Open Market Operations in the runup to the Lunar New Year holiday. Those operations will now happen every business day. Korea has expressed concern over the currency. Those comments were made in a joint statement by the countrys finance ministry and the central bank. Action will be taken against socalled current behavior in the markets. That it deems necessary. Those the headlines from bloomberg news. Lets take a look at the stock markets. They are currently closed for lunch. Everything is down paring back to gains. I will be back in half an hour. Now bloomberg west. Plus, what if the San Bernardino shooter had been using an android instead of apple . And can set top boxes handle even more competition . We will ask the experts. Emily apple is still in the spotlight two days after opposing court orders to unlock the iphone of the San Bernardino shooter. Reaction from the Tech Industry has been polluted, with calls for more debate and states of broad agreement that companies shouldnt be
There. And, by the way, when i was there, there was a man there, former secretary of defense, National Security adviser, brzezinski, and his daughters on morning joe shes a very nice lady, and her father was in this meeting, and he looked over at rumsfeld and he said, would you tell the president to stop saying dead or alive, that we want bin laden dead or alive. Dead or alive is incendiary and kissinger was across the table and looked at rumsfeld and said, i agree, we dont want bin laden alive, okay . But anyway, so heres the situation. With iraq, the first war in iraq was an amazing situation because the muslim arabs supported the west and we went as a unified group to push saddam out of kuwait, okay . I actually went there after the war and even saw the oil fields that were still on fire. The egyptian ambassador to the United States went to the rose garden and announced the support of aour arab friends who would work with us. Talk about the second iraq war. The second iraq war was p
He has a near perfect record. At 7 30 eastern time, Marathon Asset Management Bruce Richards is betting big on europe. Coming up at 8 00 eastern time, well get political with former obama chief of staff bill daley. Hes now working for a swiss hedge fund. A lot of them will be talking to what weve been talking about this morning. First, lets get you up to speed on todays headlines. Are you ready for this . Im gary owens. Ive got one of these things on. Its like youre madonna, only i need yes. That wont look at good on me. You already hear some of the buzz . I realize again why we have these on. Theres a huge thing going on behind us. Not yet because its early. But today, tech is the dominant. That was the dominant theme of this mornings stocks to watch. Lets start with apple and ibm. The two teaming up on a Partnership Starting this fall. Ibm will sell iphones and ipads loaded with applications geared at business users. Shares of both companies did rise after hours. I took a look last n
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Theos downtown diner. There was a problem with her new electric supplier. Within months she was paying five times what she had been promised. Do you think this company was ripping me off . Yeah. Thanks for joining us, im joie chen. For most of us electricity is just a basic necessity look food and water something we often take for granted. We hardly Pay Attention unless the lights dont come on or the bills are suddenly skyhigh. But that is actually happening in more states over a dozen already where deregulation now mean a lot of Companies Want to be your power provider. Adam may provides the story. They told me it was going to be a specific rate, a set rate, a two year contract. Gretchen and her husband other than theos downtown diner. She quickly knew there was a problem with her electric supplier. It ented up end it up being not a fixed rate. Not a rate they had propositioned not a 36 month rate. It wasnt what you were promised. The very first rate was 8. 133. Within months she said