bob iger disney at abc, mark zuckerberg, bezos and charlie ergen of dish network. we know that at&t is not interested in the news business, it's not part of the strategy, it would make sense on all fronts and we know what mr. trump thinks of cnn as well, make sense to divest themselves and time warner has "tmz," and there are rumors they would divest themselves of cnn and "tmz," they will get a final say at the end of next month when the department of justice puts out the report on the conditions needed to get this done. liz: what's ironic, ashley, be careful what you wish for because whoever buys cnn, les moonves is no dummy. >> absolutely not. liz: each of the ceos are brilliant, they will make it bigger. by the way, you don't have to have a big network to make a ton of money. you know how much money cnn makes in advertiseing? a well, well-greased machine. >> a lot. liz: the perception is president trump would be a business leader who would allow mergers and acquisitions put through unlike the obama administration, it got personal and can't really do that. you go

just this summer, a federal judge ordered dish network to pay more than $280 million for making robols to numbers on a do not call registry. there is no doubt robo calls are getting worse. they're finding their way on to our cell phone. now consumer reports has a way for you to stop them. carol receives a ton of robo calls to her mobile phone. >> i get about five or six robo calls per week. the area codes are from all over the country. i have a baby and i'm always concerned it could be something about the baby. >> according to a consumer report surveys 62% of at&t, centurylink and verizon customers reported receiving six or more robo calls per week. now consumers of the aggravating messages. >> we're hearing that a call goes into your voice mail box without your phone ringing. we think it's important for consumers to have protections against them. >> for calls that aren't by passing the ring, dpoen caphones are offering help. it automatically blocks scam calls for iphone 6 and higher. >> verizon and sprint have apps that display the caller's name on your incoming screen for callers n

dish network cord-cutters hurting them.. >>> higher profit at health insurance aetna, stock up 2 1/2%. i can't work out these health insurers. obamacare is on the rocks and stocks go up. i can't work it out. same with humana. a lot of people raised their target price on humana. the stock is up $3. that is up 1 1/2%. >>> economic angle on the crisis in venezuela. they may be heading towards a default which is a big deal indeed, liz. liz: they are thought to have $150 billion in debt. they have only $3 billion in cash reserves. and they are thought to be owing, due this month, 725 million. but the real figure is five billion due by the end of the year. venezuela could tip easily into default if the trump administration says yes, we are going to sanction venezuela's pedevesa. they're going after maduro and 13 individuals. boy, stuart, if the trump administration goes after pedevesa and oil sector it will tip into default. that is a serious conversation happening at the white house. stuart: rippling all over. liz: that's correc

streaming doesn't just hurt cable and satellite companies like charter communications or dish network it also punishes entertainment networks like viacom which owns and. t.v. comedy central paramount pictures companies like viacom sell its channels and programmes to third party providers and this past week when viacom told its investors sales to cable and streaming services would be down this quarter while the stock plunged so why is viacom and other entertainment companies content less appealing these days let's bring in jason segel co-founder and chief digital officer. jason thank you for being here thanks for having me look it's obvious why it's streaming services cable providers that seems very obvious to me it's less obvious to me why entertainment division is like viacom amc n.b.c. universal are also suffering why are these companies having a hard time switching from selling to cable to selling to streaming services what we're seeing happen is the pendulum is swinging in the past they always took advantage of just trying to sell volume of channels and the consumer always said i

we will hear from the dish network, they are struggling with the growing trend of cord cutting wherether for cheaper online streaming services, such as netflix. joining us isjeremy stretch, head of currency strategy at cibc world markets. afamiliar a familiarface a familiar face to the programme, nice for you to be here. do you want to start? let's begin with the dowjones. dow jones. i said figures were partly due to apple but there are other factors? yes, apple was one of them, but in terms of the apple store, people were bracing themselves for slightly disappointing numbers as there was a fear that tech savvy phone users we re fear that tech savvy phone users were waiting for the next version of the iphone, that was not the case. earnings are strong in a number of industries, that is the underlying dynamic. and you could argue there isa dynamic. and you could argue there is a currency effect in some instances, as the us dollar has continued to depreciate in recent weeks, as you translate foreign earnings into us dollars, it enhances earnings numbers and boost equity markets. and am

just this summer a federal judge ordered dish network to pay million for making millions of illegal callsnumbers on the national do not call registry. the problem is getting worse. we have robo calls ringing cell phones. consumer reports explains what you can do now to stop them. >> receives a ton of calls to her mobile phone. >> i get about five or six per week. the area codes are from all over the country. i have a baby and i'm always concerned it could be something about the baby. >> reporter: according to recent consumer reports survey at least 62% of at&t, century link and verizon customers reported receiving six or more calls per week and now consumers are getting more of these aggravating messages. >> we are hearing where the call goes without the phone ringing. we think it is important for consumers to have protections >> for calls that aren't by passing the ring at&t has a free app for its customers that automatically blocks scam calls. t mobile offers free scam call blocking and sprint and verizon have apps that display on incoming screen for callers who are not already in the c

. >> reporter: just this summer, a federal judge ordered dish network to pay more than $280 million for making robo calls to numbers on the do not call registry and there is no doubt robo calls are getting worse. they're finding their way on to our cell phone so now consumer reports has a way for you to stop them. carol receives a t calls to her mobile phone. >> i get about five or six robo calls per week. the area codes are from all over the country. i have a baby and i'm always concerned it could be something about the baby. >> reporter: according to a recent consumer report survey, at least 62% of at&t, century link, and verizon customers reported receiving six or more robo calls per week and now consumers are getting even more of these aggravating messages. >> we're hearing about ringless voicemail where a call goes directly into your voicemail. they can fill up your voicemail inbox and block important messages which is why we think it's important for consumers to have protections against them. >> reporter: for calls that aren't bypassing the ring, phone carriers are now offering di

dish network has come out and said we would like to have a partner.harter communications now being looked at. both the content and the distribution side at the same time trying to get bigger. who is a weaker position here? mr. chachas: it's not good to be we can either side. it seems to me with that suggests is that all the changes happening from the digital cut economy's emergence and the shifting of power between traditional analog decision mechanisms and digital platforms is making everybody rethink their business. , the ones whoolks were very dominant in either content or distribution contexts now to think that eventually. my big enough in traditional enoughution -- am i big international integration? -- in traditional distribution? alex: there is sort of a distributing platform, i wouldn't call that operator, but it is still the same target was on the content provider saying we don't want to give your stuff , we will go full out public or given to consumers directly. my question is, in this new world of content guys and saying we are going to giv

analysts say t mobile seems like a likely partner, but there are reports they're exploring with dish network made would have to win regulatory approval, but the trump administration is expected to be b more open to deal make ing, so we'll have to see what happens with at&t's acquisition of time warner b and discovery's purchase of scrips >> thank you our next guest says this chatter is just the tip of the iceberg in the media space andy is editor in chief of yahoo! finance so, andy, what makes the most sense right now? >> well, that deal, the sprint charter deal makes a lot of sense, but basically divide up the world into buyers and buyees on the buyer side, you've got to at&ts and comcasts and charters and maybe the verizons then on the other side, you've got the sprints, t mobiles then the content companies like a cbs, disney, netflix the whole thing is basically, that the cable and wireless business is not growing, so they need to either come bib bin or a media company. consumers and companies want a bun l to offer fcc is is friendly right now then you've got these personalities. right, h

got the story in the loss bash in the last hour that softbank might be interested in looking at dish network. that could be a potential murder -- potential merger target. on the flipside, we have under slashinghat company its forecast for the second half of the year. that was broadly expect it. also protest -- also projecting weaker gross margins. mosaic is forecasting a tighter margin, saying it sees higher ammonia cost. those shares down as well. and the big report after the bell will be apple. although most of the focus will be on what happens with the iphone eight, we are seeing some focus on the mix of revenue in the last order between product, services and software come of those shares up going into that big report. julia: thank you very much. look at cmen we group, one of the companies that reported before the bell, shares are rising as they put second quarter profit that beat analysts estimates and posted a dailyrease in average volume. but revenue for the quarters was in the lowest estimate. joining us to discuss the results is the chairman and ceo of cme group. thank you for joinin

subscriber losses eased last quarter at dish network and gives the chairman time to work on plans tois company's $35 billion stockpile of unused airwaves. dish lost 190,000 customers in the second quarter and less than expected but still one of dish's worst quarters ever. aetna has surprised investors with a big increase in its forecast. the company was visited by strong results by the unions that ofoer health insurance coverage to employers. they've gotten out of the obamacare after suffering loss in the program. that's your bloomberg business flash. alyx: we'll hear on the chief financial officer with iron ore sitting at $72 a ton. this is bloomberg. dd >> this is bloomberg daybreak, i'm emma chandra in the hewlett-packard greenroom. jonathan: from new york for our viewers worldwide, this is "bloomberg daybreak" i'm jonathan ferro. a divergent euro you're not familiar with. germany lagging its european peers for the first time in 12 years. s, nt to bring in the guest daniel and vincent. daniel, looking at p.m.i.'s, decent in italy. surprised, it's actually a surprise but germany la

. >>> dish networks earning 69 cents per share for its latest quarter. 6 cents shy of estimates howevertv service were lower than expected. >>> consumer products maker clorox reported quarterly profit of $1.52 per share 6 cents above estimates. they expect profit margins to expand slightly this year. that stock unchanged on that news avon products missed estimates on the top and bottom lines but the bigger news coming from the executive suite where sherri mccoy will be stepping down, the ceo of that company, in march. barrington had been pressuring the cosmetics maker to replace her. >>> we're just a few seconds away from the weekly jobless claims number. in the meantime check out the futures. you know that yesterday the dow closed above 22,000 for the first time this morning markets are barely holding on to that level dow jones is up by less than 1 point for the futures. let's get to rick santelli who has those numbers. rick. >> well, we see a drop, a drop of 5,000 initial claims. that's from 245, which is the revision originally released last week at 244,000, now stands at 240,000 1.9

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deep space network and build in space navigation and we as a government can provide that to anybody that wants to have that ability. it is difficult for a private company to have three, 70 m dishis located around the world in the deep space network. that is not the right thing for the private sector but that is the right thing for the government. if we make it available to anyone that wants to use that in creative ways to have some benefit back to us to understand about supersonic retro propulsion, that is a great synergy. we need to look for those things, don't lock everything in but the government should be building the right pieces of infrastructure that can be supportive of a broader private-sector international community that wants to do these things. the other thing is to set some standards, the deep space network has interoperability standards, so they communicate and use the same network, all the data comes back from mars to the deep space network, almost everyone's data. when we talk about 6 or 7 missions in 2020 will be supported by the deep space network. that criticality of infrastructure is really important and it underpins these other things. it is not about who

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