We were down 5 from the peak on spx. Where we are is about where we were on valentines day. Of course, you do remember valentines day. That was prepandemic. All we have really done is pulled back to the prepandemic. Weve got to put some perspective on this as we saw the dow down 800, 900 yesterday. Jonathan im not sure why i am the target of room bring valentines day of remembering valentines day. Its you im worried about. Tom that would be true. Jonathan because you often dont remember it. Tom that would be true. Rosesgh i do remember a scenario with jon years ago. Lisa you are trying to bring me into this . [laughter] for those in engineering and history, this is a hugely emotional deal. The difference from san jose to santa clara, it is like four, maybe five miles. But xilinx is one of the storied names coming out of fairchild years and years ago. To see this merger today, 35 billion large, it really says something about the combination of all of the history in the bay area. Jonatha
Everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance and im Francine Lacqua in london. We will be speaking to jack straw, one of the three people serving in the candidate from 1997 to 2010. We talk brexit and trade. Youre meantime, this is market. Equities seem to be on a tear. Stocks in europe are a little bit mixed, but the euro holding onto gains. We saw catalonias president stepping down from the immediate declaration of independence in spain. The dollar, drifting down a little bit. Oil rising above 51 a barrel, as opec pretty good. The nikkei 225 rising to the highest in almost 21 years, following the Dow Jones Industrial average, that touched a fresh record high yesterday. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Plans to donald trump make changes to his tax plan within the next few weeks without giving any details. At the same time, he dismissed concerns that his public spat would dismiss an overhaul. Independent analysts suggest it would raise taxes for 30 of people, making betw
Trump says he and janet yellen are doing well together. This is bloomberg. Im mark barton in london. Stocks marginally higher today, up by a 20th 1 . Overis up a smidgen dollar. Long andng to talk hard about barclays. Look at barclays shares. Down 5. 7 . Deutsche bank down 2 . Getting some details from the norwegian central bank. Rates will be kept unchanged today. Riskslance of economic unchanged since september. Unchanged at 0. 5 . Heres the news with sebastian. Donald trump says hes thinking about getting janet yellen another term as fed chair. Terrific and they are doing very well together. Familiar to people the matter, gary cohn is not open to the fed. Mindel holly faye was speaking asked lucidly to bloomberg. I have a meeting with two banks. They will come and apply for licenses to operate in saudi arabia. Were open. The u. S. House has in responseanctions to irans support for hezbollah. The two bills market first action against iran since President Trump refused to continue the
Colleague from George Washington university. Before he introduces our speaker acknowledge our partnership with the National History center and the American Historical Association we are cosponsoring and coorganizing this seminar with. Donorsacknowledgment our , the George Washington University History department as well as a number of individuals for this series. We want to acknowledge roger lewis, the cochairman of the seminar. Hes here all the way from texas. Andnt to welcome all of you to the ones who do the heavy lifting in terms of getting is here and organize. We are grateful to you. [applause] thank you. With that, i think we should turn it over to eric. One last technical ofouncement, if you have one these devices, and i suspect everyone in the room does. Turn it to vibrate or silence, that will prevent embarrassment and interruption in the next hour and a half. With that, it is my pleasure to introduce this afternoons speaker, an independent historian and economist living in w
Let me acknowledge our partnership with the National History center and the american historical association. We are cosponsoring and coorganizing this seminar with. Let me acknowledgment our donors, the society of historians of American Foreign relations, the George Washington University History department as well as a number , of individuals giving support for this series. We want to acknowledge roger lewis, the cochairman of the seminar. Hes here all the way from texas. I want to welcome all of you and say thank you especially to pete and amanda perry who do the heavy lifting in terms of getting us here and organized. We are very grateful to you. [applause] thank you. Will turn i think i it over to eric to introduce our speaker. Thank you. One last technical announcement, if you have one of these devices, and i suspect everyone in the room does. If you could just turn it to vibrate or silence, that will prevent embarrassment and interruption in the next hour and a half. With that, it