i am carol massar. a focus on oak labs. ing room mirror -- >> they came around in 2015 by a former ebay executives, and their idea is that retailers have a lot of issues, and one of them is they have fallen behind the web and the things the web can do. the ease of shopping and choices, so the whole idea is let's bring the best parts of the web into the store, which retailers have been trying to do for a long time but have not been successful. , how dothis new sort of we bring some of that value add from the online presence in stores. no more like there is important question for retail than that right now, how did they bring that into the stores and stay relevant. >> more and more people shop online. that is no secret. the big issue is how do you improve the shopping experience? the reason people don't like to go to the store is you have to wait in line. they may not have your product. interact with people, that is another thing, and there is a lot of advantage to the store. if you can somehow bring the best parts the web int

i am carol massar. oliver: i am oliver renick. we're coming to you from inside the magazine's issue in new york is inside the headquarters of the magazine in new york. carol: all that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: we are with megan murphy of "bloomberg businessweek." you guys take a look at the potential for a china-u.s. trade war and how we should look at it. not as someone stealing our manufacturing jobs, but as china as an economic might. megan: it cuts to the heart of this war of wards over trade with china. it frames it in the proper context. donald trump may be right, saying we need to get tough on china. it is the mechanisms he is talking about and the china he is talking about is the china of old. the china we should be worried about this piece argues coherently and cogently as the china that has identified industries it wants to own as china first. china is about making china great again, tech, manufacturing, industrial. they have identified entire industries that they see developing china number one in produ

i am carol massar. oliver: i am oliver renick. a secret alliance between two old enemies in the middle east. carol: the irs wants a piece of michael jackson. oliver: all that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek". ♪ carol: we are here with editor in chief megan murphy. was welike the thinking heard on the campaign trail was just rhetoric and that is not what we will see in terms of policy, but maybe that is not true and that is whirring businesses. megan: we will see this filter through. person who is saying he will do what he said he would do, but then you are surprised because some of these policies were quite strange, and when you look at a muslim ban or extreme vetting or changing that program , the implementation of that policy is such a marked shift with the obama administration. i think what businesses are convulsing a bit, he said he would do it, was very clear, but now seeing it in practice is surprising a lot of people just in terms of the speed. carol: this is why this is the cover story. there are a lot of issues at play. o

i am carol massar. oliver: i am oliver renick. donald trump's executive order on immigration ban muslims on the basis of religion? carol: that is a question federal judges will have to address. here's reporter paula barrett. >> you look at this immigration ban in your story. if you look at our constitution, is this unconstitutional? >> that is a question for the courts. certainly, organizations like the aclu say it is unconstitutional. four district court judges temporarily blocked parts of the order. they did not get to the constitutional issues, but the constitutional issues will be whether this is violation of equal protection, people are treated the same regardless of origin or religion, due process, whether this whole thing is done up to constitutional muster, and most significant, the first amendment establishment clause, which says the federal government can enact no law which prefers one religion over another religion, and because president trump has spoken in recent months going back to 2015 about keeping muslims out of th

i am carol massar. oliver: i am oliver renick. plus, the algorithm that could help police catch serial killers. carol: a lucrative second career for steve young. oliver: all the ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: we are here with assistant managing editor jim ellis. you guys look at ivanka trump, who seems to be important when it comes to china policy. >> it seems to be strange. normally you would suspect seasoned diplomats is who you would turn to if you wanted to deal with one of our most important of powerful adversaries. instead, right now a lot of the china hands are not in place, and also mr. trump has a different way of pursuing diplomacy, it seems. right now, we have had bad blood between the u.s. and china. the president has said a lot of things that have upset china. in a back channel way, his daughter and her husband have been meeting with china officials. jared kushner has been talking to the chinese ambassador, and there was a very public visit between him and his family to the chinese ambassador to celebrate

i am carol massar. oliver: i am oliver renick. carol: in this week's issue, the ukrainian oligarch wanted on the u.s. bribery charge. oliver: d.c.'s top lawyer has a long road ahead of him. carol: is the chicken industry rigged? oliver: all that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: we are with the editor in chief megan murphy. , you guys look at toshiba, a once mighty company, if you will in japan, but it has come undone. megan: one of japan's crown jewels across electronics, across power, etc., and what is interesting about this story is they had to take this $6 billion write-down based on the business you could describe as something that people don't often associated with the company, and that is building nuclear reactors. across the southern united states, power plants have been beset by problems, not finishing on time, a contractor not well equipped to carry out the building of this. it has really hurt the company. it lost $7 billion of its market cap before this was announced. it is a company in trouble right now. olive

i'm carol massar. oliver: and i'm oliver renick. rol: how one weekend came close to crumbling the foundation that let businesses thrive. >> and a secret alliance between two very old enemies in the middle east. carol: the irs wants a piece of michael jackson. oliver: all that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: we are here with editor-in-chief megan murphy. last week we talked about the business community and donald trump. in davos, you said you thought everyone was behind him. i feel like the thinking was we heard on the campaign trail was just rhetoric and that is not what we will see in terms of policy, but maybe that is not true and that is worrying businesses. megan: we will see this filter through. i was one person who is saying he will do what he said he would do, but then you are surprised because some of these policies were quite strange, and when you look at a muslim ban or extreme vetting or changing that program, the implementation of that policy is such a marked shift with the obama administration. such a marked

i am carol massar.itics and policy section, how the kremlin could be influencing key elections in europe. >> russian state media has been building up these voices in western countries, a network called russia today, then converted to the name "rt" because viewership was not very high, and a news agency called sputnik, the successor of the original soviet press agency. these had networks around the west, the u.s., western europe. rt has an arabic service, glossy tv, internet news services. and for a long time i think that there was a sense that the omelette was spending money on them but they were not having a lot of impact. the kremlin wanted it as a way to get their message out. in these election cycles, the u.s., and now europe with elections this year, the netherlands, france, and germany, there has been an awful lot of attention and their ability to impact. far beyond what their relatively low tv ratings would be. oliver: you open the story with a description of how they are sort of meddling in fren

we are happy to have carol massar with us. carol massar, star of bloomberg television and radio, we are in good hands. carol: great to be here. let's get you going with a look at the trades. dow futures little change -- little change. s&p futures are just down a hair. quiet trade on the equity front. in the european market, half a percent gain on the ftse 100. the dax up about 25 points, good for a gain of about 2/10 of one point. european stocks heading for their longest winning streak in about 18 months. in the currency trade, the euro down 2/10 of 1%. also the yen is up about one quarter of 1%. focusing on trade that secondary testimony of janet yellen. the q&a portion important to watch but the 10 year up just a hair. crude seeing some pressure and some selling. crude at 52.87 a barrel. david: more and more questions about the nature and extent of the dealings of those around president trump and the russians. we turn to kevin cirilli reporting from washington. from the outside it looks like the white house is really on it

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carol massar discussing this right now. carol: scarlet, thank you.o, and you have a special guest in the san francisco studio. , an: the ceo of wealthfront interesting developments in the last week, where you have a pretty significant new products to your business. introduced what we think is a revolutionary new approach to financial planning. if you can say revolutionary and financial planning. cory: it's certainly that. you see this across the world of investing, the concern about what robo advisors mean. you guys are with a new level of vice you haven't had before. -- advice you haven't had before. >> we're trying to deliver everything you could traditionally get from a private wealth manager to the masses. that is one of the things that differentiates us the most. we're trying to serve people who are under 40 years old and canada for the minoans associated with traditional advisors. work -- can'till afford the minimums associated with traditional advisors. how many of the folks investing with you are under 30 years old? and that's what you are ta

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i am carol massar. oliver: i am oliver renick. inside the magazine's headquarters in new york. carol: in this week's issue, the ukrainian oligarch wanted on the u.s. bribery charge. oliver: d.c.'s top lawyer has a long road ahead of him. carol: is the chicken industry rigged? oliver: all that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: we are with the editor in chief of bloomberg businessweek, megan murphy. you guys look at toshiba, a once mighty company, if you will in japan, but it has come undone. megan: one of japan's crown jewels across electronics, across power, etc., and what is

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i am carol massar. oliver: i am oliver renick. at you from inside the magazine's headquarters in new york. carol: in this week's issue, the ukrainian oligarch wanted on the u.s. bribery charge. oliver: d.c.'s top lawyer has a long road ahead of him. carol: is the chicken industry rigged? oliver: all that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: we are with the editor in businessweek,berg megan murphy.

i am carol massar. oliver: i am oliver renick. help police catch serial killers. carol: a lucrative second career for steve young. oliver: all the ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: we are here with assistant managing editor jim ellis. you guys look at ivanka trump, who seems to be important when it comes to china policy. >> it ses

we are happy to have carol massar with us.o, we are in good hands. carol: great to be here. let's get you going with a look at the trades. dow futures little change -- little change. s&p futures are just down a hair. quiet trade on the equity front. in the european market, half a percent gain on the ftse 100. the

after a decline in average deal size is an volume last year, let's go to cory johnson and carol massar. welcome, everybody on bloomberg tv. fromve an analyst bloomberg intelligence taking a look at the importance of snap to the ipo market and what it means for large tech ipos. important for itself and investors what it means something bigger for the ipo market any tech ipo market. >> indeed it is, carol. we looked at the numbers for tech ipos the last five years and what we found is there is a dearth of mega ipos the last couple years. last year we had just one above $1 billion. carol: there was not a lot of stuff happening last year. >> exactly. it is just -- they were able to had nine funding rounds can valued at $22 billion in the private market. i don't know if they can match that in the public market now but they were valued at $22 million. cory: 22 times revenues, roughly. glass-half-empty kind of guy, it is great if the ipo market goes well. if it goes poorly, what does that tell you about the future of ipos in the technology sector? aboutther thing we found the median revenues

amanda: carol massar and cory johnson. catch more interviews on sirius xm, and bloomberg.com.tories in the news right now. wells fargo fire the head of its consumer trade solutions department and three other senior managers as part of the ongoing investigation. the bank is facing calls for tighter scrutiny after was fined $185 million by regulators for allegedly opening more than 2 million retail bank accounts without customer approval. none of the executive's role receive a bonus and will also forfeit their unvested equity awards and vested outstanding options. a federal appeals court upheld a toing that part hedge funds sue. u.s.etwork suite allow the to recapture all the $187 billion in taxpayer money it spent to prevent their collaborations during the global fiscal crisis, and at least $56 billion extra without reducing the treasuries liquidations take in either firm. citing anonymous sources said the family received a takeover offer. in terms of gaining 20% this year, making them the best performer in the index of asset managers. the baltimore-based global asset manager h