Since the start of the syrian crisis, the United States has helped lebanon support Syrian Refugees with clean water, food, shelter, and health care. Our approach, supporting the humanitarian needs of displaced syrian citizens, as close to their home country as possible, is the best way to help most people. America is proud to stand with courage toave the terrorism and take responsibility for affairs in their own region. The reliance and resilience of the lebanese people terrorism ae responsibility for in the face of war and terror is extraordinary. Mr. Prime minister, im grateful that you are here today. Its a big day for our country because of the vote you just heard about. We stood and watched the results out,levision before coming and you found it very interesting, i hope. Yes, i did. And very important. I look forward to working with you to strengthen our partnership and the Enduring Partnership between the american and lebanese people. Thank you very much. Mr. Prime minister . Tha
Coke, ford and earning all vernings beats. The deal that were to happen would be worth well lets call it 2,515 billion comcast should buy verizon we did get an update erngs report from at t. Mcdonalds expanding its Delivery Program Steve Easterbrook is here in the house and will join us live at post nine to discuss the 787, the orders are amazing. This is a company with just a level of cash flow that people were surprised by. A couple of quarters last when people got very kpietd aexcited Conference Call began and the air went out of the balloon and thats not going to happen this time and the operating cash flow which is what i think has been the hall mark of this whole quarter. Revenue growth instead. The previous ceo was fan fantastic. He is talking about a new product. And remember its been going down when i talked to him this morning i felt terrific about it by the way, we talked about the value dollar, cocacola at mcdonalds and howell thats done i had to of course talk to mr. Easte
Estimates thanks to surging mobile ads on the news feed platforms. The company is now turning attention to monday he tiesing messenger and whats app. Were starting to put some ads in the product just to see the basic parameters on how that performs, how people like the ads or dont how they work for businesses and just try to get an understanding of that. So were starting to run that across the world all this, of course, is the market is hitting record highs the nasdaq is on pace for its best month in about a year due in large part to the tech names. On facebook itself, lets start there. Weve been talking about monetizing the acquisitions for years. It is finally happening . Its incredible that it really isnt happening at scale yet. Theyre just starting with instagram. They have the other huge platforms with whats app and messenger. We dont know how well they will monetize instagraem, highly visual, great video platform we and others are seeing huge usage in consumption of videos the id
Live at from bloombergs u. S. And asian headquarters. I am betty liu in new york to read it is just after 7 00 p. M. 7 00 a. M. Ust after here in hong kong, i am shery ahn. You see equity markets in the u. S. , relative calm to trumpet dismissing his two advisory boards. The u. S. Dollar did take a hit, especially from the fmoc minutes worrying about inflation. Hold we did see them gains after those minutes came out. On a day it should have been the minutes at the top headline, but it was what was going on in washington with President Trump. Not war with north korea but with ceos in his own backyard that dominated the headlines. Beene meantime, i have surprised by the shield of armor it seems u. S. Equities have. Reactiony movement in to some of the turnover turmoil we see in washington. Tish open in asia . Shery yes, investors have a lot to digest. Of that, the barrage of data we are getting from japan, australia, the philippines, singapore. , nota look at new zealand doing much after
Good morning and welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im sara eisen. Im wilfred frost, very good morning from me as well. Welcome back. Thank you. Good to see you back. The content. Weather. And the energy of what we say. Lets get straight to the Market Action this morning. We did see another record close for the dow yesterday. Positive session in a row higher up 0. 2 but the s p was down 0. 1 . Nasdaq was down a little bit more 0. 6 but nasdaq was the best performer last week, saw a little bit of evening out tapping out yesterday. Were higher once again. Dow is getting closer 20,000. Extraordinary the pace at which it crossed 19,000 and nearly reached 20,000. Well see fit can manage that at some point in the remainder of the year. Its higher by 54 points today. Ten year treasury note weve seen bonds continue their march higher or resaturday their march higher in terms of yield over the last three or four trading sessions. Five year note is now at a high since 2011. Ten year note is a little