Boast are under pressure from activist investors urging the company to take a new direction. Apple and taylor swift shake it off when it comes to their differences and reach an exclusive deal to debut a film of the pop stars world tour. Good morning, everyone. Its monday. A very busy week for markets potentially. We could be seeing the first fed hike in roughly a decade. Almost with the new star wars movie coming back online. A pretty big week. In terms of the markets, the ftse 100 up by 0. 1 very much shrugging off the negativity that we saw in the asian trading and that we saw in the u. S. Last friday. The xetra dax bouncing back to the tune of 0. 1 . European markets had a pretty awful week were down by 4 . Because of the junk bond market jitters and the job in oil prices. Asian markets look like this. China outperforming 2. 5 . Why . In part because the trifecta of data. Retail sales industrial output, et cetera, that was at least or better than expectations though elsewhere were s
Moderation like that. This wonderful nation. But more or less this is america, so safe. That situation has completed changed. [inaudible] so thank you all. We and they is actually unrealistic. So we must think entire 7 billion human beings, we must consider. That is my honest belief. So no problem. As a politician [laughter] or that you see, a little bit of insane person. Still same person, human being. [laughter] clear . Clear. So the main purpose, you see, we have to sort of look seriously about future of humanity. At least this century. Now, we already enter the 21st century. Now, remaining the century, i think like becomes very, very, turning point century. Now this century also should be. So in the past century, a century of violence, century of war. This century should be century of peace. Peace not come from the sky. Since the violence we created, so peace, we must create it. Piece only, through our action, not through Wishful Thinking or prayer. Ive witnessed in my daily life,
Lively fertile congress, something we dont have. Opposed to the college, but only in the years when they lose. Other years they are happy. I mean, i wouldnt take this too seriously. This is something that is tactical. The filibuster is tactical. Is that an example, kind of an example of direct democracy . Wouldnt be a good example because it precludes the debate and discussion. Thats the whole purpose of the filibuster. Its deeply anticonstitutional. Deeply, deeply. Not in the literal sense, but in the structural sense of the spirit of the constitution. A question here i missed. Oh, yes, go ahead. Then you. All right. Youve been talking about the writers of the time, and i was wondering, these writers, writers of the whole lost generation of the 20s used to be the biggest writers. When i was in school, they were begin to us to reed in american literature, and now largely gone. Why do you think that is . First of all, they read theory, not american literature, i mean, academia as we kne
Odds or which day in which week is probably not helpful that i think everybody understands that if it tracks out to long but the political calendar can start working again. Sonata tomorrow is what youre saying. Moving on the problem is we are getting all of that to the competitors. Very good. We will read that in the National Journal leader. [laughter] just kidding. I want to talk a little bit about the James Burling experience with lighted up the gst is a little bit and we were talking backstage about the pollyanna view of what washington was like in the clinton years in the late 90s and republicans and democrats got along better and there were negotiations that led to the agreement whereas now it has been much more difficult. Maybe that is less so now that we dont have the debt ceiling fight and there seems to be more of a desire on the republican side to create a fiscal crisis, but tell me a little bit about how your interactions and negotiations with republicans on the legislation,
Us, but the first month of the year tends to be kind to investors. Will the same hold true in 2014 . And big payoffs. Our market monitor says he has three stocks that could get you at least 20 in the year ahead. All that and more for this final day of 2013, december 31st. Good evening, and happy new year, everyone. Tylers off tonight. Well, champagne on wall street was flowing today as the dow and s p 500 ended the year with another round of new record highs. 2013 will be remembered as the longest bull market winning streak since the 1990s. The dow posted 52 record closes, and the s p taxed on 45 new highs tacked on 45 new highs. Here the scorecard for this last day of 2014 and for the year. Of 2013 and for the year. The blue chips reached 16,576, a new milestone. The nasdaq added 22, closing at a fresh 13year high. And the s p rose seven points to 1,848. For the year, the dow surged 26. 5 . The nasdaq skyrocketed 38 . And the s p soared almost 30 , its best year since 1995. Looking at