The legend they oppose the sale to amc. They will vote against the merger because the price is too low. Those are the headlines on 2400berg news, powered by journalists. Lets look at the markets. Hong kong and china are closed for lunch, but heres how they work trading in the morning. All read right now. Shanghai composite closed with 3 of losses. Here is the picture in singapore and mumbai. Back in half an hour. Time for bloomberg west. Emily i am emily chang, and this is bloomberg west. Coming up, france passes legislation that could affect execs if they do not comply with requests for information. Amazon spending billions to grow prime and compete with netflix. To Mark International womens day, we ask a panel of experts whether there is such a thing as a pipeline problem. A decision in france could give prosecutors the power to force companies, including apple, to unlock encrypted data. French lawmakers are backing a bill that would put execs in jail for five years if they do not co
When asked you to come into the bloomberg, not sure if i have a queue for this. If we can take a look at the imap, i will look at which groups are leading now that things are higher. Health care is leading the gains in the s p 500, techs number two as we do see the nasdaq gained in consumer staples. Gaming, if yous look at the next, the fear index, its now down very slightly, earlier today we were seeing again in the next. Below 14 there does not indicate a high level of concern as to whats going on globally in the markets. Likewise, if you look at the risk off trade, where are people looking for safety today, that trade has also diminished as the day has gone. Gettingces earlier we quite a boost. Now only up. 2 5 . The dollar has turned higher versus the japanese yen. We are seeing the 10 year yield come down, but its a tick from up a tick from where they were earlier. Alix how are things trading in the u. S. . Gains where we are seeing across the board and broad market, we not seeing
Light snow continuing in the sierra over the next few hours, breezy and windy, especially in the Higher Elevations and on the coast. It is 4 30 am. Bart has tweeted they are running shuttle trains between the pittsburg and North Concord. It looks like they will be doing that again, according to a tweet i just saw from bart, making things a little bit easier on highway 4. Starting off at e bay bridge toll plaza, traffic is moving along okay coming into San Francisco, and a live look at from the camera, 101 looks good approaching the 80 split, no major problems as you drive along the hospital curve area. Lets go back to the desk. Returning to the breaking news, brussels, belgium, reports of the number of casualties in the terror attack, 15 people are dead, 55 injured in the attack at the subway station, in addition to the 13 People Killed at the city airport in that explosion. We are following this developing story from the newsroom. The city of brussels, belgium is under lockdown essent
Between our two ownries. President obama meets facetoface with cuban leader raul castro, this first time in 88 years a sitting u. S. President has visited cuba. Steve a big step but big differences still exist, Sharon Crowley is getting reaction from the cuban community. Reporter the cubanamerican community is big here. We talked to people, find out what they thought about this historic meeting, others said they are cautiously optimistic. Some cubanamericans in the restaurant told me they are happy, relations between cuba and the u. S. Are changing. Petition changing [ speaking in spanish ] cuba will be good. Ben benito lived in cuba for 64 years, and pleased to see president obama and president raul castro meeting there today had. He said it is good for the two countries to prospering it. Reporter did you think this day would come . He never thought this this time would come, that the government of cuba is tough. Reporter president obama and president castro held a joint news conferen
Our other headline tonight, outside. The weather. A little wet and a little wild. But now take a look. It looks beautiful. A live look from our exclusive at t ballpark ga, the giants haa game today. Lets bring in our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Weve got you covered as we look right now at Doppler Radar. Youll see a few areas of showers just to the north of San Francisco. That could make it to at t park over the next 10 to 15 minutes. Pregame we still may have a spotty shower or two. But really as we head throughout the game on nbc bay area, well be undergoing drier conditions. However, for the south bay, we have another complex system, showers and also some heavier pockets of rainfall through the santa cruz mountains. This likely could hold up through saratoga by 6 26, through campbell a 6 38. Well continue to track that throughout the hour. The south bay did really well, santa clara with 0. 4. A half inch in downtown san jose. The Higher Elevations helped to squeeze out some of