Wave of consolidation in the Health Insurance industry. At t is on the verge of winning Regulatory Approval for its 49 billion takeover bid of direct tv. Bloomberg north the bloomberg report said many commissioners have voted to favor the deal. The Justice Department will not challenge the deal because it does not pose a risk to competition. Stephanie president obama will land in the country where his father was born, kenya. He left washington d. C. Last night. He is on his way to nairobi and will attend a Global Entrepreneurship conference, and meet with kenyas president. He will become the first u. S. President to visit ethiopia on sunday. A gunman opened fire in lafayette, louisiana in a Movie Theater. He killed two people and wounded nine others before killing himself. The shooter tried to escape but turned back when he saw police enter the theater. Governor bobby jindal spoke at a news conference. When these kinds of acts of violence happen in a Movie Theater, when there is no rea
99 for a case of water, thats the type of price gauging that the attorney general is seeing in the state. Hell join us to tell us how hes cracking down on all that have. And next hour President Trump is likely to address this catastrophic flooding in a News Conference with the president of finland. Well bring you that live as soon as it begins. But we start in texas. Contessa brewer is in houston with the latest on the flooding and Brian Sullivan is in galveston with a look at how Hurricane Harvey is affecting refineries contessa, well start with you. Reporter the bayou has overflowed its banks, normally parkland, and this Historic Building here was due to be completely renovated by fall of 201. As you can see, they will probably have to go back at t. Houston at this point is mostly a ghost town. Businesses shut down, employees stranded there are some 3 Million People who work in the metropolitan houston area most of them i would guess are out of work today because the roads are simply
Where did the time go . We recap the last decade. This is daybreak asia, live from u. S. And asian headquarters. Betty i am betty liu in new york, it is just after 7 00 p. M. Yvonne it is just after 7 00 a. M. Here in hong kong. I am yvonne man. When itte dance we see comes to communications. We saw a little choreography over many different reasons. You have yellen, mark carney, the bank of canada, all signaling rate hikes are coming. Take a look at market moves on my bloomberg terminal. Doing damage control after the many taper tantrum tuesday. Markets not buying it. On the move, but not recovering the strike in yields. The euro taking a dip. We have the pound and the loony surging. Betty global tightening is just around the corner. Not more than three months ago we were talking about, what about the reflation trade . It seems it is losing momentum. Here we are, all sparked by these comments from the Central Banks. When will theis, markets be convinced and how long will that last . Yv
Two years. This is Bloomberg Markets asia. Rishaad right, records for the dow and onwards and upwards. The Dow Jones Industrials up so far this year, 10 up, adding to the gains in the session on tuesday, we do have a move to gains toe, taking what . Something in the region of 10. 5 . 11 , in fact. That sounds good, but let me pull up this chart. Btv 175 is telling you what is going on with the dow, u. S. Equities, and how they are doing compared to the rest of the world. You could argue they have a huge waiting when it comes to global indices, perhaps reflecting the the blue line is showing u. S. Stocks are ever so slightly lagging globally has we keep on striving towards global high records. Haidi that is almost unbelievable, really putting things in perspective. You do have the emerging markets inching higher. We see these renewed gains towards record highs despite the dysfunction that plays out in washington. Earnings season has been impressive. When it comesmp to apple, the market
Because we are making the right decisions. Francine we will have plenty more from our exclusive interview with the economic minister of france, le maire. This is bloomberg surveillance and im Francine Lacqua in london. There is quite a lot going on and quite a lot of things we need to keep an eye on. European stocks are edging higher, bolstered by Resource Companies after iron ore surged. Fridays data seem to lead to gains. Amongst the biggest gainers, i andooking at bhp billiton anglo america. Oil, 39. 43. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news with taylor riggs. Reporter north korea is threatening to take action of justice in response to u. N. Sanctions imposed over Intercontinental Ballistic Missile tests. That is according to the korean central news agency. South koreas foreign minister briefly spoke with his northern counterpart yesterday, urging him to respond to the offer to resume talks. group of mercenaries attacked during the early hours of yesterday morning. Spea