terms of risk assets, going into the lunch break in hong kong, u. S. Features down 20 points, dollaryen low to the day, still fairly strong on the japanese currency, fly under the asian benchmark, and gold is 15401550. Wards 4 , but still substantial gains. He was features are looking like this u. S. Futures are up my mistake, moving up as london joins wakes up. Good morning to you. Well get to the latest on all of this. Jodi schneider is onset. And we have another reporter joining us. Jodi, im going to start with you, the significance of this act. Jodi very significant. Probably the most tense moment and certainly the biggest escalation in relations since the end o
And a 2020 launch. Facebooks Cryptocurrency Libra is set to debut next year. We will hear how the head of libra and the facebook coo touted this big promise. But first our top story. Recordbreaking sales for amazon. The ecommerce giant posted its largest advance on the s p 500 index on thursday. Amazon didnt release specific sales figures, but the statement backs up broader reports that Online Shopping picked up this year. I want to bring in spencer and darren baker. Spencer, talk to me about what we learned from amazon this holiday season. Spencer in terms of their statement, we didnt learn much. Every year is another record for amazon and ecommerce. What we did see was that this was the first year, one that they rolled out their oneday shipping pledge on millions of items, and that they handled so much of their own delivery on their own. I think a little bit of the boost is that amazon got through christmas without any disasters. Everyone was wondering how they would do this year. Ta
But doc you sign makes the docusign makes the glassdoor list. We talk to the ceo about what makes the company unique. A self driving a semi exits its first makes run. Silicon valley is listening to your most intimate moments, the first of a bloomberg piece of how the craze left users vulnerable. It was one of the most read stories on wednesday. I spoke to journalists about the story, including the devices and use of contractors to transcribe intimate conversations. We spoke to guests in San Francisco and new york. We spoke to dozens of transcribers from everywhere from ireland to india and they had ethical quandaries with this service. They were eavesdropping on a lot of customers to improve the systems speech recognition capabilities. Thing was that profound disparity you mention. Mentioned. A lot of contractors felt this was a dubious, but a lot of folks we talked to did not think it was such an issue. They saw this as a way of improving Quality Assurance. Apple who hadat worked on s
Softbank vision fund. What is going on . Of new reports. And 2019, the year in review. ,he plans for Cryptocurrency Facebook felted all. What is the strategy going into 2020 . First and the top story, shares of micron up after they reported betterthanexpected top and bottom line numbers for their fiscal firstquarter and the forecast strong numbers for the current quarter. Gross margin is something i have been eyeballing all day. They are coming in more than 27 . At the ludlow ed ludlow is here to break down the numbers. What is your key takeaway from this report . Reporter with these numbers, that is the optimism across wall street. The memory chip market will rebound probably at some point in the second half here. When we talk about dynamic random access memory, we are referring to the memory change that goes into computers, pcs. You look at the chart, prices trade like a commodity. They have been trickling as new Technology Comes into the market and capacity comes into the market. Th