Sondheim theatre in to london a halt. Five people have been arrested. The protesters were not welcomed warmly by the audience. You know , youre not audience. You know, youre not keeping. Keeping. Just dont get it. Do they record high rents . The average rent outside of london has risen to almost £1,300 a month. To almost £1,300 a month. And well be telling you all our gossip from the conservative Party Conference. Thats first one. I think it was probably my 33rd one. I was trying to work it out there. I dont think it really was. Was it the first time you came home in a minibus, though . It certainly was. The first one came and can tell came in first. And can i tell you the last to thank you, you the last time to thank you, rmt. Oh, it was aslef, wasnt it . Wasnt no. We came back it . Wasnt it . No. We came back in a very jolly peoples carrier. We are a people carrier. We are a people carrier. We are a people carrier. We the peoples champion. Definitely minibus. It its definitely a mi
Talk about Police Accountability, criminal justice, Voting Rights and the 2016 election. Community activists and journalists look at the challenges of poverty, Gang Violence and drug addiction in lowincome communities in whats being done to address them. Tonight at 9 30 p. M. On cspan, Washington Post executive editor marty baron talks about threats to freedom of expression across the world, covering world events and the state of journalism. Early last year russian authorities were given the power to block websites without any official explanation. Almost immediately four russian opposition websites were blocked. By the summer of last year, speech on the internet was constrained even further. New rules required anyone with the daily online audience of more than 3,000 people to register with russias internet oversight agency. Names and Contact Details were to be provided and bloggers would be held liable for anything deemed misinformation, including in comments from members of the publi
Coming up in moments. Sprint shares lower in premarket trading this morning. Wider than expected loss, lowering of guidance and loss of subscribers, plus job cuts. Shares of michael kors down premarket after Holiday Quarter guidance comes in below street expectations. Alibaba reporting quarterly profit 45 cents a share in line with estimates. Shares of alibaba have risen 50 since the september ipo. As we said, we are moments away from a live interview with alibabas executive vice chairman joe tsai. We are getting used to these metrics, gross merchandise volume, annual active buyers, and general, we are going to get to the interview right now. Lets do it. Joining us first on cnbc alibabas executive vice chairman joe tsai. Very nice to have you here after this first Quarterly Report as a public company. You guys have made a great deal with mobile in your remarks. In your slide presentations. Let me start there. Its grown to represent 35. 8 of gross merchandise value. Your take rate moved
Almost creeping down to 52 on west texas. The ten year steady at 2. 18. Our road map begins with the last trading day of the year. Full day. No half day for the markets on this new years eve. Better than expected weekly jobless claims number helping futures point slightly higher this morning as investors look to end 2014 with a bang. Sony hack sent the company back to the stone age. Forced to revert back to note pads. And why ipads could make a comeback in 2015. First up, stocks are edging higher a little bit. Brent crude hitting new lows this morning. Jobless claims up to 298. All major indices solidly in the green. Nasdaq up 14. 4. Russell up about four. Well talk about sort of the annual performers. The best s p stock, southwest airlines. Worst s p, transocean. Ibm has the dubious distinction of being the worst dow component two years running. Thats not happened since 1995 when it was bethlehem steel, believe it or not. I guess the other ones on the dow are the Oil Companies . Chevr
Welcome to Market Makers. I seem to have misplaced Stephanie Ruhle. Im terrified all by myself. Im going to kick it off with the top business stories of the morning. Sears is getting smaller and so are its losses. The retailer cut its losses by more than half in the fourth quarter. It has now lost money 11 quarters in a row. Eddie lampert has been shrinking the store base and separating units to generate cash. They want to form a Real Estate Investment trust to leaseback the stores. Firsttime jobless claims rose by the most in more than a year last week. It was well above the estimate. Inflation at the consumer level took a dive last month. Prices fell zero point 7 , probably due to Falling Energy prices. The cpi actually rose. The fcc is headed toward a landmark vote on regulating the internet. Regulators expect to adopt rules on Net Neutrality that would bar broadband providers from charging websites to deliver content more quickly. Large mobile phone carriers say the regulations wou