Negative rates help the economy. Trade, brexit and growth put pressure on e. U. Alliances but europes top officials remained resolute. We will be the exporter of knowledge, technologies. Every company should contribute where they do extra in business. Europe and the eurozone in particular have to go a little further. From iran to saudi arabia to south africa leaders spoke to bloomberg about their challenges. Weve already committed to reducing expenditure on a number of fronts. We want to avoid a dangerous escalation. We are flipping the page. All straight ahead on this special edition of bloomberg best. Hello and welcome. Im nejra cehic. On this special edition of bloomberg best, well look back at 2019 in europe, in the middle east, and africa revisiting the most interesting interviews with newsmakers, policy makers and leading figures in business, finance, and politics. Lets begin with brexit. When 2019 began theresa may was facing a march deadline to achieve a deal. By years end, a n
Charles schwab takes advantage firm and israge said to be moving on rival Td Ameritrade. Apple overhaul Software Testing after finding glitches in its software. This is our second day at the new Economy Forum in beijing and we have plenty of great interviews ahead on our programs including mastercards device. Hairman also eurasia groups president as well. Competition was really focused on trade tensions, the risks for the global economy, the u. S. And china dynamic. We will see more conversations about today as well, but also more focus on technology, ai, 4g, and transitioning into 5g. Much it was very optimistic or hopeful is maybe a better word, hoping to come to some sort of heavy copper mines, but there was the idea that some of these issues are just going to remain issues forever, like Henry Kissinger saying the issue remain kong will problematic and other people saying the issue of sovereignty will be sensitive and will come up during trade negotiations. All of that has affected
Record. Manus it is daybreak europe. The words of the Vice President of the United States of america now open up a new salvo in the trade wars. Those words are the president has made it clear it is going to be very hard for us to do a deal with china. Geopolitics and human rights is the new escalation in trade wars. Nejra it is interesting, the timing of these two stories coming through both having an impact on the markets in terms of the hong kong bill and how that could have an impact on the negotiations. They are going to go back to that may template in terms of rolling back tariffs. We know how much hope there was ahead of that only to be thwarted later on. Highrises of the beijing. We have come here specifically to host some pretty good interviews. The roster is pretty high quality. It is the Bloomberg News Economy Forum. We will speak to the Standard Chartered ceo and the ubs group ceo. We are going to catch up with the Goldman Sachs chairman and ceo david solomon. The former whi
Protesters in hong kong and beijing promises retaliation if it becomes law. Alibaba set to raise 11 billion in a second listing next week. It marks hong kongs biggest share sale since 2010. Coming from behind, Jeremy Corbyn holds his own against Boris Johnson in the first tv debate in the u. K. Election, a snap poll puts the leaders at almost even on the night. Good morning. Matt good morning. We are getting headlines that hsbc is going to replace its head of Investment Banking, so those of you working at the Investment Bank at hsbc, at least according to the financial times, looks set to get a new boss. The head will move to a nonexecutive role according to the f role ft and he will get a replacement. We will bring you the developments on this story as the new head of Investment Banking those into the Hong Kong Shanghai banking corporation. Less than half an hour from the european open and lets look quickly at what is going on in terms of the risk picture this morning, the treasury yi
we ve been rocking out out here all morning long. we ought to keep them here every weekend. joey: it makes it hard to concentrate op on politics in the commercial break, but i m not all that upset by that. will: we ve been rock aring for several weeks now as part of this faith and friends concert series. st the really fun. that will be, i believe, in the final hour of our show. we wake up at 5 a.m. to a rock concert every sunday morning. [laughter] we ll bring it to you in just a few hours, but now to our top story, former president trump attends a college wrestling match in tulsa, oklahoma, yesterday after saying he would be arrested on tuesday. his potential arrest, it s related to a $13 if 0,000 amendment 130,000 payment to stormy daniels. joey: manhattan d.a. alvin bragg told his staff in an e-mail attain the by politico, quote, we do not tolerate attempts to intimidate our office or threaten the rule of law in new york. rachel: house speaker kevin mccarthy is directing