The moment in europe, not overexcited by moves from the worlds most powerful central the fed big brother is watching you businesses now have more personal information than ever before, but how are they using it . Well hear from the boss of an Analytics Company later in the programme. And as the Music Industry has bounced back after a decade of falling sales, thanks to a boom in streaming services today, we want to know how do you listen to music . Do you stream, download or buy cds and vinyl . Let us know, use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. As usual we are jam packed so lets get started we start in taiwan where in the last few hours smartphone maker htc has struck a billion dollar deal with alphabet the Company Behind google. Shares in the Taiwanese Company were suspended on reports google was planning a take over of the firm. Instead staff from htcs mobile unit will bejoining google, leaving htc to carry on with its other projects htc used to be one of the
Blowout earnings from amazon, alphabet, microsoft, and intel that we told you about last night. Amazon and alphabet closed at alltime highs and above the 1,000 a share mark. The two dow components, microsoft and intel, were both up more than 6 . Microsoft hit a new alltime high. And intel was the best performing stock today on the blue chip index. Today alone, amazon added more than 61 billion to its market cap. Alphabets market cap now tops 700 billion, about twice the size of exxonmobil. Microsofts market cap pushed past 650 dlal billion, just onek after hitting 600 billion. Intel shares hit a 17year high. That along with apple saying its seeing Strong Demand for its iphone x sent the nasdaq up more than 2 . And the fact that index easily outperforming the Dow Jones Industrial average, which added 33 points, and the s p, which gained 20 to hit a record. The nasdaq was the big winner for the week as well. The Global Benchmark for crude settled above 60 a barrel for the first in more t
Id like to call the hearing to order. I want to welcome our witness today. David glouwy. Glawe. President trumps nominee to be the next undersecretary or the intelligence and analysis of the department of Homeland Security. David, congratulations on your nomination. Id like to take a moment to recognize the sizable family contingent you have behind you today. And thank your husband perry of for his unwavering support. I think its also important to pay tribute and thanks thank you or your family for the honorable government service. Perry is a supervisory special agent at the fbi. Your father jim glawe served in the korean war. Your brother in law gerald se lanas served in desert storm and your sister works at the v. A. I thank you for your service to your country and your dedication and selfless service. Our goal in conducting this hearing is to enable the committee to consider mr. Glawes qualifications and to allow for a thoughtful deliberation by our members. Hes already provided wri
Before . Well, there is some catalyst pushing us around, and the catalyst and we have talked about it time and time again, over the last month or two, and the correlation with oil, and 37 to 42 is the new range that we are sitting in with oil. If oil breaks through, judge, that is because the primary catalyst in my opinion that has been moving the markets, and that is where we areal following the very closest, because you can talk about the dow or talk about the 10year or the chinaer to fed i was going to talk about the dollar. Make the can case that the dollar is the most important thing. Well, it is important, but you can almost right now close your eyes on the weekly basis and not every single day, but on the weekly basis, close your eyes and see where oil is, and you know where the market is. And rob, is this the time, maybe it is, sentiment is different than what it was in the beginning part of the year. China is maybe beter thab it was in the beginning part of the year, and oil i
Will moderate the first session this morning with the deputy secretary of dhs. Mike balboni is a longtime friend, coconspirator on a whole host of issues. He serves on our board and more importantly has served in numerous roles related to Homeland Security, including the Homeland Security adviser to two different governors in the state of new york, a former senator, state senator in new york who really picked up and defense of a lot of the Homeland Security issues from the status of the. Also resides from my hometown, long island. He represented long island, as you can see im wearing the islanders color today. But without further ado it introduced mike balboni who is ceo of redland strategies. You see him a lot on our tv screens throughout the country. Mike, the floor is yours. Thank you. [applause] good morning ladies and gentlemen. I dont know if you share my sense of enthusiasm that its great when you come from the hinterlands of the state did you come to washington, d. C. And to ge