Down as well. Look on your screen, theres the list. All of them bigtime to the downside. No pullback seriously, though, for stocks flat to slightly lower at the opening bell. We dont know how the market is going to close. It is facing a threeday holiday weekend, but so far that has been no sell on the news of the tax cut deal. Im going call this one a corporate bombshell, eric schmidt is out at google, this is the man who built the company at global phenomena, started google, gmail, google maps and android phones. Google says its time for the transition. Theres speculation that personal relationships were part of this departure. There are a lot of surprises this morning and Varney Company is about to begin. [laughter] stuart that was good producing. Theres no place like home for the holidays. Thats absolutely for sure. You saw them, theres the lawmakers, they are all coming down the steps. Get out of dodge, they follow and get out of dodge, ran downstairs, heading home for the holidays
An hour or two off makes a difference . Its like a new jet lag every week think about that the three day weekends yesterday kaley was up early. That kept me on track. If you go to bed early ben franklin. 7 to 8 hours, instead of getting fancy i thought you were going with the early to bed, early to rise. It sounds like youre getting a little bit too how does this guy know . If you get 7 or 8, youre great. God bless you if youre getting 7 to 8 now youre saying it has to be this time i can call you early on weekends if youd like lets look at u. S. Equity futures. Its been a huge year already, just two trading weeks in. Look at this this morning, futures are surging, dow indicated up by 267 points s p futures up by 17 nasdaq up by 14. This comes after last week where the dow was up 507 points. Nasdaq up by 1. 7 . Gains across the board with the dow, nasdaq, s p 500 and many other indices result ending at alltime highs its continuing again this morning. Hard to try to get your arms around
Bill ackman taking 5. 5 in mondalez. Those subscribers worries that originated with disney. A trio of stocks tesla, Green Mountain and fitbit, hit hard. Our top stories are mondalez shares spiking. Bill ackman disclosing that 5. 5 billion shake in cadbury. They welcome Pershing Square as investors and will continue to focus on executing our strategy as we look at another sector where mass sick consolidation is the play. We have been through airlines and health care. Now, it is food. We can remember that nelson felts has a 2. 9 stake. I have to turn to you, david, with more than 10 being held by you. I have to expect that. Thats got to be the expectation in terms of the play for ackman jim. You and i have talked behind the scenes about what it was going to be. I have been chasing this for some time as many have. I have probably put on alert more bankers than we know about. I thought, what could it be what could it be . I dont think any of us would have expected it would be mondelez. The
So many things governments want us to do; so hard to get us to do them. Hardtalk speaks to behavioural economist Richard Thaler who thinks he has the answer. Its called nudge theory, but its notjust an academic idea. Britains Prime Minister is so impressed, hes set up a whole nudge unit in the heart of his government. If you live in britain, you may unwittingly already be part of a nudge experiment. So is the nudge guru Richard Thaler teaching those in power how to encourage us to live better, or helping politicians to control us . Welcome to hardtalk. What is this nudge theory . It is some feature of the environment that attracts attention and influences behaviour. How does this differ from the traditional approach that has been adopted to improve behaviour . I think the basic idea of the nudge unit is reallyjust to take all we know about behavioural science, and how people think and behave, and make use of that to figure out how to implement government policy that is effective. Econo
To do; so hard to get us to do them. Hardtalk speaks to behavioural economist Richard Thaler who thinks he has the answer. Its called nudge theory, but its notjust an academic idea. Britains Prime Minister is so impressed, hes set up a whole nudge unit in the heart of his government. If you live in britain, you may unwittingly already be part of a nudge experiment. So is the nudge guru Richard Thaler teaching those in power how to encourage us to live better, or helping politicians to control us . Welcome to hardtalk. What is this nudge theory . It is some feature of the environment that attracts attention and influences behaviour. How does this differ from the traditional approach that has been adopted to improve behaviour . I think the basic idea of the nudge unit is reallyjust to take all we know about behavioural science, and how people think and behave, and make use of that to figure out how to implement government policy that is effective. Economists have traditionally thought of