the cto will be speaking to us next. bloomberg. ♪ caroline: softbank group has sold japan's biggest-ever local corporate bond. the company tapped individual investors for $4.5 billion. the ceo is turning softbank into a fully fledged investment conglomerate. he has been cutting leverage. that has not impressed rating firms. they view softbank bonds as junk. nintendo is making a push into virtual reality with a new v.r. for the switch. it will retail for about $40 and -- $80 and be compatible with games like zelda and super mario. our asia tech reporter yuji nakamura tells us how it stands out from sony or facebook. yuji: we are here in tokyo. nintendo's v.r. just came out. i have my hands on one of the first. nintendo is coming to the market about three years late, so their approach is let's make v.r. very affordable. this starts at about $40. the way they have gone about it is it is made out of cardboard mostly. for $40, it gets you the headset. you slide this into it and you can play a basic assortment of games. in two

. >> the child health concerns that have some families cto rove school campus. >>> new trouble for tesla as the ceo squares off with the feds. show on high defidespread, heavy rain, with a powerful storm system. we'll time it out for you on futurecast coming up in a few minutes. . >>> they're working to shut down a cell phone tower after some parents say it may be linked to childhood cancer. families at weston elementary school in rippon claim the tower could have exposed their kids to harmful radiation. carter evans spoke to the families. >> my son missed growing up with his friends. my son lost all of his hair. >> reporter: kelly prime's son, kyle, was just 10 years old when he was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2016. five months later, kyle's friend and class mate, mason, developed brain cancer. >> 14 hours to get the tumor out and he had five weeks of inpatient rehabilitation. had to learn to walk, talk, eat, everything all over again. >> reporteoliahis year. >> at what point are you saying we have to take a close look at the school here? >> reporter: the moment i found out that mas

the cto sold 40% of the stock. while the founder ceo zuckerberg hasn't sold much if anything, the c.o.o. and cto have sold -- one other thing. we are also seeing people leaving the organization, creating new companies like pinterest. pinterest founders were from google and facebook. that happened to microsoft 20 years ago. people are peeling out of these great entrepreneurial companies. that tells me it's the beginning of an end of a great company like that. stuart: okay. good time for amazon. >> i'm hoping for a big pop today. stuart: thank you. okay. joel, you're all right. thanks very much, sir. >>> check futures again, please. down about 113 on the dow. all of that loss accounted for by 3m. look at the nasdaq. up about 20 points. >>> president trump's disgraced lawyer michael cohen is walking back parts of his guilty plea. judge napolitano will be with us. he's not surprised about that. >>> update on a story we brought you a few weeks ago. amazon employees listening in to your conversations with alexa. now we a

we brought in last year a new cto, chief technology officer, who is migrating all our systems into the cloud, and ideally we can have a sfers-dedicated ecosystem into the cloud, where you guys can upload all your return streams and then utilize, you know, the analytics tools in a more efficient and powerful way. this is something that's coming, and we'll be very happy to help with. and then lastly, you know, one focus would be to ensure that there are consistent guidelines between one and two, so that as we manage one portfolio, it's more seamless and also allow for the ability to participate in some longer dated opportunities. liquidity provision and strategies like mortgages and structured credit that would require some relaxation of some of the constraints. so one thing to focus -- to consider, is maybe the board should consider harmonizing some of the guidelines on leverage, potentially even increasing those guidelines and relaxing some of the guidelines on liquidity. >> president stansbury: some of the takeaways here is the programs are a little more than twice as much or right at

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