Very damaging for japan and the entirety of japans manufacturing sector. Michael the imf puts out a sunny growth forecast. Christine lagarde sheds light on the report. While we see the sun shining, we are also seeing those clouds on the horizon. Michael the fomc minutes reveal inflation worries. The fed president as some inside insight. I am really nervous Inflation Expectations are low. We are not trying to address all of the relative price changes that occur in the economy we are trying to get that underlying rate. Michael plus, economists consider the conundrum of tax reform. It has to be base broadening as well. Growth will pay for part of it, but not all of it. You might as well assume unicorns will come deliver packages of money. There is no reason to believe this. There are miracles, sometimes productivity growth picks up. And for reasons we dont always understand, but it happens. Michael it is all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Michael hello and welcome. Im michael mckee. Th
[applause] thank you very much. C with him back to the afternoon session of the National Security forum. My name is juan zarate and im the chairman of ft center and sanctions and finance but if you are here morning i was privileged to be able to sit down with director pompeo for what i thought was a really interesting conversation and i hope you did as well. Bear in mind that we are not just people in this room, great goodlooking crowd by the way but we are being livestream so we need to be on our best behavior. I have the distinct honor and privilege of introducing this afternoon session and first of all kudos to have ftd and cliff may in the whole team for settling this discussion with two of the most important if not the most important figures in National Security is circling now with the National Security adviser h. R. Mcmaster with us this afternoon so a real honor and privilege i think for olivas to have general mcmaster with us today. I have been asked to introduce general mcmas
David we have some breaking news coming out of washington. With a majorroup announcement about leadership succession. It was led by David Rubenstein who also hosts the David Rubenstein show right here on bloomberg television. Jason kelly joins us now to talk about carlisle and the private Equity Industry which he has covered for many years. This is a big year. This is a moment we have been waiting for for a long time and private equity. The three founders are handing nwe ceosover to two two new ceos. These are both men who have spent some years at the company, and now we know who will be running one of the Worlds Largest equity firms effective january 1. A little bit of runway. This is really only the second time that we have heard a clear sense of who will run the big private equity firm. Alix who is left that we need to hear from for secession . Wonder once i want to make sure we do not miss is that kkr to tee twowee guys up, but they said they were not going anywhere right now. This
They do see fourthquarter dajusted ebit. At 200 ebit monthly users up about 4 . The stock up about 5 in the premarket. David we have earnings at ford, ford out of they are beating on revenue and earnings per share. Gap actually reported by earnings per share of . 39 per share as opposed to a . 32 percent . 32 prediction. They controlled costs beautifully. They had record sales in the pacific in asia. The one thing that fell short, europe. Why . Brexit. Bob shanks will be talking about this in about 20 minutes. Jonathan the ecb, 45 minutes away we get the decision. Is it that beginning of the end of the qe plan . Mario draghi expected to announce a scaling back of the Bond Buying Program and loose Monetary Policy. Running us now from outside the ecb in frankfurt is bloombergs matt miller. What is on the table . Matt the consensus is for a cut in half, from 60 billion euros a month in bond purchases down to 30 billion euros a month, and an extension of the program for nine months until s
Kerry this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. It will be the largest famine the world to see for many decades. With millions of victims a dire warning from the u. N. As the situation worsens in yemen due to the blockade by the Saudi Led Coalition also. For pomp and pageantry for the u. S. President as he seeks to push beijing to do more to rein in north korea. Embattled british Prime Minister theresa may loses her second cabinet member and in a week as pretty tell quits over secret meetings in israel plus. The power of words challengers from thirty countries competing for the right to be crowned the worlds best scrabble player. The un to monetary in chief is warning of the worst famine the world has seen in decades unless the Saudi Led Coalition allowed aid into yemen fuel and food prices have skyrocketed since saturday when the blockade was tightened the situation is being described as catastrophic it is a stark warning from the u. N. Official but as