120 countries. Im ritika gupta. This is bloomberg. In his 1 00 p. M. In new york, 6 00 p. M. In london, 1 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. From bloomberg World Headquarters in new york, here are the top stories from around the world we are following. President trump calling for the democrat leading the house impeachment inquiry to be questioned for treason. We have the latest from washington. Looks safe for now. The Credit Suisse board backing the ceo after an investigation into a spying scandal. The coo could take over. Wait. K, now we the company withdrawn its initial public offering. All that in the next 30 minutes. Abigail doolittle is with us, halfway into the last trading day of the quarter. Abigail the dow, s p, nasdaq all near session highs. The dow and the s p 500 set for quarterly gains. Of nasdaq on the cusp whether it may put in its first quarterly loss of the year. Gains continue, maybe it will join the dow and s p 500 higher. Not as ri
I think you got high marks from a lot of people from all walks of life. We did not hear anyone saying, i disagreed. Leon we are watching as the pontiff is making his weight to the bottom of the staircase making his way to the bottom of the staircase. He is still meeting people. The man who speaks for the United States around the globe speaking to the man who speaks for 1. 2 billion catholics. The pontiff about to take the stairs and head on to new york. Alison jonathan talked about the address to congress. The moment he stepped out on the balcony and addressed the thousands of people was remarkable at how humble he was. He asked those people to pray for him. And he is also inclusive. And he said if youre not catholic or believer, sending good thoughts. Leon im sure you are not surprised. Reporter he was everyone to know he is the peoples pope and that means all people. Catholics, but also christians, people of other faiths, and even people of no faith at all. People find it hard to bel
I am francine lacqua. The main story of the day. What is oil and one is greenspan the new government a writedown on its debt. One is oil and one is greece. Borrowing for new bonds. Less figure out what is going on. A calming effect. Hans nichols in berlin. What is going on, hans . Here is what we know. He spoke to a group of about 100 financiers and laid out a plan to swap the debt by the ecb a European Financial Stability Fund for these new bonds. These new bonds would be linked to longterm group. There would not be an thing on the eye on the upside on the debt. Crucially and importantly, they are not going to call it a haircut. The politically difficult, politically awkward term especially here in germany. Here is somebody inside of the meeting and will give you her take on it. They are looking at restructuring of the eus bilateral loans and leave a imf and private sector debt alone. They are working a case without being specific on how the restructuring will take place. Head of rese
The 30 hour work week requirement. We would like to find out from you if there are areas you think the g. O. P. Led congress and white house, where are the areas where they can find Common Ground. Here is how you can make your thoughts known for democrats if you have areas where you think the two bodies can find Common Ground you want to make those thoughts known on twitter cspanwj twitter cspanwj. And back. Com cspan and journal cspan. Org. Joining us on the phone to talk about yesterdays activities in the house and senate and how it might lead as far as the white house and the g. O. P. Led Congress Working together is billy house juning us. Mr. House with bloomberg news, our Congressional Correspondent. Mr. House, talk a little bit about what happened on the house side starting with speaker getting another term or another term as speaker and what it means as far as his relationship with republicans Going Forward. Guest get morning. Thank you for having me. The bottom line is that thi
Pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida, ms. Roslehtinen, for five minutes. Ms. Roslehtinen thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to strongly oppose the december 17 announcement by president obama on policy changes toward the cuban communist regime. The cuban regime from day one was planning on using alan gross as a pawn to receive concessions from the Obama Administration and their strategy worked. In april, 2013 when asked about a possible swap for mr. Gross secretary kerry testified before congress that, quote, we have refused to do that because the