Daybreak australia. Im paul allen in sydney. Im annabel ruelas in hong kong. Were counting down to asias major market opens. Good evening from bloombergs World Headquarters in new york. Im ryan. The top stories this hour, us stocks slide into the close on bets an improving economy will keep rates higher for longer. Dollar strength sinking apac currencies to this years lows. China said to mull cutting stamp duty on stock trades as defensive reaction to a surprise rate cut shows president xi facing more tough choices. Plus, decision day for the reserve bank of new zealand with cooler inflation and higher unemployment supporting another hold. Us futures coming online in the Asian Session, were seeing a little bit of a muted picture after stocks fell in new york. We have the drop deepening in the final hour of trading. Investors really trying to digest those stronger than expected retail sales and also more hawkish fed speak. We had financials being weighed down. A warning from fitch that
And television has been that. They dont pay me enough to deal with animals like this. People are no longer embarrassed to admit they watch television. We have seen the news, and it is us. Slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. The 1980s will be upon us. What a decade it is coming up. Happy new year as you begin the 80s in the television world, the landscape was, on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people were watching only one of three networks. More than 30 Million People are addicted to it. Social critics are mystified by its success. What is it . Its televisions primetime, prairie pot boiler, dallas. A move like that will destroy all of ewing oil, and itll ruin our family name. I assure you, a thought like that never crossed my mind. Brother or no brother, whatever it takes, ill stop you from destroying ewing oil. Dallas really did establish new ground in terms of the weekly, onehour show that literally captivated america for 13 years. Dallas is a Television Show which in some
Trading days of the year. Well see what happens. The dow is up 21 right now. Warren buffet telling cnbc this morning he doubled his holdings in apple this year. Is it too late to follow his lead . Well debate it. After the bell, who will President Trump pick to sit on the fed board. Jim grant will tell us exclusively. Some people in the past have suggested maybe mr. Grant would make a fine fed governor. Fun take on the subject. Looking forward to it. Lets start with the news out of washington today. Eamon javers back at the white house and ylan mui is at our washington bureau. Eamon, a surprise appearance at the press briefing. Reporter yeah, thats right, bill. We had a surprise visitor. It was Mick Mulvaney. He said the president is going to coming up with massive spending cuts in his budget which will roll out in the next month or so. The spending cuts we see, even though hes not detailing them specifically now, will seem awfully familiar to those of us who followed the president ove
Hospital and then he was released the next day. But then yesterday, his older brother rushed to give him cpr when he was found not breathing at home. He just wanted to play football for the rest of his life. Reporter a lifelong passion to play profootball cut so very short. If there is nobody to blame, they dont know who to blame. Reporter his family has so many questions. When i tried to find out what happened, everybody was like hes fine, hes fine. I wasnt re little brother, he was dead. Reporter the 17yearold fullback and outside linebacker, he is dead, two days after suffering an abdominal injury friday night during a special teams play. Last night, his coach called the play completely normal. There was a huge kick. He was going for the ball and one of those guys were going for the ball and i think that he got kicked. After they say that he walked off the field with help. Paramedics took him to the University Hospital because they say that was the familys request. They have no trau
Second part of our team coverage. Its a busy friday night on the strip and the shooting created a lot of confusion. Vanessa, what have you been hearing . Vanessa Murphy john evans heard shots fired walking down the street and heard really loud noise and immediately i went, uhhh. Thats not the sound the bellagio fountains make. Sounded like a large caliber handgun. Vanessa Murphy heard the shots from across the street started looking around to see if people were running almost immediately, multiple police on scene knew it was a gunshot and something was going on. Thought at first it could possibly have been bourne movie, but police were there so fast, knew it was real. Vanessa Murphy Dave Courvoisier social Dave Courvoisier social media is blowing up with video and pictures from the scene. Weve been tweeting out information at 8 news now. Look for the hashtag strip shooting. Denise Valdez tonight, the midatlantic east coast is dealing with whats shaping up to be a historic blizzard. Dav