Out raffle tickets because we will be giving out friends of looksbrary and that means to lucky winners. Please join me at this time welcoming Brandi Thompson and james [applause] hi. Will introduce myself. Randy will be giving most of the presentation. I will be here for questions and answers. Just a little background. I volunteered after i got my ba in history from cal state San Bernardino in 2010, i began volunteering at the national riverside and in 2012i became a student archives in i gotnd then my masters degree in library and Information Science at the same time from san jose state , and then in 2014 i moved to st. Louis and worked at the National Archives at st. Preservation technician and then in 2016i moved back to california and in role as arc of specialist. So, i will turn it over to randy and he can give you his bio. Dy all right. Thank you, james. Welcome, everybody i want to thank mr. Karzais wonderful introduction. I want to thank the friends of the North Hollywood libra
Repeal and replace bill passes the u. S. House. What does this mean for President Trumps ability to turn policy into legislation . Lets talk about whats happening in the markets now. This is the move you are seeing at the moment. European equities opening soft this morning. London looks like its going to outperform just a little bit. We will circle back in just a moment. Probably a bigger focus is oil right now and the rest of the commodity complex. Lets turn our attention there and take a quick look at the gmm. Seeing dollarcanadian dollar down. It is a commodities story. So the risk is up aversion trade is on. The Australian Dollar is under pressure. In some ways, you would expect this to be more under pressure. Were going to talk t about that with mark cudmore. Lets show you the column that really highlights it all. There are a bunch of contracts that you can use for iron ore. This is one of them. This is the deli at contract. It is down at the moment. Entire energy the complex, tra
It is 6 00 here in london. Bloomberg reporters are standing by across the world, ready to deliver the stories that will drive your day. Caroline has the details on the insider who may be taking the helm at microsoft. Hans nichols is environment with different earnings reports from google and amazon. He is also looking at the pricey ads for the super bowl. Hannah kearney has more on the rebound in revenue at lvmh. Ryan chilcote lookahead to a meeting. He tells us why a couple of beers could breathe life into europes industry. John ferro is sizing up competition ahead of bt earnings. Plus, the Lunar New Year kicks off today. We are taking a look at where in the world an estimated 100 million Chinese Tourists are taking their spending power for the weeklong holiday. We talk to the founders of the Hotel Booking site, mr. And mrs. Smith. Com next hour. Microsofts fivemonth long ceo search may finally be coming to an end. The board is said to be making Satya Nadella the new chief. He is the
Im talking about falling prices. Ofs underlying story disinflation tells you the challenge the ecb has got, the dilemma they face. You have the likes of france, could be falling into recession. We are not just talking about this rift anymore. The ecb needs to do more. You look at all of these kind of numbers, they are not painting a positive picture. If the ecbs mandate is inflation, than it needs to take further policy action. Lets talk about a forecast. Next year, inflation running at 4. 1 . That is well below their 2. 1 inflation target. 2015 forecast, that is important. Everyone response to that is, what is an extended period of time . You have to look at the forecast to gauge. They tell us there is no north south divide. You only have to listen to the do voices coming out of the ecb right now. They all have a different view. The likes of the german central , they seem to be a theirre hawkish because respective countries are doing a lot better than the likes of the greeses and cypr
Welcome to countdown. I am caroline hyde. Breaking across the terminal. Do intend to make an offer for vodafone and we were running a story earlier. Talking to regulators about potential takeover with the vodafone off. It is no surprise was that at t has made it clear they are looking across the atlantic to make purchases and they want to expand their market. You have sprint and tmobile really hitting them hard in terms of price and in the united states. They wanted to come to europe and much speculation with the vodafone. Maybe some other European Companies. When of the story first broke at the end of october according to people familiar, bloomberg ran a story. A statement has been released that has quashed speculation that an attempt to make an offer for vodafone. Our International Correspondent has been of the story this morning. Hans, quashing speculation . It looks like the speculation the at t is going to make a bid for vodafone is over and it looks final. That makes them beating