Motivations. He still thinks it is a bad idea to increase the debt ceiling on a shortterm, threemonth basis. Republicans were pushing for the thing the ceiling for 18 months. Pope francis is urging colombians to come together to heal the divisions caused by five decades of armed conflict. Speaking in bogota during his address to president Juan Manuel Santos today, the pope urged the country to enact just laws to address the inequality that sparked the rebellion. Fiveday visit to colombia is aimed at solidifying last years police a peace accord between the government and leftist rebels that has bitterly divided the nation the you. Addressof opioids may the drop of 20 of men from the labor force, according to a study by princeton economist alan krueger. It links prescription peoplelers and lo primeh working. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I am mark crumpton. This is bloomberg. From the taylor live from abigail live fro
The Senate Passed the aid bill for Hurricane Harvey, the 15. 3 billion is nearly twice as much as President Trump requested, including raising the debt ceiling for three months under a deal democrats made with the president. Three people familiar with the matter say the white house is considering at least six candidates on the growing list of nominees to succeed fed chair janet yellen after the wall street journal reported wednesday that President Trump is unlikely to choose his top economic adviser, gary cohn. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im alisa parenti. Bloomberg technology is next. Emily i am emily chang and this is Bloomberg Technology. Coming up, amazons next big move. The house that bezos built wants to set set up another h. Q. And a project big enough to house 60,000 employees and each u. S. City has until the end of october to put in a bid. Plus, gopro refreshes its outlook. And product line. The c.
Has found political ad spending linked to fake accounts from russia in the runup to the u. S. President ial election. But first to our lead, dell completed the biggest Tech Acquisition in history of emc one year ago. The Historic Deal created the new dell technology. Which included the likes of dell, dell emc, vmware, and secure works. Dell faced several major legal and regulatory hurdles along with emc and zmware stockholder skepticism. I sat down with michael dell and asked him for the oneyear report card. Michael i am very pleased with how its going. Reaction from partners and customers has been very strong and positive. Our teams are very engaged. Our customer nps scores have continued to improve. Our Employee Engagement scores, our record high levels of synergies are coming bigger and faster than we thought. We are paying down debt at an aggressive pace. A lot of things that could go wrong did not go wrong. And i think the big surprise is we have not had a lot of surprises. And ce
The classic sell on the news and its not selling all that much on the news. No, and i dont think any of us were calling for a big selloff. I just thought that going into the event, judge, if you could sell at the money calls which i did at 160, at 162 and 164 you would have a cushion do we get into the 150s, could, maybe even the low 150s but im not calling for a 5 , 10 selloff. Im saying its going to be a flat period while we wait for the first phones to make it to market last two days of the quarter really even as, you know, gene munster was calling for a bigger pullback and even some of the things that linked out aday ahead werent even factual so we should have put a caveat out in the first place. Every time they have launched a product theres been an overreaction of what the stock has done in the aftermath of the launch is wall street saying they dont think its a good phone or they are not innovating anymore, et cetera, and i actually got so sick of listening to that as somebody wh
Never posed a threat to the u. S. Homeland or to american bases on guam. Those in favor of the reporter north korea had been threatening to retaliate for the latest round of sanctions passed by the u. N. Security council on monday. And u. S. Intelligence had been expecting a Missile Launch either today or tomorrow. This is part of a longrunning Ballistic Missile Development Program and the north koreans would likely be conducting these tests in any event. In both launches over japan, north korea has been careful to fly over an unpopulated area and in a direction well away from guam. Still, north korean missiles flying over an american ally seems to have become the new normal. Anthony . David martin with another Missile Launch from north korea, thanks. After leaving florida the president repeated comments he made last month about the violence in charlottesville, virginia. When protesters clashed with white nationalists. At the time the president blamed many sides for the violence. Today