Ex Current Campaign chairman Paul Manafort ex trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im alisa parenti. This is bloomberg. Bloomberg technology is next. Emily im emily chang, and this is bloomberg technology. Coming, russian bus take on u. S. Gun control. Rushers in during an expanding Twitter Campaign against america. Plus, walmarts margins hit record lows. The fight with amazon takes a toll. How investors are reacting. An essential goldman for advertisers looking to cash in on the new era of connected cars. First to our lead. Russian bots were caught targeting certain hashtags following last weeks School Shooting in florida. Widenjust one way to divide among the u. S. Electorate on how to handle guncontrol, making compromise even more difficult. This is impacting issues like the nfl in the debate and a 2016 u. S. President ial election and ultimately led to Robert Muellers indictm
A group of students who survived that School Shooting are on a 400 mile state trip to the capital to pressure lawmakers to change gun control laws. They plan to hold a rally and it will mark one week since that mass shooting in parkland, florida. A londonbased lawyer, alex van der zwaan, admitted he misled investigators about the last time he spoke with rick gates, a former associate of asked Trump Campaign chairman, paul manafort. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. I am alisa parenti. This is bloomberg. Bloomberg technology is next. Emily i am emily chang and this is Bloomberg Technology. Russian bots take on u. S. Gun control. Butia is in during it Twitter Campaign against america. Plus, walmart margins hit record lows. How investors are reacting. A potential gold mine for advertisers looking to cash in on the newest era of connected cars. But first, to our lead. Russian bots were caught following certain hashtag
Session in the white house victims of gun violence past and present demanded stricter gun control. And will get the highlights from the Winter Olympics in south korea including a falling finish in the womens ice hockey final as a team usa beats hot favorites canada to win gold for the first time in two decades. Thanks very much for your Company Everyone hell on earth that is how the United Nations chief describes the fast a teary orating humanitarian situation in the besieged suburb of damascus for the four hundred thousand civilians trapped in eastern guta there is nowhere to hide from unrelenting airstrikes carried out by the forces of president Bashar Al Assad his military says its targeting only what it calls terrorists but in the end of monitors say the shelling has killed more than three hundred civilians since sunday many of them children. Hell on earth and theres no escape this hospital now a graveyard government were planes have been pounding eastern cuba for the fifth consecu
Questions are good a lot going on all right the markets are crazy, becky what was that, 350 on friday, when it was all said and done. And strongly higher again this morning. Almost 200 and also well, well take a quick look heres a check on the markets u. S. Equity futures at this hour are, as you can see, 193 points indicated on the dow the nasdaq up another 25 the nasdaq shb dhad been diverg last week. Thats a big move that we saw, continuing buying, going on, across the board in this country. And actually in asia and europe, overnight, some strong Market Action and some interesting news in the tenyear note as well. But as you can see, the nikkei was one more than 1 point 260 points hang seng up sharply as well check out europe, green across the board, in europe, when i watched, at least looked this morning. Not the gains that were seeing here or in asia. But well see what happens this week as we move forward. Its only 6 01 and treasury yields moderating on the tenyear, which that you
Good morning a warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im wilfred frost. Im seema mody. Great to have you back at headquarters its great to be back lovely to be alongside you thank you lets quick off with that big breaking deal news comcast making a 31 billion cash offer for british broadc t broadcaster sky. Sky shares shooting higher on the news sky up to 1,332. The bid price was 1,250. For most of the last year or so since the fox deal for sky had beenagreed, it traded below that bid price on expectations that regulators could block the deal now there may not be regulatory hurdles, but also now a bid war. Comcast lower in the premarket comcasts bid does rival the current offer from fox well have much more on the breaking story straight ahead. Great analysis and guests coming up throughout the show. Lets check Global Markets following yesterdays big rally. It was a strong start to the week with the dow gaining 1. 5 futures indicating a higher open for the dow which is up 18 points in the