time now for a look at some of the other business stories making the news chinese state media say ali baba group founder jack ma has made his 1st appearance in public since october saying he held a video conference with $100.00 rural teachers china speculation had been growing that the billionaire businessman had fallen out of favor with china's communist authorities china's commerce ministry says foreign direct investment expanded 6.2 percent last year despite the pandemic it says it reached a record high of nearly $155000000000.00 service sector accounted for more than 3 quarters of that dutch and british investment group sharply shares netflix have climbed sharply on news it has topped $200000000.00 subscribers the world's largest streaming t.v. service added more than $8000000.00 new users last quarter despite a price hike it says it will no longer needs to borrow billions to finance t.v. and movement productions the beggar friend says to have thousands you could jobs and at least 170000000000 euros in assets have left the u.k. for friends and brags that london is still allowed to operate yo