Hello im Adrian Finnigan this is counting the cost on aljazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week as africa opens its borders in the hope of emulating the success of the European Union nigeria shuts its borders blaming smuggling and tax evasion. Despite a slowing economy continues with its Infrastructure Spending ahead of the fifa world cup talked to Qatar Airways c. E. O. About airport expansion as rival dubai puts its project on hold. Plus cant count out build on the success of homegrown giants aljazeera and b. In sport by attracting more Media Companies to set up shop here. In a world where nations are grouping together to form trading blocks replicate the best of the best the European Union its somewhat strange that one nation is leaving but this weeks show isnt about briggs it this is about africas decision to create an economic bloc that could become the next European Union in may of this year a new economic bloc was born 24. 00 nations came together
President joins me. His new venture. Lets Consumer Shop at home. And, the head of colibra, david marcus, joins us for an exclusive interview. We will hear from him live. First, our top story. Wework continues to captivate wall street and investors. Exploring options for easing weworks cash crunch. News trickled out that the Coworking Company lost its comedic asians officer who resigned last week. With more on the continued turmoil at wework is bloombergs leona baker who has been covering all the facets of the story. Talk to me about the softbank side of this. They are hiring some bankers with the restructuring. What are they hoping to get . It doesnt seem like there is an investment banker right now who is not on the wework situation. We have two new ones hired today. Softbank is working with houlihan lokey, restructuring specialists. Invested 10 billion in we work over the past two years. They want to make sure that the assets are ok, that they understand where the leases are, what is
Be off the table stocks set to open lower. Underperforming, a status check on the now not so hot ipo market. And the nbas china headache, one managers tweet about hong kong sparking a business backlash and political firestorm. The dow and the s p now in the midst of a threeweek loss, despite a friday rally, which was the best one day performance since august were set for a lower open china reportedly looking for a limited trade agreement when talks begin with the u. S. Later this week. This bloomberg piece, guys, talking about how dont expect massive agreement this week, but who knows. Still early. Well, conflicting reports out of i felt the Administration Last week. On friday, larry kudlow, chief economic adviser, said, there could be some good things. But if you look at the agenda of what the president wants, it is the exact opposite of what the chinese said to bloomberg. President s hoping to see an end to the deal, intellectual property, hoping to see the end of the technology tran
After delaying its ipo and new details on facebooks newest project to develop augmented reality smart glasses. Worldwide exchange starts right now. Good morning, im Courtney Reagan in for Brian Sullivan this morning shares of fedex crumbling. The company missing on earnings and lowering guidance. Much more on that stock coming up you can see shares down more than 11 in the early going. Here is how your money and Global Markets are setting up their day. Stock futures are indicating a slightly lower average dow jones lower by 34 points s p by 4 and nasdaq by 10. 5. It is fed day. That is really the focus not just in the u. S. But around the world. Looking at the bond market we continue to watch closely the different between the 10year yield and the twoyear yield the two year is 1. 711 and the 10year at 1. 77. In japan, stocks closing slightly lower so nikkei down the hang seng as well. The composite is up by about a quarter. Everyone waiting to see what will happen when we hear from the
Continuing a trend that shows so far, university of michigan sentiment, other surveys were doing okay and things are going okay. In the middle of all of that, you have a report out of fedex saying were not doing okay. Telegraphing problems because of the trade war. The trade war is one of the big reasons why the fed will supposedly move today. It is all in what the fed lays out after it makes its move. The consensus seems to coalesce out of quarterpoint cut to Interest Rates. Would bring overnight lending rate from 1. 75 rate to 2 , from around 2. 25 we are right now. That can jostle wildly. Lets get the read on all of that Charles Payne, thank you for helping out on your world yesterday on fox news. What do you expect first off . 25 basis point rate cut in part because the wall street expects it, to such a degree yeah it is. If you think a trump tweet is tough, wall street selloff of several hundred points. I mean they, they really have the market cornered when it comes to temper tant