pool four is wide open after french side racing 92 beat munster 3a — 30.ave to beat castres in the final round to guarantee top place and a home quarterfinal. in the same pool castres are 32—0 up against leicester. toulon thrashed benetton treviso to go top of pool 5. so a win for toulon but it was soured by homophobic --__,,_,_,,-,e-,+g -—:4; l5 “2 ' scored a try in the match and later apologised for his comments. tournament organisers european professional club rugby said its citing commissioner is looking into the incident. now, how about this for marital teamwork? england's chris paisley has claimed his first european tour title, winning the south africa open, where his wife was his caddie. paisley, who had a one shot lead going into today, held off the challenge of home favourite branden grace by carding a six under par 66 to win the title by three strokes. big hug from his wife keri, who was making her she does not know that much about golf, but she knows me better than anyone. when i was getting uptight or going a little fast, she would calm me down

we have fame's gene munster.e has been patiently on that call what stuck out to you, buddy you were on the call for an hour and a half. >> it's been a long call they buried the good stuff in the middle of the call i think cheryl's comment about the monetization actually going up, and i want to translate what she was saying when she said not clearly negative they mentioned they already started to clean up the news feed in the u.s. they gave the numbers. 12% less time spent in the u.s but monetization actually creeped up in the u.s. now they haven't rolled these out over the whole globe that's why she said not clearly negative that is a huge topic in this story. i think she let people rest easy knowing that in fact reducing time can actually be good for monetization what a great combination. >> do you feel, gene, a bigger topic, that facebook has trouble sort of telling people in plain english what it means, not clearly negative zuckerberg has been described as not the best communicator. do you think they are not g

munster had been comfortable, leading 17—0 before a red card for centre sam arnold changed the rhythmn the final moments. in today's other game leinster strengthened their hold on second place in conference b with a narrow win over connacht. but as number one johanna but as number onejohanna konta started the season with the two sets to one victory. it is her first to admit with her new coach. she lost the first set 6—4 but broke early in the first set 6—4 but broke early in the second to take it 6—4 and then to ta ke the second to take it 6—4 and then to take the match. contact the final set 6—3 to reach the second round. —— johanna konta took the final set. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you in sportsday at 10.30. eye witnesses have been describing a huge fire which destroyed up to 1,400 vehicles in a multi—storey car park in liverpool. the blaze at king's dock, next to liverpool's echo arena, is said to have spread after one vehicle caught fire yesterday afternoon. firefighters worked through the night and many people were forced into temporary accommodation as ne

in rugby union's pro 1a, ulster had a great comeback win to take a bonus point win over munster at their centre sam arnold was red carded for a high tackle. ulster fought back with three late tries, the 24—17 win was sealed by robert lyttle in the final moments. in today's other game, leinster strengthened their hold on second place in conference b with a narrow win over connacht. that's all the sport for now. the leader of north korea, kim jong—un, has warned the united states that he has a nuclear button on his desk, ready for use, if his country feels threatened. in a televised new year's day speech, he said that the whole of the us was within range — but he had warmer words for neighbouring south korea, saying he wanted to ease tensions. more than 300 women from hollywood's entertainment industry have launched an initiative to tackle sexual harassment in workplaces. the campaign — called time's up — aims to improve legislation and corporate policies, increase access to legal assistance and help more women reach the top levels of industry. it's supported by stars including meryl str

pool 4 is wide open after french side racing 92 beat munster 34—30. final round to guarantee top place and a home quarter—final. in the same pool, castres beat leicester 39—0. leicester will finish bottom of the pool toulon thrashed benetton treviso to go top of pool 5. so a win for toulon, but it was soured by homophobic comments made by one of their players, mathieu bastareaud, to one of the opposition. bastereaud scored a try in the match and later apologised for his comments. tournament organisers european professional club rugby said its citing commissioner is looking into the incident. cricket, and opening batsman jason roy made england's highest individual one day international score, as england put their dismal ashes performance behind them to beat australia by five wickets. aaron finch hit 107 as australia compiled 304—8 from their 50 overs in melbourne, but that soon proved to be inadequate. roy faced just 151 balls as he passed alex hales‘s previous best score to hit 180, in what was the first of five 0dis. defending champion glen durrant h

gene munster predicts amazon will acquire target this year.se at the discount retailer would be the ideal off-line partner for amazon. they would have to pay $41 billion for target. tesla leaving wall street guessing about sales of its model 3 sedan. they may have delivered four times more last quarter then in the previous three months. another analyst says sales may 40. risen by a factor of in california, retail sales of marijuana for recreational use now legal on a limited basis. sales were brisk in stores that had state licenses. that is your latest bloomberg business flash. take a look at where european markets are trading. we are minutes away from the end of the first training session of the year, down for a third consecutive day. it finished last year at a record. down .5%. euro rising, dax falling. that's the inverse correlation you often see. exporters affected by the strong euro. three minutes to the close. this is bloomberg. ♪ mark: live from london, this is the european close. i'm mark barton with vonnie quinn in new york. stocks fi

we're going to dinner with the munsters >>> the president telling north korea -- telling kim jong unt he too has a button that is bigger and more powerful and his actually works "squawk box" begins right now. >> we're live at the nasdaq market site. andrew ross sorkin along with becky quick and joe kernan let's show you some green arrows across the board, but the dow has it dipped into the red just briefly here dow down about six points. nasdaq looking to open higher. three and a half points up the s&p 500 would open just marginally higher as well. a couple of headlines to bring you this morning the first economic reports of the new year, they are due today. the institute for supply management will be issuing its monthly manufacturing index. that happens at 10:00 a.m. eastern time the government issuing november construction spending at the same time. also, we're going to be getting december auto sales figures. economists surveyed by edmun edmunds.com. investors hoping to gain an insight into possible rate hikes in 2018. >>> music streaming company spotify has been sued by wixen musi

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in rugby union's pro 1a ulster had a great comeback win to take a bonus point win over munster at there sam arnold was red carded for a high tackle. ulster fought back with three late tries, the 24—17 win was sealed by robert lyttle in the final moments. in today's other game leinster strengthened their hold on second place in conference b with a narrow win over connacht. that's all the sport for now. the leader of north korea, kimjong un, has warned the united states that he has a nuclear button on his desk, ready for use, if his country feels threatened. but his televised new year's day speech also seemed to open up the possibility of better relations with neighbouring south korea. just after the first sun of 2018 rose over the korean peninsula, kim jong—un delivered his new year's address live on state—run television, with an unsurprisingly defiant message for the united states. translation: the entire united states is within range of our nuclear weapons — and the nuclear button is always on my desk. this is reality, not a threat. perhaps more surprising was the olive branch he app

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the stock pushing higher after gene munster said it may acquire target.ll be a combination, and i would investors would view amazon is taking over the world, and that is a good thing. alix: our next guest to much disagrees. scott galloway, nyu stern professor. he joins us now. scott galloway: the occurrence of getting harder and harder. alix: gene munster says it would be a good thing if amazon bought target. while you disagree? scott: anytime gene munster says something, you question your own beliefs because he is a fantastic analyst. target would get scale and relationships with consumer brands and they have those things. i think amazon's strategy is to go after the affluent consumer comments and target does not afford to that. in a itli retail. ali-fraser of retail. amazon has been able to break into the beauty counter or your closet, and they have had a hard time getting high-end beauty brands that do not trust amazon. having said this, amazon is coming under such intense scrutiny, i would not be surprised if they go under the radar and not announce a

while later ulster play munster. liverpool have taken the lead against burnley through sadio mane.n killed in anti—government demonstrations in iran. state—run media says ten people have died in protests in the last week. president rouhani says people have the right to protest, but violence is unacceptable. rana rahimpourfrom the bbc‘s persian service has been telling us that the circumstances surrounding the deaths remain unclear. very conflicting reports and almost impossible to verify. the internet is almost shutdown and people say it takes half an hour to write a tweet so we have not received any footage and anything confirmed is almost impossible. but state television said about ten people have been killed overnight and they say they were rioters and some of them were armed. but it's impossible to find out. protesters say they have been killed by government forces. the evidence that these are serious protests is the fact that president rouhani was drawn to make these very clear comments. they have a right to protest, he said, but they don't have a right to be involved in viole

this comes from gene munster, the cold founder there. and he thinks this is one of the eight key productions estimating the value of over 40 billion. a great collaboration seeing the value of the combination. thing that is quite easy. they have a very obviously manageable and comprehensive store cap which will compete against the big guys. walmart is the one that everybody thinks can take on amazon. amazon by 1.6%, target up 3.8%. we'll see whether or not amazon steps in to buy this one on gene munster's predictions. other names known around were lululemon, bed bath & beyond, and maybe even bank. they know they bought whole foods last month. >> dana: thank you so much. sarah sanders about to take the podium for the first white house briefing of the new year. we will take you there as soon as she starts. plus, you can now legally buy marijuana for recreational use in california. just one of the many new laws now in effect for 2018. what are the others? >> will have to wait and see. a lot of people coming out of the woodwork. if you expect

gene munster says it will happen this year that doesn't make sense for either company? we've got u.s. markets closing in two hours time. we got a rally today. once again we are seeing the divergence that characterized late november or early december. outperformance dwarfed by that of the nasdaq as it is rising more than 1%. tech shares accounting for a decent amount of the game. the gains are relatively broad-based as people get back to work today. among the fang stocks helping account for the rise today we've got netflix on the rise. we also have some of the content and broadband providers on the rise as well. disney, dish, discovery communications and charter communications. mccrory looking at the media landscape for this year emphasizing the idea that content is king and that some of these content creators are going to do better. fox buying more content. various eitherer of the pipes, providers of the access to over-the-top networks or to the providers of content like discovery themselves. media seeing a pretty broad lift in today's session. one group that is not on

for more reaction of the forecast, david westin and alix steel spoke to gene munster.e says, don't worry, be happy. gene: if you take the numbers for face value, for the production in the march quarter, that would imply about 50% of the phones in the next year will be the iphone x. that is the $1000 plus phone. and investors are expecting that number to be 25% to 30%. so this is i think expected, number one. and number two, i think it is actually a positive. david: that is the first quarter of 2018. take us back to the fourth quarter of 2017 for a minute. they brought the 8 and the 10 out at the same time. the 8 sales were disappointing because people were waiting for the x. they were going to make it up with the 10. do we have any indication whether they made up the disappointing sales with the iphone x in the fourth quarter? gene: we have a little bit of an indication by looking at the supply. and we talked to some of the builders, the suppliers. they have been struggling to keep up. if you look at the inventory in the u.s., we checked this every day, we looked at ab

you don't like the fangs this year >> as much as i like munster, i really love him.hey had big moves and you have to break them down the netflix piece in a submodel, amazon, the numbers can be good. >> what about facebook >> my charitable trust owns facebook but this market belongs to have the best time. no one is focused on it. neutral to buy at bank of america. that's the kind of think, frank mitch came out with wells fargo. west lake, no one knows westlake they think it's a novelist by the way his books are great that's a pseudonim >> let's expand on the industrials for a moment. >> okay. >> is there any reason to believe that the boeings and cats of the world will not have similar years to what they just put in the books >> you're talking about 80% and almost 70%. >> and i think boeing -- boeing is no longer a sick lickal play. 10,000 orders. that's been my price target out 18 months. that's only -- that's not even up that much caterpillar, i think when we see the numbers we'll recognize that heavy machinery is doing well and it's no longer just a china play that

gene munster is with us, loop ventures manning director.n that somebody would buy them outright? >> stuart before we get get into that, and take a quickstep back on the significance what is going on with netflix. as you mentioned they raised prices in october by 15%. they beat the street estimate for sub ads by 3030%. this is big. content is king. you're in good shape, stuart because content is important but yes, this company here at 110 bill done lar market cap, for someone to step in and buy it i think it is unlikely. i will put a small wager here it is not going to be apple. people kind of kicked that around but i think at $108 billion, netflix will be acquirer. stuart: it really ace success story as opposed to a potential take over story, because as you suggest, they did so well. they still got a lot of folks you could sign up. worldwide they have a big market to go at. they're saying the king of streaming, they will stay the king of streaming and they will advance on their own? >> yeah, this is probably maybe the next hbo or bigger tha

we are joined by gene munster, who joins us on the phone.ey'll will pay the $38 billion worth of taxes and a provision for that, but what do you make of the $30 billion investment over the next five years? how significant is that? gene: they have money to pay for it, so they would have spent $80 billion in repatriating all of this money. but because of the tax holiday, they will only be spending $30 billion. one way to think about this is they have $50 billion in free money they are putting to work. tothey have plenty of money be making this investment. so the right thing for apple to , clearly the right thing. this is probably 80% -- 80% of is reason of them doing this because it is good for apple, 20% because it is for political reasons. scarlet: what are they going to use that money on? they said they will spend it on ex, but are they talking about factories? what can they produce in the u.s. that they cannot produce elsewhere? gene: one of the things that apple prides himself on is customer service. if you were called apple customer serv

while later ulster play munster. that is all the sport for now. says ten people have died in protests in the last week. president rouhani says people have the right to protest, but violence is unacceptable. very conflicting reports and impossible to verify, it is all my shutdown and people say it takes half an hour to write a tweet so we have not received any footage and anything confirmed is almost impossible. but state television said about ten people have been killed overnight and they say they we re killed overnight and they say they were rioters and some of them were armed. it is impossible to find out. protesters say they have been killed by government forces. the evidence that these are serious protests is the fact that the president was drawn to make these very clear comments, they have a right to protest, but they don't have a right to be involved in violence, which implies that they had to take action of some kind to bring these protests to order. that is why he has given a couple of speeches in the last 44 hours, so clearly they feel th

leicesterfinished bottom of their pool leicesterfinished bottom of their pool, munster were top. one. the reigning world champion lost by 6—5 to mark williams. he progresses to the quarterfinal. and there's more sport on the bbc sport website. include be british number 2. kyle edmunds who starts his australian tennis 0pen campaign at midnight. and glenn daunt was won at midnight. and glenn daunt was won a second bdo world darts title. clive. before we go a quick word about tomorrow, when we'll be broadcasting live from bangladesh — inside what's become the world's largest refugee camp. the hubs and shelters stretch as far as the eye can see. now home to hundreds of thousands of ro hinge ga muslims. but how permanent will this be? will they ever be able to return to myanmar in safety? five months on from the peak of the exodus, refugees are still arriving. # this is your brother. my brother. is this the one who is missing? yeah. they are still traumatised and now there's a new battle against disease. we'll be hearing their store ya ns disease. we'll be hearing their store yans ask

weather service has issued wind chill advisories and freeze warnings from texas to canada but the munsters sign clone now descending on the eastern coast of the u.s. is expected to strike hardest in new england john hendren al-jazeera chicago. tech firms say they have a serious that a serious problem is being discovered in computer chips that power millions of operating systems around the world experts are now in a race against time to beat hackers before sensitive information stored on the chips becomes vulnerable all platforms are at risk including apple p.c. and linus rob reynolds reports. the world's biggest technology companies are scrambling to fix critical cyber security flaws that could compromise every computer smartphone and server sold in the past twenty years hackers if they are able to install some malicious software on a computer and then go the extra step to take advantage of this problem they can access some really sensitive information including passwords encryption keys that let them access even more sensitive data security researchers discovered vulnerabilities in comput

when jewel advisories and freeze warnings from texas to canada with the munsters no descending on the eastern coast of the u.s. is expected to strike hardest in new england john hendren and chicago. michelle carrying these are the top stories right now on al-jazeera u.s. president onil trump lashed out at us former chief strategist steve bannon saying he's lost his mind follows the publication of excerpts from an upcoming book in which ran into now it's a strong sell to son of treasonous and unpatriotic it's over two thousand and sixteen meeting with a lawyer with kremlin connections the white house press secretary calls the claims baseless and the white house is defending trump's tweet about the size of its nuclear button on tuesday trump warned a north korean leader that its nuclear button is a much bigger and more powerful button and that his button works i don't think that it's tontine to stand up for the people of this country i think what's dangerous is to ignore the continued threats if the previous administration had done anything and dealt with north korea dealt with iran ins

munster are top ahead of their trip to racing. leinster face castres on sunday evening.onday and the great billiejean king is calling for the arena in melbourne — named after margaret court — to be renamed. last year, court, the 24—time grand slam winner, who is also a devout christian, voiced her opposition to gay marriage, as well as saying the children of transgender people were "from the devil". king says that was a step too far. ifi if i were playing today, i would not play on it. it's really up to the people of australia. you know, i have to leave it to them, but if i we re have to leave it to them, but if i were here, i would have difficulty with it now, yes. the most important thing is be your authentic self, 0k? so, they have to decide, each one of them. you can have discussion around it, but everyone's entitled to their opinion. margaret's very much entitled to her opinion. i'd be very welcoming to margaret. she'll say, well, i welcome you too. but you know, she believes in conversion. like she thinks i can go back to straight. the action gets under way on mond

also in pool four, racing 92 edged out munster 34—30.he win was soured by homophobic comments made by one of their players, mathieu bastareaud. bastareaud has been cited over the incident. he has since apologised, but if found guilty would face a minimum ban of six weeks. there has been a shock on the opening day of the masters snooker, with world champion mark selby out in the first round. he lost a close—fought match 6—5 against the former world number one, mark williams. selby, who had been 5—3 up, missed this crucial red in the deciding frame to hand control of the frame to the welshman, who took full advantage. in this evening's match, mark allen beat luca brecel 6—3. defending champion glen durrant has retained his bdo world darts title with a dramatic win in the deciding set against mark mcgeeney. these were this year's top two seeds in the competition. mcgeeney did have darts to win the match, but durrant forced his way back to win by 7—6, and take the second lakeside title of his career. finally, how about this for marital teamw

munster will definitely go through is they play castres. and they are all playing at the moment.i championship to retain the title he won last year. fleetwood started the day two shots behind the overnight leaders but shot eight birdies in a seven—under 65 — six of them on the back nine — to win tournament. the 27—year—old finished two shots ahead of fellow englishman ross fisher, while northern ireland's rory mcilroy was a further two shots back. it's fleetwood's fourth career victory on the tour. the final of the masters snooker is under way at alexander palace... these are live pictures from bbc two. mark allen is playing kyren wilson — its three frames all. first to 10 wins it. as you can see, wilson is about to make it 4—3. neither player has reached the final of a masters before. you can watch that on bbc two, if you wish. that is the sport for me, we will have more in an hour's time. let's return to events in kabul, and afghan officials say at least 18 people are now known to have died in a taliban attack on the intercontinental hotel yesterday. earlier, the afghan interio

weather service has issued wind chill advisories and freeze warnings from texas to canada but the munsters sign clone now descending on the eastern coast of the u.s. . is expected to strike hardest in new england john hundred zero zero zero chicago . recap the headlines now on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump says former chief strategist steve bannon has lost his mind and i described trump's eldest son as treasonous and unpatriotic and a new book the comments refer to meeting between donald trump jr and a lawyer with russian government connections the white house says the allegations are baseless i think that is a ridiculous accusation and one that i'm pretty sure we've addressed many times from here before if that's in reference to comments made by mr bannon i'd refer you back to the ones that he made previously on sixty minutes worry called the collusion with russia about this president a total farce so i think i would love to look back about fifty but he's been inconsistent it's been him certainly has been the president or this administration china's president is urging military l

six analyst gene munster amazon will acquire target this year.d be the ideal off-line target for amazon and he estimates amazon would have to pay $41 billion. in california, retail sales of recreational marijuana are legal on a limited basis. stores that have been obtained one of the roughly 100 licenses so far. los angeles and san francisco did not offer our eyes -- authorized shops in time. an executive at bridgewater associates has been killed in a plane crash in costa rica. bruce steinberg and his family were among 10 americans killed when their charter plane crashed into a mountain sunday. ray dalio called steinberg a wonderful man. that is your bloomberg business flash. alix: this comes on the heels of the compass ceo dying in a plane crash near sydney with his cousin. it is unbelievable. david: terrible, all of these people with their families on a recreational trip, small airplanes. alix: do not charter small planes, apparently. david: it raises questions. the ceo from the british company. alix: compass point. david: what you need to do t

why does this in particular makes us news from gene munster? >> i think it is sexy. at a $40 billion acquisition. so think about all the excitement around whole foods with 13 billion. this is three times that size and that would make amazon and target combined would be about half the annual sales of walmart. thet would really amplify fight of these two giants -- the fight between amazon and walmart. >> thank you so much. that really took over on twitter. everyone loves talking about amazon, just ahead, a eurasia group giving us its list for top global investors in 2018. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ we are cap enough of the first major market open. korea is just about to come online. you can see soul futures barely budging. although a slight bid there north korea ties with many of our guests being on the spotlight. it is front and center, a key risk in 2018. this is daybreak asia, i am betty lived in new york. >> eurasia group is warning that this year could see a japonica crisis on the scale of a financial net -- of a financial meltdown. this political risk consultancy say

. >> you remind me of an old eddie munster. have a great day and go after the liberal snowflakes.hey deserve it. >> "hannity" you're supposed to be bright, you can't pronounce the name remember. it is not member. >> sound off. remember, we will always be fair and balanced. we're not the destroy trump media. we won't give up on the stories. we have a big news next week releasing the memo. state of the union, that will happen. we set your dvr so you don't miss an episode. have a great weekend. >> laura: good evening from washington. welcome to "the ingraham angle." with assault from the left and right an epic battle has just begun. congressman steve king said negotiations should start with one simple question, who and how many would each side deport. and the super secret fisa memo could be made public when the state of the union speech on tuesday. we have new details on what's happening on monday and more evidence that bill wasn't the only clinton mistreating women. a shocking new report about a hilary cover-up on

we heard jean munster predicting that amazon could buy target.im: i think people think of tech as being a small area of innovation and now we are seeing these new disruptive innovations coming along, that m&a will heat up. ofthink this will be a year what we call merger mania out there, and size will not really create a constraint on things. also stock buyback will be a natural spot that will allow for eps accretions to go higher. we think this will be a big year for merger mania. emily: do you think it will go through regulatory issues like we see with at&t and time warner? jim: i think so. a lot of the area we deal with as far as hardware in the user experience doesn't see the amount of pricing competition or government scrutiny you raised earlier. emily: you have also reiterated your buy on apple, you think it can go even higher. by? >> tax reform is one way to bring things up. we actually expect apple to see growth. people say everyone in the u.s. has an iphone. that is not true. we actually see that apple is growing its share in areas where

gene munster says it will happen this year that doesn't make sense for either company?ets closing in two hours time. we got a rally today. once again we are seeing the divergence that characterized late november or early december. the

two tries from mal scanlon help to give munster lead over ulster.site and we will be back with more in the next hour. more protesters have been killed in anti—government demonstrations in iran. a police spokesman said today on state television that a protester has killed one policeman and injured three. president rouhani says people have the right to protest, but violence is unacceptable. rana rahimpourfrom the bbc‘s persian service is here. reuters has quoted intelligence officials say at least one police officer has been shot dead in the centre of the country. we are trying to get more details about what has exactly happened. but it is difficult because the online connection is slow and we have received a very few videos of the protest. but as night fell we heard protesters had been out again and in tehran we received footage from a city close to the capital and there we can hear shots being fired at protesters. and so far we know at least 12 people have been killed in the last five days. well protests have happened before in iran without leading

gene munster saying they could acquire target, noting both companies focus on mothers and families. >ture as the combination of mostly online, but some off-line. i think getting 1500 stores target would bring it would be very valuable. >> it's a bold prediction, but i think what it really highlights is the main weakness that amazon has now in its fight against its biggest rival, walmart. amazon doesn't have the physical store presence. it purchased whole foods, a got 400 to 500 stores, but that is still just 1/10 of the store presence of walmart. if it wants to give shoppers the choice of being able to go somewhere, to return things, to buy things, to pick things up, it has a lot of catching up to do. >> alibaba doing the merger with money gram after they failed to win regulatory approval in the u.s. and it offered $18 a share, valuing any deal at $1.2 billion. what happened and how big of a blow is this? >> it is a pretty significant blow to ant international expansion, especially in the u.s. there was an expectation of synergies generated between monogram and financials asia busines

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this is one of predictions by gene munster. he said that amazon could buy target this year that would be a great collaboration. they would likely get regulatory approval for it. amazon bought whole foods last year. back to you. gerri: nicole, lots of speculation going on. thanks for breaking it down for us. oil sinking a little bit but still above the $60 a barrel level as many parts of the country gripped by record low temperatures that is. we have the protests in iran. despite today's dip, which one is the biggest driver of oil markets today? >> you know i think today it is more about the weather but this iranian situation it is not going to go away. i mean iran, it is the third biggest producer in opec and they have the potential if this thing spirals out of control to see more sanctions that could mean less oil on the global market at a time when global demand is really surging. two closes above $60 a barrel is a huge possibility for a breakout and we could move a lot higher. we had a big move on heating fuel. natural gas u

amazon target is there a deal in the works so gene munster saying one of his eight predictions for tech was that amazon will buy target in 2018 saying that the combination is easy and will likely get regulatory approval. the other possible deal that was speculated upon was apple and netflix this came from citigroup saying that once apple brings in all those billions of dollars repatriation well they think that there's a 40% chance that apple could buy netflix, and with all that money, we could likely see the move happen. 40% chance on that one. all of the stocks i mentioned all finished to the upside. liz? liz: thanks nicole great to see you now e-mails emerging showing former hillary clinton senior advisor uma abiden may have exposed classified state passwords to her very hackable private yahoo e-mail account. president trump saying navy sailor had to go to prison for taking pictures of his classified submarine. so should huma abiden. christian is here with us tonight to call out that double standard but first, nearly two dozen people dead, 450 under arrest in iran's bloody week of pro

munster who is known for the apple predictions says that he thinks that amazon will buy target. he says the two companies would be ideal partners. amazon purchased whole foods last year for $13 billion. at this point the companies have not commented on the prediction. >>> also rumors that apple may be looking to buy netflix. the techno ant reportedly has $250 billion in cash on hand. and the new tax laws will free up more money. apple has shown an interest in expanding into the entertainment business. 2018 could be a tougher year for brick and mortar retailers. at least 12,000 stores are expected to close this year. this would mark a 33% jump from last year when retailers closed around 9,000 stores. walgreens, payless, ru. 21 and gap are among those closing in 2018. 25 major retailers could also file for bankruptcy this year. >>> a new book is exposing a so- called boys club in silicon valley. the book is called brotopia. breaking up the boys club of silicon valley. some of the highest ranking tech executives attend sex parties and take drugs. it details how silicon valley's mal

probably heard famed analyst munster says amazon is going to buy target this year and analysts at ci iti says there's 40% chance apple will buy netfl netflix. 60% chance they won't. >> 40% is always a good number joining us is russ, along with ed lee, cnbc contributor from recode welcome to you both. ross, what do you make of all the speculation? we've heard a million combinations about, you know, who these companies should buy who do you think is a wise target for apple >> well, first of all, you know, i was with some of the people who were working with apple and video and apple is not buying netflix. apple is going all in on their own video platform, and they're making a lot of progress there so, so what we really see apple, you know, doing is more of these add-on acquisitions. tim cook isn't the big bull, the acquirer he bought shazam this is very safe. we see this continuing with apple. we don't see anything huge there. we think there's going to be a lot more consolidation in entertainment, though, around netflix as more players come around and pick apart netflix's business but i

to shares of target they're speaking at this hour by about 4% after a super star tech analyst gene munster came out with a call that sent ripples through wall street. he says amazon could buy discount retailer target in 2018 but this is all what he came up with, but wait, there's more. a 40% chance apple will acquire streaming giant netflix. that according to analysts at ci ti, who say a cut in corporate taxes will give apple a massive cash piggy bank to play with. well don't they already have billions and billions? the news sending both stocks surging again both of these are sort of ideas that investment bankers and analysts have come up. netflix is jumping 4 3/4% apple is up 1 2/3% and the netflix/ apple combo might be bad news for netflix competitor disney but turns out not so much as it surges to the very top of the dow jones industrial up 3 2/ 3% to $111.42 has a lot to do with getting an upgrade from analysts at macquarie who are praising the company's content quality so just go to star wars right? disney continues to cash in on the star wars the last jedi managed to close out 2017 w

. >> give gene munster some credit, one of the first guys out there that started this whole idea i picked on it right away and liked what i was hearing software company that plays into the hardware space. >> let me go right back at you. >> you didn't like paypal at 38. >> can't deliver cars, that's why. it's not a car company it's a software company. >> i like that >> i can't explain it. we're trying to explain it we're not trying to say buy it trying to explain why it went up after horrible news. >> horrible news. >> i think you have to explain things. >> 5% today. >> but many of the f.a.n.g. names have very strong fundamentals we've talked about timelessly or endlessly, full, the valuations you can actually go -- you can explain them and you can get comfortable with a couple of them you don't want to get comfortable with amazon, so, fine. >> you've won on that one. >> all right but look at facebook or look at going >> how about the cash position of google. >> it's not just a f.a.n.g. world and last year for most of the year it was a f.a.n.g. world, a growth year, technology year and thi

by amazon it really kinds of puts together this duopoly of walmart versus amazon >> that was gene munsterxactly a week ago on this show, making that bold prediction that amazon could buy target this year amazon's acquisition of whole foods in june of last year was proof that the e-commerce giant is interested in expanding their business to brick and mortar could amazon be targeting target next after having its best year ever for prime with over 5 billion items shipped in 2017, does amazon even need to buy target you predicted this, made this call before. what do you think? >> i think they want this type of a footprint, for whatever they want it for they want to sell their goods, cross-sell their goods they also have a lot of overlap with target. i think somebody they don't have overlap with would be a better choice, i'm talking jcpenney they don't have the same clients as target. there's an access to a totally different demographic if they buy this brick and mortar that doesn't exist with their existing clientele but having said all that, that might be a pipe dream on my part i think targ

weather service has issued wind chill advisories and freeze warnings from texas to canada but the munsters sign clone now descending on the eastern coast of the u.s. is expected to strike hardest in new england john hendren al-jazeera chicago. well in china at least three airports have been shot and nine others are experiencing delays because of heavy snow falls there the national observatory has raised the weather alert up to its second highest level parts of the central northern and eastern regions could see up to thirty centimeters of snow. it would be news hour on al-jazeera still ahead more from south africa where eighteen people have been killed and more than two hundred injured in a train crash stop using drugs burn the recipe families of canadian soldiers the man dancers after a drug they took is found to cause brain damage and in sports the world's football rich list is out we'll tell you who their heavyweights are and how they're making their money. i am. hello there we've got a really messy picture weather wise across europe at the moment take a look at the satellite picture we

weather service has issued wind chill advisories and freeze warnings from texas to canada but the munsters sign clone now descending on the eastern coast of the u.s. . is expected to strike hardest in new england john hendren and chicago. in china at least three airports are being shot and nine others experiencing delays because of heavy snow fall the weather alerts been raised to its second highest level parts of the central northern and eastern regions could see up to thirty centimeters of snow the president of togo has broken his silence following months of protests against his rule following nothing but he has called for dialogue with opposition groups weekly demonstrations have been taking place since august with more than a dozen deaths reported protesters want you rules limiting presidents presidents to two terms in office now seem very and his father before him have ruled the west african nation since one thousand nine hundred sixty seven the president reached out to his opponents in his new year message for combat let's. dialogue must remain the preferred way of resolving disagree

weather service has issued wind chill advisories and freeze warnings from texas to canada but the munsters sign clone now descending on the eastern coast of the u.s. . is expected to strike hardest in new england john hendren chicago. but in just a few moments we'll have the weather with richard but still ahead on the news hour with a man skate the fighting that the new reality is not much better displaced syrians and a freezing winter. weather head to mexico's presidential election as candidates warm up for the race for the top job. and sports egypt and liverpool strike on the home of a lot of shooting for the biggest individual prize an african football and he's here with that story. from a fresh breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. i'll have more on bombo genesis the united states in the coming hours for the time being because a lot of the still weather across many parts of the planet across the u.k. we've seen the effects of storm elena which went across giving winds of one hundred sixty kilometers per hour storm systems no moving across into the baltic states but

gene munster, luke managing partners is there.to talk about the battle for smart speakers, google's home versus amazon's alexa. in your judgment which is better? >> google home is remarkably better than alexa. stuart, before i get into that, i want to give credit to mark, will, steve, from the luke research ventures team they powered through 800 queries on the smart speakers to get us the results. so drum roll please. google home properly announced the correct results 81% of the time. that compares to alexa at 64% of the time. microsoft's cortana at 56% of the time. so comfortable lead for google home in the smart speaker market. stuart: very important market i believe. that is how you get computers no your house and respond to them directly. big deal, right? >> it is a huge deal and really plays into the whole theme of artificial intelligence and we call natural language interface. here at cesa -- ces ai is a huge theme the best example of is a these speakers. stuart: self-driving car market is big deal and at ces in vegas. nvidi