My is e tammy kim and im a writer at the new yorker and the cohost the podcast. Time to say goodbye. Today i have the luck of talking to china mieville, a writer of uncommon breadth integrity and precision work ive admired for a long time. Many of you know china as the author of speculative fiction with beautiful novels such as perdita street station, the city and the city and real sea. You may also know his nonfiction, which ranges from scholarly work on International Law and stylish esthetics. Essays in the quarterly journal to the book oct from 2017, which tells the story of the russian revolution. Were here today to celebrate his latest nonfiction book, a specter haunting on the communist manifesto published by haymarket. A specter haunting part critical companion, part literary exegesis. The book proceeds in six chapters elegant, economical then reproduces the manifesto and its many prefaces over time and space. I confess that until reading this book, i had not looked at the commu
My is e tammy kim and im a writer at the new yorker and the cohost the podcast. Time to say goodbye. Today i have the luck of talking to china mieville, a writer of uncommon breadth integrity and precision work ive admired for a long time. Many of you know china as the author of speculative fiction with beautiful novels such as perdita street station, the city and the city and real sea. You may also know his nonfiction, which ranges from scholarly work on International Law and stylish esthetics. Essays in the quarterly journal to the book oct from 2017, which tells the story of the russian revolution. Were here today to celebrate his latest nonfiction book, a specter haunting on the communist manifesto published by haymarket. A specter haunting part critical companion, part literary exegesis. The book proceeds in six chapters elegant, economical then reproduces the manifesto and its many prefaces over time and space. I confess that until reading this book, i had not looked at the commu
The new leader of south africas ruling party. Has the currency still got room to run . Matt . Matt we are less than half hour away from the start of european cash trading. At howake a look european futures are indicating that it will start. Its a bit of a negative picture if you look at the euro stoxx 50, but you see a positive ftse and dax, just barely. Not a lot of indication there. If i take a look, i have the bunds in my screen. This is a threeday chart, and you can see investors have been selling off bunds, pushing yields off. So maybe they will use some of that cash to buy stocks, but theres not a lot of indication from futures. Guy that will be interesting. Does the survey data continue to deliver for germany . Yesterday the dax was up by 1. 6 . Equities definitely on the front foot. It doesnt feel the same way this morning. China overnight has carried out. The nikkei has not delivered today, but the Chinese Markets have. Csi 300 up by 1. 26 . Morning, the bloomberg dollar index
Challenge to washington and seoul, korea. We have the world covered here on daybreak asia. We will be live in beijing for chinas plans for a new silk road. In new york, all the details of the global hack attack. He careful as you turn your computers on. Liveis daybreak asia from bloombergs u. S. And asian headquarters. It sounds really ominous. It is just after 7 00 p. M. , those is a big story hospitals and government facilities being attacked, but all eyes will be on the bill and road forum, 78 billion in Infrastructure Spending pledged at the time we are a focus on data, retail sales data out of china. When it comes to the u. S. , theng seems to move much s p 500 2400 for the past couple of weeks. China,a big project from how will the u. S. And the rest of the world react. Earthquakelayy quality . We will examine that later in the program. We seem pretty stuck here. The retail Sales Numbers on friday did not eliminate anymore on where consumers in the market are going, so we will wa
Out all the stops. These are the closing times on Christmas Eve. Actually a little bit more to it than this. Best buy, kohls, walmart, target targets going to stay up until 11 00 tomorrow night trying to get the last of the shoppers in, and just as an example lets talk a little bit more about kohls because more than just staying open until 6 00 p. M. , theyre in the midst now of a streak of 170 170 straight hours of staying open up until closing time tomorrow night. And its similar at some of the other retailers as well. I mean 87 straight hours, for example, at toys r us. So thats what theyre doing. Pulling out all of the stops but as i a this is an interesting stat because the last minute type its not like a few people need to go out and get a few things. Its almost everyone this retailmenot did some research on this, and they found that last minute shopping is something that nine out of ten americans engage in. Of course to varying degrees, neil, some people have to get a Stocking S