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Concerned the deal will lead to job cuts. Alibaba might be coming here for is takingt facebook steps to open a sales office in china. The Chinese Government banned people there from using facebook five years ago. Story, at t is joining the consolidation game as a bid for directv. The change would come as comcast unites with time warner cable. Joining us now is the former ceo of nbc universal. To see you this morning. What great timing on the morning after this news. Does this make sense to you . Complex you have to look at the technology involved and all the activity in media today. Are in at t and directv and comcast, you have land lines , telephones which we have had for a long time. Cellular telephone, towers. One is in the ground and then you have towers. Then you have Satellite Television, which is directv. Then you have the internet. Comcast has three of those. Ground, cable, and telephone. That is look at caber cable at t has half of the cellular business. That is unique to them
Hello. Welcome to countdown. I mark barton. It is 6 00 a. M. Thursday morning. On the pulse, check out our interview to talk about the swiss watch industry. The new York Attorney general has begun a lawsuit against barclays. Alleging the bank lied to customers masking the extent of highfrequency trading. Markets editor manus cranny is here to explain. Before we get into this. What are dark pools . Why do they use them . They have evolved. It is like a private trading venue. It is where institutions can go to execute highend sell orders without talking about which side they want to be on. Otc, referred to as overthecounter, hence less regulation. Is less transacted. What is at the heart of this lawsuit . Word, lies. Lies and fraud. This is under the martin act. Barclaysing that pursued the growth of the dark pool regards of Everything Else around it. They wanted to catch up with credit suisse. They lied about affecting them. Our complaint alleges that this marketing a protections was fa
The roadmap begins with the markets looking to rebound as tensions in the ukraine ease at least for the time being. Gold pulling back from that fourmonth high. However, putin still calling the situation in ukraine an unconstitutional coup, well go live to kiev for the latest developments from the region. And shares of radioshack dropping almost 30 in the premarket after the Company Announced its closing 1,100 Underperforming Stores. But well begin with the markets as we said trying to rebound from the selloff yesterday despite the turmoil in ukraine, futures in the u. S. And shares in europe pointing sharply higher following reports that Vladimir Putin has ordered his troops to cease military exercises along the border with ukraine. His argument was that those had been in the works for some time. Obviously theres suspicion around everything he said, but for now it looks like an escalation is maybe off the table for today. No need for military action is the i think the standout quote fo
Influence his decision to raise the consumption tax. The operator of the damaged Nuclear Facility says it will start pumping up underground water at the site. 300 tons of radiation contaminated water there is leaking into the ocean every day. Tokyo electric Power Company proposed the plan on monday to a panel of the Nuclear Regulation authority. Workers at the plant created an underground wall to stop tainted ground water from leaking into the sea. But the water level continues to rise. The firm says it will start pumping out 60 tons of ground water per day near an embankment between the plants number one and two reactors and 80 more tons per day at another site in september. The authority told the company to step it up as it changes due to rain. It warned of possible effects of the approaching typhoon season. Many people in japan are slowing down at the start of a traditional holiday period. Some may have noted that the economy is slowing but growing steadily. Gdp grew 0. 6 in real te