That growth stalling in april, and weakness in private consumption increasing the likelihood of that delay. Quit. O of noble group has accepted theaid it resignation, with William Randall and jeff frase replacing him. Plunge 60 of her questions about Accounting Practices dogging the company. Wang jianlin is offering to buy a hong kongatize listed property unit. Wang jianlin told China Central television that the unit is substantially undervalued and must proceed with the privatization. Closed in the u. S. And u. K. Today for memorial day. Lets check in on markets in this part of the world. We are in the middle of the trading session and asia. Topix up. Nikkei 225 up by over 1 . At the moment. Swinging between gains and losses. Take a look at the fx space, the out,g dollar story playing continuing to talk up the expectation of an imminent rate hike by the fed. 4 10 of a percent to the upside for the dollar index, that is what dollaryen is looking like. Falling the most in a month. Takin
David it is all straight ahead on bloomberg best. David hello and welcome, i am david gura. This is bloomberg best, your weekly review of the most important analysis of Business News and interviews from around the world. As the week began, a proposal to merge two giant Chemical Companies took over the headlines. Shery bayer is proposing a blockbuster deal that would create the largest supply of Farm Chemicals and genetically modified seed. Bayer wants to buy monsanto for 62 billion in cash. That represents a 20 premium. It would be the biggest takeover ever by a german company. Francine if monsanto actually rejects your offer, are you ready or do you have a capacity to increase the offer . Werner we are totally convinced about the effectiveness of our offer. If you look at the fact that it is a 37 premium over and above the effective share price as of may 9. That is a strong testament as to the Value Proposition of monsanto shareholders. It is also in line with the transactions and att
Enforcement. Were all on edge we are. Were all on edge and were being very careful. Reporter Dallas Police chief david brown says the sniper who took the lives of five Police Officers at a black lives matter protest was planning a much bigger attack. But he moved up his plans because of last weeks Police Killings of two black men. Brown says the stockpile of bomb making materials found in his home is concerning. This person obviously had some delusions. This person also was very committed to killing officers. Reporter investigators say the army vet took selfdefense courses and did tactical drills at home before thursday nights shooting. After johnsons two hour standoff taunting Officers Police sent a robot with a bomb to kill him. For the first time his parents speaking out in an interview with the blaze. I dont know what to say to make anything better. I didnt see it can coming. Reporter dr. Brian williams was one of the doctors who worked to save the lives of Police Officers that nig
At any time. Its a very important hearing were having examining state department and federal records. As we know, Hillary Clinton as secretary of state for four years, roughly four years, helped create what is reported to be one of the biggest Security Breaches in the history of the state department, an absolute mess. We have witnesses vital to our understanding the problem, how we got into the mess and how were potentially going to clean it up. Joining us will be mr. Justin cooper, a former employee of bill clinton and the Clinton Foundation. Mr. Cooper purchased the first server used by secretary clinton and had it installed in the basement of private residence in chappaqua, new york. He also registered the domain name clintonemail. Com. The same day, the secretary clintons confirmation hearings began in the senate mr. Cooper described his role managing secretary clintons private server as the, quote, Customer Service face, end quote. He explained to the fbi he helped secretary clint
Take over the email services and i dont know that i had any sort of direct response. Well, did you believe that there was Sensitive Information . Certainly it would qualify as very private, being the position that mrs. Clinton held. Certainly private information, concern that you would have naturally concern that information was properly backed up and secured. And the fbi reported finding emails marked secret on a prn server and you assisted with the transfer of data to the prn server. Were you aware of secret or sensitive emails on the servers you worked on . I did not assist to the transfer of the prn servers. Nor was i ever even with the missing laptop which you didnt lose but apparently it got lost after prn received it . Yeah, i have no knowledge of that. But you did have knowledge of providing a laptop for transfer. I provided by a laptop and instruction on how to download email, yes. Mr. Cooper, you conveyed to i believe it was mr. Meadows and we appreciate the insight youve giv