. >> i'm carolyn roth. these are your headlines from around the world. >>> u.s. futures are pointing higher shaking off the junk bond market jitters that sent stocks into the red on friday as investors are trying to position themselves ahead of the federal reserve. >>> third avenue reportedly gives its ceo the boot just days after the firm liquidates its junk bond fund and bars investors. >>> also on thin ice, the chief executives of yahoo! and dow chemical. 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 star's world tour. >>> good morning, everyone. it's 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 f

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. >>> good morning, i'm carolyn roth. coming up on the show, nothing ventured, nothing gained. google's head of venture capital says tech startups are waiting too long to go public. >>> sweeping changes in venezuela. we assess the implications of a new government after nearly two decades of socialist rule come to an end. >>> and can climate talks in paris propel us towards a greener future. the ceo of vestas speaks to us later in the show. >>> here we are kicking off new trading week. off the 2% rally that we saw on friday. it's the biggest number that we've seen. the implied open looks like we are above fair value. looks like the rally continues today. industrials up 14 points. nasdaq higher by close to 10. the s&p looks like we are gaining 4 points or so. now let's quickly check in on european benchmarks and continuing to i guess follow through on the big advance we saw on friday thanks to the non-farm payrolls for the month of november. pretty much seals it when it comes to the 15th and 16th, december, yeah, federal reserve meeting. let's check in on the ftse. seen gains and

>>> i'm carolyn roth. >> european stocks, the stronger dollar continues to take its toll on oil. brent crude hits prices not seen in more than a decade. >>> spanish banking shares drop as investors win the election and fall short of the majority there by opening up the possibility of a left wing coalition taking power. >>> ericsson shares have a deal with apple. analysts say it could be worth billions of swedish crohn's. >>> and fifa, football's governing body hands a card to seth blatter. >>> good morning, everyone. it is the second to the last trading week of the year. let's see how we're fairg on this monday morning. almost christmas. yeah. let's see if the markets are feeling christmassy. the stock 600 is up by 0.800. we're close to session highs. it belies one very weak spot and that is spain. we're off by roughly 2.5%. why? ibex down by 1.71%. they did win in the general election yesterday but they couldn't hold onto the majority so what we're seeing now is potentially a lot of stability. we'll get out to julia. the cac 40 is up by 0.9%. take a look at the xetra dax, too. u

. >> i'm carolyn roth. these are your headlines from around the world. >>> u.s.re pointing higher shaking off the junk bond market jitters that sent stocks into the red on friday as investors are trying to position themselves ahead of the federal reserve. >>> third avenue reportedly gives its ceo the boot just days after the firm liquidates its junk bond fund and bars investors. >>> also on thin ice, the chief executives of yahoo! and dow

carolyn: there was a pencil drawing that depicted a sexual act. the law of obscenity was not quite settled at this time. the supreme court had only decided the case in 1957 called rothn obscenity. another case dealt with possession of obscene materials by booksellers. case, they said was unconstitutional to prohibit possession of potentially obscene material if it might be sold. there wasn't a lot of law around obscenity. that is one reason why went to the supreme court. she was out on bail the whole time. it is a very busy general court in cleveland. it took a long time for a case to come to trial. her lawyer wanted her to plead bargain, soplea that she could avoid jail time. she adamantly refused. if he done this on her behalf without her knowing, it would've infuriated her. everybody wanted the case to go to trial. it took a long time just because the crowded court system. is ms. mapp in her own words. but first, you can call in to comment on this case. here the phone numbers. -- here are the phone numbers. please dial carefully to get through our studio. we will get your questions in line. you can also tweet us. cases. #landmark we will mix in a few facebook com