>> bank of america. >> google is going higher. >> whirlpool. >> all right. that does it for us. live from liberty national golf club, we'll see you tomorrow. have a great day. and we're talking small caps. they have been hit very hard. but are big gains ahead shall russell 2000 down nearly 9%. is it time to invest big. big names are getting hit today, but they have been in rally mode. today we're talking to a salesperson who sees them and buys them and we'll talk about how much they cost and how much they can save you. plus we have two industry

insiders on the future of the solar sector. and then we talk about one of the iconic land marks this new york city. hilton worldwide selling its astoria hotel to the chinese for merely $2 billion. a good deal? and will president obama continue to make that hotel his new york city address when he's in town. and should he. can weigh in. tell us where you stand. hi, simon. >> we're in negative territory here. we wiped out the earlier gains. but do remember we're coming off the 208 point gain on the dow on friday in the wake of course of the employment report. it's a broad base markdown today. telecoms are positive, other sectors are all in negative territory. ten year note currently yielding 2.407%. let's get to the trading action. bob pisani joining me. >> and we've lost a lot of

momentum. s&p 500 started very strong. snksly rig ly essentially right up near the highs of the today. we had a nice pop in emerging markets at the open. we talked about brazil doing much better than people expected against the incumbent. owe ye south africa was strong. russia had a nice pop. hong kong, china also on the up side. unfortunately, still continuing the clooim in timb in the explod production space. and notable eog and rake all on the down side. been going on for almost a month now. footwear also on the weak side. deckers outdoors downgraded.

european traffic is challenging. and we're going into earnings season. u.s. economy doing well, but europe economy showing signs of sput ter i sputtering. so i think we'll have a bifurcated season. europe weak, u.s. stronger. take a look at retail stocks. jcpenney down 6%. big day for them coming up wednesday, first analyst meeting i think in three years they will have. they have stabilized until today, but i think a lot of people want to know how they will increase market share at this point. >> we just jumped about 20 points, cut our losses. sue, back to you. >> and as you just mentioned, stocks have been going through a very volatile time lately. no more so than the small cap stocks. and russell 2000 down 8% from its most recent high in july. so that begs the question, could this be a buying opportunity?

morgan brennan is taking a closer look. >> you're right, it's been a rocky couple 6 months for the small caps. russell 2000 down again after haved climbed back a tad from its slide. analysts had been saying small caps were relatively expensive but could that be changing. action right now is traders selling every rally and we haven't seen this much weakness since august 2011. and o'rourke expects the downward trend to continue. on the flip side on cnbc earlier today, tom lee said the stronger dollar already trading around a four year plus high could actually lift this group because so many of these companies sales are domestic. so there are a number of stocks that are already trading at

attractive valuations right now with price to earnings well below their five year averages. names to check out,ing banks like wsfs and valley national, those might be worth a look. take-two interactive. and also sturm ruger, also another one to check out. >> a good shopping list for us. thanks. simon, down to you. >> it's obvious that investors have a great deal to digest this week. first you'll get a trickle of earnings. and then the reports coming next week. flurry of fed speakers, ten in all for the week but the big three all speaking economic growth, geopolitical events. you name it, there is an awful lot going on. so let's inject some wisdom into the week.

we have steve and jack with us. welcome to you "power lunch". what do investors really need to focus down on? >> they need to focus on earnings. this is not a sector game. the problem with small caps has to do with etfs as much as anything else. you you can sell all of the small caps. truth is you ought to be buying small cap value companies. >> talk me through that. i'm not a professional investor, but it seems blindingly obvious you go for the companies that are not exposed to the rise in the dollar. where the economy is doing well. and wages are in check. >> and on average, these companies only have 18% exposure overseas and company by company, they have very little exposure. and the value companies which are mostly industrial are clearly domestic focused here. >> would that be primary focus? >> within the small cap sector,

yes. >> would you agree? >> no, i think small cap is interesting. a lot of good buys. but i don't think you need to take that much risk. we've had such a correction in the large cap names on the cyclical side and you said it's blindingly obvious to avoid companies with dollar exposure. a lot of that has already been discounted in these stocks. i think if it were going into the season, we've had a high level of pre-announcements. people are expecting bad news on guidance on the dollar. i think if anything, we could have a relief rally. and that we have pretty good u.s. economic activity. so i'm seeing stocks down 10%, 15% in the cyclical side that i think you've gotten your correction. and this is where we ought to be buying these stocks. >> you were nodding. >> i agree. cyclicals, industrials. it's across the board whether small cap, mid cap or large cap.

it's on the industrial u.s. focused side of the economy. >> assigns we don't really know where we are on the business cycle because of what the fed has done and central banks. it's kind of all over the place. when do people need perhaps to get more conservative to prepare for things getting worse? >> we think we're early in the cycle actually. or at least mid cycle. we're five years into it, but at a very, very substandard pace. we think we have several years ahead of us of decent economic activity. and with the fed pretty well behaved. so we think it's a goldilocks appeared right now. >> we have to leave it there. thank you both for coming in. sue, back to you. take a look at the brazilian stock market. it soared today on the back of sunday's elections. up 6% after the election day surprise.

michelle caruso-cabrera joins me live to tell us why the markets are reacting that way. >> there is today renewed investor hope about brazil and its economy because of the outcome of yesterday's election. you were talking about how it was down, but when you look at some of the most actively traded, they are all up more than 5% holding on to their gains even as the u.s. market falls. individual brazilian stocks climbed as much as 20%. second in election is considered the most investor friendly pro business candidate with a chance to win that brazil has seen in a very long time. he will face the current president in a runoff election on october 26. brazil analysts are saying this could be the brazil i don't know market's narendra modi moment and made a similar huge move when narendra modi became the leader of that country. on the phone right now, a man very familiar to wall street, an

adviser to nevez. he also ran the central bank of brazil. thanks so much for joining us. >> happy to be here. >> so you are ann adviser to th candidate. if he becomes president, what will his first move be? >> three things. first get the macro right. we've been sloppy on inflation. haven't been hitting our budget targets. so we have to get those right to the decimal, no gimmicks. number two, tax reform. we have a crazy complex tax system and we'll go for deep, deep cleanup jobs, simplifying everything. in particular, to lift the tax burden on investment that is really hurt by this. and exports. and lastly, we have a massive gap in our infrastructure it should be a great frontier for

near and huge investment here in brazil and we'll go for that primarily by mobilizing private capital and also getting the government to do its part. >> you run an investment firm right now. you used to be a trader. we're seeing huge moves in the brazilian market as a result of his surprise second place finish. what do you think about the brazilian market knowing that you have a vested interest of course? can it move even higher? >> yes, i think it can. for now, the market is still uncertain who will win. still three week of campaign, so there is a ways to go. an think what we see today is really only partially pricing in his victory. could go high, but there is still three weeks to go. so need to keep an eye on that. >> what is your future if he wins? would you go back to running the central bank, would you be

treasury secretary? what involvement would you like to have in future government? >> he has already pre-announced that if he wins, i'll be the treasury secretary. i'm very honored and i have about 100 things in my mind. and we have a lot to do and i look forward to that. >> terrific. we'll have you on again if that happens. sthank thanks so much for joining us. >> happy to be here. >> hopefully they can get it right. an interesting three weeks. to morgan brennan. >> stocks moving higher, petro bra and vale. getting the boost from the election. up nearly 3%. back to you. >> to another part of the globe, uprising this hong kong. and a quiet night of protests,

students and government employees returning to school after more than a week of demonstrations. however pro democracy activists say they plan to keep up their campaign. protesters remain at a stalemate with hong kong's government and there are no signs of progress on talks that were supposed to end that standoff. we will bring you any headlines that cross when they do. >> check out these incredible pictures from japan. a typhoon sweeping through central japan early this morning. high winds and torrential rain slamming areas of tokyo, flooding stranded drivers and causing some roads to completely wash away. on the outskirts of tokyo, huge waves battered seawalls and heavy rain triggered land slides on the ash that was covering the volcano that erupted recently as you may recall killing 51 hikers. at least one person is confirmed dead and searches for at least a dozen others have been suspended because of the storm. nearly 200,000 people were

advised to evacuate because of the possibility of landslides. train services have been suspended. flights have been canceled. and operation of fukushima says equipment has been secured. the japanese can't catch a break. >> it's so unfortunate. thank you. meantime cnbc is getting you ready for the next 25 years. the icons and pow e the icons and pow r players who will shape the future. plus cad dillac out with a w plan. the company now offering frequent flyer miles to people who test drive their new cars. what do you think about that? will cadillac's plan help drive sales higher? cnbc.com/vote. opportunities aren't always obvious.

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gt advanced technologies, that stock plummeting after surprise filing for bankruptcy. the stock sank last month after apple said it would not use the sapphire screens in those devices. according to some reports, the screen will be incorporated in

to some iwatch models. we're seeing the stock trade down more than 87% today. >> we'll talk more about that stock in a bit. meantime in honor of cnbc's 25th anniversary, we're set to at that time wraps off of our latest list, the most influential people for the next 25 years. an andrew ross sorkin is here with the power players of the future. >> we are now about halfway through the list of icons and innovators. so still about 50 more leaders that we think you have to keep an eye on. so let's take a look at the power players on our list.

♪ >> we have a very clear set of goals that we are looking for achieve and they're all based on the core characteristics that make twitter the world's real time information network. >> it's becoming one of the world's greatest most delicious food brands in the united states, russia, middle east, latin america and many other places. >> as a content producer who

doesn't just produce content for television, we have to produce for everything, i think that there is great opportunity. >> our global footprint oig is something that is growing and incredibly real. but it's not god given. so we have to work hard every day. >> of course there is lots of debate heating you up about who is on the list and who is off the list. so head over to cnbc.com/next. wield love to hear your opinion about all of it. sue. >> what really is so interesting to me is the diversity that is on the list. just some of the ones that you just showed us.

everywhere from reynolds to aem to netflix, twitter. a lot of people thought it would be very focused on technology per se. and there is technology involved, but i find it fascinating the diversity of companies and individuals that are on the list. >> that was purposeful. you're right we often think of technology as innovation. is under armour the next nike? what will it look like 25 years from now? so i think you can look at a lot of different companies outside of technology who clearly innovated and changed the game in their own spaces. >> i agree. >> and a third of them are women, as well. you've spent a huge amount of time on this. what did you discover through the process? >> we did the cnbc 25 list

earlier in the year looking back 25 years. and i don't want to say that was easy. that was hard unto itself. but trying to figure out what 25 years will look like from now is obviously even tougher. how many of the people on our list will we be talking about in 25 years. tim cook didn't start apple. tim cook is a manager. he's done remarkable things over the past couple years, but what will his role have been to change the future 25 years from now. so there is a little bit of gambling going on in this process for all of us. >> but it's fascinating. great job. thanks so much for joining us. get some sleep. you've been up before dawn. >> comes with the territory. in the meantime, cat ladills looking to the skies to help take on its german luxury rivals. phil lebeau joins us with more. >> what would it take you to

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leverage. ta tesla making its first move toward automated driving. stock currently trading up more than 2%. >> gm's cadillac business having a tough time competing with the german luxury rivals like bmw and mercedes. they're now out with a new plan to change that. they're offering frequent flyer you miles to people that just come in and test drive their new cars. what do you think? will it translate into higher sales is this? phil lebeau has the rest of the story. >> this is just one part of a program that cadillac has hooked up with american airlines. one element is bringing people into the showroom. the other part is that for those frequent flyers for american airline, when they go to l.a.x. and eventually expanded to other airports, they will be shuttled between gates and some of the busier airports in a cadillac

vehicle on the tarmac. this has become a more popular program. but the other part is bringing people into the cadillac showroom. and cadillac is of the belief that if they can offer people 7500 american airlines frequent flyer miles for the aa advantage program for doing a test drive, that might bring more people to come into at least sit in a cadillac and take it for a spin and perhaps that could increase sales. remember, they're going after the primary buyers, the frequent flyers, elite travelers. that's who they're hoping to attraction. and cadillac need it is. when take you a look at luxury sales year to date, cadillac is way behind all of its competitors. it is the only luxury brand that has negative sales this year down 4% while when you look at mercedes, bmw, audi, they're up between 9% and 16%. so cadillac sf the belief that this marketing program with american gives it the kind of exposure to brings people into

the showroom and might, might help sales down the road. >> i don't think the viewers are impressed. let's lock in the vote. 53% said no, but 47% said yes. so we'll see if it works. >> could be american frequent fliders going into death drive. >> absolutely. thanks, phil. let's check on where we are on gold. actually we've hit a low for the year in asia. but we're below 1200. bounced back nicely. difficult for gold to make any great gains with the dollar so strong on the growth that we're experiencing in this country. sue, back to you. when the stock market touched a session low, we saw interest rates on the ten year move to session lows. a lot of flight to safety there. basically what happened this morning in the stock market was that the rush shal trowel, this

is according to art cash am, failed to make a higher high on friday, taking out the 1100 level. that accepts the rest of the stock market lower. flight to safety was in full swing. so you're up-to-date on interest rates. simon. the idea of solar power is gaining momentum. the international energy agency says it will be the main source of energy by 2050. certainly some of the stocks have been on fire. check three of the biggest players up anywhere from a meager 15% to 50%. so should you buy some of these stocks, should you install solar panels on your home? our experts will weigh in and we want to you register your vote. would you install solar panels? (vo) you are a business pro.

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lunch". two ebola drug makers heading in opposite directions today. tekmira falling after being downgraded. it had been rallying. but a different story for chimerix. it's trading up 3 abou.5%. >> meanwhile down here on the floor, we're cutting earlier losses. still below 17,000 on the dow, though. bob has more. >> the important thing is we lost a lot of energy in the late morning and a lot of people wondering why. we started out quite strong. take a look at the s&p 500. nice follow through from yesterday. friday's rally. and then we drooped a bit. all around 10:00 eastern time, a lot of people were asking about the gt advanced technology. they filed for bankruptcy this

morning. a lot of volume in that, that dropped 90%. that's not directly related to the decline, but i have to say, that happened, announcement came at 10:00. and if you look at the nasdaq and russell 2000, around 10:00 is when we saw markets just sort of drift in the small cap area. that may have been some issues around this, may have been jen generalized concerns. but the decline correlated roughly to the time that story came out. there is a spike in brent crude. and some big e&p companies are coming off their lows. very interesting brent just turned away about half an hour ago. i'll make some phone calls about that. >> in the meantime, the nasdaq yu

y underperforming slightly today. micron, priceline and gilead weighing on that index. >> a rough start for vivint solar. shares now down 9% today. down about 24% since the ip on that. this despite a new international energy association report stating solar could be the world's leading energy source by 2050. other solar stocks have performed quite nicely this year, but they're mostly down today. but the market is coming back, so they may change. first solar up 42%, solar city 50%. to get to the bottom of it all, we've constructed a solar panel of our own. and we also want to hear from you. would you install solar panels in your home? go to cnbc.com/vote to weigh in.

we'll start out with shirley, knows all about the process for actually getting solar panels installed. what are the factors that either an institution like a school or a hospital or a single family home, what do they need to consider to decide whether or not installing solar panels is right for them? >> installing solar panels is right if of a solar bill that is up there. so what happens is what we do, we take the -- for instance residential. we take their energy bill and we look at how much they're spending on energy. and then we put a custom proposal, numbers that make sense for the home openowner an building a system that is right for them. >> about how long does it take for see the

benefit of posolar? >> there are some myths. with solar city, we have a program called the power purchase agreement where there is no upfront cost for our customers. they are able to put a system on their home at no cost to them. >> how do you make money on that? >> there are different programs. you can buy one of our systems, but at the same time, we have the programs that i said that you just pay for the you power that you allow on your roof. solar city has different programs that fits everybody's needs. >> what is the biggest part of your business? i know you do institutions, schools, regular residence. but on a percentage basis, where do you see the most growth in your business? >> the most growth in our busy can speak to is residential because take that's who i service. so our biggest business is in the ppa. we offer families at no cost

that they can start a system that goes from $10,000 that goes up north to $50,000 on their homes and it doesn't cost them a penny. >> it obviously works in california. it's sunny almost every day of the year out there. but it's not back here on the east coast. is it just as viable if you're not in sunny southern california or arizona or nevada? >> yes, that is a great question. we actually install in 15 states and we're growing and we have east coast operations as well as all the way tole came c califor hawaii. so we will design a system that will produce energy on someone's roof. it doesn't matter where you are. we will make sure that what we say will produce will produce on your roof. >> thank you, shirley. let's turn to pavel and drew. do you agree with the energy estimate thanations that it wil

become a dominant source by 2050? >> absolutely. but we don't have to wait 35 years. this germany and italy, solar last year was almost 10% of you power generation. in the united states, we're not even at 1%. so just for the u.s. to get to where germany and italy are today is more than a ten fold increase in the size of the solar market. so by 2050, i suspect everybody will be far more than 10% conceivably close to half. but we don't have to again wait 35 years. solar in several major g-7 economies today is already close to 10% of the grid. >> andrew-wil, - -- or drew, ra know you're bullish on the fuft solar, but what about the challenges? a lot of people installed solar panels because as shirley just

told us it was no cost to them or there were government and state incentives. here in new jersey, there was a big state incentive for a while. but separate from that, if the consumer stdoesn't have those government incentives, do you think solar can continue to grow? >> that is i think the key of what is intriguing to us at the this juncture. solar rode a big wave of sub city driven growth in the, six, seven, eight, financial crisis. a lot of governments tried to figure out what to do. but what that did was it reset costs dramatically lower. so today, we're moving into a period where governments are starting to be able to peel back the subsidies some and in other cases draw them down because the cost and it's still viable to the consumer or the residential or business because the costs

are so low. so there are challenges but the exciting part from an investment standpoint, costs are now making it a viable alternative without subsidies. >> what stocks do you like in this particular space? >> there are two basic camps within solar, one is the module and cell producers which are largely not entirely dominated by the chinese. and then there is a new class of company which is focused on the use of those modules and cells, and those are the installers and system providers. and we think that there may be more long terp term viability to capture. >> pavel, let me turn to you because we've been talking a lot about gt advanced.

being taken town by of its sapphire grass not being used in the new apple products. however they do make it for solar systems.not being used in products. however they do make it for solar systems.sapphire grass non the new apple products. however they do make it for solar systems. >> sapphire business is directly connected to apple and it had some severe break todown hence bankruptcy. but the solar portion has nothing to do with sapphire. gt has been a provider of solar capital equipment to solar manufacturers. which are mostly those asian manufacturing companies that andrew alluded to, china in particular. so would completwo completely d parts of the business. the bankruptcy is entirely

related to the sapphire part of the business which really suffered again some kind of breakdown recently. the solar part of the business has been in the down cycle for several years now. but that's not actually why the company chifiled for dhachapter. >> but wonder if it's enough of a part of their business to mitigate what is happening in their relationship with apple. but it doesn't sound like it is. >> no, the solar part of the business is also not in good shape. what i would say is we're seeing a lot of solar stocks today down and i think some of them may be down as a derivative trade off of gt filing for bankruptcy. that is actually buying opportunity. you because as i said, there is no connection between the two. so a company like solar city and of course you just heard from their representative, i think it is one of the best ways to play the solar story specifically the downstream solar story, and more

specifically residential solar leasing which i look at as one of the most exciting long term themes, not just in the solar value chain, but residential solar has tremendous room for penetration in the united states. solar city is the market leader. >> thank you both very much. interesting conversation. really appreciate it. let's lock in the vote. would you install solar panels in your home? 62% of you said yes, you would. 38% of you say no. simon, down to you. this is matthew martomo, the man recently sentenced to nine years for insider trading while at the hedge fund run by steve cohen. sac capital. martomo is finally breaking his silence through his wife. details next.

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kate kelly is here to talk about the man who sat down with her. >> as you mentioned, in the issue, the write are sits down with the wife of matthew martomo recently sentenced to nine years for insider trading. after years of maintaining a strict silence, martomo explains why he didn't cooperate and provide evidence that some sus penk suspect might have incriminated his boss. tell was did you uncover. >> there have been different theories on why he wouldn't flip on steve cohen. but the theory that was given to it me by his wife was she said he's innocent. he's not going to cooperate against steve cohen because to do that, he would have to say he was part of the conspiracy and he maintains his innocence.

>> what about the notion of copping a plea just so you can keep with your family for the next decade rather than going off to jail. >> i talked to a number of lawyers about the case and he said it was crazy ever to go to trial at all. but another interesting thing i found out, you would expect there might be at least a proffer meeting in which the defense attorneys would go to the government and see what kind of leniency could they expect. and that never happened. there was never any conversation in which they talked about what martoma might get. >> you're probably the only reporter so far who has had access to rosemary martoma and to some extent matthew. what was your personal impression of the two of them and to the extent that you had a sense of whether they were being forth right? >> it was fascinating. they're very co-dependent relationship and rosemary wasn't working during much of the time

that matthew was at sac but was very involved in his work. she told me about the drug that he was pushing and that they would say in their relationship, it was a joke. they would say pap-solutely. there were a lot of things that i frankly didn't believe. but i became convinced through the course of about four hours of conversation that she actually believed everything she was saying to me. whether or not her husband had been entirely straightforward with her is another question. >> and you point that out in the really beautifully written article. patricking thanks for joining us. back to you, assi you assig. hilltop worldwide selling the astoria to a chinese company. should president obama stay in a chinese opened waldorf?

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hotel being bought today by a chinese insurance company for $2 billion. we want to know what you think. should president obama stay at a chinese owned waldorf? robert frank is at the waldorf. i always thought of it as a luxury hotel, but i guess maybe i'm wrong. >> it's a tough crowd. i just checked. you you can get a room tonight, it will only cost you 2 $249 foa one night stay. but to buy the hotel, just under $2 billion. the most expensive hotel ever sold in the u.s.. shattering all records here. if you look at this deal, what are they get something aside from the iconic hotel, they're also getting a full square block of real estate right in the heart of midtown manhattan. and a trophy property. as part of the deal, hilton will

continue to manage it for the next 100 years as a waldorf and the new company will renovate the hotel, so they will freshen up the room, the lobby, maybe increase the room rates and make it look a little more luxury. this is part of a wave of chinese money pouring in to new york hotels. we've had soho china building a $1 billion hotel. so right now, new york hotels, a popular place to stay for chinese money. back to you. let's lock in the vote. should president obama stay at a chinese-owned waldorf in new york city? it is a tough crowd. 71% of you say no. all right. we'll keep following the story. what is coming up on street signs? here we go. >> we'll give you the latest on ebola in america. ands have you ever been to one of those restaurants where there a tablet on the table where you can order your food, play a game, also pay on demand?

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