Halftime report starts right now. Good to have you with us. Our Investment Committee today, joe, josh, john, steve and shannon. The chief Investment Officer at boston private wealth. Lets begin with a look at talks. The major averages off their Third Straight down week a bit volatile in the green as we speak. Weiss, your note said you were a net seller and you will sell on any strength you get in the market why is that . Theres has to be significance to it. Im not selling anymore i took advantage of the lift if in friday to sell some stuff there hasnt been a lot of selling but shaving here and there. I think what the news the came out today and over the weekend has set the bar a little lower for what could come out of the china talks. As long as they make some sort of progress were okay and the market lifts my bigger concern is the earnings season. Were trading 16 times next years number right now, thats not cheap. The market generally is about 14 times. If we see continued strength in
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Host what is facebook trying to do and why . Guest the simple answer is that they are trying to create a Digital Currency that people can use across borders and a Digital Currency means not necessarily a theirment currency, but own private currency that people can use and ship to one another in different parts of the world. The reason why they are doing this is a little bit complex ause no one knows exactly they have explicitly said that they want to, and i am reading this because i think it is useful for the listeners to hear, to enable a simple, global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people. There are some financial motives as well. Host as far as the current system, what would facebooks plan do that others do not . Is planning to create this look currency and by doing so, have established a consortium of different kinds of larger, Global Technology companies and a couple of nonprofits. The global currency is called the libra currency and the consortiu
What you do. Health and wellbeing of the people they serve. We do oversight and enforcement of the programs of the health and Human Services department. Host you turned your attention to the topic of hospice. What were you looking to find out . Health and safety of Medicare Beneficiaries is one of our top priorities. They are a vulnerable population. We looked into information about deficiencies being cited to quality of care and patient harm. Host what did you find looking into this . Guest our report shed light on how common it is for hospice providers to be cited with efficiency with the quality of care they are providing and in some case very serious deficiencies. We uncovered gaps in Patient Protection. We issued a call to the Medicare Program by the centers for medicare and Medicaid Services to help fix these problems. Host what were the worst Case Scenarios with the deficiencies when your department looked into this . Guest we did identify some worstCase Scenarios where patients
News, 24 today, by more than 2700 journalists and in more than 120 countries. Bloomberg technology is next. Im emily chang in this is bloomberg technologies. Coming up, the best performance ever in the fourth quarter, adding more than 8 million customers in the quarter. We will break down the results. Plus, amazon go is open for business. We take a look at the brickandmortar store. And facebook makes a critical admission regarding societal impact. Why it say can have a negative impact on democracy and what it is doing it. Ever. X biggest quarter shares are jumping and the companys value past 100 million for the first time ever. Lucas, break it down. One of the highlights and where is the strength in the subscriber growth . Netflix is making more programs look at the slate of shows they released. They have a new season of stranger things, the crown, new. Hows in the punisher they had this big movie with will smith. We dont know which of those shows were most popular, but based on some o