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carnival ceo josh weinstein spoke with manus cranny and carol massar earlier today. year. josh: 2023 we wrapped november 30. we had record demand, record yield, record pricing, record of forward bookings, record on board spending levels. across the board our business has thrived in 2023 and we expect much more in 2023. carol: you are a great gauge of how customers feel. you have a great read on that. are they continuing to spend, to advance bookings? and once they are on the ships, are they continuing to spend? josh: that is what we see. our q4 was, from a pricing standpoint, the highest of all year. so it is accelerating, not decelerating. when we look forward, we are two thirds books for all of 4024 already. -- 2024 already, 10 points higher than last year. on top of the ticket bookings we have started putting forward on board spending. we have more or less one third of on board spend prepaid in advance. so we have really good visibility. booking trends have not slowed down. every quarter this year people expect it will slow down, it has got to. we will see somethi

we are going to have a great conversation with josh weinstein, the economist ceo.ous music) ♪ ♪ ♪ be ready for any market with a liquid etf. get in and out with dia. was also the first time you heard of a town named dinosaur, colorado. we just got an order from dinosaur, colorado. start an easy to build, powerful website for free with a partner that always puts you first. start for free at godaddy.com >> this cycle this and dies the consumer and the consumer has been surprising with spending strength throughout his expansion. we are still going to have a healthy consumer, healthy jobs market. we are not going to get the consumer in contraction but you're going to have a consumer that is more moderate and maybe decides they can wait a little bit order for some joy instead of taking it all. manus: the chief economist at sf investment. a quick snapshot at equities, bonds, and fx as they go into the last leg of 2023. crude is the only thing moving higher at 72.25 and equities are flat on the day 4076 on the s&p 500 -- 4786 on the s&p 500. carol: shares in the carnival

ceo josh weinstein continues to say there are no signs about decreased demand. th they're not seeing it. cruises were late on the post pandemic travel rebound. still, the amount of demand and what people are paying on prices continues to be a priority. i keep thinking of the other areas where there doesn't seem to be a slowdown. dodgers spend a billion dollars on a couple of free agents. it's remarkable to me where valuations of evening continue to go up. certainly you're not goating any signs those industries or those worlds about pending slowdowns. valuations of sports teams continue to climb. rights deals for all of that. as you know, obviously, from your work with f 1, the value of those teams. >> experiences up 100%. that's not necessarily cyclical. i think that's in sort of a league of its own when it comes to valuation. that's in the chatgpt valuation range which is targets 100 billion which we'll talk about. there are losers. dollar general is down 50% this year. individual issues and category issues. pfizer, estee lauder vf corporation challenged compan

josh lederman has more. >> reporter: another american family is grieving. death cuts deep and vowing to bring remaining hostages home. there are six americans still in gaza. >> i decided this year i'm not going to make his birthday cake. it's making me too sad. >> reporter: meanwhile, a former hostage is speaking out, detailing the grueling conditions she went through while in captivity for 54 days, comparing her experience to the holocaust, recalling when a surgeon operated on her hand without anesthesia, telling her you're not coming home alive. israel is saying the three mistakes of hostages this month could have been prevented and acknowledging two devastating air strikes in a central gaza refugee camp on christmas eve. more than 20 were killed in the south in rafah. we are all relatives and we came here, he says. why did they hit this house? in the rubble, palestinians digging for survivors with their bare hands, finding a young girl in the rubble, still alive, rescued and rushed to the hospital. >> josh lederman reporting for us from israel. >>> break