>> coming up on "bloomberg best ," stories that shaped the week around the world. brexit plans move forward despite chaos in the cabinet. >> she is facing a life or death moment within the conservative party. astrade tensions ratchet up u.s. and u.k. tussle over tariffs. earnings season rolls in with some of the big banks reporting results. jpmorgan came out with strong results, nothing missed. opec issues and a output outlook. canada's central bank this -- announces a rate hike.

fox stepping up the bidding for sky. >> it could go higher from here. scarlet: experts share their analysis of the global economy. changing policy, there will be stress on spreads. if we lose those animal spirits, we have an issue. scarlet: heavy hitters in tech and media weigh-in from media valley. it is not yet finished. >> it is disruptive at some level, but positive. everything.d amazon is changing everything, facebook and google. scarlet: it is all straight ahead on "bloomberg best." welcome. i am scarlet fu. ," your "bloomberg best

review of the analysis and interviews from bloomberg television around the world. after a marathon meeting last week, theresa may announced her cabinet was finally united behind a plan for britain's divorce from the european union, but the solidarity didn't last through the weekend. the u.k. brexit secretary david davis and his deputy have quit, plunging theresa may into a crisis. the resignations come two days after the prime minister announced she had secured a cabinet backing for a plan to keep close ties with the european union after brexit, which a bloomberg source says davis could not support. is this a crisis or not? inprobably the worst crisis the last year since the last general election and a lot depends on the next few hours. the attention focuses on what will pre-brexit lawmakers do with this?

>> turmoil in the british government as boris johnson has resigned. it heightens the chance of a leadership challenge to prime minister may. >> we do not agree on the best way of delivering our shared commitment. -- similarly, to recognize the passion that the former secretary demonstrated in promoting -- in promoting. >> i think she thought she had a convincing script put in front of people. now, she faces different dynamics and like the whole of brexit where you have to play to 10 different galleries at the same time, what has happened now death is facing a life or moment within the conservative party and that will probably concentrate her mind on that and that may be the single thing that boris johnson and david davis wanted to achieve.

judge brettappeal kavanaugh's president trump's choice to succeed anthony kennedy on the supreme court, announced from the white house last night. well-knowne is within the beltway and has a stellar career. >> extremely well credentialed . has beenforte administrative law, looking at federal statutes, deciding whether administrative agencies have gone beyond their power under regulation. voted to strike down environmental regulations, voted to limit internet regulations and net neutrality rule from president obama's era, and has said the director of the consumer financial protection bureau should be fayetteville for any reason by the president, giving the president more control over those agencies. hashe trump administration

pushed ahead with plans to impose tariffs on an additional $200 billion in chinese products by releasing a list of targets. this is an escalation of the trade were between the world's two largest economies. >> the details are this is a list of about 200 items. we are talking about a 10% duty being proposed on $200 billion worth of chinese goods ranging from electronics to tech, clothing, leather goods. this is for the u.s. side about ip theft and forced transfer. they said they are willing to talk to the chinese, but they are focused on trying to change the behavior of china when it comes to technology transfers and what they see as intellectual property threat -- that and this is punishment for that. >> he give us a sense of the reaction from china. >> pretty strident. totally unacceptable and they accuse the u.s. of bullying and

promise to retaliate, as they always have promised throughout the dispute. trump's meeting in brussels this hour with leaders of the other nato countries. things got off to a testy start with a confrontation with the nato general on the issue of race -- russian oil. meeting, hein the is tweeting about soybeans and how american farmers are up against terrible trade barriers with the rest of the world. he is not forgetting his base at home while here in europe. >> the whole issue of nato, defense spending has been a long-standing one between the u.s. and nato, but trump is turning up the pressure and has singled out germany, the economic powerhouse in the nato alliance. scenessaying behind the that the private meetings are a little more calm, but on the surface, there is quite a bit of dissent. therude oil is plunging

most in almost a year. the commodity, falling midway through today's session. oil helped drive the bloomberg commodity index to its worst day in three years. what happened? >> the biggest thing was the tariffs and trade concerns. concern about the economy and if there is a weaker economy, you have less demand. the concern is wider repercussions and if you have a hurts trade war, it economic growth all over the place. it is not just in the u.s. or china. we import almost no chart -- oil from china. it is a broader economic impact people are worried about. >> the nato summit in brussels wrapped up and president trump reiterated the u.s. commitment to nato. and have aery happy very powerful, very strong nato, much stronger than it was two days ago. counting it a complete

victory, saying he extracted a confirm -- firm commitment to reach 2% quicker than the 2024 deadline. increaseountries will by 33 billion dollars and even more will come, he says. he is looking forward to a 4% target in the future. you have the controversy over brexit, theresa may announcing the plan to keep the u.k. closely tied to the eu single market with the free trade area for goods and services like banks could be cut loose. we had three pages before, 98 pages today. fill in the gaps. nothing has particularly shifted from the highlights we got at the end of last week. it is the big items you mentioned, the free trade area comprising the u.k. and europe for goods, services, divergence, services including banks and telecom services, legal, that

the u.k. construct its own trade deals around the world. blowhas said it is a big that will make it hard for banks in the city to do business a crop -- across europe. what does europe think about this? the ball really is in the court of the european commission. donald trump has dealt a double blow to the prime minister theresa may on his first day of the visit. -- comment from brexit comments on brexit are dominating the pages, meanwhile, protests are expected across britain as he visits. he says we may not get a trade deal because of the kind of brexit they go for. is it just a comment? think he has at particularly strong grasp of soft brexit versus hard brexit, but he likes to put the foreign leaders he deals with on edge a

little when he meets with them. tactic, i broad suppose, when he goes into meetings like this to make them a little uncomfortable. >> i don't know what they are going to do, but whatever you do is ok with me. whatever you are going to do is ok with us. just make sure we can trade together. that is all that matters. kicking off bank earnings with a strong report. citigroup and wells fargo dealing with weaker second-quarter earnings. >> jpmorgan came out with strong results. missed, saying nothing with the exception of one or two small items. >> citigroup were someone who did not have a great quarter. .ixed-income trading was lower they are talking a lot about not being such great movement on spread product. really having a good quarter. broad-based weakness, even worse

than already low expectations. by one third,ling fees dropping their. deposits are trending down, commercial real estate wells fargo in the u.s. is falling. consumer loans are lower. scarlet: still ahead as we review the week on "bloomberg former treasury secretary jack lewis explains why he is worried about current u.s. fiscal policy. plus, tech and media titans speak their lines at media valley. plus, promotions at morgan stanley set the stage for ceo succession. >> there has been elevation. it was well orchestrated. scarlet: this is bloomberg. ♪

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." ."is is "bloomberg best i am scarlet fu. we head to asia. >> trading debut, not the best at opening day. investors questioning the valuation of the company and if it can involve itself into a software services company. >> we have reversed losses, but not trading above the ipo price. >> we are expecting a weaker open and the pessimism that was surrounding this and also the investor concerns that this is a company that has a lower margin handset maker now. it is kind of selling a dream and facing the reality today. >> they are in use a she's. -- species. we can do hardware and internet

well. 's debut was a day to forget. falling in hong kong as an escalating trade war and uncertainty about valuation damaged the biggest offering in two years. this isn't great timing for the markets if you look at china and hong kong, both markets are down and there are a lot of jitters about the trade war. >> investors changed their mind about xiaomi a day after its debut cared shares rose by double digits. after monday's closed, it was announced that xiaomi would join the hang seng composite later this month. >> tesla announced plans for a factory in china. the goal, to build 500,000 vehicles a year in that factory within two to three years. that is the goal. would it be easier to make that goal in china? would laugh, they

learned about the problems they had ramping up for model pre--- model three. they will start fresh with producing the model three there, hopefully learning from that but also the model y, in important vehicle for them. it is the crossover equivalent of the model three. it will be a cheaper crossover, priced below the model x and it is important for them to have the local manufacturing in china in order to have those vehicles priced more competitively. >> 21st century fox has increased its cash offer for skype to 14 pounds a share. it is an increase of around 12% on a rival bid from comcast. will comcast come back or are we at the end of that story? >> sky investors expect comcast to come back. , the market thinks this contest isn't over and comcast will come back and the price be pushed back higher. manus: comcast will have to want

to take on debt if they want to counter this bid, don't they? >> exactly, and this is where the two battles come into play. the wider battle between comcast and disney for fox, which could be pushed ever higher. coulde other context imply bidding higher for skype. big decisions will have to be made in prioritization and targeting cash. guy: comcast has raised its takeover bid for sky to 26 billion pounds. -- 14.20ering 14.20% pounds per share. how deep are murdoch's pockets? >> it is more of a question of how deep are busy days -- disney's pockets? they have to get approval from disney every time they increase the offer. guy: how deep are disney's pockets? is a well-capitalized

company. it definitely could go higher from here. >> twitters efforts to weed out fake accounts are taking a toll on shares. the stock, falling almost most by march after a "the washington post" report of account suspensions has more than doubled since 2017. this amounts to a delayed overreaction to twitters disclosures. they have been finding three times the amount of spam and automated accounts per week. that number has risen to 10 million. all of this is part of their ongoing efforts to root out manipulation. they have been under fire from congress for allowing fake and automated accounts to run rampant on its platform. reading of these accounts did not have much of an impact on monthly active users and their disclosure numbers its most accounts are dormant and aren't regular tweeters. that said, it is important to delete these accounts because many of the accounts we saw

active during the 2016 campaign were long dormant accounts activated at key moments to cause manipulation and change the conversation on the platform. morgan stanley's ceo has indicated he plans to stay on several more years. he is removing senior executives to groom his successor. what caught your eye? >> what caught my eye is tetra pick,a 49-year-old -- ted a rising star, helping it surpass goldman sachs in stock trading and then he moved over to run bond trading and is now running all of banking and trading operations. we have -- who is taking a greater control of international operations. he has been a long time in london, overseeing operations and cohead of investment bank. .t was all well orchestrated

a lot of people were brought up at the same time today, so a lot of people should be happy in times square. with --o coming out that had an effect on the rest of the sector. it got a bid from its food. ofhelped an overall beat bottom line estimates. beverage sales, still struggling. down for a fourth straight quarter in north america. away fromle turning soda and coke finding their stride a little. heavily tethered to the soda business. they have been spending a time on advertising, but pepsi is falling into the second-place role there and having a harder time turning that business around. but thank goodness for frito-lay. itslackstone plans to raise global private equity fund three years after gathering $18 billion from investors for its last --

what does this say about where blackstone sees the credit cycle and business cycle? toit seems there still seems be a hearty appetite for private equity and alternative assets. blackstone had the record back laste day, $21.7 billion year. we will see if blackstone tries to get more than that. they are aiming morph -- for more than $20 billion. >> guggenheim, striking a deal to bolster its restructuring and liability management practices. the financial terms were not disclosed, but it was announced as cofounder will join cochairman of guggenheim securities. talk us through how this fits in with your view that we should be preparing for a downturn in the economy, a recession could be forthcoming next year or in 2020? >> in our firm, it helps

diversify the mix on the security side. we are representing disney in the acquisition of fox. we have a lot of great m&a capability, but what happens if i am right and we ultimately do have a recession, and emmett a false off -- m&a falls off? being able to do the restructuring that jim has made a name for is a great way to enhance our business and reduce the cyclicality. ♪

scarlet: you are watching "bloomberg best." i am scarlet fu. as if trade tensions weren't making investors anxious enough, the yield curve is under close watch as it continues to flatten, which has historically signaled the approach of recession. jack lewis spoke exclusively

with bloomberg markets, asia about the risks he sees ahead. jack: historically, the yield curve has been a very stable predictor. it has accurately predicted almost every downturn and i don't believe it has had more than one false positive in terms of predicting a recession when there wasn't one. if you saw an inverted yield curve, you would see people getting quite nervous now. when becauseoment of changing policies, there is going to be stress on spreads and it may not be a normal time in terms of the yield curve being the leading indicator, but i do think it warrants careful attention. it doesn't show a lot of confidence in the long-term when you don't see long-term rates starting to creep up when short-term rates are being forced up by changes in monetary policy. of reasonere is a lot

to be nervous about the economy. obviously, we are in the 90 or of a recovery and will probably break a record. >> it is actually one of the longest. jack: i am proud the first seven years of it were on our watch. we did a lot to drive this recovery and i hope it goes on. it has toe any reason be stopped in its tracks. i look at the policies being put in place and they are not friendly to continuing a long-term growth period. >> such as what? jack: i think trade policies are besing uncertainty that will reflected in investment decisions, and it is going to put a drag on the economy in terms of higher prices and less open markets. policies, which while they were cheered by the business community, is a little bit like pouring kerosene on a fire. there is a flare when you pour the kerosene but it works off. the afterburn of the tax cut will be trillions of dollars of debt. trillions of dollars of debt,

and that will be a burden on the economy, as we are getting to the end of the economic cycle. had an economic downturn that we don't have the fiscal arsenal that we should have to respond. you would want the federal government to be able to jump in 2008 and put a lot of fiscal measures into the economy to get it going. adding literally $2 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years, it is going to put a lot of stress. i think it is going to be a problem driving interest rates up. it is going to have a drag effect on the economy and in the downturn, it is going to be harder to respond. scarlet: coming up on "bloomberg best," more compelling conversations, including insight from philadelphia's fed president and ecb executive board member. and media moguls shared some of their thoughts. >> what we need to do is combine

and connect the data, technology. scarlet: this is bloomberg. ♪

♪ : this is ">>-- >> global leaders in technology and media converge this week. bloomberg television was also there for in-depth conversation on the industry landscape and the larger economic picture. let's start with at him and's interview with maurice leavy. a traditional advertising industry headed toward the secular meltdown we saw in the retail industry? >> i think what we see, maybe even more, because there is such huge changes, starting with the

consumers. you have to start with the consumer, because at the end of the day, everything we do is for the consumers. theirou look at how attitude, what they are doing on the internet, the fact that they have always their mobile phone with them, these have changed dramatically. searching information, communication, etc. this has changed dramatically in the industry and it is not yet finished. what we need to do is to combine , which is notta that easy because of the culture of the people who are very different. and also the fact that we need to invest massively to transform the industry. ♪ >> you have some really interesting people here this

year. jeff bezos, warren buffett. potentially the two people who were doing the most to disrupt your industry and the industry more generally. >> well, i won't talk about things at the conference. what they are doing is disrupting. we need to look at how things are done, and they have a total lives,illion and a half which is not a huge number, but it's an opportunity to explore other ways to do things. we need to be supportive of that. i just see it as an opportunity. >> so disruption is a force for good in the health care industry. >> it could be, yes. ♪ is the media industry to focus on contact and not enough on -- on content and not enough on distribution? >> you can't have one without the other. both of those things are really important. at&t and time warner is this

combination of content and distribution, and whether that deal is a good one or works out, i don't know. i think bringing in competition to the big internet players to the extent that it lets them be with the big internet players, that lets them be with everybody. >> do you think that is the real threat to the industry? >> yeah, absolutely. netflix changed everything. amazon is changing everything. facebook and google, those are massive threats to those businesses. >> in which case, we can look at the scaling up that's going on, the attempted scaling up on the part of comcast, as being a defensive measure, prophylactic against the netflix onslaught, or whatever is coming on. is scale alone going to be enough to protect them from that? >> i do think scale helps, budded onto be product. one of the things that could come out of this, that i think will come out of this

comcast-disney-fox thing, is one controlling shareholder of hulu, whoever the winner is, what content they put onto hulu could be interesting. if they put all the content on hulu and try it out, that asset has a real offense against those things. there's all kinds of ways this could be interesting. ♪ >> on bloomberg television throughout the week, we have had plenty to say about trade, monetary policy, and the state of markets around the world. let's revisit some of the most interesting conversations. caroline connan spoke exclusively with ecb executive board member them operate. she asked how a trade war will affect the central bank's policy in the eurozone's economy. ♪ is veryr, the backdrop strong growth in the eurozone, meaning that so far what we have

seen has the potential to end the recovery. >> can the ecb just sit back and watch this trade war happening? >> well, we're never sitting back and watching. we have to understand what's going on. but so far we believe the course is wit strong enough. >> have you already seen some companies holding back investment because of these protectionist policies? >> that may happen. we're not complacent on the possible risks. of trade war would be extremely bad for the world economy. u.s.irst victim would be jobs, u.s. workers, and we hope that doesn't happen. >> the ecb plans to execute me by the end of the year. look at derail the plan? >> that is clearly our anticipation, but with that said, as with everything we do,

mid-july, we could change. ♪ >> with a growth rate of 3% or better in this quarter, the most recent quarter and this quarter as well, does that change your view of how many interest rate moves you need to make? >> it beginning of the year, i had put in three for this year and three for next year. but i not moved off that, am open to a fourth increase this year if we see inflation start to accelerate. >> let's talk about some of the wrist. we were talking about trade war's. what we have is seen so far is serious part of the economy? >> i think what we have seen so far, and with the presenters in the last session of the have discussed, is we have seen concern, but the overall issue right now is not going to affect

the economy in a significant way, absent one fact. the actual numbers, if you run the numbers, the percentage of gdp as described in the last session, is not a big number. however, it effects confidence. then i worried. -- i'm worried. firms, small and medium firms, who are looking at making investments are now saying at least through survey work it interviews, we may hold off on these and see how things shake up. if enough of that happens, if we lose that animal spirit, then i think we have an issue. is a self filling process. is everybody -- it is a self-fulfilling prophecy. it's going to have a larger impact. ♪ >> we have a lot of fiscal policy, a lot of fiscal stimulus. is that a good thing at the time

-- at a time when the economy is growing at a strong pace? >> i'm ecstatic about the return of fiscal policy as an active tool of micromanagement. the calming of it was miserably. -- miserable. we should have had fiscal policy, expansionary, early. politicalictly a decision on the part of the trump administration to go in. i don't think it makes sense to do it that way. a grandit is giving us experiment in running a hot economy. janet yellen talked about the benefits of running a hot economy. we're running a hot economy on the back of fiscal policy. but i'm not against it. but the big thing for me is that fiscal policy be ready, politically as well as economically, be used in the next economic downturn.

as i look out longer-term, the biggest risk i see to the fabric of our democracy is if we have to fight the next recession with monetary policy alone, because the consequences of having done this last time are not good. it has polarized our society. ♪ minor, the cio of guggenheim's investment division, says he believes the next recession is coming within the two years. is that what your time is? >> i think it could be sooner. what you see the fed doing now is tightening monetary conditions, and in the postwar , the stat is something like six out of the last eight tightening cycles have been followed within the 18 months of a recession and lowdown, because money supply is constrained, it has an impact on the real economy. moreover, i think the uncertainty created by the issident's tariff initiative

likely to reduce business investment, increase costs to consumers and producers in the united states, and reduce the sales opportunities for u.s. producers. you're already seeing that, the harley move is a response to the possibility of increasing tariff wars, tariff levels both here and in europe. uncertaintyt, the this tariff as a tool of trade negotiations creates for businesses, and the increasing costs for consumers, is likely to slow down in demand. ♪

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best," i'm scarlet fu. let's resume the roundup of the week's top business stories with a focus on politics and policy. turkish stocks continued to ride coaster amid a slew of changes following the reelection of president erdogan. ♪ >> executive president erdogan has issued a decree naming him head of the central bank and deputy governor, the latest change signaling his plans to follow through on a pledge to tighten his grip on monetary policy under the new executive presidency. we have also seen his son-in-law named as economy czar. can can you walk me through how the changes work? what authority does he have? >> previously the appointment of the central bank, even though erdogan was the supreme decision-maker, he would advise and assent. it was made in consultation with the president -- sorry, the

prime minister, the deputy prime minister, been signed on by the cabinet. nnow it is jus erdogan, he does that have to get any compromise or advice. ♪ >> u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo is fired back on the north statement calling the american disarmament demand "gangster like." >> if those requests were gangster like, then the world is a gangster, because it was a unanimous decision of the un security council about what needs to be achieved. >> when pompeo was on his way to pyongyang, we had the impression that the u.s. was going to be asking to get some sort of flesh on the skeleton deal that was made in singapore. is, it seems that the u.s. and north korea are talking past each other. the u.s. is talking about denuclearization, and they don't seem to be talking about peace or the and of the korean war or

north korean security, and those are the things that the north koreans are obsessed with, so this is where this cross talking is taking place. we just need to see how they sorted out. ♪ >> china's foreign currency holdings increased in june for the first time since march. $3.1 trillion. key takeaways? >> earlier than expected increase of about 1.5 billion usd. the foreign-exchange coming out saying they had stable cross-border flows, and the strength of the u.s. dollar was a factor as well in seeing a tick up in the fx reserves. there is this view that as the trade war grinds on, the yuan will come under pressure and policymakers will be resigned to using the fx reserves to support the current. it seems like they have kept their drive and capital controls

remaining firmly in place for now. ♪ >> german chancellor angela merkel meeting with china's prime minister today. they announced a number of agreements with chinese partners, including a plan for basf to open a second chemical complex. >> i think this is a very important milestone for the industry and the market, because wasar until recently, it restricted for a company to own more than 50%. the first two can elaborate this opportunity and we are very happy about this. i think it is a strong sign of trust. >> certainly both china and germany are trying to keep the world trade arrangements that exist now up and running,, but this relationship for china is no replacement for the united states. the china ships nearly six times as much of its exports to the

united states as it does to germany, certainly not a replacement. for germany, the story is slightly different. germany exports almost as much as it does to china as the u.s. this helps cushion any below their, more for germany than china. ♪ >> bloomberg's new energy finance mr. showed a new picture for global energy investment. solar power is falling, but commitments to wind power and energy smart technologies are running above last year. >> it has been an interesting year. typically, $300 billion any year goes to clean energy, and we think when all is said and done, we may end up in the same place, but the ratios have changed. a big part of that is that china is typically the largest market for solar, and right toward the end of the first half of the year, we saw a very important announcement that china is reducing support for solar. that has caused us and others to reduce our forecast. >> meantime, in the u.s. in particular, we have seen an uptick in wind, in part because

wind projects are trying to get out before the step down of an existing substitute. that has been very helpful in terms of the amount that is frontloading investment that otherwise might have been spread out. we also see big announcements from big utilities doing wind at a bigger scale than before. ♪ >> opec released its monthly report, saying there is enough supply among non-opec nations to meet demand. what was your biggest take away? i think it's a reinforcement of the idea that opec has been trying to get a, that there will not be a shortage -- to get out, that there will not be a shortage. pledgingbia and russia to provide as many barrels as the market needs. this, to some extent, reinforces that idea that there is no need to panic, and there's no need to tweak anymore if you happen to be the u.s. president. ♪ >> the bank of canada sticking to its pastor raising rates

, raising benchmarks rates of 1.5%, making it the fourth hike over the past 12 months. the canadian dollar pared sum of its earlier gains against the u.s. dollar. widelyly, we're one presumed option, which is a hike with a reiteration that future hikes will be gradual. the bank is trying to respond to an economy and stronger inflation by moving, but of course trade risks are posing a headwind for them right now. the pace of those hikes, the subsequent hikes, is the real question mark. they look to be gently pumping the brakes. you talk about being data driven, that's another way of saying they are taking trump

rosenstein announcing the indictment of 12 russian spies for the hacking of the 2016 election campaign. the deputy attorney general says the russians went after 5000 voters, and 12 russian spies will be charged in connection. does with this cast a shadow the coach and-trump suck -- the

putin-trump summit? >> this is something people will be talking about through the next couple days, and a related question to that is why did the special counsel bring this indictment? is he sending some sort of message? prosecutors have immense control over when they file charges, which charges they bring, and it is fair to ask whether robert mueller wants to send some sort of message. ♪

♪ if you go on the surt function of the bloomberg, they ahve the best one-day reaction to earnings of 4.8% since fourth quarter of 2007. in february of 2008. it has been a while. >> it has been a long time, is a nice way of putting it. >> go to the bloomberg and use the global commodity function here, grco.

you can see it is a screen of red. the energy complex is lower, agricultural is lower. >> there are some 30,000 functions on the bloomberg, and we always enjoy showing you our favorites on bloomberg television, in the hope they will become your favorite. here's what function you'll find useful, quic go. it will lead you to our quick takes, where you can get important context and fast insight into timely topics. here's a quick take from this week. ♪ >> cyber warfare is a cyber attack that has the backing of one nation with the intent of hurting another. >> it is using a computer, using hacking, to accomplish something you ordinarily need a bomb or a gun to do. >> this takes on a lot of different forms. it could be affecting an any computer, disabling it with the flood of messages, distributed denial of service attack, or with good old-fashioned malware like a virus. >> shedding of the powers a big one. shedding off services to hospitals, transportation networks. shutting down real service,

shutting down port services. >> a number of countries are known to have active cyber warfare programs, but -- >> russia decided to really go on the offense and be noisy, making it known that they have these capabilities and are ready to use them. >> like causing two large-scale power outages in ukraine, were manipulating social media to sway election. >> the thing we have to learn more about is not the cyber warfare, but the information operations. that's what happened in 2016 in the u.s. >> attacks including information operations were sent by the thousands since 2006, and those are just the attacks we know about. >> i think there's a lot that happened with the general public is not aware of. we have no idea. ♪ >> and that was just one of the many quick takes you can find on the bloomberg. you can also find them at bloomberg.com, along with all the latest business news and analysis 24 hours a day.

that does it for "bloomberg best" this week. thank you so much for watching. i'm scarlet fu. this is bloomberg. ♪

♪ emily: i'm emily chang in san francisco, and this is "bloomberg technology." robert mueller indicts 12 russian intelligence officers for hacking offenses related to the 2016 presidential campaign. we go to washington to talk about them in depth. boeing reaches new highs. we show you the company's design for a plane that can fly passengers across the globe in a fraction of the time it takes traditional commercial jets. netflix earnings, the company hit a new milestone with more