Happy monday. This is bloomberg surveillance. Khan Francine Lacqua in london. Lets get to your markets. Investors, trying to win a number of infections rising with all of the extra stimulus being put out. If you look at what the market is focusing on, stocks are falling, gold is nearing highs on concerns about the virus, treasuries on the dollar hovering below 40 a barrel in new york. Market checks through the day. Lets get to the first word news in london. Here is dani burger. Disappointing crowds for Donald Trumps First Campaign rally since the virus outbreak. The event in downtown tulsa attracted far fewer supporters in the white house had touted. It was overshadowed by continuing criticism of the president s response to the pandemic and his reaction to protests against police brutality. You are warriors. Thank you. We had some very bad people outside. [cheers] we had some very bad people outside. They were doing bad things. I stand before you today to declare the silent majority is
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xiaomi takes aim at apple and samsung. they sold 26 million smart phones in the first half of the year, quadruple the amount from the same period last year. xiamoi is hoping to sell 100 million phones in 2015. shares of shutterfly soared 15% after reports that the online photo company is looking for a buyer. they had hired partners to find possible buyers. shutterfly is on track to post its first annual net loss since 2006. we have a special guest joining us for the day. that is the chief creative officer from newco, also the executive producer of the web 2.0 conference. and the cofounding editor of wired magazine. and the list goes on. but newco is the main thing you are focusing on right now. how is it going? it s going great. we are going all over the world with this new idea. what do you mean by festival of innovation? we turn the standard conference inside out. instead of going to a ballroom and hearing founder speak at you, you go into the company itself and see i
frankly might inform the way we do our debates here. is an important global dialogue. i and thet question, president of a dominican university. the selection of the debate site is not a small matter. i knew we were going to get to this question. it is not about the past. it is about why you choose colleges and universities as opposed to other sites. and whether this matters? dynamicthe more economies is in california. why colleges and universities? it is mantra. we are involved in educational function. we just that we would do this on university campuses. if you see what it does to a college community, it is just incredible. we continued to do that. try to get geographical balance. we try to do it in the west, northeast, south. it does not always work that way. sometimes the proposals do not meet the standards. there are very strict standards on hotel rooms within a certain district. you will have 10,000 reporters it is a facility to take care of the reporters from all ov
i read about your bat woman thing. what is your character s name? vesper fairchild. i m using that from now. on that s my favorite name ever to appear in fiction. it is a classic comic book character. what are you doing tonight? i am not that busy. do you want to come over? because i ve got some pages marked here. i m still on crutches so it will take me a minute. i ll be there as soon as i can crutch over. if you can get here by the time we finish one of these commercial breaks, we ll just bring you right on to the tv show. okay. so rachel will be joining us later in the hour to help us assess where we are at the end of week two in the impeachment investigation of donald trump. we ll discuss her amazing book which i am just going to rave about. it is also very much related to this week s news. and later in the hour, we will look at the ray of hope sent by mitt romney today indicating that at least one republican senator is capable of speaking the trut