Coming up in moments. Sprint shares lower in premarket trading this morning. Wider than expected loss, lowering of guidance and loss of subscribers, plus job cuts. Shares of michael kors down premarket after Holiday Quarter guidance comes in below street expectations. Alibaba reporting quarterly profit 45 cents a share in line with estimates. Shares of alibaba have risen 50 since the september ipo. As we said, we are moments away from a live interview with alibabas executive vice chairman joe tsai. We are getting used to these metrics, gross merchandise volume, annual active buyers, and general, we are going to get to the interview right now. Lets do it. Joining us first on cnbc alibabas executive vice chairman joe tsai. Very nice to have you here after this first Quarterly Report as a public company. You guys have made a great deal with mobile in your remarks. In your slide presentations. Let me start there. Its grown to represent 35. 8 of gross merchandise value. Your take rate moved
Gained yesterday and then something, and there are a number of developments that were following going into this final hour of trading here. And so, lets take a look at where markets stand with the Dow Jones Industrial average off 165 points this hour. It was down almost 200 at the lows just a little while ago. Remember, anything below 75 points means weve given up yesterdays gains and returned to the lowest level since at least may 20th, perhaps going back into the red for the year. In any case, this is a broadbased selloff, and the dow off 1 at this hour. Same goes for the nasdaq, which is off 42 points. The s p 500 off 1. 15 or 22 points, down all the way to 1, 916. The dow, going into the week, it had shed about 600 points in ten trading sessions. So certainly a sharp selloff. Lets try to make sense of it all. Rob morgan, sam stovall from s p capital iq, frank rad yok from jhs capital advisers, danny hughes from Divine Capital here at the big board. Our own Michelle Carusocabrera on
Liner for more than three months . A japanese paper out reporting cold winter temperatures were a factor in the meltdown of the lithium ion batteries which caused at least one of the boeing 737 dream liners to make an Emergency Landing in japan. Meantime, in alternatings news out of japan, it was a big quarter for toyota has the highlander is hot. Toyota posted a better than expected 3. 4 increase in quarterly profits and the automaker raising the outlook for the year. Can we move back to the battery . The battery thing, people dont have battery hybrid cars and things like that in cold places simple will ily because of the weather. Batteries dont do well in cold. Thats the whole thing. We had a guy the guy from toyota who lives in michigan who wont have a hybrid car in michigan because its too cold for the battery to actually do its thing. I would think this the plane is going its freezing up there every day. Im not a is that good news for boeing . Does it signal simply just a battery
For the dow in three months. We have to stay tuned. Seems like gas heading below 30 for the country, air strikes bumping the price back up. The latest on u. S. Military action against isis and al qaeda and hear from a pro if gas prices shoot up like a rocket after falling like a feather. Although ill say, you know, price of oil is up sos the price of gold and not a whole lot. Oh, look at that. Looking at vitd owe to talk about. When is a plus a minus . Well, some would say talking about the iphone 6 plus. There have been those complaints that it is simply too big. But follow me on this. If it is, why does apple stock keep going to the plus side . Were going to have the pluses and minuses of the iphone 6 plus. And i know youre nonplussed about all that, arent you . Listen. We saw the device on friday. I felt it was little bit difficult to whatever. Well see how it goes. It is large. Its about more than just how many apple sells on the first weekend. It is about how to continue to domina
Recession. The euroat a nine month low, and the dax with a 10 correction. No deals, fox withdrawing the bid to acquire time warner, sprint abandoning the bid to acquire tmobile. Giving back mondays gains, shares of ralph lauren lower despite beating estimates. Well explain why. And disney beat despite lower profit at the Cable Networks. Two big deals fell apart. 20th century fox withdraws the bid for time warner saying they refused to engage the highly compelling offer and sprint abandons the bid to buy tmobile, and they plan to replace the ceo. I guess a name well have to get used to, a billionaire entrepreneur. Someone who i think you get along better with. Well, we have to get david the problem is that dan has independ, and dan, wish him the best of luck, turned that company around, he was not necessarily the right guy for soft bank. The right guy for the troops, left after a good quarter, but jars for those that know hes a guy who was the godfather of the industry in the phase, wis