softbank s ceo told donald trump that he would invest in the united states. a came from a previously announced tech fund. softbank hopes the new administration will look again at its merger with t-mobile. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. check of the markets. afternoon trading getting underway in hong kong. asian stocks are rising, sending rally to a second day. this is bloomberg. emily: this is bloomberg technology. $50 billion of two great 50,000 u.s. jobs. create 50,000 u.s. jobs. that is a tweet from donald trump . a hypothetical trade war with beijing. responds instagram with new hate speech filters. talk was productive according to donald trump between himself and softbank. to trump: he has just agreed $50 million and create 50,000 u.s. drops jobs. it could be good for business and also good for sprint. member, softbank is the parent company of sprint. they have long wante
civil suit. the justice department dropping its two-year effort. we ve got the details on that coming up. meantime, amazon is making a big bet on its echo device called alexa. all the alexas answering out there, people listening in. they re looking to make it a $1 billion business. will increasing competition from apple and google get in its way. that s something we ll look at coming up here. plus, the end of an era. the partnership between american express and costco will officially end on monday. we ve got new details on how american express is looking to address the losses. what citigroup and visa are planning next. let s start with the concerns over next week s uk vote whether to leave the european union. will fred front is about to head over to london for coverage of that big event. before you leave, though, will, give us the latest. thanks very much. campaigning on both sides of the brexit debate was postponed today following that fatal shooting of labor party,
i mean. what is your fantasy sports stand? i don t like to play because they distract me from the games. i don t want to worry about setting my lineups and figure out what receiver, let me watch the games, leave me alone. dari: 7 what is your stance? meteorologist: i m trying to catch up with the that happened. do you want to see my fantasy sports stance? meteorologist: got it. thank you. yes please. let s get you going, let s talk about high temperatures yesterday, we made it to 79 ? yesterday, on the cooler side central park, 81 is what you made it up to in newark, 82 in belmar, a lot of upper 70s to time of year. this may not be the low for the day, 64 as promised, it will feel more like fall this morning, you have a 48 ? reading in monticello, 50 in sussex, 63 at newark, temperatures a lot cooler than it was 24 hours ago, 16 ? drop in sussex, 8 ? cooler in newark, 7 in central park, 10 ? cooler in bridgeport. winds pretty lht enough to mix it up a little bit and k
winds, especially up and through the mountains. pass. at times some of the snow blowing over the road there. you can see it blowing around up and through the mountains. % hour. in denver speeds between 10 to 20. up into estes park and allenspark gusts close to 30. across parts of northeastern colorado, as the storm exiting the region, some gusts over 40. pretty mild afternoon, though. temperatures now in the 40s. low to mid-50s by 3:00. lots of sunshine. looks beautiful anywhere across the state. highs 30s to 40s through the mountains. plenty of snow obviously in the foothills. a lot of that will stick around the next few days. in denver melted and by this afternoon you re not going to find much more on the roads. denver, 52. akron 46 for a high today. closer to 60 across southeastern colorado. we are expecting things to warm up more as the week goes on into the weekend. we ll show you how warm it will get heading into the weekend. lisa, thank you. as lisa was talking we un
john harwood caught up with her earlier this week. we ll bring you that conversation later this hour. first let s get to the markets this morning. we have seen a lot less volatility since people have been waiting to see what the fed does this week. you can see that the futures are relatively flat. dow futures down 3 points. s&p futures off by 2. we started yesterday down 50 in the morning and ended up 250. you have been talking about more than 400 points during the day. a lot of people are waiting to see what happens. that s one of the reasons people say let s get it out of the way. a lot of stuff. he thinks there s a crash coming. he thinks there a crash worse than 2008. he says already. and that it pushes people into causing the buy back stock and inflate their stock price. causes emerging markets. the fed s exples sit. he thinks there s a reckoning. he says that there s a reckoning to come that s going to be worse than the financial crisis as a function of