Your future. Now, becky quick we begin with with backtoschool it doesnt mean sitting in the classroom with the teacher and the board. It includes opening a tablet or laptop anywhere. More technology in education, the cover story is log on and learn. School is back in session, but increasingly, more learning is occurring on a screen. 5. 8 million College Students are taking online courses 28 of all u. S. Higher education students are enrolled in at least one course on the internet the cost of a College Degree keeps climbing, it is bringing world class instruction to millions harvard, m. I. T. And others are opening mooc or Massive Open Online Courses one of the broadest and most accessible Online Learning sites is entirely free in 2006, he up loaded teaching materials to help his cousin with math homework others saw it and wanted videos on more subjects two years later, he launched the nonprofit website its had more than 1 million views and 56 million registered users worldwide studying
Speak for yourself on what the big one is that everyone will be watching. Theres another big one . Theres only one big one as far as im concerned. Comcast. Yeah. I think some other people are interested in apple but, you know, when you say the big one some people. They are both companies that have invested the market. Apple up 9 , comcast up 7 . There you go. Apple down in the last three months 5 though verses the market being off. A little bit of a rotation. Comcast has done better. With comcast i like to see because we talk all the time. Is it glacial or is it greatly exaggerated or is it happening quickly and im talking about your cord cutting and worries about old media. My view on comcast dont try to pretend like you have always liked it. You have thrown that in with the rest of the old media. I do not. Because we have the nbc portion which is the content portion which i think longterm that is but the pipes are great too. It doesnt matter if you cut the cord because you still need
Greeces finance minister says they will not prioritize payments. The u. S. Steps up its strategy against isis as militants secure a key area but King Abdullah tells cnbc its business as usual in the region. The Iraqi Government with Coalition Forces are going to open the route this summer and thats a very strong market thats going to be reopened. Welcome to the show everyone. Weve got some numbers for you in the form of euro zone pmis for the month of may. Those are flash numbers for the manufacturing cite we have a print of 52. 3. Thats a little bit better than what was expected versus a print of 52 in the month of april. On the service side 53. 3 and that is a tad lower than forecast. Lets have a look at how the euro dollar is fairing. We are currently at 11144. The german number was a bit of a disappointment. The french number was before. And the overall composite number coming in at 53. 4. Fractionally lower than expected and the manufacturing was stronger. The services a little we
Tourism group says profit targets are on track and take steps to simplify its business. The shipping giant trades lower as the volatile crude price weighs on the business. This despite posting a First Quarter profit beat. Welcome to the show. Im seema mody. Italys gdp number just growth beating expectations of 0. 2 . This following the pick up in frances growth. Better than expected gdp numbers out of italy up quarter over quarter. Seems like aided by oil prices and weaker currency helping italys growth. The euro very close to session highs. 112 against the u. S. Dollar. Lets recap the other data. France surprised the market by posting its best quarterly performance. Gdp at 0. 6 ahead of expectations. Germany missed forecasts printing growth of just 0. 3 trade. That was a big drop on growth in the First Quarter according to the data office. Now the external numbers for germany have always been a little weak. Capital orders were a little bit disappointing but consumption has been quite
News. Uk had its best manufacturing numbers in three years but the Ukraine Tensions remain as well. Our road map begins with the markets right now futures edging higher as the nasdaq looks to bounce back from the worst threeday drop in over two years. Will i turn around . Citigroup agreeing to pay over a billion dollars to settle claims dating back to the financial crisis in 2008 but thats not the only tough news for the companys stock. Well explain in a moment . Another rough quarter for samsung, operating profit falling over 4 this year. Does the tech giant have some reason to smile . Its coming in a box this week. Well talk about that in a few minutes. First up, what will it take to end the stock markets losing streak. The nasdaq suffering another big drop closing at a two month low and down more than 6 from their recent highs hit a month ago. The dow and s p posting their worst threeday losing streaks since late january. Jim, yesterday on this show you said you would not be afraid