wanted to. >> could they let go of it? >> i have no idea. could they have done better? i guess they could have done better or wouldn't get out of the business. >> okay. thank you for being here. >> good to see you all. >> thank you for the doughnuts. >> yep. >> and all the love. love field. make sure you join us tomorrow. "squawk on the street" begins right now. thank you michele and steve. ♪ live your life >> good tuesday morning. welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm carl quintanilla, jim cramer, david faber at the new york stock exchange. futures are lower on the fourth anniversary of the flash crash. we've got some pharma m&a, merck, twitter at a new low as the lockup expires, ten-year around 2.6. the real story might be the dollar index, the lowest since october. europe is in the red, both spanish and italian ten-year bond yields are below 3%. >> auo geez. >> twitter six months after the

ipo, insiders with a chance to sell after the lockup expires. the stock down almost 40% this year. >> can we make a cross-border deal? germany's buyer acquiring merck's consumer business. the president of france throws a wrench or tries to in ge's plan to try to buy alstom. can hollande convince ge to sweeten the offer? >> apple trading above 600 since 2012, push for upgrades, new products incoming, are we in for a sweet spot for apple shares? >> a crucial morts for general moto motors. another engineer exits. jim says now is the time to buy. >> it has been a long road for shares of apple. the stock closele above the $600 mark since october of 2012, comes two weeks after apple announced the seven for one stock split, better than expected numbers and expansion of the buyback program from $60 billion to $90 billion. the low, 388. the high 702. closer to the 702 at 600. >> i think that tim cook listed

on to carl icahn, he listed on to a lot of things a lot of people were saying and distilled it and recognized it's not just the buyback. it's the opportunistic, that's the word he uses, opportunistic buybacks. you see a lot of stupid buybacks. when there's a lot of supply, the apple buyback is in. they are not in there just kind of oh, let's do 100,000 a day. they are being positioned, they are sopping up supply. this is the kind of genius buyback that a lot of execs should pay attention to. because most of them just do this desle terrorry buying. no. think about it. cook is. >> right. they're buying more stock than has ever been bought by a company in history because they have the largest market cap and cash of any company, almost all of it, most of it overseas, they're borrowing here to actually fund the buyback. that will continue.

the bigger question, what do you got for me now in terms of new products. >> there's a person who starts there today, aaron, from burberry. i want you to go to salesforce.com's website and see what arent did when at burberry. the presentations, the way -- the excitement. the retail stores for apple were not a bright spot this quarter. this person, this former ceo, has probably the best digital strategy i've ever seen for retail. i'm talking about what has apple lacked? it's lacked pizazz. you get new product, pretty much we've been hearing that from tim cook and the best salesperson on earth who understands digital. that explains a lot of the stock. >> they're paying her 113,000 rsus to come over, priced at 600, that's 68 -- >> presplit. >> $68 million over the next

four years as she begins -- she's already started in cooper tino. the journal heard on the street looks at the stock pattern between q2 earnings and the launch of a phone in the fall and on average last few years up 16%. >> buy in may and go away. it really is an extraordinary thing to have apple on its game, and both financially and i believe new product, but most important, we have -- you know, when you look at apple and go to the stores, you know, the stores, they're okay. do you remember when the stores opened how exciting it was. >> very exciting. >> look for excitement, but it will be on your handheld. your handheld will just -- it's going to explode. it's going to have -- >> will it become a pyramid made of glass and i can walk into and buy something from? >> they will have neat pyrotechnics. >> i see. >> you will be excited. you'll walk in the store, they will know. it will be starbucks like in terms of you know what they want. i urge people to go to the sales force presentation.

because ahrendts is a marketer like no other in terms of the digital world. >> let's not forget still trades at a low multiple, buying back a lot of stock, and this is a market where that is being -- not necessarily the buyback but lower multiple stocks are performing better than their higher multiple brethren which could take us to twitter. >> maybe, you know, look don't forget, i mean carl icahn is still loving it. a lot of people thought he would sell. >> nope. he's not selling. >> that matters to me. that was on scott wapner. i said that stock is going to roll because he's not out there selling. >> people who are selling is the question for twitter. the lockup period for hundreds of millions of shares held by insiders has expired and now eligible for sale as of the open this morning. it was six months ago twitter priced its ipo at $26 a share and we asked dick costolo about that indicating he and co-founders jack dorsey and evan

williams had to plans to sell their shares and who else might be on board? >> benchmark one of our early investors announced they have no plans to sell and frankly, after speaking with most of our major investors that were with the company since prior to the ipo, many of those investors have declared that they have no intention to sell. we feel great about that. it's frankly one of the reasons, probably the primary reason well, have decided and announced we wouldn't -- we have no current plans to have a secondary offering. >> i think back to zuckerberg who actually gave a time period. he said i won't sell until september. i forget of which year. we tried to get costolo to bite on that. all he would say is no current plans. >> look, let's cut to the chase here. there's so many individuals who have low basis and it's not a question of wanting to sell. it's a question of some executives saying look, our stock is undervalued at a

certain price and if it gets to "x" you know what, i'm a buyer, not a seller. the way to be able to stop insider selling is to turn buyer. after six months, remember, the rules are you can even if you sold, you can buy it back. >> right. >> 16-b-3. i think this is going to be under pressure. there's lots of i believe desks positioning, meaning their banging the stock down short to cover, that's allowed, to be able to cover on insider selling and look, it wasn't like the company delivered a fantastic quarter. the do-overs here, yesterday was the kind of -- the amazon deal, we get another 30, 40 deals like that and next thing you know you have a stock -- >> or if you get user growth metrics that start to really show significant growth yet again. >> which we didn't have. >> year over year you may create more demand for the shares to which they could sell without crushing the stock. >> whenever you see monthly average users over timeline, new

metrics, new metrics means sell. there's this old metric that i keep falling back to, it's called earnings per share. i don't -- totally out of snishgs never heard of it. >> you have to qualify that. talking gap earnings. talking gap, then you're really -- >> before stock issued execs. >> amazon, then you're xing out a number of companies. >> well, i think that there are a number of companies in 2000 that if you as striked them and knew what the real earnings were -- >> i like free cash flow. >> a great measure. >> it's coming to me. >> free cash flow and look at cash position. some of the companies are doing quite well. enterprise value, they're too high. it's not catastrophic. there's a lot of bubble articles -- >> in the times, david leanhart. >> where was he february 26th when the bubble popped. the first week of march when the plug power bowers popped. you have the speculative single

digit players popped, you have the sales force.com being the gateway february 28th conference call where the stock goes 68 and then to 58 and don't look now. and that -- it popped. maybe if he's charters, the head and shoulders pattern are hideous. i'm not going to come down and say a stock down 45% like tablet software symbol data is a screaming short. i just can't do it. it wasn't screaming short when at 102. 52, 55, screaming short, i don't know. i like them higher to short, not lower. >> right. >> athena still high. i get that. >> i'm thinking einhorn. you and i thinki ing einhorn at that time. >> i'm giving you a green light to that thought. >> he would say there's plenty of stocks throughout, $3 billion market cap should be $300 million. >> i think that the one he's after, somehow i was linked to it, which bothered me, i was saying sell the high mult. s, wasn't a cloud stock, i'm

easily trashed, i think you don't want to own the cloud stocks on any lift. if you take a look, this is the cost level among longs today. they need this higher. you'll see a pattern of a drop of say 6, 8% and a flip of 2% and sellers come back. this has been a pattern for four different moves. can that be broken. >> i don't know. >> i don't know if it's a bubble in m&a and prices being paid are awfully high. merck one example, agreeing to sell its consumer care business to bayer for $14.2 billion. that makes the company the second largest over-the-counter drugmaker after johnson & johnson. brands including claritin and yaf trin and dr. scholl's and coppertone. an interview with merck's ceo ken frazier later this morning on "squawk on the street." jim, you and i have been talking about this. we mentioned it yesterday. i know a number of bankers who had the competing bid that was

well below the winning bid. well below. when i look at the metrics here, 21 times ebitda, $2.2 billion in sales, selling for $14.2 billion. yes, there are significant synergies that they are citing here. see some of them. $200 million a year in cost synergies. there was -- there's even more than that as well. but, you know, not off the bat but this price -- this price is enormous. >> when merck bought schering-plough for $41 billion five years ago a sense that this division, dr. shols, coppertone might have been worth 3, $4 billion. when i spoke to fred, the retiring ceo, he said merck is really buying this company for our drugs, the pipeline. well, $41 billion, $3 billion in synergies the first year, another 15 here. maybe the merck deal which a lot felt was a mistake wasn't so dumb afterward. >> at 14.2 i have to say that

was well above what people were expecting when the auction began, which is some time back already. and you can -- i mean 21 years of ebitda is a lot. take that number down when you include some of the synergies they expect to get. that's a big number. >> a lot of these products are under tremendous from parago from private label and i don't think the consumer product section is worth as much as buyers paying. buyer clearly knows it's -- >> for merck, of course, which says it's going to put some of the money into obviously drug development in particular, this melanoma lung cancer therapy. >> hepc. frazier regarded as a bit tepid ceo has come on, i think he's done a great job in the last six months. since the stock was at 46.47 put his money where his mouth is and started buying shares. >> buyers talking about revenue synergies. we didn't include that of about $400 million by 2017. >> ken coming on? >> phraser from merck. interesting to talk to him.

>> sensational. so much to ask. >> they hit it out of the park with the number they got. >> they did. >> they're talking about msd, i'm sorry putting money into the mk 3475 which is an investigational anti-pd 1 immune no therapy in patient with advanced melanoma and small cell lung cancer. >> sherring has a remarkable bipolar drug merck was supposed to develop because it doesn't have weight. we're not seeing that yet. merck has a full plate, lot of 400, $500 million drugs. single and double hitter. they're jeter. okay. they are not a swing for the fences company and there are a lot of singles and doubles in that sherring pipeline being split. >> he has hit a couple home runs. >> what -- >> that's not -- >> jimmy rollins? >> no omar quintanilla. >> no. nobody can really replace quintanilla. >> we lost -- >> playing in miami. >> we managed to lose last

fight. >> did you catch this? >> we're not supposed to diverge. >> when we come back cramer says this is one of the crucial moments when it comes to gm. find out what he's talking about and what it might mean for the stock. luxury retail giant on cnbc's first 25 list of the most influential business leaders in the past quarter century, bernard arnault will join us live from paris. one more look at futures. another turnaround tuesday as they call it? we'll have to wait and see. more "squawk on the street" from post nine in a moment. st nine i (man speaking jananese)

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♪ as much as gm keeps getting hit with bad press, including a brand new recall just announced today for 52,000 suvs with flawed fuel gauge software, as much as the media seems to be eating these guys alive and as much as today we have a high-profile resignation of the engineer involved in the original recall, i think this is one of those crucial moments you have to be a buyer, not a seller. that's right. i'm telling you to buy general motors right into the teeth of this recall controversy. >> jim cramer on "mad money" last night. one of the reasons 3.5% yield you call notoriously b.i.g. >> indeed. i don't want to make light of the tragedies of the terrible

deaths that have been caused by this, but this recommendation based on two things you saw on cnbc. one is kyle bass' empirical work on the accidents that occurred and your interview. the second was a little known i felt not concentrated on snippet from warren buffet when becky talked about gm where he said that barra could run any of his companies, he thinks the world of her, they're talking about $5 in earnings power no incentives this quarter, ahead of -- in europe to ford, gm business very, very strong. this is a company that people have decided is going to be bp and it's not going to get bp. >> also, one of the big three, one that beat expectations on march sales. >> 6%. i mean geez, you look at this company and think, shouldn't they have had sales down 10%. they're offering some incentives today but the one i look at general motors, i think to myself, here's a company that

has had the worst headline news in this era and it's still ticking. >> more than ticking. i mean it's only 6 bucks below it 52-week high. >> remember how bad when toyota had that problem. sales plummeted. sales should have plummeted and didn't. maybe sometimes what doesn't happen is a chairen call. >> we'll get cramer's mad dash, count down to the opening bell and one look at the premarket on this tuesday. more "squawk on the street" live from the nyse straight ahead. ♪

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tuesday, about eight minutes to go before we open trading on this tuesday. time for our mad dash. when i think eog i think jim cramer. >> thank you. >> this is a stock you have talked about numerous times on "mad money" and also right here. >> it's been my favorite. mark pap retired ceo, set a pace of 40% growth. david, when we talk about these cloud and software as a service companies, some of them are averaging 35, 40% growth. tabblo 80%. i should have said that. eog, kind of fooled a lot of people. stands for enron oil and gas, but it hasn't been that in so long so people don't understand. permian, they've got the delaware basin. looks like that's going to be the third leg of a three-legged stool. best assets. 3,000 barrels per day in eagleford and bakken, ramping spending. people thought they were going to ignore bakken, so much more,

bakken being north dakota, in texas. it's a remarkable story. >> what have we heard that has the stock up over 4%. >> one of those where they released the results and then do the conference call. the results, mpap was not a showman. the new ceo, eog reports outstanding results. some people who are critical. that's the way that pioneer does it. enron oil and gas, eog is the best. >> return of capital in the airline industry, amazingly enough is now a story we've been talking about for a while and it's happening. again and again. >> we talked all of our lives, david, about cost. the whole idea -- >> hard to imagine -- >> they're talking about a dividend boost of 50%. returning 2. 75 billion. talking about cash machines. now there's a lot of people saying wait a second -- >> which industry? >> this is the airline -- >> say that again. >> the airline. >> the airline industry a cash machine.

>> branson talking about how there could be more competition examining because amr, american airlines, has to divest. that's justice department. we know frontier is starting to fly from different places. brian sullivan lives near trenton, starting to fly to milwaukee. >> how nice for him. >> and that's what i'm going tore. just these -- what you're starting to break down the competition is coming, that trenton to milwaukee line, says stay long delta. american is my favorite -- >> incredible -- >> american incredible contributed to david tepper being able to make over $3 billion last year, given his large ownership in the debt of american. incredible what happened there. but obviously delta, 112% rise. >> they bought the refinery, they've got great labor relations. at least the company says that. but doug parker at american, still my favorite as much as i like delta. just because the possibility of a $6 number there for earnings power is very much here and i think that stock goes to, are

you ready? $60. >> amr. >> $60. >> yes. >> whole idea of capital return in this industry is still something i'm not getting my head around. >> i'm not backing away. >> cost of capital never -- >> they've always had to compete, but the anti-trust -- the pro-trust division of the justice department -- >> let's them -- >> i saw attorney general holder this week. used to jab him about that. having solvent air carriers is not a bad thing. >> the opening bell about five minutes from now. we're back with more "squawk on the street" after this. reet" af. the state of luxury retail, their interview with one of the global leaders of top notch brand. brand. "squawk on the str

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seen over and over again, the secondaries, the insider selling and all of the softwares service companies and cloud service have been monumental. back to tablo the stock up the most, ran from 6 to 102 and then february 4th put -- reported a good quarter, went up 13%, and then next thing you know they did a 4 million shares secondary at $89.35 and never looked back. insider selling kills. it kills. safety takes a vacation when insider selling. safety typically never takes a vacation. >> absolutely. we mentioned jpmorgan at the open yesterday, warning about trading revenues. barclay's turn, decline in revenue as they missed estimates. q1 pre-tax profit down 5. >> i had me one last night. at one point i liked the bank stocks. i blame myself. i can't blame moynihan and bank

of america. i blame myself. the 20% decline in jpmorgan, i blame myself. i actually believed that you could have good quarters if you were in the big banks. >> barclays also suffering a number of significant defections from its investment bank. a lot of the ex-lehman bankers that barclays have departed or will be departing in the near term. interesting to watch what's going on at that financial services company. >> you pointed out last week that was kind of a black hole. it's funny the one that's really doing best right now is royal bank of scotland and that one had big -- >> oh, boy. >> it's been its time in the wilderness. is that a polite way to put it? >> they bought the -- they did the big deal that got them into so much trouble. >> thank you very much. >> ges. like that ad. royal bank of scotland that that was genius. >> thank you so much. >> oh, boy. that was stupid. >> wow. >> keep our eye on apple closing

above 600 yesterday for the first time since october 2012. we mentioned angela arent and the bonus signing. greg stein livle who will get up to $55 million for leaving the company for compensation. >> i know. people were saying, how did target do that? people negotiate contracts. and you don't -- there's a lot of compensation issues. one of the things that was so great about becky's interview yesterday, like to harken back to that, so much good stuff, munger was talking about it, when you make these pay packages public, what happens is the compensation committee looks at the other packages and gives people these unbelievable packages. so that was a prenegotiated. don't think they said listen, we love you, here's a big check. it was like we negotiated with you so we have to pay you. much more along those lines. >> aig one of the big losers down more than 2%. beats by 14 cents at 1.21. revenues amiss. premiums down.

disaster losses up year over year. >> no incremental new buyback news. yesp. catastrophe not that good. frankly, this is the second quarter that's disappointed. there's a guy at bernstein who loves this stock will be out there, but i do think that two quarters in a row that the company has disappointed is going to matter. i think it will matter. >> shares of directv are actually up this morning, about 1%. now the company will not hold its conference call as it typically does until the afternoon. it looked okay. the revenue number was fairly good. there was -- i talked to a couple guys this morning that point out that sub -- net subgrowth was light. 12,000. there had been expectations for a bit more than that. we're not talking about a lot here obviously. but overall the stock is reacting positively. we'll see what, if anything, they say when asked about questions of consolidation. again, just to take you back to last week, the reporting by the journal, which i was able to confirm as well, yes, an

approach was made about a month ago. there were some conversations. but very much unclear whether there's anything really going on there between directv and at&t or anyone else. still to be heard from, of course, is dish. >> right. >> david, i like when i think about companies, i like cash flow. i like free cash flow. mimicking you entirely from -- just 17 minutes ago. >> yes. >> the free cash flow here is kind of amazing. 710 to a million to 886. cash flow before interest taxes. a term by the way that you introduced to the air was extraordinary. i think a lot of people just say, geez, this company makes a lot of money. >> they do. they've got a whole thing here on venezuela and a currency update. some who say that's still an issue for them in terms of where they're valuing the revenue streams. >> and for ford -- >> right. ford shut down for 15 days. us but looks really -- does it not amazing these -- is it not amazing these companies have not abandoned venezuela. when you look at the consumer products company.

then three cent hit from venezuela. the three cent hit from venezuela. and venezuela is a country that is very wealthy, that is poorly managed. people are saying one day the revolution will come. that's a capitalist revolution. you need chile, you need pinochet, yes. >> lived in caracas as a kid for a year. crazy town. we think we have an income polarization problem. unbelievable. >> and peter shay obviously reviled by the left, but chile joined the -- joined the nation -- the world of commerce. >> right. >> after pinochet came in, brought the university of chicago people. much better managing the economy than playing football. >> odp? >> go ahead. >> i mean -- >> it's up 11%. closing 400 stores. one in five u.s. stores. >> they close every store, where does the stock go? you have to wonder. >> i know. i've been waiting for this for ages. the rationalization of office

depot. remember, rite aid rationalized and look at that stock. this is a challenged segment. when i see walmart having faster growth than amazon, i always think office supplies have been something that's been footballed around. any rationalization of this business will help staples too. staples has been in a world of hurt -- house of pain. >> in this case, the deal may be making sense, office depot's -- >> look, i think that it took a little time, you had to figure out where the overlap was. that stock can have a little bit of a run here. beyond what it's had. >> discovery communications have been done as much as 3% this morning. the company reporting earnings as well. affiliate fees did not grow quite as fast as i think there had been some expectations. revenues up 22%. adjusted operating income before depreciation and amortization. perhaps a disappointment with affiliate fees.

did repurchase 3.4 million shares. during of the course of the quarter. free cash flow, $213 million for the first quarter. >> international business primarily -- >> due to increased operating performance, lower tax payments deeshgs cline in losses from derivatives. >> derivatives? >> why it was up so much from a rear year ago. >> don't like to hear derivatives in any earnings report having to do with any company not doing financing. >> i want to hear "deadliest catch" "frozen earth". >> international mar margins. >> disney after the quarter. >> "frozen" and chewbacca. >> we're six months away -- eight months away from the year that "star wars" will dominate. franchise after franchise and remarkable job. the stock was up very big after it reported last time. the previous time it got hammered. so i mean people are trying to gain disney. remember it went over and above

last time. bob iger loves to buyback stock in a targeted way not unlike the way tim cook buys. >> not the only one tonight. whole foods, electronics arts, pot belly, fireeye, one of your favorite names, at least to talk about. >> fireeye. fireeye has been, you know, use that the fire in the eye of the tiger. now it's got the eye of like i don't know, maybe a pussycat. whole foods does have a lot of price competition. couple notes saying be careful and the notes seem cogent to me. fireeye, yeah, having another bad day there. sharp stick in the eye. >> you mentioned athena health, down 12%. you mentioned einhorn's comments. excellent company that could fall 80%. >> it's cloud but not really cloud. it's medical records. it should maybe have never gotten all the way up that it did. now it's in freefall. when a guy comes out -- remember the green mountain coffee

presentation, there's people who give presentations that are negative and they tend to resonate far more than the positives. >> they do. it was a -- speaking of our colleague scott wapner there telling me peppered with video of mr. bush, the ceo, of athena health and sort of at his expense. i would point out last year, the people who appeared last year, when you look at it, performed terribly vers sus the rest of the market. well underperformed the market -- the s&p it itself. so take it for what it's worth. >> the stock has been a down stock and bush has done a lot of interesting stuff about the health guide, not recommending -- i don't know how i got caught up in this thing. the last two quarters were not what i wanted to see. this is part of the let's embrace the cloud, i'm kind of hanging on to the cloud, get off my cloud, the idea that this is a cloud stock, i've always felt was a little -- maybe a little too stretched.

the stretch, partly cloudy. it's partly cloudy. chance of meatballs coming at you with that stock. >> dow is down 62 early on and bob pisani is on the floor. hey, bob. >> good morning. happy tuesday. best trading day of the week by the way is art cashin likes to point out. starting largely because the financials are weak not just here but europe. barclay, deutsch bank, credit suisse. barclay said the same thing jpmorgan said. trading revenues down 41% in the first quarter. second quarter isn't going to look much better. challenging trading conditions resulting in subdued client activity. i love that line. what does that mean? is this a cyclical or structural sflob looks cyclical. for the moment traders can't make money trading fixed income. don't have a lot of events to drive the volume. remember we have the dodd/frank act, capital restrictions going on in the u.s. and overseas. the basil rules. that's a structural issue. this could be a long-term

problem as well. remember it's that area the proprietary trading books that was a growth engine in the past. meantime see the options business. cboe had a great report. double-digit increases, record revenue in earnings thank goodness for the vix. that product is the gift that keeps on giving. vix volatility products keeps growing and growing. people want more protection all the time. cboe down fractionally. twitter, okay. i know the lockup has expired and everybody said we're big shareholders not going to sell. i don't care what anybody says. it went public at 26. it's in the mid 30s. here's all you need to know. the average insider price, average cost for all insiders for twitter is $2.21. $2.21. it's at $35. think somebody is not going to sell here? i think so. that's normal mathematics here. speaking of the ipo market there's a little bit of a thaw

happening. i am interested to see this. overnight, market file, that's the big financial data company, true car, car pricing website, and zendesk, cloud-based customer service software, that's tech and we have tech filings now. remember i said last week, it all dried up. they're starting to trickle back. everybody is obsessed with alibaba. we're waiting for that. i'm more interested these guys are testing the waters right now, not happening today. it will probably -- everything will happen probably next week. this week there's going to be a whole bunch of other kinds of ipos. nine ipos are going to try to price this week. the test is wednesday night, five will price. cheetah mobile, chinese mobile app trying to price, liquified natural gas player, gas log that's out there. the market, this is going to be very big because we're littered with broken ipos this year. take a look at the number of broken ipos. 44% of all ipos have -- are trading below their initial price right now. and 36% of all ipos priced below

their range. david, in the last -- of the last 20 ipos. 75% have priced below their range. so this is a big week. now they're trying to push through nine of them. we'll see how many price in the mid point or in the area below. if you get a lot of them, all of them pricing at the mid point, i would call that david a big victory for ipos. we'll see. >> as jim's pointed out. don't buy the first trade. bob, thank you. >> only eight. >> doing a favor report here. going to rick santelli. >> there is a long deck so to speak, the slides and things companies it inically put out, i think astrazeneca would love you to look through. the company and board publishing a presentation updating on the continued progress and executing its strategy on achieving scientific leadership. strengthening its growigrowin growing platforms and returning to growth. they are talking about the momentum they have in terms of drugs, under development. >> used the word momentum.

>> as they continue to put up right now put up the heisman to pfizer and its attempt to buy this company. they say from 2017 to 2023, astrazeneca, targeting strong consistent revenue growth, they're going to have revenues of $45 billion by 2023. >> 20123? >> 2023? >> nine-year plan. momentum going into 20 -- >> they put out a press release, a very long slide presentation that if you're interested in this deal you should be looking at. i will send to you, of course, jim, because -- >> please do. >> you were questioning. >> i was critical. >> questioning their pipe line. others with better cancer pipeline stew they're talking about -- >> this didn't take a shot at me? >> no, they did not. >> good. it's important i ask. >> strongly positioned to combine agents within key scientific mechanisms. all going to the basic thesis that no, we have a lot of momentum in late-stage pipeline. we're going to be presenting some of the stuff coming up.

all the different meetings that will be taking place in the near term. i think san diego, you got the a ats, and the ada in san francisco, june 13th through 17th. so, astrazeneca continuing to fight off pfizer. we'll see where pfizer goes next, of course, and it ace tempts to acquire it, but as i've said previously, time is of the essence here in the sense of pfizer doesn't want this tax thing to keep hanging out there as a pinata potentially you could get congress to start to act on. >> post-cease demaio. >> that would be in two days. there will be more ocho de mayo. >> back to m&a and the transaction this morning, the consumer business from merck being sold to bayer. i mentioned what a high price that is, 21 times ebitda, significant multiple to sales. we've been starting to see and hearing from bankers, numbers, you know, covered bids below the number that won the auction.

for example, excel lon and pep. co. remember that. what does that have with the valeant deal and other things. going to the bond market to worry. take a look at the compression of spreads between high yields and treasuries and the ability of these companies to borrow and why that may be leading to very high numbers? >> there's something worrisome. put that in the worrisome category. >> do we have the barclays u.s. high yield spread or corporate spread? we're trying to bring that to you. that has been coming down and down and down. i think it's an interesting point. jeffrey begunlap pointed to this yesterday. i think it is -- worth keeping an eye on. >> oh, that's not good. >> worth keeping an eye on where we are in terms of that spread. of course leading to some high prices being willing to be paid borrowing costs are low. >> i don't like that. >> while on the subject of bonds, let's head to the bond

pits, rick santelli at the cme group in chicago. rick? >> thanks, david. this is the epicenter of the credit bubble right here. absolutely. look at a two-day chart of ten-year note yields. but if you look at the next chart it explains why we continue to bump along the low closing yield of the year, right around 257, intraday. there was a violation, yes, the journal pointed out, adequately, we had an intraday, 256 since about november, but it really is most about the closing yields. if we want to consider weight going on in the world it isn't only a credit bubble when it comes to junk. look at a different category of junk. look at spanish 10s. look at this chart intraday. taking a nose dive under 3%. what's supposed to happen in economies when they get better than expected data as was the case in spain? their yields are supposed to pop. but let's not think about that. let's go to the 20-year chart. do you see a lower yield in the 2.93 on the ten and we wonder

why our 10-year is having a problem pushing yields up. which would you rather own? let's look at the currencies because there's a lot of things going on in the currencies. if we first look at what's going on, with the dollar, the dollar is fascinating because right now, it is a whisker away from trading down to the lowest levels, really since the summer of '12. there's a little nip there, right around march, that we're going to have to take out. if you look at the euro or the pound, they're just screaming, screaming. so really want to hapedy cap weight going on in the foreign exchange markets, maybe in deference to thursday ecb meeting and try to reconcile how they're going to try to push yields lower with quantitative easing on one happened or some of the improvement in economies like spain, mario draghi going to have one heck of a job in the currency market, isn't believing he's going to do much. back to you, carl. >> all right. thank you very much, rick santelli. when we come back, "shark tank's" kevin o'leary has an

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six months ago here on the floor of the new york stock exchange, twitter went public at 26. now with a lockup ex firing and lots of insider free to sell their shares it's down to 35 and i can't say you think it's going to turnaround. >> you said it was going there last week. >> yes, i did. >> come on. >> i was like -- >> you were saying positive things and said but it's going down -- >> you said don't pay attention to where stock has been. >> right. >> pay attention to where it's going. >> got to sell it. look -- now -- >> really, down 10% -- >> i said it was going to 29. look everything can bounce. the problem is that, you know, you had this lull into thinking there wouldn't be a lot of supply and the supply is heavy or the stock would have stopped by now. i mean it's not like the tech stocks away from it are falling a part.

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restaurant group has been under tremendous assault. fast casual mediterranean food. bunch of people recommended it, it's not working. expensive versus the group. the one that came public that had the least fanfare i know which was trinet, human resources company, tnet profitable at general atlantic deal, filed the market deal yesterday, and this is a company that shows you when you actually make money, when you're profit oriented, deutsch bank, morgan stanley, jpmorgan recommend it and the stock is pflying as it should. the market likes profits not tweets per share. nowhere did he talk about tweets per share. focused on the elusive earnings per share. >> i'm so old, keep thinking about earnings per share. p/es. zoe's, another tell, whenever you see the two letters, nm, what is nm for p/e?

not meaningful. >> yeah. >> of course as mark haynes would say you're from the church of what's working now and that is what's working now. eps. >> i'm a little agnostic. mark haynes would always do that. i think there's a little bit more -- >> there is a time for these growth stocks. >> there has been, in fact, 2013 was a pretty good time. >> true. we had a nice go away -- not a good-bye party but transition party for larry kudlow and his suits have never gone out of style. i think about the same thing for earnings per share. >> earnings to work with tonight. and piteny beaus. >> one of the best performers in the market and i flagged that. people felt e-mail, why do we need postage meters. they've got a great software business i think is doing well. digital business. zebra is something i said this is interesting, bought the motorola business, simple technology. they own rfid. and i think it's a really good x company.

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♪ welcome back to "squawk on the street." our road map begins with the markets. dow down 75, all three indices in the red. goldman's equity strategist david kostin live at post nine will help us navigate it all. >> twitter the stock down 10% as the major lockup expires. what should investors do now? >> apple bouncing back trading above $600 a share. find out if now is the time to buy. first up the divergence in the bond and equity markets have many worried. joining us david kostin is the chief u.s. equity strategist for goldman sachs. great to see you again. >> good morning. >> early in the year you guys said the markets would have a

struggle at some point in 2014. >> correct. >> but that the end of the year wouldn't end on that sour note. >> correct. >> is that period are we in it, is it over, just beginning? >> i think the environment or narrative we think about for the market is that the economy is slowly improving. bad weather in the first quarter, but the economic data you saw on friday and the employment would give us some confidence that things are moving forward. i would emphasize in particular that capital spending is a critical part of our economic forecast and specifically for the stock market forecast. i'm forecasting about $700 billion of corporate spending this year. and the important reason to emphasize that, 80% of the money that was spent last year, has -- companies have given guidance on that amount of spending and that's up 7% for this year. we have some reason to believe and some reason to have an argument behind our investment thesis the economy is getting better. >> people are still looking at the q1 gdp number and seeing business investment down five. did that take wind out of your

sails? >> the deal we've had, so many over -- for 250 companies have given us that sense of guidance. the capex tends to be back-end loaded anyway. still the forecast remains. i think that leads to a thesis of investing in companies that will benefit from an improving trajectory of economic activity. eog resources, amazon, basically the high degree of operating leverage, that's what you really want to be opening as a portfolio manager. >> maybe the stock market agrees with you but what do you make of the bond market? carl alluded to the fact that yields are back to the lows of the year. the u.s. dollar, everyone thought would strengthen on the back of higher yields and better economy is at the weakest point we've seen in months? >> no question starting at 3% and 10-year treasury yields january 1st and now at 2.60 or so would be a surprise, surprise to us. our forecast is around 3.75% by the end the year in terms of bond yields rice pg. the equity market really is driven by earnings. the issue here is that the market is trading at a pretty high level relative to history.

average median stock trading more than 17 times so that's a pretty high relative to, you know, many decades of history. the starting point of valuation makes it more difficult for equities to be rising. why the more opportunity to choose inside the market. >> david, do you really think that the -- that if you're forecasting that the 10-year yield will be $3.75% by the end of the year, we can go from 2.6 to 3.75 and it won't upset the equity market? >> well, the funding costs for corporations they've taken advantage and have been very robust bond market and the corporate credit market so fixed era, balance sheets, and many companies are using the money to grow. so i think the equity market sdmishsz i'm sorry f the equity market soar, bond yields rising that rapidly to 3.75% by the end of the year they would be worried, would they not? >> our forecast is over 3% gdp growth in the second, third and fourth quarter as we see some economic activity grow, earnings we'll see, we'll see that improve as well. the argument is that the economy is getting better and that would

lead to a higher bond market. my focus is on the equity market and the equity market suggesting things are in pretty good shape. >> why do you think the yields are as low as they are at the moment? is the signal we get from the bond market broken because of the positioning we have at the moment? we've got a note from alan russkin at deutsch bank overnight, on one hand maybe the fed was right the stock effect of all the paper they hold is keeping interest rates lower and then you have the major short covering because we thought the big rotation would come and that these treasuries would be pummeled. it's not happened. their leverage positions are now they're covering. would you have sympathy with that? >> the sympathy that i have is really for what's happening on a fundamental basis. you can argue sentiment, positioning, flows, might explain why yields are where they are. the same argument why the opportunity -- at equity market. a flow story for 2014. not about fundamental mentals,

earnings, narrow dispersion, narrow tight concentrations where people are expecting profits. not a lot of variation in terms of valuation. most people would have the view the market is at a higher end of the range of fair view. that's my view. tends to be more positioning and money flow leading moves to the up or downside. really a tactical market as opposed to more strategy, why the idea of operating leverage is a way to benefit for investors to benefit from economic environment getting better. >> do you believe m&a is on the rebound because companies see rates rising and do you believe m&a is masking what would otherwise be a weaker equity market? >> so margins have been hovering at just under 9%. we saw the data points for first quarter, pretty much right in line with that. it's been there for three years. it's not as though companies have the ability to lift margins. why is the m&a activity? great funding market in corporate credit. number one. number two, stock prices

historically speaking are at high multiples. a high currency to be investing. the economy getting better would be the time to be investing whether merge are or capital spending, investing for growth, now is that time. plenty of margins, plenty of cash, dollars to be spent on buying back stock and paying dividends. this would be a good time. >> we're talking big picture, macro themes here. everyone saying now is the time, it's a stock picker's market. individual companies with individual names, is that really what's going on here? >> it's always a stock picker's market, right, by definition. people have to choose stocks. >> when you have say a group -- >> returns is the narrowest it's been in 30 years. that's to say the spread of returns which typically over a 90-day period is about 30 percentage points now around 20 percentage points. in the consumer discretionary space around 15 percentage points. it's the first percentile in 30 years. 25% of hedge fund net assets are in the consumer discretionary space. it's a challenging time.

sandbox is narrower today -- >> doesn't sound like a stock picker's market from what you've said. you're talking about major correlations. >> it's a more challenging environment -- >> there's been a breakdown of the correlation between discretionary and staples, right? that is bearish -- >> the returns, the opportunity set, the capture, the alpha opportunity for the portfolio manager to capture. it's more difficult now, more challenging. doesn't mean it's not a stock payer's market. it's more difficult. >> people who look at ukraine as this open-ended flammable geopolitical risk and whether or not they could hang over the market for the rest of the year? >> certainly geopolitical risks, issues in the south china sea, the islands, issues in europe. zoe's -- >> not all of them involved a world power like russia. >> that's correct. it's a risk. to simon's point, maybe more represented in the fix income markets than the equity market. think about it in what way does it influence the u.s. equity

market, either through sales or revenues of a corporation, it has to be through the risk premium in the market, what people want to pay for equities and those are the transmission mechanisms we look at. >> the twitter sell-off today we've seen it down 10%, individual name here with a lockup expiration, but these growth names have been lumped together, the momentum stocks high valuations, and there's been pressure on it. is that over or is there more selling in that area to come? >> as a strategy, we have discussed this in the past, in terms of rotation of momentum. so when momentum stock basically hits a -- not momentum stocks but as a strategy, momentum reverses that tends not to be a factor that leads the market going forward. so the idea of strong price momentum, the idea of opening stocks with high eb to sales, enterprise value to sales, has not been a successful strategy over time, one year, three year, five year basis. those are the attributes we think about looking more for valuation as a characteristic to look at that. >> you mentioned dog and amz.

any other video names? >> citric, bristol myers, high degree of operating leverage. the analysts at goldman sachs have a buy rating on those, consistent with the screens we run as a strategist. >> good to see you again, david. >> good to see you. >> goldman sachs. >> let's get over it to dominic chu for a market flash here. hey. >> what's going on, carl. check out shares of delta. the stock moving higher after the airline said it would buy back 2 billion dollars of shares and boosted its quarterly dividend by 50% to 9 cents a share. it's been a good year for delta. up more than 100%. that's a double over the last 12 monthsp. back over to you. >> yeah. sort of leading the rally in airlines. thanks for the flash. up next, twitter sliding deep into the red as that lockup period expires. should investors be worried where the stock is headed. plus, we all know what an alibaba ipo could mean for yahoo! but what about the many other smaller firms with stakes in this massive company.

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twitter's lockup period for almost half a billion shares held by insiders has expired and able to sell them today. priced $6 a share up to around $75 and now it is worth about half that. the big question is, how many of

those insiders will sell. carl spoke to dick costello last week. this is what he had it to say. >> benchmark announced one of our early investors afownesed they have no plans to sell. frankly after speaking with most of our major investors with the company, since prior to the ipo, many of those investors have declared that they have no intention to sell. we feel great about that. it's, frankly, one of the reasons probably the primary reason we decided and announced we have no current plans it to have a secondary offering. >> so he spoke to most of the big investors and many of them said, that they wouldn't sell. which kind of leads a lot of open question marks and no wonder the stock is down. it has to be said one of the main reasons not to sell at the moment will be because the stock is so depressed. >> yes as pisani pointed out if the last hour, their price, their average price, is way

below where we are right now. they would be taking profits if they sold today. >> the decision to sell if you're an insider is different from the decision to buy or sell if you're a retail investor. if you're a venture capitalist, one of the employees, spend money on the mortgage, it is a different set of decisions or skewed decisions. >> it's hard to tell based on this move, considering there's so much supply, coming to the market, went back and looked up facebook's first lockup expiration, that was august 16. 271 million shares of facebook stock were released and the stock fell about 6.27%. subsequently it went down and hit its all-time low. so obviously -- >> double the number of shares being released today. >> absolutely. that's got to be having a factor. the question for twitter is are they growing fast enough and do they have enough users? that seems to be the analyst and investor debate around this stock. >> like facebook you might not resolve it six months in. something you resolve a year

out. obviously the fundamental drivers of revenue growth, what's dictating the stock not the lockup period. speaking of new shares hitting the market, rumors swirling the ipo alibaba filing is set for this week. investors circling this name in more than a decade in hopes of it going public. besides yahoo! which stands to make big money from an ipo who else is there? kayla tausche joins us with more on that. who stands to win from the alibaba ipo? >> there's an elite group but when the alibaba f 1 gets released, may not show us much more than we know from a financial perspective. margins, longer back-dated earnings and maybe an elementary share table holding, but we want to learn a little more about who makes up the ownership of alibaba. a refresher of sorts of who is in ahead of this big deal. the original investor is softbank. in 2000, plugging an initial $20 million into the company. adding to that, over the first couple of years and now its

stake stands at 37% of the company. yahoo! famously paid a billion dollars for a 40% stake in 2005. sold a portion of that in 2012. its ownership is 24% of the company. and i'm told from sources it will be selling roughly 208 million shares in a deal, sources talking about a windfall in the range of $13 billion for yahoo! if the company is valued at $150 billion. now in 2009 private equity firm general atlantic partners bought an undisclosed amount. the valuation around that time about $10 billion. two with years later, more swarmed to buy shares. silver lake led investors that bought about a 5% stake of the company valued around $32 billion. sovereign wealth funds from china, dubai, alongside hedge fund like the u.s. viking global and silver lake and temasek were in that deal they helped alibaba finance yahoo! stake in 2012 when they bought it back. that valued the company at roughly $43 billion.

now the ipo will have both newly issued shares by the company and some shares being sold by investors. though investors i'm told will have a couple more months to decide which of them will actually cash out, which of them will be selling and how much. certainly interesting to note that there's a lot of u.s. money, lot of u.s. private equity, that will see a big paper gain when this company goes public. >> yeah. so interesting, kayla. i mean as you say, interesting to note all those investors. i have to say i wasn't aware of all of them, including hedge funds which have become more and more active in venture capital. i mean, what else are we going to be looking for when we read through the 400 pages, whether it be this evening or tomorrow night? it's going to be soon. we're not going to get necessarily a full update on the current quarter in terms of alibaba's performance, but we may get a lot more on the operations of the business, particularly how they get to their margins. >> right. david, i think the biggest question for people who are looking at the alibaba ipo is

what does this ownership structure look like exactly. of course the big sticking point in the debate over whether alibaba would list in hong kong or list here in the u.s. was whether they could have the controlling ownership stake like we see, this super majority we see in a lot of the u.s. tech companies. that being said, this is a conglomerate made up of a bunch of companies. it has a host of investors. roughly 40 investors have gone into alibaba since it began in 2000. so what will the percentage of the stakes be? how is it structured. what type of class breakdown will you see between the shares and what does that ultimately mean for what it looks like as a public company. hopefully there will be some tea leaves there from that company. >> besides the ownership structure, i mean, kayla, i would think it would be interesting to see where the revenue growth is coming from. this company is so massive and has so many different streams. it has consumer business, business to consumer, e-commerce and -- >> we see a lot of this high level earnings data coming, especially recently from yahoo! when it disclosed what alibaba's

top level growth was and what its profits were for the fourth quarter of last year. we won't get first quarter numbers but we will see that breakdown. you're right. of exactly what each business is contributing to alibaba's overall bottom line. and they've been investing in a lot of companies and different areas, whether it's payment, whether it's e-commerce, b to b, c to c and how much each of those revenue streams is growing will be a big deal. >> even money markets. they've moved into that as well with all the cash balances of their customers. they suddenly created what is an enormous money market/potential mutual fund business at some point. >> do we know how much money this cash has, alibaba? >> i don't know that we have the updated figures. >> we do not have that. the balance sheet will be interesting and yeah, exaxially, what type of businesses they're getting into david. they have a twitter-like service that is used by alibaba users and business owners that operate on that system. they have been getting into the music business through some of these products. so they have a lot of different

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>> it's a win. been a long time. we're coming up on almost two years since it's seen these numbers so it's a win. they've essentially manufactured this by the stock police and increased dividend. give them credit. that's probably the biggest reason the stock has gotten back to 600. different reasons going forward but that's getting back to 600. >> shouldn't investors worry it's manufactured in your words sort of financially engineered higher stock price? sp. >> probably not. the reason is they still have a lot of unlocked assets. $160 billion in cash so yes, they're manufacturing that. they're using financial engineering to get there. essentially unlocking the cash they have through either dividends or share buybacks. that's all legitimate, that's a good company, smart company getting the stock to move higher. i think the part that investors should feel confident in owning apple over the next six to nine months are the products coming out. a lot of talk about those products but the investors i

talk to tend to feel that they're not as optimistic about those and i think that's the opportunity in the stock, is to own it ahead of the products coming out. >> yeah. i mean for a long time, gene, you could argue that tim cook was on the back foot as far as financiers or wall street was concerned. i think you could argue now he's got their number. because if you look at the dates in the diary, so the stock split is on june 2nd, 7 for 1, bizarre ratio, arguably tailor made to get them into the dow at some point. june 2nd is when they come through with the product announcements. angela arent coming from burberry her first stock award june 1st. she will be in on any bounce. i think the timing surely stands out in the diary, doesn't it? >> it definitely does. as you said, june 2nd is an important date. the first day of their developer's conference. they probably aren't going to announce anything big but they will talk about new software and hint at new products at that

point. that's an important date for investors. try to triangulate what the new products are. agree with that. fast forward from june 2nd to the end of the year, several new products and i think investors will get optimistic despite where they're at with them today. i think there will be a sea change in terms of how investors think of apple's road map. >> sounds with a 640 price target, simon mentioned miss arantsds not bad for her foray into apple. ask you about twitter, i know you don't cover it but you have a lot of these growth names in your portfolio. that you do cover. the 10% sell-off on the lockup expiration, you think investors should make a lot of that? >> well, i think twitter right now is really focused on monetizing just the advertising side and they haven't branched beyond that. i think part of the issues investors have is around the engagement numbers. it's really a single one trick pony at this point.

they want to get more into payments so again i don't cover it but i can understand why some investors are nervous. >> fundamental reasons as well. thanks for joining us on apple and a little on twitter. gene monster. piper jaffray analyst. >> coming up an interview with the lvmh chairman and ceo bernard arnault. doesn't get better than this. a member of our 25 list of top business leaders, joining us to talk about the state of the luxury consumer. luxury consumer. ♪ ♪ over 1.2 billion eyeballs are on us during the two weeks at wimbledon. true tennis fans want to know what's happening, they don't want to just see what's happening, they want to know and understand why it's happening. anybody can just put data up, but we want to get a reaction, make it far more interactive. we rely on the cloud to provide that immersive digital capability.

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♪ about an hour into trading some of the stories we're talking about, 7:30 on the west coast, 10:30 wall street, aig among the biggest losers, down 2.5% despite a first quarter earnings beat. revenues fell below consensus and saw a drop in premiums an increase in disaster losses. shares of office depot up 18%. the retailer increasing full year guidance, posting better than expected results and announcing plans to close at least 400 stores by the end of 2016. coach falling to a 52-week low. stock down more than 23% this year. >> speaking of luxury, america's wealthiey esiesy esiest individ spend more, buying cars, going on vacations.

what are they not buying? robert frank surveyed millionaires from around the country and has the answer. >> sara, we tend to think of millionaires as big spenders, diamonds, ferraris and yachts. but our millionaire survey of people with a million or more they're more practical when it comes to their luxuries. the big spends are home improvement and vacations. more than half of millionaires spent more than $2500 on home improvement over the past 12 months. viecation more than -- vacation more than 60% spent more than 5%. among the wealthier, those worth 5 million or more, the majority spent over $10,000 on vacations over the past 12 months. a lot of spending going to vacations. as for the coming year, it's all about vacation, home improvement and cars. as to which categories will get more of their spending this year, travel led the way, followed by home decorating, autos and then entertainment vacation, clothing not so much.

and millionaire women by the way plan to increase their spending on cars more this year than millionaire men. again, clothing and fashion sort of toward the bottom. so these are millionaires measured by net worth. not the top incomes. talking more of the 10% of income earners than the 1%. if you're looking for the future of luxury and where they're spending might want to bet more on restoration, hardwood and starwood than tiffany or coach see coach shares down. interesting to see what bernard arnault says about luxury spend today. practical toward experiences and family rather than stuff on status for today's millionaires. >> we were asking, robert, about what they're not spending on. i didn't see the stock market, for instance, on the list. or really any kind of investments that we tend to think of as traditional. >> we did investments today and found out, in fact, they're bullish on the stock market. they're putting 46% of their new money into equities. but this is so we're really looking at consumer spend here as opposed to investing.

it was surprising that clothing that fashion, jewelry, collectibles, hobbies, things we tend to think about with the wealthy, not so much. again they're sort of home oriented and experienced travel oriented. >> shocked sara eisen. >> i didn't see beshgen bags as a category. at least handbags. >> we'll be sure to put that in the next survey. we'll tell you where they're going to spend. fashion and clothing, 4%, not as big as you would think. >> yeah. it's worth remembering there are 10 million millionaires in this country. >> absolutely. >> this is a big number. for the moment, thank you very much. i know you'll come back. throughout the day with more on that. up next on the program, big banks are arguably still reluctant to lend, borrowers already on high interest rates are looking elsewhere for loans and venture capitalists are taking note. peer to peer lender prosper got $17 million in funding, just the latest round. the ceo will join us after this break. mine was earned in korea in 1953.

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welcome back to "squawk on the street." check out what's happening with well care health plans moving higher after first-quarter profit more than doubled as the health insurer posted stronger revenue and increased in membership ranks and raised adjusted earnings forecast for the year. see that stock is up about 5% just off session highs. back over to you. >> thanks very much, dom. meantime steve liesman back at hq and new revisions to estimates on gdp. steve, looks like even lower for first quarter. >> not going the right way. we're getting a bunch of revisions in saying gdp is now estimated in minus 0.2 at the lowest end, minus 0.8. this number originally forecast or estimated by the government at plus 0.1. it was a huge upset to the downside when it first came out. it's getting lower and lower.

this morning on the trade data, missing being less than the government estimated. here are some of the estimates that are out there. morgan stanley now saying 0.5%. macro economic advisors, 0.6, jpmorgan 0.8. getting to a point where it could be almost a full percentage point. serious weakness there. we reported yesterday that some people are vising up their forecast for the second quarter. see if that revised up. certainly the weather and perhaps other factors having more of an impact than initially estimated by economists and we will do an official wrap it up day getting our panelists of eight or nine economists when we get all of those numbers. wanted to give you the flavor of what's coming out with more weakness in the first quarter than originally estimated. sime. some. >> i would have thought -- i mean i appreciate it's not good news but if the jobs growth is as we saw it, which was actually not bad through the first quarter, i know it was dented, soft, but still happening, that might actually mean that the labor market is stronger than we thought if overall the economy

was contracting, steve in. >> you're right there is a disparity between the stronger job growth and level of gdp. you wouldn't think that level of gdp would create the kind of job growth we had. let me caution, simon, there's more date to come. there are initial estimates in the government's report for the first quarter. it doesn't have certain data that its imputes. initially imputes it and then goes back in and revises it. some thinking gdp does eventually get revised higher with a bunch of things that are to come in the coming weeks. we'll have to be following it. >> more importantly, sara was saying to me, that actually the estimate, the forward looking estimates are rising. is that correct some. >>? >> yes for the second quarter. a bunch of companies are out there. actually with a handle on the gdp forecast. the median estimate we have in our cnbc wrap it up date is about 3.8%. so that's a big turnaround. >> i wonder and you alluded to this, i wonder if the first quarter estimates really continue to go negative, how much that sets us up?

is it possible to see 4% growth, the quarter after we have a negative? >> it's possible. i mean most people don't think that the economy was all that weak in the first quarter. obviously what's happening is, the data keeps coming in weaker from the first quarter, but all the data we've seen the high frequency data, sara, has been positive in march and april. and actually it's all stepping up in a classic snapback format. it's january, february, march, april is the way a lot of this data looks. we had the ism services component, the manufacturing component, so you're getting a lot of this snapback in the classic format which is why people are getting more optimistic about the second quarter. don't get too optimistic about that. what you're going to do, average these two together and be back to our 2% growth we've had since the recovery began in '09. >> that's an acceleration. i'll take it. steve liesman at hq. >> private investment and venture capital firms are stepping up their bends.

prosper marketplace, a leading peer to peer platform is announcing a 17 million round of new funding to help drive its growth. prosper has originated now they claim more than $1 billion in unsecured personal loans since 2008. joining us now is aaron vermoot the ceo of prosper marketplace who joins us from san francisco. good morning. >> good morning. >> you connect lenders and borrowers. i imagine, correct me if i'm wrong, more like social media, not regulating it, just taking a fee. not taking a position within the market yourself? >> no. we're not taking a position in the market. but we have a proprietary credit model risking and scoring and pricing the loans but not buying the loans or taking proprietary risk. >> more like an on-line travel agency where people would search with the company they want to deal with, they are putting themselves up for this them to approach them saying this is what i want? >> that's right. borrowers apply for a loan and

lenders can search on a number of different criteria and decide which loans to invest in? >> you and your father parachuted in at the beginning of last year. why has the growth been so strong? >> you know, on-line marketplaces have been transforming make sectors of american business as we all know. and consumer finance is no different. we came in, made some changes to the company, hit the gas on marketing, and the growth was there. so we really were operating and executing but the marketplace was just really big and growing very quickly. >> it says here that the valuation of the company has gone in one year, from $38 million to $650 million. is that right? >> that is correct. >> does that -- does that pass the smell test to you? >> if you understand where the company was when we took over, it does. in february of 2013 the loan originated only $9 million of loans in the platform. in april we had $100 million.

we've had over ten x growth in 15 months and shows no signs of abating. >> as this industry continues to boom you've seen it, peer to peer lending, is there a role for the banks to play? do you want them completely out of this picture or partner to them to increase your scale? >> banks obviously play huge role in our economy and they will for a very long time. both lenders, on-line lenders, marketplaces like us, and the banks we're doing liquidity matching. a lot of things banks do we'll never do and some things we do we may do better than the banks. especially on the small consumer type loans. but i think there's a role for a long time for both -- >> isn't the incentive for the banks to set up or partner in a way where they are able to buy an advantage in the marketplace, to put themselves first, to get loans at some sort of premium. won't it become a dynamic market that could leave you behind because you don't have the

vested interest? >> you know, our role as a exchange or a marketplace is really to set up the environment where borrowers and lenders can connect. that means offering loans to borrowers at a rate that makes sense for them but also making sure we can give lenders a return that compensates them for the risk. actually, with our lower operating costs and on-line structure, we can offer loans that are less expensive than what the banks are offering. >> you are, of course -- i'm sorry. didn't mean to interrupt you. complete your thought. >> we're offering a product that really isn't offered very often by large banks which is unsecured credit under 35,000. you know given the regulatory environment they're just not doing it. >> just one final question. i mean you were obviously number two as a -- in the peer to peer operator in this country. number one is lending club. a lot of conversation about whether lending club would have an ipo, presumably that's quite important to you on the profile that the industry has an your

own valuation? >> absolutely. we -- you know, we think that a strong lending club ipo is a validation of the marketplace and of on-line marketplaces in general and the power of peer to peer lending. >> yeah. will you slip in behind them if they come to market? >> we have no plans to ipo. we're really in execution and growth phase. you know, we're growing quickly, creating a lot of value and want to focus on that. >> good to meet you. have a great day. thank you very much for joining us. aaron vermuth the ceo of prosper. >> still ahead on the show, luxury retail giant lvmh, a member of cnbc's first 25 list, business leaders during the past quarter century, we will be speaking to the chairman and ceo mr. bernard arnault when he joins us live from paris. "squawk on the street" will be right back. right back. passenger: road trip buddy. let's put some music on.

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hey, rick. >> we'll ask the question everybody wants to know the answer to. what's the big next move in the stock market? i think our guests, one of the most famous technicians, at least on this trading floor, tom demark from demark an lytics thank you for taking the time this morning, tom. >> great to be here, rick. >> tom, quickly before we get into the thick of it, are you bullish or bearish on stocks for the next large move? let me rephrase, the next big move that's 10% or larger do you think it's going to be upside or downside some. >> i think downside. we have modest move this week and then the market should top finally. >> finally. all right. well listen, can you give us the insights as to why you're making that statement? >> okay. we use a natural market rhythm type of analysis and our market analysis was telling us the market should have topped after the october rally, late december 31st or mid january as we said

on the air at the time. many of the markets did top temporarily, and you did get peaks in the nasdaq and the russell and related markets early march, which was a five-year anniversary of the 2009 low. what's happening, each market you got the march peak in the russell and the nasdaq -- excuse me -- and now we've got the upcoming peak in the s&p and the new york stock exchange composite. the dow jones average effectively made the high as i predicted on the air with you december 31st. we're coming up for a secondary move on that high, and all we need is 16,660 possibly within the next couple of days, and that should top that market out, finally. it's -- >> all right, listen, tom, let me interrupt you for a second. >> sure. >> we have a minute left. in this minute, tell me how do we know if we're wrong? in other words, if the market goes higher, what level are we wrong for looking for this correction, and on the downside, where does it need to trade to

basically say your statement is correct for the big correction? >> okay. the march low in 2009, the dow jones made a low and had a rally of approximately 6,500 points. and it topped may 2nd, 2011. had to pull back to the october 4th low, which we call that bottom. and we've had another move up, approximately the same number of points. that should exhaust the market. typically, markets have two moves up with an intermediate decline of 60%, and we did see that. what we do is look for a market at that high that looks similar to what took place at the intermediate correction and the new york stock exchange, you have the charts there, it shows that from the peak in july 2011 into the october 4th low, 62 trading days. we inverted that chart and we're currently at 62 days. we're saying right now we're getting the inversion of what occurred into the low on october 4th at this peak, and we should see a high -- once we go above the recent highs and have a new

recovery high close, we should exhaust the market. and i think we're -- >> excellent, tom. listen, we're out of time now. but we're definitely going to have you back. and i guess after listening to you, all's i could think of is ticktock ticktock, it's getting pretty close if you're a technician that buys into mark analytics. thank you for taking the time. simon, back to you. >> thank you very much, rick. up next, this painting hasn't been seen in public in nearly one century, but now it's up for auction. find out how much this gem could go for when "squawk on the street" returns. [ male announcer ] this is the age of knowing what you're made of. why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain. it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. side effects include headache, flushing, upset stomach, and abnormal vision. to avoid long term injury, seek immediate medical help for an erection lasting more than four hours. stop taking viagra and call your doctor right away if you experience a sudden decrease or loss in vision or hearing.

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only at your authorized mercedes-benz dealer. welcome back to "squawk on the street." let's talk sausage. hillshire brands, stocks are moving higher thanks to strong sales of jimmy dean sausage. overall sales rising to $955 million as it raised prices to offset higher meat costs. hillshire formerly the business of sara lee, currently trading up about 4%, off session highs, carl. a painting hidden away for decades is about to hit the auction block. robert frank reveals the mifltry

that may make the masterpiece even more valuable in today's " million dollar minute." >> it's a sensation. >> a sensation worth millions from one of the greatest artists of all time. >> this is claude monet's muphea from 1907. >> reporter: but it has a story behind it that's priceless. clark ventures with mining, records, and banking made him one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in america. his daughter collected some of the world's finest art, but she went into is he collusion in the early 1960s and remained hidden for the rest of her life. and now, this is the first time the public is going to see the painting since 1926. so how much for this multimilli multimillion-dollar monet? >> it's a hard estimate of $25 million to $35 million. the record price is from 1919.

>> reporter: this monet painting is from the same water lily series that set the world record. >> for $80 million. >> reporter: for cnbc i'm robert frank. tonight, along with that monet, christie's will auction over 400 items from the reclusive heiress estate. check out insidewealth.cnbc.com and get updates from robert frank on that auction. i know, simon, you managed to see a few things that will be sold. >> yeah, last night. >> including the rothgo, which i'm a huge fan. i'd be interested to see how much that goes for. >> i think that's for the auction next week, which is post-war and contemporary, and incidentally in that, there's a frances bacon, remember the $140 million for the most expensive art. they put together another trip tick. that's the star attraction, and ins dpentally, leonardo dicaprio turned up last night, so he may

well be in the audience. but looking rather grungy. >> i wonder if he'll be an art collector. it will be interesting to see where the big investments are. always an interesting barometer. >> are you a rothgo fan? >> yeah. just looking at the markets, remember tuesday was a bullish day? we've crunched the numbers. 15 of the last 17 tuesdays of 2014, the stock market has risen an average .5%. >> completely now disapproving your theory. >> yeah, maybe we'll break the hot streak, friday the worst day for trading. >> somebody writes in on twitter, the s&p is up every other odd number day of every month beginning with the letter j. >> some people need to get out more. >> so much for our patterns. >> i sense sarcasm in the use of the market statistics, guys. we'll see where we're go, down 86 now. see you later on. if you're just joining us, here's what you missed earlier on. >> announcer: welcome to "squawk on the street."

here's what's happened so far. >> this is the kind of genius buyback that a lot of executives should pay attention to, because most of them just do this buying. hey 100,000 buy, good side. no. think about it. cook is. [ bell sounds ] >> environment or the narrative we think about for the market, is that the economy is slowly improving at a very bad -- weather, of course, in the first quarter, but the economic data on friday, with the employment, would give us some confidence that things are moving forward. >> we're coming up on an almost two years since it's seen these kinds of numbers, so it's a win. like you said, essentially they manufactured this by the stock split and the increased dividend, but give them credit for doing that. good tuesday morning. it's 11:00 a.m. on the east coast, 8:00 a.m. out west.

we have to start with twitter. shares are sharply down, as you can see, down almost 11% as the lockup expires as of the close last night. insiders being able to sell for the first time almost 500 million shares. stock hit a high of 75 back in december. now trading at about half of that level. of course, you recall they went public on november 7th, about six months ago, right here at post 8 on the new york stock exchange. pricing at 26. and if you read the s1, you knew this day was going to come. but it's been interesting to watch, kayla, the investors sell and sell and short and sell into this news, and as cramer said this morning, the supply is obviously very heavy, otherwise it would have stabilized now. >> especially with the moves in momentum names and twitter in the last few months. this is a date investors have been talking about since february, since the last lockup. a lot of people thinking about twitter, thinking about it after first quarter earnings says i don't want to get in until after this lockup, because you're

going to see a day of weakness like that. >> yeah, yesterday, of course, the company is aware of all of the media attention to this. maybe as a countermesh urks they roll out that partnership with amazon. amazon cart, which got a little traction yesterday, but clearly not enough to offset the concerns. we did talk to twitter ceo dick costolo last week after the earnings report. we asked if he felt any pressure on the bottom line. here's what he had to say. >> i'm focused on three things -- growth, operating efficiency, and operating leverage. that second and third are absolutely in service to steadily improving margins. steadily improving margins. so as a high-growth company, what i want to make sure year doing is not starving the growth engine while focusing internally on getting better and better at operating efficiency and operating leverage in service to margins. >> people are trying to figure out if there's any pattern recognition. facebook went through a similar exercise, heavy insider selling,

as the lockups expired, zuckerberg with the promise not to sell. that was for a period of time. the insiders of twitter saying we have no current plans to sell. >> i talked to a big investor this morning and there's one key difference that he raised between what happened with facebook's lockup and what happened with twitter's lockup, and i know we'll be speaking to analysts and speaking to others this morning, and i'd love to get their take. here's the issue. facebook fell below the issue price. it fell below the ipo price. if you're an employee who had pre-ipo shares, you were not in the money. so you had no incentive to sell. twitter, even at $34 a share, is still above its ipo price. this was an ipo that created nearly 1,500 paper millionaires, watched the stock fall 50%. what does that do to a psychology of a workforce that has these shares and they're trying to decide what to do with them when they're still in the money right now? >> yeah. employees of twitter, when we were there, we asked whether they believed in the stock at 70. and most people, whether they

meet it or not, said we knew at that period the valuation may have been ahead of the actual core business model. but there'll be a point in here where they begin to wonder whether it's 26 or some other number, what is -- at what point is the stock being treated unfairly? and we will see. in the meantime, the dow is down almost 100 points, as merck continues to be a big loser, a big drag on the dow. merck selling its consumer business to bayer for $14.2 billion. there's an investor briefing in boston today. we'll see what frazier says, but a big business, not growing a lot, but coppertone and claritin are household names. >> and it seems like the entire pharma industry, dave has talked about this often, it's going through a transitional period. it's getting smaller and trying to streamline the portfolios, figuring out what's growing, where they want to be, and it certainly seems like merck doesn't feel like the consumer industry is where its growth is going to be. >> right. sarah said before, the top of the hour, tuesdays have historically been kind to the market this year.

we're up 15 to 17. some like doug katz have argued the correlation has got to start to break down, but if it hadn't been for tuesdays this year, it would be down 7% as opposed to essentially flat. we'll see what the afternoon brings. >> we will see. there's been a midday reversal from negative to positive, or positive to negative. there's no clear trend line there. oftentimes, the market seems to digest whatever data it's gotten in the morning and decided to go in the other direction. it will be news if we see the loss continue, down 92 now on the dow. when we come back, fed chair janet yellen getting set to testify inside the joint economic committee tomorrow, so what does the committee want to hear from yellen? we'll ask chairman of that committee kevin brady in a moment. plus, bernard arnault making a list of cnbc's 25 most influential business leaders in the past 25 years. arnault rarely does interviews but he'll join us live later this hour. know what the experts

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welcome back. take a look at the energy sector. one of the big losers on the s&p. dom chu has more. >> if you look at energy, it's gone from moving to the lower side to be just the only green sector so far today. it's up only about a third of a percent. so not crazy. you have eog leading the way

higher, anadarko rounding out the quarterly earnings, and then names on the refining side, the valeros of the world, and cabot oil & gas. so energy sector swinging to at least the only positive sector right now, carl, on the day in the s&p. back over to you. >> dom, thank you so much. kevin o'leary of "shark tank" author of the "cold hard truth," joins us this morning on the phone as we work our way around some camera issues. kevin, good morning to you. >> great to be here. >> we're going to start talking about apple first. rejoining this exclusive club back to $600 for the first time since 2012, about two weeks after they announced the 7 for 1 stock split, better than expected quarterly results and the better than expected iphone sales and buyback program from 60 billion to 90 billion. psychologically, kevin, it's

been important for bulls to get above 600. they do pay a dividend. what do you think? >> i've owned the stock since they declared the dividend. it declined after it occurred. the stock split is irrelevant. that's just financial engineering. it doesn't matter. i don't like stock buybacks, carl, because the management is not forced to execute those. what i trust is a dividend increase, because that cash comes into my account, makes me feel warm and fuzzy. so i would have preferred the deployment of more cash, increase in dividend, but i'm happy with the stock moving north. now, my index cycle, in other words i like to have 20 or 30 mid-20-year-olds in my basement in the weekend with my son's friends and daughter's friends and i asked them, do not upgrade on the 5s. they're waiting for the iphone 6. i bought more stock. i trust that index more than any other analyst out there. >> so the fact, kevin, that it's hitting the $600 level, even though it's come back slightly from that, really there's no product news, it was more of the financial engineering, even

though you do get a dividend payment in your account, but the fact that it's hitting that key level on some engineering moves, rather than a product announcement, how does that make you feel as an investor? >> i don't care about these price targets. they've proven over long periods of time to be irrelevant. what matters is free cash flow after capital expenditures, so i'm buying into the next two quarters, that even though we'll have no breakthrough products at the upgrade cycle, on all of the products, not just the iphone, on everything, is going to be robust and generate more cash. we really haven't seen the china story play out. so i'm an optimist on the stock. it's finally done the right thing. declared a dividend, so it lets me become a shareholder and all i ka irabout now is cash flow. that's t people debate this whole product cycle and jobs versus cook and all that stuff. who cares? watch the cash. that's all that matters. i am disappointed in the stock buyback. i never trust those. just increase my dividend, that's all i care about.

but i think apple is going to continue to go north because there's going to be people like me, which are value yield buyers, looking at the story, saying look at the cash. i love that. >> well, speaking of that, twitter's a different kind of story. they obviously don't pay a dividend. they don't post a profit. they've been challenged on some user growth and obviously being punished today on these insider selling availabilities, as the lockup expires. what would you do in this case? kevin? all right, well, sometimes you lose the camera. sometimes you lose the camera and the phone. our thanks to kevin o'leary as we tried to talk about twitter. definitely got to apple. in the meantime, janet yellen set to deliver her economic outlook testimony for the joint economic committee tomorrow. what does congress want to hear from the fed chair? joining us this morning is texas republican congressman kevin brady, chairman of the joint economic committee whose camera does work on capitol hill. congressman, good to see you again. >> thank you.

>> obviously, new fed chairman coming off the heels of a decent jobs number, but a not good q1 gdp. what's the most important question to start with? >> well, i think now that the fed has sort of decoupled itself from the unemployment rate and has gone to an eye of the beholder monetary approach, you know, how does she -- what measures is she using in the fed to assess the strength and markup? there's a lot going on right now. obviously, anxious to see a normalization of the interest rates over time. so would like to have a little more clarification in that area. of course, you know, there's a lot of talk about a new normal for full employment in america, a lot of concern about what the complete exit strategy will be for the fed, including all that mortgage-backed securities, excess bank reserves. so how will she tackle the bigger picture? >> it would be your preference, i'm guessing, to see that exit happen sooner rather than later? >> yeah, it is, i actually think, the fed for sometime now, has created more uncertainty

within the market, certainly i think within business investment. you know, i would like to see the normalization begin, as you said, sooner rather than later, because i think it will create more certainty going forward. >> congressman, you mentioned bank reserves. i know that these large u.s. financial institutions have hundreds of billions of dollars just sitting at the instead of lending it out. what sort of answers do you want from chairman yellen about exactly how she plans to grow the economy through lending and serving small businesses and consumers? >> yeah, well, as you know, if there is an up tick in the km e he -- economy, and banks begin to want to lend again, that's the fuel for inflation. so what's the fed going to do? is it going to raise -- reserve requirements, pay higher interest? what impact does that have on the economy? it goes to the heart of the dual mandate that the congress has given the fed. so i think we're all interested in that approach. >> you've been critical of the recovery at large because by

historical standards, it has been more tepid than average. on the flip side, it has lasted longer than average, and i'm wondering how much credit, if any, do you give the fed for that? >> we're a month from the fifth anniversary of when the recession officially ended. we're still missing about $1 trillion from the economy, about 5 million jobs if this were just an average recovery. i think the fed both contributed significantly the financial crisis. i think they calmed the water admirably during the financial crisis. but it's been trying to do too much since then, and i think has actually run its course as far as their employment boosts. >> well, if the exit were to happen sooner and rates were to rise, you do know that the things that are helping to prop up the market right now, like mergers and acquisitions, like capital spending, are going to be crimped as the cost of money gets more expensive. >> i think that clear communication really is critical

going forward. secondly, wall street is doing great through this recovery. main street, family wages, there's actually fewer adults proportionally working than when this recession ended nearly five years ago. so clearly, i think qe has run its course. i think the fed, i think clear communication matters. >> congressman, one effect of qe has been to push investors into riskier asset classes like leveraged loans, like junk bonds and like very distressed assets, just searching anywhere to get any sort of yield as the fed has been keeping interest rates down. i'm wondering what, if anything, you think the fed should be doing to ensure a safe exit for some of the individual investors out of some of the riskier assets, if that's possible? >> yeah, i do worry about, you know, what this qe has done for seniors and for saviors -- or savers, and, you know, as warren buffett famously said, you know, when the tide goes back out, we'll see who's wearing swimming suits, and who's not.

i worry about those who have been moved into risky investments who frankly didn't want to. >> well, we're going to be watching the hearing closely tomorrow. thank you so much, congressman. we'll see you then. >> thank you, carl. appreciate it. >> congressman kevin brady of the joint economic committee. with the dow down 81 points, merck is responsible for a big portion of the losses. that stock is down 2%, major pharma news, america agreeing to sell the consumer unit to germany's bayer in a deal worth over $14 billion. cnbc's meg terrell smoke to ken frazier about the deal. she's in boston to tell us what he had to say. over to you, meg. >> thanks, kayla. yeah, talking with merck's ceo this morning hours after they announced the deal to sell the consumer over-the-counter health care products unit to bayer for $14.2 billion. he told us that merck is in the process of repositioning itself to focus on areas of strength and get out of areas where it can't be a leader and we could still see more.

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of exodus of executives there, hurting that stock. elsewhere in banking, lending club, a peer-to-peer lender, has challenged traditional institutions by going straight to borrowers. this week, the company is partnering with a bank announcing a new strategic alliance with unions. what does in mean for the company? let's ask renault, the ceo. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> what does it mean to have a bank like union bank, $100 billion balance sheet backing up a company like yours? >> no, really, the lending club is really to transform the banking system to make it more transparent, more consumer friendly, more cost efficient, but we want to do that in partnership with the banks. and really associate the banks with transformation, and the partnership with union bank is another step into this direction where really customers of union banks are going to benefit from the best of both worlds. they have the low cost of capital from union bank and access to the balance sheet, so the low cost of operation of

lending club, the commission of both can deliver the credit and experience. >> will customers of union bank then be able to get in on some of the loans that lender club is underwriting? >> that's right. >> okay. >> we open up the platform to union bank customers, union bank would be able to invest on the platform, as well, and we'll jointly have the products. >> the consumer household, they've cleaned up so much of the balance sheet, right? but their urgency to get back into credit cards isn't that strong compared ed student loa. how much appetite is there on the household level? >> it's not necessarily all fresh money. a lot of what we do is helping consumers pay off the existing debt. >> like a college tuition? >> college tuition or credit card. credit card balances, carry interest at very high rate, often 16%, 18% interest rate. so lending club and now lending club and union bank partnership can help lower the costs for

consumers and help them refinance at the lower interest rate. >> you offer loans to a wide credit spectrum with interest rates ranging from 6% to 26%. it's hard to find yields like that elsewhere in the market. but talk about how you actually establish those rates, what you peg to in the market, and how can consumers feel about those rates with other institutions? >> -- benchmark is really credit cards. again, cards carry interest at 16%, 18%. the average interest rate on the money lend, three-year term loan is 12.5%, a fixed rate. as a consumer, you know you won't be repriced at any time. so from the investor standpoint, as you said, very attractive yield, invest at 12.5% in this kind of environment that explains the really the growth we've seen in the appetite. >> you have a $4 billion portfolio.

you picked up blackrock, t. rowe, wellington, people say this screams ipo. and you could be ready for an ipo may or june. how are you viewing the market? and how is that readiness program moving? >> yeah, so we don't comment on the timing of the ipo at this point. but we feel that it could really be (unintelligible) fervor increase brand awareness, and also continue to build up loyalty with the investors on the platform. we have tens of thousands of retail investors investing in the loans we offer, who are really excited about the opportunity to invest also in the company. >> so you're not dissuaded by the market right now, though, when you see volatility like today? >> no, at the end of the day, we're building lending club for the next 10, 20 years, and whatever the market does, it's not going to have a lot of impact on our plans. >> the ceo of your competitor prosper said last hour that a strong lending club ipo would be good for the peer-to-peer marketplace overall. so certainly you have some fans

even in your competitors out there. renauld, thank you for joining us today. >> thank you. lvmh chairman bernard arnault rarely does interviews, and hasn't in ten years, but today speaking to us live. we'll talk luxury business and ask him how he feels about making cnbc's list of the top 25 people in business. that's coming up next. plus, the bell's about to sound across europe as the dow is down 87 here. a few minutes left in europe's day. we'll get the close and the impact on the afternoon session in just a minute. [ indistinct shouting ]

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all right. europe is about to close. simon hobbs will wrap up the market day. simon? >> yeah, red around europe. we turn negative for the third straight session after wall street opened in negative territory. here, we're okay before that in europe. it was relatively flat. the u.k., of course, coming back to trade after yesterday's public holiday in britain. we are at the height of earnings season in europe. far too many of the companies for me to run you through in this short period of time. but reuters star mine is suggesting 45% of the stock has missed estimates and forecast within the last 30 days come down for the next year by 0.9%. certainly barclays is in negative territory today. the investment bank clearly an issue, currencies, fixed income, commodities, earnings down 28%. the stock down now 5% on that major u.k. bank. of course, the new ceo will outline how he's going to

reinvigorate the investment bank, or strip it, depending on your view. and ubs in zurich, the stock doing really well. they'll pay a special dividend as they reorganize themselves into a holding company so that next time if one bit of the bank gets in trouble, it can be let go and not burden the swiss taxpayer and fairly upbeat ceo gave an interview to our colleagues in london. take a listen. >> it was a very solid quarter. we were all profitable in our businesses, all regions. most importantly we achieved targets and 13% target has been achieved. actually 13.2%. which is a great condition for us to also enhance our capital return strategy. >> in the meantime, more broadly, the stampede continues into peripheral euro zone debt. the yield on the italian 10-year a few moments ago was below 3% for the first time ever. and the euro continues to strengthen -- let's have a look

at a chart. now up 6.5% against the u.s. dollar despite the fact that on thursday you have the european central bank policy meeting. guys, mario draghi has gotten himself into a vicious circle. the more they talk about the strength of the euro and the need to embark on qe, the more people enter the euro zone to buy sovereign debt, because they think they'll be buyers of it, and so the euro strengthens. >> that's why spanish 10-year's below 3. >> yeah. >> unbelievable numbers. >> twice the return you get on the 10-year here. >> obviously, yeah, but lower than the peak of the credit bubble before this whole thing happened. unbelievable. >> the power of the central banks kind of just -- they're changing the market, distorting the market, if you like. it's craziness to some people. other people are making an awful lot of money. >> simon, thanks. our next guest has transformed the luxury goods industry during the past 25 years. lvmh's 60 brands comprise wines and spirits fashion and leather

goods, perfume, cosmetics, watches, and jewelry, with iconic names like louis vuitton, dom perignon and debeers. a member of the cnbc first 25 year, bernard art naue arnaud, for being with us. when this 25-year period began, everybody thought japan would own the planet earth. how did you know that luxury is a concept was truly going to go global? >> we decided early in the '80s that there was a lot of potential with global growth to sell luxury products, and more precisely high-quality products, because i think the world luxury maybe is not completely

(unintelligible) with our industry. what we try to do is the products of the highest quality with a lot of artisan, like haute couture dresses, and the market for that was expanding, as well as level of living was going up all over the world, and these strengths has been very strong since the '80s. so today, growing into group for this 25 years, we've a portfolio of around 60 brands. some of the best brands, i think, in the world. >> yes. >> these are products of highest

quality. >> and you've been quoted as saying affordable luxury. these are two words this don't go together. we've seen so many companies, many of them public now here at the nyse, that have tried to expand that market by creeping slightly down on the price spectrum. do you not believe that's a sustainable model? >> i don't think the research for quality is compatible with lower prices. you have values business model. our business model is based on creativity, innovation, and quality. and in doing so, we are able to really create a relationship with our customer all over the world, where more and more are looking for the best products. and in doing so, we are creating

new products. we are also employing more and more people in -- for instance in france where we create fantastic louis vuitton bags and haute couture dresses, and this is a trend, i think, will stay for the next ten years, maybe. and i hope for a longer period of time. so we search for highest quality of products is growing. you know, i often compare our industry to other fast-growing industry. for instance, i have a great admiration for apple and for the iphone. i have myself iphone. but can you say that in 20 years people will still use iphone? maybe not. maybe we'll have a new product or something more innovative.

but what i can say is 20 years from now, i'm quite convinced that people will still drink dom perignon. >> but even so, some over the past 25 years have challenged the idea of exclusivity that's been the hallmark of luxury. you talk about emerging market growth, e-commerce and the new purchasing power of the middle class. how do you make sure that dom perignon, louis vuitton handbags, that some of the products that are the hallmark of the luxury industry, stay upmarket, as you say? >> you mean these products, researched for their own quality. and the fact that people want to come to visit, for instance, a dom perignon sellers, or fantastic louis vuitton on champ

and there is a link between the history of the brand and the future of that brand. and i think it's the reason why we have been successful, because we were able to build on some historic roots that have been created in the past and that are projecting the future. and this is a reality that people feel all over the world. and more and more so, especially in emerging countries where people are more and more educated. so i think the future is still very positive for these high-quality products. i'm not saying for other industries selling more products, there is no future,

no. they're different markets. but for our type of industry, for the creativity, the innovation that would bring to a very high quality level, and mixing with the history of our brands, i think we are matching demand that is grow all over the world. >> bernard, speaking of different markets, how much do you worry about one particular market going into a severe recession where luxury buyers would start to disappear? i'm thinking of china as an example. is that something you spend a lot of time worrying or thinking about? >> you know, i think you speak -- you just said recession, and speaking of china. my definition of a recession for a country that is growing at 7% around is not a recession. it is a fast-growing country.

if you take europe, europe certainly is not growing as fast. i think china, i would say, may have some bumps over the years is and have been through very, very positive trend for many years, economically, the buying power of the chinese population has been increased dramatically. and i think we'll continue to be increased in the years to come. and the future for our industry, for our products and for our rents in that country is still very good. but as always in china, you have ups and downs, and in spite of what you can consider as a lower level of growth, it's still growing very fast. and for us, we are seeing in our

activities in china, still very good level of demand, and the level of knowledge from the chinese population about quality products is growing very fast. so it explains why the best products are still very successful in china, and will continue to be successful for the next few years. a number of chinese cities that are becoming in the stage where they can buy high-quality products, is going to grow and continue to grow for the next 10 or 20 years for sure. so i'm confident about the future of china. >> well, bernard, your track record over the past quarter century would suggest you know

what you're talking about when it comes to the future. our congratulations, and our thanks again to you. berna berna bernard arnauld, a rare int he view. we want to check on twitter. the stock is still down sharply after the lockup period expired. our next guest upgraded twitter to a hold a few weeks ago. we wonder if he's change his tune. we'll get an answer from him. twitter down 11.5%. but what if you could see more of what you wanted to know? with fidelity's new active trader pro investing platform, the information that's important to you is all in one place, so finding more insight is easier. it's your idea powered by active trader pro. another way fidelity

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coming up, hedge fund heavyweights revealing shorts yesterday. we're about to find out what stocks our traders think could be heading for a plunge in the bubble bath. plus, shares of twitter taking a big hit as the lockup expires. we'll talk to a top analyst about the two signals he's looking for from twitter today. and is apple's mojo back? the shares closing above 600 bucks for the first time in a year and a half. carl icahn won't deny he can buy more, but should you? all straight ahead on the "halftime," kayla. >> thanks, scott. twitter trading sharply lower after its lockup expired for nearly 500 million shares held by insiders. that stock down nearly 12%, selling accelerated this morning. yousef is head of research at

cantor fitzgerald. he has a hold on twitter and upgraded it to hold from sell three weeks. yousef, good morning. thank you for joining us. >> thanks, kayla. >> when you initially upgraded to hold from sell about a month ago, yousef, you were basically saying you believed the new ad formats were coming. given that there are hundreds of millions of shares that are up for expiration today and could be sold, i mean, how much do you think the technicals will overshadow any positives for the time being? >> well, look, in the short term, absolutely, the technicals are going to define where the stock goes. out of the 450 million shares, by our estimates, there are probably somewhere between 200 to 300 million shares that could actually -- or should be coming to market over the next days and weeks. so clearly, we did the upgrade recognizing in the short term -- the upgrade to a hold from a sell, recognizing two things. one, that most of the downside from $75 all the way to 40, where we downgraded it, was

pretty much done, meaning that we're not going to see another 45% down from the 40% -- from the $40 level. and, two, we feel that over the longer run, i.e., the next several quarters, we think there is -- there's enough interest in things happening within twitter on the ad format, and what they're doing potentially in the e-commerce that could justify us getting more positive on the name. >> yousef, you had a sell until the 10th, which was working beautifully, and i just wonder, do you wish you had stuck with it a little bit longer? >> you know, in hindsight, we're all a lot smarter. honestly, understanding that there were 450 million potential shares coming to market, that would definitely be a driver for stocks to go down. but impossible to call the bottom, we actually did the upgrade before they reported earnings, so that could also be another catalyst to taking the stock down further. so, you know, a hold is still

neutral on the name for us to get more positive on it, more positive on the name, we need to see the stock probably pull back a little more from here. >> youssef, a lot of the insiders like dick costolo, jack dorsey, some of the other big investors, saying they're not selling, that's a big chunk of the shares. the rest is employees. what do you think is making up the psychology of the employees at twitter when you watch a stock fall 50% from its peak? >> well, that's exactly it. so even if you add big shares and benchmark and jpmorgan, all of these account for 35%, 40% of the 450 million shares. so clearly, as i said, they're north of 200 million shares that eventually will find their way to the market. but if you own the shares -- by the way, there are ex-employees who have no incentive of holding the stock anymore, but if you're an employee, now sitting at $35,

your cost basis probably in the single digits, so for sure you're probably going to want to at least sell some before the -- before the market potentially could take the stock even loyer. >> yeah. some have tweeted the best thing to do is go long tesla for all the teslas sold in the valley over the next few months. youssef, thank you for your time. >> thank you, guys. >> joining us, talking about the twitter lockup expiration. when we come back, rick santelli telling us how a small number has a large impact on the economic future. rick, you want to explain? >> absolutely. here's the number. 3.0 times 10 to the minus 8th power, or said another wa way, .00000003%, or let's say it another way -- three- millionths of a percent is going to have a huge impact on everybody who lives on the planet's life. if you want to know what i'm talking about, yep, you're going to have to come back in about five minutes. let's put some music on. woman: welcome to learning spanish in the car. passenger: you've got to be kidding me.

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welcome back to "squawk on the street." and today's edition of the "santelli exchange." well, you saw my numbers. you saw three times 10 to the minus 8th power. you also saw, you know, a lot of zeros to the right of that decimal, five to be exact. and, of course, maybe the best way to say it, three- millionths of a percent. what is all of that? i'll tell you. 140 years. 140 years as long as we've had

precise instrument records of weather. the planet is 4.6 billion years old. we are using 140 years' worth of data to try to address and predict the behavior of a system 4.6 billion years old. i would think that, you know, i had tom demark on, one of the greatest technicians of all time, and i really want to call him up. here's what i'm going to tell him. i'm going to say, tom, i'll give you 140 years' worth of dow jones industrials average, and i want you to tell me with some accuracy where the dow's going to close 4.6 billion years from today. sounds easy, doesn't it? listen, the president and many in the u.n. and our government and governments around the world are really trying to ramp up climate change. listen. this is what i think of when i think of science. we all know that the real issue -- and i wish all politicians and world leaders

would get on a page that's got a little bit more solid footing -- we need to take care of our planet, address solution, and come up with common sense prioritized rules to do so. if you're telling me my kids and their kids will live in a country with brownouts and blackouts and the cost of energy going up when we're surrounded by a very clean bridge fuel like natural gas, i'm sorry, it doesn't make sense. listen. we know that our corporate tax policy and rules need to be addressed. how many companies do we see doing m&a just to get offshore? we can't even fix that. and you're telling me that these same leaders are going to tackle mother nature? i pretty much think i'm done. back to you, carl. >> it's a hedge, rick. don't forget, it's a hedge. rick santelli in chicago. rumors about alibaba's filing continue to grow, so when the filing goes public, who stands to benefit? we'll tell you in a moment. huh, 15 minutes could save you 15% or more

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honestly, the off-season isn't i've got a lot to do. that's why i got my surface. it's great for watching game film and drawing up plays. it's got onenote, so i can stay on top of my to-do list, which has been absolutely absurd since the big game. with skype, it's just really easy to stay in touch with the kids i work with. alright, russell you are good to go! alright, fellas. alright, russ. back to work! you've heard all the rumors swirling at the alibaba ipo filing is set for this week, possibly today. investors have been circling this name for more than a decade in hopes of it going public, and

kayla's got some more on what we might or might not expect tonight after the close. >> well, the conventional wisdom that i'm hearing from my sources is that f1 is expected to hit after market today. the original investor, though, even though we talked about yahoo! to no end, softbank, in 2000, it made an initial investment of $20 million into the company. that's now a 37% stake. and in anticipation of the ipo, softbank shares up 67%. yahoo! getting a boost, too, because yahoo! still owns 24% of the company. an sources are talking about a potential windfall for yahoo! in the $13 billion range. that's if the company's valued at around $150 billion. of course, the big question from investors, how yahoo! will deal with potential taxes when it does monetize that stake. we don't know the answer to that yet. there are some other paper gains at least that some firms in the u.s. will see when alibaba goes public. private equity firms like general atlantic, silverlake, sizable stakes, as well as some sovereign wealth funds in china,

singapore, and hedge funds like viking global here in the u.s. have been snapping up some of the debt during alibaba's various financings over the years, carl. so even though this has been a decade in the making, there are a lot of very patient investors, many of whom are here in the u.s., whose investors could stand to see a big appreciation in those investments. >> one of my favorite conversations on this show last week was with kara swisher who said, you know, you don't think you want to understand it, or too foreign to understand, wait until they make bids for u.s. companies in social or in tech, then silicon valley's going to start to pay notice as to what these guys are up to long term. >> and that's one reason why you would see a company like alibaba go public here in the u.s. you go eight currency of u.s. shares to actually use an issue, to be able to do some of the deals. so there could be a lot of activity from this company going forward. >> finally, we talked to youssef squally of cantor about twitter, down 11.5%. it's been a long slide today for

an event that we said at the top of the show people knew we were coming, and cantor moved off the sell to a hold. as he said earlier, can't find the absolute bottom. we'll see you who far this thing declines. >> still eight bucks above the ipo price. and that's a number they're watching. scott wapner has a lot to work with as we hand it over to the "halftime." hey, scott. >> yeah, twitter is not the only one of the high fliers getting banged up. guys, thank you so much. have a great rest of the day. welcome to the "halftime report." hashtag plunge. the stock simpgs to its lowest level since the ipo. we're going to debate a top analyst on where it goes from here. bubble bath. super investor icahn calls out athena health. student stock picker, the winner of institutional investors portfolio challenge is here live with his best play right now. let's meet today's starting lineup, pete, murph, jo