Will be introducing tonights guest speaker but before we get started first please silence any cell phones or any other Electronic Devices we will be recording audio cspan is here recording. We will be doing a q a following the presentation we have plenty of copies at the register if you like to purchase after the event. A columnist from the Bloomberg Opinion covering industry over two decades his new book secondhand is a revealing investigation of what has happened to those billions of items we clean out our home they could end up to a thrift store flea markets in Southeast Asia or in ghana to examine all facets of the multibilliondollar Global Industry including the marketing practices to load up after the purge of Household Items please give him a warm welcome. [applause] thanks to everyone for being here including the man who commissioned my first article so thats quite a thrill to have him here at this reading. When you finish a book you get to questions typically the first is very
You make some money because my job is not to entertai but to educate and teach you so call me at 1800743cnbc. Or tweet me jimcramer. Embrace technology or die. People always ask why the team spends so much time out in San Francisco and the answer is Pretty Simple frankly. If you want your business to survive in the 21st century you need better tech tech that individualized, tech that tells the story, tech that keeps you current. Tech that makes your customers happy. The dow gained 31, s p inched up 0. 05 . I think you need to understand we come out here basically to give technology its due. Tech is how good businesses become great ones and take themselveses to the next level how that works, take tonight, were going to the levis Innovation Factory in San Francisco where this 166yearold company has reinvented the way jeans are made later in the show youll hear from ceo chip byrd how do you make classic jeans without classic dispolioation of the earth. You didnt care where the indigo went
Against Pension Reforms adds the government seeks to calm fears but push ahead with an overall of the system. And checking out tesco trades near the top of the stock 600 as the retailers considers a move that could generate 9 billion. Well, a very warm welcome to street signs this morning. Lets kick off with a look at fx markets because we have seen a pretty strong move higher in the pound. You can see here trading around 131. 59 sterling has hit a sevenmonth high against the dollar after a opinion pollex the ended their lead over the labour party the british currency hit a two and a half year high against the euro very strong reaction in fx markets. That seems to be the main way they play. Very strong move there, just under the 132 mark now, were going to have more on the upcoming uk election in about half an hour with managing director at teneo. Lets look at equity markets a slightly weak estart to trade 234 europe following a positive day on friday, not only for european stocks but
This is bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua here in london. These are your markets. Global chief economist. A lot of the focus is on the next, the mastercard trade war. A lot of the focus is on data executive vice chair on out. We see pound. Diversity and her thoughts on we are of course watching that because we are one month exactly the apple card gender bias issue. From the early election, this is bloomberg. December 12, and the u. K. After the brexit party said they will not expand conservative seats. 1. 93. 0 year yield at coming up, we will be speaking to musabbeh al kaabi, the chairman of Mubadala Petroleum at 9 30 a. M. U. K. Time. That is manus cranny bringing that live. Lets kick off the show with the latest from hong kong. Rn that the city is on the brink of total breakdown as protesters rocked the citys financial district to a standstill. The chaos follows a flareup in violence after the first fatality linked to the protests. Is it different from yesterday . Is the mo
Today. Our road map begins with Global Growth concerns. China posting the weakest gdp in 27 years aed my fallout from the trade war. Well wrap up the first week of earnings season, two names in focus, coke and American Express, both rallyi ining aheaf the bell. Rick perry set to leave trumps cabinet. He will join us live this hour going to start with that slowdown, china saying the economy grew 6 in q3 from a year ago, believed to be chinas slowest gain in nearly three decades. Markets here largely shrugging it off Industrial Production was up from the prior five to 58. Retail sales up from 75 back to 78 so kind of mixed. This one we can say, look, there is something for everybody. Fed can still cut. But im doing a lot of work on American Express this morning. Consumer is still strong consumer strong, business, corporate spend, as barry said, still a lot of negativity among ceos, extends to the election, negativity extends to china, european woes. Go back to the ibm call, we didnt talk