mark: why is sotheby's falling behind? stephanie: sotheby's is stronger in impressionist.en prices get so crazy in that area. it is a bit more muted and the m onets and manets not fetching the bigger prices like no warhol and big names. the big trophy works that are sought after. they both have new ceos. patricia is the french woman appointed to christie's. and pat smith, -- tad smith, an outsider has been appointed to sotheby's. at least 40% at the art auction market. it does not include private sales. there's never been so much money on the table in the art market. a lot more at stake. mark: stephanie baker, good to see you. you can see that in bloomberg markets. the rivals issue. a quick peek at the top. patrick drahi has made a $10 billion cash bid for bouygues telecom. all of the companies are up a minimum of 10%. join me on twitter. it is about the french telecom and it is about greece. leaders are meeting later. the ecb is meeting today. and mr. sippers is chatting to his creditor -- mr. tsipras is chatting to his creditors. the pulse is next. that will be live in a

stephanie: you saw the new ceo of sotheby's. that we will be focusing on our internet strategy and drumming up new clients in asia. anna: thank you it is a great story. the credits we's -- credit suisse cio. we are tweeting this morning. you can find me @edwardsnews. you can join us on twitter. ♪ ♪ ♪ get excited for the 1989 world tour with exclusive behind the scenes footage all of taylor swift's music videos interviews, and more. xfinity is the destination for all things taylor swift. anna: welcome back. it is 7:30 in london. time for a look at the currency markets. this is what the euro has in doing against the u.s. dollar. it does not look like a currency in crisis. 1.1387 is where we are. this could have to do with the bond markets and the greek crisis and what the fed is or is not doing. despite all of the tensions surrounding greece, the euro has been gaining ground against the u.s. dollar. jpmorgan said over the weekend that the greek crisis was a crisis for greece, but not global markets. there is quite a lot of agreeme

that beautiful house he is selling now with france sotheby's. you have europe thinking immortality and johnny depp. eve: nicholas rushworth, thanks for that. you can catch all of that again on our

. >> cuban art has become a booming business auctioned at sothebys, from new york to bay you beirut. beirut. >> it refers to the tens of thousands of cubans who are trying to cross these waters to make it to the other side. michael mirabal uses american and cuban flags to describe decades of bilateral is tensions. >> this is called fiesta, that is what we're living now prepare for a party and seeing if it's possible to be friends and not enemies. >> paintings are exhibited in his showroom and selling for tens of thousands of dollars. further focus on the world attention. lucia newman, al jazeera havana. >> the royal family is marking the 800th anniversary of the magna carta. signed as a peace treaty back in 1215 substantialing that the king was subject to the law. attorney general loretta lynch was among those who talked about the magna carta's significance. >> this social contract between a monarch and his people codified however imperfectly notions that stand the at our own system of justice the idea that no power is un, and no unconditional and no rule is absolute. authority with

adams and company face stiff competition from big time brokers like sotheby's and caldwell banker.ow does a local small business compete with the deep pockets of big wrandsbrands? for bill stelg and dawnette smith, the answer was to form a single four-person agency. did you feel you have to merge in order to keep with some of the other stuff happening in aspen aspen? >> yes. >> it was time. >> we needed to figure out ways we could operate with a critical scale that saved us money and by merging enabled us to do that. we get more bang for our buck in the promotion. >> they share office speeds and share leads on buyers and houses and say together they're each doing much better than they did alone. >> being big isn't better and the biggest problem in my opinion with all that is that the culture changes when you're big. >> b.j. has owned her company for almost 13 years. she says there's not much history how to stay ahead. she says flexibility to react to market change is one of the natural advantages that comes with being small. she says there is the knowledge that comes from being a l

. >> cuban art is a booming business auctioned at sotheby's: like others, it refers to cuba's complex relationship with the ocean and northern neighbour 142km away. it refers to the tens of thousands of cubans across the waters, to make it to the other side >>> michael uses american and cuban administration with empty bullet cartridges and barbed wire to describe decades of tensions, and the long-awaited birth of a new relationship >>> this is called fiesta. that is what we are living, preparing for a party, and waiting to see if it's possible to be friends, not enemies. >> the paintings are exhibited in a showroom selling for tens of thousands. further proof that cuban art, like cuba is becoming a focus of world attentions. >>> scientist say they'll learn more than expected from the newly revived fillet comet lander. it contacted the space agency for the first time since batteries went dead. once communications are stabilized it will resume caughting observations and experiments. tomorrow - a well-known presidential candidate from a different view. how hillary clinton and jed bush ar

. >> cuban art auctioned at sotheby's is. >> like so many others, in this year's bianale it refers to cuba's complex relationship with the ocean and it also refers to the tens of thousands of cubans who try to cross these waters to make it to the other side. >> michael uses american and cuban flags with empty bullet casings. to describe the birth of a new relationship. >> this is called fiesta, that's what we're living now wondering if it's really possible to be friends and not enemies. >> exhibited in his own studio showroom and selling for tens of thousands of dollars further proof that cuban art like cuba itself is becoming the focus of international attention. lucia newman, al jazeera havana. >> with teammates in hospital, there is a medal for u.s.a. tra'saustria'ssynchronized swimmers, coming up. >> the cops is a legalized gang... it makes me scared for everybody >> fear and distrust in baltimore... >> they've just been pepper spraying people at very close range... >> years of tension between the community and police erupt... >> she was on her way home to her kid, and she never m

a catalog of newton's menu script put on sale at sotheby's in 1936 showed 650,000 words on alchemy and 1.3 million words on religion. with those who might be competitors newton could be doj's and nasty and there's some stories in your doctor really quite shocking about the way didn't behave to people who are competitors. yet he tied up strands of business, astronomy and mathematics whose relations have perplexed philosophers since plato. writers about newton sometimes stressed that he was not a modern scientist. the best known stable along these lines was that of john made of teens who about some of the newton papers in the 1936 1936 option. he said newton was not the first of "the age of reason." he was the last of the magicians, the last of the babylonians and samaria and, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as of those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather than, rather less than 10,000 years ago. i don't quite buy that. newton was not a talented holdover from a magical past. he also wasn't a modern scientist.

sotheby's model always been we can recycle for our customers they can make money by recycling.an you have with that. with the commodity prices lower, we have to charge customers to recycle. some customers looking at bottom lines. they have tight margins. they make that decision. do we really want to recycle. do we want to pay extra money to recycle. with we're finding most customers are, collaborating with us to make sure that we can get through this soft spot in commodity prices but it is something that i think, if you look at what we've been talking about throughout, throughout the press, it is something that is really nothing short of a crisis. what you're doing is losing recycling infrastructure throughout the united states. so we need to act. we need to facts. we need to make sure we can save recycling for my kids future. liz: david steiner, great to have you in a fox business exclusive. we really appreciate it. good luck at waste management. you know what? we're going 100%. we have breaking news we need to get to now. on friday the president and vice president both are go

. >> reporter: auctioned at sotheby's and collectors to beirut and this is called project salvation and the cuba relationship with the ocean and neighbor just 140 kilometers away, of course it also refers to the tens of thousands of cubans who tried to cross these waters to try to make it to the other side. michael uses american and cuban flags with empty bullet carterige and the birth of a new relationship. >> this is called fiesta because we live and prepare for a par if i adjust see if it's possible to be friends and not enemies. >> reporter: the paintings are also exhibited in his own studio showroom and selling for tens of thousands of dollars. for proof that cuban art like cuba itself is becoming a focus of world attention. al jazeera, havana. >>> and that will just about do it for this news hour and stay with us here on al jazeera and i'll be back with today's top stories in just a few moments. see you then. ♪ ♪ a south african court considers whether to am comply with ic krchltc for crimes against humanity and this is al jazeera live from doha and i'm adrian and also on the prog

almost $42 million at sotheby's.le, this other painting sold for a record-breaking $180 million. given the numbers at the upcoming auctions this week in london, the stakes could not be higher. i want to bring in bloomberg's aren't reporter, following the developments closely. tell us about the rivalry and how it has been shaping up. matt: starting in 18th century. >> it goes back quite a while. matt: they were colluding in the past. they were. to jail for 10 months for that. olivia: how did they pull out ahead? katya: they're taking a lot more risks. they put together a meta-auction where the because i you just mentioned acted like an anchor to draw on all these other amazing warhol's. they jammed all of their sales into one week, a strategic move and sold 1.7 alien dollars worth of art, heralded all of the world. he stuck to his traditional schedule. almost half. and so kristi has emerged as a clear winner. olivia: $1.7 billion. matt: amazing is in the eye of the beholder. secondly a point i was making earlier off-c

century 21 coldwell banker sotheby's.spective, are you seeing a surge in interest in home buying on the fear of higher rates? >> no it's a combination of issues right now. it is that time of the year, so this is our christmas, if you will. so there's a natural surge in activity. there may be a little bit of focus on rising rates, but rates are only up about 20 basis points over the past several weeks. still at 4% or less. in fact, an adjustable rate mortgage is about 100 basis points less than that. if we do see an increase in rates, there could very well be a surge in activity as people try to beat the rate increase. >> that's what i was going to ask. fast forward to this fall maybe, do you think it's going to hurt the housing market because logic would tell us higher rates equal lower prices. >> the industry will tell you, excuse me takes about a year to handle 100 basis point increase in rates. and that's something that we saw earlier in the past several years. so i think that's probably a good measurement. >> we've se