Consolidation of the Beer Industry or at least stories to that effect. Apple reporting the biggest iphone presales ever. Supply problems raising concerns plus new insight into the companys cut of transactions with apple pay. And this friday alibaba now reportedly planning to boost the size of that already enormous public offering. All right. First up when david promises details, people listen. What do we have today . A great deal of talk over the weekend of beer consolidation. We had a story, of course, originally reported by bloomberg that sab approached heineken and said theyre not interested in that approach but this morning another story in the journal quoting a source familiar or close to the situation that there is financing being put together by ab to purchase s. A. B. According to my sources, that is not true. There is no talks with banks at this point. By ab inbev trying to put together any financing for s. A. B. Were no stranger to this story. The first rumors of this kind of
Have any of them gone Grocery Shopping lately . The willis report where consumers are our business, starts right now. We begin tonight with the obamacare website. Healthcare. Gov, which continues to put consumers information at risk a year after its rollout. The Government Accountability office saying the website is riddled with security flaws. All of this just two weeks after hackers access part of the site and inserted malware. Here to help, the Manhattan Institute and Identity Theft 911. Welcome to you both. Adam, ill speak to you first. So the gao, independent group, they are saying there is sensitive confidential information at risk here. Serious vulnerabilities. This is a year after the rollout. How is this happening now . This is a work in progress, there will always be Security Issues as you and i talked about over and over again in the private sector. There are vulnerabilities that pop up. There are questions on the site about the length and strength of passwords, about intern
55 said no. 45 said yes. One of the morning papers here, the reUnited Kingdom. The no voters, jubilant last night as the results started to come in. 2 million scotts voted no versus 1. 6 who had voted yes. They were absolutely ecstatic, the no vote, to see what was happening. The yes voters, as you can imagine, extremely unhappy. Uk Prime Minister David Cameron, thats not him, thats alistair darling, but the uk Prime Minister David Cameron just a few hours ago addressed the nation. Good morning. The people of scotland have spoken. And it is a clear result. They have kept our country of four nations together. And like millions of other people, i am delighted. As i said during the campaign, it would have broken my heart to see our United Kingdom come to an end. The british pound rallied sharply overnight as the results started to roll in. Weve seen it pullback now, but still above 163, almost to 164. So maybe some of that priced in. But you can see the rise overnight. Let me show you wha
Baba story from the stock exchange. What are you hearing as far as when it will start trading and at one price. The latest i saw was 90 a share. It keeps on ticking up. You can see it is getting very crowded coin. We expect the first trade to be within 30 minutes time. We did get an indication from the stock exchange, that 30 minute warning but i had an interview with jack ma, and from the very start, in his tiny apartment in china, i asked him about the role of the government inside his company and he says it is about american investors learning how to trust his company because of their performance. He did elaborate on his relationship with the government. As much as what the government is telling him some things to do he is also giving feedback on what he wants from the government. Interesting answer from him. Stuart yes it was. I want to bring in board mcshane who has written extensively on china. Come on in, gordon change. You are not jumping on the ali baba bandwagon. Ali baba ban
Someone. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We begin with the politics lead, the number two republican in senator john thune of south dakota delivered a devastating assessment of the house impeachment inquiry of President Trump. Senator thune telling reporters that the picture being painted of the trump ukraine scandal by the top diplomat in ukraine is, quote, not a good one. Bill taylor testified he was told President Trump was going to withhold, quote, everything, from ukraine, everything, including badly needed military aid that is until ukraines president publicly announced investigations into joe biden and his son hunter as well as ukraines alleged role in the 2016 election. And as Cnns Kaitlan Collins now reports for us, this all comes as President Trump is trying to spin capitulation to turkey in syria as a win for the United States. This was an outcome created by us, the United States. And nobody else. Reporter today President Trump took credit for a ceasefire in syria. While