The Hong Kong Exchange and the shanghai. Just about broken in the last hour. What have we got . What do we know . We know the starting day now is the member 17, so we are hoping, we are expecting it to the month. Day in this will, of course, allow for crossborder daily purchases, and the delayed to the shanghai stock index. We do not know why. Protests ated the some point, but we do not know what happened. We only hear that brokers have been working overtime to get this started. Now, with the start of this link, were going to see chinese investors trading in hong kong, using the system. Foreigners to directly buy more mainland shares. Key point. Foreigners will have unprecedented access to chinas 4. 2 trillion dollar equity market, and we are seeing a lot of excitement, yes, you guess just last week, we heard from the osaka exchange, telling us thisjapan wanted in in Hong Kong Shanghai stockinette, no specifics, just that they wanted to get in. We also have shenzhen. It is not just the
Sectors including the consumer from mcdonalds to chipolte. Breaking down verizon, dupont, and, of course, netflix. We sit down with the ceo, the presentation on the company slated for later this morning. First up, food and drink in the earnings parade. Mcdonalds misses with the second kwaurtd numbers, and flat with the period, up sharply on stronger than expected q 2 results and then theres coke with a slight earnings beat and revenue miss for q2, unit case volume up 3 globally, but flat in north america. The ceo was asked about results in the region earlier this morning on squawk. We were pleased with our north american results, first because cocacola grew. Secondly, because our pricing was very strong in this Second Quarter that just passed in north america. Our price makes sparkle beverages up 3 , three points. I think when you take the totality where we are in north america, i think were making steady progress. Thank goodness for china and india, up 9, 10 . They call it a low quali
Its been wonderful being with you again, lucinda. Spent thank you so much, dan. You are amazing. You are amazing. [applause] and thank you, all of you, for coming. [applause] you are watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. First lets just start with your name and the title of the book. Anne wilcox, with p. J. Wilcox. The name of the book at west point west point 41 the class that went to war and shaped america. How did you come across this project is . My husband and i were working with the general on his memoir and he invited us to 73 union at west point. He was in the class of 1941, which was the last class to graduate before the u. S. Entered world war ii. We went to the reunion and we start hearing stories of other officers that was classmates that were just astounding stories of closing the bulge in the bow of the bulge, and other historic incidents in world war ii they went on to the korean war and vie
The rise of the global power during world war i. Describing japan as one of the few countries pulled into the r lict as an because of a kcolonyial relationship. This is about 50 minutes. Okay. Well shift our focus here a little bit to east asia. Professor Frederick Dickinson teaches japanese history at the university of pennsylvania. He has m. A. Degrees from Kyoto University in japan where hes lived for quite a while. Also Yale University where he has a ph. D. In history. Hes been a visiting professor at institutions in japan, in belgium, also at waswart more, d japan, the great war, 1914 to 1939. Im sorry, 1919. And another one world war i in the triumph of a new japan 1919 to 1930. You can speak as you can see here. The great war on the great war as world war, japanese belligerence and the dawn of an asiapacific world. Welcome to professor dickinson. [ applause ] thanks very much. And thanks to all of you for sticking around for the final bash here. Im honored and delighted to be th
Am sympathetic to the Prime Minister because his hands really are tied in the july crisis because there is a tradition of political assassination in serbia. It is a very rich tradition. What they are doing on the 28th of june they are reenacting the battle against the audubons when they lost and were extinguished by a nation but stuck a dagger into the salten and they were reenacting this. So feared assassination and part of what was tying his hands. He spun the ultimatum in such a way that first he made it sound like he was going to comply when he was telling paris, st. Petersburg and london. He knew he could not except the ultimatum in entirety because he may have been assassinated. In his confession he doesnt talk about objectives very well. He talks about the thing itself. A better time in norfolk than serbia many years ago. We have eight minutes until the next presentation. Thank you very much. [ applause ] here we are featuring American History tv programming and we would like to