Stories. We begin with the elections in taiwan. The president won a landslide majority, seen as a rejection of beijings push for one country, two systems. Joining me from taipei is stephen engle. Walk us through the significance of the vote over the weekend. Stephen it was quite significant. Now that she has that landslide victory and the mandate for another four years, theres three big questions. How will china handle another four years of a thorn in their side, the policies of taiwan and her proindependence minded policies that really resonated with the electorate . More than 8 million votes, a record here in taiwan. The hong kong protests really resonated with the electorate, of ahat led to a rebuffing push for closer economic ties. The question is what is the future of the Opposition Party that got routed . Theyve lost four of the last six president ial elections, and they need a you voice for the longer eat for the younger electorate. Finally, the economy. Tot also propelled tsai
The day. This is sort of translating over into the equity markets as well. The risk off tone continues after a 3 selloff yesterday. We got some of that tension in the last two hours or so, with china saying we violated the agreement given the 10 tariffs. They are vowing to retaliate. We have a read now on the u. S. Consumer. Walmart earnings are coming out. Let me jump over to that. The risk off sentiment continues. David earningspershare was a beat, 1. 27. Their target comps beat estimates, samestore sales. International sales were down a bit 1. 1 ,. A little bit of a leavening there. Also a beat on the revenues. Good numbers here, and it looks like in the premarket, it is up well, that has it down 3 10. My terminal has it up. Taylor i think it is because they are boosting their fullyear growth target. Analysts were hoping for a beat, hoping for them to shrug off some of the trade concerns and tariff concerns and boost that fullyear adjusted earningspershare growth. Indeed, that is wh
All right, this is a shock or block week. But thisa note that suggests that these markets are moving high. Becausehave good reason earnings have been so impressive so far, really big ones dominating the agenda this week. Ish, we are looking at crucial levels when it comes to stocks in hong kong. Rishaad absolutely, looking at what happened with these shares, these Chinese Companies trading in hong kong. We want to bring up gb tv 9440. Investors bid for these underperformers. This is a third of the companies on the hang seng. They are racking up fresh one year the biggest proportions says that 2014 stock bubble. We are seeing some of those cheap banks red hot. These fresh highs are being hit last week. That is what we had at the moment. H, in terms of the other things on the agenda, we have yellens swansong and watching what the fed does. We are just watching what happens as jay powell takes over. The pmi is expected to hold steady. Lets look at markets because we did have u. S. Stocks
And then drive it forward in 2017. Thanks for listening. [applause] i know j stand before you and lunch but i am happy to take any questions for you. Just an opportunity to talk about a book. It is called fixing the future and how canadas government worked together to rescue the canada pension plan. It is an interesting story and the same issue as the Social Security except we ended up with a situation where we doubled the contribution rate and built up the reserve fund and stabilized the contribution rate. It is a fascinating story. You have to figure out the story. I think that is a great point. The way the public and the private sector have come together we have studied this to achieve the policy in canada. Okay. Thank you, everyone. Once again i want to thank ida and the Aspen Institute. [applause] sunday, Hillary Clinton speaks at the mayors conference in indianapolis. We will have live coverage starting at 4 p. M. Eastern. And later, cspans conversation with democratic president
Wednesday night, the mondelez sale was for quote, rebalancing as the position crew outsized come paired to other holdings like valeant that dropped in value. That sparked wild speculation about whether he might have gotten a margin call or something else. I reached out to him this morning for comment and to give him the opportunity to set the record straight on the current state of his firm. Ackman telling me we dont use margin leverage. Never have and never will. Others speculated he might be preparing for a wave of redemptions due to recent declines which he said was not the case. He told me only about 2 of asset which is total more than 11 billion were redeemed at the last opportunity to do just that on february 15th, a time when much of the negative valeant news was widely known but before the recent plunge. He said 83 of his investors that could have redeemed instead rolled their money ahead and remained in the fund. One longterm investor in the firm told me this morning he has no