Shanghai up. Early trading in europe, modest advances across the board. Cac is up. If you look at crude oil, last week was big for oil up 4 for the week, in spitting distance of 50. Up to 49. 78 a barrel. Corporate news the big one, Charter Communications announced it is not interested, i repeat, not interested in buying wireless carrier sprint follows news friday that sprint was interested in merging with charter to create a media outlet controlled we understand why a deal is attractive for softbank. Could kill any chance of deal between the companies. The wall street journal saying the ceo could make a formal offer anyway take a look at shares of sprint. Put context around whats going on sprint up close to 6 . Charter up marginally as well. Surprising sprint is where it is sprint had been talking back and forth to t mobile. Thats been the natural partner. T mobile effectively spurned sprint and sprint has gone on this sort of merger talk spree with anybody who will listen surprising
1. 8. Housing starts not too bad. Road map begins with netflix shares vaulting in premarket after the company trounced wall streets and its own expectations for the quarter. Ibm moving in the other direction. After revenue and guidance came in below what analysts had been looking for. President obama outlining his plan to help the middle class removing Tax Advantages benefiting the wealthiest americans. First up shares of netflix up sharply in the premarket. The company exceeding its own forecast adding more than 4. 3 million streaming subscribers in the Fourth Quarter, posting profits that blew past street estimates. During the interview, Reid Hastings asked for his latest thoughts on the companys ability to reach 60 million to 90 million subs in the subs. Looking very good. 39 million in the u. S. Adding 5 plus million a year. So the trajectorys great. And you know if you step back and you say is internet video going to be in every home in america in ten years, thats a pretty clear y
Conversation and we like to talk a lot so there is conversation in social media. I think this whole week has been about learning. I come from a small town where it is very politically homogenic. There is not much chance for people who dont think the same to get their opinion without being ridiculed. Being here has given me an opportunity to learn other viewpoints and also to get my other ideas out with people. High School Students across the country discuss the precipitation there cipitation sunday night at 8 00. Tom perkins wrote a letter to the enter of the wall street journal in january about income inequality. He later apologized for holocaust analogy. He says part of the reason he wrote the letter was because the attacks on his exwife who is in the audience at this Commonwealth Club of california event. He spoke with Fortune Magazine senior Senior Editor about what he calls the demonization of the one percent. It is about one hour. Thank you, caroline. This truly is my favorite pa
The demonization of the one percent. After that, discussion about the situation in somalia. On the next washington journal, is page talks politics and the Supreme Court ruling. Former fbi and cia Deputy Director philip mudd talks about the recent drone strikes that killed dozens of al qaeda. Embers we will be looking for your calls and you can join the conversation of facebook and twitter. Washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. On cspan. I remember the first conversation i had wasnt about where youre from or what your school is like but it was about ukraine. It was about politics and our believes on education and religion. That, i was like, wow, this week will be intense. It was cool to see the evolution of all our friendships and our bonds just from talking about politics. Ribbon talking about our experiences and what we have learned in who we have met. This is an experience i will never forget. I can never really go that far in politics and politics is such a caustic environment. But
[ applause ] good morning. Thank you mary. What an amazing opportunity to be here. Today i live here with my family and raising two young daughters in San Francisco. Uf for those who dont know me, i am not a religious person. But i think we should all take a moment and say a prayer of thanks for the environment we live in. For all of us who touch bay area real estate, its really incredible how quickly things have changed. If you go back two, two and a half years and think about what the environment was in the middle of 2010, we were in a terrible environment. Values were down significantly. We couldnt lease space it save ourselves and we felt it would be a long, long slug to come out of the hole we were in. Here we are, barely two years later, in one of the strongest Office Markets in the country. The growth for is overwhelming a shrinking of real estate needs and were not seeing that kind of growth in new york or washington. Its very select markets that were seeing the kind of growth