they said they will expand overseas and according to reuters, didi has said it wants to reuters, didi and also looking to taiwan. it wants to put more money to artificial intelligence, so smart transportation, self driving cars and also wants to build up its electric car network, so very forward network. didi is also an investor, they have money put into us—based lift in brazil, estonia, the middle east. this is a threat to uber‘s global ambitions. uber wants to go public in 2018 but didi has the cash to back all this up. let's stay in the region. china stocks rose on thursday, as investors were inspired by beijing's commitment to maintain steady economic growth next year while deepening structural reforms and curbing financial risks. stocks in asia more generally a little muted — as investors took a step back following recent gains after donald trump's tax reform bill finally passed through congress. equities have rallied this year on expectations the president's promised cuts would fire the already strong economy and those gains increased over the past week — however, with the uncer

. >> daria folsom bay air reporter thought it was hilarious that didy would be interested in owning she began her rant questioning what is it that didy does and known for and pokes fun at health habits saying he's probably drunk and high in another world or something. she's receiving heat across all social media platforms this morning. >> and finally if you go to disneyworld for the holidays you can expect to see familiar face. disney you parks is reopening decades old hall of president's exhibit with a new edition. president trump after year of of renovations disney park president trent new anamatronic trump and they believe it actually looks like john voice. and i'm not convinced. it doesn't look like trump either. i don't know who it looks l like. >> maybe a match book. harris trump. there's potential for john to play the president in the future future movie. >> little casting. >> thanks, wiz. >> coming up on "fox news morning" a retail furniture giant subject of european probe. >> and aashyes offering meat lovers a unique stocking stuffer this holiday season. [lance] it is absolute

china based business to didi back in 2016. a lot of strange bed fellows in the whole softbank/didi everything world >> confetti is falling >> you have one of those people who clogs up the boarding. i know you do. you put stuff above. >> when i went to china, nothing under. ever >> check the bag >> no check the bags, ever >> no, because you want to inconvenience mess by c by carrg your stupid thing, jamming it in there. because you can't possibly wait during the -- >> no i walk in -- >> what if you -- >> i say hi to the attendant i hand them my suit bag. no i'm joking >> you're a guy who does not wait -- you bypass the baggage claim. >> i never do either i always have to go but i wesh i was one of those people. >> golf bags, skis, baby -- you know, if i have a wife and two kids, we each have a 50 pound -- >> if i'm going on vacation with the family, it's not the same. if it's a business trip. >> you travel quickly. >> i move. >> i know you do, like o.j remember that commercial >> i do. i'm not sure i wanted to be compared to o.

forave a lot of respect didi.big incentive to make it work because they will lose more money if they don't replace the driver. same with uber. i am actually a little bit contrarian in believing that shared-economy companies have a good shot, because they are the ones who most desperately need to get autonomous driving to work to fix their profit and loss problems. aily: you are an investor in bike sharing player. other bike sharing players have disappeared. do you see these businesses going under and investor cash disappearing? >> shared bicycle is a winner take all market. consolidation has happened. there is one player left. they can kill each other or merge. we think we have the right product, so we hopefully it will be merged. emily: are they considering a merger? kai-fu: not that i am aware of, but on people's minds. emily: it is something you would like to see? we-fu: as investors come up would like to facilitate the fastest road to prosperity, and we can see a single platform for shared bicycle makes a lot

. - [katie] the students also heard from local leaders like assembly woman didi barrett and county executiveg too many of our young people to addiction, to mental illness and to suicide. someone in this stadium today is struggling right now with a severe mental illness. someone that you know and love is contemplating taking their own life. and someone here is struggling against the demons of addiction. - [katie] but substance abuse is not just limited to dutchess county. - this is a national problem as far as the heroin epidemic, the opioid epidemic with pills and whatnot. and it's really affecting everyone everywhere. - they have these pill parties where the kids are all told, well just bring pills. they put 'em in a bowl and then they just pop whatever's in the bowl. - i've been to at least a half a dozen funerals a year. the opioid epidemic is killing our students. - this current opioid epidemic is the number one cause of death in america for adults under the age of 50, period. - [katie] the 9th graders also got to hear from people who are dealing with these issues first-hand. - i'm here

didi has a big incentive to make it work because they will lose more money if they don't replace theame with uber. so i think on a whole world basis, i am actually a little bit contrarian in believing that shared-economy companies have a good shot, because they are the ones who most desperately need to get autonomous driving to work to fix their profit and loss problems. emily: bike sharing is taking off around the world. you are an investor in mobike. other bike sharing players have simply disappeared. do you see a number of these businesses going under and investor cash disappearing? kai-fu: i think shared bicycle is definitely a winner take all market, so consolidation has happened. there are two players left. either one can kill each other or they will merge. merging is probably more likely. we think mobike has the right product, so we hope it will be merged. emily: have shareholders talked about a merger? are they considering a merger? kai-fu: not that i am aware of, but it is obviously but on people's minds. emily: it is something you would like to see? kai-fu: as investors, we

music mogel didy said he would like to buy the panthers spread the word.lin kaepernick said i want in on the ownership group let's make it happen. the team announced monday promotion of tina becker former cheerleader. she is now chief operating officer after owner jerry richardson revealed he would sell at the end of season following allegations of sexual harassment and racism. >>> american sprinter justin gatlin is facing investigation into doping scandal after members of his enterage were said to have offered to smuggle performance enhancing drugs to undercover reporter under fake name for $50,000. gatlin was band in 2001 for doping and again in 2006. >>> also in sports kobe bryant went down memory lane when the los angeles lakers retired not one but both of his he stood proud with his family inside the staple center as they honor his legendary career 8 and 24 both happeninging from the rafters. >> a thoughtful donation. salvation army celebrating after a mystery dope or dropped a check for 200,000 and red ket until minneapolis. salvation army says surpr

defeat in the house of commons last week, but the emphasis is to say step back from the noise and what didihe noise and what did i say i would achieve? sufficient progress on the divorce package if you like to move on to the future relationship by christmas and that is what i have managed to do. i suppose you could forgive her triumphalism, given how much noise and headlines there were about how this would be impending doom if she did not get a deal. but she has then the big challenge in the new year of the big challenge in the new year of the next stage and crucially there will be discussion in the cabinet meeting on tuesday, what on earth does she want? what kind of relationship does the government wa nt relationship does the government want with the european union, the other side of a transition period. and there is a discussion about mailing down the transition period, which we talk about a lot. it has not been agreed. exactly. on trade, it is interesting. a lot of people said they were slightly taken aback with some of the vociferous brexiteers, seeming to accept the deal in brussels,

it was a golden opportunity for me to support didy's aspirations. ( darya )thank you henry and i tooogize for my responses in our conversation. those who have watched me on tv over my 19 years on kron know my handling of the topic is not reflective of my personal views, integrity or character nor typical of my professionalism. i'm sorry for the impression i made. i hope you all will accept our apologies. right now we'll take a quick break.? take a quick break.? toasting dad: i'm not one for speeches. take a quick break.? but here's to... to many more years of friendship. and feasts! crowd: [laughing, cheering] to presents! a mi familia que lo es todo. ♪ to being right here, right now, with you. sfx: dog bark. and you. toasting dad: i guess what i'm trying to say is, here's to family. we're proud to bring your family amazing value every day. t.j. maxx. marshalls. homegoods. family is the greatest gift. rebecca:a weak, fast moving storm system will bring widespread light rainfall to the region late tuesday into wednesday morning. breezy southwesterly winds will develop ahead of the sys

i think it is clear in china that didi is kind of the only player. see it where they keep executing well, this is a huge opportunity for them. it also plays into the needs of the country where you don't want to have car ownership. you want more green cars. it is easier to take large players and get them to work with the government. emily: uber has pulled out of china and russia. do you see that making those same decisions in india, southeast asia, in brazil? nikesh: i believe it is possible for two players to coexist in a market and coexist happily. but i think that requires the markets to rationalize and stabilize. the are many industries where they coexist. the telecom services. they are competing every day, but some of them actually make lots and lots of money. like the cable industry. i think this is a very large market. i'm sure they can. can they go it alone? i think they probably could. emily: do you see that with uber and lyft in the u.s., that this is a two-company market? nikesh: as of now it is. emily: does that continue? nikesh: it is har

. -- didi has raised chuxing has raised $50 billion. cash reserves at $12 billion.ome of the money raised goes toward autonomous car's and electric car charging networks. facing -- coming up, facebook care is about getting influential people on this platform. now the company's practice of working with politicians, some use it to silence opponents is under scrutiny. we will explain. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: facebook's influence in elections worldwide continues to be under scrutiny. the social network says it is a politically agnostic tool, but the company actively works with political parties and leaders. the initiative is run by a little-known facebook politics team that is neutral and works with anyone seeking or securing power. bloomberg's sarah frier broke this story. fascinating story. what exactly does the facebook politics team and do? sarah: just like facebook does with celebrities or sports stars, this team trains politicians on how to best use the platform, teaching them about live video how to build a base of , followers all of those tactics leaders and

. >>> and chinese ride hailing service didi is catching up to uber in the fund-raising race.t it received a billion dollars of new funding from investors including softbank uber's latest fund-raising round brought its valuation up to $70 billion. we know that softbank's new offer or tender offer values it at 48 billion. strange bedfellows across the board. uber has a stake in didi softbank now has a stake in both it's all very complicated. >> frenemies >> google, google ventures has some stakes. they're doing their own things they have stakes also in lyft. a trio of economic reports weekly jobless claims, the monthly philadelphia fed index and the final estimate on third quarter gross domestic product, that's all out at 8:30 a.m. eastern time as for the earnings side of things, you have carmax, pay checks before the opening bell, nike reports after the close >>> corporate america reacting to the tax overhaul, promising more pay for workers or more investment for training. at&t saying it will pay $1,000 bonuses to more than 200,000 employees. it took me an hour to figure out h

part of it was like capital flooding of the market, boosting, propping up other players like didi inf what has led us here today to the fact that on this investment, uber is taking a valuation haircut. cory: you knew me a long time, longer than brad, and you know i like my conspiracy theories. let me posit that the last round of investors in uber had a deal that would not get diluted in the future. that any future valuation of the company would only be up. we certainly see that and a lot of venture deals, so that is why masayoshi son had to pay a billion dollars at a high valuation while almost simultaneously paying a lot less at a lower valuation, it would not trigger even more shares to the last round of investors. >> i like your conspiracy theory. i have no idea if it was true. cory: i like everyone who likes my conspiracy theories, so i like you. but really it is striking here as brad put it, the manifest destiny is no longer clear. you can see it in the valuation. >> the thing i wonder is, if uber will not be this global winner take all. what is uber, and how big could it eventu

the past year, they emerged as one of the biggest investors in right hailing the portfolio includes didia, 1999 in brazil. until now, it looks like an empty uber allies. now getting uber on board makes things interesting. markets excepte for china, cooper is competing with his other investments and this competition tends to be destructive. it comes in the form of subsidies to drivers or free rights for consumers -- free rdieides for consumers. it remains to be seen how active shareholders will be and whether he can strike deals in some of these regions and avoid costly fighting. manus: let's see how active softbank intends to be. thank you for joining us from tokyo. to the issueu here. softbank is doing the your world. what is your world is the strength of the yen. this empowers dealmakers like softbank. b2b toilet 30. this is the yen, the biggest rise against the dollar. this is a dollar yield curve flattening. rather than something prophetic in terms of yen strength. ,oes that strength continue given you have the bank of japan giving it different trajectory? guest: our story is that th

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softbank already has a and grab,e in didi which covers southeast asia.g a war against local companies, which was hard for everyone involved. pulling out,s uber striking a deal. it would certainly make sense to step in and strike deals and avoid competition. broadly, we have been talking about a potential deal and the amount for some time. what is the broader thinking, white uber is getting into these softbank, rather. pavel: softbank has a $92 billion vision fund. if -- we knowain son is the mastermind behind these investments. may congeal to a more cohesive piece, instead of a loose portfolio, which it has been up until now. david: thank you for wrapping that up for us. coming up, more on the auto sector. looking at why some of these analysts expect slower sales. betty: the outlook for the asian dollar bond. mutual says they will outperform most other credit markets. this is bloomberg. ♪ this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ ."tty: this is "daybreak asia i am betty liu in new york. david: and i am david ingles in hong kong. heat for bond traders in 2018. they are deal

never didi through hardships themselves.le could rally around the way that the community around the way that the community around here managed to rally themselves around, different religions, different walks of life, one of them coming together to help. the comfort isjust being together. the comfort isjust being together. the comfort isjust being together. the comfort isjust having each other. they need to come and look at it as other. they need to come and look at itasa other. they need to come and look at it as a tragedy, don't take selfies, don't stand there and take a picture. no, we want people to know what happened. we want them to feel what happened. we want them to feel what we felt. this borough has let us what we felt. this borough has let us down. there are so many questions and no answers. heart-wrenching, it is heartbreaking, you don't know, nobody is giving you answers. we we re nobody is giving you answers. we were lost for words. we didn't know what to do, how to react. i've never known anything like it in my

conquerorina's uber didi, to focus as a taxi hailing program. they will work with existing drivers. uber halted taiwan operations in february, after opposition from the government and local drivers. betty: subaru executives will return part of their compensation after failing inspections. they will give up their salaries. the transport ministry outlining the causes of misconduct. subbarao recalled almost 400,000 vehicles in japan last month, after admitting issues that domestic plants. time for a quick look what is coming up in the next hours. we have our guest from jpmorgan. take a look at what is going on with the bond market. could be concerned about the flattening of the yield curve. one of the big moves on markets taking place, something to be looking out for. and what about these tax overhaul plans and the slight glitch, what does it mean to the american economy? bitcoin, again in focus. aboutlea talking to us and whatis going, should be going on with this currency. 1,000,000% since it was conceived. there you have it. betty: only 1,000,000%. that is it for "daybreak asia." ma

>> the didi zero is the most difficult. as they would say, that's their brand.e: what they stop supporting theresa may? then, you are out. >robert: [sighs] who knows. the dup like there -- what they have with the government. they probably wouldn't want an put jeremyat would corbyn in office, but the dup -- don't try and play a game of chicken with the dup. francine: ok. robert: they are very, very, very, very, tough shooters. the dup says, does is -- tough negotiators. they say, this is blink first, and we cut off eyelashes. francine: the pound, it's the only one is taking brexit. >> if these talks move into january, and a solution before christmas, there is downside risk to sterling, we could see 131 tested again in tape -- in cable. thispower pundits, all of puts together -- all of the noise put together is another european style kick the can down the road scenario. we will have the softest of all possible brexit's for the u.k.. this is one way the conservative government will be able to resist the snap election in the short term. over the medium term, this wi

didi bought uber in china last year, if you recall.ome sign, the fastest-growing state in the country is idaho growing more than 2%. seven of the ten states to see the big growth, they are out on the west, nevada, utah, washington, all in top four. overall population grew 2.6 million. so 226 million. as we are i think to the story, i'm thinking of a headline that illinois, high-taxed state, lots of crime, they are losing one resident every four minutes. dagen: that's incredible, right? dagen: i was reading about a young boy that was shot for the second time in chicago. lauren, thank you so much. let's talk about the good and the ugly in terms of -- well, idaho, i know why idaho is growing and attractive, mike baker, former cia operative, he has 20 kids. he has three, that's the one reason for idaho. but the wall street journal has editorial today about tax reform take two. now turning to the states, those high-taxed state that is get hit by the cap on the state and local tax deduction, property deduction of just $10,000, they are going

reporter: last year we on the same day, got didi gregorius who was throw away shortstop.hat do we have on top for 2017. >> best foot forward with the presentation to ota-ni-son. bring in we hope one of great talents from the world in japan. that plays out over time still. we're working on selecting a manager. think we're at final end of that process. reporter: i know you have to prepare for mr. otani. how many other general managers in major league baseball are climbing down a wall demonstrating their commitment to their communities? mr. otani, i think the answer is clear. i also got myself a otani jersey. that would be great. >> we are very honored to have the opportunity to sell you on the new york yankee opportunity. we say it loud, say it proud, say it on top of buildings. we say, as loud as we can. time for us to say it again. steve: after a brief time out. ainsley: we'll talk to them when they get their footing i should say. we'll be right back. ♪ nothing works faster to make pain a distant memory. advil liqui-gels and advil liqui-gels minis. what pain? let's get th

why didi 18705. why did iforget 18705. why did i forget that one? what about the mildest one?t 16 degrees. melting any snowmen around. and this christmas it won't be1 million miles from that around. and this christmas it won't be 1 million miles from that one across some parts of the uk. 0ut there at the moment it is incredibly mild for december. 13 degrees this morning in parts of aberdeenshire. cooler through the vale of york, but clear skies to start the day. fairly cloudy conditions across the uk. rain might be limited towards shetland, but it will edge into other parts of northern scotland. gusty winds in the northern half and we could have a bit of drizzle in the west. a lot of low cloud sitting on the heels of western england and wales. if you are travelling home for christmas today to be warned there will be some foggy conditions in some of the higher routes. not too strong in the south. most places dry. a few cloud breaks are possible, anywhere from gloucestershire through the chester. we could get back in north—east england as well. with the brakes towards the east o