Editor. Kicking it off today with amazon. A record Holiday Season with more than 3 million prime members joining during just the third week of december. The company also saying nearly 70 of its customers shopped using a mobile device. We know amazons numbers would be big. The fact its now saying 1 of the u. S. Population signed up for prime in one week. Yeah, big, big number. Shortened time frame. I think theres a lot of consumers are seeing the advantage of signing up for the service so they can get free delivery or quicker delivery especially in time for the holidays. Theyve also been doing a lot more marketing around prime. That this thing exists and this is the benefits. Do we know if these are actual paying subscribers or people using the free trial . Theyll use the free look, theres going to be a big churn on that for sure. Big free trial moment. Theres a good chance the bulk of them will stay on after the 30 days or the first trial month so its a big thing. Amazon tells us as they always do, broadly speaking, tens of million also worldwide. At least 20 million, but they said that a year ago, the same exact figure. They can keep doing it up to 99 million i guess. Until they get to that, yeah, at least 100 million. Do we have what we feel is an accurate idea. I know many analysts come up with their own estimates. I think a bunch of estimates out there, the one i like a lot, about 50 million to 60 million. Thats a sizable amount worldwide. I think, you know, the reason for that, the reason why theyre pushing that is, you know, some analysts have found that prime members shop twice as much as nonprime members. The idea is to drive sales. Gross valium. Thats the most important thing for amazon. They just want everyone to buy everything, do everything on amazon. Amazons not just a portal. It also has its own devices. The kindle paper white was one of the top items sold with sameday prime shipping. Fire tablet. It also has the popularity of that. What can we glean from the language . If youre going to buy as a primeservice member, they were pushing these amazon devices. We can get that to you the same day. They want to sell their own stuff. You need that lastminute item, not bad. Its a little bit lumy. I dont know how much consumers wanted that item or if it was convenience. Not a bad item but it may not necessarily have been the desired item for a lot of consumers. I think also interesting, of course, theres a lot in this press release they always put out thats completely useless except its fun to read. The fact that 70 of their users are using a mobile device. The dominant transaction platform is a mobile device. One of the things to look at, theres a lot of people browsing on their mobile devices but not necessarily buying. That part of the transaction. Theres more friction on a mobile site because im not sure i should enter my information this way. The better that amazon and retailers get at finishing the transaction on mobile, the better their sales will be. Right now its a lot of browsing and then on the computer to finish. They havent figured out the end to end. Although it is changing considerably in terms of the percentages used. Percentages alibaba also gives us the same information and those percentages are increasing. A great example in the sense that in asia and china particularly there are a lot of consumers completing transactions on mobiles. A lot of them dont have desk tops. Theyre mobile natives i guess you could call them. Whether mobile and digital buying results in more returns because its less of a tactile experience. Amazon shares are up. Interesting to follow. Another breaking weekend for star wars. With more on those numbers, lets send it out to julia borsten in los angeles. Leading the total box office to another record, the biggest Christmas Movie going weekend ever with 300 million in the u. S. Also the second biggest u. S. Box office open ever, only after last weekend when star wars the force awakens debuted. The film has hit 1 billion in Global Box Office and a record 12 days as of yesterday. It hasnt even opened yet in the second biggest movie going market which is china. Star wars alternatives also performed well this past weekend. Paramount comedy daddys home starring will ferrell and Mark Wahlberg grossing 39 million at the u. S. Box office. Joy grossing 17 million, thats the one with jennifer lawrence. Sonys concussion about a doctor taking on the nfl did not have such a strong debut, grossing only 11 million. But paramounts expanded out of limited release with 16 million at the box office so far. It really is star wars the force awakens that gets the most credit for driving the u. S. Box office up 7 year to date over last year to a new dollar record of 11 billion for the first time ever. Thats whats expected for the tot total 2015. We want know by exactly how much until we have the average ticket price for 2015 which well get some time next month. Record weekend for star wars. Record weekend for a christmas holiday. People are going back to the theaters. Not necessarily in droves. But theyre willing to do it. Disney, nice numbers for them, but its going to be lumpy for them next year, right. Its always been the case with studio product, right. But, you know, i think its always a mixed bag when you have such Great Box Office numbers. You know youre not going to repeat it. Although it is the reenergizing of a franchise thats going to be with us for quite some time and get disney revenues with any number of sequels. Might not get prequels but actual sequels to follow this one. Potentially other vehicles for their tv properties. Offshots of star wars franchise, whether its abc disney or revamped abc Family Channel which i think theyre calling free form now. Whatever they can do to change it into revenue occurring, which is their tv products. Frozen merchandise had, that anybody expected. There seems to be a star wars and exstar wars component to this because star wars and Jurassic World is lifting the overall annual box office numbers. New york times points out for the first time in 35 years warner bros. Does not have a movie in the top 15. There are some studios who are left out of this. I think its like to get people into theaters, like the movies just have to be that much bigger now. People have to have that much more of a reason to go out. With netflix and hulu, its just easier to stay at homes. You want people in the theaters, it has to be big. These are theater movies, these are blockbuster movies. An annual subscription to netflix is cheaper than one ticket at the movies. A lot of tv shows. 31 original series next year. Thats amazing how much theyre spending on content. Which is really a staggering number. One thing to look out for in 2016, you have to look at hbo. Its a big part of the time warner inc. Business. But i dont know, i think theres a good chance they want to spin that thing out or even offload it in some way. That allows hbo to really compete against netflix in the way they need to. I dont think they want to. I dont think they want to, but opportunities there might be some sha shareholders that prefer that. Disney, by the way, is up. Last week, the stock was down, despite the Great Success of star wars. Because of bigger concerns, more about the lack of growth at espn. Finally today david, continue. No, im done. Yeah. Finally, a big piece in the sunday journal shed some light on Elizabeth Holms push to Perfect Technology at theranos. But the piece claims data was deleted to make it look better and the company is continuing to be plagued with problems. It has backers including Larry Ellison and Draper Fisher jerveson ventures. The whole piece is a sort of he said she said. What some Big Pharma Companies perceive to have happened with meetings with miss holmes and what she and the Company Actually said happened. There are still very big questions. I think as a startup they have a higher hurdle, which is its not just a technology whether people are going to live it or not, its does it actually work, does it actually give you results. These could be life and death things as well. The stakes are much, much higher. The claims that theyre making, you know, need to be met more succinctly. What i would look out for is where do the vcs stand on this. Are they going to sort of distance themselves. Are they going to write this off as, you know what, maybe this wasnt the best bet for us. The journal has done interesting reporting on it over time. It is certainly the accuracy is the key question here. They combated many of the allegations that were made and the reporting from former employees and the like. Its certainly worth the read for anybody interested. Obviously not a Public Company but most recent valuation was 9 billion on the last raise, or perhaps somewhere in that range. Im sure theyre going to keep trying as best they can. The data will out at some point. Its such a unique example of whats going on in the valley, though, because it is not an app that is trying to deliver you something. Its a Company Whose technology could potentially mean a life or death decision for someone. Again, its not just a preference from a consumer standpoint. Either it works or doesnt work. Its not uber versus lift thing. Its does it give me results. Unfortunately, there isnt as much, you know, third party looks at this as wed like to know if its going to work or not. The Cleveland Clinic will be interesting because they have committed to a certain extent to allowing them to really fully test, i believe. At some point we should hear from them. Its great to see you, ed lee, managing editor of recorp. The last trading week of the year historically has been down by about 1. 5 . The nasdaq is faring the worst this morning. Energy is the biggest drag today for the s p. Look at some of the movers intraday. Consol down 9 . Freeport down about 8. 5 . They had some people moves. Chairman and cofounder resigning from that company amid some pressure from activists. Marathon oil down about 7 . As we continue to watch a slide in the price of oil. The shanghai composite sliding the month in a month after industrial profit data for november came in weaker than expected. Six month in negative territory despite really strong growth in automobiles, really strong growth in electricity. Also concerns about supply in the ipo market. You can see what happened in trade in shanghai, down 2. 5 . David. More boots on the ground for fedex and u. P. S. But fedex issuing an apology for missing shipment deadlines. Were going to get the latest impact on both of those stocks. Fit bit could be the big winner this Holiday Season. And daily fantasy sport site it is, now illegal in illinois. The state representative will join us to state his case. A lastminute surge in online deliveries left many fedex customers unhappy this weekend. Morgan brennan is in new york to explain. Basically its called the ghost of christmas past. As we saw most dramatically in 2013 when nearly 2 million packages didnt make their deadlines. A bigger than expected lastminute spike in ecommerce demand really caused service snarls for the shipping companies. According to ship matrimatrix, started strong. As the week went on, service for overnight oneday shipping fell dramatically. 79. 5 for u. P. S. On wednesday before starting to recover on Christmas Eve. Those are really low numbers according to ship matrix. Were seeing fedex seems to have had the tougher time. It experienced delays on Christmas Eve or coming into Christmas Eve that caused the company to unexpectedly run operations on Christmas Day, something it has had to do in the past but was not planning on doing this year. And also add additional operations on saturday as well. For its part, u. P. S. Says all its planned packages were delivered by 8 p. M. On Christmas Eve. It did not have workers out on Christmas Day. Analysts say early readings show the volumes from certain retailers and etailers were much larger than the forecasts that were shared with the shipping companies who use those forecasts to plan for peak season, peak shipping season. But theres something thats particularly going to be in focus where fedex is concerned. And speaking of peak, we are really just Getting Started in the second part of the peak shipping season. Were now coming into ecommerce, ereturns, all those gift cards being used for consumers. Between now and next wednesday, its going to see 5 million return deliveries and that would represent a 15 increase other last year. David. All right, thanks very much, morgan brennan. Dont miss our interview with the u. P. S. Ceo david abney. Thats tomorrow. On squawk on the street. The weather that resulted in some of those shipping delays resulted in deadly tornadoes and storms hitting texas, missouri and new mexico. Its now being followed by a blizzard. Mike sidle from the Weather Channel has latest. The snow has ended and the wind is backing off eastern new mexico and here in western texas. But the memory lingerings. Interstates are still shut down. I40 between now and the oklahoma line and also from here, westbound to new mexico, theyre expected to reopen later on this morning. Also, i27 between here and lubbock has been closed because of snow and drifting. Lubbock, texas, picked up 11 inches of snow on sunday. Thats their highest calendar day total in the month of december. Its now their snowiest day on record. They typically only average a little over 8 inches of snow in an entire winter. As far as new mexico goes, theyre digging out up to 2 feet of snow and 8 foot snowdrifts. This entire system is moving east. More tornado watches expected. One is up. Weve had tornado warnings through the morning hours. Keep in mind if youre in mississippi, alabama, through georgia there could be Severe Weather in your backyard throughout this afternoon and this evening. Back in the midwest, weve had plenty of flooding. Were talking about dangerous flash flooding ongoing all the way from dallas into parts of the midwest. So far, weve had 11 deaths due to flooding. Back on saturday, we had 11 tornado deaths in the dallasft. Worth area. The death toll right now standing at 24. Heads up if youre flying today. The biggest impact will be certainly at a major hub, ohare in chicago, so far, theyve already canceled nearly 300 flights and many flights being delayed as a storm comes in primarily with snow and sleet. Im Weather Channel meteorologist mike seidel in amarillo, texas. When we come back, the countdown to the european close. And then we dig into the holiday sales numbers. Im here at the Td Ameritrade trader offices. Ahh. Steve, other than making me move stuff, what are you working on . Let me show you. Okay. Our thinkorswim Trading Platform aggregates all the options data you need in one place that lets you visualize that information for any options series. Okay, cool. Hang on a second. You can even see the anticipated range of a stock expecting earnings. Impressive. Whats up, tim . For all the confidence you need. Td ameritrade. You got this. From times square to the rest of the world. Lets brita aes bring in simone count down the close to continental europe. The margins are very thin in europe. The uk is closed for boxing it a. Just to clear up any problems with that, boxing day is traditionally the day in which wealthy people give gifts to their staff that are departing to their families for christmas and its called a christmas box, thats where it comes from. Slightly lower as it comes across the indices that are open with the exception of zurich. Thats partly because oil is down. You see the oil majors. Kind of an odd mixture of oil services. Small engineering systems in norway. So royal dutch with your biggest plays there. Weve also had some comeback on the largest Steel Company in europe. Last week, it rose strongly. Today, some profit taking on that. Albeit with a 10 gain overall. The degree to which the chinese will cut back or be forced to cut back some of the steel dumping through the course of the year. Well see where that plays. Sorry, on tuesday, well see where that plays. In the meantime, lets check where we are for the month so far. The important thing is theres no santa claus rally on either side of the atlantic. But its particularly brutal in europe, which is now down 5 since the beginning of december. And thats clearly the disappointment youve got from the ecb. Still, we trade on. You might have seen barons over the weekend suggesting that on an average, the big investment banks are suggesting a 12 gain on european equities next year. Its as high as 20 if you listen to what citi is saying according to barons. The fc on their survey on the front page is suggesting of the economists they surveyed in europe for the eurozone, the majority dont think youll get more qe from the ecb during the course of the year. That presumably is important for the outlook on stocks. As far as the euro is concerned, still, it would appear that many people are calling that down to parity. Although, again, the story of december on the disappointment from the ecb has been the fact you got that initial bounce, which weve hung on to. The euro at 4 against the dollar. Just shy of 1. 10 as you can see. But most people think still apparently we can go back towards parity. But so many of those bets are often so wrong of course within foreign exchange. Certainly that was the call expected for the end of this year. Simon, thanks. The app store is signalling that fit bit had quite a good christmas. Shares are rallying this morning more than 3 . Well get to that story up next. Good morning, everyone. Here is your cnbc news update. Geneva lowering its Terror Threat level after being on high alert for over two weeks. After a new review following the christmas holidays. Police had been searching for suspects possibly linked to the paris terror attacks. Former harlem globetrotter star Meadowlark Lemon has died. Known for both his basketball skills and also his crowd pleasing tri