Announcer this is nightly businessss report with Tyler Mathisen and sue herera. Climbing the food chain. Amazon buys whole foods to become a major player in the grocery business and a competitive threat to the entire industry. Charting a new course. President trump has a different vision for u. S. Relations with cuba than his predecessor. And big business is taking notice. Market monitor. As more money flows into etfs, our guest tonight has some picks you might want to consider. Those stories and more tonight on nightly Business Report for friday, june 16th. Good evening, everybody, welcome. Im sue herera. Tyler mathisen is off tonight. Amazon is on a mission to conquer new territory. Today it agreed to buy grocery chain whole foods. The price tag, more than 13. 5 billion. The deal is amazons biggest yet, and is an ambitious plan to push into a business thats been hard for online retailers to crack. If successful, it could give amazon a slice of the 800 billion grocery business. The ec
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Didnt you cowrite something . Were you kind of their expert . Towith steve, i contributed two fiction anthologies at his request. Is a marvelous friend and colleague. In 1984 our mutual publisher , sent me a manuscript written by an aviator called for each other. The publisher asked my opinion and i said this book is so good if you dont publish it, i will, and the next year it was published. So steve and i have kept in touch ever since. He came up with the concept of a military contractor that does deny it will work for the u. S. Government all over the world. That was a trilogy that was a fun change of pace for me because i had not done anything in that realm at that time. So that was an education. You are a wonderful writer. Your nonfiction reads with all the polls of fiction. And so you grew up flying airplanes, and where does all this aviation background come from . I am a Eastern Oregon kid that grew up next to a cropdusting strip in my little bitty hometown in oregon. And airplan
Stephanie ruhle with a very special guest. Youre not talking about me. Im matt miller in for Erik Schatzker. We have been together all week and i have not mastered reading the intros. Thats true. Lets get to the news, the most important part of your morning. I will kick it off we have not seen unemployment is low in six years for a ninth straight month. Employers added more than 200,000 jobs in the jobless rate to 5. 8 0 of one percent and hiring was broadbased and factories and Construction Companies and retailers added employees. The dollar still fell while treasuries rose because employers actually added fewer jobs than had been forecast. There is speculation that Interest Rate hikes may be put forward. At ford, a highlevel job swap with the top Marketing Executive being sent to run the moneylosing european division. The move is aimed at retaining farley by giving him experience and he was once considered in the running for the top job of ceo. The outgoing european chief stephen o d
Food that we eat. You can watch this and other programs at booktv. Org. Booktv covers hundreds of Office Programs dropped the country all year long area heres a here is a look at some of the events that we will be attending the week. Look for these programs to air in the near future on booktv on cspan2. On tuesday we are at the harvard club on the report of russias efforts to dominate world energy supply. The next evening at the University Club in new york city and looking at the lower state taxation and Economic Prosperity with art laffer. Then we are alive with the National Book awards. On saturday and sunday, we are live from the 31st annual miami au pair with author panels and viewer call and with the likes of cornel west and john dean. That is some of the programs we will be covering this upcoming week. Visit upcoming programs for more. Barrett tillman recounts the military exploits in world war ii during his talk on his book forgotten fifteenth. This is about one hour and 15 minu