[inaudible conversations] good evening, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to barnes noble upper west side. Joshua green is Senior National correspondent for bloomberg this week, focusing on political coverage for the magazine and bloomberg news. Previously he was Senior Editor of different and has written to the new yorker, esquire, Rolling Stone and other publications. He brings us tonight a new book, devils bargain steve bannon, donald trump, and the storming of the presidency. Which the New York Times called deeply reported and compulsively readable. As of this coming week it is a number one New York Times bestseller. With further a do please join me in welcoming joshua green. [applause] thank you, i am always amazed, with all the donald trump and steve bannon we are subjected to in our daily lives the people want to come out and get more of it in person but i am gratified. I have been advised people at Nonfiction Book readings dont want to hear the author read his Nonfiction Book so
Fact we are seeing this Dollar Strength, yen weakness, and the nikkei and topix at those 2016 highs. The nikkei up by. 2 . Significant weakness in shanghai, down. 7 . Hong kong, down by 1. 2 , only to stocks on the hang seng in the black. Australia, a at better than expected employment number, 39 thousand 100 jobs created over the last month, but you did see the Unemployment Rate pickups likely, participation higher, so a dip in terms of the australian markets, also korea, the bank of korea leaving rates on hold at 1. 25 as expected. Have a look at the offshore theinbi, down. 2 against dollar, six point 9381. We did see a weaker fix from the pboc once again. That is the weakest level we have seen since august 29. The aussie dollar has recovered after that jobs data come up by 74. 24. Bonds, you are seeing a little bit of movement in terms of the yield on the australian 10 year note. Bonds getting a little bit of a bid today. Thank you so much. Lets check on the markets, and we get back
Anna a very warm welcome to the program. This is our flagship europe show. Lets talk about what we heard from the fed and what that has done to the dollar. The the dollar the big beneficiary from what we heard from the fed. How the changing expectations from the fed around Interest Rates in 2017 have pushed up the dollar index. The rate went up 2. 75 percent as expected at the fed. The fed also signaling that the economy is strong and will improve and taking what some of our colleagues have called a victory lap. Lets put up the risk radar and on variousere we are asset classes. Weve seen reaction aplenty to what we heard from the fed yesterday. To reiterate what we heard about the dollar, this is the bloomberg u. S. Dollars stop index. What a of focusing on stronger u. S. Economy does to a Global Economy, the preoccupation is on what a strong dollar does to some of the corporate and others in emerging markets and focusing on the negatives there. Dropped to its lowest since march of 201
Going to like today. The lows are cooler but it will be a little warmer. Santa rosa going 75. Up two for San Francisco. Livermore from 73 to 76. San jose from 72 to 74. And tony in daly city, 52 and feels like fall. Plus clear skies in daly city. That is breaking news. Clear skies in daly city. Looks like a nice day except on the north coast. 40s and 50s. Much cooler on the lows. Wood side at 42. Menlo park also in there as well. We will rebound with a lot of low and mid70s. Temperatures warming up a smidge there, sal. Steve, thank you very much. It will be busy in the east bay as you see by some of the pictures im about to show you. A 42minute drive to the macarthur maze. When you drive into San Francisco from oakland from the bay bridge, the traffic will be busy. Take a look at the bay bridge. Traffic is backed up there as you can see. Seeing a lot of slow traffic in the east bay. Go to the Silicon Valley commute where a lot of people are up to saratoga, cupertino and Mountain View a
Description that is a man wearing a rainbow type colored clown suit a bright blue wig. There was no clown feet and this man did thought have any clown face paint on. For now that is the latest near concord. Henry lee ktvu fox 2 news. Henry its always interesting when one of these stories hits you personally i was talking to my 11yearold daughter and she was really frighten about this whole creepy clown thing she said dad they are planning to attack a high school in oakland. I had to say you know what no they are not. Its okay. But really feels like this whole thing is getting out of hand. Reporter that is right frank. You know a lot of these online threats of creepy clowns have been determined to be hoaxes but for now at least in concord are taking this at face value no laughing matter. They are treating this as an actual attempted abduction. Henry lee in concord thank you. We are following developing news from southern california. Authorities say a los angeles sheriffs sergeant was sh