We are watching the hang seng index. Australias market is only higher by 0. 3 . But we had this news that china will allow australias cargo to come ashore. Lets have a look at stocks. Clearing exchanges in focus. The u. S. Approved legislation that could lead to chinese firms getting kicked off american exchanges. Also getting a call from sidney. Tak is down 1. 4 . ,his big surging iron or holding at a record. In recent weeks, weve seen pickup of state owned enterprise default in china that have jolted the credit markets and rattled investors. One company in the spotlight is ever grand, which has accumulated the biggest debt in global real estate. We are joined by Stephen Engle in hong kong. In ournt to bring distinguished guest, the ceo and cofounder of sc lowy in hong kong. A bank and manager that specializes in distressed and highyield debt. Good to see you. You spoke to bloomberg about a month ago and you did talk about ever grand. We know that they have taken steps to increase or
Fourth quarter shipments are up yearoveryear. We will talk to him about what is ahead for 2020. He is the amazon executive who calledd over what he vain toxicity running through company culture. Stories in a moment but first, tech earnings trickling out today. Abigail doolittle is with us. Abigail there was some action later in the day. Another sleepy day for much of the day for stocks. Record highs for the s p 500 and the nasdaq. News came out from pfizer, another headline that pfizer, the doses they will be able to provide for this year expected to be half of what had been anticipated. When the headline came out, it ran very bearish it read very bearish. Stocks initially took a leg lower. The s p 500 going down three tens of 1 . A decent intraday move. The s p 500 finishing down for the first time in three days. The nasdaq, however, managing to keep a small gain and a record high on the date. Pfizer really slipped, 1. 7 . Etf up 8 10 ofnd 1 . Tones of risk off, uncertainty around the
Now, is that right . David over the past 15 years, one of the most successful ceos in the world has been bob iger. He led disney to its greatest heights, increasing the market value by 400 . He did that through acquisitions of 21st century fox, lucasfilm, pixar, and Marvel Entertainment. Now the question what is he going to do next . During the time that you were the ceo, the stock market value of the company went up about 450 and the market capitalization about 400 during time year period of my big regret is that i didnt back you and buy stock, but you must be very pleased with what you accomplished. Bob proud would probably be the right word to use. I inherited a company that was renowned and had been quite successful, but had also gone through a period of difficulty. There was a lot of work to do. My goal was to not only improve the company, but to ultimately leave the company in great hands for my successor. David you werent as successful in leaving the company, because you wanted
New york orders fresh measures to stem the spread. Cases in texas exceed one million. Risks. Ing the Christine Lagarde says all options are on the table to fight the crisis. She will be joined by the boe governor and fed chair. It is the ecb for. Warm welcome to the show. We are waiting for numbers to cross the tape. It is europes single biggest engineering company. I think youve got a little bit of merck. How are the merck numbers looking . Good morning. Annmarie pretty strong. Third quarter net sales coming in ahead of estimates at 4. 45. The estimate was 4. 3 8 billion. Net sales higher. That was a beat on merck. We will speak to the cfo. , inthing to look out for august, he thought it would be another 15 months to a vaccine. Im wondering if that timetable has changed, given the pfizer and biotech news. Biggestt is the Single Company in the world. They did better than some of the others in terms of their stoicism through this. Profit rises into 2021. Thats the key take away from thi
Host Reed Hastings and erin meyer are the coauthors of this new book no rules rules, netflix and the culture of reinvention. Mr. Hastings is also the ceo of netflix and mr. Hastings what is netflix and what do you do . Guest netflix is the worlds leading Entertainment Service and we reproduce and distribute amazing Television Series and movies and around about 20 years and have been 200 million families around the world who are our renters. Host is there a connection to the 1998 company where you had 900 movie titles and 30 employees . Guest a little connection to that. We started 22 years ago delivering dvds in the United States and competing with blockbuster and that was a full decade ago really that we were competing with video stores just in the u. S. When thats 2007 when we started streaming. Roughly the same time youtube did. Host erin meyer, how did you get involved in this book project . I study cultural differences in the workplace and im a School Professor and i came across t