Wounded. People had been lined up outside the building to get their National Identity cards. No word on who is responsible. Police in brussels arrested two people described as suspected terrorists as part of an effort to prevent terror attacks in belgium during new years celebrations. The texas teenager in the socalled affluenza drunk driving case has been arrested in mexico with his mother. Ethan couch had been missing for weeks. His lawyers argued that his wealthy parents coddled him into a sense of irresponsibility. He could end up in prison. We are seeing a rebound in futures today after declined yesterday on the last trading week of the year as stocks declined yesterday with oil. We are seeing the bounceback today. Change fromg little the averages for the full year. Seeing a little bit of a list this morning. Lift this morning. Lets check on oil. We will be getting stockpile data from an Industry Group today. Natural gas has been an interesting story. We have seen this rally in na
It is a thursday in new york city. Im Erik Schatzker. Im stephanie ruhle. Lets talk about wall street. Times it be the best of and the worst of times at the same time . That is the question for wall secondquarter earnings season winds down. Quantitative easing is still crimping profits, new revenue is still scarce, but most of the big banks are lending more and cutting costs. Our contribute in editor with us andskype says it is a paul miller is with us from greater dcaa paul, i suspect you are not so inclined to agree with bill. Do you see positive signs . We do see positive signs. I went into the Second Quarter thinking more pessimistic than i should have been, that there are some signs of lending going on. The margins are still very skinny, you have some liquidity out there. Jpmorgan said utilizations are up two Percentage Points from the first. Wanted to dou skype only because you know i disagree with you on this golden age. But lets talk about fixed income. Fixed income numbers are
That has resulted in games being blacked out. And memberschairman of congress are getting involved, urging an end to the standoff. A federal judge rules against microsoft in an email privacy turn saying microsoft must over emails stored in a data center in ireland to federal investigators. Microsoft is appealing saying that emails deserve the same Privacy Protection as letters sent in the mail. Lead story, Alibaba Group is pouring millions into u. S. Tech companies as it progressed to go public this year. The chinese ecommerce giant investedrted 120. 120 million in a San Francisco videogame company, this as we hear about possible investments , lyft, cap, snapchat and now for more, we are joined n. Da largeith us is editor at cory johnson, who is in new york this week. Dan, lets start with you. Lots of different investments, everyone is trying to make sense of what alibaba is trying to do in the u. S. What do you make of it all . It is difficult to know because the strategy in china is
The fcc chairman and a dozen members of congress are getting involved, urging an end to the standoff. A federal judge rules against microsoft in an email privacy case. The judge ruled microsoft must turn over emails stored in ireland to investigators. Microsoft says emails deserve the same kind of protection as letters sent in the mail. As for the lead story, Alibaba Group is pouring millions of dollars into u. S. Tech companies as it prepares to go public later this year. The chinese ecommerce giant invested 120 million in a San Francisco company that makes mobile games. This is after bloomberg reported alibaba is considering investment in snapchat. Others include tango, lyft, and for more we are joined by dan rosensweig, ceo of Online Education site chegg. He was the yahoo chief operating officer from 2002 to 2007, the years alibaba formed a Strategic Partnership with yahoo also, cory johnson, who is in new york this week. At large, yes. [laughter] dan, lets start with you. Lots of i
And then the north korean government dont tell [inaudible] the second cause, the poor environmental about media industry, as some have already said, too much competition between Media Companies and between people exist. And too little too much space on newspaper and too much time on tv news. So we have to write reports, whatever, everyday, every night. So sometimes well have enough time to verify the facts and check. Its reality. And i think some reporters have the first belief that North Koreans do not argue about their article. And then the last code i have, ideological [inaudible] i want to bring [inaudible] you know, everybody have their own view of north korea. So do the journalists. Some are conservatives and some are [inaudible] so usually the conservatives want to blame north korea, right . And the progressives want to verify. So when conservative journalists meet, conservative also received conservative pundit, or and vice versa. Progressive meet progresses. I think it is like