I must admit. Im eager to get back to traveling again i was sick of it before the pandemic and now i cant get out of california. How are you quick. Pretty good were all doing what we can but even that contagion it really didnt capture the full scope. My first question about the book is apocalypse never its a very definitive statement and it implies a certainty in the world that is interlaced and that is largely unpredictable that complex systems are you confident apocalypse never and of course that depends on your definition of apocalypse. Yes. Thank you i argue in the book its not the end of the world even not the most serious environmental problem environmental activist as for 30 years what im trying to do here is like a cancer doctor a bunch of people say everybody will die of cancer in ten years and then say wait a second i dont like to see that level of exaggeration or extremism or alarmism are there scenarios you can imagine Climate Change destroying human civilization . Sure. Th
Taking new steps to address income and equality and Environmental Issues and apples tarring 2 trillion stock getting a downgrade to fight through that record valuation. This is Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc good morning, good afternoon, good evening im Brian Sullivan you are watching cnbc. Futures are flat should pick up the next couple of hours well call it flat groundhog day for stocks on wednesday. Another day, another record. Six Straight Days of gains they went above 11,000 for the first time ever. Not to be outdone, your first session in a row this could be your rbi we have 17 s p 500 stocks up 50 this year. Lots have done that. This is up 50 on the year the single best performing stock is dexcom, a wearable device to track glucose. That stock has nearly doubled year to date lets get you trade to the top stories from the show that just ended moments ago. Amazing how quickly you do the turn around. Anything to make it on to wex. Looking at sterling. Rallied to a fivemonth high v
The pound is leading the way across the u. S. Dollar. Thes up about 0. 7 against dollar. It is time now for the global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. Lets start by going over to hong kong, bracing for more this option after christmas protests led to clashes between demonstrators and riot police. Igh joins us on the telephone. Give us a sense of what is in store. It sounds like theres more planned for friday and going into the new year. Karen theres protests planned for this evening in an area of the city that has seen some of the worst protests over the past six months, and again over the weekend in an area near the chinese border. All of this is leading up to a day, rally on new years led by organizers that have led some of the biggest protests since this began. The level of anger we are going to be seeing at the clashes willen protesters escalate, and we are looking for what this
Next a discussion with political strategists and call policy officials on immigration policy and 20 20 election. We talked about her recent bowl and the possibility of political compromise. The Bipartisan Policy Center hosted this event. Thank you for coming out, welcome to the Bipartisan Policy Center and thank you very much for joining us for our conversation on immigration and the 2020 election before we get started we are Live Streaming this event andvideo of the event will be available on our website after were done. Therefore when it comes to q and a we will ask that you wait for the microphone so people who arguing us on their computers or phones or whatever can understand the questions. We invite you to along with us in the events using a tag that you see life. We will see some staff that will be treating the event as well. And just to do a little bit of the scene center and teresa brown director of immigration and policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center and we have been working
Departmentstice launches its own facebook probe as the social network is the focus of a federal trade commission investigation. Story,st to our top peloton falling 9. 5 percent after raising more than 1 billion in its u. S. Ipo. It is the latest unprofitable startup to struggle in its trading debut, but the ceo john foley remains upbeat about pelotons future. He spoke with jason kelly at the nasdaq. We are playing the long game. Millionsis as building and millions of subscribers around the globe in the coming years. Now we have the money to do that. After fully funded todays primary, so we are feeling confident. When you think about the last couple of days and weeks, you mentioned the market. It is a tricky ipo market, to say the least. Do you have a sense of where the miscalculation was . Fundraiser a eigth fundraiser. There are people who believe, and those who dont. Those who have invested in peloton, they have been very, they will invest in us. You mention fully funded. What will y