>> all right, thank you for your patience brian. >> patience is a virtue. >> it really s i don't have it. $22.50 your target. thank you very much. big day. stocks are down. oil is down. big show tonight at 5:00. >> yep, it will be. meantime "closing bell" starts right now. >> welcome to "the closing bill." oil is a big story for equities and other markets to day. crude closing down 4% now just off those lows. there are concerns over weekening global demand. weighing on that commodity and, of course we just keep pumping. >> we do. we saw the beginning of this decline on friday. energy names dragging down the market today. a couple names on the dow in the green. apple is a big loser on that index today. april sl in correction territory. >> down 11% from the most recent

high. yes, down 20% otherwise. now when oil goes lower, airlines tend to go higher in terms of the stocks as those stocks rallies today. can you see that each of them most of them up over 2%. we have the number one analyst airline analyst on the street with us to day. jamie baker. he'll give us his top airline picks. >> and president obama just announcing new clean power plan which could have a major impact on the coal industry and basically industry at large. we've got the ceo of american electric power live. >> and the cit group is completing the purchase of one best bank's parent company, cit ceo john than will be joining us to discuss that deal and the impact it could have on the lending environment. that will be a cnbc exclusive in a few minutes. in the meantime let's talk about today's market action joining our "closing bell" exchange, we have chase chief economist anthony chance us

with. we have president of onpar executions and our own rick santelli joining us as well. peter, the impact that oil is having on stocks today, describe that. i mean i guess it's just the energy stocks justin to suffer. we talked about how cheap they've been. oil just keeps going lower. >> oil keeps going lower. and what it does is it forces the drafting of other stocks to follow. i think when people start getting out of certain positions, it tends to lead to getting out of other positions. i think we're seeing some of that now. you know you have to look at the positive side to this though. these stocks are getting cheaper and cheaper. you know that i am ready and willing to pounce. >> i'm ready to pounce and getting very close the i think there's a lot of good value out there. it's long term. it's not six-month picture. it's a year, two years, three years. but it's a -- there are some very, very enticing opportunities. >> on that point, bill a lot of people are saying wait a minute. at what point does this become a positive impact for the u.s.

economy? >> i think you'll see that in auto sales. gasoline prices are down close to $1 from last year's levels. and remember that onest reasons why oil prices are down is because of the weak pmi numbers we got out of china. we should not lose sight of the fact that the people of china are watching the numbers and getting ready to act. >> rick it's not just energy. i mean we're seeing a defensive play in the treasuries as well. you're at two month lows or had been earlier today for many of the maturities along the yield curve today, right? >> yeah. it's funny. as i look at the twos threes fives, sevens all of them are higher in price and lower in yield than they finished last year except for one and that is the 30-year bond. i think investors will pay particularly close attention when we get to that level which is 275. so we're about 10 11 basis points away. in terms of energy you know

there are other ways to look at this. the economy isn't only defined about it price of an exxonmobil. i still contend that true economy will be better off for all the gas stations on every corner having price wars. i think it's also very encouraging that it's one of the few industries before they get done tinkering with it where it's supply and demand still rules the roost. if they want to add in more supply, let the demand fall where it may. the economy is calibrated by energy and not just in the cards we drive but we use energy for everything. i think ultimately these price wars bringing down may not be good for investors. there's a world of citizens outside the investors that do make up the economy. >> do we get any hints in today's manufacturing report that this is translating into a boost of this drop in energy and input prices? >> i think if you dig down deep in the report you see some signs of improvement and, of course you've gotten other prfrpurchasing

managers that are more optimistic. i think moving forward, rick is right. the lower energy prices will have an impact. consumers are going to get a big wind fall because of the lower energy prices. so are businesses. even though energy and earnings are very low we know that more than 90% of s&p 500 are not energy related and they actually benefit from the lower energy prices. >> you know we talked often about the red flags that are showing up these days. fewer and fewer stock hitting new highs as the market was going higher. now we're getting a report that short interest is at the highest level in quite a while, right? >> that should say something. >> i know it's feeding into your argument. you're still out of the market right now. about you what the do you suspect is coming here? >> you know i think that what we should expect i think there will be a little butt of a selloff. it's not based on oil. it's based on funneled.damentals. i don't think it was the greatest earnings period we've

had any long time. >> as feared. >> it was okay. i think without that and with the upcoming fed rate hikes, you know, you're going to see a little bit of a selloff. i think that will help investors at some point get back into the market and it will be an opportunity for some good profits. >> we have to go to the price action today. we're down 163 points now on the dow. what levels are you watching to see if this selloff intensifies? >> for me this market would have to go down another 75 to 100 points today. i don't see that happening. >> now leading commercial lending and leasing provider cit group completing the acquisition of one west bank today. joining us in an exclusive is john thain, chairman and ceo of cit group. welcome you to john. >> nice to be here.

>> what does this deal represent for the banking industry? >> there is the first deal where we created a new cifi. there should be more consolidation in the banking industry and particularly for institution that's are below $100 billion, i think this is a good sign. >> you know it -- the talk is that you and bbnt down in north carolina are with all the acquisitions that they've been making and wanting to make recently that floodgates are going to start opening up for regional banks to continue this merger maenaa. do you agree with that? >> if you think of the compliance cost that's banks have to endure it makes sense for the institutions under $100 billion to combine. >> john thinking back on your career and wonder what reflections you may offer as we move through the post crisis period into a world of still

incredibly low interest rates, a slightly weak economy and what you see as the most vibrant piece of this industry. >> we lend into the middle market space. that space hasn't recovered yet. we haven't seen the activity this we would have liked. we do see good business in our rail car business. our rail cars are 98% leased. that leads to me to be optimistic about the economy. >> you know this merger as you know, takes you above that $50 billion market cap mark that regulators identified as a, you know, an important componentst economy right now s that a level to be feared from a regulatory standpoint? will it change the way you do business? should that level be raised as the economy improves? what do you think, john? >> the $50 billion is designated

a systemically important financial institution. we're the first ones to go over that. in term of a risk point of view do we represent a risk to the financial system? the answer is absolutely not. and there is already talk about raising that $50 billion limit to some number 100 or higher. i frankly think they should do that. >> how much is the cost for you guys increase by being a systemically important financial institution, john? >> well we are already at $46 billion of assets. so we've been planning to go over 50 for some time now. the expectation is we would have had to comply with the rules and all of that implies. but it is an expensive process. >> you could put a rough number on it for us? >> you know i really can't because a lot of the systems that we put in place so the compliance systems, the bsaml systems swreshgs

systems, we would have had to have done that. it's not a specific number. it's part of the overall integration of our systems. >> kelly is mentioning your varied career. we know about your time at merrill lynch and you were the one that brought merrill lynch to bank of america, put them together during the financial crisis. you know i'm not asking you to second guess brian moynihan by any means. but there is talk out there that maybe the two divisions are just not get ago long. b of a and merrill lynch s that a business mod that will is still valid today? do you think merrill will be worth more if it were to be spun off and a stand alone company once again? what do you think about all that right now? >> i sold merrill lynch to bank of america because i had no choice. ly to protect the merrill lynch employees and shareholders pt we did that. >> and so that's my point. now it's a very different time though. >> that's true.

i think the wholesale bank that's do everything offer every product to every, i don't think it's clear that there are synergies that people expected are really there. >> so what does that mean now? should they go their separate ways? >> the pieces have been integrated. the investment banking pieces i don't think it's viable for them to split it off at this point. >> all right. fair enough. we know these things are hugely costly in both directions. you ran this place for a time and deal with market structure now. what regrets if any or what might you have done differently down here now that we've seen the fragmentation of u.s. equity markets? >> i think it's a negative that markets have been so frag mfragmented.

that is really the sec and the rules they have in place that require the marketplaces to trade in so many different places. that is really because of the sec rules. >> you are worried about liquidity, speaking of the market structure right now? with dodd frank rules prohibiting banks to trade for their own account? there is fears that there will be a liquidity problem when the fed does start raising interest rates. i mean you got your finger on that pulse. what do you think is going on out there right now? >> i think they're expecting to raise rates. so far there is plenty of liquidity in the marketplace. i think that those who continue to make markets have great opportunities. >> speaking of john you know just this deal you're sealing today, your come back of sorts in this industry.

how big do you plan to take this bank? you are going to keep in mind some of these tlesh holds that are -- thresholds out out by regulators or is the sky the limit? >> no. we're right now about $65 billion post the deal. i think we'll grow at a kind of a 5% to 10% rate a year. i think we'll stay substantially under $100 billion. and this size is a good size for a regional bank. >> all right. john, appreciate your time this afternoon. >> thank you, john. >> all right. thank you both. >> bill they're shares have not changed much between when the deal was announced and today completed. >> it was a cash and stock deal. they had that occur enstoi use. >> we have 45 minutes to go in the session. we have a dow down about 164 points with real weakness in the energy space and oil under pressure here. >> coming up you saw it live here on cnbc the president's speech on the new carbon limits.

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expect from the airlines we're joined by jamie baker. he is senior airline analyst at j.p. morgan. welcome becomeack. >> thank you. >> is it as simple that lower oil costs and airlines will benefit and you should buy the stocks? >> in a word yes. i don't think the entire investment thesis is predicated on cheap fuel. it comes on top of the benefits that we've already acrude consolidation, better management, the chap 11 car wash that so many airlines went through. but lower fuel is good for airline earnings and also good for shareholders because a lot of the cash is put back on dividends and buy backs. >> the gains are not evenly distributed. what is the difference between airlines which tend to hedge fuel and those which don't which would capture more of the immediate benefit? >> top rated american airlines stands out. they don't have any fuel hedging at the moment. i don't think they ever change that policy. having said that delta, you

know, in southwest have both materially overhauled their hedge books. so they are increasingly benefiting as well. but american, the math is very easy. no hedges whatsoever. >> but what about their business otherwise? you know, there is that movement by the government to inspect whether or not they have been managing their supply, so to speak, and maintaining certain levels so that the cost of seats will continue to go higher. do you think that's a part of this going on right now? >> well i absolutely think that, you know keeping capacity tight and working on pricing what is airlines are doing. what the government is looking into is whether they broke any laws in coordinating this type of behavior. you know, we doubt there is any smoking gun that miff the managements acted improperly. i'd say it's a mixed bag out there. there are pockets of pricing

weakness across the united states. obviously demand to and from brazil is very very weak right now. but when you take that in conjunction with current fuel prices the industry is generating margins that i never thought i would witness. >> it's fascinating to look at the airline index and how it trended lower, including sharply over the last couple months. what is it about this industry? is it the participants investors needing to you know leave profitable trades or something larger speaking to global demand? why have they been struggling so much? are we on the cusp finally of a turn around? >> sure. i can't see the chart that you have up. but presumably you're looking at black wednesday, the events of may 20th. and that was a date which time the rug was really -- the equity rug was pulled out from under the group. i think there's a lot of learned behavior out. there traditionally longer term. airlines have been destroyers of capital. and good management is a fairly recent, very recent development.

the concerns that we saw over the last several months is that industry would squander the profit that's are currently accruing on aircraft orders on growth and letting the ambitions go unchecked. instead this is onest things that emerged from earnings season, we're seeing that cash deployed in very very efficient means. buying back stock, bag dif dents, deleveraging improving balance sheets. airlines are generating returns now that are allowing them to increasingly muscle into the territory that used to be monopolized by high quality industrial transports. most of the names trade, you know, in some cases twice the pe ratio that's we see on airlines. >> before we let you go having made the bullish case for airlines, are there some that you would avoid even now? >> no not in this sort of market. in fact we just recently added southwest. we upgraded that name to overweight last week with a $50 price target thachl was a stock

getting left behind and ignored by the market. hopefully that one will come back into better focus for investors and we think that's pretty low risk tradeup towards the $50 mark. >> do you avoid paying baggage fees when you travel? >> i do personally? yes. i have the appropriate chase co-branded credit card. >> thank you so much jamie. good to see you. >> take care. >> senior airline analyst over at j.p. morgan. >> speaking of oil, check out "west texas investors club" 10:00 p.m. eastern. >> you're best friends with all of them. >> i love those guys. >> breaking news on auto sales. phil lebeau has the story. how do they look? >> we knew it would be a strong month. how strong will surprise some people. the sales rate coming in at $17.55$17.17 17.55 million vehicles for the month of july. the significance here this makes three straight months where the sales rate was above 17 million vehicles.

we have not seen that in the united states since the year 2000. again, the sales rate for the move july, 17.55 million vehicles. guys, back to you. >> that's it. and that is annualized, phil right? >> that's not the -- yeah that is annualized. that's the pace of sales. in other words if you had 12 months like last month, you would have 17 1/2 vehicles for the year. overall, the industry is probably on pace for about 17.2, maybe 17.3 for full year sales. zblin credibly. >> look at that. well, they're firing on all cylinders. there, i said it. >> thanks phil. >> you bet. >> see you later. >> heading to the close though the dow down 150 points. we have about 40 minutes left in the trading session. the s&p 500 down 13. the nasdaq is down 29. >> up next coal stocks in the dumps after president obama announced tougher carbon emission standards. the ceo of american electric

power tells us why he thinks the president's new regulations go too far. >> also ahead, you seen twitter lately? it's falling to a record low. it continues to hunt for a permanent ceo. we have a special report on what may lie ahead for that company still to come on "closing bell."

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what that means. there's been a day of disappointment. >> all of the defensive issues are going higher. interestingly enough thashgs doing this on a day when we've seen some real major regulation to a sector based on admission that's we're going to talk b. >> let's do. that you saw live on cnbc president obama setting a new agenda for his legacy on climate change today. >> the new clean power plan will likely create winners and losers across the energy space. let's get to our report we are more on. that. >> good afternoon. the plan is looking to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 32% over the course of the next 15 years. yes, some companies will be hit very hard particularly speaking the coal companies. we looked at a few of the names, pea body energy and also arch coal. they're two of the largest producers to watch. i also want to highlight alpha natural resources filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy just this morning. now remember coal prices have come down a lot. these companies are bleeding

cash. it's no surprise that stronger standards on their plants and facilities to make them cleaner will have a big impact on these companies. i do want to highlight some of the names that could benefit from this. these are the alternative energy names. let's take a look at the solar stocks. they've not really been loved this year. we're talking about companies like first solar, solar city and also trina solar. the etf's are popular as well. those are things to watch. you also mentioned that the commodity complex was hit today. i do want to mention oil prices down 4% on the day. 20% on the month. 45.17 is where wti closed. it's been a rough stretch for oil. we're looking at a march low as the level of support. we're not that far away. back to you. >> thank you very much jackie. maybe as close to throwing down the gauntlet of the change that any elected official has attempted. >> yeah the president --

>> today we're here to announce america's clean power plan a plan two years in the making and the single most important step america has ever taken in the fight against global climate change. >> as i was saying the president was clear that he intends to be an agent of change on this issue. it is not sitting well with many in the energy sector. >> joining us on the phone is the chairman, president and ceo of american electric power. thanks for joining us. >> were you at the white house? were they debriefing new. >> no. >> what kind of first step first -- what is the first thing that happens now having heard that the administration is moving forward with this? >> i think the first thing that has to happen the industry has to make considerable projess. the power companies have already made considerable progress. but we have to go back and look at. this it's over a 1600 page rule

and is very complicated as you see the nature of how we invest and how we actually run our power system. these are state plans that are produced. we have to be able to dodge 1600 page rule but define what that means in terms of the resources that each state can deal with in terms of meeting the target. >> let me ask it this way. clearly, a lot in the industry and folks in the industry are saying that this is just bad for business. and it's too much too soon and the cost will be too high. let me ask you though as you understand the plan and we haven't read the 1600 pages, none of us i imagine at this point, is it good for the climate? >> yes. i think it will be good for the climate. as we progress towards the emphasis on renewables and energy efficiency we'll be able to make and adapt to changes to the power system in terms of

resources to enable a cleaner energy environment from a carbon perspective. we're already retiring 25% of the coal fleet in this country and this would accelerate many respects of that along with natural gas and certainly the advent of renewable technologies whether solar or wind power or whatever. >> we were struck by. that we saw that your track record at aep for retiring coal fired plants i mean you've come down appreciably. so you -- i imagine the president would be pleased with. that but do you admit that there are some of your colleagues in other businesses that are not doing their part? is that reason the president has to brit hammer down like this? >> well i certainly don't see that way. obviously the industry together has been moving forward quite dramatically. so there's been a lot of effort going in to a trance formation that is naturally occurring as

we rebalance a portfolio that did include shale gas a few years ago and also advent of new technologies are coming into play and that's a natural progression that occurs. my issue is how quickly you do it and the effect has on the ultimate cost to consumers and as well not to impact the reliability of the grid that we depend upon for everything we do in our daily lives. >> whether it comes to the clean technologies, how it is you'll meet the reduction targets? it is through cleaner coal coal captured technologies? it is natural gas? is it renewables? how are you pragmatically going to put this into effect? >> yeah. so really we'll be focusing on continued retirements of coal fire generation. but also natural gas is one where we can move the coal to gas conversion because it has half the carbon emissions of

coal. we're going to have to have a concerted effort from a research standpoint to enable goal to be viable. and then as we pursue nuclear and other types of resources for renewable standpoint, centralized utility solar is very efficient. much more efficient than the roof top solar. so we need to be wise about what kind of invest. s we make as the technologies improve. >> and already it's changed so much as we have heard. thank you so much. >> nicholas aikins. time now for a cnbc update. let's goat sue. >> here's what's happening at this hour. james holmes the gunman in the colorado movie theater massacre could still face the death penalty. jurors found that aggravating factors in the case counted for more than mitigating factors such as his ment i willat illness.

the jury now goes on to the third penalty phase. a safari operator who worked for a second american accused of killing a lion illegally by the zimbabwe government says the american jan suskie did not break any laws and acted in good faith. separately delta airlines says it will ban shipments of big game hunting trophies. >> how can anybody forget donald trump publicizing senator lindsey graham's cell phone number urging supporters to try it? well the website turned the tables. it's made public trump's cell phone number urging everyone to call and ask him about his important ideas. and the families of more than a dozen victims of the newtown, connecticut school shooting would split the $1.5 million settlement under a settlement of lawsuits against the estate of gunman's mother. the lawsuits accuse her of failing to properly secure the rifle used by her son adam to kill her 20 first graders and

teachers back in 2012. and that is your cnbc news update at this hour. >> thank you so much. >> little less than half an hour to go into the close here. it's been a tough session as we move throughout the day. the dow is down 150 points. s&p 500 off 12. nasdaq off about 30. >> we have a top trader joining us in a moment to tell us what he is watching as we go into this most important half hour of the trading day after this. more and more, data is visual. in fact, the number of mris has increased by ten percent a year.

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vnchts you seen apple recently? it's trading in now correction territory, 20% off the recent highs, sliding 10% alone from that $132.97 it hit on july 20th. it also now is below the 200 day moving average. in october of 2012 and when it did, apple fell another 30% over the next six months before bottoming. not suggesting that's going to happen now. just something we're pointing out here kelly. >> and it caught everybody's attention. thank you so much. with less than half an hour to go in the session, let's hear from a top trader. >> it's been an interesting session. they're muted. when we came in today and now

we're down 20%. >> is that why we're down 142? is that china? >> a couple things are going on here. first off coal stocks are getting smoked. that was horrific by the way. and we're not seeing anything rotationally in energy which has been somewhat surprising. so across the board, in that sector we're seeing weakness. so the question becomes what do we look for? we have earnings coming this week. later this week, though we have unemployment data coming out. i think a lot of the guys are focusing on because they think that may be some sort of bellwether to what the fed does in the late summer months. >> you have to say between the market here and interest rates, it's setting up for a risk for august. >> it does feel that way. i mean just can't seem to find much incentive for guys to get in here and guys that we're representing are laying back taking either a wait and see or just sustaining at the levels. and she can find that things are

coming to them as they want. >> we'll keep that pressure on. that is gordon charlotte from rosenblatt. bill? >> to another concern for the markets, puerto rico's debt crisis gets worse about it day. we sent kate kelly back to san juan. she's live there with the latest developments and more importantly, what happens next. kate? >> bill just literally a moment ago we got some breaking news on the situation by a statement from the president of the government development bank here. the big question of the hour really the whole weekend was whether or not a unit of her bank known as the public finance corporation would make good on $58 million in debt service payment that's were due on saturday, august 1st. we were warned on friday that they would not be made. today she says due to the lack of appropriated funds for the fiscal year the entire ti of that payment was not made today. this was a decision that reflects serious concerns about the commonwealth liquidity and combination with the balance of obligations to our creditors and

equally important obligations to the people of puerto rico. now she goes on to say that i guess as a good faith effort the public finance corporation did make a modest payment toward the overall $58 million bill from august 1st of $628,000. so really a portion of what was due use something leftover funds. now to give you the bigger picture, a lot of concern on the island about a lack of job opportunities. high unemployment unsustainable costs and revenue that had fallen short of the mark. so a lot of talk about chapter nine protection as a possibility for borrowing entities struggling with debt or even perhaps statehood in the longer term. we spoke to congressman pedro luis about both of those things today. the market so far waiting for this news. we saw general obligation bonds tied to puerto rican debt. trading off just a little bit. although probably saving the big move for the news that we just heard. finally, one thing to look at is some of the big bond insurers. if you take a look at assured

guarantee that, is the largest insurer of puerto rican debt. a little under $5 billion in net exposure. but that say relatively small fraction of the overall $400 billion portfolio. much more affected and you'll see this in the chart, nbia as well as others that have a larger proportion of their overall portfolio exposed to puerto rico. kelly and bill? a lot of potential ramifications here but early yet. >> you know kate you mention early days. we see bia there down more than 2% today. but it's more -- it's incredible to me that market handled this default so well. if default is the language that we would use. is that because a lot of these bonds and debt are held about it puerto ricans themselves? why do you think the reaction hasn't been more acute? >> so i think two things kelly. i think this situation was actually sort of well telegraphed for about a year or two years. we've known that puerto rico which has $72 billion in overall debt was in an unsustainable situation, especially given the

revenue figures, especially given unemployment, people leaving the island and so on. so that's been a factor. i think the other issue though is that puerto rico is to a degree somewhat insulated from the rest of the u.s. something that folks here aren't too happy about. because they would like to see a greater incentive for the obama administration to consider bailing out puerto rico which they said they're not going to do. they're in a sort of very gray area where on the one hand they don't pay federal income taxes. they also don't have a vote in congress. they do have relatively high taxes at the local level including sales taxes that local business owners say are a real problem. so it's really a mixed bag, kelly. i think for the moment it's pretty contained. >> yeah in some way this is is our greece. >> it takes the market reaction in greece to force a hand here. we're not getting that reaction. we'll see if the hands are forced. >> thank you, kate. see you later. >> ironically, though -- back to you. >> i'm sorry.

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>> another stock we're watching to day twitter is tumbling to an all time low. down another 5% where below $30 a share. >> sources telling me there is internal frustration with noto for driving up expectations and twitter last year and then driving them down last week. making the company vulnerable to a buyout at this lower valuation. since earnings more product executives have departed including the director of product management and twitter's head of growth. they're continuing a long line of executives that have left if the last year. the pressure is on to name a

permanent ceo before twitter's next earnings call with interim ceo and revenue chief adam bane the two main contenders. sources tell met search committee is putting pressure on dorsey to decide if he wants to be in the running for the job and what that would mean for his job running square which is headed for an ipo. sources tell me because dorsey and bane are such good compliments, some investors want them bone involved in permanent leadership. guys, no comment if twitter. kelly and bill? >> this morning we were talking to bob peck on "squawk on the street." he was cautious about twitter shares. i know some other high profile investors have been loading up here, believing in the company's long term future. but i don't know. it seems like with each passing day that road gets tougher. it gets more uphill. >> well they're just a lot that's yet to be seen. i mean they're working on project lightning, they're working on other various product changes. but these changes haven't really been rolled out yet. and i think that investors are really anxious to see whether

these changes can actually help add users. there are little changes over the pachl six months or so which have not helped them if a user perspective. we'll see if the changes are dramatic enough without alienating existing users. >> if it got below $30, which i has done today, the valuations can not be ignored. what you have heard? >> certainly, there is a lot of talk that going sl interested in acquiring twitter. what i've heard is that folks at the company would not like to sell right now. because they're hoping this is a low. they're hoping that once they implement the changes, once they get a new ceo in place, the stock will rise again. the question is whether it's low enough that a company like a google would say hey, it's worth making an offer at this price point. >> all right. jewel yashg thanks for julia, thanks for now. we appreciate it. >> a lot of the market is weaker, bill. we're off the lows here.

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all right. 7 minutes left -- we're coming back a little bit in the markets. the dow down 116. joining us now is the bull ishish trader. we talked about the red flags that are raising up right now that suggest we are due for some sort of a pullback here. you know short interest is moving higher. fewer and fewer stocks are setting new highs. you know those kind of things. >> but it's the tale two of markets. you have the short term opportunity and whether it's oil or china or european markets or specific spots where hedge funds can go short, hedge funds this year are finally beating the s&p 500, first time in almost seven years. then there is the global market which is not nearly as bad as we

paint it out to be. summer volatility. we're in august. the two worst months of the year, september, october, potential for the fed to raise rates, all the noise we've been talking a lot b tend of the day, consumers feel very healthy, the economy is definitely getting better. not great but better. the short interest i wouldn't worry about. that is -- look at the annual last year when shortages spiked on oil. this is a trend and not a long term situation. >> what are the top picks? best ideas in this environment? >> you know i think you have to buy the oil in here. if you really want to be an vestor go, for the lp market. you have a chance to buy stocks cheap. you haven't seen a lot of dividend cuts. annual energy demand is actually up not down. so if you believe that these things move oil around can you buy them cheap. if they're not there, i love the small cap sector here. the small cap growth side simply because it's inexpensive to borrow money and the consumer is getting healthy. >> if you want to be a real contrarian, they suggest the fed has to wait to raise interest

rates. everyone is so worried about the fed, i'm not. first of all, very important point. no bull market ever ended because the fed stopped raising rates. the fed can't really get liftoff because the global economy is doing a 3-3. how are you going to raise rates to a significant rate? they're going to get paid to wait. >> all right. see what happens. good to see you, phil. >> appreciate it. >> about five minutes to go right into the closing countdown. that's up next. >> and then after the bell apple in correction territory. does that make it a buying opportunity or just a sign of more pain ahead? we'll look at that coming up. [ piercing sound ] daddy! lets play! sorry kids. feeling dead on your feet? i've been on my feet all day. dr. scholl's massaging gel insoles have a unique gel wave design for outrageous comfort that helps you feel more energized. dr. scholl's. feel the energy!

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brent crude is now below $50 and change. >> five times this year they've been wrong trying to buy the bottom in energy. it's spreading beyond energy and materials. industrials, the big names, united technologies caterpillar down again on the global growth concerns. industrials is a much bigger segment than the material names and even bigger than the energy names. >> you're looking at retail too? >> i want to point out, take a look at the big retail names. remember, coors will be reporting on thursday. you think the stock is down 40% this year. how much further can it go?

>> very important space, too. thanks, bob. we'll see you later. we'll see what this bodes for tomorrow. keep an eye on greece and puerto rico as well. >> it looks like the dow avoided a triple digit decline as it closed with a loss of 91 points. that does put it will he bow 17,600. s&p 500 is down six. the nasdaq down 12 for similar magnitude of declines. the dow is the clear underperformer. crude oil having a lot to do with. that chevron and exxon generating real pressure on that index today. there is the price of crude.

even looks a little bit better now than it did at the lows earlier. down about 3.6% on the wti contract. $45 and change and we will have more on that for you in just a little bit. first though, we are awaiting earnings. we have a lot to get through. let's bring in today's panel. courtney reagan, welcome to you. and tim see moreymour to kick things off for us and what is in store for the big names this week. dan, i'll start with you. does it bode poorly that first day was down for august? >> i don't think any one day matters in particular for the market as a whole. we've been trading for lack of a better word fairly poorly for several months now. i wond read into today's action. >> one interesting point that but maybe should is the fact that we

have michael kors ralph lauren and coach is trading weak. >> we got a number of these higher end players that are going to be reporting this week. and there's a lot of concern about consumers maybe moving away from some of the previous brands that were preferred, especially when we're talking about michael kors and coach. it's hot in the handbag space. it's easy in the leisure space. coach has interesting things with the changes. they say they are serving a00 people. very few women notice the change in coach. that is not so good for a company trying to get you to come back. >> i have to wonder too, how much of that might do with the chinese consumer bailing out the big names for some time. and maybe just not turning out in force like they used to. >> definitely handbag space. bad for me right now. what i can tell you?

we look at coach and kors a lot of the luxury retail relies on china. we're still very much in the unknowns cam on the impact of the chinese market selloff. but the other part of this is if you look at the eci numbers last week or the employment costs index where the wage components people are worried with all the deflation people are also worried how that computes on wages. so i think we're in an environment where people are very concerned about growth. and spending power for the consumer. on a day like today, it makes sense. i would argue that august and august through october this next threw months is one of the worst periods for markets. >> we'll come back to the point on wages in just a second. nick, i want to get to you. before we get the results today and move into the retail part of earnings season, how are we doing so far in the bottom and top line?

>> what we're seeing is a replay of the first quarter and getting feared earnings. those are turning out better. we're 71%. it's been the top lines that are disappointing. so we're getting average 3% earnings growth right now. but minus 3% sales growth. it's only half the company's beating on the top line. and that's down from the 60% average. it's the disappointing top lines that are causing investors to be cautious. >> and perhaps causing a lot of merger activity as well. so aig, all state, we're going to wait to brit results you to. first though, we have to talk about the move in crude oil. significantly lower today. jackie, what is behind it? >> there's a couple reasons behind it. the first is we got soft data out of china. opec raised the supply again in july for the month of july record output. so we see no signs really that

anybody is scaling back. there have been some subtle indications that we may see it. but nothing meaningful as far as traders are concerned. also, some comments out of iran this weekend talking about how they will bump up production when sanctions are lifted to the tune of a00,000 barrels per day. traders mulling the issues and seeing more oil is coming online right now. that is probably necessary for the marketplace. i will say this. wti making a 4% move to the down side today was pretty significant. we saw it trading at the close at $45.17. the next level to watch is the six year low that we saw in march, $42.03. there is a lot of support there. but if we breakthrough that level, this three hand that will you and i have been talking about for months now could very well be possible. i do also want to mention the fact that brent was under $50 today, a very significant psychological level and technical level for the brent futures contract. that making traders believe we could see more pressure to the down side. back to you. >> down 5%.

all right. jackie thanks very much for now. listen it is one thing if this was happening and deflating the commodity complex. meanwhile, april sl in correction territory. i think that's why people are kind of tieing the strings together and wondering if there is something big area foot. >> let's be crystal clear about arguably the most important point in this entire discussion. and that's the commodities do not decline in price into a recession or a recessionary type of environment. we can use 2008 as the example. oil spiked up to 150, $160 a barrel. some sell side firms talking about prices going as high as 200. that's what tends to happen. and that causes economic disruptions. it's not generally the other way around. and when you listen to conference calls from nonenergy related companies, they don't seem to be saying -- >> i'm not saying energy is the cause. i'm saying the drop in energy and commodities may be the side effect of slowdown in growth that they're not taking seriously enough. >> listen i don't know.

our view is that that is not the case. our view this is largely a function of supply and the dollar. >> well, we'll come back to this in a moment. let's get to aig's earnings which are out right now. we have the details. >> so we're still trying to parse through the numbers right now. you can no doubt guess insurance companies tend to be somewhat complicated at times. what we have is a headline earnings number coming in at $1.39 per share. that beats the average analyst estimate of $1.22 per share. they also announced a $5 billion share buyback program. and they've already -- they upped the dividend to 28 cents per share. we're still trying to parse through and find a comparable revenue number. for right now, what we know is that profits or earnings per share have come in better than expectations, $1.39 versus $1.22 estimate. can you see on your screen right there, shares are up by a little less than 1% right now in the after hours trade. about 65,000 shares have trade sod far. kelly, we'll keep an eye and

parse throughout rest of the numbers. for right now, earnings beat up on light volume by three quarters of 1%. back over you to. >> thank you very much dom. nick, it looks like they're doing more on the buy back and dividend front. what do you make of this? >> reflection manufacture companies right now that bearish argument is a lot of the earnings are being financially efrpg neared through buybacks. companies are doing a good job managing costs here. and the like. but until a company like aig and others in the insurance industry and financial sector begin to generate revenue growth, it's hard to sustain a rally. they've had good runs. they're modestly expensive as the trends have weakened over the past year. >> yeah. hey nick you talked before about how revenues are coming in light or earnings aren't particularly exciting. i mean under the assumption that there is one particular sector let's call it energy that, is largely contributing to weakness outside of energy how do you see things going? >> dan, we do x energy results as well. and we always have a caveat with

that. that is all the bad stuff excluded and not factoring in the benefits of lower energy. eastbound outside the energy sector, the other nine sectors sh the rates of growth of sales and earnings growth are still slowing. >> we're not really seeing that money flow into pure play retail, at least not in a way that retailers feel comfortable pointing their ving on and saying, yes, savings at the gas pump are plowed into savings here. >> people have been looking for the missing gas dollars. there is speculation that may be going into health care. the premiums, some of the state premiums, some of the spending plans are so high deductible right now could be moving a significant amount of dollar there and look at the per foremanance of the health care

sector. >> we've been overweight in health care for a couple years now. it's hard to get into that freight train. the data is clear at this point. the gas savings, so to speak, are not going foo retail. they're not going into health care. they're going into savings in general. but as long as we're on that point if, i can toss it back to tim for a second. tim, do you have a comment on what is going on with the chinese consumer the savior for the global economy in the face of a u.s. consumer increasing savings more? >> i tell you, dan, to the extent that the chinese consumer is moving towards a more consumption oriented, you know, approach, i think things are getting better. but to expect this to happen overnight, the consumption as part of the economy up is 43%. i would say i think people are overestimating the impactst chinese stock market fallout on the chinese and economy and on the chinese consumer because it's such a small part of that population. but as we're looking toward the global consumer to catch life i would make also an argument that i think is one of most stimulative times if you look at the currency weakness and commodity weakness, look at europe.

i think they never had it better. this is a generational time for at least the ability that consumer to have a lot more spending power. for as much as people want to make this out as being a terrible time for emerging markets, two-thirds of the emergeing markets complex benefit from the input. i think this is a time that people should be looking at lower commodity prices as a positive, not a negative even though it seems like it's telling us a great are story about risk and global markets. >> unless you flif brazil my friend. >> right. and they're one of the one-third emerging markets getting hammered. i think they're going to 360. the ruble could go to 70. emerging markets stay at the five year lows. >> last week i was doing some reporting on the chinese consumer. there are a number of things going on there. folks that study the consumer spaending behavior say that they're starting to do what the u.s. consumers are and maybe spend more torns experiences or a second home vacations as opposed to that high end handbag. they've grown tired of the labels they sought after for so long whether they got tired of them or just don't like the product, they are seeing that shift in spending happen too.

so that's a cause for concern for a lot of the luxury companies as well. some of these folks are actually going over to europe where the euro is weaker and perhaps buying there. but they are seeing weakness in the retail sector. >> i was in scanned knave yachlt you'd be anaysed how many were tloefr as well. you're so right, courtney. so we'll see if that does take more of the air out of the names. we leave tlit for now though. we'll wait for the earnings results to come n appreciate your views. tim, we leave it there as well. there is more with tim seymour and the "fast money" crew at 5:00. bill flekenstein is watching right now. coming up july auto sales crushing expectations. we'll get details on what droest numbers high and if the momentum can continue next. and the apple watch debut to fanfare but it hasn't delivered on sales. and now shares are delivering either. apple in correction territory closing down 10% with today's price action. with the next iphone set to be unveiled in a month, can that bring investors back to the stock?

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welcome back. let's get you to a news alert. >> the latest in 50 cent curtis jackson bankruptcy filing. according to the latest filing he has $24.8 million in assets and 32.$32.5 until in liabilities. the liabilityies exceed the assets by $7.7 million. he was ordered to payed adds million to settle a suit last month. ordered to pay $17 million to settle a lawsuit last fall. so he right now is $7.7 million in the hole. a large part of that is because of those lawsuits. back over you to kelly. >> that's a point. julia, thanks very much. u.s. auto sales meantime in july coming in much better than expected. let's get to phil lebeau with a breakdown of the numbers. hi phil. >> hi, kelly. strong numbers across the board from the automakers. take a look at the four largest automakers, keep in mind all of these guys were up 1% to 3%

better than what wall street was expecting with gm leading the way with a 6.4% gain last month. crossover utility vehicles the story of july auto sales. they were strong for nearly every automaker leading the way, honda crv. these are the top cuvs sold last month. crv up 11%. escape up 10%. look at the nissan rogue, up a1%. again, those were among the most for lar of the crossovers. the average transaction price, what people are paying when they go into a hoe room. according to kelly blue book just under $33,500. roughly in line with where it was in june. compared to july of last year, up 2%. incentives which is always a concern, slightly higher. not a real big kick. take a look at this wall. this says it all. for the first time since 2000 we're seeing three straight months with sales, the sales rate, i should point out, above $17 million. again, we haven't seen that

since 2000. i want to show you auto nation. the ceo is going to be on ""squawk box"" tomorrow morning. the dealership stocks, they have benefited the most over the last year along with the after parties sellers. those are the guys really making the most head way with all of the strong auto sales we've seen over the last 6 to 8 months. back to you. >> that is a point. stay right there if you wochlt joining us for further analysis on the figures and in particular what's driving suv or should we say cuv sales? carl brower from kelly blue book. welcome you to. so the crossover market, is that what this is all about? >> it's what it's all about. if you're a crossover brand like jeep, you're doing well f you got crossover that's just resonate well even if you're not a particular brand in that area like honda, you got the best-selling crossover out there. so they're hot. some sedans are moving too, trucks are doing well but it's all about the crossovers. >> phil where did the crossover

story come from? the crv has been on the market for years. >> it's within the last five years that people say i want the utility, size, sit up a little bit higher. they really want to go back to the suv. but they don't want to buy the suv because it's heavier, bigger, going to be not as good when it comes to fuel economy. that's when automakers really pushed the cuv. >> i'm just throwing that out there. it reflects an aging population to some extent. there are a lot of people getting in and out of a low slung car is a real issue. a crossover or suv is perfect for them. >> i totally agree with thafrment the fuel efficiency is important. phil, of course talks about the this a lot and what folks are looking for and how the gas prices play into. that phil, i'm wonldering because we were talking about earlier if the gas price savings were going into retail are they going into buying a new car whether it's a crossover or an suv? >> well they certainly feel more comfortable spending more money. and carl and i have talked about

this in the past. when you look at the transaction prices they are not slowing down. it is not unusual now and i don't know if you talked to anybody raentecently who bought a vehicle, it's not unusual for them to say i put down $40,000 on a pickup truck. 15 years ago if you said i'm putting down $40,000 on a truck, pel would have said you're nuts. it's the norm now. remember, pickup trucks are immensery popular in this country. >> phil, great point. i remember reading in "the wall street journal" a feature story about pickup trucks had eucalyptus this or that and the fancy interiors. but is that symptomatic of how strong those pickup truck parts of the economy, the oil parts of the economy were? is there any risk if these start to deflate here? >> there is huge pentup demand for them. there are companies ready for a new truck. the new trucks get better mileage. they offer more features. i think people are willing to pay. they see them as much as a

status symbol as they do a functional tool now for the owners. they want to show up at the rodeo and even at the ranch and they want to look good. they have the top end trucks to do it. >> all right. thank you guys. >> one other thing to keep in mind, there is a technology play here. there say technology play. we all want the latest technology whether it's with our cell phones what not. we also want it in our cars. and people want to rotate into that newest technology. >> it's not just about cup holders anymore. thank you. appreciate it. we have breaking news to get to in puerto rico. kate kelly, what can you tell us? >> hey, there kelly. this just n the rating agency declaring a state of default in part rico as a result of their confirmation just within the last hour that the public finance corporation largely missed a $58 million payment that was due on august 1st. they have the ability to put it in the bank and get it today. they did not. they said they weren't going to because they were trying to balance the needs to the people here along with liquidity concerns. one other piece of news worth

noting, they have changed the way in which they set aside money to pay their general obligation bonds. these are really benchmark bonds that enjoy constitutional protection and are considered by investors to be super safe. puerto rico is no longer going to put aside monthly savings for the bonds. it doesn't mean they won't pay them much that's key to remember. but they're changing the fwha which they set aside for them. that could have an impact and raise the likelihood of a default, kelly. a couple of negative pieces of information from san juan. >> seems like they're throwing up their hands. all right. kate thanks very much for now. our kate kelly in puerto rico. investors are falling in love with apple. shares in correction territory. apple falls below the 200 moving day average. what will it mean for the bottom line? that's next. and a new website is taking wall street analyst jobs to main street. a chief executive p join us to tell us how rate kogz mean big returns for your portfolio. stay tuned.

apriling is trading below the 200 day moving average and in correction territory. joining us now is gene munster perfect piper jaffray who is still overweight apple. what do you make of the weakness? >> it's just kind of a continuation of a theme that we've heard all along about the

watch, especially i think there are three different research articles out about the weakness in the watch demand. i don't think that's anything big. but that's probably what is leaning even more on apple shares today. it's less optimism around the watch. >> you think it's product specific and not reflective of concerns about growth in china or global growth generally? >> i think in this case it's product spefgs specific because of the intensity level around the articles that basically suggest that they will not be able to produce $6 million units in the holiday quarter which for some investors may be a disappointment. i think the other issues asht global impact is probably has been issues in weeks before that have weighed down the stock. i think specifically to day it's really about the watch. >> gene it's dan greenhouse. full disclosure i work with another firm and we have a buy on the stock. in your model, how much revenue do you forecast for the watch?

in 2015 2% of revenue and that goes to 30 and 5% in 2017. >> let's say something would happen and the watch would be a flop and a more permanent state than some people currently argue today. in term of how you think about the company and the stock itself, does that meaningfully change how you see things over the next three to five years? if something is 2% 3% and just call it 1% or 2%? >> from a math standpoint, zint mean anything. think it is difficult to have the numbers weigh from a psychological standpoint for investors, they obviously want to see them succeed in the new product category. eventually they have to reinvent themselves again. it has little impact. if it's a failure on the finances. but it probably has a little bit more on the psychological impact. we're believers that the watch will prove to be a success. but that's probably the give and the take. >> of course i look at the consumer end.

particularly the younger females and the apple watch. they can pick up or the lack of pickup in that consumer group with the apple watch. >> i mean that group in general, i think is part of the bigger theme which is consumers still ask the question about why to get a watch. i think that even though it's a little more acute within that dem graphic and it's still an overall theme about what to do with the watch or why to get one. if you look at the for example, "the new york times" -- >> gene real quick. i'm sorry to interrupt. if i could ask you, why should consumers buy the watch? >> well it takes friction out of your mobile experience. it makes it easier to access information and whether it's access to a hotel room flood information, boarding passes. there's an apple today is through an ad campaign highlighting 30 different applications for the watch. i think that there is reason for it. i think over time the real

excitement here is when they come out with native apps. that will open up what they can do. i had think that change the whole trajectory of how consumers view the watch. >> what about the catch cow, what do we think about the refresh cycle and prospect for the holiday season? >> it's looking like they're gaining share which is positive. so probably the number are going to inch up which is great for the overall eps. it's still going to beg the question about can they grow next year? this has been such a monster year. i think the theme ininvestors have is that apple is gaining share in the smart phone market which is obviously the big positive. because it's mostly revenue. >> yeah. the lion share. final question we heard tim cook say this back during i think the last fall. heed is we still think the watch is going to be the gift for christmas. any evidence that will be the case? >> it's going to be a gift, i'll say that. there is nothing else that's really out there that is super exciting. so probably by kind of that wave

of victory, it will probably be one of the bigger gifts. i think the real breakout year is a year from now with the watch. >> i think the drones are pretty cool as a gift too. all right, gene thank you. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> gene munster. we have a news alert on jcpenney with courtney reagan. >> wasn't this convenient? we got news out of jcpenney. marvin ellis son is the ceo effective as of saturday. so this is the first announcement from marvin ellisson. he is being replaced as of tomorrow by michael lement. he is coming from home depot in a similar role and also mike robins is underneath michael lement. he comes from target. both of these places home depot and target are former employers of marvin ellisson. and remember his big push is all about omni channel, making everything more efficient. and a lot of analysts are betting he's going to use that

infrastructure from the catalog at the jcpenney has to really maximize all of the operations. so this is an important move particularly in an area that many analysts are betting will be his strong suit for the company. >> how is j.w. penny positioned for the holiday season? >> that's a great question. we do know that what is -- what the blan will be is something that ellisson and almond created together. we don't see a lot of big changes happening until 2016. he said maybe some changes. but change for the sake of change is overrated. we'll see. i think they can play probably won't dominate based on where they've been and the traction they need to gain. >> back to school will give us an early indication. thank you. eyes on jcpenney. let's send it to dominick chew. >> i'm watching shares of cheg the on line perng platform company. it's a smaller cap company, 700 million prior to this earnings report. can you see shares down 7%. they reported earnings of a penny per share. that beats the average analyst

estimate for a break even quarter. sales also come in better. $67 million. $64 million is the average analyst estimate. however, the reason why you're seeing that decline, they do offer guidance on q-3 revenues. they expect 74 to $80 million of revenues this current quarter. analysts were looking for on average $82 million. the revenue outlook comes in light. again, a smaller cap company in light trade right now. the shares are down by 7% just around 42,000 shares of trade. so a stock on the move in the after hours. again, a small cap company. back over you to. >> and this is barnes & noble is doing that spinoff of the education business this morning. thank you. time now for a update with sue herrera. >> hi kelly. president obama says his new power plant regulations are the single most important step america has ever taken in the fight against climate change. his plan requires states to cut carbon dioxide emission business

32% about it year 2030. former president jimmy carter having a elective surge troy remove a small mass in his liver. a spokesperson says the 90-year-old cart xpeshgted to make a full recovery at emory university in atlanta. no other details were released. serious xm radio agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle claims it violated labor laws by not paying interns. in court papers, the company said it still believed the unpaid intern program was legal but would pay the money to more than 1800 former interns to avoid costly litigation. and bobby chrisi kristina brown is being buried next to her mother today. the gold hearse carried her remains into the cemetery in westfield. the 22-year-old died july 26th. and on that sad note that, is the cnbc news update at this hour. back to you. >> sue, thank you very much. >> big calls from the streets top analyst can trigger major moves in the company shares.

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because we should fit into your life. not the other way around. take a look at how we finished the day on wall street. it was a down month. the dow closing down 91 points. we were about 150 points lower at the very lowest estest of the session. nasdaq and s&p 500 faired lower. it was crude that really pushed some of the dow components lower. down almost 4% on the session. some investors relying heavily on wall street analysts to rate stocks and set price targets. there are familiar names around here. others are wondering if there might somebody better alternative. now there is better where the crowd determines the ratings and the stock prices and here to explain how it all works is patrick williams the company's ceo. welcome to post nine. >> thank you very much for having me on. >> vetter just went live last year? >> we started the whole program

then. and since then we've had over 35,000 ratings. so really it's the crowd that comes to the site and puts the ratings and make the difference. >> the ratings are price targeted on the stocks? price presictions about where they think they're going to go and whether they actually bought this before and really looked at high performance. >> is it too soon to tell whether they're better than sell side anlist? >> what we're seeing is no one is necessarily better or worse. what we're saying is that this is another opinion, another point of view. this is something that people should look at. we really want to be the kind of yelp of the stock market to really make sure that people are checking stocks. and also we're free. and we're easy to access. so we're really the voice the crowd. >> i think you're trying to undermine dan's business. >> my business cannot be undermined. i'm an institution. but to that point, you know think someone in the traditional

wall street community would say, and i will say it you know whether you're an analyst at morgan stanley or wherever, there is a certain amount of work and effort that goes into the stock ratings whether they're accurate or not over time is a separate story. the work the leg work is put in. the channel checks the management meetings. what you're arguing is someone could just sort of roll in off the street, so to speak, and say i had a great experience at the apple store or i went to the j crew many midtown, i'll buy the stock as a result s that really information an additive so to speak or muddying the watters? >> you know we have various ago ga ridges in house if someone is trying to dump the stock. we can measure. that we're saying it's not just that one person. we're saying it's the crowd. so you know if you've got a few dozen or a couple hundred people raising a stock, you know that wisdom of the crowd, you know back in 1906 was pretty much spun off. that's what we're saying. all stocks should have this and should have a feeling for the general public whast company is

up to. >> let's get specific if we may. tesla, for example with, earnings coming up this week the analyst crowd has a $310 target on it s that right? you're looking at 271? >> yes. we're quite a long wafrment the crowd is quite a long way off. that what we feel about that and see on the postings that the crowd put up is they feel a little bit unrelated to tesla. still the majority of the crowd are not going to be able to ford the product. and the drive in the car seems a long way off. >> i'm sorry to interrupt. you just hit on an important point there. i don't -- this is going to come out disrespectfully. you're saying a lot of the people rating tesla in this regard can't afford the car. and that's a perfectly fair -- the fact that can you afford the car or not is entirely separate from rating it. the analyst community has been to a factory or driven the car or knows someone who has driven the car and done some sort of leg work with the car itself and can say well this is much better than a camry. isn't there, again, just a

deficiency, so to speak, between saying tesla seems high priced to me and actually doing something to say tesla seems low priced or high priced? >> again, i'm not decligneing the analyst community. a lot of the crowd can afford the car. a lot are raising the stock because they own the car and have a love of the company. but a lot of people also don't. and, you know there have been a lot of different promises made by tesla about what they're going to bring to market. things seem a bit slow. it is long to take it apart. i think our audience not being as bullish, they're still raising the stock. they're not as bullish as the analysts. >> i think as most are concerned, the more the better. get the information out. there let's see how do you. patrick williams is the ceo of vetr. we got yahoo, netflix, a whole lot more people to check out. thanks for being here. >> at least one president sh hopeful that shoots from the help is hoping to score big at this week's debate.

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hillary clinton says change capital gains taxes to push investment to the future. is she right? >> no she's wrong. that's all bologna. because what she is doing is just doing that to mask a tax increase. mrs. clinton does not know what she's talking about. the other proposals to create jobs? paid sick leave and raise the minimum wage. that doesn't move anybody in the middle class. >> you are against raising the minimum wage? >> i'm against the $15 minimum wage for -- >> are you against $10? >> we have to talk about it. but $15 thashlgs destroy jobs. whether you look at the change that's we made in emergency emergency and the 192,000 families that have jobs that didn't have them don't think that's insignificant. >> you're not running on the new jersey miracle. >> no. there is nothing -- no meeshg until new jersey. new jersey is three yards and a cloud of dust john. meeshg rlz from god. what is happening in new jersey is not a miracle. it's happening. it is grind it out progress on behalf of the people that i work for. >> now chris christie will have a chance to make that case on stage. ate pears he'll be one of the

ten thursday night. hillary clinton for her part is taking on some water politically this summer. she is out now for release tomorrow with two new positive ads trying to raise her image. we'll see if she responds. >> how did he describe the state of new jersey? three yards and a cloud of dust. >> three yards and a cloud of dust. he said there is no miracles. he's not a dictator. he talked about having gotten through a business tax cut but wasn't able to get through a personal income tax cut and blame those high tax rates for slowing down new jersey's job growth, democrats tell a different story, of course. >> will he and donald trump be on the same stage thursday? >> they will be on the same stage. it's interesting because they're friends. he talks on the stum thap he's been friends more than a decade with donald trump. but what he said to me in our interview was that when i asked isn't donald trump becoming the straight talking candidate whose calling card is telling the truth in the race?

he said donald is telling his version of the truth. he said some of the things that trump is saying are completely unrealistic and would hurt the credibility of the presidency. said it's not in the best interest of the republican party to nominate someone who can't be an infecteffective president. zbh i'll be fascinated to see how we can balance with the time constraints given the number of them. i bet a lot of people will be tuning in. thank you very much. >> you bet. >> john harwood in washington. >> american ferro taking a victory lap monmouth park in new jersey. his competition isn't only at the racetrack. people are spending billions of dollars on a different type of gaming and casinos and tracks are taking notice. we'll take a deep dive into this booming business next. be sure to tune in to "closing bell" tomorrow. mark bertolini joins us to discuss earnings and consolidation across the health insurance space. you won't want to miss it. you're watching cnbc, first in business worldwide.

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actively traded bond fund the ticker there bond they've said this particular fund's investment manager had said they received a wells notice from the s.e.c. that relates to this particular etf. again, the total return etf ticker b.o.n.d. bond. the notice they say indicates the staff's preliminary determination to recommend the s.e.c. commences civil action against pimco stemming from a non-public investigation into the fund. a wells notice is neither a formal allegation of wrongdoing nor a finding that any law was violated. so that's again some of the boilerplate stuff from what a wells notice is. they do say this matter principally pertains to the valuation of smaller size positions in non-agency mortgage-backed securities purchased by this particular etf between the dates of its inception, february 29th, 2012 to june 30th of 2012. so again, some valuation concerns are being raised by regulators. they've issued something called a wells notice. again, not a formal allegation of wrongdoing nor a finding any law was violated but still an interesting development here with pimco and their total

return bond etf, kelly. back over to you. >> all right dom, thank you very much. news there on pimco. app games meantime like candy crush and that kim kardashian hollywood one they're raking in digital dollars but the players aren't with always who you think they are. eric chemy is here with the details. who's playing these games, eric? >> everybody is playing these games. the data comes to us from mpe, the big retail data firm. they have a lot of consumer data. the interesting thing about these games, that billions of dollars are being spent on mobile games. a lot of us won't admit to it. right? everyone says oh maybe i'll spend $5 or i buy the game for free our download the game for free but i won't buy any of the credits. but when you actually go into the data it's billions of dollars. some of these games in a six-month period you're looking at $50 a person $100 a person. some of them even $400 a person from december to may. on an annualized basis you're looking at almost $800 a person on some of these games, which is crazy. >> and looking through the story it sounds like these aren't just games you're playing. a lot of it sounds like

traditional gambling. money you're spending? you're gam snblg. >> in the same way in the kim kardashian game you pay credits to win little things or candy crush you can do things called social casinos. you cannot win anything. if you win something it would be regulated, it would be illegal. because you cannot win you just pay money to get more credits or an interesting slot machine. it's a fun game to play. but it's not regulated. the companies don't have to give you anything. so he this win on both accounts. there's no government involvement and they won't have to pay you -- churchill downs actually bought the makers of big fish casino for almost a billion dollars in december because they know it can augment the gambling business they have. >> big fish casino is one of these traditional slots games. dan is a big fan of the kim kardashian game. >> interesting thing is the older you are the more people spend. this is not a kid's thing. a lot of people think it's a phone but the more they have the more they spend in increasing numbers. but it's not a thing that operates like a mobile

technology. it operates like a casinoo. you go to a casino you see old people there sitting there hitting the slots. that's exactly what happens on these mobile games. >> for big fish gaming in particular which is the slots game i guess, you were saying the biggest demo is women over 45 years old. >> right. gamers. they call them the whales. just like in casinos. >> that's a very offensive comment. >> it's a technical jargon term in the industry. >> it took me a minute now. i get it now. >> let me ask you a quick question before we run. aren't we just paying to play? is that such a big deal? you're getting enjoyment. >> this is exactly what a casino looks like, if they gave you money it would be illegal. the fact they're not paying you changes the whole political nature of the whole environment. they're getting a loophole. >> and meantime big business for some of the traditional names you mentioned. eric, appreciate it. there's more online. you heard about walking on water but what about dirt biking on water? that's right. you're going to look at a dirt bike surfing the waves of tahiti. we'll have details on this next.

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robbie madison making the impossible happen by combining the two. he's surfing the waves of tahiti on his dirt bike. according to d.c. the project took over two years to create. guys when i first saw this video i thought it was some sort of new product. i didn't realize it was an actual motorbike that was surfing the waves. >> i didn't really understand what it was evil. i thought it was some evel knievel thing. i didn't realize it was associated with d.c. which is probably the exact opposite of what they wanted. >> well he's got the shirt on. that's something. but to me it just looks like he stuck my daughter's kick board to his back wheel. it seems like something i could do. >> if it took two years to create, it took two years to get it right? >> you said it seems like something you could do? >> yeah i'm on record. >> it took two years -- >> i could do it. >> dan greenhaus officially has until the end of 2015 to do that on a dirt bike. >> by the way, full disclosure. there's nothing i believe i can't do. this is right in line. >> we cannot wait to watch this one happen. thanks for joining us. appreciate it. kick off the month of august on

"closing bell." dan greenhaus and our courtney reagan. "fast money" coming up in just a few moments with melissa lee and the gang. melissa, over to you guys. >> thanks a lot, kelly. "fast money" starts right now. live from the nasdaq marketsite overlooking new york city's times square i'm melissa lee. your traders on the desk are tim seymour, pete najarian dan nathan and guy adami. apple breaking through a critical level and one that could spell trouble for the rest of the nasdaq. a top technician explains later this hour. plus shares of michael kors getting slammed today but we've got the analyst who says there's a 40% up side to the stock and the breakout could happen sooner than you think. we'll tell you what it is that has him so excite. we start off with our top story tonight and that is the steep sell-off in stocks today. crude the big culprit again closing down 4% in today's session. bond yields tumbling as investors seek safety. the question is is this the start of a summer swoon? these are levels in crude we have not seen since the financial crisis. is the market telling us something right now? >> the market is clearly -- there's major divergence. if you