Leave this from the g8 deciliters from the julie leaders from the g 20 summit are heading home. The a lot of attention on the summit on Vladimir Putin. We heard tough talk from a number of his World Leaders. Tell us about it. He wouldve been expecting a cold recession even though the weather was extremely warm and the other g20 leaders did not disappoint. The first day of the summit on saturday, tony abbott, the australian Prime Minister, hosted a barbecue. Vladimir putin dying along. Alone. D the canadian Prime Minister with his hand extended a he said, i guess i will shake your hand, but i have one thing to tell you. Get out of ukraine. Littleend up leaving a early although his reasons had to do more with biology than diplomacy. This is what he had to say. It takes nine hours to fly from here and nine more hours to moscow. On monday, have to be in the office. Hours ofintreau5 sleep i need 45 hours of sleep and i went up to tony abbott and i think our work is done and successfully. No
The confirmation vote in the senate may take place as early as next week. No one is taking thats after the surprise where the central bank confused prediction. Making a you are not sticking your neck out. Class i am not. Job creation has really picked up and that has a lot of people talking about the possibility of a taper. We talked yesterday about how retail sales were pretty good. Maybe that means things were sustainable. Let me show you something i did not show you yesterday. Step back a little bit and look at this overtime. Retail sales have not been breaking out. They are still in the same range they have been all year. You could say the same thing about job creation. It is in roughly the average range it has been all year. Anyhas not broken out of kind of range. It is hard to argue you he has made a whole lot of difference. Do you keep it going . Cut back because it is not at no big changeass in gdp and employment, the fed sits waiting for employment to really move the cook befo
Challenges at home and abroad these days. The crisis in ukraine is raising worries about russia, another shooting rampage at fort hood has upped immigrant soldiers killed by one of their own, and just troops are still at war in afghanistan. That is not stopping chuck hagel for making this trip to asia right now. I spoke with him in honolulu as he needs meets with defense ministers from 10 asian countries. I asked him about the shooting at fort hood. It is a terrible tragedy. It has been revisited once again on fort hood. Our thoughts and our prayers go out to the families of the big adam scott, and those who have been wounded and are going to continue to focus on them as we should. In the meantime, the investigators do their work. We do not have a lot of the answers, we do not know why it happened, we do not know why he did what he did. We will find that out. This is 24 hours away from that terrible incident, so we are working very hard to ensure first of all the safety on all of our b
Have a special report on how the u. S. Designer michael kors is beating european brands in their own backyard. Welcome to countdown. It is 6 00 here in london this friday morning. Bloomberg reporters are standing by across the world. Looking ahead to the job stated in the united states. The day is the last day to register as a candidate to run in ukraines election. Caroline hyde has the story about how michael kors is grabbing market share in europe. Lets tell you what is coming up on the program. We will be live in italy, a beautiful views from the lake. Focused on the biggest threats to the Global Economy and what needs to be done. The former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management jim oneill will talk to us. That interview within 15 minutes. We will hear from former ecb board member. Do not miss our exclusive interview with the chairman of ru. It is jobs day in the united states. It is watched by the fed. Our markets editor is here with all of the details. Is it been has it been
Understanding of the Civil Rights Movement, sought a better relationship with the soviet union, and presented his doubts on the u. S. Involvement in the non. This is about one hour. Thank you very much. Its a pleasure to be back at politics and prose, one of my favorite bookstores anywhere, not just in washington, d. C. Id like to ask you, who here has seen the portrait of kennedy in the National Portrait gallery in the halls of kennedy . Thats great. You know its quite unlike any of the other portraits. It was painted by the estranged wife of the story behind how the portrait happened to be there i think is a kind of interesting one and, in fact, i opened my book with it. Id like to share it with you just briefly. She was supposed to paint one portrait for the Truman Library in independence, missouri, and she was chosen because everybody knew that john f. Kennedy was too restless to sit for portrait painter. So William Weldon thought lets get elaine it was not as the fastest brush in