looking forward to that after robert kaplan.. ♪ >> this is bloomberg surveillance let's get the bloomberg business flash. shares of british retailers are up today, a sector bellwether had holiday sales that were -- strong sales in the weeks before christmas helps make up for a disappointing november. one of the three brothers that ran nordstrom's has died. blake nordstrom was 58 years old. he revealed he was undergoing chemotherapy for lymphoma. blake nordstrom was the public face of the store chain. become the most expensive american ever to play the game. the english premier league has played -- paid to sign him. he is 28 years old and joins chelsea this summer. that is the bloomberg business flash. guy: the americans do like football, tom keene. tom: i'm searching for the correct team. it depends on the guest. all newcastle united. guy: a fickle football fan. we are joined from bmp paramount. let's talk more about apple. there are figures floating around, but appellee is heavily down on its buybacks it generated in 2018. is n

alix: kaplan says that he's on hold.bal growth with tighter financial conditions has him pressing the pause button and he's watching the equity markets. bristol-myers monitoring a deal for $74 million and a 54% , two point 5 billion, the market punishing the stock. the first guidance from apple in two decades ways on equities to take back control of the market. here with a lot of news, we let off the last hour with a deal for celgene. they bid $74 billion in cash and stock in the celgene stock is up , and the market is not liking bristol-myers squibb at the moment. no and i find that to be very interesting, they were down at one point despite the superlatives related to the deal. billion, 2022, the issue to rate by back. i wonder what that is about. at a lot ofoked mergers and you have to look long and hard with the first year earnings shares going up like that. they don't make these promises lightly. bristol-myers needed to do a deal, they needed more, they got them. it was quite a lot of money. and celgene is on an upt

robert kaplan said they should pause. that was his message.s no fed10 surprises increases during 2019. if theydon't do that, keep the federal funds rate at the present level, that is positive for the equity market. the more important thing is the warning signals usually get before a recession are not in place. maybe they will develop over the next few months. right now, the outlook is favorable. guy: do we see massive chinese stimulus? byron: i do think we will see massive chinese stimulus. we've had pretty massive chinese stimulus last year, it kept the economy growing at 6%. they don't want it to grow at less than 6%. the year, they cut taxes, engaged in an infrastructure program. i think they will continue with all of these. they don't want the economy to slow too much. they won't produce the number of jobs they need to produce to maintain the confidence of the chinese people.'s hanging overg the chinese economy is trade. they are looking for a green light on trade before they start taking long positions. do you think we will get those trad

kaplan, that is a good start in my mind. he is not a voting member of the fomc.re is sense of urgency they do it. can they use tomorrow's jobs report as an opportunity? >> they could look at it as an opportunity. jerome powell ultimately needs to be one saying we are active lie looking at data. he has said this year he wants to be more communicative rather than less relative to other fed chair people. this would be an opportunity to say if things are actually slowing down we'll take a look at the data. if you want to say you're an independent body, the best way to do that actually look what is happening, look at the data, and make decisions on that. charles: i hope so. nomi, thank you very much. always appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we're heading into the final hour of trading. markets deeply into the red. apple is starting things off. a lot of things going on here but almost everyone i spoke to today says stocks are cheap and there are buys out there. the question is when? we'll ask that when "making money" returns. we'll be right back. ♪ charles: no c.p. effec

robert kaplan is considered a centrist at this point.nals, what will happen to grow old growth -- global growth? financial conditions are tightening and sensitive sessions -- sectors like housing are getting weaker. here is what he said in an interview. robert: my own view is we should not take further action on interest rates until these issues are resolved for better or for worse, so i would be an advocate of taking no action. for example, in the first couple of quarters of this year, you asked my base case. it would be take no action at all. kathleen: when jay powell sits down at the association meeting, will he echo robert kaplan? he had said the fed sees a strong economy despite weak stock markets around the world. the tightness of the labor market and gdp would remain above potential. jobs report tomorrow, all the more important. jay powell, speaking, also important. when traders saw the number on the ism, so markets sensitive to all of that. the charge, finishing the day at 2.55. we will see what happens on this all-important frid

kaplan? steve: we hope it is a change in the fed. fine with every rate hike over 2018, but we think it is time to stop or pause. you have a market that is concerned about recession, you have parts of the yield curve that are starting to invert, and you certainly have an economics lowdown. we are trying to engineer what is a soft landing from 3% growth to 2%, 2.5%. in that environment, with inflation nowhere to be seen in a meaningful way, we think it is appropriate or the fed to take a the fed appropriate for to take a pause and realize that look, they have overshot their inflation expectations for the past 10 years. they might already be there, but jay powell is saying look, i cannot go from three rate hikes .o zero in one shot like we discussed in the last segment, the longer it takes for him to give the markets uncertainty on that, the more risks rise of having a crisis of confidence. i think he needs to give that clarity sooner rather than later. david: but if the fed does move in that direction, how much of it will affect market

his name is kaplan turkey still lives in canada. kaplan was a training intelligence officer but some with a different sort of mind for most of the students at moscow state university. he wasn't distant but you certainly -- he became a close friend of oleg's and between the two of them they begin to discuss late at night the future of the soviet system. they were not rebelling. they were beginning between them to talk about it. bear in mind kaplan because you come into the story shortly. oleg never really considered any other prison joining the kgb. in 1961 he was already effectively a kgb in turn partly through his father, partly through his brother probably because the recruiting center within the university for the kgb. in 1961 he traveled to east berlin as a translator really but living in the kgb compound. the day after he arrived he opened the curtains and witnessed hundreds of bulldozers and thousands of soldiers pouring into east berlin to start building the berlin wall. you see it here under construction. oleg was profoundly

kaplan says he's fortunate to be able to visit the projects and. supports it's often kind of difficult for donors to be able to do that because of security concerns but also sometimes there's not always the interest to go out and follow up on these things and to go out and visit so it doesn't happen very often i think i mean you get a feeling for something in a way that you don't if you're sitting behind a desk and you see people and you see them engaging in learning it and i mean for me that's the reason to be here but without that i would just lose the feeling for the call to go but he says lack of donor access and oversight is only one of the issues affecting girls' education in afghanistan while girls lacking so much more than boys when it comes to education well i think you know at least in the past there has been just much more of a focus on just getting anyone in the school first and then it was easier to get boys into school and. you know and also just because of gender you know that the more attention has been focused on boys than girls ge

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in kaplan is a researcher who contributed to the anticorruption report as an education specialist he works with the norwegian and geo providing support for schools throughout afghanistan including this school for the deaf and kabul. sign language which. kaplan says he's fortunate to be able to visit the projects and geo supports it's often kind of difficult for donors to be able to do that because of security concerns but also sometimes it's not always the interest to go out and follow up on these things and to go out and visit so it doesn't happen very often i think even when you get a feeling for something in a way that you don't if you're sitting behind a desk you know you see people and you see them engaging in learning and i mean for me that's the reason to be here but without that i would just lose the feeling for it i think altogether but he says lack of donor access and oversight is only one of the issues affecting girls' education in afghanistan while girls lacking so much more than boys when it comes to education well i think you know at least in the past there have been ju

craig kaplan tweeting that the senate has passed the three-week c.r. to fund the government, reopening it through february 15 by voice vote. it goes to the house now. one more thing they announced the majority appointing conferees on border security. republicans appropriations chair senator shelby from alabama. senator capito from west virginia. north dakota senator hoeven. senator blunt as well. the democrats on that conference committee will be the appropriations ranking member senator leahy of vermont, minority whip dick durbin, and jon tester of montana. the u.s. house is gaveling in sometime this evening take up the measure that's now been passed by the senate. of course we'll have live coverage here on c-span. next up, we'll show you the news conference shortly after the senate came into session with the democratic leaders from the house and senate reacting from the -- to the president's announcement. mr. schumer: well, good afternoon. first, i am proud that this is the first time this year that leader pelosi is appearing as speaker pelosi in thi

on the continued market selloff in new york and his interview with the dallas fed president robert kaplan on why the fed should pay attention. we have a new congress about to be sworn in and i think they started receiving's now. what should we expect? kevin: proceedings are underway as nancy pelosi will take control of a new democrat majority in the house of representatives, but all of this comes as the government remains partially shut down, with no end in sight. the president meeting yesterday with a bipartisan group of lawmakers in order to continue discussions on negotiating some type of truce agreement, but lawmakers were unable to get to an agreement and they say they will schedule back tomorrow. nancy pelosi is walking their right beside her family as she goes to make her way to the house floor. her part, she will try to advance a budget that doesn't include funding for the wall, and that, according to republicans, is a nonstarter. david: nancy will be the first woman to be speaker of the house twice. let's go to the shutdown issue. nancy pelosi came out of the meeting yesterday wi

in kaplan is a researcher who contributed to the anticorruption report as an education specialist he works with the norwegian and geo providing support for schools throughout afghanistan including this school for the deaf and car. sign language which. kaplan says he's fortunate to be able to visit the projects and geo supports it's often kind of difficult for donors to be able to do that because of security concerns but also sometimes it's not always the interest to go out and follow up on these things and to go out and visit so it doesn't happen very often i think i mean you get a feeling for something in a way that you don't if you're sitting behind a desk and you see people and you see them engaging in learning and i mean for me that's the reason to be here but without that i would just lose the feeling for it i think altogether but he says lack of donor access and oversight is only one of the issues affecting girls' education in afghanistan while girls of lacking so much more than boys when it comes to education well i think you know at least in the past there'd been just much mo

kaplan will succeed mayor larry reed. kaplan said she wants to expand access to job training and access to good-paying jobs. >>> san jose will have its first city council meeting of the year today. but the mayor won't be there. mayor sam liccardo is still recovering after being hit by a car, while riding his bike. he suffered several fractures in that crash. a spokesman says mayor liccardo will be working from home this week. >>> police are investigating a sexual assault in downtown palo alto. police say a woman was walking to her car, near the intersection of everett avenue and almastreet yesterday, shortly after 4:00 in the afternoon. a man approached her and asked for money, but then hit her twice, before sexually assaulting her. the suspect is described as a white man with long, dark, blond hair, about 5'11" with a build. palo alto police hope to release a sketch of the man in the next few days. >>> our time is 5:39. new details about a southern california man, accused of killing a camper, last summer at malibu creek

we spoke with robert kaplan yesterday.tings of the american economic association with loretta mester. sandwiched in there is chairman powell. right now, your first word news. for the second time in three days, president will meet with leaders of both parties to try to end the government shutdown. house democratic majority made it clear where it stands. the house approving a spending bill that would reopen closed agencies. republicans oppose the plan. comes the u.s. government out with his final jobs report for 2018. it is likely to show employers capped a strong year of hiring. payrolls rising by 184,000 in december. economists expect hiring to cool down this year. the has extended its rally, price breaking through 1300 dollars an ounce before falling back. investors have been flocking to gold. up, rising to the highest level since july. carlos ghosn will finally get his stay in court. jail cellbeen in a since being arrested on financial crimes. will be in ae district court. his lawyers will ask why he remains in jail. pro

but you know, rob kaplan is a pretty key voice up a dallas fed.e told bloomberg news that it is time for the fed to pause. is this too much uncertainty? kathleen: yes, he did. it is important to realize rob kaplan is considered a centrist on the federal open market committee, so we paid a lot of attention to what he says. we would like to hear what he has to say. one of the insurgencies -- what are the uncertainties he's watching? how much our financial conditions doubling back -- are financial conditions doubling back? big one heanother named in his interview today on bloomberg tv. let's listen to what he said a positive is the thing to do for the fed right now. robert: my own view is we should not take any further action on interest rates until these issues are resolved, for better or for worse. i would be an advocate of taking new action -- no action. and the first couple of quarters of this year, if you asked me my base case, it would be take no action at all. kathleen: no action at all in the first two quarters. he said if necessary, the fed

let's start with his conversation with the head of the dallas fed, robert kaplan. ♪ >> there's only onethat matters to the market. has the correction been long enough, deep enough, severe enough, that the fed has to react? >> let me answer it this way. there are three big issues that i see reflecting in the market that are consistent with what i'm seeing in the economy. decelerating,is interest sensitive and economically sensitive injury industries are showing weakness, and credit spreads have widened. those issues are affecting the market and also my thinking about monetary policy. it is going to take some time to of the depths and breadth those three issues. >> you think the fed should go on hold for now? >> my own view is that we should not take any further action on interest rates until these issues are resolved, for better or for worse. i would be an advocate of taking no action, for example, in the first couple quarters of this year. if you ask me, my base case would be take no action at all. that could change if things improve, but my own view right now is we should be patient an

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let's start this conversation on thursday with the head of the dallas fed, robert kaplan.ly one question that matters to the market appeared has it been long enough, deep enough, severe enough that the fed has to react? >> let me answer it this way. there is three big issues that i see reflected in the markets that are consistent with what i am seeing in the economy. decelerating, interest sensitive and economically sensitive industries are showing weakness. financial conditions have tightened. are affectingsues the markets. they are also affecting my thinking about monetary policy and it will take some time to see the depth and breadth of those three issues. my own view is we should not one any further action interest rates until these issues are resolved for better or for worse. i would be an advocate of taking no action. for example, in the first couple of quarters of this year. u.s. me my base case, my base case be take no action at all. that could change if things improve. my own view right now is we should be patient and give some time for the economy and to watch ho

robert kaplan of the dallas fed said he is ready to pause rate hikes while economic conditions come intoarer focus. robert: my own view is we should not take any further action on interest rates until these issues are resolved or better or for worse. emma: this is bloomberg. ♪ amazon prime video is now on xfinity x1. so when you say words like... show me best of prime video into this... you'll see awesome stuff like this. discover prime originals like the emmy-winning the marvelous mrs. maisel... tom clancy's jack ryan... and the man in the high castle. all in the same place as your live tv. its all included with your amazon prime membership. that's how xfinity makes tv... simple. easy. awesome. emma: this is "bloomberg best." i'm emma chandra. turbulence in global markets and signs of a coming growth slowdown have many investors hoping that the federal reserve will hit pause on rate hikes. this week, bloomberg's michael mckee sat down exclusively with two regional federal reserve bank presidents to get perspective on how policymakers are taking current conditions into account. let's sta

. >>> back at home oakland city councilman rebecca kaplan calling on counterparts in san francisco toelp fight the plan to have the raiders play at oracle park next season. the chronicle reports kaplan want the raiders to remain at the oakland coliseum for the teams final year in the bay area. she reportedly began contacting severances go supervisors after learning the team had recently approached the giant about a possible move across the bay. the raiders do not have a place to play as a ready to move to las vegas in 2020. >>> we are down to four teams in the nfl playoffs hosing the here. they beat the eagles last night. they defeated the cowboys saturday and in it the athlete temperature game, tom brady and the patriots will travel to kansas city to play patrick mahon and the chiefs. the patriot blew out of the tartars thought and the the chiefs beat the colts on saturday. >>> winter weather created a lot of problems for drivers across the country as we have been reporting including one professional football player. the kansas city chiefs guard jeff allen got his car stuck in the sn

. >>> councilwoman rebecca kaplan will be the president of the oakland city council. she was elected to that position yesterday at the council's first meeting of the year. she takes over for larry reed, who was elected vice mayor. kaplan said she wants to address homelessness in oakland and expand access to job training and career paths to good-paying jobs. >>> also new this morning. parents pat two napa valley schools are learning about an arrest over the holiday break, after a student threatened a school shooting. a middle schooler called police, after a friend told him he was planning shootings at river middle school and vintage high school. police say the 14-year-old suspect threatened to kill the friend if he went to police. but on new year's eve, the friend reported him. the suspect was arrested at his home on january 2nd, where police say they found more evidence against him. school is back in session this week. but napa police say the students are safe. >>> our time is 6:40. a man's body was found in santa rosa in a fast-moving creek. a woman who was walking a

as we head to break, robert kaplan feels good about oil this year. it's 2020 that might be a problem. >> i think you will see in the oil patch, because there are so many uncompleted wells, you will see production increase by over a million barrels per day. the issue will be if the lower price goes on for an extended period, it will have an immediate effect on and it might affect capex and affect 2020. we are above breakeven for most areas in the permian basin. ♪ >> i am alix steel, and this is bloomberg "commodities edge." time now for the data dig. first up, ducts. the rise of wells that are filled but not completed. this is particularly in the permian, the yellow line, and the eagle, the blue line, they have seen a reduction of them. cargill had a disappointing quarter, but rain volatility has increased. the last few months, it is come down, but best on a year ago, it is had a big rally, and that means they can exploit some volatile markets despite trade wars. staying with gold and the safe haven appeal, a company started trading this year as a new

robertust heard from kaplan. i have this chart i know you look at.wardthe near-term spread. , this are still waiting is something that has inverted. the forward rate implied by six quarters from what are now treasury bills. the three-month yield. explain why this is important. >> the reason this is important is they mentioned it in june. we don't think it is very appropriate. look at the money market curve. look at the 18 month rate. when you look at that, you are left going, this is a bit of a problem. toy have asked the market look at this. they have said this is a better predictor of concerns about the economy. it remained stable. the fed felt quite satisfied because they were able to point to this and say this is the important one. they are put in a difficult position. the metric they have said is most important turns negative. anna: what about other metrics? he was referencing credit spreads widening. been nothere has high-yield issuance. balanceay, you have to that with what is going well and that is jobs. had yields fall. that helps offset the

matt: that was robert kaplan, speaking exclusively to bloomberg's.mmons is still with us. we have touched on the fed a little bit already, caroline. you think they made a policy mistake? no, i think they have reacted to the data coming their way and that is what they will continue to do. if we think back to how the fed acted at the beginning, they ended up being much slower than anticipated because the data was weaker. i do think the fed will continue to focus on the data. we will see what those numbers are, but there are some really strong positive drivers within the u.s. economy. they cannot be ignored. but i think the timing of when the fed hikes is going to be what comes under scrutiny more and more as we go through the year. like i said, we have got to hikes for the year. the fundamentals are strong seems to be the rallying cry that counters the market negativity. showsot a chart here that that we're looking around for the bond markets and where we are seeing curve aversions. this is the near-term forward spread. i reference it because my guest

robert kaplan said yesterday be patient. >> too much gloom and doom. i prefer boom. let's begin with the blowout payrolls report. where did that come from? >> i think it shows there is a lot of strength in the economy at the current time. labor indicators are come after all come a lagging indicator so it does not necessarily project the outlook for next year. i think that's what the market is worried about. it's in good shape today but it will likely decelerate. jonathan: we have had one of the best a role reports of this cycle but everything counts relative to expectations. every thing seems to be pointing south. >> i think this is probably the last great jobs report for a while. i would not be surprised if we see a meaningful deceleration. upn you cut equity prices by to one half across the economy, it seems we likely will have slow hiring. >> i agree with that. i think the retail numbers have been good and the hiring looks good and the weather has been pretty good too so that gives us a boost. currently the economy is in good shape for now. how about over the next

the fed -- what robert kaplan said yesterday is right, be patient. >> too much gloom and doom. prefer boom. jonathan: joining me around the table is bob miller, jim karen, and from boston, a senior portfolio manager at wells fargo. let's begin with the blowout payrolls report. where did that come from? >> i think it shows there is a lot of strength in the economy at the current time. labor indicators are a lagging indicator that doesn't necessarily predict the outlook for next year. i think that's what the market has been worried about. it's in good shape today but it will likely decelerate. jonathan: that is the problem. we've had one of the best payroll reports of the cycle, but everything else is pointing south. >> i think this is probably the is great labor market we will have for a while. i would not be surprised if we see a meaningful deceleration in hiring over the first quarter, first half of next year. when you cut equity prices by up to one half across the economy, it seems likely hiring will slow some. jim: i agree. i think the retail numbers have been good and the h

. >>> rebecca kaplan will serve as the panel president. by doing that she becomes the openly lgtbq person to serve in that role. her duties will include appointing other councilmembers to committees. she has run twice and finished third in 2010 and second in 2014. >>> president trump plans to speak directly to the american people from the oval office hoping to build support for his border wall. this comes as the partial government shutdown has reached its 18th day. more from washington, d.c.. >> reporter: good morning. it's now officially the second longest shutdown in history and there's no end in sight. it's day 18 of the government shutdown and now the president taking his pitch directly to the american people with a prime time oval office address tonight where he could announce a national emergency. >> i may tulare a national emergency depending what's going to happen over the next few days. >> democrats are demanding equal air time writing if the president's past statements are any indication, the speech will be full of malice and mis

michael kaplan from c.n.n. . you know sarah you mentioned that one of the tactics is going after people on foreign soil going after exiles asylum seekers on foreign soil do you get the sense that any of you get the sense that that's still going on and post what happened. i mean no i actually insist on adam amplifying what i have to say but certainly the reports we've seen recently. first of all reports published reports we've seen recently has shown the attacks harassment vilification of asylum seekers saudi asylum seekers who have gone public with the efforts to punish them or try to entice them to return to the kingdom particularly a number of women who have managed to leave and flee the country in addition to that we are in touch with a number of other women and men who are you know desperately seeking our help and support for their own efforts on asylum and terrified about retaliation in particular against family members who remain behind so certainly as far as we know the practices are continuing i think. no

matt kaplan from the planetary society, planetary radio.est resolution images, and the colour images might start to appear? the colour images will start to come down this week. they will be low resolution, so what we will do is ta ke resolution, so what we will do is take the somewhat higher resolution black—and—white images and we will drape the collar over it to give the best impression of what ultima looks like a high resolution. but in colour. and then, overtime, we like a high resolution. but in colour. and then, over time, we will get better resolution in both the colour and the panchromatic. the highest resolution panchromatic images will not come down until about february. chris lindop, from bbc sky at night. i know a huge amount of work goes into getting the data from the spacecraft. can you talk us through what happened overnight? i know people were working hard to make that image and people were beaming yesterday when they thought they had it. could you tell us more about that process? share, last night, an hour before, the close

robert kaplan. eastern time. 8:30 p.m. here in hong kong. >> a lot of questions we can ask.ing to see a fed upon this year? markets seem to think we are not going to see any hikes. can that balance sheet roll off state and autopilot? -- stay in autopilot? ♪ we begin with breaking news. apple shares halted as the company announced it has cut its revenue forecast. tim cook revised revenue guidance, down. writing the vast majority happened in china with lower sales than anticipated. fewer iphone upgrades worldwide. joining me on the food, -- phone, butler of bloomberg intelligence. i want to start with

now and joining us from istanbul via skype shaman politics of the daily newspaper in belgrade toby kaplan and sascha human rights lawyer and co-founder of seven international justice chambers and all of us got from taunton in the u.k. bob forma intelligence officer and security analyst if i will welcome to all of you to the program let's start with these rather chilling picture says these black bags being carried into the residence of the consul general all days of these the biggest clue guess as to what happened to jamal khashoggi body. well these banks were also mentioned in the book as well that you mentioned the diplomatic extras does beck's show us that cause of you was actually dismembered and was carried from the council building to the council general's house to building that site however we don't know where it went from that where what happened to the by the afterwards so we are not sure. what's happened exactly to the kushal here but we know that he was dismembered and carried from one building to the adder and yes until now this might be the biggest proof that shows us. some cl

on the continued market selloff in new york and his interview with the dallas fed president robert kaplanfed should pay attention. we have a new congress about to be sworn in and i think they started receiving's now. what should we expect? kevin: proceedings are underway as nancy pelosi will take control of a new democrat majority in the house of representatives, but all of this comes as the government remains partially shut down, with no end in sight. the president meeting yesterday with a bipartisan group of lawmakers in order to continue discussions on negotiating some type of truce agreement, but lawmakers were unable to get to an agreement and they say they will schedule back tomorrow.