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andy i met at the university of northern iowa s jepson symposium. each of the last two years he shared a dinner table with me, he was very kind to my students, and then he gave a marvelous talk last year about the chinese economy and the business relationships between the united states and china. tell us a little bit about how your interest in china developed and what you re going to bring to our conversation today. andy: thank you f introduction. i actually first went to china by pure chance. i m from boone, iowa and studied at northern iowa for my undergraduat e degree in supply chain management. at the end of my degree, my adviser at the time encouraged me to take an internship in china in the international logistics department of a large chinese state-owned enterprise. i didn t speak a word of chinese, and i d never been to china, didn t know anyone on the entire continent but sucked into china. it s a fantastic culture, interesting language, food, everything. just ....
i m francine lacqua. let s get to the markets. but we are getting a little bit of data. this is a picture from eurozone manufacturing for july. the survey was 51.9. we got plus 52. this is the picture for today. you can see banks on the backside of those stress tests a little bit lower. i wanted to show you yen went up .34. to four european stocks gaining a touch. let s get straight to bloomberg first word news with nejra cehic . nejra: data on chinese manufacturing in july has left analysts scratching their head. both gauges little significant this year in china s important manufacturing sector. .ber will emerge with didi that is according to people familiar. they say the new company will be valued at $35 billion. business loans and u.k. are set to shrink to the lowest in more than a decade since weaker economic prospects are following the brexit total will thet and a number markets have recovered from the shock of brexit. in managing director said strange and ....
.he 1950 s that is more than two decades ago. the market action. pretty much green at the moment. in different in the u.s. coming onnd taiwan board. a holiday in singapore today. here is a look at what has happened so far. haidi: caution has been the team. we have pulled back from games that we saw earlier. the tokyo session is flat at the moment. the nikkei coming off that 2.5% gain. we do have a slightly stronger yen today. that is weighing on japanese exporters. rbnz expected to cut rates again this week. we are seeing energy sectors driving the gains across the region. elsewhere around the region, taiwan is flat despite having a beat on import and export numbers yesterday. .alaysia also up singapore is closed today for a national holiday. let s take a look at the movers. nintendo back in the spotlight. it has been a few days. here we go. pokemon go, a report out over the last couple of days saying that revenue crossing the $200 million mark. nintendo surging by as m ....
smithsonian air and space museum live at 6:00 p.m. eastern. now a conversation with facebook chief operating officer sheryl sandberg who spoke at the american enterprise institute last week. welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to aie, i m arthur brooks and i m delighted to introduce sheryl sandberg to join us today. we have many events but thsz something i ve been looking forward to for a long time. this an interview we ve been hoping to do for months and months and had this on the books for four months and this is as many of you know one of the last events we ll be doing in this building. we ll talk about so many issues important to you and important to me. i ll give you a quick bio. it s not that necessary but so impressive. the person i have with me on the stage, i want to talk and dwell on what success really looks like in america today. she has been the chief operating officer at facebook since 2008. when she came to facebook, facebook had 70 million users, which seem ....
was an mp, a great campaigning mp with huge compassion, with a big heart and people are going to be very, very sad at what has happened. cox had been campaigning for britain to remain in the european union in an upcoming referendum. groups on both sides of the referendum have suspended their campaigns following the attack. what s the latest. investors have been concerned. it has taken stage. the british pound has been battered but after the tragic event, it jumped. on wall street, we saw relief rallies snapping a five-day losing streak. the nasdaq inched up. we ll see how markets are opening this friday morning. we ll go to ramin. good morning. tell us what you re seeing this friday morning. very good morning to you. the theme is dominated by the whole news about britain s possible exit from the eu and the caution really being played into by central banks. we saw the fed policy meeting wrapping up. the bank of japan meeting wrapping up. some showing concerns. we ....