joining us for more is director of consumer protection andrew smith.ell us more about this order and what your expectations are in terms of what you'll learn. >> thank you, david, for having me on the program. so we do these orders to file special reports pretty frequently for example, every year we issue an order like this to tobacco companies to get information about their advertising span here what we're doing is issuing this order to relatively diverse array of companies that cover a lot of ground. companies like youtube and facebook and i think that we're trying to gather information about how these companies collect, use, share data, the kinds of choices they offer, how do they determine which ads to serve up how do they determine which content to serve up. how do they use data analytics and apply those to personal information and measure, promote, research user engagement and how do these practices affect kids and teenagers. >> i think there are many people who would be interested in learning many of those things you just mentioned what has the

andrew smith and phil flynn. andrew, many stocks completely defied the odds of horrible headlines all throughout the last nine months of the pandemic so short sellers have been squeezed. what are you seeing in the short space? >> that's exactly right. it's been a capitulation of shorts as of late. in fact, one of goldman sachs' data points over the last 20 years shows it is a low record level set for the amount of short interest as a percentage of flow for the s&p 500. it's not just the overall index. we have seen the gig sectors, all of them except for energy have hit these record lows in the amount of short interest. so it's really across the board, short sellers had a hard time, especially with the fed liquidity injections that have really sent this market higher. everyone is throwing in the towel and saying we will take the other side and close the short book. it's definitely manifest within the market. energy is the only one that has not caught up to that trade. liz: oh, phil, timing is an interesting thing,

before that though, the market advisorsrom capital andrew smith, he says we are in the early inningsrecovery as we watch markets very closely. we are seeing broad upside across asia, the nikkei up .5%, kospi also at record highs, japanese yen in a tight trading range. that is it for "daybreak asia." weket coverage continues as look for the start of trading in shanghai, hong kong and shenzhen . this is bloomberg. ♪ a.m.it is 9:00 welcome to "bloomberg markets: china open." >> we are counting down to the open of trade. reveal angulators investigation into

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have to leave the conversation there thank you so much to all of our guests matthew smith yes i mean a lot and tom andrews and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story from emergency room in the whole team here by phone now. the. american people have finally spoke in america as i see it one america is off balance or will become more dangerous the world is looking at us mixture of sadness . with the election behind us will the republican party dump truck fuel weekly take on us politics and society that's the bottom line 'd. after a long night a riot going a year leaders agree to a much more ambitious a mission is caught 55 percent by the end of the decades. ago that laura kyle this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a u.s. government panel endorses the use of buys as coronavirus vaccine another big step towards a mass an occupation campaign. i'm

corporation ceo ursula burns, vista equity partners founder robert smith, and hip-hop artist, entrepreneur and social mike" render.er andrew: welcome back to "deal book." we have a very special and important conversation to be had this afternoon, and i am thrilled to have the privilege to spend some time with our following guests. my goal with this next conversation, and i want to be very clear, is to discuss some real concrete steps that this , audience that is with us, the

corporation ceo ursula burns, vista equity partners founder robert smith, and hip-hop artist, entrepreneur and social mike" render.er andrew: welcome back to "deal book." we have a very special and important conversation to be had this afternoon, and i am thrilled to have the privilege to spend some time with our following guests. my goal with this next conversation, and i want to be very clear, is to discuss some real concrete steps that this , audience that is with us, the tens of thousands who are with us, and corporate america, what -- and corporate america can take to create some lasting change and benefit for minorities in this country and close the inequality gap in the boardroom, and in people's paychecks. ursula burns is here. i should tell you she was the first and only black female ceo of a fortune 500 company when she ran xerox. today, she is on uber's board, she is a senior advisor to another company and i've had the , honor and pleasure to have known her for quite some time. we've had some very important discussions over that time. also with us, robert smith, founder, chairman and ceo of vista equity partners

smith, thank you. vaccine distribution begins at the same time stricter lockdowns got here faster. new york governor andrew shutting down indoor dining today. joining us for the impact on is melissa autilio fleischut, new york restaurant association ceo. this is going to be disastrous for restaurants. the markets looking at stimulus, perhaps from d.c. what is the dollar amount that each restaurant is going to need to stay open and ok for the next three months? overall look for the restaurant industry is $120 millionween and $240 billion to putting on the estimate. that is legislation we support. the national restaurant association said it could be as high as 20 40 billion to get us through the pandemic. alix: do your -- guy: do your partners to about liability coverage? how do they feel about stimulus being held up to protect that liability? melissa: it is something they are concerned about, but right now the larger concern is that their employees are getting furloughed and laid off again. this is the second time, right before the holidays, as unemployment assistance is about to fall off the cliff as they

. >> reporter: good morning, andrew the end of february, the end of march, that is what secretary alex azar told shepard smithgeneral population will start to get access to the covid-19 vaccines. that's dependent on a number of things going right first, can we vaccinate hundreds of millions of americans in this record time? that's a key question. the second of course is supply the u.s. government has currently purchased 300 million doses from moderna and from pfizer the two vaccines that have proven to work 200 million from moderna, 100 million from pfizer and 200 million of those, 100 million from moderna and pfizer in the first quarter. the second 100 million get delivered in the second quarter by june. the government is working on striking a deal with pfizer for another 100 million doses but there is some tension happening that has become apparent this week really through our interview on monday with pfizer ceo and shep's interview with secretary azar could they use or why haven't they used the defense production act to help pfizer get access to the supplies take a listen to both of those gentlemen this we

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have to leave the conversation there thank you so much to all of our guests matthew smith yes i mean a lot and tom andrews and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story for me mohammed i'm going the whole team here by phone. the latest news while not all of those this plays out with this be a fact others recount they say this there was a very fun time many members and relatives were enough to make them come here rather than think back to detail coverage of the challenge the government faces is a way that you can persuade people to keep providing by restrictions when they need to work with you to fans from around the world the so-called swedish model might be under some pressure of let's a full lockdown is unlikely on perhaps even impossible. i was raised in france. these are my grandparents. these are my parents and this is mean. fighting both isis and us