the pound is leading the way across the u.s. dollar. thes up about 0.7% against dollar. it is time now for the global exchange, where we bring you today s market moving news around the world. our bloomberg voices are on the ground with today s top stories. let s start by going over to hong kong, bracing for more this option after christmas protests led to clashes between demonstrators and riot police. igh joins us on the telephone. give us a sense of what is in store. it sounds like there s more planned for friday and going into the new year. karen: there s protests planned for this evening in an area of the city that has seen some of the worst protests over the past six months, and again over the weekend in an area near the chinese border. all of this is leading up to a day, rally on new year s led by organizers that have led some of the biggest protests since this began. the level of anger we are going to be seeing at the clashes willen protesters escalate, and we are looki
numbers. the investment committee is ready to go. the halftime report starts right now. welcome, good to have you with us on this friday steve weiss, john najarian, jenny harrington, and rob s seichen. our heads are spinning, our portfolios gyrating. was this week a sign, steve, of what s to come absolutely. this is very indicative of what we ve seen, and indicative of what s to come there are these camps that there is a recession, there isn t a recession. i don t think it really matters. markets can go down without a recession, and they do it all comes down to trade at the end of the day, you have to come through that and you have to have some calmness on the trade front. no more tweets if you have that, you ll continue to move up. today was virtually i wouldn t call it a melt-up, but every major market is up more than 1%. relief on the yield front exactly maybe it all, jenny, comes down to yields if yields can rise a little bit, it takes some of the pressure o
always an avid reader. i had an older brother and two older sisters. i was reading their books when i was far too young. we had a wonderful public library in my neighborhood where i spent pretty much every day after school going there and grabbing every book. there was something about baldwin that was so raw and passionate. i think it had to do with me being 13. everything is passionate to you at that point. here were these two young lovers. i could identify with them and identify with the language and the beauty. brian: when you wrote the column you wrote you had not seen the movie. monica: i had not. brian: have you seen it now? monica: i have. i was impressed. i was really moved by it. as i wrote in the piece, i was probably too young to read baldwin at 13. brian: why are you saying that? monica: i didn t understand that this was not simply a love story. there is a great deal of love in their, there is familial love, there is romantic love. i did not really register i do
i had an older brother and two older sisters. i was reading their books when i was far too young. there was a wonderful public library in my neighborhood where i spent pretty much every day after school going there and grabbing every book. there was something about baldwin that was so raw and passionate. i think it had to do with me being 13. everything is passionate to you at that point. there were these two young lovers. i could identify with them and identify with the language and the beauty. brian: when you wrote the column you wrote you had not seen the movie. monica: i had not. brian: have you seen it now? monica: i have. i was impressed. i was really moved by it. i was probably too young to read baldwin at 13. brian: why are you saying that? monica: i didn t understand that this was not simply a love story. there is romantic love. i did not really register i don t think i did at 13, the broader subjects of mass incarceration and how that impacts a family, community,
announcer: this week on q&a. former assistant u.s. attorney ron liebman and tim baker, who were part of the prosecution team that brought down vice president spiro agnew in 1973. brian: ron liebman, when did you first meet spiro agnew? ron: i never actually met spiro agnew. i had seen spiro agnew twice in my life. the first time was october 10, 973, sitting next to tim baker and barney skolnik in a federal court when he went to plead no contest for a felony pair the second time i saw him was a few days later. there s a restaurant in baltimore, everybody ate there. and i was sitting there with my young bride at a table for two, facing each other, and i looked up, and coming towards me from the back room having had his own dinner, spiro agnew and his wife and some security. i was trying to get my wife s attention. she was saying, are you all right? and agnew walked up to me, stopped, looked at me, and passed. and those are the only times i ve ever seen him. brian: you thi