Currently, jung sits on the boards of apple and unilever. She has taken on a new challenge. Chosen to be ceo of Grameen America, where she has distributed 750 million in microloans to nearly 100,000 less fortunate women, continuing her quest to ensure women have every opportunity to succeed and lead. On bloomberg big decisions, andrea jung. Andrea jung, welcome to bloomberg big decisions. Great to have you here. Great to be here with you, david. David you spent much of your career in consumer retail. What drew you to that . Andrea it is an interesting thing. I got out of college. I thought i wanted to be a journalist. That did not pan out. I went into a Training Program in merchandising at bloomingdales in those days and worked my way up, and had a passion for brands, merchandising, and that led me through a pretty long career all the way up to avon. David having spent time at senior levels, what intrigued you, made it interesting to work that long and hard . Andrea it came together wh
Gets 12 months clear and free, so she may be emboldened. They cant challenge her again for 12 months. Alix you said that. Cable is up, cable is up, but im skeptical how you govern after that. It is a risk on field. A trade deal may be with china. Apparently the market is taking the vote of noconfidence. Otentially s p futures are up. Sixth intraday move for the s p. , 1. 25. Le rate up by. 4 24, 27 billion billion worth of supply coming online. We will see what the takedown is for the 10 year. Crude up by over 1 , almost 2 . We are waiting for the opec monthly report. And we have the Prime Minister questions happening right now in london. Theresa may speaking. Mr. Speaker, i will have meetings, possibly many meetings with minister colleagues and others. [laughter] just a normal day in the office then, Prime Minister. I would want to share condolences for the tragic events in strasburg. Minister, the prime told us there was not going to be a general election, and there was. This week, s
the dax in germany up by .2. the cac in france is up by a quarter percentage point the ftse is flat crude oil ended down by about 19 cents for the week last week this morning it s down another 17 cents to 56.38. a couple big stories we re watching geopolitics. german s chancellor angela merkel said efforts to form a coalition government has failed. merkel has been working for more than a month to work with the, quote, free democrats and the greens after losing ground to a far right party in the september election if a coalition cannot be formed merkel could form a minority government or call for a new election you re looking at the euro down. big questions about what s going to happen in that country. also, in corporate news, marvell technology is reportedly nearing a deal to buy chip maker cavium for $6 billion. it s going to create a bigger competitor for chip makers like intel and broadcom it would be comprised of 50% cash and 50% stock valuing cavium at $80 per share.
questions are good a lot going on all right the markets are crazy, becky what was that, 350 on friday, when it was all said and done. and strongly higher again this morning. almost 200 and also well, we ll take a quick look here s a check on the markets u.s. equity futures at this hour are, as you can see, 193 points indicated on the dow the nasdaq up another 25 the nasdaq shb dhad been diverg last week. that s a big move that we saw, continuing buying, going on, across the board in this country. and actually in asia and europe, overnight, some strong market action and some interesting news in the ten-year note as well. but as you can see, the nikkei was one more than 1% point 260 points hang seng up sharply as well check out europe, green across the board, in europe, when i watched, at least looked this morning. not the gains that we re seeing here or in asia. but we ll see what happens this week as we move forward. it s only 6:01 and treasury yields moderating on the te
has made its mark with a distinct burden. generations, telling us the secret to fighting off the competition. all of that and more over the next hour, but first, let s get an update on the situation in syria out with my radio cohost carol massar. the president was presiding over the united nations security council, where they unanimously , anded a resolution earlier today, the president addressed the general assembly about the fight against the islamic state. together, training and equipping the syrian opposition isil,t the terrorists of but the only solution is political, in response to the legitimate aspirations to all syrian citizens. regardless of ethnicity, regardless of creed. president obama added that the war must reject extremism. all right, thanks very much, carol massar. the to president obama at united nations. in the president s speech, he called for world power to eliminate the so-called cancer of extremism. was it effective? let s talk to a senior politic