joining an as of yet unnamed firm that invests in developing countries he said judge of other world bank's c.e.o. will serve as interim president. my good friend secretary. let's discuss all of this with our financial correspondent at the new york stock exchange as a result of who's joining us now has the results good to see you i'd like to start with the trade talks between china and the u.s. and we as we know the stakes are high optimism is not really there what about the optimism in the markets do they see hopes that will actually reach a deal there. it seems so javier but it's still early to tell her now yes i did fight that if you are talking seems to be curing investors but we must be cautious a big goal right now i believe from the drums administration perspective to warrick on the details and specifics of the different pledges made by gene so far these include more chinese purchases of u.s. goods and services increased american access to china's markets better protection of us our intellectual property and reduction in subsidies companies but also there is another issue lingering and die

taken the words appropriately understand that the world cup commentary on the crisis meanwhile goldman sachs c.e.o. an official from the irish central bank joined the chorus delivering clear signals about a no brics deal and for her take on all of the royal inquiry and others that were this week particularly tony blair we are more than pleased to be joined by our friend our jewel joint citizen of the u.k. and the us hillary for brits the c.e.o. of straw mark hillary thank you for being with us i want to get your take first of all on the queen and on tony blair the former british prime minister who yesterday seemed to say hey look let's have one more vote on this if it's still the vote to leave we leave but he didn't think that with this is such a mess that it would be fair to go on as is what do you make of this all ellery well first of all bob pleasure to be here and you're right about the queen sort of weighing in but it was rather an opaque reference because she said we want to everybody she wants everybody to seek common ground or that really could be taken by either side as either a remain as point of view our point of view what was

c.e.o. earlier at the bloomberg event from the world economic forum. the bank d about why is not counting out struggling european rivals, pay attention start-ups in the syntax space. recognize that digitization of bank suggest here to stay and accelerate. i use is the analogy 'm out in silicon valley meeting with fentech companies and the conversation in some evolved, a bit. i remember meeting four or five there in a tech person, young tech person sitting in front of me and sat the table and said i'm coming to eat your lunch old man. i'm not isten, dismissive, not dismissive at all. trademe you realliment to eight or nine times multiple, e'd love to have you in the industry. what i've seen, positive -- young happened to that person? michael: what's come from that is different approach. is think about that fintech company that has come up with technology and can bring to our million and touch 140 clients around the world in 100 scale them we can on day one. >> so you bought him? but el: we don't buy him, we are happy to partner with him, happy to pay for and buy

world bank president jim yong kim has announced he's stepping down less than halfway through his term he said he'd be joining a private firm focusing on investments in developing countries the institution's current c.e.o. crystal enough georgieva will serve as interim president until his successor is announced. his resignation came as a surprise. the u.s. has imposed sanctions on several venezuelan individuals and companies over their alleged involvement in a currency exchange scheme that generated billions of dollars in illegal proceeds the move came in the same week that president maduro was sworn in for another term . critics accuse him of failing to address the country's crippling economic crisis are medicine and food shortages are now the norm. one of the most iconic features of new york skyline is up for sale the chrysler building is being sold by an emirates the investment firm which acquired it ten years ago for eight hundred million dollars the structure is considered an art deco masterpiece but experts say falling prices for older buildings mean it could fetch less now than it did at decade ago. mexican drivers lining up for fuel their chances of getting any are slim the government's decisio

banks to report, the one to watch. > about a tenth. >> a lot happening. for the rest of the week we'll be live at the world economic forum in davos with a host of interswruse key c.e.od we'll be speaking with the c.e.o. of citigroup and we talk with verizon's c.e.o. and we'll be interview blackstone group's c.e.o. steve schwartzman. all of that. >> that's it from us here on bloomberg markets asia. we have bloomberg day break middle east coming up next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ is "bloomberg daybreak: middle east." >> asia-pacific stocks on the slide as investors back away from list -- from risk. gloomy views of the global economy. >> the world economic forum opened with warnings of a slowdown. says china faces serious danger. >> the u.s. government shutdown is in the fifth week. president trump and the democrats could be edging toward a resolution. a narrower budget