here to talk about all of it, kevin carter and mark berman, who covers apple. mark, walk us through the reaction to apple's surprise decision to not report sales numbers. which is what we as journalists are fixated on. mark: like you said, there are two sides to the spectrum. one side agrees with the company line that this does not provide an accurate picture of their business and they are becoming more service focused. on the other side of the coin, which i fall into, they just don't want to report negative year-over-year sales growth anymore. it's not a good look for any company that is so pr and marketing driven. emily: what do you think the implication of this is? we know the industry is rapidly changing. one analyst said it's in recession. what do you think the implications are for apple that they don't want the public to know what these numbers are anymore? kevin: what's most important to a business is revenue growth. whatever that is coming from, products, services, etc. part of apple's mode is its ecosystem. people don't want to switch to an android oper

mark berman, thanks so much for stopping by today. coming up, alibaba reported quarterly earnings well above analyst estimates, but is missing addictions -- predictions for year-long sales by about 6%. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: alibaba reported second-quarter revenue that fell short and it cut its sales outlook for 2019. the chinese e-commerce giant blaming macroeconomic conditions, saying the globe is in a state of economic uncertainty. hesked about the headwinds is expecting. >> retail sales are still growing at 9%. e-commerce over the last quarter in the total market was growing 24%. our gmd ist reported growing at 24%. we are outgrowing the market. hitchedis not entirely to the economy and consumption trends. what we are doing is digitizing not only our own platform, but also the traditional retailers retailm, enabling our partners to capture more customers and operate their business more efficiently. that's what we call our new retail strategy. that's an area we are very excited about. you are facing rising competition in socia

activity comes after his trip to paris to mark 100 years since the end of world war i with other leaders from around the globe. the fox business network's blake berman reporting live from the white house. >> reporter: no official events for president trump on this veterans day. he is here at the white house after returning from paris late last night with the first lady commemorating the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i. the president has been very active on twitter. he did take aim at the very region he just visited over the weekend saying the u.s. military is being taken advantage of and so too is the u.s. on trade deals. the president ending that three-part tweet by writing the following. it is time the very rich countries pay the united states for its great military protection or protect themselves. trade must be free and fair. while the president takes issue as what he sees as fairness, presidents macron of france standing next to president trump in paris took issue as the president's view of, quote, nationism. >>. >> interpreter: patriotism is the opposite of nationalism. it is a betrayal of patriotism. we erase what the nation holds