Community centers to create wifi enabled listings so students from low income families can get the tools they need to be ready for anything. Comcast supports span as a public service, along with these other television providers, even you a front row seat to democracy. Giving you a front row seat to democracy. Up next, academics and policy advocates discuss environmental policy and weather conditions have progressed over the last few decades. From the American Enterprise institute this is just under 90 minutes. Good morning. Im the director of domestic policy at the American Enterprise institute and its my pleasure to welcome you all to this event, 30 years of environmental progress, is it time at last to be optimistic in optimistic . In 1968 a book was published called the population bomb. The book repurposed the ideas of 18th century economist thomas malus to argue that population growth would soon outpace agricultural growth leading to widespread famine and other social and ecologica
Questions are good a lot going on all right the markets are crazy, becky what was that, 350 on friday, when it was all said and done. And strongly higher again this morning. Almost 200 and also well, well take a quick look heres a check on the markets u. S. Equity futures at this hour are, as you can see, 193 points indicated on the dow the nasdaq up another 25 the nasdaq shb dhad been diverg last week. Thats a big move that we saw, continuing buying, going on, across the board in this country. And actually in asia and europe, overnight, some strong Market Action and some interesting news in the tenyear note as well. But as you can see, the nikkei was one more than 1 point 260 points hang seng up sharply as well check out europe, green across the board, in europe, when i watched, at least looked this morning. Not the gains that were seeing here or in asia. But well see what happens this week as we move forward. Its only 6 01 and treasury yields moderating on the tenyear, which that you
Real threat to peace. Glass container filled with thousands of weapon used by farc was removed today from a rebel camp. Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos personally oversaw the closing as a left of the camp. It is the final stage of the disarmament that began in july and was overseen by the united nations. It was one of the provisions of the Peace Agreement signed with the colombian government. The richest person in the world has made his largest donation since the year 2000. Bill gates donated microsoft billion ed at 4. 6 about 5 of his fortune. No word on who received the gift. Gates has made most of the donations to the bill and Melinda Gates foundation, which he and his wife use for their philanthropic efforts. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I am mark crumpton. This is bloomberg. Abigail live from World Records in york, im abigail doolittle. Scarlet im scarlet fu. Joe im joe weisenthal. Julia is off today. A
Giant. Plus, courtroom grilling the Trump Administration defending its use of executive power and the travel ban before a federal Appeals Court. Social medias in focus. Facebook and twitter getting some upgrades ahead of earnings tomorrow. First up though, a bunch of earnings to get to, time warner a beat on both the top and bottom line. Alaska air also beating the street announcing an increase in the Quarterly Dividend ahead of the meeting with airline ceos at the white house tomorrow. Big report focused on is disney, revenue falls short of consensus, rising costs as we said, declining viewership at espn weighing on the results. Here is bob iger last night talking to our Julia Boorstin. I think theres way too much pessimism about espn because espn is still in demand from three constituents you want to be in demand the most from, one, distributors, two, consumers, and three, advertisers. And the reason its in demand is the brand is still strong, the product is still good. Weve invested
Equities trading, just under 30 minutes into the end of the friday session. 600 gainingg, stoxx for the fourth day, best run since december the ninth on trumps promise business stock overhaul. All currencies falling against the dollar. It is the losing run after six weeks of decline set to come to an end. Looks like it is. That is the bloomberg dollar spot index. Yields rising in portugal, italy and ireland. The 10 year is lower commodity than sovereign. Loreal in the news. We spoke to the chairman, fourthquarter sales missed estimates, rising eight point 4 , boosted by 6. 2 Revenue Growth in north america and increasing appetite for its brand,c higher and separately, it may dispose of the body shop division, potentially pulling the plug on years of a failed turnaround of the u. K. Cosmetic brand that spearheaded the trend in environmentally minded products before losing out to rivals. Shares in the last 12 months up 12 . Ughly today, a big u. K. Restaurant food delivery service. Numbe