Work when it was bending a genre. Take something thats familiar and give it some chili pepper. Advertising is based on one thing, happiness. Is there any taboo that you wouldnt break . Not if there was a funny idea. What is wrong with you . Theres so much different storytelling and so many different stories being told about so many different people. I dont think dramatic Series Television has ever been stronger. Theres no longer this theory of what Popular Entertainment must be. Incoming who are the heroes . The people who watch this show. This is the week when the Major Broadcast Networks unveil their fall lineup of shows. And every executive in hollywood knows how well the sopranos is doing on cable, which is a network problem. I think hbo altered everything for this reason alone, is there were no commercials. We are dependent on sponsors. Theres so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, in terms of sex. To a large degree, a lot of executives were just sanding off
The averages passed a major number on tuesday, the nasdaq passed 7,000. On wednesday, tyesterday the do hitting 25,000 for the first time ever. This morning the dow futures are indicated up by 75 points s p futures up by 7 1 2. Nasdaq up by 30. The first trading week of the year on that time we are talking about some strong days the best threeday winning streak to start the year for the nasdaq since 2006, for the s p since 2010 of course we always talk about what happens in january often indicates what happens for the full year. Well talk all about this throughout the program today green arrows across the board. Lets look at asia the nikkei ended up by 0. 9 a gain of 208 points 23,714 hang seng up by 0. 25 . The shanghai up by 0. 2 . In europe, you will see also same story there up across the board. The biggest gainer being the dax, which is up by more than 1. 1 quick update to a security flaw that may have exposed some smartphones and pcs to hackers really did in a big way. Intel is s
Exchange. Im wilfred frost. Im seema mody in for sara eisen. Good morning to you. Good morning to you as well happy first day of february. Our top story, facebook shares rebounding following a drop after yesterdays close. The company crushing Quarterly Results but reporting a big drop off in the amount of time users spend on the site. Well have more on the quarter straight ahead there is the share price move. Down as much as 4 when people focus on that drop off on time usage by users after Sheryl Sandberg said this wont hurt revenue moving forward, you can see the sharp rally back first, lets check in on Global Markets. U. S. Futures, we did see a sharp intraday reversal, marketing starting the day lower but ending higher on thursday. The dow is slightly lower by 2 points s p higher by 6. Nasdaq higher by 3 wall street closing higher yesterday, unchanged decision by the fed was the market mover look at the tenyear note, rising yields has been the story for quite some time now. The yiel
Rishaad right, well, banks reporting out of china this week. Note onjust seen a nonperforming loans. People keeping an eye on that. This is an alarm bell for the amount of debt they are caring. Showing what 9438, is happening. Out of all of them, it is Agricultural Bank of china which is the worst. Its nonperforming loans seemingly worse. All will be revealed this week, the big four out with earnings and indeed these numbers as well. Haidi absolutely. A lot to digest when it comes to the asian open. We are getting the washer from jackson hole, more what wasnt said by janet yellen and mario draghi, the latter refraining from commenting on Monetary Policy or the strength of the euro. The dollar lower on the account of janet yellen sounding more dovish than expected. We had saber rattling out of north korea, and the big calendar when it comes to macro data. Friday, and china pmi rounding out that picture when it comes to the chinese economy. We are 30 minutes away from the open in china a
Spains Prime Minister says it has five days to be clear and threatens the imposition of direct rule. And to get in touch with us, use the hashtag 0s iam glad i am glad we were not the only ones confused by the catalan president this den yesterday because we spent yesterday trying to work out if the president had issued a declaration of independence or not. It seems an independent statement was signed but that it was suspended to allow talks with the spanish government, the government is confused as well, it has now given catalonia five days to clear this up. Here is the spanish Prime Minister talking earlier. Translation ladies and gentlemen, as you know, the cabinet met this morning to request officially of catalonia if the intent to proclaim independence amongst the confusion which they have sown. We need certainty and clarification. This is the reply which will mark the event is to come. Our aim is to re establish normality and to make sure that stability is reinstalled for the coex