emily: john butler, bloomberg intelligence, i appreciate your analysis. coming up, is elon musk too fast to tweet? another twitter snafu, this time on the production side. we will discuss, next. if you like bloomberg news, check us out on the radio. anytime. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: the tesla turnover continues. the general counsel is leaving after just two months on the job. he is a trial lawyer who represented elon musk last fall in his battle with the sec. that battle was in regards to musk's intimates tweet about havingtesla private and funding secured. since, the sec has kept a close eye on its twitter account, and now they might have more motive to take action. mosque tweeted to soon tweaking the electric carmaker would make about i've hundred thousand vehicles this year. a few hours later, he revised it to sayting meant annualized production rate at the end of 2019, probably around 500,000, i.e. 10,000 cars per week. deliveries are estimated to be about 400,000. joining us to discuss is an who covers craig, the company. the sec is not reacting u

want to stick with samsung and bring in john butler.ould you agree with what mark said in terms of his evaluation of these new products? products look terrific. i was surprised at the quality of the screens, the fingerprint technology. all that makes samsung very competitive. the one thing to keep in mind here, though, is they really are not competing with apple with these phones in my view as much as they are competing with sort of these rising chinese vendors that have very, very good devices at really low price points. think so, what do you will convince consumers to upgrade? we know in general that the smartphone market is slowing. what do these products offer that prior phones do not? phones are lasting longer, people just don't need to upgrade, so why do it? john: i think that's a problem we will live with for a while in this industry, and you can see it reflected in the shipment decline we saw this year with roughly a 4% to 5% decline in the market in 2018. i think the next big push to upgrade is likely to be 5g. i think the fold

john butler from bloomberg intelligence. the ecb board and your group giving support.hat is the euro group. that will go to the are piecing -- european council. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: live from new york, i'm vonnie quinn. guy: live from london, i'm guy johnson. this is "bloomberg markets." vonnie: your group finance minister agreeing to nominate ireland philipk main for the board seat. it will be vacated because his term is coming to an end. seats, one is the president of the ecb is currently mario draghi. beenp lane has long considered one who would play a role as having a whole career in academia and political economy and then in central banking. it looks like he will now be the next board member, which is an interesting decision. it will not be finalized until march and takes him out of another job running. guy: he is rocket science smart. the perfect job for him is to be the replacement for the chief economist on the board. it will be interesting to see how he handles that. what is interesting is the way he has been unopposed. this has been incredibly smooth

seat one, joy jackson morgue began for seat three, roberto vargas for seat four, john mah for seat two, jonathan butler for seat five, janet cordero for seat three, and jonathan ioke for seat 16. >> clerk: would you like to waive the residential requirement for joy jackson morgan, roberto vargas, and jonathan butler. >> supervisor walton: yes. >> chair ronen: okay. without objection, that motion passes. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: mr. clerk, would you read item number nine. [agenda item read]. >> chair ronen: thank you. and mr. donald lee randall is here from supervisor stefani's office. >> thank you. supervisor stefani would like to have a continuance until march 18. we're still working on legislation and will bring this to you at that time. >> chair ronen: okay. great. i'll just open this up for public comment. is there any member of the public that would like to speak on this item or the motion to continue the item to march 18? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: with that, you want to make the motion? >> supervisor walton: move for continuance of item nine. >> chair ronen:

john ingalls said -- ingallss a lot about and vinnie ream. took it back and she threatened to cut it off. benjamin butler never -- might have been feeling nonplussed. he had one night to get to vinnie in order to get to edmund ross read he is convinced his formidable little girl might hold the senator in her pocket. he did not earn the name a beast butler for nothing. if the situation required a last-minute effort to sway vinnie, he was determined to use what ever including bribery, intimidation and seduction. hand the practitioner of persuasion, that man, general -- sickles. they quickly arrange for sickles to seek out ross or vini at the boarding house. awems a mixture of revulsion and even envy. here's a great quote. the secretary of the senate. going backwards. another good quote -- this is george templeton strong and he wrote to this about the man about to be his congressman in 1856. george was not only vitriolic but was consistent. to spoil as well try and he wrote this about him in 1875. it is true that people said sickles had tens of thousands of the enemies and political opportunities waiting to

john denley on debut will know he should have left this alone. joe root has no choice asjoseph's delivery was so fierce and it took to matfield is mapped to take it. joss butler on with his name on it. on this pitch there are plenty of u na nswera ble this pitch there are plenty of una nswerable questions. this pitch there are plenty of unanswerable questions. shannon gabriel gave ben stokes want to ponder, six down. still there are worse places to watch england batting collapses and ali responded to being thrown in the deep end with some energetic paddling. he carried his team upstream but it showed at a risky cause, always a chance it might end like this, caught off roach for 60. the rest was woozy. then folks got hurt getting bowled. jimmy anderson got out the way in tiley. 187 all out. so england went into the field looking for danger, but found things a strangely peaceful. no wickets taken and england remain in trouble in paradise. well, i think it is about par. it has been a real tough day. in all my experience of watching and playing test cricket for england, i can't remember a day of test cricket where the ball has lept of a length in the first three