Radio cohost carol massar. Carol . Thank you. Netflix Fourth Quarter earnings rose beating analysts estimates. Shares are soaring in the after hours trading for netflix. You just mentioned carl icahn. He has acquired. 8 are sent of ebay and is moving to of his employees to join the board. Paypal shares jumped in extended trading. All right, we mentioned carl icahns stake in ebay. Trish regan spoke with him. And she is joining me now. A short time ago. He called in and we chatted about ebay. He wants to see them spin off paypal. I have to say its not a terribly new idea. People have talked in the past about paypal being an opportunity for ebay as it goes forward. This is the first time you have the likes of carl icahn sending a letter to the board saying, i think you need to do this. The boards response has been to not spin it off. He was also critical, or slightly critical, of management there. He did say that the management at apple, tim cook is doing a great job. I dont know if the s
Hollywood gold. Find out how it is all done. But first, headlines. From my radio cohost carol massar. Carol . Thank you. Fourth quarter earnings rose beating analysts estimates. Shares are soaring in the after hours trading for netflix. You just mentioned carl icahn. Are sent ofred. 8 ebay and is moving to of his employees to join the board. Paypal shares jumped in extended those are of the x his stakes. All right, we mentioned carl icahns stake in ebay. Trish regan spoke with him. And she is joining me now. A short time ago. We chattedn and about ebay. He wants to see them spin off paypal. Its not aay terribly new idea. People have talked in the past about paypal being an opportunity for ebay as it goes forward. This is the first time you have the likes of carl icahn sending a letter to the board saying, i think you need to do this. The boards response has been to not spin it off. He was also critical, or slightly critical, of management there. He did say that the management at apple,
But if you might start there, secretary, what do you think the best economic leverage our and guidelines as they relate to timeliness and you made the point working with allies. I think the president has been clear and we have been clear russia has to be held accountable for the actions taken and also has to have a path to step back from what is a dangerous escalation unless it stops. I think with the actions the president has announced and illustrates serious attempts and in effective ways to start the process of increasing the isolation. The g8 is a very important meeting to russia. We have already withdrawn from preparations and we are on the path where i think its clear that russia can no longer sit in the g8 meeting pursuing the policies. We have withdrawn a trade mission that was supposed to be working with russia to continue making progress on the International Investment treaty. We have withdrawn a delegation that was supposed to be attending the paralympics, something we very
Good morning to all. And the committee will come to order. Before we begin today, i want to assure everyone that you did not accidentally walk in to a meeting of the energy and Natural Resources committee, which i used to chair. Our friend max bachus is off to do an outstanding job in china and this is still the Senate Committee on finance, with a storied history. Now, in the storied department, i learned recently that senator hatch was an outstanding basketball player in high school. And ive learned through my sources that he had a great onehanded set shot. Hes even in the Baldwin High School hall of fame for basketball. Now, i played a bit of basketball myself, so, senator hatch and i may try to figure out a way to get a regular finance committee pickup game going, except were going to probably try to see if we can find some arcane rules so that the young members dont make us look bad. I also want to welcome senator warner to the finance committee. Senator warner demonstrates continu
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