December. The road map begins with the markets climbing back. Dow and s p back for the year. Oil with a 4 handle. The bidding war for starwood. The hotel change taking a higher offer from chinese anbang. Now marriott has five days to respond. As twitter hits an anniversary, jack dorsey says where the company goes from here. The bidding war in process for starwood. The company that had reached a deal to be acquired by marriott some time ago for 0. 9 shares of marriott and 2 bucks per share, and a spin of this time rental business. Thats what im thinking of, right . This morning as we reported first and has been confirmed by the company, anbang, the Insurance Company from china, along with chris flowers and primavera, large equity firm in china have agreed to purchase starwood for 78 in cash this is 2 above the previous bid they made to buy the company, and a bid that has been accepted by starwood. Before starwood can sign that definitive agreement which has been fully financed, the deal
The mounting costs of its emission scandal. The shares are jumping as the german car maker keeps its full year guidance. And the countdown is on to the third Republican Debate. Cnbc hosts the candidates as donald trump and ben carson solidify their lead. Busy week. A lot of earnings and the cnbc Republican Debate tonight. Lets check in on futures and what theyre telling us ahead of the market open. We have been down each and every day. The implied open is telling us well see a bit of recovery today. Were up some six points for the s p. Dow jones industrial is higher by 38. 5 points and nasdaq in advance of 16 points or so. Lets have a look at european markets. Also positive as you can see to the tune of about three quarter of a percent for most of continental europe. We have france just below that. Germany at 0. 7 of gains and ftse 100 at 0. 3 . Its partly a little bit of a bounce back from a soft start to the week and also Consumer Confidence data out earlier today. Apple beat the str
Staff, faculty, and students to its Second Harvest dinner tonight. The idea is to provide a meal for those who cant go home this thanksgiving. Kcrgtv9s Sarah Mccarthy shows us why University Officials say the celebration is an important way to build community. Hello, are you here to volunteer or are just here for the meal . A meal with all the traditional fixings. 14 32 00 cranberry sauce . In a nontraditional way. The harvest dinner is about coming together, breaking bread together spending time with people you know and love as well as meeting new people to know and love. Home, for many here, thousands of miles away. 14 41 16 space, there is an atmosphere of welcomeness, inclusiveness and home that children pick up on immediately and proceed to play together and have a great time. A time to give thanks. 14 37 21 thank you glad youre here . For a hot meal 14 48 45 meeting people, sharing a meal together, it just brings a lot of people together. And a new kind of family. In iowa city, S
Have embraced for years. Uber is opening the app to developers. It to now be integrated into other applications allowing users to order a car without leaving the app. We will be talking about this news. First to the lead, hewlettpackard ceo getting a boost as she works to turn around the pc maker. The Company Reported record revenue 27. 6 billion, up 1 . Shares are falling in afterhours trading. However, the positive Sales Numbers could the sign that the turnaround plan is starting to have an impact since meg whitman took over. She has focused on bringing new products to market like watercool the servers and 3d printers. Joining us is our Bloomberg Intelligence analyst anand srinivasan. Thank you so much for joining us. Are these numbers good . Not so good . It is rather unremarkable. Large companies particularly in tech when there is a turnaround, two steps forward and one step back. This was not genetically forward moving. More sideways . Sideways, yes. The devil is in the details. M
Video has been removed of the beheading of a journalist by militants. Twitter said this is the latest example of social Media Companies policing user content from open internet policy many have embraced for years. I spoke with courtney radish, david kirkpatrick, and a law professor. I asked if there were any legal issues for social Media Companies policing user posts. The legal point is the First Amendment which guarantees free speech as a fundamental right. Over the years where it has been litigation, mostly focused on filing video for children and the like and not so much on what happens in real news. The freedom of speech curtailed mostly on sex but theres a lot less litigation on violence and in recent weeks, we have been flooded with images from around the world. The last series of images we have seen from gaza and the ukraine and all of these raise issues that have not been extensively litigated. Not necessarily illegal or legal . Is that what you are saying . As far as First Ame