Stories. We begin with the elections in taiwan. The president won a landslide majority, seen as a rejection of beijings push for one country, two systems. Joining me from taipei is stephen engle. Walk us through the significance of the vote over the weekend. Stephen it was quite significant. Now that she has that landslide victory and the mandate for another four years, theres three big questions. How will china handle another four years of a thorn in their side, the policies of taiwan and her proindependence minded policies that really resonated with the electorate . More than 8 million votes, a record here in taiwan. The hong kong protests really resonated with the electorate, of ahat led to a rebuffing push for closer economic ties. The question is what is the future of the Opposition Party that got routed . Theyve lost four of the last six president ial elections, and they need a you voice for the longer eat for the younger electorate. Finally, the economy. Tot also propelled tsai
Weight. These annual letters are going to be Agenda Setting for wall street. Earnings season kicks off with the biggest banks in the spotlight. Numbers we saw this morning in fixed income are staggering. Top executives from health care and Drug Companies spot key issues facing their industry. Biosimilars are an important part of the health care system. Technology is an enabler of innovation, accelerator of innovation. We are trying to bring down outofpocket costs for consumers. Even as equities climb to alltime highs, howard marks thinks it is not a great moment to be in the market. The odds are not, in my opinion, in the investors favor. It is all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Hello and welcome. I am juliette saly. This is bloomberg best, your weekly review of the most important Business News and interviews from Bloomberg Television around the world. Lets start with a day by day look at the top headlines. As the week began, tensions remained high in the middle east with irans gove
Now we are reporting this morning, that they are not a currency manipulator at all. If you remember last year, the president between in a moment of heightened tensions, they declared themselves they were declared a currency manipulator, and now it looks like it is being lifted, part of a warming trend with relations. David when will we know whether the chinese are actually complying with this . There are a lot of questions if they will really follow through on the deal. N the main commitments are on intellectual property and there are signs that the chinese have already done what is already in the deal. They have a new law in place come in they have some new courts set up for the question is whether they enforce the law and whether they crackdown on the cases. One of the things we will be looking for our highprofile cases, whether they come around for the second thing is the big purchase commitment from the chinese, 200 billion over two we will purchases, and not know whether we are re
These annual letters are going to be Agenda Setting for wall street. Earnings season kicks off with the biggest banks in the spotlight. Numbers we saw this morning in fixed income are staggering. Top executives from health care and Drug Companies spot key issues facing their industry. Biosimilars are an important part of the health care system. Technology is an enabler of innovation, accelerator of innovation. We are trying to bring down outofpocket costs for consumers. Even as equities climb to alltime highs, howard marks thinks it is not a great moment to be in the market. The odds are not, in my opinion, in the investors favor. It is all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Hello and welcome. I am juliette saly. This is bloomberg best, your weekly review of the most important Business News and interviews from Bloomberg Television around the world. Lets start with a day by day look at the top headlines. As the week began, tensions remained high in the middle east with irans government f
600 gaining. A lot of the focus is on earnings and the economic backdrop. 1134. Ollar 1 it has fluctuated but is very arrangedbound. Rangebound. Coming up, the World Economic forum in davos. We bring you all the biggest names in banking. Lets get straight to first word news in new york city. We begin with the new york senate approving Donald Trumps new freetrade agreement with mexico and canada. It handles the president and a major win ahead of impeachment. The overhaul of the agreement was a priority for mr. Trump. Mitch mcconnell called vote a rare moment of bipartisan cooperation. The white house broke the law in withholding aid the ukraine. Accordingting to an independent watchdog, saying the president should not have delayed money. This is a key part of the impeachment case against President Trump. , quoteg with them obsessed with the u. S. Trade deficit. This is according to bill hogan, saying americafirst policies are bringing about a priceless moment for global trade. This came