power breakfast in new york? >> cnbc. >> oh. >> perfect answer. >> thank you for being here. that was fun. >> jim, thank you for everything today. a pleasure seeing you. >> thanks. that does it for us today. folks, next week we'll in be davos, starting tuesday. join us then. right now it's time for "squawk on the street." ♪ good friday morning. welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm carl quintanilla with jim cramer david faber at new york stock exchange. bulls continue to take incoming fire this morning as goldman and intel bring disappointment to earnings season. currency brokers feeling the first shockwaves of yesterday. dow's down 10 of past 13 sessions. oil higher after the biggest downside reverse fll years, 10% intraday move. and ten-year yield, 1.75 consumer prices for december biggest drop in six years. road map begins with the

marketsen futures in the red. fallout from the swiss central bank move continues with sharp moves in the oil market. >> earnings from goldman sachs, intel. goldman's down 2% in premarket. >> favorable and selective treatment in luxembourg. eu lays out its case. stocks in the midst of a five-session losing streak. markets continuing to absorb the surprise move by the swiss central bank. oil prices on the rise after iea slashes growth forecast for nonopec oil supply by 350,000 barrel as day, adding signs are mounting the tide will turn when it comes to price recovery. jim, seems like currency brokers will get the lion's share of the attention early on. >> yeah fxcm the outfit everyone's talking about, david, when i was getting made up, have you looks at fxcm i steal your thunder. yes. >> you move fast in 25 minutes. >> when you tell me to look at something, i look at it.

downgraded to underperform. capital raise critical for solvency. a major focus. >> what happened with fxcm, we'll get into it this hour goes on and next hour sara eisen will join us. their customers caught, leverage you can use in currency trading enormous, customers caught with the move in the swiss franc we talked about yesterday, hence, negative balances $225 million, capital, they need it, where are they going to get it is the question, hence, that stock is 1.50 trading 12-something yesterday and though it was down the question is is there spillover effect to larger brokers? >> right. >> probably not is what i'm picking up. >> i agree. >> currencies are much much smaller percentage of so many other -- the online brokers discount brokers and the like. >> a lot of places took a hit. this is a -- you have the post

some event you didn't count on trying to see who really got hurt. i don't want to overdo it because there are very few firms that i think really let retail investors be this unfortunately foolish. >> by that dealing in currencies? >> i trade in currencies and i have to tell you, the ability of money you can loss while you go to lunch is extraordinary. >> other firms not by the way, curb ability of their customers to lever as much. i'm hoping to speak to ceo of another one. those looking for other potential or other potential fallout here may be disappointed but it's an ongoing story. glad you raised. one market participants are focusing on the fallout from this violent move in a major currency. >> right. it's difficult because you want to put it in perspective. people watch the show think, wait a second what do i care? other people say, switzerland is

trying not to be spy press, they didn't want the banking sector to take over the country. there's other people who say, you know what? europe is too unfathomable let me go elsewhere but when they go elsewhere they stumble into the banks, largest part of the s&p, and the earnings there, for the most part have been horrendous. horrendous. >> yes. we're going to keep our eye on that obviously. any breach of capital requirements they're talking about. the or one, goldman sachs, reporting fourth quarter earnings 4.38 a share, a beat. profits fell from year-ago period hurt by weakness in fixed income trading and 16% decline in investment banking revenue. the lowest annual trading revenue since 2005. and after two years of beating by almost 40 cents, 6 cents does not seem like a lot, jim. >> no. you like to compare on ficc fixed income currency commodity, and they were not stellar,

frankly. but they were stellar on equities you can say, who cares? you can say, cramer it's your division, you're like partial to it, which i am but they did -- the quarter to quarter for goldman, i know out of sync to say something positive plus 21% year-over-year, for bank of america, for the -- when you look at bank of america, they are minus ten for quarter to quarter. citi minus 38. jpmorgan, minus 11. that's not na impressive. and you go over -- thaesh ext's equity. fixed income in line bank of america similar, citi better than citi. jpmorgan was better i point that out, jpmorgan feel as grieved about its stock. but you know what? it's not about personal. it's business. >> it is. and to your point, with goldman, looking down this is not a great week for bank earnings as you just said. >> no. >> it's the numbers that are giving small amount of concern

to some investors. >> everyone's going to look back, as i said two weeks from now, the buffett bank wells fargo, they didn't have legal, they have 70 million customers, we really like them they've got potential growth, but in the end, these are oil companies. they're oil companies because oil goes down, no one wants to own oil stock. all of the companies would have done much better but i'm -- >> the fit for goldman, it's the gold mine for goldman. >> i was surprised. >> obviously, it moves around. >> right. talking down 2% year-over-year from 2013 to '14. >> not good. >> what they call client execution continue to operate in a challenging environment, economic uncertainty contributed to low levels of activity which you can use every single quarter as an excuse. >> yeah. >> economic uncertainty. >> look, i think the area's -- look, watch suntrust my charitable trust owns it suntrust blew numbers away, glood quart

good quarter, one legal issue. >> could use good bank earnings after a week like this. >> maybe we'll get bank that has absolutely -- i have -- can i just say that the most frequent phrase on these bank quarters was, but x legal. no, legal is -- unfortunately legal is a line item. citi's line item. jpmorgan legal frankly i was shocked. i'll say it 2015 was going to be fresh start. citi, i thought fresh start. no. it's not. legal remains operating item. >> carl asked that question the other day whether it should be included. it should not be a separate item and one could make the argument it shouldn't be although others will say we're at the tail end of the period. >> last year -- >> of this assault using jamie dimon's words, many will disagree with that. >> the regular -- jamie, memo regulators don't like it. don't lose your cool jamie. i'm a guy who loses his cool i know than this has become a cost

of doing business legal and it's not supposed to be. supposed to be behind these guys. that's why i say wells shines through. john stumpf there's no legal. i mean it's actual -- it's a business. you know it's like a retail store, they didn't have the retail growth that i used too like when cross sell maybe but it's a business. >> yeah. >> it's not an appendage of a major legal firm. >> absolutely. >> you want long legal -- i want to bring several law firms publicly -- you know how much i pay? 23 times earnings for a legal firm. >> would you really? >> yes, i would. >> other big one, intel, fourth quarter results beat the street issuing cautious guidance on revenue and gross margins for the current quarter. what brian krzaich had to say on squawk about growing his company in a flat pc market. >> projection for 2015 is relatively flat pc base from unit perspective and actually a slight decline in asps, as our

average selling price, as we continue to see some pressure there, but we're able to grow the company with our data center business internet of things flash memory and other products that we're in now, we think we can grow. >> okay. >> interesting exchange in part chanos was on who said he's short intel, has been six months on weak pcs. >> look complain nose makes good and bad. caterpillar was right, wrong, right. seagate, western digital, wrong, wrong. i was -- i'm intel hawk i admit, i used to go there. brian krzaich is a turn to the old guys when the andy groh period. he's a scientist. a great quarter. stock, you might have been shored if you're chanos. this was a terrific conference call. they're very conservative. they said the first quarter's seasonally down don't workry about the second quarter, spending less doing much more.

pc's no longer as much as levered to, it's the data centered group. a terrific conference call. brian krzaich did a great job. it's being wronged by headlines which says guidance was weaker because it was not. >> feel better now? >> i feel much better. i was pissed off, the questions, show some respect. >> too brian krzaich? who's part. >> i did not expect a good year last year. i exed. a bad year. i did not expect this company to be able to broaden its reach and at the same time cut losses, not spend willy-nilly. it's right what they're doing with communication business. >> that's the key, isn't it. >> in terms of not doing a bad job. >> not doing a bad job is not enough. i'd rather they do a good job. >> i would too but he was dealt a bad hand in communications. a pc company, what he said what

the chinese are doing with the notebooks -- with the tablets, we're looking at this as a pc company, making a mistake. it's better than that. congratulations, you deserve being best performing stock in the dow. he's way too nonpromotional. i'll do it for it. brian krzaich is doing a fan fantastic job. >> 44% in 2014. >> reinvented the company on the fly. and a great engineer. a very funny guy, too. i wish -- he's -- he's nice sense of humor. >> always important for me. >> interview on readddit, he's a gamer. >> hard to make a response when you're making jokes. >> when we come back amazon and eu regulators crosshairs when it comes to taxes. we'll fill you in. the u.s. move to ease the decades long travel restriction to cuba which begins to lift today.

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take a look at premarket. numbers coming out. not just goldman, intel earnings. cpi the biggest drop since '08.

year-over-year, .8 on consumer prices and core 1.6. disinflation something we're not escaping. >> so i don't want to lose sight of the fact i know when you have this volatility that people think, if the individual must be bad, we didn't see a lot in the fourth quarter. >> industrial productions out now. rick santelli's got that. rick? >> down .1 on headline industrial production for the month of december. capacity utilization 79.7. in terms of industrial production, that's pretty much right in line with estimates. last month a big jump. they didn't take away. it was 1.3. that was a biggie. 79.7 definitely on the light side. .1 revision down to 80 on last month. and the last time we were down at 79.7 it wasn't that long ago, when you consider the 80.1 some of the best numbers like all numbers you've been referencing back to '08.

we're at 79.3 in october. we have university of michigan sentiment to go as we hoover around that symbolic 1.75 for ten-year note yields. david fabering back to you. >> thank you, mr. santelli. back to a story following this morning and it's truly a developing story. focused in part on fxcm the brokerage firm focuses on currencies that said last night it had a $225 million negative equity balance as a result of what happened to clients trading with the swiss franc. glenn stevens, another trading plat form with focus on currencies publicly traded company market value of $340 million as of close last evening. glenn, first, thanks for getting to the phone. what can you tell us about what you're seeing amongst your client base in this currency trading universe and what steps perhaps you had taken to

mitigate what befell your competitor fxcm? >> hi, david. thanks for the opportunity to weigh in here. actually, as you might expect there's a fair amount of incoming inquiry centered on concerns about their money, their balances their ability to execute trade to either enter or exit positions that they're already in and also just comfort and safety of overall accounts. and ultimately unfortunately here this is an industry where policies can vary from company to company and this is one of those examples where we were able to identify what was the pressure cooker that was developing with this swiss national bank and although the move this week was obviously caught people flatfooted and by surprise it wasn't surprising there was potential for this kind of move because as six months ago we started working with our clients to change the required amount of collateral to

hold against this related product, keep in mind this is focused swiss related products particularly euro swiss cross. it's not currencies it's a swiss focused product and particularly it was a trade that people were putting on to bet that the snb didn't back away. when you did they have a large disconnect in a short amount of time that put other players in a challenging situation. ultimately, there are a lot of safeguards built into protecting customer funds and gain in particular, as i said you know as early as summertime of last year, kind of starting in june, we were having discussions with clients and policy changes to create a stronger buffer between when this could happen and what the outcome would be. >> right. >> we ended up faring well because of those things. >> right. my understanding, you actually had an analyst dinner last night where you shared risk management strategy that you increased

margins on this very trade, unlike fxcm which allowed people to trade at 50-1 which is a significant amount of leverage -- >> 50-1? >> what happens now -- i wonder whether you're concerned about your industry because these kind of things can tend to have negative effect on sentiment overall and some of your clients may be concerned. i know you're addressing that concern. people may want to say i don't know. when it comes to fxcm i don't know if high money's safe there, i'm getting out. what is the next step for that company, do you believe? >> so the reality here is that sometimes there is a disconnect between you know reality and perception, but then they start to converge. we have seen that in other industries where you know, it wasn't that long ago where certain banks were actually in good state and they were perceived to not be and you end up with a negative call that has to be fought through ar dueduously.

not to comment on somebody else's business but fxcm will be faced with pr challenge, they have an actual hole to fill. to be fair. the bulk of customer deposits are actually protected under rules globally. in regulators entities like uk or in japan or places like that they do have mechanisms to protect customer funds. however, in order to do this business you have to have a strong balance sheet. you know we have made press releases from yesterday and throughout today, we're in good shape, we're in better shape than ever as a company and fxcm's going to have challenges but they do have to include all kinds of alternatives securing up their situation. >> let's talk about one of the alternatives. have you been in contact with them at all, if there's an opportunity for a firm like yours to step in and do

something, would you conceivably do it? or have you talked to them yet? >> so without comment specifically obviously given the sensitivity, we are an active participant in -- as a matter of fact, most active participant in our industry you know, we have completed six deals in last 18 months alone. we never take anything off the table. anding look sometimes it makes sense to do these for customers and shareholders. so you know you never say never but i wouldn't go beyond that in terms of commenting on specific discussions. >> fxcm shares are halted. news pending. we'll bring people that. a black swan currency event, was it. >> it was far out, people can pull out and look at the bell curve everybody the lines don't touch zero. if we're three, four deviations out and that defines a black swan be this is way out on the

probability curve. as i said they were actually -- smd was developing a pressure situation that people paying attention to it saw there was a chance for it to happen. not when not likely but not zero. >> thanks for joining us and shedding more light on a developing story for sure. >> $150 billion convert in may of 2013 in which their big offerings -- >> on. >> fxcm. >> be careful. those who think it's a common stock situation, they did a private equity offer. >> i think 40% of the firm held by principal more shores than show up typically in your data systems. >> yeah. there was also another small convert offered -- oh my. a ton of paper, 35 cents looking for a bid -- >> be careful. it's not common stock will determine this thing. >> we'll see. count down to the opening bell

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four minutes before the opening bell. time for "mad dash" with jim. netflix. >> yeah. you know i like the balance the positive with negative here. there's a very positive note by callan on netflix, saying upgrade to outperform improving subtrends and rising content. this is a come been nation the more original content, twice number of originals in 13-14, international is doing well. this is one of many upgrades we've seen. and they fall on deaf ears because speculative stocks in the go pros has doon poorlyne poorly. watch netflix, if you think speculative stocks will come back. >> 7.7 hours a weeng timek time spent

up from a year ago. >> those of us who don't want to buy the stock -- i can't own stocks individually -- people are big believers in netflix and bought the stock. schlumberger lays off a lot of people but raises dividend. >> schlumberger is first of all a great company. it's in a different league. i like the guys from halliburton. schlumberger is gold standard. and what they're talking about is don't lose sight of the fact that north america, because you're in north america, is really much worse than the other guys. talking about pricing middle east and asia will be better than north america and they lay the comparison to 2009 and say it's not -- this is the conference call that just ended -- we'd be disappointed if we don't do significantly better than 2009. they did raise dividend. what's the fly in the ointment? the stock is not down much. it's not down much from when oil was at 100 before.

it's not a uchblth-turn. >> some say it's 120 to below 80, that's a lot. >> right. oil, morgan stanley, that was one of the spike -- look everybody loves schlumberger. again, just like netflix, if you think oil's going to turn watch schlumberger. be acquire jpmorgan put out a very damning note about oils using the major oils saying that the consensus 50% too high many many numbers cut. schlumberger be up today, if oil were to reverse and go down hard, why did i pay up for schlumberger. >> that was a mistake. >> credit suisses tries argue oil will not knock rails off the rails. >> rails were hoping to see more oil business. michael ward's call, csx, oil is an asterisk union pacific does a big fracking business but not much.

the coal trade was not that good on csx but it wasn't bad. natural gas is so low, people are continuing to switch from coal to nat gas. >> people try to pick winners in retail. bernstein initiated outperform kors lulu tjx. >> tjx a big european exposure that's hurt them but it's well run. lululemon, cross fire here upgrade and downgrade lulu. i think lulu is in a major comeback. i was surprised they did lb a good company they had a a hold. kors dangerous for me but it's come down a lot. >> big momentum names of last year priceline below 1000 for the first time in a long time. tripadvisor slammed. we'll talk too priceline later. >> you've got to. remember what my father said on his deathbed, be careful of tri

vag go, that guy has mesmerizing blue eyes. >> there's a look at s&p at the top of the screen. [ bell ringing ] >> opening bell for friday at big board. city harvest feeding new yorkers facing hunger and over at the nasdaq avid technology, provide or of audio and video technology a company we know well in the tv business. >> if you're in the editing business, the gold standard. >> does goldman sachs put a cherry on the sundae of bank earnings this week? >> here's the issue with goldman. the stock's been down day after day, anticipating of a not great quarter then give you kind of a not great, not bad quarter. equity's a big business for goldman and it was very good. investment banking was very good. we're betting fixed income currency commodity's going to be terrible so it comes out to be terrible. >> not particularly good. >> they brought back a ton of stock with a lower basis. >> yeah. >> do i want to buy goldman?

people want to short this a few dollars above the tangible book value. that's never a good trade. the fact is that i citi jpmorgan and bank of america has softened the beach for landing of goldman sachs. so it's not going to be devastating. >> when you see the vix up 50% in 12 days, when you see oil moving 10% in a single session, when you see the swiss doing -- are you feeling like we are due for a big flush? and i don't mean to the upside. >> frankly, we're kind of in the midst of a big flush. those who are in some of the stocks that were the gopros retail investor got caught they already have in the big flush. i want to see biotech pull back. biotech pulls back for a second day you're in big flush territory. i've had some -- these companies are saving people's lives, absolutely. but if biotech rolls over for a skd second day i'd say we're in trouble because that's been the

leader. i don't think that -- i think that we've now prepped, we'll have a horrible earnings season. that's what this week did. if companies that did better stocks ready to go hard. we've been prepped. we've been prepared for it. >> we have. what i wonder is how many other investors choose to go to the sidelines as a result of the volatility though they may have -- they may have somewhat constructive outlook but they're like i'm -- >> marshal cash and i'll wait for a discount down the road. >> i think that's right. >> it's happening. >> i think that's happening and the volume's reflecting it. it's a time where you wake up and frankly, look did i flow fxcm this morning? >> no. >> no. >> i bunch of guys which they got shorted yesterday when it was down 15%, which they realized ramifications of the moving on the franc. >> the fact it's trading down 60 from where it was -- i think it's ongoing.

i think that the volatility scares people like the flash crash. i like to come back and say there's nothing systemic. you want to blowout of stocks because you have big gains i totally get that but there are opportunities developing by the day and you have to know where to look for them. i'm more sanguine than most people. >> there's brewing populace discussion of schlumberger. you coved it with lay-offs and dividend but up almost 2% today. reminds ow yofyou of cisco or amazon laid off workers. >> 9,000 people a lot of jobs. >> i blundered in a schlumberger job interview at m.i.t. that's good, that's good. i said i have no idea what i'm doing here and i don't know anything because they are the best. they're laying off the best. >> i don't understand why you would ever have sat down for an interview with schlumberger. >> i didn't know what they did. i went to goldman sachs and got the job. easier. i didn't know schlumberger.

heard it was a good company. >> they're the giant. >> they're the best. >> all could have gone very differently. >> yes, it could. would have been amazing if i were an oil man. >> you're becoming an oil man in a way. you have a great interest in it. >> again, they're saying if you spend all of your time looking at the united states that's a mistake. it's not as bad. now, i've got to tell you, this was the last good quarter they're going to have. >> but 9,000 number is what's caught people's attention, to carl's point, and we can expect more of than some people look at u.s. economy and say a lot of the job growth certainly high-end job growth or good wages have been a result of what's going on here. as you say it's globaling schlumberger. but those numbers may be coming home. >> you'll see wage earnings, wage earnings go down again. these are high paid people laid off. >> schlumberger, i'm sure that either people say why are they laying off people and raising the dividend?

a proactive company. they understand that this is a cyclical business. i'll use the not first rodeo thing. do i want to buy schlumberger? i'm saying if you don't believe in jpmorgan if you say to yourself, you know what. >> they have reached thafrd bottom you reach for schlumberger. i don't think they have because you know you'll get big cuts from the majors. complain nose was right. you'll say, what was i thinking? schlumberger the dividend's not big anyway. i think, again, this is a pause in the downturn in the oils. but the rest of the market i see real value. >> suntrust hanging in there. >> really? >> celgene is hanging in there. >> suntrust. suntrust -- look at that. there's an example. they have one legal charge we knew it they had very good growth. they actually were -- remember yesterday saying some of the regionals going to have -- >> i wondered whether we might see consolidation. i got pushback from source whose called me later and said the fed is not interested in letting

anybody do anything. but i still do wonder. maybe some bankers getting very excited but we'll see. >> banks like, pnc and suntrusts, banks starting to say more activity, things are better. >> suntrust the top performing s&p component of the morning. >> stock dropped from 42 to 36 in a straight line as if it were bank of america. it's not. i mean it's a good reege in bank in a growth area. pnc, good reege in bank in a kind of growth area. if you get away from the legal champion jamie dimon's conference call it was a -- >> i don't know. i was on the call -- i was on the call with journalists -- i wasn't on the call with the -- we were doing our show with the analysts -- i didn't hear a screed. >> you can't attack regulators. i totally -- i did an america first segment yesterday. might be lindburg without at

anti-semitism. you don't want to be in front of the regulators and that's what i'm talking about screed. i knew a couple. a couple regulators, new regulators. it was supposed to be over. carl, it was supposed to be over. wasn't over for citi. it wasn't over for bank of america. tried to make to seem it was more over. but there's just an -- we can't take it anymore. we can't take if it weren't for legal. i can't take it. i can't take it. >> i've never known you to have -- it's world weariness. >> genuine -- >> dow's up 20 points. i think pisani's going to take us to post 8 where fxcm trades bob? >> we're waiting for it to open we have no idea guys standing around here, some traders, waiting for it to open here. take a looking fxcm, news pending, this stock's not opens at new york stock exchange. the biggest retail foreign exchange broker. they announced that due to what

was going on with the swiss national bank announcement clients experienced anything losses again rated negative balance owed to fxcm. number 225 million, what it means clients, a lot of money, the company may be in breach of regulatory capital requirements. in the meantime, it's not trading anywhere else. however it was trading in preopen and trading around 1.50. that's not a mistake. 1.50. you see 12.63. talking about potentially huge drop. right now, we're just waiting for news and see what's going to happen from the company and get a company announcement. obviously, discussing alternatives to get capital back to the levels that would put them in compliance. that's what we're waiting for right now. let's me talk about the energy complex because with schlumberger announcing cut of 9,000 jobs people wanted to see what was going on. at the open i didn't see schlumberger from here, but at the open schlumberger trading to

upside. most of the other stocks in that sector were also modestly to the upside. the banks i don't want to say anything about goldman, you've talked about it so much but what's important here about them is the big regional banks, comericas, pnc and suntrust generally reported earnings that were better than expected. and i think the long growth was pretty good overall. comerica 6.9% loan growth. pnc, 4.7% loan growth excellent. suntrust, 4.1% that may have been a bit on the light side but overall, still very very good numbers in terms of loan growth. everybody wants to talk about net interest margins, it's true net interest margins are lower quarter over quarter. 2.57 for comerica, 2.89 for pnc suntrust. they're down maybe ten basis points quarter over quarter. of course the simple reason for that is that the yields that they can get from the loans

there, they are lending out, have been lower. we all know about the flattening of the yield curve. this creates a problem for net interest margin. overall regional bank reports that three out today were pretty good here. let's move on and talk about ipos. haven't talked about them in a month. guess what? business is starting up again. we've got a few problems here. just reflecting the problems in the market weep have three ipos that tried to price today on of them, two of the three prices below expectations and one of them was postpones, not a great start. patriot nation priced below expectation expectations. that's -- they provide workers' compensation market place for insurance companies. small deal country bank corp wisconsin u.s. bank, priced below 16.. southerland, real estate finance company postponed due to market conditions. that's an old saw in street we couldn't find any buyers at the price we wanted. that will probably come in the future. next week maybe things will

improve by next week because you know what's going to come? it's on the calendar. box, finally coming. big online file sharing company, that is scheduled to price thursday night for friday 12.5 million shares. it's a modest deal but well-known company. this will be the first test for the new year for big companies and big ipo here. in front of fxcm 12.63, halted for news pending. >> we'll come back to you. bob pisani at post 8. the bond pits. rick santelli at cme in chicago. good morning, rick. >> you know, good morning. and i'm going to say something i haven't really said many mornings of late and that is treasury yields are going up a little bit. keep in mind it isn't a capitulation-like trade. it's a bit of a panic trade, get in front of the euro ecb meeting trade, scrambling to cover short trade. whatever it is there's less of it this morning. but let's start at the beginning

of the yield curve. let's look at an october 1st, 2014 chart of two-year. that's last time we were here. as a matter of fact, if you look at anything with 2s like 10s minus 2s, of course continuing to see flattening because two-year isn't keeping up with the rest of the curve. if you hook in in anything other, 5s, 10s, 10s, 30s, you're seeing reversal of the flattening. now let's go one year back on the comp. so for five-year comp june of 2013, i want to go back to 2012. so you can see the context of the moves. there's not a lot down here but these are important levels. we just don't want to breach them on a weekly closing basis. if we go to may of 2012 for 10s, comp into 13 you can see the same dynamic. we know that july of 2012 historic low yield was a whisker under 140. back to the tens granular. two-day of tens. rates popped today but you can see in context that we need to get up to yesterday's range to get people fired up. but what i found fascinating,

today's numbers weren't indicative, they were hurdles. after the 8:30 number we saw less inflation or after the 9:15 number, you know you could argue it was kind of in line but light on capacity utilization, the markets of yields moves higher after each not because data was strong but because data was behinl the market and it's back to other things moving the market. foreign exchange look at charts like this because you don't see them very often. two day of the euro versus the swiss. notice how it overshot yesterday's historic day. look how it's come to rest right around parody unbelievable. and if we go to the last chart, going a year back from the comp year going november of -- sorry, got to get rid of 2003 2003. 2004 is the cover. but that euro seems bottomless as we get ready for next week. it's not only davos, it's the ecb meeting. back to you. >> even as you speak, the dax

back above 10,000. thanks for that rick santelli. watching oil, too. >> rates going high moving a lot of stuff around. >> jackie deangelis. >> good morning to you, carl. we are rebounding after yesterday's roller coaster ride. trading at 47.62, up 90 cents and brent testing that 50 mark 49.66, that 50 is key resistance level. meantime traders saying they don't want to be short going into the long weekend. also talking about the iea, oil market report out this morning. nonopec producers reportedly will cut back on production but overall production will increase. so sort of mixed message supportive of price but was the price recovery expected in oil is not likely imminent. meantime, more lay-offs with big oil companies. schlumberger reporting it's cutting 9,000 jobs in addition to what we've heard from apache bp and halliburton.

bp in that second phase of the deepwater horizon oil spill trial verdict likely to pay $13 billion plus in fines getting downgrades on wall street because of that though less than expected. a lot to watch in the oil patch today. do expect more volatility in the pricing but, as i said probably finish higher today as traders are saying they're cautious going into the weekend. >> thank you for that. jackie deangelis. the ceo of intel rival arm holdings whose chip technology powers most of the smartphones has a big presence in wearables market. talk about the future. dow's hanging in there, s&p's back to 1998. watching europe as rates tick higher. back in a moment.

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>> they don't have leverage to it. >> right. as we pointed out, jpmorgan had a record year. >> that's important to point out, they can make money. >> they're making money, no doubt about that. but that may get back to the original point, the an tip think they face above what is deserved. many argue they deserve everything they get and carl's point, you can't manipulate the markets. >> i was looking to be able to put a normalized earnings multiple on -- >> what's normal? >> that's the thing, i can't. that's the risk. they're not buying back -- they're buying back stock, they're boosting dividends as much as they can. these are much -- they are utilities, i agree. they're just regulated. they're regulated because they screwed up. i thought it was over. and i understand -- i understand jamie dimon's frustration. it is a little overdone. >> we'll get stop trading with jim in a moment with the dow

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♪ >> good friday morning. welcome back to "squawk on the street." i'm carl quintanilla with sara eisen, simon hobbs, david faber at the new york stock exchange dealing with secondary effects of the move by the swiss national bank. currency brokers under pressure in addition to goldman earnings and intel earnings. crude, buying here back to 47.03. >> road map as we head into the weekend. goldman sachs tops earnings hit by weak bond trading. what you should be doing with the stock.

>> intel hurt by falling sales but the company can grow despite that. find out why jim chanos is shorting the stock. the toll on retail foreign exchange brokers. fxcm saying it may be in breach of capital requirements. much more on that. first up rick santelli at cme. breaking news on consumer sentiment. rick? >> okay. you do have to buckle up. if you have a heart condition, take your pill now because the preliminary january read is 98.2 for michigan. stratospheric. i don't know if i have enough of my database in front of me to give you a comp. i had 93.6 last set of reads best since '06. 96.5 goes back to july of '05. where we have to go he looks like we'll have to go all the way to january of 2004 to find a

higher number. that is quite spectacular, on a confidence. who says gasoline doesn't make a difference. >> now, here's something interesting. one-year inflation rate that the respondents have in the sur 2.8 to 2.4 but the five-year outlook solid 2.8. numbers don't jive with what we see with pce or today's cpi but they have a real world feeling, humans at the other side of that survey. yields on that you know move a basis point higher but they have so much on on their plate, think ecb, think under 25 basis points, jgbs and trying to digest three-day weekend in front of than really you know can the ecb do anything to live up to expectations? that's the question on this trading floor. back to you. >> thank you. blowout number on consumer confidence rick santelli. swiss national banks's abrupt move leading to losses among

retail foreign exchange brokers across the globe. fxcm one of the biggest platforms, might be in breach of some capital requirements after suffering losses of $225 million. bob pisani at the fxcm post. we know the stock was halted after down more than 80% in the premarket. >> waiting for it to open and heaven knows if it's going to open, because what we're trying to determine, what the company's trying to figure out, whether or not they can raise enough capital to stay in business. that's what happened. take a look. stock is officially halted. but it was trading in the preopen as low as i saw 1.50. that's not a typo. talking about declines of 80%, 90%. but it's officially halted right out in and not traded at all here in the new york stock exchange. what's important, the company said, because of what happened to the swiss national bank yesterday, they -- the clients experienced significant losses and clients now owe fxcm at

least $225 million. so potentially in breach of several important regulatory requirements and they're trying to figure out if they can raise additional money in order to stay in business. this is what happens when you make a snap decision and all of a sudden impose a change in the capital requirements or requirements of currency exchange caps because when you actually -- people anticipate something going to happen they'll have a few minutes or hour to adjust positions, raid liquidity. nobody had a chance. positions were repriced 30% between the swiss franc and euro like that. here's your profit/loss. all of a sudden it's down here and nothing you can do about it nothing you can raise, and that causes dislocation. here's a very good example of that right now. we don't know when this is going open normally i and a reasonable idea, could be an hour next week, we don't know. we'll keep you up to date.

>> making calls on this one all morning. david, you have as well. speaking of the cftc officially they are reviewing, the commodities futures trading commission, the official regulator here of the retail foreign exchange brokers which people don't know about. but they're websites set up download a trading platform. these are mom and pop. they've exploded in the last few years, twitter, more access, people talk about foreign exchange. >> you can trade with enormous laev leverage in the case of fxcm, 50-1. if you want to buy $100 of something -- >> sometimes 100-1. >> that's what came back to hurt them. we had the ceo of gain capital on who pointed out, they had been increasing margin requirements in their accounts over the last six months in fear of perhaps something along the lines of this black swan event, if you will occurring. so they're in a better position. the question for fxcm is, what

do they do now in terms of can they raise enough debt or equity to reequitize the company given the losses. >> i think the bigger issue, a lot of people have spoke been this for a long time whether retail investors should be allowed to change foreign exchange markets on massive efforts. people get wiped out very quickly. foreign exchange is a difficult thing as a professional to trade. here allowing ordinary people on the street to get in and lose shirts. maybe that's a country it is where they should be allowed to do that. a lot of people concerned for a long time this is not where retail investors should be. >> absolutely correct. the wild west of trading in the past because 1% move can wipe out an entire retail trader with these leverage positions in place. >> that's true of any market. the difference is here it's foreign exchange can swing without any reason.

there isn't an idea of fair value in foreign exchange, a valuation to which you will drive back. it's a complete different market. >> institutional investors have the advantage, they can trade with bigger sums of money to absorb shocks better. >> and swap out as they go. >> we don't make every risky investment illegal in the country. that's how it works. >> true. it is regulated by the cftc included in dodd/frank increased capital requirements these retail companies needed to hold but the question is was it enough? is that going to protect them? clearly as fxcm said it may be in breach of that. >> it's got 3.13 tangible book value prior to losses. 3.13 tangible book prior to customer losses and the stock which hasn't opened 1.50. >> uk a retail breaker, insolvency, new zealand one of the trading houses failed. >> more than just them. >> talk about how it's impacting the broader markets, this entire

move. markets react here volatility to what's happening in the currency market. dow down 42 points. s&p and nasdaq in positive territory. zwroining joining us for more, dan hackman and portfolio manager at nfj investment group. what about the ripple effects from the foreign exchange market and how it's be absorbed in equities and currencies? do you think we have seen the last of these trades? >> i don't think we've seen the last but i don't expect further water fall-type declines that we've seen in equities, oil, we've seen water fall-type drops in bond yields as well. and really you have to go back to unfortunately scare q. point in time 2008 before you saw anything similar to this situation. so i do think we're getting closer to some bottoms, some levels that will have some support. but i don't think it's over yet.

>> but if i'm a u.s. equity investor, you specialize in fixed income so you can answer this, if there's a 30% move on a currency, and even if that settles down to half of that or 15% move what does that do? why do i need to care about that if i'm an investor in a u.s. stock? >> well because it creates uncertainty in the market place. when you have german bunn yields on the five-year in germany, negative real rates, that spooks people. i think you have this lack of confidence in the marketplace when you see these extreme type of moves and decisions out of central banks. i think it's all about confidence. >> is your confidence shaken in this central bank surprise move and potential for others? >> i think that definitely lost a lot of investor trust by the moves. at the same time one of the things in terms how we can respond to that would than what it's doing is increasing market

volatility. and nfj we focus on dividend-paying stocks and that's one of the best ways to soften volatility. look back over the last 40 years, over three-year time horizon dividend-paying stocks have been less volatility in broader markets in every time horizon. that's one of of the best reactions to combat the lack of investor confidence in the central banks. >> for many people it's much more than that. it's a clear indication that blind faith in central banks is really not warranted. and that although the central banks -- remember the swiss national bank is one of the most respected, one of the most risk adverse. they have do a massive u-tufrnrn, what will other central banks have to do down the line. >> although they have given themselves immense money to spend and inflate asset markets they are only human, swiss national bank didn't see what was coming down the corner it painted itself into a corner as

a result and had to break all of its promises. and those people that bet and gone long on investments on the basis of their word have been burned. you come back to that central question, could that happen with the fed here? >> i don't think so. i think this is all about communication and in all due respect, i think what happened over in switzerland was poor communication. it was a surprise move. it was not telegraphed. the fed goes way out of its way, if you may, to make sure that they give you some kind of indication of what they're looking at what they're expecting and what kind of moves they think will happen. like the feds fund rate increased, they telegraphed well in advance they've been looking at may/june time frame for that. i think it's all about getting the information out in a timely and basis and making sure that investors can see what's coming down the road not get blindsided. >> thanks dan. burns, over to you, i think dan we'll lose your shot thanks for

joining us. burns, quickly here on this consumer confidence number this blowout number that rick reported, why is there es a disconnect how consumers are feeling and what they're doing with spending? >> probably the big driver in terms of why consumers they're demonstrating confidence in numbers but at the same time not seeing spending you've seen employment gains substantial employment gains over the past year, unemployment rate's come down over a percentage point, more telling you've seen the wage softness. we haven't seen the wages kick in. why is that? it could be that labor participation rate hovering around all-time low levels. it could just be that during the great recessions you didn't have employers cut wages so as such they don't have the need to raise wages. now that said we think that with oil prices pulling back that probably amounts to a 3% tax cut for consumers. so that's something that going forward, you should probably

expect to see roll through the economic data next couple of months. >> we've been told we're expected to see. wondering when it will happen. thank you for joining us on the breaking news. and thanks to dan hackman at u.s. bank wealth management. relaxed guidelines come into effect for u.s. citizens wanting to travel to cuba but booking that direct flight to havana won't be easy. >> wishful thinking. >> year not in cuba? >> not yet. here in engingnin englewood cliffs. just as pretty. what you can do. i can get on a plane now? not quite. now, as of today, permitted forms of travel become much much easier. there are 12 authorizes categories of travel going for religious reasons, humanitarian visit family training for entrepreneurs, private sector folks, journalist permitted

categories. you can get on a plane, you don't have to fill out a lot of paperwork like you did in the past. no permission in advance. straight-up tourism, sit on a beach, still prohibited. how are they going to enforce this? wink and nod? it's not clear but they are. or it's going to be on the honor system. still, there's not a lot of flights. there are daily charter flights every day from miami to havana. airlines as of today no longer need a license. united has said as soon as they are legally able to offer flights once the d.o.t. finishes negotiations with the cuban government, they're going to offer flights to havana from newark and also houston. third country travel permitted. you want to go through canada plaxico, if you're going for permitted reasons that's okay. the key thing is is not how you are going but why you are going. once you go you can now bring stuff back. in the past you could only bring

back art, books and music on cds. you could not buy a magnet t-shirt. you can bring back $400 worth of cuban merchandise, $100 of cigar and/or liquor. cigars directly from cuba. cuban cigars in london all the time, you cannot bring them back from london. those are the biggest questions that i get. for ceos a big day they can export agricultural equipment, thank you. later in the program, exclusive interview with the ceo of orbitz worldwide. interesting if you go into barney hard ford's website did i can't find a mention of cuba. we'll ask him why. >> when we come back, a rough week for goldman sachs. stock down 6% in that time falling again today after results hit by weak bond trading. on the conference call the swiss

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>> some calling the first real blowup of the year. fxcm halted for trading. of course down almost 90% before the bell this morning, as we look at the ripple effects of the move by the swiss national bank dwrefdyesterday.

>> good morning. watching shares of precision cast parts as well metal components maker. the stock's lowing after forecast results, citing falling sales to oil and gas industry. analysts here downgrading stock from hold to buy. slars shares down 13.5%. near the session low. >> earnings season kicking off big time. goldman sachs results, profit hit by weak bond trading. mary thompson with the details on that. >> simon, profits at investment bank declining year-over-year impacts by the weak trading results in fixes income commodities and currencies. decline in revenue from debt and equity underwriting hurting the bottomed line. headlines from the call that is still ongoing. the cfo harvey shschwartz saying moves in the swiss franc unprecedented but immaterial too the firm. positive in that it's been allowing the company to engage

with clientsen he also said extension of the volcker rule good to see. this gives goldman more time to sell some investments it holds in its own books. recent volatility schwartz saying it was no surprise that credit had a tough quarter given russia's troubles worries. >> greece and the treasury flash crash. this may not have been good volatility, goldman did benefit from the swings in oil prices as the firm has been helping their clients navigate this decline. >> the energy price has been declining our ability to be active and valuable provider of hedging solutions and market maker to our energy sensitive and commodity sensitive clients, the kind of thank that you really see. >> earnings ahead of estimates, that was the smallest beat of 6 cent business goldman sachs since third quarter 20 1. revenue 7.69 billion. during the quarter, firm posting year-over-year declines in

revenue in all business units, quarter over quarter investment management saw increase in revenue. sore spot for goldman, sore spot for all banks, especially goelg a larger than expected dekind in revenue. those was offset by double digit percentage increase in equity trading, which was unusually and surprisingly strong. it was better than expected. for all of last year the compensation expenses unchanges. ratio to revenue compensation expenses to revenue, 36.8%. back to you. >> mary thompson thank you. seem to be disappointing week for banks all around. equity analyst at s&p capital. happy friday not so happy friday as the case may be. >> happy friday. >> as it applies to goldman quarters rer of beating by 40 60 cents are the days of the blowout over? >> a well-managed company but

the rules have changed and this company is the proxy of the capital markets of all large banks. if they don't execute in fixed income it's very lard to have exceptional performance. my concern, and why we have a whole recommendation, is that you can have volatility in fixed income product but was if you don't have high trading volume it's not going to help performance. and the first quarter coming up 2015, is the strongest quarter historically for goldman and others. and i think for those covering the company, you know less confidence as we see goldman's results today. >> yeah. so if trading is an issue there, and loan origination is a problem in other banks, and interest rates continue to dwindle, is there anything among the majors that you do like? >> well you know goldman continues to manage where they can. but i'm going to tell you that morgan stanley on tuesday's going to have probably the best story. you know the mix of their

business is is so different than goldman. goldman, 45%, 50 institutional client trading, particularly fixes income. morgan stanley it's a much smaller number morgan stanley has this trajectory with wealth asset management and also they calibrated in fixes income trading only areas where they think they can take money. so they're not there for all of the product categories just to support the client. there's a big difference here. >> on the subject of morgan stanley, as we go into that what do you think the tolerance is with investors for increasingly rewarding the staff this year? as has been promised with management and as is expected by many in the bonus? this is -- for many people that work at morgan stanley this is a water shed moment for the bankers up to the legal team if they don't get paid i hear simply aren't sticking around the ceo of morgan stanley references that. at the end of the day, 2015 it's going to be another good

year like '14 for morgan stanley. and when we look at morgan stanley, you know i think they're executing on their five-year strategy and we're seeing improving margins and solid top line growth. that means we've got a target price of 45 at morgan stanley, it's a strong buy recommendation. >> you think the dividends at risk in any of the names here ken? >> i directly cover goldman sachs and also morgan stanley. let's talk about goldman sachs. you know they raised you know, they do raise the dividend yearly and they bought back $6 billion of stock which helps on earnings and return on equity. >> ken, i don't expect you to cover credit suisse or ubs but the tectonic plates are shifting. lost a fifth of the value in a session in a quarter, swiss franc's done what we know what it's done how does it affect wealth management industry?

how far does it stretch to the names that you cover, do you think? what's the color here? >> in the case of episodic events like swiss franc, for the businesses of goldman and morgan stanley, these are very small businesses. they're larger for banks like deutsche bank and onces you've mentioned. i don't believe it's going to have either a direct financial or a confidence impact particularly on u.s. wealth management. >> finally, ken, a big discussion about legal costs and the degree to which analysts should be separating them from corporating models some say analyst whose do that should be ashamed. do you agree. >> like the cockroach theory. if you have 3/4 and legal costs maybe it operating. goldman had a clean quarter didn't have that issue. i suspect morgan stanley will be okay. >> i think others aren't as clean as you say. >> exactly. >> thank you so much. have a good weekend. ken leen from s&p capital iq.

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intel reporting fourth quarter earnings beat projecting 13.7 billion in revenue for the upcoming first quarter. jon fortt made his way here to post 9 to talk about that and the guidance for the current quart, still a bit of a debate the guidance for the current quarter isn't bad. seasonally you expect down 6%. the thing is street looking for a little bit better because 2014 was a lot better than intel overall projected. they projected flat earnings overall. turned out to be up like 25%. intel saying just stick to what we're tell you is going to happen we think that's what's going to happen. pc market getting weaker as brian krzaich said. but he thinks they've got other irons in the fire to help. take a listen. >> projection for 2015 is a

relatively flat pc base from unit perspective. probably slight decline in asps as average selling price, you know, we continue to see some pressure there, but we're able to grow the company with our data center business internet of things, flash memory and other products that we're in now, we think we can grow. >> so if you're jim complain nose, here chanos, pc market from revenue perspective coming down. there's some risk. now data center business which they said would grow 15%, year-over-year relies on a lot of the cloud providers, facebooks, googles amazon so it can be lumpy. windows 10 from microsoft, what if people don't like it? what if they delay purchases? what if they're not excited about it? those are risks. the case on intel, they're sell morgue units, they've laid the groundwork for mobile and

they'll come out with the sophia chip which will cost less to produce, sell more profitably, won't be losing as much money and this business, if it goes through as expected that's able to carry them to growth. >> intel number one in the dow last year. wondering if expectations are raises given its tremendous performance. >> i think that's the main issue. intel trying to tamp down expect taxs, 2014 better than expected pc market stronger data center market good because of cloud providers continuing to buy our chips. now we've laid the ground work for mobile but don't expect the pc market to go gang busters. >> see you in 30 minutes. straight ahead on the program -- retail foreign exchange brokerage fxcm halted for trading after customers suffered massive losses after the swiss national bank's surprise move yesterday. company says that its cuss mefrs owe it at least $120 million.

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an hour into trading. some of the stories we're watching, 7:33 on the west coast, 10:33 wall street. consumer sentiment 11-year highs, up 4 points 98.27 shares of suntrust up 3% loan growth helping the bank beat the street with numbers. and kroeg somewhere hershey, hitting new all-time highs. >> markets digest switzerland's surprise move to scrap the currency cap. the story of the day, of the week, and potentially of the year. live outside the swiss national bank, ground zero, with the latest. >> reporter: it's been a tumultuous day today. a lot of market reaction from the 10% drop in yesterday's session. i've spoken to a lot of analysts

and fund managers through the day, many saying it's a wait and see project we're having to deal with at the moment. look at ramifications, though what the snb has done some arguing that they couldn't do anything other than stop this pegging scenario that's been in place for more than three years. balance sheet expansion very very hefty, couldn't expand 30 billion to $40 billion of fx buying per month without coming out of the trade at some point. one analyst quote/unquote said the world's largest fx hedge fund on the wrong side of the trade, had he continued down this path of preventing their currency from accelerating. the swiss foreign exchange reserves at a record shy of 500 billion swiss francs, a large portion of that held in euros dollars. where would the breaking point have been? again i spoke to a couple of people who had no other way other than coming out. should they have warns the

market an indication that's another discussion altogether. as we've heard throughout the session as well imf, christina lagarde irritated, one argue, on the liesman interview, that she didn't know anything and other people sounding irritated at the top, too. snb having gone down the path now an issue of waiting to see whether 0 to front run the ecb and warn the market it's a bullish thing we're heading into with ecb quantitative easing. >> the swiss national bank is not speaking as of now after the decision. thank you very much for the update. i want to draw your attention as the world watches reverberations in the currency market to the urt reagainst the dollar. the dollar as we speak, hitting its highest level since november 2003 the dollar index, seeing new lows for the euro. 115. could go below 115, down a full

percent as everyone weighs the ramifications of this david. >> very brave of you to call the snb's move perhaps the event of the year on january 16th. could be. have you ever seen a currency move 30%? >> that becomes the benchmark through the year. we'll come back and say, sara bigger than the snb? >> i dare you to come up with a bigger story. >> next thursday? >> that's baked in. >> all right. >> assuming black swan event, claiming victims. we want more on that specific to fxcm which excited severe customer losses from the swiss franc, capital shortfall the stock halted. an analyst follows that company and joins now. rich expectations here in terms of the future for this company? >> well they certainly need capital in the announcement last night they experienced 225 million negative customer losses

and might be in breach of capital. the platform is executing trade this morning, we're told but we think they need an injection of capital. >> you think they'll be able to pull it off? in a recent note this morning they need to raise 150 million in capital, can they do it through debt offer organize bringing in equity and obviously massively diluting the shareholder base? >> well that's -- that is the question here. and that's the suspense as we wait for the stock to open and whatever news they have one thing to note though the founders and partners of fxcm own 44% of the company. so i don't believe they want to see their, you know their investment, the time and effort they've put in building this firm to go you know fully -- they'll do everything from a debt perspective and if it has

to be equity you know it's going to be highly dilutive given as you mentioned this morning earlier scheduled book value at 313 prior to these customer losses. >> right. what do people miss here rich? you say in your note people including yourself perceive primarily agency based model as low risk compared to, we spoke to the ceo of gain capital, which has a principal based model, gain would seem according to the ceo, and these guys got crushed. >> we missed what you've been talking about the black swan event of a currency move whether you call it 20%, 23%. you know you don't normally see currency moves that much and given that type of leverage that you give customers and we believe fxcm was given 50-x leverage that's 2% margin. 2% move you wipe out equity at least on that trade.

again, you saw much more than 2% move. we think this is you know someone mentioned earlier, this is maybe the event, you know of the year when you talk about market movements. >> i got called out for saying so early in january. the foreign exchange market is the biggest, the most liquid, more than $5 trillion trades on it every single day. retail is a small part of. i'm wondering how much of a systemic risk this is these smaller -- this is 700 million market cap company. it's not going to take down the system. i wonder what ripple effects it could have. >> yeah, i don't think we're -- this is sort of like the oil dramatic drop in crude. i don't think we're going to know the full ramifications for a while. but certainly the first, this is certainly the first indication with these retail players that were leveraged up and that

couldn't withstand the 23% swiss franc move whether big banks have exposure they certainly have much bigger balance sheets might have, you know more timely risk controls than say, than, you know at least one of these fx brokers. as you said david, you've talked to gain they proactivety took risk management procedures by lowering leverage three, four months ago. >> rich let me push back on this idea that it's a black swan event. that you should have -- it was a 15% move we got on the currency a major currency shouldn't businesses like this be able to withstand that? shouldn't -- and the issue here is surely that they haven't requested enough money up front from retail investors. doesn't that seem raunchy? can we discard it, they're a kaz walg of casualty of a big move in the market? shouldn't they have taken

precautions to shore up the company in advance of that and their clients? >> you have a good point. the u.s. they reduce leverage down i believe it's 20 25 x is what is allowed. in the uk it's above 50. but to your point, you know 50 x leverage means you're required 2% margin. so even if you had a more -- anything above 2% move in the currency you have lost that equity on that trade. a customer may have more equity account in other positions but given that if it was 1% leverage than 1% move wipes you out. i do think that you know there may be more scrutiny about the leverage leverage. if you look at equity markets 50% margin. so you can -- it's only 2 x leverage. >> rich, do you personally believe that retail investors should be allowed to trade

foreign exchange in this way. >> not at the leverage numbers that we're seeing not at 100 or -- yeah i think it needs to be reviewed by the regulators. >> rich, a developing story. appreciate your insight on. still waiting to hear from fxcm with potential news if it's an investment or something they can keep the firm in business. rich repetto on the phone. >> all of the financial world is reacting to the move. just getting comments on the wire from one of the fed presidents regional president, who is the minneapolis fed president. speaking in a speech answering q&a on the move he says quote, i will say the swiss national bank's action was a surprise to me. so he like christine lagarde was not called and given a warning. i'm beginning to take it on my own assessment for the u.s. economy. just a preview there. expect central bankers are doing a lot of calls behind the scenes

to figure out what ramifications are this. >> if it wasn't a surprise you'd make a lot of money. you could have bet against it and made a lot of money. many in the market have done that. >> but it goes to the question of coordinated central bank policy. >> what the ecb will do next week and realizing you can't cope. what do a pebble watch and espresso machine have in common? live in "squawk alley." crude at the high of the session after the best consumer sentiment numbers in ten years. we'll be right back. financial noise financial noise financial noise

cme group, check in with rick santelli and get the santelli exchange. >> carl, thank you. we all know that one of the hottest topics for the last several plus months and maybe the hottest topic -- a hot topic for many quarters to come is the big drop in energy maybe even bigger story is technology and

fracking and other big stories, things we used to use we don't use anymore in the transitions. so that makes this particular guest, jerry calley very important. the president and ceo of nerc. thank you for taking time this morning, jerry. >> thank you. good morning. >> good morning. all right. you know for many of that is don't pay as close attention as your group does and you have subgroups all over the country, what are reserve margins and why should my listeners and viewers care? >> we want to make sure that there's adequate power to supply/demand. we know that demand changes season to season between winter and summer and also through the daily cycle and we also have extreme cold like we saw last year during the polar vortex and we need to have enough supply in case we lose some generation or something happens on the grids. we want to make sure we have a

high rely ability and to do that we need extra reserve margin on the system. >> how that is rely ability? are there enough reserves? talking about the likelihood of bronouts if we get enough 35 below windchill in chicago or four, five months summers where it's 110 degrees are we going to have brownouts do you think. >> some areas have challenges. partially due to some of the initial retirements we've seen in the coal plants, particularly the midwest where earlier environmental rules from the environmental protection agency epa, on air and water rules has caused a lot of pressure towards retirements of coal units. we've seen retirements, 5% of the u.s. generation fleet retire already. so it's shortening those margins, we have less ex-hecess capacity. >> let me stop you there. running low on time.

if i'm hearing you correct, i personally love natural gas, i think it's clean. i think a lot of this is a good thing. now, the reason i think reading some of your work we'll have an issue, is because of my second topic, the last half minute it's about compliance deadlines, mandated by the epa. in other words everything we're talking about, everything we see in energy should be a good thing but the problem is these good things aren't ready for prime time at the time the epa says they must be. explain that. >> we have a huge transition going forward with the carbon rules, 111-d and there'sen in an initial deadline of 2020 that will meet some targets. it's going to be difficult to switch out the generation that needs to change out between nuclear and coal to gas operated and renewables and we need the pipeline infrastructure to support those gas units and we also need to make sure we have

the operational control of the grid to stay reliable. >> gerry, thank you very much because i walk away after listening to you, that a lot of things going on are good things but unrealistic from a regulatory body on when those good things have to be in place. we will keep having you back and give us updates as we get closer to some of these deadlines and legislation to push them back. thanks again and let's go back to sara. >> and i have got quite the move for you, watch the euro right now, it is absolutely slumping to new lows. just broke 1.15. for all of you planning a european vacation good news for you. this is a plunge more than 1% move comes after the swiss national bank took itself out saying we were weigh not going to be buying the euro anymore. >> because. >> to keep the franc from getting too strong because it was too difficult or expensive. >> next thursday. >> the ecb is expected to ease perhaps putting more pressure -- >> hundreds of billions of

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we are watching the intraday chart of euro trading absolutely plunging strong dollar weak euro going below 1.15 a new 11-year low for the euro. again, more reaction to what the swiss national bank did scrapping the peg ahead of the

big ecb meeting next week. >> in today american ceos can export telecom construction to cuba and u.s. citizens can travel without getting a license from the federal government although if you travel you may have to say you were there for one of a dozen prescribed reasons. joining us now from chicago is the ceo of the on-line travel agency orbitz barney harford. welcome back to the show. >> thank you. great to be here. >> you have been passionate about the need for change over cuba but when i went on your web sigh today, i can't find really much product there, i can't see immediately a mention of cuba at all. i'm guessing that's important for the broader point that still general tourism is not allowed there? >> you're right. it's 50 years there's been an embargo on u.s. travelers traveling to cuba and american companies operating in cuba and the regulation changes that came through yesterday very exciting

we've been very impressed by how fast treasury has been moving to open up and simplify arranging travel to cuba and we are looking to how we can expand our supply offerings to include hotels flights and be able to bring cuba to our travelers. >> are you clear what the legal position is. i was talking to one of the big cruise companies earlier today and they were saying look we're still struggling over this. we think you still have to get an act through congress we think that although it will happen we have months to go on this before it's a grown light for entrepreneurs effectively? >> well, we think there's certainly additional questions we have to treasury to achieve complete clarity on the meeting the regulations. only been a few weeks since the administration announced these changes so they have been operating rapidly. we fully expect to be able to offer travel to cuba within the year. >> barney, what's happening within the on-line travel agencies in general at the moment. i use the term liberally.

some of the bigger rivals like priceline have been hit bad. priceline from the peak last march down about a quarter of its value, about $19 billion, i know trip adviser is down. is this about foreign exchange and not getting the kind of returns that they would have got abroad or do you think it's something more systemic going on? >> it's hard for me to comment on, stock market price changes for even ourselves or our competitors but i think you're certainly seeing some impact of the currency moves that we've been seeing in a particular strengthening dollar and weakening euro. orbitz we have a greater exposure to the u.s. 70% of revenue comes from the u.s. as you see a strengthening dollars that's great for the majority of our travelers because it allows them to be -- makes europe as a destination more affordable. clearly businesses have greater exposure to europe meaning that their earnings when translate into dollars may be impacted by the fact that those euros

translate in a lower rate. >> you and expedia within the universe you both stand out. in fairness if you talk to analysts some are concerned broader term you don't have the size and scale to bid effectively against the likes of expedia and priceline and say look barney has done a great job through the own brand label, doing back office for other people you run ammention's operation but that will fall out of the figures and they will be more challenged what would you say to people concerned in that way. >> we have three key parts of the business. a flourishing bc business. i think people may have tried to write us off in the past but they see our continued and ongoing growth really showing through and i think we've been able to develop some super compelling loyalty consumer value propositions and strong mobile capabilities. one day of last december over 50% of the hotel bookings were coming through mobile devices. in addition we've got b to b

businesses, private label relationships you reference partnering with like american express, long relations and solid. corporate travel arranging managed travel solutions for companies around the world. it's a well diversified and large business and we're very excited about our prospects. >> good to see you. thank you for joining us. barney harford the ceo of orbitz, joining us live from chicago. >> markets, we've got a leg up in the u.s. equity markets with the dow up about 7 points. s&p 500 now up more than half a percent and with that we'll send it to carl for "squawk alley." >> thanks guys. good morning. it is 8:00 a.m. at intel head quarters in california 11:00 a.m. on wall street and "squawk alley" is live. ♪

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