The firm is accused of using a dutch subsidiary to cut its global tax bill as the latest crackdown on tax arrangements between multinationals an e. U. Countries i kid denied breaching european rules well those were the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after counting the cost of watching. News has another. But the message is a simplistic and misinformation is rife listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging Mainstream Media narrative at this time on aljazeera. Hello im come on santa maria this is counting the cost on aljazeera we can look at the world of business and economics this week the mouse and the pop its one of the biggest media shake ups in recent history and disney buys out Rupert Murdochs twenty First Century fox but the story goes deeper than that its about how we consume all this entertainment content and how our new habit of watching the internet rather than the t. V. Is impacting the corporate landscape or is it the other way around also this
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Some kind of issue about his time on the course . I think its the press that has an issue with his time on the course. The president s extremely proud of the accomplishments we had during 2017. I dont think anyone can argue its one of the most successful first years in office, passed major legislation, reworked this court system, and it got a Supreme Court justice nominated and approved and on the bench in the first year, a booming economy, Massive Gains against the war on isis, i think weve had an extremely successful 2017 and some of thats due to the Relationship Building he was able to do there. Well take one last question. Reporter is there a reason for no read out or confirmation . We provide information when its pertinent to the day and well continue to do that. Go ahead. Reporter earlier the president tweeted about tax reform saying companies are giving big bonuses to their workers because of the tax cut bill, really great. Will the employees of the president s own companies be
Antigovernment protests rage in iran this morning is that continues to the present intriguing this report for demonstrations saying in part the great iranian people have been repressed for many years. Time for change. Let change. Let us on the escalating tensions for the country this morning. Investors hoping for a record year in wall street but the markets opening higher after 2017 produced to 25 rally for the dow, s p 500, 25 . Nasdaq up 20 . Features in what we look at in terms of stock market performance. All the major averages in europe right now lower. 5100 down half a percent. Overnight in asia, stocks were higher. Japan closed for a holiday. Majors as you can see trending up. Hang seng in hong kong a few . Holiday travel nightmare. U. S. Customs computers suffered an outage causing long delays in airports across the country. Watch. A huge line. The guy said it would take three hours. We lost our connection. I went to check my bags back here from the First American flight so i c
Barrels, i believe, so you can see these prices are floating around where they were at this point. 61. 69, carl, is where we stand at this point. Thanks, back to you. Thank you for that. Jackie deangelis good morning, everybody, 8 00 a. M. At tesla headquarters out west, 11 00 a. M. On wall street, and squawk alley is live good thursday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with courtney reagan, john fortt here at the New York Stock Exchange a lot going on take a look at the markets right now. Historic milestone passed. The s p and nasdaq hit some record highs, as well. Number of tech names hit alltime highs netflix, amazon, facebook, google, microsoft, ebay, and a lot more dan morgan is a portfolio manager. What a day, guys dan, do you think these first couple days of the new year are giving us a clue as to how the year is going to go overall . Well, im really encouraged, carl, by the pack the Technology Sector is doing so well. As you know, we saw a big selloff in the