Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . If not, the yeas are 57. The nays are 38. And the nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. Th. The clerk cloture motion, we the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of Randall Quarles of colorado to be a member of the board of governors after the Federal Reserve signed by 17 senators. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of Randal Quarles of colorado to be a member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve system shall b
Making are still dancing in investors heads, following yesterdays disney approached 21st century fox about buying most of its assets. We also told you that broadcomm made an unsolicited massive 105 billion bid for qualcomm, the chip maker. And who could forget recent reports that cvs health may look to do a deal with aetna . The deal talk was enough to send the dow to an alltime high, up eight points at 23,557, and et cetera sixth straight day of gain nasdaq went the other way, down 18 2 3. But what could all of this merger talean for the Broader Market rally . Dominic which did y takes a loo. Reporter it seems theres a new mega merger possibility being talked about every day. The are hosts of reasons why companies are looking towards bigger acquisitions given current market conditions. Companies are seeking greater industry penetration, new geographic markets. Theyre a bit under pressure by shareholders and activists, also the relative ease of financing. Companies have access to credi
Stability. Betty this is bloomberg daybreak asia. I am betty liu in new york, just after 7 00 p. M. Yvonne it is just after 7 00 a. M. In hong kong. It certainly feels like summer. Not a whole lot going on here ahead of janet yellen. Also, for earnings to start kicking off real thing. The of all this is we did see a bit of a breather here in this bond the plus side of all this is we did see a bit of a breather here. G btv 2092. While we did see the 20 point recently, yourge look at the curve steepening, and that is a good sign, some say. You look at the white line, and the net treasury positions, that continues to fall. When that goes down, market is betting on a flatter curve and longterm bond prices to actually start picking up, so some questions whether you can really call this a route at the moment. Betty that just makes it all the more important to hear more details from the fed about, you know, when they are going to unwind their Balance Sheet because that is going to help lift t
Hisp junior today used twitter account to reveal a series of email exchanges with a british tabloid journalist. They show he was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton at the meeting and the information was said to come from the russian crown prosecutor as part of the governments quote, support for mr. Trump. Joining us from capitol hill is bloombergs chief washington correspondent, kevin cirilli. Megan murphy, and also here in new york is bloombergs executive editor of global, legal, and Financial Regulation and enforcement. Lets start in washington, where the bombshell broke loose. What is the reaction down there so far . Incendiary. Thats how House Minority leader nancy pelosi put it, and a statement. Senator john cornyn, a republican from texas, also on the Senate Intelligence committee, saying donald trump junior now should testify before that committee in order to get more answers from this long shell of a report. I spoke with a source close to the president s son wh
Worst performer is spains ibex 35 and theres wti which i know my partner here will have a lot to talk about he almost always does. It is often a key to this market, down this morning. Lets get to our road map this morning. It starts with the start of amazon shopping holiday, as the rest of retail suffers plus a number of recent ipos that have fallen below the bear syndicate what their pricing was, what it means for the valuations and rest of the companies that want to go pep. Pepsico is out with its results as earnings season begins. Well speak to the companys cfo on set in just a minute. Amazon prime day is under way. The company highlighting deals aimed at enticing customers to become prime subscribers as a number of retailers are coming off a rough day on wall street we were talking about it here before it began. Macys saw shares fall 7 . Best buy was yielding 7. Reports about a geek squad effort at amazon, jcpenney down now in the premarket after announcing the departure of its cfo