It is all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Welcome and hello. I am alix steel. This is bloomberg best. A weekly review of interviews from Bloomberg Television around the world. It has been a momentous week for Monetary Policy with Rate Decision from the bank of japan, the u. S. Federal reserve, endobag of england. On monday, the top headline was disappointing data from china. The latest data from china likely to get more pressure on the leadership as they try to meet this years growth target by 6. 5 . Retail sales slowed. Industrial output rising just 5. 4 . That is below estimates and that suggest sluggishness in demand from abroad. Factory deflation is persistent now for some 48 consecutive months. Retail sales is a key barometer for the government for consumption trends. It climbed to 20 . That missed the 11 of forecast of economists surveyed by bloomberg news. We are also seeing pressure on the currency. He did project a sense of calm at this annual press conference on saturday. W
A meeting between president obama and raul castro. The president is expected to urge castro to seize the opportunity to improve u. S. Cuba relations by expanding human rights and Economic Opportunities. For the second time since friday, north korea has conducted Ballistic Missile tests in the sea of japan. Officials say kim jonguns regime launched five short range missiles today. Earlier this month, the United Nations Security Council enacted sanctions to punish korea for another Missile Launch as well as a nuclear test. The German Government says it took in 2 million refugees last year. A 49 increase compared to 2014. Of those 2 million, 860,000 have moved to other countries. Angela merkel has resisted measures to control migration such as putting a constraint on the number of refugees. ,lobal news, 24 hours a day powered by 2400 journalists in more than 150 news bureaus around the world. Im pimm fox. Matt thank you very much. Good morning. Take a look at markets in europe. The dax ha
Alix it is all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Alix welcome and hello. Im alix steel. This is bloomberg best. A weekly review of the most important Business News analysis, and interviews from , Bloomberg Television around the world. It has been a momentous week for Monetary Policy with rate decisions from the bank of japan, the u. S. Federal reserve, and the bank of england. On the top headline was monday, disappointing data from china. The latest data from china likely to heed more pressure on the leadership as they try to meet this years growth target of at least 6. 5 . Industrial output and retail sales both slowed in the january february period. Industrial output rising just 5. 4 . That is below estimates and that suggest sluggishness in demand from abroad. Thackeray deflation has persisted now for some 48 consecutive months. Retail sales is a key barometer for the government for consumption trends. It climbed 10. 2 . That missed the 11 forecast of economists surveyed by bloomber
Interviews, influential people speak on topics of critical importance. You would rule out the possibility of using Nuclear Weapons against isis . Donald trump i am never going to rule anything out. Nejra it is all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Nejra hello and welcome. I am nejra cehic. This is bloomberg best. A weekly review of the most important business news, analysis, and interviews from Bloomberg Television around the world. In retrospect, this week has been dominated by tuesdays tragic terror attacks in brussels. But on monday, attention was focused on Silicon Valley and a major Product Announcement from apple. Emily apple unveiling a new iphone called the se at its event in cupertino. The latest model has a smaller screen and a smaller price tag, starting at 399 for the cheapest new iphone ever. What are your big takeaways . Cory i think its just interesting. I was making an analogy with the golden state warriors. How rather than go big or go home, the old traditional basketb
Jonathan no time to enjoy that in the markets this morning because it is deep red across equity markets. Equity markets down in europe. 1. 36 on the ftse 100 with a miners leading losses. S p 500 futures negative. Switch of the board to japan. Dollaryen, down by. 9 . Three years and a day since the kuroda experiment began. Yields in germany. You have to go to two decimal places just to get one. To thesis points days where yields were around five basis points. Wti down to 35. 64. What is happening in the markets. Stephanie i want to give you a quick headline crossing twitter. Really getting big and the content game, far fiat beyond 140 characters. They will be streaming thursday night games. Is this the kind of business that yahoo wanted to be in . David facebook was in discussions with this and they decided not to do it. Stephanie yahoo wanted to be in this and but for is a meyer is using a different strategy, needs to up their game, and they are trying to do it on the field thursday n