Reactions from what we saw from pyongyang. You, thest i can give equity market, the stoxx 600 was down earlier. Down by 4 10 of 1 . Assetst sets haven after the testing. North korea is continuing to prepare for a possible intercontinental listed Missile Launch, reddening to raise tensions further. The stock is down. A Good Opportunity to look at the fear gauge. Europes fear index. , now it is up a mere 7 . The 12 gained it was the highest since august 18. Last tuesday when north korea fired the missile over japan, higher index closed 9 after rising an intraday 15 . Trumps fire and fury comment in early august prompted it to rise to 19. 3 on august 11. That was the highest since april. We were nowhere to the levels we were in april before the French Election and the levels we reached before the u. S. Election last november. Those are the brexit levels we saw in june last year. That puts it in perspective. Europes fear gauge. Index, given what is happening with the north korea story. Thi
Confirmed it has contacted the swiss banks management and says it will unveil its plans shortly. According to the financial times, rdr is hoping to tap into the Turnaround Program, a look at the stock this morning, up nicely to the tune of 2 . Credit suisse issued this response to cnbc saying while we welcome the views of all our shareholders, our focus is the implementation of our strategy which is well on track karen has been talking about this story all morning long. I want to continue that discussion with her. Im a bit flabbergasted by this. This is a share holder who holds 0. 2 of shares, not a big fish do you think hell have any success here hes an interesting character and has a track record he was trying to educate for higher share prices in other companies, and is involved in gama, he is taking on a bigger fish with Credit Suisse. When you think about who is also on the share registgisteregistee harris associates, they are a hedge fund that wants a stronger return, even though
Shenzhen composite is up more than 100 just this year a doubling. Take a look at that. Is this the place to be for growth or is china becoming a dangerous bubble ready to pop . Well talk to a couple of guests about that. Is this the chinese 1990s right now theyre going through . Plus the return of the cable king himself, john malone behind the 55 57 79 billion charter Time Warner Cable deal could this move drive more companies to merge in that industry . Well be talking about that in a little while. Its amazing. Hes back. He was very patient. He laid back. They made that initial offer for Time Warner Cable a couple years ago and comcast outbid them but now he got it after all. One of the countrys most interesting capitalists. Well have much more on that story coming up. Incredible negotiator. Lets start with where the markets are right now as indicated. The dow is off 240 points today. That puts it back below 18,000. Its also below the 50day moving average which everybody on the floor
Ryanair with shares following suit. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange. Bringing you Business News from around the globe. Hello and a warm welcome to the first Worldwide Exchange of a fresh week here on cnbc. And its a lot of company news this morning. A lot of it is surrounding the activity of capital heights. We kickoff with astrazeneca who sped up their bid to pfizer. A fourth bid from pfizer rejected this morning. Astra said they would take 58 pounds per share. Pfizers offer was 55 pounds a share. Astrazenecas stock was off 14 . There you can see it down 48 pounds. 38 pounds was where we were before we got pfizer on the table. Katherine is here to cover this story. So this was their final bid. We went to 55 over the weekend. A stra supporters came out over the weekend. Where is the idea of them taking 58 pounds . Theres little wiggle room. Ifs as a tra zeneca would take this, there could be a bid. Theres a branch that one can relieve in the current statement and this is the point wh
Evening. Okay. Okay, first item to the agenda is Public Comment, the members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are under the subject matter if you want to talk, this is the time that you could do that. Thank you, commissioners, my name is mark and tonight, i would like to discuss, something that is coming up in march that i think effects the industry and is going to be a really good, i think, boost to our industry. It is the 90s awards, the castro theater on march fourth. Which is an award show, creating to celebrate the night life industry. And about 20 years ago, bam music magazine, hold an award show down at the civic which was a great party, unfortunately bam magazine went out of business, the music awards stop. But i think, this is a good way to recognize there is some excellent programming and creativity in our industry, this will create, i think, that this will help encourage that creativity and excellence and you can vote for, ther