if you want to join the conversation get in touch with us worldwide@cnbc.com.personal handles are at the bottom of the screen. they say commodities made up half the topper forming north american short positions this year. no surprise about that. american apparel also making the list. the top 2016 short position game stop most shorted at the moment. >> yeah and our viewers just recapping a couple of your views, michael stay short caterpillar. linda short netflix. yogi short gold. david short emerging markets. a number of other suggestions coming through and many of you say i don't want to short because i don't want to hurt other people. >> it might make you money. >> it might. >> but no real contrarian short. >> no. >> nothing that would benefit from an interest rate hike. >> the critic on apple says it's different this time. expect apple to drop from the first place in smartphone sales to the competition. u.s. futures as we close out the show indicated to close a bit higher now but yeah that's all we're seeing for now. a couple of days before christmas. >> we s

you can find us on worldwide @cnbc.com. you can tweet us directly at louisa bowyer son.iane writes in and says super sure. much appreciated. when you're ready to feature biohacking, micro buy onlies, do it yourself. she has startups she might want to mention there. lots of trends emerging. newer trends. from where you sit in economics, what are you looking at in terms of future trends? things changes in terms of productivity because we are much more advanced than we were ten years ago. how do you see the trend forecasting? >> the big theme and what continues to be very dominant in coming years has been the profound change at this year's economy. compare that to 2014, 2013. it is really -- >> supply side? >> supply side. >> yeah. >> it's a fundamental shape. we have been used for many years to do the shopping on the internet, et cetera, but you see now in terms of the sharing economy has gathered pace very significantly. and this is of course related to what has been unionization for lack of a better word and this is a challenging issue for economists and the kr0ud at lar

if you're up early as well feel free to send us a tweet worldwide@cnbc.com or on twitter. i'll read out some of your many messages a little bit later on. i thought you all were sleeping orgon for the holidays. loads of you writing through from the u.s. as well. nice to hear from you. good morning, merry christmas. ashley bryant, you are a teacher of small children. that's right. i have read it is the hardest job in the world. that's why i'm here. can you... i can offer advice from the accumulated knowledge of other educators... that's wonderful but... i can tailor a curriculum for each student by cross-referencing aptitude, development, geography... sorry to interrupt. but i just have one question: how do i keep them quiet? (pause) watson? there is no known solution. >> the country is set to sign a contract to build six reactors in the first half of 2016. it will be a sign that the $150 million nuclear program is getting off the ground. they signed a deal with the u.s. in '08 which allowed it to develop nuclear commerce. the indian prime minister arrived in russia on wedne

you can find us on e-mail, worldwide @cnbc.com. find us on twitter @carolyncnbc. >>> now shkreli tells "the wall street journal" that he's being targeted for his drug hikes and top persona. while he's unapologetic about raising the price of an aids drug, he said he should have been more patient and less inflammatory in explaining himself. >>> the head of wall street's big bond desk, jpmorgan's jim casey tells "the wall street journal" says he does not believe the market is still in a bubble and there's good money to be made. he still thinks there will be sizeable losses in the short term. jpmorgan has the issuance of high yield bonds to drop about 6% next year. the bank has underwritten $30 billion in deals this year, more than any other firm. you would think he's talking his own book in a way. >>> someone else who might be talking their own book, "star wars" franchise or the "star wars" family. i mean, its's amazing. the force is strong. "star wars" "the force awakens" shatters box office with $517 million worldwide this weekend al

find us on e-mail, worldwi worldwide@cnbc.com. we'll see you soon. the future belongs to the fast. to help you accelerate, we've created a new company... one totally focused on what's next for your business. the true partnership where people,technology and ideas push everyone forward. accelerating innovation. accelerating transformation. accelerating next. hewlett packard enterprise. >> hi, everybody. welcome back to worldwide exchange. the low interest rate environment of recent years helped private equity markets worldwide. as the fed enters a fresh hiking cycle there's concerns that higher rates could discourage private equity deal making from taking place. stewart is the head of sponsors. so apart from the low interest rate environment what is it driving private equity over the last year or so? >> there's a number of factors driving private equity in europe. the general macro environment is very helpful and you have a lot of private equity funds with a lot of funds available to spend but there's also a good quality stock of businesses to buy. private equity don't just go around

you can find us on twitter as well. on worldwide@cnbc.com.e you in a second. >> hi, welcome back. i'm also long the sek. if you have a swedish girlfriend you need to be long the swedish krona. merry christmas, todd. it's my christmas today. yours tomorrow. so i'm celebrating already. excited about the markets heading into next year? where do you see 2016 starting? >> good morning louisa and merry christmas to you. i think that the markets are going to envelope heavy head winds here. there's a lot of issues that we chose to ignore throughout the end of the year here. you can say there's been growth but there's been no growth based on the 2% gdp that we can't get past. we talk about how great job versus been but they haven't been good because even if you go to the last jobs report in which we brought in 211,000 new jobs what everybody forgets to mention is the same week we lost 50,000 jobs that would make more money than the 211,000 they put on. i look for a lot of head winds and the all important, all long awaited for market correction. this b

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us how exactly you're intending to spend your new year's eve. squawk box europe and cnbc.com, you can get to us on that or come to us through worldwide exchange of course. new york city police commissioner says the department is, quote, not aware of any threat at this time that we deem credible. never theless, the nypd will fan out around 6,000 offices throughout the times square area where over 1 million people are expected to gather to watch the ball drop. chris is there live from times square for us chris, tell us what's going on right now as these preparations are being made. >> good morning from times square. this is the roads of the world as they call it. there's a lot of activity going on right now. mostly preparations for the large television broadcast going to happen tonight as we approach the new year but over the last several days the nypd has certainly been out and trying to get this area. it's going to be completely locked down. we have been told there will be large barricaded pins all the way from the giant crystal ball that you see dropped on television. almost all the way up to central park and as people start to arrive for tonig

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