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the state, and b, nevada and perhaps more importantly london where betting is legal and the nfl playing more games, proved this can be properly regulated so we're going to have to see how it unfolds. >> yeah. thank you very much, morgan brennan. shaping up for a potentially see what happens. last trading hour. "closing bell" starts right now. and welcome to "the closing bell." i'm kelly evans at the new york stock exchange. >> i'm bill griffith. a quiet day for the major averages but you just can feel -- i mean, there's a lot to come. the quiet before the storm. we have got 150-plus major corporations reporting earnings this week and, of course, the federal reserve meets on tuesday and wednesday. and all of that can lead to some volatility and fireworks and the final hour today could get a little dicey.
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stay with us as we follow the stories here. down day for oil prices. now goldman sachs is predicting $75 a barrel. sometime next year. consumers win, of course, if that happens but who loses? the list might be longer than you would imagine. coming up. speaking of earnings, twitter is out with the results of one hour from now. the stock down nearly 25% this year but it's done better in the last couple of months and the ceo is here exclusively to talk earnings and why investors are down on the company this year. >> looking for that very much. more developments on the ebola front. now a 5-year-old in new york city is being tested as a nurse in new jersey is shifted from hospital quarantine to home quarantine in maine. are the latest government actions more about containing the virus or containing the fear that the virus may cause? we'll break down how the ebola
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fear factor could cost state economies. >> not so spooky looking across the indexes and going into the final hour, the dow off the five points. hugging the line at 16,800. s&p off by a quarter of a percent and broadly speaking the day is worse on the dow. every index has you can see there is down about 5 points and certainly oil got the attention today. >> before the week is over, more volatility. a great strong week last week. see what happens this week. talk about it in the closing bell exchange. anthony chan with us today, winny sun, joe durand, kenny pulcari better known as telly sulva sulvalis. there is a lot to come this
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week. >> it is interesting this morning and saw the weakness and the market come down and find support. 1950-ish level and found that support, kind of bounced off of it. testing it. feels like it wants to be a level where it wants to build a foundation. talking about that now for a week and a half and rallied back up and through and until it feels like it wants to stay there. 150 earnings this week. the fed on wednesday. everyone's going to be waiting patiently to see whether or not they change their tune. certainly they withdraw but are they going to leave the door open in the event that the data turns worst? >> joe, what about yesterday's stress test results in europe? what did that do for confidence? whether in europe and the banking systems more broadly or the way people will allocate money especially at the end of the month here? >> i think what you will find is people very relieved that no one is used the weakness in the dollar, the change in oil to adjust future earnings outlook and seeing a relief rally because lots of excuses for that
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to happen and also seeing in europe is that things while weak, the banks appear to be the federal, the central banks, more aggressive and trying to emulate the u.s. model and what i think you will see most people doing is actually thinking about re-allocating to europe going forward and underperformed and about 18 months behind us. i think what you will see is continued increases but a lot more volatility. >> anthony, a lot of people were repeating that mantra saying europe 18 months behind or what have you. a cheaper place, a place to be and then wham european stock this is year and now gotten through the stress test results and largely anticipated, did you expect that people expect to look at europe again or no? >> i think europe is an interesting place but at the same time be realistic. i have to say there's a possibility that europe slips into a recession. i would put it no more than 20%
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or 25% and 75% chance that we're straight ahead. when you say that europe is a year, year and a half behind, in terms of the central bank, i think they're several years behind and took as encouraging today saw the german index a little bit weaker than expectations because where are you getting the most resistance? bundes banks. and as for the u.s., the oil price of $80 seems to be a price of traders sell first and then ask questions about supply or demand driven. only below $80 for a consistent period of time will they focus on supply or demand. >> winny, occurs three "fs" of the market right now. fear, ebola or something else going on overseas. the fed on fundamentals. prioritize for me. when's most important to you right now? >> i think most important thing is how people feel now. the market is a lot like -- like
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the end of a halloween movie. so scary and people are -- it's certainly unpredictable and makes investors really jumpy but we also saw last week having the biggest rally since january of 2013, right? so ebola's a big fear. geopolitical risk. european central bank big, big deal and the fed talking about at the end of the week. >> yep. so fear is a big factor. that's for sure. what about oil? crude oil testing $80 a barrel again today. let's get over to the n ymex hee in new york city. i understand you took money from dom chu on the golf course yesterday. >> i did, actually. but you know, windy in the back half and we're even. for now. but let's stick to oil prices not my golf game for a moment. another roller coaster by all accounts and an intraday low of before we bounced back up. we closed at $81 even and down
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just one penny. goldman is saying that we could see oil prices down to $75 in 2015 and traders saying this is possible but we're going to trade the tight ranges based on the technicals until we get there. of course, this close under 80 is really paramount. we couldn't do it today. technically that's important. we haven't closed under 80 in 2 years or so. our bob is down to four-year lows and looking at $3.08 a gallon is the national average. losing 18 cents in 2 weeks. traders saying they think the prices will go lower and the national average to probably under $3 and means that people are saving $50 at the pump a month. may take the money and choose to spend it elsewhere. >> thank you. in new jersey alone, the average for gasoline, $2.86. >> wait. but she's a golfer? >> yes. she is. >> that's amazing.
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that's -- impressive. >> are you surprised? >> i am. who's a golfer these days? well, with the exception of my venerable co-coast, the world's best golfer with joe duran, i'm sure. oil prices here and try to settle out whether this is going to take some wind out of the u.s. economy or ultimately the holiday gift here for the consumer. >> well, i think it's a holiday bift gauze like a reduction in taxes. however, our economy is really shifted to an oil producing economy and going to have offsetting impact that won't be as positive, so and where does the money go matters most. apple getting all of that free money, 600 bucks a year to save, it quoewon't be as spread out a think. >> you're watching something. how much are you watching oil and the $80 a barrel level? >> there's a perception of a weaker oil is negative but i
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have to tell you. i think it's much more of a supply side issue than a demand side. i don't think it's weak demand at all. you said it. the other guests said it. the u.s. is a major oil producer. it's a boom for certainly the u.s. consumer as well as in my opinion for global consumers. i'm looking for cheaper oil to benefit in the long term. >> anthony chan i've seen some numbers and some saying $1 trillion tax break if you will by the consumer in the drop. morgan stanley saying $129 billion in additional discretionary income this holiday season. how big of an impact are we talking as you see it here? >> i see it as a very big impact with the average person out there a little over $2,500 of gasoline and from june prices are down close to 25%. it is a big boom. the big fear is that demand and agree with kenny.
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welcome the the breakdown. i would say close to 90% is supply and 10% demand and i'm n encouraged by the two steps of saudi arabia. reducing supply with kuwait and then over the weekend, over the last couple of days hearing some information out there that they have cut back some of the oil that they're actually supplying even though they haven't cut production and got the big meeting on november. if these prices continue to remain soft, i continue to hope they cut a little supply. >> i was just going to add some of this is in the increasing dollar. you have to remember it's denominated this dollars. we have a big run in the dollar. half the move is currency translation. >> a lot of commodities suffered as a result of that. winnie, how does the individual investor play the oil patch right now? does that mean you don't want to invest in oil companies themselves? >> you know, that's a good question. the volatility won't improve any
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time soon. oil is a big factor. probably get weaker before it's better. despite how uncomfortable this feels, i think corrections are healthy and we should be telling investors to be expected for long-term growth. this is healthy and necessary. >> fair enough. some names brown 20%, 30%, 40%, in other words, people looking to go -- tread carefully in the areas of deep value looking at the energy space here. >> kelly, this's the perfect example. it's like a sale on wall street. right? >> yeah. >> stocks down 20%, 30%, 40%. you don't want to buy up 50%. >> what if goldman is right and go to 70 in q2? >> plug it in the model and the last thing is not running away from them when there's an opportunity to buy the stocks at much cheaper prices. >> right. >> buy big. i would suggest you buy the
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bigger companies. >> right. >> buy big. >> not the small ones. okay. we got this. >> thank you. see you later. >> 50 minutes to go. >> this is such a classic kind of a wait and see day. you can tell there's a fed meeting coming. can't you? >> almost feel it in the air. like a hurricane system approaching. the vix is up. >> all eyes on twitter, as well. the microblogging giant if that's not an oxymoron, they give the numbers tonight and see if they turn around the stock which has a pretty rough year. yujulia boorstin will be talking to dick costolo. find out what pushes bio tech thirm sarepata to free fall. down right now 31%. that story when we come back.
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extremely unchanged today. is how you can put that for the dow right now. down a fraction at this hour. as the market obviously waiting for something, probably the federal reserve meeting starting tomorrow. ends on wednesday and hearing the plans for quantitative easing. supposed to end this month. >> to look for areas of the global markets unchanged, look at brazil. that market hit after winning re-election. you can look at italy down 20% after it notably didn't quite meet the capital requirements the stress test was looking for. movers overseas and here today. dom? >> so kelly, bill, big theme of the day of oil stocks. taking a huge hit as investors of goldman sachs lowered the oil
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price industry. the worst performer on the day in terms of sectors. halliburton, qep resources and newfield exploration. on the positive side, shares of big telecom services on the rise. up by around a percent. led by verizon, centurylink and at&t. on the food front, you have withindy's down near session lows. that's after the fast casual restaurant chain with the price target lowered from 10. analysts cite among other things the lack of success of pulled pork sandwich and stiffer camp tigs of value menus and ending with sarepta therapeutics. this after the biopharma company said they want more detail of a treatment before approving it for use so a big 30-plus percent
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drop on the day's session. >> wow. certainly is. tough act to follow for the nasdaq logged the best week in almost three years and kate rogers is looking at the tech-heavy nasdaq and the russell for us. >> that's right. nasdaq barely in the red right now. the russell 2000 in the red today under a half a percentage. semi conductors are leading with sandisk, texas instruments and broadcom seeing gains. now, novavax news to begin a phase one clinical trial in december for an ebola drug. the biggest loser on the nasdaq by far today is tesla down around 5% after announcing the leasing policy for the model s allowing buyers to return the car within three months and also reports the automakers' september sales dropping year over year and unconfirmed rumors. >> back to you. >> thank you very much.
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it's all anecdotal and we were discussing in the commercial break, i've heard two references from people, one on twitter and told me about this how they had to wait in line to buy gasoline over the weekend as prices came down. in one case, fellow bought it for $3.03 and $2.99. seeing gas lines again. >> this is interesting. this is in some cases in california and -- >> northern california. >> so it reminds me of the mortgage re-fi boom. below 4%, everybody re-fi'd and then nobody really scared anymore and i wonder if that's what's going on. >> $3 is a magic number. >> do you think that's what people waiting in line for, the fact they couldn't believe they fill up for $2.99? >> i think so. whatever. you're getting stocks cheaper right now. the dow although moved a bit higher up ten points, oh, the s&p down 3.
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the nasdaq virtually unchanged as the fed gets ready to meet tomorrow. get ready for the gusher of earnings reports of major corporations this week. >> i mentioned the vix higher. it's a mathematical effect of options pricing. >> it is. >> a hat tip to ross for quiting many to explain that. we'll have the numbers of twitter and dick costolo speaking with julia boorstin all ahead. with the focus on the politics of'll ebola, we're shifting it to the economics of the virus, specifically the fear of ebola and how it could spread far faster than the virus. the fear itself could spread faster than the virus and do damage economically and financially. we'll discuss that when we come back.
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another day of dramatic developments when it comes to ebola in america. our pharmaceutical bio tech reporter meg terrell has the latest. meg? >> reporter: hi, bill. that's right. dr. craig spencer is being treated here for ebola in isolation at bellevue in serious but stable condition and no more updates on him and still only patient in new york city to have tested positive for ebola and a child transported to bellevue last night. this morning developed a fever because he had returned from one of the affected countries in west africa and being tested for ebola. mayor deblasio saying they expect the results this
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afternoon and bringing you updates when we get them. the debate is growing about the quarantine measures of health care workers returning from the countries. mayor deblasio is calling the treatment of casey hickocks unacceptable. she is discharged from the hospital. the cdc is expected to update the guidelines today, a news conference beginning in a few minutes and any updates from that. bill an kelly, back the you guys. >> all right. meg, thank you very much. curious what they have to say, what a mess of washington and new york and new jersey specifically. speaking of individual states taking action, heat in the fight of ebola, it's not only new york and new jersey, also illinois and maryland with guidelines for anyone returning from west africa who may have had contact with patients. critics are lining up saying it's about politics but are the actions about economics? demonstrating they're on top of
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the ebola situation to stem any panic that could hurt these local economies? >> talk about it. we have rick newman and our own steve liesman joining us. rick, as clumsy as the tactics have been by various states, it is clear. they're trying to reassure the public that they're on the case. but if the fear continues to spread, that can have an impact economically, can't it? >> right. and if it appears as if the leaders don't know what they're doing and appears like here. you know, the public is very fickle. we see that in consumer confidence coming to the economy all the time. what will it take for consumers just basically to stay home? what does it take for them to say, you know, this is too scary for me, i'm going to stay home whenever i can. and could be a situation similar to the bad weather we had for a couple of months last winter and
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led to minus 2% growth in gdp. >> do you agree, steve? >> i do. this is an enormous public policy challenge. you want people to take it seriously and not so seriously to do things like rick was talking about and perhaps crimp ing economic outcomes and no disagreement of economy and what is best from a health perspective. you want people not to get the disease. you don't want it to be contagious. there are potential conflicts here. the best possible health outcome to not get the disease is stay home and never go out. that would be the worst outcome for the economy and so what public policy people have to do here is to really thread that needle in terms of taking it seriously and some criticism early on that saying this is not a contagious disease and may have led to earlier contagious. >> steve, do you agree with rick
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about the seriousness to push the u.s. into, for example, a negative gdp quarter? >> not yet. it could. it could. we're still very far from that. i think it has to do with each case coming along as it's dealt with and understood. you had a guy that was in west africa, a doctor that came back and infected. that's understandable. the nurses, less understandable. raised more fear and contained. it's as it goes on, a sense of chaos out there of a lock of containment and i think ultimately the fear comes from lack of understanding from how it's spread. that's serious economic outcomes. >> yeah, rick. on the other hand, as you economists like to say, fearmongering is the fear that some public officials would have, as well. we in the media taking our knocks for reporting the news, maybe overdoing it in some cases and fanning the fear flames, right?
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>> we even had a nurse saying she asked the cdc to get on an airplane and they said, sure. there's -- if the people who are experts on this are confused about this, it's easy to see how the whole rest of the country could be confused. everyone keeps using the word panic. we don't need a panic to cause economic damage. we have had a handful of cases in a country of 320 million people. say we have 500 cases. that would be a lot of individuals suffering but statistically tiny. yet that would be a big difference from what we have got now. hearing of a couple of cases in your ski or town, what will you do? there are people to say protect my kids, i wait until it blows over and hunker down. that's the concern. >> steve, i'm just thinking through some of the other typical seasonal flus over the winter. is it possible that the adjustments of having the flu or something will help to account for people staying home for fears about ebola, if you will? >> yeah. that could happen.
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look, kelly, you have been through these economic studies out there. right? people take all kinds of risks getting um in the morning and go out. you have a risk of a car accident. you have a risk of crossing the street. what are those acceptable risks in what rick is tacking about, economists -- don't write in and they would call them irrational fears, rick. right? that's what they would say. your risk of getting ebola is almost certainly much less than risk, for example of any of these other things i talked about. >> yep. >> for example, getting hit by a car or a car accident and elevated to a point and people act irrationally to the risk out there. >> we are not there yet. this is a matter of the known and unknown knowns. this is a new concern. they're just not -- they haven't digested it yet. >> let's be more concrete. when's most vulnerable in terms
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of vsectors of businesses to fel it? where would we notice the fear having an impact on our economy here? >> we've already seen gyrations among airline stocks, for example. i don't think it's so much of all the business they do in west africa. that's a tiny portion of the business but will there be greater, you know, cutbacks, limitations or are things like that restrictions on flights? that hasn't happened yet. and then the energy industry which does have some exposure to that area. more of nigh yenigeria. we have a significant energy presence there. and chocolate. those three countries in west africa are big cocoa providers. >> i don't know anything about that as i eat my dark chocolate bar on set. >> how ironic. >> again. rick, thank you. rick newman. our own steve liesman, thank you, as well. important reminder, bill to the central point, doesn't take panic for an economic impact.
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everybody making one or two decisions as a result. >> look at that -- eaten almost all of that. almost 30 minutes left in the trading session. >> yes, it is. nasdaq, too. waiting on the twitter earnings. wall street pro of charles schwab saying we have had the correction and the bull market remains intact. sonders is here next. later with $80 a barrel oil tested today, the pros tell us who wins and who loses if the prediction from goldman sachs of $75 a barrel comes true. that's coming up. location. location. (shouting) location. here's the location that matters the most. here. or here. or here.
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welcome back. our next guest is bullish saying the correction has pretty much come and gone and getting volatile market days, the market is intact. >> we welcome her back. liz ann sonders and bob pisany.
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that was it, pretty much? >> for this one. the view is to get more bouts of this. if you just look back and pull up a simple chart of the s&p or the 10-year treasury yield and a dot or a line at the ends of qe-1 and 2 and what we saw recently in the market is a replica of that. heading into the prospect of the first rate hike and use the last cycle of '04 to '07, it is the era of increased fed transparency and methodical about it, you have five corrections averaging about 7% so i think that's the environment we're in. i think we get more bouts of this and a secular bull market that's not over. >> a main difference of ending qe 1, 2 before and that the economy is much weaker back then. printing 1.3% on the gdp this week on the third quarter likely.
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what do we have? 4% in the second quarter and on an upswing at this point. >> what you need to be looking at when judging the -- whether, say, another round of qe is washted is look at the job status. the fed has the two mandates, inflati inflation and jobs. looking at claims or unemployment or rate, it's markedly better and translated into better gdp numbers and not only key jobs numbers but yellen looks at like jolts and decline in long-term unemployment and absolutely sending a different message than the prior two ends. >> you bring up a great point and one the market is trying to figure out and has been for weeks. what about the other part of the mandate? what about inflation and the part of the forward expectations are so low and so week and to what extent for the fed to take it more seriously? >> i don't think it's a point of a major deflation risk.
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i think it does at this stage is a bit of breathing room and then the strength in the dollar, too, a defacto tightening and the strong dollar is a good thing for the economy and market and the factors mean you don't worry about a fed forced to get too aggressive on the rate hikes. significant drop from here if it looked like we were importing the kind of deflation that europe is faced with, it's a different situation. i don't think we're there yet. >> who will you going to invest in then? ffsing for growth? traditional cyclicals? how defensive do you want to be, as well? >> really short-term trading oriented, playing that game and try to game short-term moves in the market, go to defense in those periods but we are maintaining a cyclical bias and we think energy is looking interesting. not because we have some reversal thesis on oil prices but the valuation has gotten so
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extreme on the low side in energy. we think you want to sort of look in that area, as well. >> speaking of oil, do you think it's fair that oil is a proxy of lower economic growth? are we sort of looking at it in the wrong way? smacks around the stock market now. certainly good news to be down for the u.s. economy. we are acting like it's somehow an indicator of somehow on a global level. >> i don't think it is. i think there's a global demand piece of it and china's investment peaked out recently trending down and a driver of oil prices but the real story on the supply side. but i think maybe one of the potential rubs is that we're in the beginning of what's hopefully a capital spending cycle and what capital spending we have had in this country is driven by energy to a large degree. break-evens, oil production or a look at places like eagle ford, you are at quite a bit lower
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levels than right now and i think that's the short-term potential negative. does it choke off that piece of the capital spending part of the story? i don't think we're there yet but that's a worry. >> liz ann, a colleague at sb capital iq says we'll be at all-time highs by thanksgiving. do you agree? is that the most likely path? that quickly to get there? >> it's possible. i think sentiment is washed out quickly and rebounding fairly quickly, too. if there's any one measure to look at to gauge short-term moves in the market, it is the traditional sentiment. if optimism skyrocketed from here, you have to be worried about a pullback in the market. to see new highs in the near term, i don't think that's a stretch. >> very few -- amongst trader lore, november, december has magical glow about it. seasonally strong period. you're going into a higher buyback season in november. we're in the week before the midterm elections and up
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traditionally. mythology, call it trader mythology around this particular period and usually optimistic. >> the traditional end of quantitative easing, as well. what do you expect the fed to say on wednesday, liz ann? do we get hints and talking about liftoff some day and they start to raise interest rates. what is your guest s on that? >> i think they'll end quantitative easing. i don't know that we're as obsessed with that considerable time duo of words that we were last time. >> unlike the market. >> i think, you know, that's going to be of interest, whether they drop that. you start to game what that means from a time period perspective. but the fed is truly data dependent. i think sometimes i listen to investors who feel like the fed has a preconceived motion and just deciding when and how to share that with us. i think the moves will be a function of the data and picking up significantly between now
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and, say, the first part of next year, i think they guide sooner. obviously vice versa if the data weakens. >> have you waited in line for $3 gasoline here yet? >> you guys in connecticut are paying -- >> yeah. no lines yet here in connecticut. sadly. >> okay. good to see you. >> good to see you, to. >> you and i have a work thing going on in texas next month. look forward to it. >> looking forward to it, too. thanks, bill. >> drive and fill up down there. >> i know. i'm not going to -- >> might use the gas on the trip. >> thank you, bob. by the way. i won't see you in dallas. dow's up 4 points. clearly in wait and see mode, not only for the fed. we have earnings coming out, as well. all eyes on the insurers, too. big names expected for results and bertha coombs with a special look at these stocks. what does it say about obamacare? a closer look. speaking of earnings,
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some of the nation's biggest insurance companies are posting results this week, too. >> most of the stocks outper tomorrowing big time. bertha coombs has more on the hot sector. >> insurers hitting fresh all-time highs today led by an all-time high and dow component united health shares reported better than expected profits last week thanks to the recovery on the economy. we'll get a sense of whether that's still the case for the peers this week. with etna reporting tomorrow before the open. estimates for $1.57 earnings per share and analysts will be looking for an update on the outlook for profitability, though, on its obamacare exchange plans. it's down 8% from the all-time high. wellpoint reports ahead of the open on wednesday. analysts looking for 226 on the bottom line. biggest gainer among the large
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cap health insurers wellpoint up 30% year to date. cigna lagged the peers about 5%. last quarter analysts are looking for earnings of $1.82 a share. on thursday. 8.7 billion in revenues and any new outlook on just how it's going to compensate for cost trends on the obamacare plans. bill? >> thank you. etna ceo mark bertolini with us coming tomorrow. always love talking to mark. he's always forthcoming. speaks his mind and a lot to say. talking about obamacare, the economy and a lot more. >> really looking forward to that one. we have 15 minutes to go here into the close. the dow in positive territory on the day. s&p still weaker. nasdaq up by about 2. and as we mentioned, twitter earnings due out moments after the top of the hour here. ceo dick costolo giving reaction in an exclusive and find out
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another head spinning round of earnings after the bell this evening. >> we have dom chu to preview names and numbers to watch. >> let's go with the big ones. twitter, of course, on average, analysts looking for a penny per share and on sales of $351 million. as always, user growth rates a focus of investors and buckle your safety belts, guys. options traders pricing in what could be between a 13% to 14% swing in the stock after earnings and stay tuned for ceo dick costolo interview with julia boorstin next hour. and then amgen with analysts and expecting $2.11 per share. sales of about $4.96 billion and near the session highs approaching that earnings report. also, buffalo wild wings, one you want to watch here, earnings
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per share at $1.07. tradering looking for clues on consumer spending and commodity and labor options. a possible move of 8% in bwld stock up or down after the close. back over to you guys. >> jackie earlier this hour talking pretty good smack about beating you in golf yesterday. i hear you disagree with her on that. >> i will say this, though. in the golf match, i may have lost and replenished the golf balls she lost in the round. i was trying to be a gentleman here and did replace some of the golf balls she lost. >> very nice. >> i'm just impressed all around. that is a tough sport. >> you don't play golf? >> no. >> for some money sometime? >> definitely not. >> we'll get you out there. we have ten minutes left in the trading session. coming back with the closing countdown and the slew of after the bell earnings that dom was talking about. later, tesla with a new leasing policy for the model s
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days preceding the slew of earnings coming out and fed's meeting and completes on wednesday and hearing from fed on wednesday 2:00 eastern time on what they're going to do about quantitative easing and ending the $15 billion a month in bond purchases that they have been going through for the last several years. this is what the dow did today. pretty quiet day a. selloff this morning and then sideways the rest of the day. keeping an eye on the price of oil which was testing that $80 a barrel level and for a time it was below it. and here we are right around $80 still so that's the key level that everybody's keeping an eye on to see if it breaks appreciably below that. you have heard goldman sachs out with a reforecast for oil for next year could be $75 a barrel for oil. twitter reports after the close tonight. and just a reminder that ceo dick costolo our guest
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exclusively on the second hour of "the closing bell" talking about the numbers and the growth and turnaround numbers he is learning at. joining me is katie stock and bruno dilama. you're the technician. we'll put a chart up here which will increed that incredibly volatile month of november. have we done damage or going higher here? >> i think there's damage done. you see nearly a 10% correction here and that broke down below support levels for a lot of individual stocks. looking at the s&p 500, it's not broken, it's not reversed the long-term up trend and from the bottom up, looking at individual stocks, there are a lot of breakdowns and the relief rally, you have to be wary of it. it's been fast and furious and regenerated short-term overbought conditions for the first time since august. >> let's see how quickly they can do it in the booth, a
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one-year chart of the s&p and see that uptrend over that time frame and what this period here did to that uptrend and where you see we go. sam stovall said we could see all-time highs by thanksgiving this year. >> i mean, it's always a possibility but now resistance is pretty significant. not so much for the s&p 500 but if you look at the russell 2000 index, the areas of the market with underperformed, those face a lot of resistance going forward. >> okay. there's the one-year chart. okay. so, you know, marching higher. we have had the pullback. you say that trend is still in place? >> the trend is track on a long, long-term basis. we have a dip below the 200-day moving average and a widely watched level. we are in store for a retest potentially below 1900 before another try into year end. >> okay. bruno, what is your view of the market right now? have we done damage to the
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market? does it make you want to step in or step back and let the volatility rest for a while? >> we're more of a fundamentalist and we have a fairly similar view and think what's happening with the slowdown in europe weighing on u.s. stocks and we offer right now a more of a technical momentum strategy and incredibly defensive right now. 60% short-term treasuries and 40% in the market is in very defensive sectors and we think that there is at the short term some more potential downside than upside. over medium term, more constructive. >> utilities at all-time highs last week. is that a defensive group to look at? >> yeah. defensive sectors we like are more consumer discretionary. also, we do like, utilities we don't like. >> okay. >> but more of discretionary,
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health care sectors we like better. >> who do you like? sectors you think will take us higher here? >> i do, i do. the weakest near-term look like technology and materials to me. strongest are really those interest rate sensitive so the financials, the staples, the utilities and even health care in some cases. >> what about energy? with oil testing that -- >> that's right. 80 is significant in terms of support on the chart of wti. near term we should see stabilization and help energy but maybe just temporarily. >> do you want to be a contrarian and buy oil stocks here? >> no. we are at a fundamental level energy is problematic. an indication of global markets, generally slowing down. so from that perspective, very difficult. >> all right. very good. good to see you both. thank you for your thoughts on today's market action. such as it was. i mean, plenty of individual stocks that moved and major
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averages not a lot getting ready for the fed meeting on tuesday and wednesday and the big earnings reports out at the top of the order and twitter. stand by for that and dick costolo right here on the second hour of "the closing bell." i'll see you tomorrow, kelly. >> thank you, bill. welcome to "the closing bell," everybody. i'm kelly evans. after a strong week on wall street, the dow up and turning positive there into the close and same for the nasdaq and managed a gain of looks like 2 or 3 points here. s&p closed weaker right around the 1961 level. russell 2000 is weaker, as well. we're about to have several big earnings hit the tape including twitter. before that, let's bring in the panel. michael yoshikami here with sarah eisen and carter and fast
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money trader guy adami. michael, first, you agree with liz ann sonders? smooth sailing ahead? >> i don't agree but i believe the correction. that's it. i think when's going on here, kelly, is -- i know we're beating a dead horse here but as long as the fed is going to go in and insert adjectives to make people not panic like the last week or two, there's going to be a floor in the market. the fed doesn't have real estate to fall back on. they look for the health effect of the markets. >> i don't know. is that the good kind of fed speak, carter, or the bad fed speak? don't we want to get beyond the point of them shoring up confidence? >> eventually, sure. but i mean, i think it is worth pointing out we don't what's coming on wednesday. the language is changes a little bit. but my guess is probably waiting until the december meeting for a bold change to the forward guidance. i think a chance that
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considerable time language stays just about where it is. in terms of today, probably quite a lot of relief that the european bank stress tests weren't more biting than everybody was worried about unless, of course, you are an italian banker then you have problems. >> is that relief? much more vigorous than the last time around. fine. think seemed legitimate stress tests if nothing else. >> we're at a point and bad is good news. right? as opposed to disastrous. that's where we are at with the european banks. doesn't it seem like the united states just went through this? if that's the case, maybe there's opportunity in europe, maybe some opportunity if a quantitative easing supportive program is put in to help the european banks. >> that's a big if, sarah. >> it is. legally, political appetite to do that, whether hoe close they get to outright deflation. oil dipped below $80 a barrel and saw it in october and before
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that haven't seen it in years. came off of the sharp lows and a percent lower. s&p energy names absolutely hammered and the question lingers of whether that price drop in oil signals deflation and global economic weakness or is ultimately a positive for the economy. in terms of consumption and this is a 70% driven economy by consumer consumption. that seems to be the argument and the s&p following oil lower. >> worth pointing out, one report but the goldman sachs report saying it's supply side driven shock. i think it's -- >> it's saudi arabia situation, right? the conspiracy theorys is the united states and saudi arabia get together to break putin's back. the second is saudis doing it on their own. >> do you think the united states is that crafty with foreign policy? >> no. that's why it's conspiracy theory. i think that what might actually be happening, though, the saudis
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might be interested in impacting when's happening in the middle of the united states and making sure they protect market share. look at the shale oil companies. absolutely hammered. >> guy, what is your theory about everything that's going on here? >> can't have it both ways, kelly. i've heard people say energy prices going up that's a good thing. now everybody saying the prices going down are a good thing. can't be both in my opinion. i'm sort of more in the deflationary camp. oil didn't go to 80 bucks on supply in my of. that's part of the equation. stronger dollar. a bigger part is globe is slowing down and -- >> guy? >> that is not healthy at a certain point. >> you have been cautious on equities but what's the quote/unquote deflation trade? what should they do? >> i don't know. what's been going on in china for 20 years? you know what the deflation trade there? look at the bond market over that period of time. it was a home run. to a large extent going on here.
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nobody wants to talk about it. yeah, the bond market rates have bounced from the 1.80 oversold condition to now and remain firmly in the camp that rates are headed lower despite what everybody else seems to want or think or say. >> you disagree? >> i don't disagree. i think rates are going to be in downward pressure particularly again if oil prices fall. i'm of the belief they're going to totally hack inflation off so it's just astounding to me. it's astounding to me we're now talking about 2% 10-years and just talking about 3% 10-years a year ago. there's an incredible -- >> another factor to bring up with the price of oil proving lower and the price of interest rates staying in demand with those yields low and that's the strong u.s. dollar changing the dynamic, what it means for equity investors, perhaps shakes them up a little to see the policy divergence with the u.s.
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economy holding up and the federal reserve inching closer to higher interest rates. >> can i point out, though, that some of this conversation is assuming a static policy response to the extent that oil gives the fed a little bit more room to wait to raise rates and things really bad and the fall in oil doesn't just impact headline inflation out means that later on you might be looking at another round of quantitative easing. it is low probability right now but this isn't a situation where the oil price drops and we have a little bit of a boon fie you're janet yellen, mr. garcia, you see -- >> we're in trouble. >> a big drop in oil prices and say to yourself, i know this is perhaps a boon to the u.s. consumer not falling too sharply, would you "x" that out of your policy response? >> i don't know. i really don't know. if it's a situation getting close to full employment, or pushing beyond, we get actual real wage clothe climbing for
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the first time, then there's going to be less pressure to do that. for now, the fed missing on the inflation target for better part of two and a half years. >> do you think they're going to end -- hang on a second. we'll come back to this in a second. the results of twitter are out. julia boorstin has the numbers and a special guest. julia? >> that's right. twitter revenue at $361 million. up 114% year over year, $10 million more than wall street projected. earnings per share in line with expectations at one scent per share. the key number is monthly active user number and coming in at 284 million monthly active users. looking at advertising arch re knew per user, $1.12. that's one cent better than expected and fourth quarter projections, the projections of between $440 million and $450
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million for the quarter are a little bit lighter than wall street projections of $448 million and the midpoint is lighter than expected and everything pretty much in line with the exception of revenue which is better than expected. right now, i'd like to bring in twitter ceo dick costolo to talk about the numbers. >> thank you. wonderful to have you here in our lovely home. >> in your lovely offices. tell me a little bit of what drove the results this quarter. revenue better than expected and protecting q4 numbers lighter? >> the numbers let me just be specific are actually a raise on the full-year for us and a raise on the quarter. and i would also say about our business specifically that across the landscape of $1 billion digital advertising businesses, we are the fastest growing business within that landsca landscape. >> tell me a little bit about the user goet. you have talked about it in the past and need to add a significant number of users to mainstream. 13 million new users in the quarter n. line of estimates and
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still not a dramatic jump. >> we have an aspirational goal to build the largest daily audience in the world and comprised of what i call three eccentric circles. you have 284 million monthly active user that is create all the content on the rest of the entire system. in the circle beyond that, hundreds of millions of users coming to twitter and don't log in. thirdly, you have the circle beyond that which is the syndicated audience. all those users across the web that consume and experience twitter content in syndication that we have now also added to mobile application syndication with the launch of our mobile app developer kit fabric. >> can you tell us how many users you expect to add in q4 and any news about your intent to grow this logged out experience? you haven't made that many dramatic changes to the product which you said you would make.
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>> we have three priorities with respect to the business in general and that growing that largest daily audience. they're one of strengthening the core. growing that logged in monthly active base. beyond that, when i talk about reducing the barriers to consumption, and helping those logged out users get an experience right away, we have started to execute on that. for example, in the last quarter, we released the mobile profiles experience and those new mobile profiles dramatically increased the number of views, the number of engagements and the number of specifically of media content views on those profile experiences so we like a lot the strategy we have got to grow that logged out audience. our first bit of work around the logged out audience to profiles is tremendously successful and we'll continue to execute on that across the rest of the logged out audience. >> can you tell us how much growth you're seeing of that logged out audience and
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translates to revenue growth? >> we'll talk about some of the numbers around profile pages on the call later on today. >> how problemic is about less information of the logged out users and less valuable to advertisers? >> we don't think they are for a number of reasons. they're coming either because of a directed search, searching for an interest, a hash tag or a user so they're already coming into the platform with interest. secondly, because of our ability to organize content around the interests in the world cup with the world cup experience we developed, we know we can deploy experience that is are super valuable to the audience no matter how they come to the platform. >> will they ever be as valuable as a logged in user? >> we think their consumption first audience logged in or out can be just as valuable. >> tell me a little bit about the average revenue per user. you grew it this quarter and half of facebook's average
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advertising revenue per user. how can you catch up? >> well, we believe that the interest graph that's measured by what people are coming to twitter to don assume and the kinds of things engaging with give a very specific view of what that user is interested in and a highly targetible and advertiser friendly view and we like the way that's growing. we like the trajectories is growing on and the engagement rate with the ads. >> will the average advertising revenue per user catch up to facebook? >> i won't speculate on whether it catches up to or pass or fall short to somebody else's. >> let's talk about fabric, a new operating system for mobile app developers. is this a big departure for twitter? what do investors not understand? >> it is about the evolution of twitter of a single product company to a platform business. and secondly, and specifically to fabric, fabric is about being part of the foundation of the
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entire mobile application ecosystem. helping developers around the world build apps across platforms from the moment they start developing them to the day they want to start monetizing them at scale. if we are part of the foundation of every mobile application in the world, then enormous opportunities accrue to us. >> is this a huge transformation of your business model? >> no. an evolution of a company to a platform business and we like that evolution. >> a quick question, final question, about your management of people. you lost some more high profile executives. peter teal recently criticized twitter as a horribly mismanaged company saying there's probably pot smoking going on there. a nasty criticism. how do you respond to the questions of investors and krit similar of teal made. >> what i lack in hair and 20/20 vision i more than make up for in self confidence and the team i have got in place and the
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strategy that we have got we love. and we all believe in it and we know that when we're successful, twitter will be useful and vital to every person on the planet. >> wow. quite a bold statement there and looking forward to hearing more about the logged out users. thank you for joining us. >> thanks. >> really appreciate it. kelly, back over to you. >> julia and dick, our thanks very much. we have much more twitter's results, reaction to the interview and big after hours movers when we come right back. getting in a groove. growth is gratifying. goal is to grow. gotta get greater growth. i just talked to ups. they got expert advise, special discounts, new technologies. like smart pick ups. they'll only show up when you print a label and it's automatic. we save time and money. time? money? time and money. awesome. awesome! awesome! awesome! awesome! (all) awesome! i love logistics.
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twitter reported and under pressure to the tune of 9% and now reaction to the results of the interview and the shares after hours with aaron kesler and daniel ives with guy adami and the panel. aaron, why this sharply negative reaction? >> revenues and ebitda fine and q-4 guidance not as much upside versus consensus estimates. time line views missed our
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estimate by a couple billion, as well. some of the metrics a little light and the revenues and ebitda upside and not as much as investors were expecting. >> daniel, when about you? >> investors were expecting another promise over performance and i think this was, you know, sort of came short of expectations, especially in terms of guidance. i think also speaks of what we're seeing of earnings season. look at amazon, ibm, netflix. re enterprise, investors looking for growth, profitability. here, disappointed in terms of first glance. >> guy, you look at the reactions we have seen to these earnings coming in, twitter didn't blow it out but certainly with regard to at least the top and bottom line estimates they pretty much came in as promised. >> talk about the ones you mentioned. netflix, a wednesday i believe that netflix reported and the after market and trading 328 and
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overreaction. i think the stock put in 390 last week. look at amazon. 278 post their earnings. and netflix, the comments of mark cuban helped. you see it in twitter. they'll flush it tomorrow. it wasn't a disastrous quarter and evaluation in the way but i'll say that the folks selling facebook on the back of this which appears to be the case, i think making a mistake because i think facebook is headed to 85 bucks. >> i want to just remind people that in the interview that dick costolo just had with julia boorstin, what i lack in hair and 20/20 vision, i milwaukake in self confidence. what do you make of that? >> i think sarah has a better comment of that. >> that's what we call a pass. >> yeah. i'm passing on that one. the stock is down. there is just not clirty in my view of what the so-called
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platform of twitter to build. i get it at facebook. facebook i think a more vibrant model and understand how people plant on the system. think about twitter, we are talking about really the logged in versus logged in users. how do you become a platform with a lot of logged out users coming with a particular headline or a particular tweet? so i think there's a lack of clarity around the stock of really the master plan is for this company. understandably so. it's a brand new company and a brand new supposed platform. i don't know what that platform looks like. what do you think, sarah? >> on the comment about the 20/20 vision, i think dodging the question of whether they smoke pot in the office and already answered that on twitter. the question is, does twitter have a growth problem? this is a problem from day one. we talked earlier and all about the monthly average users and the fact that they're only growing it to 284 million. from 271. isn't the kind of growth and not the numbers we are seeing of
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facebook and why it's interesting of an article earlier in october suggesting twitter's mounting cash pile, make an acquisition. perhaps in asia, internationally or even in the messaging apps to try to lift that growth rate. twitter won't be a service like facebook that everyone needs. >> you will have high growth rate, if you have that, you can justify uncertainty. at least they're growing a lot. if you have uncertainty of the platform looks like, you don't have blow-out sort of growth rates, that's problematic for the company. >> guy, a last word before you go? >> facebook selloff to me is the opportunity. i think that they'll knock twitter down to a 43 handle. i think you got a shot to buy it there and selloff of facebook is stark. makes sense but to me the real outlier is facebook sell enough. >> okay. fair point. thank you all. thank you, guy, especially. stick around. guy is coming up at 5:00 and
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to manufacturing in buffalo... startup-ny has new businesses popping up across the state. see how startup-ny can help your business grow at startup.ny.gov welcome back. we begin here with dominic chu and an earnings alert. dom? >> let's start with amgen chairs up marginally. this after the bio tech giant reported -- $2.30 per share beating the estimate of $2 isn't 11. sales better, $5.03 billion versus $4.96 billion. the company said that the adjusted operating income growth strong performance in the quarter and buffalo wild wings shares up sharply this after the company reported earnings that
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beat average analyst estimates. sales in line. the company did say, however, in the report that they can at least attribute some of the strength in the quarter to the fact that our strong sales growth, quote, lower food costs and a lower effective tax rate more than offset the increased labor cost of certain employees and appears commodity costs are working in their favor and there you can see those bwdl shares up 5.5% in the after hour trades. >> thank you. amazon shares slightly up today. we had bob ol zsstein on the show friday and been negative on amazon for a while now. he came back for a victory lop saying this. >> i think, kelly, on the way to $100 a share and that's -- >> $100 a share? >> that's what i said. i think they have to justify that with cash. >> with us now is ari zolden
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completely disagrees with olstein and we want your opinion at home. go to cnbc.com/vote and let us know if you think amazon stock is headed higher or lower from here. ari, welcome. what do you disagree with on amazon? >> great to be here. i'm not sure where he's get the $100 target. jeff bezos said he is not interesting in a foreseeable, profitable company for sometime. i don't understand why the street, why analysts, the bankers are shocked by a lot of the swings here. >> let's put it differently before the panel. why if it unprofitable for a long time is it a good investment? >> i think it's within of the stock that is are just going to do really well and selected by e-commerce today and i think e-commerce really hasn't even strapped the surface and it has a long, long -- >> yeah, there's no dispute about that.
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it will take over the world. look at the holiday season and amazon's numbers on a revenue side up but i'll tell you how you get to $100 price. i'm not saying it is but the way you get to that is any kind of real world valuation. look at the pe ratio of the stock, all sorts of other ways to look at it. >> owe sold out of it, right? >> we did for this concern. i just -- at what point do they become a company that's not just all about growth? this is a little bit like rambis as a chip company and maybe spending the time suing other chip companies. when does amazon become a real company? >> have you ever -- let me ask you. have you bought anything about from amazon? i i'm the prime member of the century. >> why? why did you purchase from amazon? because you believe in the company and you know you're going do get the package. >> no, nothing to do with the company. >> of course it does. >> no. it's cheap and i get it now.
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doesn't have to do with the company. >> but you believe -- wait. >> giving me something cheap. >> but you believe you get that package, you believe in the company. why not hold on to the stock? dumping the stock now makes no sense to me. again, the company hasn't even scratched the surface. >> what is buying a skin for my iphone have to believing in the stock? >> it's very logical. if you're going to purchase a product, don't you believe in the company. i don't understand. you buy a stock, even though you don't believe in a stock? i don't get the rational on that. >> hang on. >> it's always been an unusual, unique company price based on what it might one day do than right now doing and you look at, everything works in reverse. look at this year. people complain of buybacks and dividends of the companies and rewarded the companies putting their money in investment and amazon working in reverse as usual. i don't know what will happen to the company. i think it's kabuki theater.
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>> begging companies to invest more aenl not just return the cash, amazon is doing that and punished for it. >> my question, ari, to you, this is the model for a long time. you're a believer in it. it takes a lot of cost to get the future growth. who cares about profits? but we have alibaba and also a very dominant e-commerce business with its hand in different businesses and profitable. >> right. so that's a very, very good point. the chinese market is very, very different than the u.s. market and anybody can argue that. i think that alibaba's entrance into the u.s. market is going to help amazon and not hurt and i definitely see a potential partnership down the road. so although there's people on the street that disagree with me and probably the twitter handle will blow up shortly, but -- >> it's good for twitter. they need the hits. >> but i think, again, i think alibaba's going to be working really well with amazon.
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>> let me ask you one quick question. you're a well respected guy. >> my wife doesn't agree. >> well, but at least you haven't said what the twitter guy said about -- you know? >> there you go. >> my question is this. stlnt a point when amazon becomes like best guy or safeway and simply just a retailer selling with low margin products and if it is doesn't that really kill down the valuation of the stock and the pe ratio is not even a pe ratio right now. >> right. that's a fair -- i really think that's a fair question and comment and amazon is doing a lot of things outside of the e-tail space. they're investing a lot in expansion in terms of warehousing, also. owning the b 2 b customers. we see amazon delivering a package. they don't see the enterprise type of products behind the scenes.
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>> fair enough. before you go, i understand why you like the company long term and still like to know, are you investing in it predicated on the earnings or you like the story and betting on jeff bezos? >> i love the story and in it for the long haul. >> how long, by the way? >> i don't think i'm going to live 30 years and 5 to 10 years. >> we hope you live that long and follow and see what happens with amazon. we the way, a 65% of the viewers weighing in think the stock is heading lower. from here. take that as you will. goldman sachs slashing the oil forecast for yex year. consumers liking that news but it could be bad for many others and not just oil companies. talking about those names next. also, tesla offering car shoppers a happiness guarantee leasing the new model s. they will have three months to simply bring it back if they're not satisfied.
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welcome back. we begin with a check on twitter after reporting results.
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a disappointing reaction. and the time line views and soft relative to the street expecting. all that said, they did have a few more monthly active users than was expected but the reaction you can see there, twitter off 9% after hours. dom chu now has more back at headquarters. dom? >> kelly, we are watching shares of kohl's stores. the company's issuing guidance for the quarter. they say they expect comp store sales decrease 1.4% in the third quarter. that's versus analyst estimates of 1.5% gain. they attribute october sales being softer than the balance of the quarter. they also say they expect childrens to report and accessories and men's outperform the company average and home and women's underperform the company average.
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they did say they are lowering their guidance to the lower end of the its previous range $4.05 to $4.45 so the lower end of that scale is where they're guiding 2014 earnings per share on average analysts expecting $4.29 so that's why you can see the slide in the shares, 5% in fact after hours and lowering their guidance for full-year profits amid slowing sales for the third quarter. back over to you. >> thank you. kohl's off 5%. oil lower today, as well. sliding 13% over the last month and goldman sachs saying $75 a bail oil next year. who wins and loses if they're right. joining me is stephen schork. welcome back. >> great to be back, thank you. >> and so, i mean, i'm guessing the obvious here, right? the oil producers, the energy production names broadly, but if $70 in q2, who hit the hardest?
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>> right now it is going to be first and foremost it's going to be alternative fuels. $70 oil, oil is right now at $80 a barrel, that core lates to $2.95 for the con supsumer at t pump. and $70 certainly gets us now to that $2.60 range so the lower oil prices go, the lower natural gas prices go. that is certainly one potential loser in all of this. and then the other two are the obvious ones. your oil levered and natural gas and your oil service companies are also vulnerable to prices at these levels. excuse me. one more thing. the united states government is vulnerable. we're looking at the united states over the past five years really become an oil producing dominant economy so the loss of
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production, the loss of revenue on that side of the ledger will translate to the u.s. treasury. >> surely and that's one of the big debates right now how much will it hurt versus help? first point you made of alternative fuels, i'm guessing you mean solar names. can you comment on a tesla? if the argument for owning an electric car and i'm not sure it is but one of alternative fuels? >> right. i'm not licensed to give out individual names and i can identify the industries and certainly with alternative fuels, yes, electric motors, hybrid motors, look, hybrid motors we look at the most fuel efficient cars in the world, talking clean diesel. 19 best cars for mileage are diesel and the toyota prius at number 20 so certainly you're going to be hit on the hybrid side, going to be hit potentially and mind you we need to stay prices down at this point versus sustained amount of
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time. solar, wind and anything other than a nice hydrocarbon to burn should be vulnerable in the downdraft. >> based on your perspective is this a -- what is going on with the price? is this a supply issue? is it a softening economic issue? i know you're -- you're the expert. tell us. when's happening with the price of oil. >> well, certainly, the concern, the bigger concern here is the economy. now, where we get to this point is demand and supply. demand perspective we have a situation with europe. we have the property slump in asia which is core lated to a very strong dollar and low oil prices and situation of iae predicted lowest since the recession for oil growth and people are poo-poo'g the ebola crisis and i'm not. similar to the sars to the asian
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economy and then the goldman sachs issue and what that spooked the market today because goldman sachs is the perennial all-time favorite on oil prices. no one talks higher oil prices better than goldman sachs and the fact they threw in the towel apparently today is a scary signal. now, the supply side, what was our big concern in the summer? it was isis, so now you're threatening iraqi production. libyan production, nil. we are through the summer demand season. we are at the weakest point of the demand season and we never lost the iraqi barrels and libya's back to producing 750,000 barrels a day. so now you have to say, is this 1989 again? low oil prices but opec because they are starved for revenue will start to keep producing regardless of price? take venezuela for an example. >> right. >> trading 57 cents on the dollar. those guys are going to default unless they keep the money
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coming in. >> and we see vociferous already. before you go, we have talked through several of the losers. who wins in this situation? >> first and foremost, it's going to be the u.s. consumer. as we said, with the way that it translates to retail prices so that's great for consumer staples, discretionaries, anyone that burns a btu. fantastic time for the utilities right now because thank you're going to be able to lock in their winter next summer supply at great levels. same thing with the airlines and the airlines have proven time and again they're not smart enough to take an advantage of this. but if they do, that's a great position. also, your refiners. believe it or not, looking at the diesel crack trading at 120 cents on the dollar. good yields there. you certainly have the ability there. your tankers, your shipping companies. because these low prices, encourage stockpiling and seeing oil flowing that much more.
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but i want to add, guys, look. $75 is great, $80 is great. this is the weakest demand point of the season. demand is picking up. we lost over the past two months 1.5 million barrels in the united states because of refine refineries and turn around. new york harbor gasoline supplies, near record lows. the problem there is every refinery up there in the canadian maritimes are troubled. you might not be able to replenish gasoline. >> this is like the schork ten-minute monologue. we have to watch it three times to absorb it. i wouldn't have thought with the barges that they would have benefited from this instead of hurt by it. we'll let you go now. please come back. >> absolutely. >> consumer staples at a record high and the earnings less than stellar. >> so are utilities, another name he mentioned.
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anyone burning a btu. tesla switching gears. a twist on a lease program. we'll examine if it makes a bigger market plug in to an electric car and nba season tips off tomorrow and already a new clippers owner steve ballmer is a winner. $2 billion purchase of the team, we'll see how that story scores when we come right back.
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welcome back. support for higher minimum wage is just not popular with those making it. millionaires giving it a thumbs up. it is a top story on the website. for details, allen wasler is here. >> leading with a story of robert frank what you were talking about the survey they did with millionaires showing that more than half of millionaires actually support maybe a higher minimum wage or higher taxes on themselves. to sort of fix the inequality gap growing in america. fascinating stuff and has the imagination of the readers. second story on the hot list today, this thing is burning up all day long. steve ballmer bought the clippers. financial times reporting $1 billion in tax breaks, over 15 years and still that brought down the price of the sports team. we're getting a lot of outrage in the comments on that. number three, also an outrage
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story, apparently walmart on its online site for halloween costumes set up a fast girl category. not a costume. a fat girl category. which caused all sorts of outrage and now it's women plus sized and apologized profusely. what were you thinking? anyway, this's got the outrage vote on the website, too. >> i bet it does. thank you so much. back at headquarters. tesla looking for ways for car buyers to charge up. they have three months to return the car. the waffle taco, grilled stuffed nacho speaking with the soon to be ceo of taco bell of the crazy but successful product lines.
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welcome back. if you're eyeing a tesla model s but aren't quite sure if electric car is for you, you're heaping to know the company is offering a leasing program where you can try it out and return fit you don't like it. our phil lebeau has been following that story and joins us now with the panel with more. hi, phil. >> reporter: hey, kelly, this is
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called the happiness guarantee. basically, it comes down to. this if you lease a model s, you have three months in which you don't like it for any reason at all, you can return it. no questions asked. the one catch is that you cannot return it and then say boy, you know what? i'm returning it so that i can lease a newer version of the model s that has the latest bells and whistles and updated software. that they say they will not allow. they believe this is also going to be through the new leasing program about 25% less expensive for the monthly lease. so we'll see how much of an interest the potential tesla buyers have in a lease program like this. certainly the price point is going to be as attractive as the fact that they can return it within three months if they're not happy. >> but there is no guarantee of happiness in this world, is there? >> of course not. the tesla story i'm following governing telling tesla they can't sell directly to consumers, if consumers want it,
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they're not. so good for tesla, but i don't see what is interesting. >> i was interested in the news. to me it sounds like it's good and that it would draw more demand and interest. but the stock went down today. any reason why? >> sarah, there was a rumor floating around that their sales were going to be dropping in september. nobody could ever substantiate this rumor, where it came from. covering this stock, i see this about every three week. somebody floats something out there. it hits the stock and eventually recovers a bit. but that was the rumor today. >> you know, i think in terms of demand, too. i think the additional demand that you get, phil, from a program like this, i mean, think about the last time you bought a car. it's practically a life experience. you're in the car dealer for two hours, four hours, whatever it is. there is always somebody printing up forms. honestly, i don't think you're going have the super cheap people out there trying to get away with a three-month lease.
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these are people that want the car. if you look at the satisfaction levels of teslas, they're through the roof anyway. i think it's a sensitive from that standpoint. but real world, i don't think it's going to increase sales at all. >> i think it might help some. look, you're still going to get people who have an interest in a tesla model s who certainly have the means to leeson it. look, this is not a cheap $300 or less lease to get a model s. you're going to be paying upwards of 700 or $800 a month. in the three months, that's still the honeymoon period. you're still going to love what you're driving. so from elon musk's standpoint, this is pretty risk-free. >> phil, we'll leave it there, again, the shares maybe wondering if there is something more to a sales slowdown. only time will tell on that front. phil lebeau on tesla. thousands of users in europe protesting against a users tax. it is really about raising revenue or silencing free speech?
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welcome back. we begin here with a quick look at twitter, again, reporting earnings. shares responding negatively. it's still down to the tune of 9%. we'll be looking on the call to see if ceo does spell out the number of users they have that unengaged or not signed in but still viewing the platform. that may give people some sense of how broadly the interest in twitter is out there. but under pressure at this hour. while you were thinking, thousands breaking out in budapest, protesting government plans on an internet tax use. rioters chanting throwing up old keyboards and computer parts. all of this because they're quite concerned if i don't want less of something, what is the main way to get that? they tax it. >> this is the tax wire that you can understand what they're doing from the government's perspective i guess. but it's ridiculous. i sort of sympathize with the protesters. >> are you going to take
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computer parts? >> absolutely not. >> a symbolic gesture. >> yes. let's hope it's symbolic. obviously, this is an important story, if you look at what happened with arab spring and you look at what happened in terms of the internet, in terms of being really an instrument for change. i think any time you start -- >> suppressing that. >> suppressing. that's the word. >> there are some concerns about the government, whether or not it's moving away or pivoting away from europe, towards perhaps a closer relationship with russia. >> absolutely. >> all of that is important for people to pay attention. to also important is the rest of the week as we digest a kind of a quiet market today. what is the most important thing to watch for from your point of view? >> continue to look at what happened with volume. volume continues to be really dicey at this point. and i think volume is really going to tell the picture of whether or not this market stability is back. >> sarah, briefly? >> a ton of earnings after the bell tomorrow. but the fed meeting starts tomorrow. a two-day meeting. wednesday, they're set to wrap up qe forever, for good, at
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least this version of it. and it will be interesting to see if the language changes around when they will raise rates. >> and if the fed is boring, on friday we'll get the employment cost, the most comprehensive measure of age growth. >> we have to leave it right there. you'll have to save it for afterwards or something. everybody, thank you so much for being here. and "fast money" begins right now. live from the nasdaq market site in new york city's times square, this is "fast money." i'm melissa lee. traders are sim seymour, karen finerman. twitter selling off shares after the company's number of monthly active users came in below expectations. is this a buying opportunity? twitter's conference call starting right now. suntrust monitoring that call for us. we'll bring you the latest throughout the hour. plus, as oil prices fall, dennis gartman is making a bold call about where the price of crude is headed in the long-term. it's not pretty that p

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