Wednesday. Until the end. 8 1 2 pounds, youre ready. Thats a good, healthy weight. Anyway, we wish becky the best. Well be talking to becky im sure a lot. Hopefully well see becky, but probably not for a little while. A little boy and a girl. Its totally rounded out. In the meantime, we have so much to talk about. Well start with u. S. Equity futures and well get to the debates in just a second. Take a look at this, the dow jones up 77 points after last nights performance. The nasdaq up 21 points and the s p 500 up ten points higher. The asian markets in hong kong and japan are close d for the holiday. Youre looking at the european equities right now. As we flip the board around, were seeing everything up pretty much across the board. Finally, well take a quick look at crude, wti right now this morning. Youre looking at 49. 60. Yeah. So down about a half percent. It was down on friday. Pierced 50 for the First Time Since june last week. Well watch the saudis comments on that. Well get
Powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 21 countries. Bloomberg. Bloomberg west is next. Welcome to bloomberg west. Coming up, tesla feeling the heat. New reports of a second car a crash, while using teslas muchhyped auto pilot. The technology properly vetted . Well discuss. Consigns itsrry classic smartphone to the museum. The u. K. Struggles to make sense of brexit, well look means. The vote thefirst, to our lead, second tesla driver has been carsd while using the autopilot function. He was on the pennsylvania turnpike, on autopilot, when it on july 1. This comes just days after the u. S. National Traffic Safety administration opened an investigation into teslas a fatal crasher in may. It raises questions on whether testings done enough and whether drivers properly understand its limits. Is auto blogger, ed. Let me start with you. This technology seems like it was sort of so cutting edge that tore was no way for it really be reviewed by nhtsa before it hit the
Clinton and her aids were and her aides were careless but there was no intentional misconduct. Theresa may is in the lead to proceed david cameron. And in south africa, double amputee olympian Oscar Pistorius may return to prison for murdering his girlfriend three years ago. Prosecutors are asking for 15 years. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 21 countries. This is bloomberg. Bloomberg west is next. Cory welcome to bloomberg west. Coming up, tesla feeling the heat. New reports of a second car involved in a crash, while using teslas muchhyped auto pilot. Was the technology properly vetted . Well discuss. Plus, blackberry consigns its classic smartphone to the museum. And as the u. K. Struggles to make sense of brexit, well look at what the vote means. But first, to our lead, the second tesla driver has been injured while using the cars autopilot function. He was on the pennsylvania turnpike, on autopilot, when it crashed on jul
We want to begin with bob who covers twitter. Bob, you with me . Its good to have you as always. You follow this as closely as anybody does. What do you make of the speculation around this company . The stock has had a pretty good run from 14 to 19 and change. Is a take out becoming more likely. We dont think theres any take out possibilities in 2016. I think they want to see those things they want to do resonate. Jack has only been there for a year almost and the board is new. I think they fully support jack. I think you have to get through those changes and if youre on current trend which have been getting worse in 2017 you could see a take out on the that point. That meshes with what im hearing today as i talk to people. Im told that jack and the board still think that they can unlock value, that theyre not ready to sell, but at the same time they would be realistic if they got an offer. The last thing they want is to pull a jerry yang and get an offer and turn it down and two years
It does. Am i right . You guys, you guys remembered me on jennifers birthday. See . Thats why this is my crowd. I am larry wilmore, less get to our show. Last week attorney general Loretta Lynch convened a meeting with dozens of americas top Police Officers, the goal was to figure out why so many cities are seeing a spike in their murder rates. We were asked to join that meeting with attorney general lynch but i had to say we found the invitation a bit confusing. laughter yeah, so yeah, you know what im saying, yeah. So instinctively we decided to avoid it. Luckily the Washington Post was in attendance and according to their reporters, police have an interesting theory as to why murders are on the rise. That theory as the post puts it is quote officers in American Cities have pulled back and have stopped policing as aggressively as they used to fearing that they could be the next person in a uniform featured on a careerending viral video. Larry let me get this straightt being embarrass