Today. This is the day, bill, people will look back on and remember. Disney seized a little bit in the earnings. As you can see there, disney shares down about 9 . Putting the cable bundle front and center after talking about espn. Not just disney. Other big media stocks falling today as netflix is hitting an alltime high. 21st century fox down 7. 5 . Time warner, not the cable piece, twx down 8. 7 . Comcast down 4. 7. And well debate whether its time for investors to get out of disney and into the unbundled media plays. Comcast is our parent company. Approving a new rule from dodd frank that requires Public Companies to essentially reveal the gap between the ceos pay and the rest of the companys employees, corporate americas not happy about it. But the director Heather Corzo says this rule doesnt go far enough. Shell be with us to explain her side of the story coming up in a bit here. Weve got great earnings on tap. Fitbits first report, cbs and fox which will be interesting against w
And im kerry sayers. And im your host, bill kurtis. Its the cast of characters through the decades. Those funny animated characters from the comics to saturday morning tv. We grew up with them. We couldnt find a more likeable and relatable group. They taught us what was right and wrong, helped us learn how to of course made us laugh. Today we celebrate some of our very favorite characters, through the decades, because even though we may be grown up now, the truth is we never drifted too far away. They still make us think, laugh and dream. So we begin where it all started, in the sunday paper. Where the debut of both tarzan and buck rogers on the same day later, the start of flash gordon in 1934. This trio of champions triggered a whole movement. They are now a staple of sciencefiction and adventure movies fighting blazing battles of good and evil in highflying spaceships and in exotic kingdoms but hollywood didnt bring them to life. They first captured our imaginations in a very differ
The first piece in your Global Economic session is on brussels. Obviously, a lot of attention there. This is home to the European Unions headquarters. We know that because one of the bombings took place at a metro station right outside of them. This is a city with a lot of internal tension. Ellen our stories sort of takes a step back from the tragic events of the last week, looking at the city as sort of a tale of two cities, where you have the European Union and all of the people who work there. David bureaucrats. Ellen bureaucrats, yes. Then you look at the people who live in some of the very poor neighborhoods, including some neighborhoods that are heavily muslim, where there is high unemployment and where there is this huge economic divide. And inequality. One of the things we deal with is how brussels is run in such a way that it has six Police Forces and has 19 municipalities within it. And just how hard it is, to govern and meld these communities together. David illustrating als
Oll event. If you were like me and drew in the mid 1960s and early 1970s, you knew one of the best ways to spread the message was through music. Be wild it was the birth of a counterculture, and this revolution produced music that wrapped around our hearts and inds and never let go. Lets tyke a trip back in name when everything around us was changing, how belooked, how we thought, and how we felt. And certain songs became anthems of those tames. It started in San Francisco, came about in woodstock and now time life proudly presents the best music from those times in the woodstock collection. In the mid 1960s, our world was changing and music was becoming more than it had ever been before. We were losing our innocence and the music was reflecting that in style and substance. Fist, in its sound. And then in its message. San francisco was the selfdeclared capital of this. And there was a mass. Gration from the country if youre going to San Francisco we were trying to turn on and tune in,
Dierdre the markets melissa markets in the mid of a rally, up50 points despite us air strikes in iraq and continuing bloodshed in the gaza strip. Two use fighter jets dropped 500pound bombs on isis strongholds just outside the kurdish capital of erbil. President obama reversing policy authorizing military action saying, quote, america is coming to help. We have James Frischling and barrons Senior Editor jack hough. How do you explain the Market Reaction to all this . If the markets were tanking we would blame it on the bombing. Melissa absolutely. I dont think there is any connection. What peel look at with stocks. There is possibility of fed unwinding stimulus on the market. That could hurt. You think about why the fed is doing that. Because the Economic News is pretty good. I think in the long run this pause in stock returns is good news for stock investors. I think there are some buying opportunities. Melissa james, the world is falling apart though the why doesnt the market seem wo