situation today in the country we can put that question to chinese human rights activist and lawyer tom bell who joins us now from taipei mr tung good to see you what would you say do lawyers and human rights activists in china still live in fia. yes many many curious lawyers have been put into a crease or culture and disappeared and many have how being at peace park since last year and these 40 few muslims ready happy to know we are not you spices. and so do. rights were is my higher form. but. sunk human rights lawyers in china last year with their continued and their human rights and here it is our rights our crackdown has been mostly be to fall down and down and i will surely it's. we'll be mall lawyers being at the start or even detained in the coming years but it's important for all of us enormous aton that you yourself have been arrested and you claim you've been tortured by the police before what is life like for a lawyer or a human rights activist in china off though they have been targeted by the state. if you cause if my human rights work i was. the start and there are. banished f

tom: mike bell, thank you so much for the briefing.was taken aback by the caution and defensiveness of so many street and on street reports. we will continue. an interesting week, particularly in britain. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: good morning, everyone. nejra cehic in london, in for francine. i am tom keene in new york. we are focused on britain but also on japan. shinzo abe's election, not a supermajority but nonetheless good for mr. abe. a briefing from robert feldman of morgan stanley, the arch watcher of japan within the english-speaking world. we are thrilled to have you with us today. i want to go back to your 2001 book, i will butcher the japanese. over" -- is this a chance for shinzo abe to start over? robert: i think it is. what has happened in the last year and a half is that politics have overwhelmed the policy agenda. year by year policy reports had less and less reform in them. from around april or may, there has been a real acceleration of discussion in the background about important policy initiatives on pensions, on me

cfra strategist, lindsey bell, cofounder tom beven along investment banker ceo of the brewer group, jack brewer, you will have to wait later in the hour to find out what you think about nike pulling the shoe. >> i'm itching, i'm itching, ready to talk about it. apparently colin kaepernick placed a phone call and they pulled the shoe. >> i can't wait for that, we want to check on futures, s&p did hit new all-time high, trade optimism, the truce there, 45-point loss on dow futures right now and again, s&p -- president trump commenting on negotiations yesterday at the white house. >> they are also meeting, it actually be done before our meeting, i think we have a good chance of making a deal. i think they want to make a deal, they are losing, many companies are leaving because of tariffs, they don't want to pay tariffs. dagen: european trade going down on a different path, $4 billion in trade value, pasta, cheese, whiskey, metals and chemicals. fixed income portfolio jack mcintyre, good to see you as always, what to make -- you look at fixed income, you look at the bond market, 10-year clos

cfra strategist, lindsey bell, cofounder tom beven along investment banker ceo of the brewer group, jacke hour to find out what you think about nike pulling the shoe. >> i'm itching, i'm itching, ready to talk about it. apparently colin kaepernick placed a phone call and they pulled the shoe. >> i can't wait for that, we want to check on futures, s&p did hit new all-time high, trade optimism, the truce there, 45-point loss on dow futures right

tom: i am not going to ask her about deutsche bank. mickey levy and lindsey bellspirited conversation with central-bank coverage coming up. which a bank, we have got to look at this chart, extraordinary day two actions -- deutsche bank, we have got to look at this chart, extraordinary day. worldwide, this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ bloomberg "surveillance," from london, francine lacqua, tom keene in new york. there are four or five or eight things we could speak about with kevin cirilli. we have got to go into the amazing news flow we have seen, mr. epstein the last few days, and its affect on washington. mike allen leads ask eos with a carefully phrased statement for president clinton. president clinton will need to adapt. how does washington see this dichotomy between washing -- president trump and the former president? epstein wasr. operating in terms of politicians on both sides of the aisle is evident. this story reaches both sides of the aisle. the current dynamic within the next 24 hours with regard to labor secretary acosta directly in the political crosshairs of t

plus, netflix out with their numbers after the bell media mogul tom rogers says the stock is virtuallynbreakable in the streaming wars. we'll find out whahat s him so bullish. he is coming up next here on "fast money" stick around is the fund built to sell or built to last? etfs are only part of a portfolio. so make it easy to explain. give me a quality fund that helps me get clients closer to their goals. flexshares etfs are designed and managed around investor objectives. so you can advise with confidence. before investing, consider the fund's investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. go to flexshares.com for a prospectus containing this information. read it carefully. >> all right netflix is gearing up for results tomorrow i'm not going to say earnings because we don't know if they're going to earn anything stock is up more than 35% this year the streaming wars certainly are heating up let's bring in tom rogers, executive chairman of wind view, also a former ceo of t voe and former nbc executive and a guy closely associated with this fine network thank you, tom. >> thanks

. >> yes >>> third quarter earnings on apple on the deck and it will happen after the closing bell. tomeard from dom. if you have an international business you have a problem. >> apple has an international business but the good news for apple shares and why we like them heading into earnings is historically the things that gave investors anxiety were iphones sales. though they're negotiating in shanghai, they're taking away the risk on iphones. we know the iphone sales will be down a quarter, so think because of that reason the lower expectations, the stock is well positioned here. >> how much will you focus on the phone sales themselves, as i pick up my own foam, which a lot of times apple would like you to stop focusing on and focus on the service piece. >> today focusing on the noni pony portion today apple is telling us it is a less important data point and that's how they're managing the business we're looking for apple for progress on their way away from the 60% of sales that come from iphone think about their efforts in community advices, health care, automotive, arecare, automot

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director tom took co-wrote some of the choose and they'd be recreated on screen by specially set up for the show the bulk of f.t. orchestra. the ass. the. f.t. orchestra performing live at bell house berlin the crowd is especially excited to hear their hypnotic song so i should go from the t.v. series babylon berlin the song is meant to evoke the 1920 s. but it has captured the contemporary. cats. it was about stephen bach of ski studied saxophonist parlance hans eisler music academy as the orchestras musical director here arranges their songs for. the music's went the music swings it's great that it appeals to any big band jazz fan but we also have a certain rawness on roughness a kind of punk attitude in the way we play a tongue i did to d.v.d.'s computer. than. i. i don't have yours if you will if we forget if we've gone to the trouble of recording for 3 or 4 days and shooting for 3 or 4 days then it would be a shame if that were the end of this wonderful band and we felt we had to keep playing the music because it's really great the sort of music. shortly before the performance because he collects all the sheet music from the rehearsal space and heads off to buy a house

tom lyden. great to see you. we're squeezing out a win on volatile day. [closing bell rings] connell: pretty good for tech. to the extent we're higher as the dow had to fight for gains into the close. top administration officials expected to be meeting with tech executives at the white house. the dow is up 17 give or take as we settle n we do end up higher. s&p and the nasdaq ending in positive territory as well. good to be with you. i'm connell mcshane. ainsley: i'm melissa francis this is "after the bell." more on the big market move leers. here is what is new at this hour dramatic new video shows forces boarding a british oil tanker. latest on heightened tensions between iran and the west. >>> one million in the streets demanding resignation of puerto rico's governor. that is about 1/3 of the island's population. we'll take you there live. >>> first it was the dominican republic. there are new concerns over another popular vacation spot. at least 19 people are dead. we'll tell you where and what you need to know. connell: fox business team coverage today. all the top stories with blake burman at the whi

bell national. and because you are more at my own home. with a sort of a tom. she in asia whore had the idiot beauty. yeah . my. mom was that obese it's like a gift this is the sign from the homeless. and. i'm always looking for palestinian poetry to sing and this poem is particularly special to my heart because 1st of all it's by a great week and 2nd i really felt close to it because i feel also like i'm palestinian but like so many of us in the diaspora so many of us who had to leave. i speak also as somebody from a far away land. and somebody who who feels this great nostalgia whenever i return and also i feel that the poem is really speaking about the experience of somebody like my father who had to leave. as a child and. he feels he has been living in exile his whole life but every day dreaming of palestine every day has his heart in palestine so i feel that this poem really speaks beautifully about this experience of exile as the palestinian. leader. hum. we. owe no. 0. 000000000 nino oh. the shaddock ma. for less than the annie i'm going to hit him. in t

tom farley. >> runs a spak of his own. >> he does >> levi set to report after the bell, second report since going public >>> as we head to break, here's a check on our closing bell data tracker. the june small business optimum index came ahead of indications, 103.3. and job fell 7.3 in may. we're back after a break [ dogs barking ] what about him? let's do it. [ sniffing ] come on. this summer, add a new member to the family. hurry into the mercedes-benz summer event today for exceptional offers. lease the glc 300 suv for just $419 a month at the mercedes-benz summer event. going on now. >>> 42 minutes left of trade here's a check on the dow. down 74. it got as high as down 58. unhp&g taking down the dow jones industrial average let's look at today's market dash boards. i miss these when i'm off. >> here's the lineup for today fan favorites is what we're going to start with. analysts are getting more excited about the potential upside for individual stocks hate the player, love the game that's the reverse of the typical saying but in this case i'll tell you why it makes sense when it comes to wall street hit lg for the c

tom lyden. great to see you. we're squeezing out a win on volatile day. [closing bell rings] connell: pretty good for tech.e're higher as the dow had to fight for gains into the close. top administration officials expected to be meeting with tech executives at the white house. the dow is up 17 give or take as we settle n we do end up higher. s&p and the nasdaq ending in positive territory as well. good to be with you. i'm connell mcshane. ainsley: i'm melissa francis this is "after the bell." more on the big market move leers. here is what is new at this hour

bell today. we talked about it last night on "fast money. you own it >> hammered that >> and tom rogers loved it >> of course he did. >> he said if he had a choice he'd pick netflix. >> boots what kiit's about what growth they have internationally. the obvious for me is international growth we talk about content all the time you'll not be able to see it in the numbers, but how are they going to deal with losing some of the content they have, and how are they going to replace that that's going to be very big. if they can continue to do what they're doing, which is expand their content, there is no reason why netflix can't go a lot higher, a lot faster does it trade at a high multiple absolutely but they have a moete similar t what we talk about facebook. facebook has a moat around them, netflix has a moat around them as well. >> what i'm seeing right now is big up side call buying at the 385 strike the stock 365-ish. somebody is looking for about a $20 pop in the after hours or better that they'd be able to take advantage of, if it does report those kind of great international num

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:30 went 5:30 ♪ taylor: i am taylor riggs in for tom keene in new york, with francine lacqua in london. amazon's profits yesterday after the closing bellmarred by surging costs. amazon now one investors that one day shipping has a pretty big price tag. joining us from tokyo is the bloomberg media editor. let's start with amazon. first time in a while we have started to see a margin miss. are we assuming lower margins for longer? david: i think so, and i think as long as the company is adding to its customer base and still getting really strong growth into its cloud business, i think investors will be happy. the kind of growth may have had in the past is hard to maintain, and that certainly includes margins. they've had to invest a lot in that business. it is a cost intensive business. so i think investors have some tolerance for that kind of decline. taylor: talk to me about the cloud business like you mentioned. i keep hearing that it is not is you are some game -- not a zero-sum game, that alphabet cloud service and microsoft as were and others can all -- microsoft azure, they can all gain. is that true, is there room for all these c