Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We begin in asia. Chinas economy stabilized last quarter, showing greater than expected strength if december. Fourth quarter g. D. P. Rose from the year earlier. Joining us now on the phone from beijing is james, bloombergchina economy editor. Walk me through the details and where the question marks are still Going Forward . Reporter looking at the data that came out today, it really was a surprisingly strong finish for 2019, for chinas economy. I think if we look past the g. D. P. Numbers, chinas g. D. P. Is more a political target than a real indicator of whats going on. If you look at the retail sales, Industrial Production and fixed investment numbers, there was a bit of a rebound in december. Sort of ending the year on a high note. A part of that was, i think, the chinese numbers efforts to sort of support companies is working and also i think the optimism you may have seen in december from the signs that the t
It is time for the global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from around the world. Joining us on the phone from hong kong is karen leigh, from plus guytuart wallace, johnson, and bloombergs dani burger, and here in new york, bloombergs michael mckee. And hong kong, thousands marched through the citys financial district after demonstrations turned violent lester day violent yesterday. Karen leigh has the latest. They firedce saying more than 1400 rounds of tear gas at protesters yesterday, the 70th anniversary of communist party rule in china. People here came out to protest on that day. To give you an example of how big a number that is, that is more than half of the total number of tear gas rounds that have been fired over almost four months of protests. So a pretty big usage by the lease. We saw a lot of violence here yesterday. We saw a definite escalation when a protester was shot by live ammunition for the first time, something people here have been worried ab
Doubledigit lead if elections were today. The president will say get it done or expect defeat next year. Markets open higher again today and, yes, we are again at or near record stock price levels and as amazon powers ahead, we will pose the question, jeff bezos, 100 billiondollar guy, is he also the new steve jobs . Varney company is about to begin. Stuart this is the face of the retail revolution. Online is on the march like never before. Adobe says yesterday was the Largest Online sale history, 6. 9 billion worth of sale online and the revenue often driven by smartphones that hit alltime high, 1. 59 billion worth of sales, that, again, just from phone purchases. Lets bring in mike murphy, hes with rosecliff capital, im going overboard on this. Wait for it. The revolution is now, we are in the middle of it. Are you going to take me on . Mike im with you. People know that they can shop with convenience, people are willing to spend money but on their terms. The only way brick and morta
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