to discuss this so do you think dr telecom's decision could inspire other companies to follow suit. well absolutely it does make sense to a look at all possibilities to let's say take over control again over the data that countries companies and companies handle however routing the traffic nationally instead of internationally and trying to avoid those places which you know where the n.s.a. intercepts can be just a very small piece of the solution as obviously and cripps and has proven to be a strong solution if it's done right so encryption is a very important part of what has to be done but i think it is a bit dangerous to consider that the solution can be to we nationalize the internet i'm a big fan of the centralistic insulation so if you have an e-mail from germany today to germany obviously it doesn't have to go through the u.k. but this is not suitable or this is not a solution for global business and it's not a solution for a global planet so in other words you don't think it's going to be effective then given the fact that as a edward snowden said berlin has been working ha

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snooping and germany's biggest telecoms from is planning to switch to exclusively domestic connections to protect the user's private data the details from our correspondent in berlin pete oliver. here inside one of the main offices of germany's largest telecommunications operates and they are coming up with a plan that they hope will protect their customers information from the prying eyes of security services telecom has announced that they will only be using german servers for all communications inside germany in the future this is something they have said perhaps they would like to roll out to across europe but for now it's only going to be here in germany that information e-mails and phone calls and text messages will only travel on german service now this comes out following the revelations of just how much germany was spied on as sponsored by the n.s.a. and british. coming out from the the leaks that edward snowden revealed to various media outlets in fact just to sum up how much germany was spied on one leak that was revealed in big old news magazine in june of this year showed

that they hope will protect their customers information from the prying eyes of security services telecom has announced that they will only be using german service for all communications inside germany in the future this is something they have said perhaps they would like to roll out to across europe but for now it's only going to be here in germany that information e-mails and phone calls and text messages will only travel on to him in service now this comes out following the revelations of just how much germany was spied on as sponsored by the n.s.a. and british secret service is all of this coming out from the the leaks that edward snowden revealed to to various media outlets in fact just to sum up how much germany was spied on one leak that was revealed in beagle news magazine in june of this year showed it's around a billion e-mails phone calls and text messages were intercepted in germany in the for each month the announcement by telecom is actually probably prompted all the major operators to say that yes they want to follow suit vodafone among them as well. telefonica said they wo

there's lots of opportunities, especially in telecom. >> we've seen consolidation in telecom. >> everybodyts a smartphone. >> everybody wants a smartphone. there are 6 billion phones on the planet, not obviously all smartphones, but this whole mobility trend is empowering people. >> yes, it is. it makes a big difference on who's of the digital divide. will we have broadband for everybody or not? that's a big question. >> in terms of growth coming out, what about energy? that's been a space talked about. >> it has been a touchy subject. the president decided they want to open up the oil sector, esis specially for the deep oil and shale oil but it's not clear that reform pa kpack age makes t through congress there are a lot of people opposed and in favor of it. >> do you need to merge in telecom to get bigger to best compete with some of the competition around here? >> we don't need to but there might be some opportunities for that. >> you're looking to expand? >> yes. there is so many things to do. really what we need to do is capital to deploy in that sector. >> when do you look at the cap

a lot of action in telecom, too. does that continue, you i think, more deals in telecom?well, it's a lot of volume. i think where you'll see more activity is in the collision area between telecom, media and technology. so, it's not just pure telecom. i know the vodaphone/verizon deal got a lot of headlines. that was a lot of volume. just one deal. so, the thing about the m&a business in the first six months is that the unit volume was down 35%. that's important. that's why it was a slow first half. >> so it's really the uncertainty that is keeping companies sitting on their cash. have you $10 billion to put to work all over the world. where do you find opportunity right now? >> well, we have our different -- seven different vehicles on our platform. we have a real estate fund ring fenced around europe. we have a fund that buys assets from distressed sellers. we have a loan/short equity fund in the united states. we have a long-only equity fund in europe. then we have a fund, i call it the endowment model, that manages money for small endowments, charities, family offices,

in just 25 years, they have become the second-largest telecom company on earth. it is headquartered in two -- in one of china's many silicon valley's. >> we do international property development. we have about half of our workforce, 70,000 of our employees do research and development. >> george osborne arrives here tomorrow to tell them he wants them to invest in britain. many do not want the investment. and the chinese high-tech industry is greeted with suspicion everywhere it goes. the american government has accused them as being a surveillance company disguised as a telecom company. >> hypothetically, the accusation is we are used to do espionage for the chinese government. we have said we will never do that in the future because it would be commercial suicide. >> another accusation is that china stopped companies from operating here and lift their ideas. block and clone. beware.means first, internationalvery service like twitter, google. the reason is to drive all of the chinese users to the server which they can 100% control. >> a business model based not o

orange, which is a big tellco, used to call telecom, french telecom.sh telecom how that has rallied french telecom or orange hasn't done that at all. europe if you actually go to adr or to directly purchasing is absolutely full of value. italy and france have basically not come back from the credit crash crunch. it's still down on or near lows from that period where if you look at the u.s. and you look at uk, they're kind of back to where they started from. there's a lot of value there. there's no point going to greece where it's obviously lots of knock down stocks because their index collapsed on their bank which is dead. there's not much to do there. germany has made a good bounce back. sorry. carry on. >> this is out of left field, gtav, grand theft auto v i believe made about a billion dollars or more in its first three days of launching. take two is the first you would play with gtav. >> as a u.s. stock yes. it's a huge title in europe. europeans are massive gamers and quite often in the u.s., u.s. investors look to the u.s. only and they forget a

that would help telecom italia.o there's strong debt in which the company says they're continuing to deleverage and will continue to deleverage has fallen by 7.6 billion. of course, the difficulties is the domestic part of its business. it is slow in moving, so not growing much at all. the network is another big issue. they need to spin off this network of telecom italia as another part of its moving forward. so for telefonica to gain control, a lot of things need to happen. so really, today, it was the timing that was a surprise. >> claudia, thanks for that. let's get more thoughts, as well, from andy. we're all sort of wondering what's going to happen to vodafone, meanwhile. >> it's interesting. they have a holding in voe da phone. most uk institutions do. but vodafone kind of has been on my investment career really because it didn't exist in 1987 when i started in the market. and now, in my 8100th quarter running money, it's -- >> how many quarters? >> it's the 100th quarter running money. >> congratulations. >>

might remember last year i think there was when members of congress here blew the whistle on chinese telecom company always saying that they were putting little back doors into their into their technology and that they encouraged to u.s. companies not to do business with them well now that same argument applies to many u.s. companies have been revealed that they were installing back doors into their encryption software at the behest of the n.s.a. and just give you a few numbers here facebook has two hundred sixty one million active users in europe apple last year of its income twenty two percent of it came from europe a lot of these tech companies are very involved in europe they're not just in the united states so when europeans perceive these tech companies as kind of being the the sentinels of the n.s.a. spying program that's going to affect business that's done as you mentioned the thirty five billion dollars hit to the cloud computing industry well here's another one how about a one hundred eighty billion dollars hit or twenty five percent decrease in technology search for technology se

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shares of a chinese fell come company, we're watching this -- telecom company.w a stock fall 45%, nq mobile, getting hammered after a website muddy waters initiated coverage a strong sell. calling the company a massive fraud. look right now the market doesn't care whether it is true. it is just trading on that. >> here's the story. that is such inside baseball, liz. i can appreciate the story. traders are talking about it all day. the mobile services company based in beijing. they have offices in dallas. muddy waters says the whole thing is fraudulent. they say they are false allegations. the stock dropped exponentially from $23 to 12. what will happen tomorrow? [closing bell ringing] david: health insurers are down as a result of the obamacare hearings for the second day in a row. generally speaking, liz, things are good. liz: indeed. here come the bells on wall street for a day where the dow was up more than 100 points. we still close up a pretty decent number here. up about 93. s&p up just under six points. look at that level, 1751. just about 3 1/2 points aw

one of the things he is so good that is talking about the impact on the rural areas of telecom policy. the congressman and by as you know started a caucus to try to take a specific look at how the policies we have to implement are going to be affecting of our rural areas and there is no person with more experience and wiser counsel the and the person we are good to hear from, john burke from the greek town of castled in vermont thank you. >> the gentleman yields that his time. the gentleman from virginia yields back so now we can move forward with our panel of witnesses. thank you for your testimony. its most enlightening even if there's a conflict among you which is why you are all here. with that we will start with jim cicconi for legislative affairs for at&t. thank you for being with us and we look forward to hearing your comments. we are still on an old warrior copper network so if you can turn on that microphone. [laughter] that's embarrassing. >> chairman, ranking member, distinguished members of the subcommittee, thanks for the opportunity to testify and for holding this hearin

and one of the things that i have met with a lot of my rural telecoms. they had problems with dropped calls, and this is a serious issue for folks out there. again, if you have family members that are elderly and you're trying to call them and all of a sudden they're not picking up the phone, the next recourse is you call the local law enforcement or the fire department, aka, to check on family member. and the same way it really hits small businesses or any business out on these areas. again, i have a lot of businesses that are locate the way out, and all the sudden the calls are getting dropped and they can't make the call. pretty soon they are out of business. as we're looking at what is happening out there, as the networking -- especially the rural providers transition to i.t., how do you think it this will affect the call completion in the future? >> notwithstanding mr. barton's earlier service problem. [laughter] i'm not aware that at&t has a rural-call completion problem. i'm aware there is a problem there. the fcc has proceeding underway right now

we also learned of a large scale collaboration with telecom giants internet companies and service providers some concerned now providers chosen to stop their doors rather than to leave the government's cleanest hand over there. we've been misled does the n.s.a. collect any type of data and all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans. no sir. we've seen this story before. we've had too much secrecy in this country it is corrupt that the government decided it was wrong was wrong then and it's wrong now this is a fearful situation the american people one of the basic rights is the right to privacy on restraining the illegal secret intimidation and harassment of the essential bill of the of americans to participate freely in american political life will never happen again nixon's cruds predated widespread internet use by decay the tools for surveillance never been more powerful and the threat to our civil liberties has never. the greater edward snowden was not the first i represent six and i'd say whistleblowers who are being charged with espionage for telling the truth we truly is a n

it is the telecom that is in focus as of late.his is after the spanish group did gain the majority control of telco, which is a company that controlled telecom italiap. after that, the ex chairman and ceo did step down from that position and he was pushing for a capital hike versus the sale of the asset. yesterday, the stock did rally on the heels that that stock may be closer. the company did deny that. that asset could be worth somewhere around $9 billion to $12 billion euros. today is stock is trading flat yash. the fixed line network is ready to be spun off, as well. that could be helping on the debt front as some of the debt may be put in the company that gets formed there. so for telecom italia, where domestic business is quite flat if not declining, their debt is, of course, very important, as well. >> claudia, we're watching italia is continually suffering woes. they're scheduled to meet today to discuss a capital increase which the carrier needs in order to avoid a default. can italia make it? >> it's strange. alitalia ha

. >> this white house staffer, top white house staffer who works on telecom issues is now tending bara buddy of his just opened a bar. he had some time because he was furloughed. so he decided to pick up shifts as bartender. this is interesting. he cleared it with the white house ethics office. the deal is he can work as bartender but he can't take tips from anyone who might have business before the white house. >> wow. >> so any telecom companies. this is actually happening all over town. several agencies have issued guidance on what kind of work that furloughed workers can accept outside their government paychecks. we're talking about people going to work at coffee shops, doing retail work because they don't know when their next paycheck is coming and they don't see a clear end to this. so you have folks who are really picking up these shifts and looking for work because they've got the time and they need the money. >> yeah. absolutely. bartenders are the ones that doing the listening to the stories. something tells me if i go into his bar, tom, sit down. i have a few questions for

the telecom sectors are the worst performing sector in the s&p.way higher yesterday. perhaps some profit-taking here. shares of frontier communications and at&t are among the worst performers in the sector today. in terms of the bigger picture, telecom is still the worst-performing sector in the s&p 500 this year. verizon communications is the only stock in that index, the s&p telecoms, that's posted a positive gain for the year. from a chart perspective, the sector as a whole is still trading about 5% below its 200-day moving average, or longer-term batting average, if you will. that's something a lot of traders will be keeping an eye on, kelly. back over to you. >> okay, dom, thank you. >>> it's been a week since health insurance exchanges went live, and hospitals are already one of the biggest winners under the new system. bertha coombs has more back at headquarters. good morning. >> good morning kelly. once people are covered by health insurance, hospitals are seen as one of the biggest obama care winners, despite the fact that it's outperform

if there may be more consolidation in the telecom industry. softbank acquired 80% of sprint. >> trying to upgrade the spectrum for them. then on this halloween, easily the scariest, most horrifying story we can find. this morgan stanley report that says the world is running out of wine. >> what? >> i can hear our viewers now. >> what? [ screaming ] >> yes, we hear you, viewers. we'll have that story coming up a little bit later on "closing bell." won't we, maria? >> we will. let's check the markets as we approach this final hour for the month. dow jones industrial average off the highs down in negative territory, seven points. 15,611. strong october. the month very strong. we're ending on a mixed note. nasdaq composite actually higher today. although it, too, is coming off of the highs of the day. 3932. s&p 500 where we are looking at a fraction on the upside. quarter point. 1763. steady moves. >> very steady moves. on this halloween the man they call sugar daddy. here's bob pisani with a look at today's action. >> running out of wine. not at

they have a wonder play in the telecom area. they have a business in bra dzi. there's bargains.like a company that makes parts for cars called brembo. expensive car. little red products on the wheels. you go see the movie and you see these products are hot. we pick stocks. there's $3 trillion in a global marketplace in telecom. europe consolidated. which ones do we pick? you saw what verizon did with vivendi. britain is still part of did world. >> maybe. >> so -- that's -- that's where we are. we have a bunch of companies. a variety of companies. large and small. >> let's talk about one specific sector i know you like. that being consumer related stocks. you like campbell soup. you like post. we talked about cereal. hayne and boulder brands. maybe we should start there. what about hayne? icon exited. some say that's a sign at the top. >> h an was one. that's not the question. the question is over the last ten years, health and wellness, how do we put our hands around as a country that issue called health care costs. 40% is lack of exercise, bad food, diabetes, and that -- where

as far as 10-year government paper is concerned making a lot of dividend paying sectors like the telecommore attractive and keeping investors very attuned to the weakening dollar. two year lows right now. that is great for a lot of material stocks that rely on commodity prices. adam: let me ask you real quick. no taper trade, sounds like fancy way of saying bubble. we won't talk about that yet. i want to ask you. you're looking forward. you expect consumer stocks to perform well toward the end. year. you expect consumers to pick up on the holiday shopping despite negative reports we're getting about consumers pulling back. why are you optimistic? i pulled macy's year-to-date is up 14%, 52-week up 11%. walmart up 1%. target, 58%. doesn't look so optimist take me? >> we have a very large negative bias going end of the year with a lot of hedge funds and mutual fund on the street. as far as how week they think the holiday shopping period is going to be for a variety of reasons that you mentioned. whether it is tapering, concerns out of d.c., higher rates. there are a tailwind we're sighing f

the e-mails and the phone calls that were being monitored were actually between corporate giants, telecoms organizations, things that really the accusation coming from france has nothing to do with terrorism and has more to do with corporate espionage than anything. a lot of anger coming out of france. del. >> phil thank you very much. >>> five men accused of planning the 9/11 attacks will be back in a court in guantanamo bay, this week. >> 17 months after the arraignment of the five men accused of plotting the september 11th attacks there's still no trial date. legal experts say that's due in part to the amount of time in pretrial hearings in guantanamo bay. >> all sides are worried about the letting mea -- legitimate ms problems. the quirky consequence of that is things are going much closer than possible. calling in question the very legitimacy that this whole thing is supposed to inspire. >> too much time is being wasted on on what they considering pretrial motions, they claim, and defense attorneys are required the do as much as possible to save their clients' lives. bush administrati

nokia sold its hand set business to microsoft, there are speculations that nokia, which is now a telecom equipmentmaker could be interested in buying perhaps alcatel. that's only speculation. but this is what the market will look at pb ross. >> stephane, thanks for that. that's the latest from paris. yield today on sovereign debt, just a little higher. treasury ares down 2.6%. on the currency markets, dollar just nudged back a little bit higher today. euro/dollar, 1.35 6/6. away from that 1.3645 high we hit last week. 1.37 is the high for the year. dollar/yen, bouncing back from 96.55. which is the lowest from the dollar/yen since august 12th. and is pound/sterling, just down slightly. so a little bit of a reprieve from the u.s. greenback today. confidence in china's domestic driven service sector may be slipping. hsbc's service secretarying is expanding. it dropped slightly in the month of september since the month before. business expectations hit their lowest in three years. analysts saying it's following recent down tick necessary china's manufacturing pmi. so that's the background.

. >> reporter: in 2007, wal-mart joined up with one of indians largest telecom companies.had never sold directly to consumers. wall mat then set its sites on retail. now the company is taking a step back. wednesday's announcement means that wal-mart will now own the wholesale company but it won't see its name on the building. this shaws a cautious change in its strategy for india. >> it would make sense to play it safe, wait for the general elections and then see. >> reporter: several other obstacles have hit wal-mart's entry into the sector. small businesses feared wal-mart's rival in the sector would shut them down. later other regulatory requirements came up. he says if wal-mart can't set up shop in india, other foreign retailers won't be able to either. >> unless it is all taken care of, i think the pace will continue to dwindle. >> reporter: wednesday's announcement isn't just a step backwards for its operations in india, but may also deter other international retailers from being business here. something so far no other company has stepped up to do. >> still ahead as

germany's biggest telecom operator is saying that domestic -- proposing that domestic avoidc be keptnside to surveillance. they are using german computer servers for domestic e-mails, and now they are calling for cooperation keep data streams inside of the country. reports that america's nsa and other foreign agencies are monitoring data have alarmed many germans, who will recall government surveillance in communist east germany and during the not see regime -- and during the nazi regime. a powerful storm in the philippines has left at least a dozen people dead. the typhoon made landfall friday, bringing floods and powerful wind up to 150 kilometers per hour. several victims drowned or were hit by falling trees. millions in the country have no power, and large areas of farmland are underwater. weathers been extreme in india as well, were a massive cyclone hit the east coast saturday evening. there are five confirmed deaths and severe rain and wind have forced more than half a million people to flee their homes and seek refuge in storm shelters. >> they are freezing, soaked, and reall

deutsche telecom came out this morning and said they wanted to help establish a germany centered internet so that they could have -- make sure the germans were protected from this sort of spying but it was seen by a pr move by deutsche telecom. there's a lot of posturing going on and i think rubio is right the u.s. would have preferred this not come to light. but the u.s. said hey snowden has revelations about some of its allies, saying, look, we're all complicit. >> congressman meeks, is this much ado about nothing? is senator rubio right? >> i think what we've got to get to more of a system of checks and balances. when you talk about all the new technology that's coming out and then also all of the threats that are in the world, we've got to figure out how we get this thing right. we don't want to offend our allies. we want to make sure that we can get the information that's necessary to keep us safe. and so there's got to be these checks and balances and we've got to continue to look at what we're doing so we can make sure that we're doing the right thing to keep us safe but not violat

they focus on the telecom sector. walmart has been aggressive in the market, and a party of sources tell me they would like to go about it on their own at their own pace. there's an angle of bribery that took place last year, which concluded with the indian head of operations having to terminate his employment. this entire issue of corporate social government which the american laws and particularly walmart are very cagey and stringent about. it has also taken its toll. it's giving walmart a sense of balance and of encouraging it to perhaps slow town operations as it goes along. >> absolutely. it has been a -- >> they make a decision for the market in india. >> a deal fraught with difficulties there. thank you for joining us from the indian capital of new delhi. >>> millions of people in southern india face power blackouts for a sixth day. electricity workers went on strike after the government announced a plan to split it into two states. the curfew has been put in place to prevent violent protests. >>> in bangladesh

rate-sensitive telecom, for example, better. sort of a mixed picture.et rates moving to the downside, they tend to outperform a little bit. still, the market is just sitting here. volume is very much on the light side. 400 million shares on the floor. we would normally do on a good day, 600 to 700 million on the floor. >> bob, thank you. we'll see you a little later. joining us right now, jerry webman, chief economist from oppenheimer funds. with this government shutdown are we doing real damage or psychological? >> i think it's more fear of what's going to happen. the fact we're not down further than we are, we're conditioned to think, oh, well, they'll pull off something at the last minute. >> that's always the condition. is that complacenccomplacency. should we really believe that. >> the other side of it, it's possible, we may see something valuable come out of it. entitlement reform for ee quest rags cuts. that's starting to get kicked around in the gossip mills. i don't think anybody wants to get too excited one way ort other right now. >> stocks

those reductions could save $1.3 billion a year and restore profits at the struggling telecom equipment maker. shares fell more than 9% today to $3.49. >>> shares of xerox. it focuses on accounting practices at affiliated computer services, an it outsourcing firm that xerox bought in 2010. the fcc is looking at practices before it was acquired. it gets more than half the revenue from the unit. the stock tumbled to $10.14. >>> amazon won a major victory in a dispute today. a u.s. court ruled in favor of the online retailer in a case over the 600 million dollar cloud computing contract with the cia. ibm contested the bidding process for the cia contract but the judge ruled amazon won the contract fair and square. shares of ibm fell nearly 2% to $178.72 and amazon dropped to $303.3. >>> investors fixuated on the washington crisis but there is another financial crisis looming far away from the nation's capital and this could have a big impact on many american portfoli portfolios. michelle reports on why investors should pay attention to what is going on in puerto rico. >> reporter: puerto r

we had a week where we had a nose dive in the ten-year yield, that helped telecom, housing.'s talk about next week. we have a couple of big things happening. a fed meeting, second day on wednesday, we'll find out any tapering. i don't think so. but it's still out there. first read on q3 gdp, that number will be out, and a lot more earnings reports, apple, facebook, lowe's, gm, exxonmobil and comcast. take a look at major indices for the week. are all positive. the dow up 1.1%. boeing had a great report that helped out the dow. s&p 500, as i said, that is a record high. maria, you have a good weekend. >> you too, bob. twitter executives and bankers have begun hitting the road to shop around the website's initial public offering. kayla has been tracking the launch of team twitter's road show all day. what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, the company doesn't meet investors into monday in the mid-atlantic states but executives are wrapping up their tour of wall street in quite a whirlwind this afternoon. they ended at jpmorgan chase, the only bank to welcome them on twitter.

germany's biggest telecom company uses data away. that side of the story tonight. >> inside one of the main offices of germany's largest telecommunications operations, they are coming up with a plan they hope will protect their customers information from prying eyes. deutsche telekom has announced they will only use german servants -- service for all communications inside germany in the future. this is something they would like to roll out further across europe. for now, it will only be here in germany. information, e-mails, phone calls, text messages, will only travel on german servers. this comes out following the revelations of just how much germany was spied on as far as the nsa and british secret services. the leaks that edward snowden revealed to various media outlets. just how much germany was spied on, one leak revealed in the newsmagazine in june shows that there was half a billion e- mails, phone calls, and text messages intercepted in germany in the average month. the announcement has prompted other major operators to say