i am paul allen in sydney. betty: it looks too pretty to be winter.in new york where it is a hot summer. it is daybreak australia. let's get to first word news with ramy inocencio. will crown resort staff appear in court charged with illegally promoting gambling. they were promoting to toeigners, getting citizens gamble. 19 individuals including the head of international operations will go on trial in july. they face three years in jail if convicted. britain is turning to market -- emerging markets. the statement from the prime minister's office shows improved access to u.k. markets for the harbor countries. -- poorer countries. they, sierra leone, haiti. bangladesh. the world's second-largest frommy stopped buying coal pyongyang back in february in response to the nuclear program. china exports to north korea rose 33%. they provide 90% of the north's energy supply. 100 people are still missing after a landslide in southwestern china. homes ande is held 62 a hotel. bodies were found, but many people remain unaccounted for. the government estimates 8 m

in the meantime, first word news with paul allen in sydney. w cyber attack is hitting companies and institutions from europe to the u.s. accompanied by ransom demand similar to the attack by want to cry. terminals on the east coast are also reporting problems. google's record $2.7 billion fine and that you could he just a fraction of the cost that may search results in its favor. it will barely dent the cash pile. the prospect of lower ad revenue and in backlash targeting services from mavs two restaurant reviews. there is the chance of further penalties. >> if we find noncompliance, we will have to prove it even though you will have to pay the penalty from day one of noncompliance. we get there because i see no reason why google should not comply. you have very strong incentives, a strong company, and we need the competition in the market for shopping comparison. paul: president trump's agenda hit another speed bump with senate republicans postponing a vote on a new health care bill. five gop members said that debate on the bill, drafted in se

on paul allen, this is bloomberg. and thedent trump indian president have wrapped up talks at the white house, each literacy learning the other is a good friend. it wasn't all hugs. with ato ramy inocencio recap. in some respects, a bromance i guess. similarities between the two leaders. not allre saying it's hugs and handshakes, but there were a lot of handshakes. there were not one, but two hugs. we sell one of the rose garden, of course mr. massi and trump wrapping up at dinner at the white house. we see him go in for another hug , potentially may be, this is a sunshine policy to try to replicate -- there you go. >> how can you not like that? to may betentially replicate the bromance that barack obama had with mr. mosys in the final two or so years of mr. obama's term. at the heart of this, trying to make deals. trade ties as well as business deals. for mr. trump's part, he minced words when it came to bilateral ties and trade deals. >> i look forward to working with you, mr. prime minister, to create jobs in our c

here is your first word news with paul allen. paul: thanks.en several casualties in north london after a van drove into a group of people near a mosque early monday morning. it is a diverse area with a busy underground and bus station. many of the victims were thought to have just finished were sipping after breaking their ramadan fast. it's not know what happened the police say one man was arrested. president emmanuel macron is heading for a big win in the parliamentary election, but not the thundering majority that was were cast. they are heading for about 350 577 available. sunday's election was the fourth in two months and has turned off voters. turnout was the lowest ever for a french elections. the north korean president is set to meet some of the country's most itant corpate figures as part of the government's plan to clean up business. the fair trade commissions are being invited for talks under the revelation that egg business paid millions of dollars for government favors. the de facto head of samsung remains in detention, accused of

i'm paul allen. this is bloomberg. shery: thank you. maker has been suspended in tokyo amid claims it may file for bankruptcy as early as next week. bloomberg japan auto's reporter is following this. them to fileing first with danger pen and then in the u.s., how does it play out? >> japan has always been the focal point of the takata crisis , whether to file for bankruptcy in japan, this has been the question. the funding family -- founding family which owns more than 50% hares have been against filing for bankruptcy in japan, mainly from the symbolic reason. they only compromise until recently. it took very long for all the parties involved to reach this point because there are 15, 16 carmakers involved. we are talking about 100 million airbags, ¥1 trillion in total recall costs. the ultimate goal may be the same for all the parties involved. the interest for each carmaker may be different. takata's leader and the steering committee have to reach a deal with each carmaker, in terms of the legal ramifications and the continuity of futu

rishaad: right, let's head over to sydney and get first word news headlines with paul allen. : thanks. as suspectedilled gunman in the philippines after reports of shooting in manila. police now say all guests have been accounted for with 25 injured, but not from gunshots. the incident comes after the president imposed martial law on the southern island. police a robbery was the most likely motive. the u.s. imposing new sanctions on individuals and companies with links to north korea following its latest missile launch. the treasury department adding that are said to have worked with north korea on making weapons of mass destruction. washington is urging china to rein in its ally and says there are behind the scenes moves underway. fbi director james comey will testify to congress next thursday has the russia investigation moves on to the public stage. he will be question about what president trump said to him about russia before he was fired in early may. the memo comey wrote is said to have claimed the president as kim to drop checks on mike flynn. prime minister modi has ta

let's get to the first word news with paul allen.pproved a mystic shares for inclusion in its inch market indexes. it will give the almost $7 trillion mark and bigger role to 401(k) retirement plans. 222 shares will be included. when you do all the computations on the number of shares and the market cap and you look at what could investors put into the market through the shanghai and shenzhen connect program of hong kong, the feeling was restricted. able to dohat we are is spend time with regulators as well and they work with us to see if we can get it done in one step. obviously our announcement is in two steps so we leave enough flexibility. >> msci has held up on classifying saudi arabia. they have been added on a watchlist for potential emerging-market status. that is an immense achievement. argentina will remain a frontier market for another year while nigeria will not be reclassified as a standalone market. theresa may steps into a new political reality with the heavily rewritten legislative program that is heavy on brexit and

let's get to the first word news with paul allen. vestor mark mobius says emerging-market stock prices remain good value despite the rally as prices are cheap and earnings are growing. he told us developing nation technology shares are still attractive as earnings increase. he hopes india and brazil will be able to offset beijing's growing influence after its inclusion on the msci indexes. >> useful because you have all these etf's that need to have a benchmark. it is now 26% of the weighting, which is ok. overtime, that it is not going to happen overnight, it is going to take a number of years. the good news is that hopefully india and other markets, brazil, will grow so that they are waiting will begin to -- so that their weighting will begin to balance out. who made china's biggest developer is stepping down as chairman. metroves after shenzhen emerged as a white knight last year and has now become the top shareholder. share price has remained static since it face the hostile takeover in december 2015. that compares with enormous g

let's get to paul allen in sydney. dent trump has warned the indian prime minister his country must do more to reduce obstacles to u.s. exports even as he offered purchases of american-made equipment. in the public opinion -- appearance after the white house meeting, he said they have to have a trading relationship that reciprocal. >> in our conversations today, president trump and i have discussed all dimensions of india/u.s. relations at length. we are committed to a bilateral architecture that will take our strategic partnership to new heights. paul: theresa may is being accused of jeopardizing peace in northern ireland by reaching a deal with a party to shore up her minority government. the government -- democratic unionists party agreed to support theresa may's party. it includes one billion new funds for the region. the prime minister also gave details on the rights of eu citizens in the u.k. post-brexit. receive thewill same thing as british people. more ambition, clarity, and guarantees are needed. the level of

we are joined by paul allen with a look at the markets. tures are not looking much better than the weather, we are waiting on a trade allen's figures or april -- trade balance figures for april. ore price has been coming off, and that follows a week gdp growth on wednesday. our first quarter gdp for japan expected to come in at .6% higher on quarter and improving to 2.4 percent. in may andalance china expected to rise almost 48 $38 billion,-- import growth slowing as well. there is a lot to watch around the region today. i am paul allen in sydney. more on "bloomberg technology," next. ♪ emily: this is a "bloomberg technology." emily chang. earlier today meg whitman hit is seeingand says hpe a slowdown in the cloud. we are wondering whether businesses are rethinking their movement to the cloud and what this means tohpe meg: you have to start with absent data. what might you want in a private -- on premisesth . there is a world for public cloud, but we are seeing issues with cost, clarity control, and they want to bring those workloads back t

let's get first word news with paul allen here in sydney.of people killed in the london fire has risen to 17. six bodies have so far been recovered from the 24 story tower and north kensington, while 11 have been located and cannot yet be removed. has ordered a full public inquiry into the disaster that accusations mount that it might have been preventable. calldent putin used his and tv show to poke fun at washington over meddling in the u.s. election. leaking ofes comey's discussions was strange, but was prepared to offer the same asylum deal he gave to edward snowden. he addressed the new sanctions. >> there is nothing surprising. in the senate of the united states, law has been proposed for the strengthening of these sanctions. why? nothing extraordinary is happening. those new sanctions send russian stocks to their lowest in the year. a bipartisan deal expanded the penalties imposed on moscow in 2014 for its role in ukraine. the vote had minimal impact on the ruble and bonds little change since the start of the week. the u.s. jury has c

rishaad: let's join paul allen for first word news. ul: the belgian prime minister will convene the national security council after an attack at a belgium station. a man was shot after detonating a bag. the bomb squad carried out under a controlled explosion. dallas fed president robert kaplan says he is glad about the interest rate hike and is willing to be patient. however, he says he may be more skeptical about getting the neutral rate to 3% in coming years. he says inflation is sufficient enough to take the slack out of the labor market. >> inflation has been notably sluggish in the united states. that is not all bad. getting to 2% inflation has been uneven and sluggish. a survey by the pboc says bankers and executives are more positive on the economic outlook than last quarter. the gauge of confidence rose for the banking and business sectors. more households are betting on a further rise in property prices. follows signsood of economic stabilization in may. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analy

we are joined by paul allen. an exciting day on wall street. : and it may be reflected on the asx gets underway. futures pointing modestly higher at the moment, about a 10th of 1%. we are waiting on consumer confidence figures for the month of june. could be weak. the past couple of weeks have been weak, and tended wage idowth in australia -- tep wage growth here in australia. murdoch and bruce gordon said they would not continue to support the network to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars and it may face administration. pointing higher, waiting on industrial production numbers for april out of japan. elsewhere, china retail sales , estimated to hold steady in may, and chinese production may easily in the month of may as well. i'm paul allen in sydney. more from "bloomberg technology," next. ♪ emily: this is "bloomberg technology." i'm emily chang. top story today, u.s. attorney general jeff sessions testified before the senate intelligence panel about the firing of former fbi director james comey and the investigation into russian hack

let's get first word news courtesy of paul allen.abia insists there is no blockade of qatar and will provide any food and medicine needed. allforeign minister said qatar's ports and airports remain open. saudi arabian closed the soul land border and let other countries to cut off diplomatic links over the country support for terrorism. >> the ports are open, the airports are open. we have denied them use of sovereign airspace. this is our right. for qatari airways and qatari owned aircraft, not anyone else. there is no blockade on seaports. they can move goods in and out whenever they want, so technically not a blockade. paul: an american student jailed in north korea has been freed and medevac out of the country. his parents say he has been in a coma since march last year when he was convicted for acting against the secretive nation. said hisrson department has secured his release of the direction of president trump. pyongyang confirmed the news but gave no more details. bill gross has repeated his warning that markets are threatene

i am paul allen. this is bloomberg. anchor: thank you so much.deral reserve made good on all the signals that it would keep normalizing monetary policy key year as it hiked its rate again, signaling one more rate hike this year and painting a clear picture of the balance sheet reductions plan. i want to bring our global economic and policy editor, kathleen hays. we talked a lot about how we want the fed to be transparent and tell us exactly what they are going to do, and they delivered, and we are shocked, right? seem jitterykets in asia now that they know the fed is closer than people thought to reduce the balance sheet. when the fed is so sanguine, i am waiting to see how this turns out. of course, it is widely advertised. 25 basis points. that is fine. another rate hike this year for a total of three? sure, that is fine. that said, the risks are balanced. they are knowledge and something that is so important. another big part of the discussion o after this meeting -- the fed said "do not worry, over the median term, it will go higher." tight l

we are joined by paul allen with a look at the markets. asx futures looking asong, up by a quarter of 1% the market awaits a key piece of data. first quarter gdp numbers expecting to come in fairly weak, a third of 1% growth. maybe weaker still, because we had disappointing numbers on tuesday, with an expected drag on that exports. australia had 26 years now without ever session, but that could be on the line. elsewhere, nikkei futures looking weaker. we will be keeping an eye on japan for the diplomatic stance on qatar. saudi arabia cutting ties with qatar over alleged terror links. guestsan half of qatar's go for south korea, japan, and taiwan. on china as well, we are updating foreign reserves today. expect to see an increase to $3.046 trillion.and paul allen in sydney. more from "bloomberg technology," next. ♪ emily: this is "bloomberg technology." i'm emily chang. this week, u.k. prime minister theresa may put more pressure on technology companies to prevent their products and services from being used by violent extremists, after a thi

we are joined by paul allen with a look at the markets. happy friday, paul, and good morning.ooking like a happy friday on the markets as well. some modest strength with the nikkei futures at the moment, and waiting on the negative japan monetary policy statement, which will come at the this two-day policy meeting of the bank of japan, looking out for any clues on inflation outlook there. here in australia, futures are also looking pretty strong, up .4%, and we will be watching bhp personally today and the world's biggest miner and we'll be announcing a new chairman at the close of today. this spiked briefly above 76 $.76 u.s. cents on thursday, but we saw some growth to contend with in australia. iron ore prices are weighing on the currency. i am paul allen in sydney, with bloomberg technology. ♪ emily: this is bloomberg technology, i am emily chang. and now, the tax selloff. u.s. -- tech selloff. this slide continued, weighing on the overall market. for further analysis, oliver analyst james wang. using tech is undervalued. where and why? james: facebook is growing the botto

we are joined by bloomberg's paul allen with a look at the markets. selloff in the states late in the day. paul: yes, not expected to impact the open in australia too much. futures are only off by about two points. nikkei futures looking mixed. keep an eye on toshiba. the agm will be held at toshiba today. we are not expecting anything on the delayed earnings. we may have news on the chip units, the self-imposed deadline to finalize the deal is today, incj.n bain capital and toshiba is one to watch. on theep an eye in -- hong kong index. the hang seng, there was a plunge in 17 stocks late yesterday. mostly on the gross internet -- growth market. some stocks up 90%. some see a link with a broker as under regulatory investigation. a few more interesting speeches out of china today. i am paul allen in sydney. more on "bloomberg technology," next. ♪ ♪ chang, and emily this is "bloomberg technology." google losing its biggest regulatory battle yet. european union enforcers say the search engine giant abuse its dominance to muscle out smaller search rivals.

i am paul allen in sydney. "bloomberg technology" next. ♪ ♪ caroline: this is "bloomberg technology." i am caroline hyde in london. we are diving back into our top story of the day. that is apple's worldwide developers conference. emily chang is currently speaking with tim cook in an exclusive interview from the annual event. cook spoke about one of the major announcements, the apple home pod. >> apple is a company that deeply cares about music and wants to deliver a great audio experience in the home. we feel like we reinvented it in the portable player area and we think we can reinvent it in the home as well. caroline: the home pod is apple's answer to the amazon echo and google home. emily asked about competition heating up and if apple is late to the game. >> for us, it is not about being first. it is about being the best in giving the user and express that delights them every time. we do not let that in patients -- impatience result in shipping something not great. caroline: more of that exclusive intervie

i am paul allen in sydney. "bloomberg technology" next. ♪ ♪ caroline: this is "bloomberg technology" from london. i am caroline hyde. let's return to our top story, the selloff of tech stocks. at the heart of the selloff is pressure on big cap tech stocks that have previously seen massive gains in the market this year. he is in analyst at rbc and covers some of the biggest tech firms. he joins us now from new york. always great to have you on the show. i'm looking at a note you put out on may 18 saying valuations are more robust, saying having climbed from 15 to 17 times they are more robust. do you stand by that? >> we have had a major rally in the sector, large cap consumer tech, not including apple, microsoft, and tesla. other names have participated in the rally. , theig internet four stocks are up 20% year to date. earnings estimates have risen so the multiples have not been that egregious. if you step back, i know the stocks are up a lot, they came up from the trump trade off. we talked about this at the

let's get over to paul allen in sydney for first word news headlines. paul: thanks. china has rejected president trump should view that it has failed to rein in north korea. trump told a rally that he still hopes for more from beijing. s behind the scenes moves have been indispensable. north korea says it might halt weapons test if the u.s. stops were game's with the south. ta plunged 53% in tokyo. it is expected to file for bankruptcy friday or monday with its debt and obligations morphing cash holdings. 's potentially lethal airbags are linked to 17 desk around the world and triggered a recall of 100 million vehicles. lowestdit rating is the since before the fall. chairman wang shi quits china vanke. motor vehicle sales and australia surged to a high in may, defined worries about weak consumer spending at a time of record low wage growth and record high household debt. sales rose for a third straight month and top 100,000. suv's and commercial vehicles were strong. luxury sales growth was at a five year low. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 jour

i'm paul allen in sydney.bloomberg technology," next. ♪ emily: this is "bloomberg technology." i'm emily chang. uber is out with the new, some say long overdue feature, tipping. it is something ceo travis kalanick has been opposed to. now that he is on an indefinite is makingbsence, uber concessions to turn its image around and keep drivers in the seat. here with the story is eric newcomer who covers uber for bloomberg. what happened? reporter: they finally broke down. i think this has been coming for a while. they really wanted to pay into rebuilding their relationship with drivers. they announced it while dealing with all their internal employee problems. they knew they would not get much credit. first, they don't with the white-collar workers, the 14,000 full-time employees around the world, and now it is the 180 day campaign to help drivers. obviously, you need to start off with tipping. that is the main one. ft came out saying they've already collected $250 million in tips, which is a lot when you added u

i'm paul allen. this is bloomberg.rump will pull the united states out landmark paris climate accord. the reaction has been swift. complimentary. political allies, opponents, world leaders have been having their say. out,ve been tweeting issuing statements all day and evening long. let's get to this. oneutting it all into slogan that we've been hearing donald trump hammer over and over again, "america first." we heard this hammered over and over again. he spoke to his conservative in the rose garden and it. pence also hammered mr. trump said i was elected to represent the interests of pittsburgh, of american workers, represent the interests of paris. let's take a listen at what he had to say. is thateality withdrawing is in america's interest and won't matter much to the climate. the united states, under the will administration, continue to be the cleanest and most environmentally friendly country on earth. >> so let's go ahead into a what hef the details of was talking about here. he wants, one, to renegotiate deal.ri

paul. we are looking at hong kong come the shanghai open. all allen there in sydney. let's get it straight to sophie kamaruddin and a positive trading day. sophie: so far. the asx 200 come up .1%. consumer discretionary stocks on the rise, consumer staples still falling over 1%. as paul mentioned, retail sales figures exceeding estimates for the month of april. turning to the market open in shanghai, stocks there snapping a three-day gain ahead of the caixin manufacturing pmi out in the next 15 minutes. on the hang seng, resuming gains for an eighth day. hong kong stocks ending may with a fifth month of gains, the longest winning streak since 2013, one of asia's best performers, so extending the lead over the shanghai composite. the rally in tech in financial stocks helping that advance. says investorsal are expecting housing to outperform. the pboc setting the daily yuan , the strongest since january 6, and the strongest since november 10. rised see the onshore yuan past its 200 day moving average for the first time since the august 2015 the violation, but this jump

let's get over to paul allen. the unemployment rate has fallen significantly to five point 5% come up 2000 jobs created. australian dollar jumped impressively off the back of this. looking for 10,000. we got 42,000. another wild read. it never fails to disappoint, does it? this is where the picture does show a trend, full-time .mployment the climbing again we saw it declined last month as well. so all of this boost from por part-time jobs. participation rate increasing to 64.5%. the aussie dollar climbing and climbing fast. ,aidi: it does beg the question these structural changes, the gig economy, the decline in full-time. , the interest rate probabilities, if you look at december, expectations of a cup from the rba just over 12%, but the rba isy, still stuck between a rock and the hard place. >> i am glad i am not on the board. it is a difficult tightrope to walk for the rba. this is something they always talk about this in the statement and minutes, weak labor growth. that is one theme that is remaining consiste

now we go to the news with paul allen in sydney. paul: u.k.theresa may has placed that e.u. citizens in britain can stay there. she laid out her position at a summit of e.u. leaders a saint she does not want to break up families or deport anyone. the e.u. is likely to object to her insistence that citizens -- are adjudicated by british judges, saying that must be the role of the european court of justice. >> i hope there might be some room to think again about the brexit process to prevent and over the cliff scenario, a no deal scenario, which i think will be, have a gi impact on the our big economy on economies and there is still room to discuss the situation where there is some sort of connection with the international market in the customs union. paul: north korea is said to have carried out another engine test for potential intercontinental ballistic missile. it happened where previous test have taken place. yangier this month, pyong said it was not far away from delivering a nuclear missile to the u.s. mainland. the u.s. said its latest r

the project is being spear headed by paul allen and has been in the works for six years.allen says launching a rocket from the plane will give it a head start high above the earth. the first demonstration flight is set for 2019. >>> all right sports coming up right after the break. the giants try to avoid a sweep tonight by dusty baker and the washington nationals. >>> a live picture now from san francisco international airport. thanks for joining us this wednesday night. we will be back in 10 minutes. have assembled. so, what's the plan? breaking out the guardians, pal. celebrate the summer of heroes, only at disneyland resort. hero up! whatwhat made them believeace carthat a two-ton behemothhop? could compete in a track race? or that they could take on the elite in world motor racing, and win? we may never truly understand what drives mercedes-amg. but here's to another 50 years of it. mercedes-amg. half a century of driving performance. >>> okay here we are getting ready for game one of the nba finals. everyone is wanting to know when is kerr going to be back. >> we ar

let's get over to paul allen.yment rate has fallen significantly to five point 5% come up 2000 jobs created. australian dollar jumped impressively off the back of this. looking for 10,000. we got 42,000. another wild read. it never fails to disappoint, does it? this is where the picture does show a trend, full-time

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it is co-owned by microsoft co-founder paul allen. >> sunny and mild, a live look at doppler 7.g, we'll see the fog extending across the bay locally overnight. overnight lows will be mainly in the low to mid 50s. many of our farther inland locations will be clear overnight. tomorrow will be sunny day with just a little patch of fog lingering at the coast line. highs will range from low and mid 60s at the coast to mid 70s around the bay, mid-'80s in the warm est inland locations and in san bruno tomorrow is the graduation ceremony for cappuccino high school at 1:00 p.m. and all throughout the afternoon. it is going to be sunny and mild with temperatures in the mid to upper 60s in san bruno. that is my gift to the graduates. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. wish i had a job for you, too, but i don't. [ laughter ] >> this weekend we'll see partly cloudy skies. it will be nice and bright, though. high temperatures will drop off a few degrees from tomorrow's highs but will start warming up again monday. tuesday looks like the highest with 90s inland. >> heating up. >> thank

. >>> microsoft coy founder and billionaire paul allen has been busy for the last six years building's largest plane. >> the stratolaunch has emerged for the first time. how big is it? 385-foot wingspan, 50 feet tall and weighs 500,000 pounds and that's without fuel. >> so that's a football field across there, right for the wingspan. >> massive. >> the plan is for stratoto launch and carry rockets into space and then launch them into orbit. >> all right. good stuff. more news after this. ahh, sir? you the law? we've had some complaints of... is that a fire? there's your payoff, deputy. git! velveeta shells & cheese. there's gold in them thar shells. twenty more years of this my kids say go for it, mom. be that woman who does what she loves. knows what she wants. yeah, mom's gonna go for it! except... i don't have a clue where to start. hey we hear you. that's why aarp has resources to help you navigate the job market. we'll connect you with employers that value your experience and provide tips and tools to find work you love. if you don't think "this is right for me" when you think a

he was just trying to point out -- >> we scored one with a little arm billionaire paul allen has beeny for the last six years building the world's largest plane. >> the stratolaunch has emerged for the first time. how big is it? 385-foot wingspan, 50 feet tall and weighs 500,000 pounds and that's without fuel. >> so that's a football field across there, right for the wingspan. >> massive. >> the plan is for stratoto launch and carry rockets into space and thenup with good morning washington. it's the first day of june, and it's friday eve. there is plenty of good news in your forecast, coming up in just a moment. but first, lets take a quick look at some of the morning's top stories. an important announcement expected from the white house today. this afternoon president donald trump will announce his decision on whether to pull the united states out of the paris climate accord. the agreement to fight global warming and pollution by reducing carbon emissions, is supported by virtually every ius the announcement will come during a rose garden event thursday afternoon. a shocking crime i

we are joined by bloomberg's paul allen. good morning. >> we are seeing some weakness.n a sixth of 1%. we may see gold stock leading the decline. the unemployment rate expected to hold steady at 5.7%. that is notoriously unpredictable. one stock to watch is bhp. they will name a new chairman either today or tomorrow to replace jack nasser. other things to watch, the new zealand dollar will be in focus with first-quarter gdp out of new zealand. off will rise to 7/10 of 1% the back of the disappointing balance of payments. more from bloomberg technology, next. emily: this is bloomberg technology. after worst selloff for tech stocks the market is trying to find its footing. the companies that solve the biggest losses fell once again after the federal reserve meeting but after the $176 billion wipeout we have seen since friday, our tech stocks too expensive? james,, whoing in covers these stories. >> i don't think you can make the argument right now. they are more expensive than valuations we have seen but the growth rates we are seeing are superior to the growth rates we h

those numbers crossing the bloomberg, april numbers, here's paul allen in sydney. , retail salesat up market had been expecting .3%.

we are joined by bloomberg's paul allen with a look at the markets. paul, good morning.ood morning, alisa. the new zealand dollar up a little this morning. this is after the reserve bank held the cash rate, as expected by all 15 economists surveyed, at 1.75%. the governor saying monetary policy there will remain accommodative for a considerable period. asx futures pointing higher by about 0.3%, rebounding after wednesday's selldown. nikkei futures looking a little weaker. might be worth keeping an eye on takata today and for the next few days. it's expected to file for bankruptcy, possibly this week, and the tokyo stock exchange is expanding the lower limit for takata from today. a couple rate decisions out from taiwan and the philippines. talks with potential investors after extending its credit facility. more from "bloomberg technology" next. ♪ caroline: this is "bloomberg technology." i'm caroline hyde. travis kalanick leaving his post. he has played a starring role in many of the company's biggest controversies, including this video showing an argument with the drive

we are joined by paul allen. he has a look at the markets for us. are looking at fairly modest gains on the asx futures. it has been a wild week on the asx. keep an eye on the big banking stocks. this is after the state of south australia announced in its budget it would be hitting the banks with a levy on liabilities, intending to raise up to three and at dollars million in four years. that is on top of the one announced by the federal government in may. they have slammed the policy as a joke. in japan, nikkei futures pointed to slight gains. watching jakarta again after steep declines on thursday for the troubled airbag maker. we are expecting takata to file for bankruptcy on monday. pmi manufacturing we are also watching. more "bloomberg technology," next. ♪ emily: this is "bloomberg technology," i am emily chang. mark zuckerberg has written a new mission statement to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. at an event in chicago, he rolled out new rules to further engage its users. we have to build a world w

battlefield and one of the trailing squadrons which a lot of you may have heard of and recently, paul allen, there are 300 miles of the most advanced elements of the midway squadron. he is on the scene. on the other hand, they have a calm and logistical logical matters and realized that he can direct the battle better right to pearl harbor and honolulu area. he never considered going out to sea because he could directed better from hawaii. he was doing what is necessary. yamamoto is in a position where he can control everything but it wasn't a micromanaging influence. yamamoto has some of the best of the communication that meant and you have a situation where the latest intelligence -- they would be received but they are often not received by the advanced forces -- when you add the insistence on radio silence, become an on blinders and they need to. this is the principle by which he agreed to get into the combat. he said the main part will be without exposing our characters to dig deep destruction out of proportion to the damage it can conflict. we have to accept the danger. he is willing t

paul allen. can't get over how cocky -- foggy it is that there. united states focus on russia.will see what the week ahead brings. haidi: investors have been selling out recently, but why australia's top oil producers will produce $1400 by the end of the year. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ betty: good morning, i am betty live in new york. haidi: i am haidi lun in sydney. gold is back to a currency player. the pound suffered the biggest drop in eight months. our next guest thinks it could reach $14,000 per ounce on the end of 2017 because of global volatility. let's go to him. great to have you on this public holiday. i want to show you a quick chart to illustrate something interesting, looking at what is happening with the gold price. we have had three weeks of a as we hadoff, isn't -- even as we have had risks around comey and trump. clearly that election result from the u.k. -- is it really politics that is dominating the safe haven that? you are kind of backing it. >> i think both brexit, all those things, they impact gold. gold is in the long-term uptrend. we are seeing volatility

we are joined by bloomberg's paul allen. we had some records across the board. paul: that's right.y be a positive day on the asx as well. we are waiting on some data out of australia. aha new home sales are expected to show a decline of 1.1%. this is after we had 1.1% decline in house prices in sydney and melbourne on thursday. investors in sydney property will be slugged with a new tax. iron or price was also down, heading towards -- iron ore price was also down. bhp saw huge demand for steel in the future as china's belt and road projects begin to ramp up. we have data out of japan today as well. monetary base and consumer confidence numbers, and nikkei futures pointing up. some other data to watch out for, south korea, first quarter gdp is expected to remain steady at 0.9%, 2.7% on the year. more from "bloomberg technology" next. emily: this is "bloomberg technology." i'm emily chang. president trump has decided to pull the u.s. out of the paris climate accord. the move has huge implications across the globe and throughout several industries, and ceos are already speaking out. g

i'm joined by paul allen for a look at the markets. good morning. . s looking like a bright day across the asia-pacific. nikkei futures pointing higher. later on, convenience stores and supermarkets sales for may out of japan. futures looking positive as well even though it is only eight points. we will keep an eye on the big banks this morning after moody's downgraded all four of them from a3 over concerns of what has been happening in the housing markets in australia. weak wages growth among the reasons given. those themes sound familiar because they are. we are expected to hear them from the reserve bank of australia later today. when the minutes of the june meeting gets released. the chances of a further cut are possible. the pboc governor will be speaking in shanghai so watch out for that. more from bloomberg technology, next. ♪ ♪ this is bloomberg technology. i'm emily chang. sheryl sandberg takes the stage at the annual ad festival this week as the social network increasingly dominates the multibillion-dollar ad market. this is bloomberg technol

in california, the microsoft cofounder paul allen unveiled the airplane designed to launch rockets intoe air. it has six engines and a , expectedf 385 feet to demonstrate its first launch in 2019. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalist and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. david: thank you. we turn to the top story, president donald trump expected to withdraw from the paris climate accord this afternoon. the agreement was a top priority for barack obama. here is president obama in 2015. president obama: this is when we determined we would save our planet. sharect that our nations a sense of urgency about this challenge and a growing realization that it is within our power to do something about it. david: i will bring in brian deese, a former senior advisor with president obama who negotiated the deal. he joins me from portland, maine. how much of the success of this, getting to ratification had to do with the fact that business got behind it. as you put it, technological project has made clean energy a profitable investment. this seismice

betty: we'll be watching out for that, thank you, paul allen.rading session will bring a new round of earnings, economic numbers including the snapshot of the housing market, fed speak, brexit, all of that could impact trade. su keenan is here with the jampacked week. betty: the direct -- su: the direct impacts will be the way we closed, the nasdaq the only sign of weak as, but a lot of it we saw. we saw the tech selloff, the workers will say we came up with a low of the day which shows internal strength. let's take a look at what we the big economic data that will be out. it will be the health of the housing market. so far it has been near the strongest sales faith of the decade -- sales pace of a decade. it will be restrained from a two key reports, sales and homes. their new the strongest of a decade or in any signs of we this will be of note on the reports, expected to show strength. at 177, the bloomberg we see a big picture of the u.s. home supply shrinking. cityhite line is the 20 composite of prices, the blue line is existing sales, prob

i am paul allen with the latest first word news.ted press the saudi arabia and other nations are demanding qatar cut ties with iran to end isolation. they also say the saudi-led bloc has given doha 10 days to shut down its broadcasting network and cut down a trading network. quant wants to end the 18 day diplomatic crisis. north korea is said to have carried out another test with internet -- intercontinental ballistic missiles. it happened where previous test had taken place. earlier this month, pyongyang said it would not fire to deliver a nuclear missile to the u.s. mainland. the latest drill with a japan failed to shoot down a dummy missile. indian prime minister narendra modi heads to washington next week, hoping to persuade president trump to extend the visa program that has allowed i.t. companies to send a skilled workers to america. explain howmpt to the schemes help both countries. the indian i.t. trade body says at three quarters of america's top 500 companies use indian services. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more

he' called stratdo launch, a space project by microsoft cofounder paul allen.signed to carry a rocket up to 35,000 feet. the rocket then separates and boosts satellites into orbit. the rocket is powered by six boeing 7 # 47 engines. its first flight is months away. critics say it's not whether stratolaunch will prove to be cost-effective. >> can't be cheap, wow. >>> the new robocalls that prevent you from hanging >>> when most of us get a robocall we just hang up. a growing trend could make that impossible. it is a new strategy that prevents you from hanging up on recorded messages or monitoring your caller id. in fact, you don't even know you are getting a call because your phone never rings. >> they change their phone numbers every time and they are not real numbers anyway. >> reporter: theresa can't stand telemarketing calls of any kind. >> i hang up almost immediatemyly. >> reporter: she called me after discovering a missed call that did not show up on her land line phone display. >> i looked and it said two calls but when i picked up and went into my voice

i am paul allen with the latest first word news.um on relations says president trump has been weakened on the international stage while the status of his chinese counterpart is growing. said the u.s. is "mired in a political crisis that could have far-reaching implications." ambassadors that u.s. withdrawal from international agreements has listed xi jinping's image. trump's proposed travel ban has been defeated in the second appeal as the supreme court considers whether to take b or the court of appeals in san francisco said the president exceeded his authority by suspending nationals from mostly muslim countries without showing how letting his people in hurts america's interests. the white house is confident the supreme court will uphold the ban. jeffrey immelt stepping down as chief executive of general electric ending a 10 year in which he dramatically reshape the company, but failed to win over wall street. johnll be replaced by flannery, who oversaw a jump in profits at ge's health care unit. the stock soared in more than 18 m

recently, microsoft paul allen stuff found the sister ship of the yamato. he is on yamato as a flagship. 300 miles astern of the nagumo force. so he is on the scene. admiral nimitz, on the other hand, had -- had a calm and logistical, logical manner and realized that he can direct the battle better right there from pearl harbor in honolulu area. in other words, from hawaii than he can if he's steaming around on a ship in the field. so nimitz never considered going out to sea because he can direct it better from hawaii. he's going to trust his commanders, fletcher and spurens on the scene. yamamoto, however, on yamato is in a position to control everything but also had a -- it wasn't a micromanaging influence but it was the yamato has some of the best communication equipment and you had a situation piling up where the latest intelligence and updates that were received, they would be received by yamato and often not received by the advance forces, the flagship of the carrier kagi or the commander of the invasion force support group of cruisers kando. he wasn'

let's get first word news with paul allen.ico's central bank has raised borrowing costs for a seventh straight time, the most hawkish monetary authority in the g-20 extended its hiking cycle. it is said the decision is " congruent with official convergence and inflation towards its 3% target." analysts a what that means is the hiking cycle is over. >> we believe the actions we have taken with information we have up to now should be sufficient to take us to our objective towards the in the of 2018. paul: senate republicans issued a new health care will which was immediately attacked by senior party figures. it includes sharp cuts to medicaid and other reductions in subsidies and tax cuts for the wealthy. pharma ands life sciences and biotech's index all its biggest gains. indian prime minister narendra modi heads to washington, hoping to persuade president trump to extend a program that allows i.t. companies to send a to america. he will attempt to explain how the scheme has benefited both countries, boosting innovation and com

i am paul allen with the first word news. orders fell 3.1% from the previous month. economists expected .5% gain. of2.7%, well short expectations of a 7.3% rise. ppi prices were unchanged as well. is governor kuroda increasingly likely to win a second term ahead of a policy meeting this week. finds a third of economists saying he is the only possible contender after his current term runs out. economists see a change in policy and the vast majority don't is any change until his current term ends. reports from japan say prime minister shinzo abe may invite president xi jinping for a state visit next year. he is likely to go to china early to lay the groundwork for the trip route it will be the first visit by a chinese leader to japan since 2008. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. sophie: the asian markets looking like a mixed session midday in hong kong. the techlt across space, falling from a 17 year high. sees it, he's not surprised of t

as get the details with paul allen in sydney. the bigger offer, but could risk alienating an important customer. paul: that's right. yancoal has done all the right things, a good offer, $2.45 billion, of the regulatory clearances are there, and rio tinto has recommended this deal to shareholders. tinto has been working hard on improving its relationship with the china. the ironthe head of ore unit got jailed on corruption and bribery charges. throwing out this bid from yancoal will not do a whole lot in terms of relationship building. for $225offering next million including other sweeteners, compensation of the deal gets delayed. from glencore's point of view, getting these extra mines from rio tinto would link up all of lynn course the pleading tenements as well -- link up all of glencore's temperaments as well. rishaad: a pretty tough decision. what are people telling you about the way they are leaning? review thisard will glencore bid and it will be an announcement before the shareholder meeting tomorrow, so they will have to c