From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Mikael khodorkovsky is here. He was russias most famous prisoner. President clinton pardoned him in december after more than 10 years. He was an oligarch who became wealthy in the era of russias postsoviet crony capitalism. When masked men arrested him in 2003, he was russias richest man and the chairman of yukos oil. He and his partner were convicted on charges of tax fraud and embezzlement in two widely criticized trials. Amnesty international declared them prisoners of conscience. His story has come to symbolize russias turn to authoritarianism under putin. In an impassioned Closing Argument following his second trial, he told the judge much more than our fates are in your hands. Here and now the fate of every citizen in our country is being decided. He has lived in switzerland since his released. Last month, he relaunched his foundation that seeks to start a Civil Movement to challenge putins grip on power. Im pleased to have
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Mikael khodorkovsky is here. He was russias most famous prisoner. President clinton pardoned him in december after more than 10 years. He was an oligarch who became wealthy in the era of russias postsoviet crony capitalism. When masked men arrested him in 2003, he was russias richest man and the chairman of yukos oil. He and his partner were convicted on charges of tax fraud and embezzlement in two widely criticized trials. Amnesty international declared them prisoners of conscience. His story has come to symbolize russias turn to authoritarianism under putin. In an impassioned Closing Argument following his second trial, he told the judge, much more than our fates are in your hands. Here and now, the fate of every citizen in our country is being decided. He has lived in switzerland since his released. Last month, he relaunched his foundation that seeks to start a Civil Movement to challenge putins grip on power. Im pleased to ha
Europe. Good evening to those in asia. A warm welcome to those just waking up in the United States. This is the pulse live from bloombergs European Headquarters in london. We begin with what could be a winwin deal for apple and china mobile. After six long years of negotiations, the companies have struck a deal. It will give chinas 1. 2 billion wireless subscribers access to iphones. Caroline hyde joins us with the details. This is a long time coming. Six years. That is long they have been haggling it out. That last piece in the puzzle has been attained by apple. They were already with the second and third biggest wireless companies, china unicom in fact introduced the iphone back in 2009. China telecom had them in 2012. China mobile, the biggest player has got just above two thirds of the market. They have now been able to sell s. One 5c and 5 this basically gives apple access to more than double the population in the United States. The bakeware he is whether all of them will be spend
Good morning. Welcome to the pulse. We are live from bloombergs European Headquarters in london. We begin with a deal between apple and china mobile. After six years of negotiations, the two companies have struck a negotiation struck an agreement. Us withine high joins the details. It has been a while coming. Six years of haggling and finally, apple is able to access a Customer Base that is more than double the population of the United States. 1. 2 billion. This is a big gap in the distribution of the apple iphone. They have already been in china since 2009. But via the secondlargest carrier, china unicom. Finally, the deal is sealed with china mobile. Just below two thirds of the market they currently control. The customers7, can lay claim to an iphone 5c or 5s. What sort of sales growth are we likely to see . Morgan stanley says this could add 12 million iphone sales for apple in 2014. That is about an eight percent increase on the amount of iphones they sold in 2012. They sold 150 m
It. The dow just went positive and is up all of about 17 points. So far so good. Well take it. Lets look at the big picture. The three charts you need to see now. Ill sew you the s p. Look at that. Take a little profit after that monster day yesterday. Were practically back to the flat line. The s p up 27 year to date and is the best year since 1997. Its hard to argue with the trend on this one. Back to the 1990s. Hello . Looking at the 10year, up three ticks. Its close to the threeyear high we saw in september when it got up to 3 for one particular day so keep your eye on 3 . Its not just psychological but is in effect a threeyear high. Moving on to gold, the polar opposite. Theres no bid for gold. Down 40, 11. 95. Were close to a multiyear low in gold. 11. 79 was the low you saw in july. You go through there and theres not a lot you can point to for support. Lets move on to the big three, the stocks were watching heading to the close. Julie is keeping an eye on them. Lets start with