now they're looking at $12 billion. i think it actual sli going to be a very difficult in terms of the read through in terms of al bichlt -- alibaba. >> we shall see. that does it for us. thank you so much for watching. power begins now. >> scott, folks, thank you very much. welcome to "power lunch," everybody. the new ipad comes out tomorrow, folks. is the stock still the apple of investors' eyes? this stock is down 8% in six months. >> the u.s. attorney for the southern zrifkt manhattan is set to speak any moment now on charges in perhaps the biggest hacking attack of all time. it hit the financial sector hard. >> and following the big short, more from the man who tanked pharma companies and valiant.

first though, that big hacking news. a news conference set to get under way any moment now. we have the details from d.c. >> earlier today u.s. authorities unsealed this massive 68-page indictment alleging a global hacking scheme against j.p. morgan, "wall street journal" and a host of other companies and institutions in the united states. this scheme, according to the indictment, involves hacking attempts against major financial companies, attempts to manipulate individual stock prices and also a whole host of other alleged criminal activities including running illegal internet casinos and illegal distribution of pharmaceuticals. a big coin exchange and a host of other activities around the world. the three men indicted here are jerry shalom, jash what samuel aaron and israel, united states and russia. you dive into this, what you see is a picture of a vast global

hacking scheme that had pockets in all corners of the world including a server in egypt that was used to allegedly hack into j.p. morgan. and then take a look at this exchange here. this is one of the little bits of color of what life was like inside this conspiracy, algdzly. one of the conspirators asked another one, is it popular in america buying stock? here was the reply from gery shalom. he said it's like drinking vodka in russia. we're expecting to learn a lot more from u.s. authorities in this press conference about how expansive this campaign was, what they know about these individuals who conducted it and where we go from here. but a massive, massive hacking attack that affected millions of americans. >> and that's moments away. we'll begin that news conference shortly. bring it to our viewers. thank you very much for setting it all up for us. in the meantime, while we wait for that news conference, let's take a look at how stocks are doing. they continue to be under pressure right now. one sector holding up is

consumer discretionaries. it's up 11% year to date. slightly higher today. there say big divergence going on though. dominick chu is here to explain. >> it's about the internal what's is happening with consumer discretionary. it encompasses so many stocks that people spend money on. retailers, specifically, are dragging things down. this is why people are paying attention. check thought chart. this is just again over the course of the past year to date period. you can see the consumer discretionary sector up 11%. the retail stocks as measured by etf that tracks, the spider retail etf. that is down 6%. if you take a look within the holdings of that etf that tracks the retail stocks, a number of names pop-up as big drags and have big market cap along with them. walmart, $187 billion company. it's down 32%. a big drag for retailers overall as an industry group. dollar general and the dollar store side about, a $20 billion company.

also dragging things down 7%. and then macy's, of course, we get that big earnings report tomorrow. dragging things down by 29% about, a $15 billion company. at this point, remember, all of this is about what's happening with the retail earnings coming up. they're going to provide a big picture. wednesday is macy's, thursday is kohl's and nordstrom and then friday j.cpenney and then octobr retail sales. remember, we're entering that seasonably strong all important holiday shopping period. these stocks are all going to be huge focus for those consumer spending fans out there. back to you. >> all right. thank you. general electric meantime, hitting a milestone. the stock at $30. look at that. $30.06. first time it's been at that level intraday since -- wait for it, august 18th, 2008. it's not closed above $30 since june 10th, 2008. let's get the trading action here in the u.s. bob pisani joins me.

>> before i goat ge and the milestone, i want to point out we're still waiting for mcdonald's to open. post is here. you can see the crowd still standing around waiting. this is their investor day. we don't know what they're going to announce. there is some speculation maybe. they might announce something regarding the real estate division, maybe forming a reet. they have a big breakfast plan all day. maybe they'll increase the dividend. we don't noechlt we'll find out very soon. i'm sure it will reopen and we'll get the news out. ge, you're right. the good news, it's over $30 foifrt time since 2008. here's the bad news, it was $40 not that long ago. it was $40 in 2007. it was over $60 back in 1999. it went all the way down to $6, too in, 2009. it's good news. volume picked up in the last couple weeks as they went over and pass the 2009 levels. so it is certainly good news. just remember, the price history of the stock. i want to talk briefly about the etf price war we got.

it's heating up. black rock which owns the ishares business, big business, has slashed fees on seven etfs including the core total stock etf designed to represent the broad u.s. stock market. the fees are now 0.03% which amounts to what? 30 cents for every $1,000. it's below schwab and vanguard. so what's this all about? it's about getting more assets under management. black rock ishares that's $2.7 billion under management. that is far below vanguard. so kugt the fees will likely bring in more assets and make up for the lower fees overall. and the important thing here is those people want more assets under management. by the way, total market means the whole stock market, not just the s&p 500, but small caps and mid caps go in there, too. so you're literally buying into the entire market. very popular wave right now, other than the s&p 500 this is

the second most popular way to own the u.s. stocks. tyler, back to you. >> as you and i know, the fees really do matter to your ultimate total return. at that level, it's so small. didn't even know that. thank you. news alert. in the bond market, can your notes up for auction setting near new highs? rick santelli tracking the action at the cme. boy, has that ten-year yield riz ne -- risen in the past month. >> it certainly has. the winner is five year which on the first dave the fed meeting last time was around 136. it is currently at 1$170. the yield is 2.304. the offer was 2.305. we gave it a c minus on the trade. you have to go back to 2011 to find a better auction. i'm sorry.

that's 60.5 on indirects. the bid to cover is a little weak. 14.3 on direct is strong. it was a b minus auction. much better than yesterday's three year. tyler, we don't have an auction tomorrow due to veterans day. we'll come back with 60 billion on thursday. back to you. >> all right. rick, thank you very much. as we mentioned at the top of the broadcast, u.s. attorney general -- u.s. attorney speaking about his massive hacking scheme. let's check in now. >> maximize profit, in short, it is hacking as a business model. the conduct alleged in this case may signal the next fron tour in securities fraud. to steal material nonpublic information, something they discussed for the next stagest sprawling criminal enterprise. you can see that in the indictment unsealed. so that's the bad news. the good news is that the fbi and secret service have cracked

this case and we aim to proveit in court. the indictment describes the three defendants. gary shalom was the alleged leader and self-described founder of the enterprise. zib warrenstein, opening bank accounts and creating shell companies and managing payments mng cohorts. and joshua aaron, reported to shchlt alon and participated in the computer hacking and stock manipulation scheme. together they used cyber hacks into major global businesses to advance several different criminal schemes. first, as previously charged, shalon, aaron, and orensteen ran pump and dump stock schemes. they inflated the price of penny stocks and false trading and dumped the holdings before the rest of the market recognized the fraud. but for this scheme to work, the defendants needed access to a lot of names and contact

information, people to whom they could pump the stock before the defendants dumped the stock. what they needed was victims. that's where the defendants took the classic stock fraud scheme and brought it into the cyber age. they allegedly hacked into networks of seven mainlior financial institutions and two financial news companies. why? to get personal information for tens of millions of customers, people most likely to be engaged in significant stock trade. they then used that stolen private information to blast spam e-mails, falsely touting the penny stocks that they later dumped. so the valuable customer information they stole through the cyber intrusions helped generate for them tens of millions of dollars in stock fraud proceeds. in a way, it was securities fraud on cyber steroids. second, for many years, the conspirators also operated internet gambling businesses

that generated hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal proceeds. to protect this business, they allegedly sought to undermine rival companies by hacking and stealing their customer information and by distributing denial of service or cyber attacks on his rival networks. he allegedly even hacked into software development firms to spy on their employees' e-mails to make sure they were not favoring his competitors. third, he also allegedly oenld and operated payment processing business that's processed hundreds of millions of dollars in credit card payments for all types of criminal activity including the distribution of illegal pharmaceuticals, counterfeit software, and computer malware as well as with their own online and illegal bid coin exchange businesses. the conspirators used their cyber hacking skills to protect and advance these criminal enterprises also.

for example, as alleged, he cleverly hacked into a market intelligence company that worked with credit card companies to detect criminal conduct. they monitored and reviewed that company's e-mails so that he could say one step ahead of their efforts to detect the very type of suspicious conduct that his payment processing businesses were engaged in. and so turbo charge in a way by the cyber hacking activity, he and the cohorts, criminal businesses generated hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds that they concealed in bank accounts around the world. you can see that graphic we depicted in this chart. as i said, he was hacking to enable securities fraud and payment processing in all different ways including in the two different examples, spying on the competition and monitors and in that case, engaged in hacking in order to find victims for the fraud and financial

institutions and newspapers and you see that depicted there. >> so you see him walking through the criminal enterprise at the heart of this scam. at one point saying the advantages of the hackers here was that they were -- becausest hacking, they were able to read the e-mails of competitors. they were even able to read the e-mails allegedly of an intelligence firm working for credit card companies that was trying to bust them and in the indictment here it spells out what they d they watched as the intelligence firm tried to process fake credit cards through their own processing channel. they blocked those credit cards and, therefore, stimied the investigation by hacking into the investigator's own e-mail there's. so a sprawling massive, really breath taking in scale cyber hacking operation here. we'll monitor this and bring you more as we have it. >> thank you for that. let's get fwook what is happening with the stock market. apple shares are under pressure today with a new report by credit suisse raising fees about demand for the iphone. the firm saying that apple

reduced the component orders by as much as 10%. credit suisse says the cuts seem to be driven by weak demand for the new iphone 6. credit suisse maintaining the outperform rating on apple stock with a pricetag at $140. today though, it is down by over 3%. tyler? >> all right. fascinating story playing out here on cnbc. literally, in just the last hour. research report helped take down shares of valiant. the short seller now targeting another pharmaceutical giant. he was speeg with scott wapner about the call on the "halftime report." left calling mallincrot a poster child. >> for years they've been the poster child for the problems and price gouging. it's been written about numerous it times.

and most recently, obviously with the valiant soap opera, it pushed mallincrot out of the news. maybe it hasn't been as good of -- it's turn into like a valiant soap opera. i figured it's about time people actually start looking at mal n mallinckrodt. the amading thing is the insurance push back on this is not coming because of issues like this. they're not reimbursing this because they want doctors to practice evidence-based medicine. not peer review studies or we're okay for this indication but rather evidence based. so this is not valeant. this is worse. >> take a look at mallinckrodt shares. they are higher at $62.30. they are down a bit in recent

times. let's go to courtney reagan with the latest on mcdonald's having an investor day. >> mcdonald's holding the investor day in the first couple minutes. he gave us three key pieces of news. the company is not going to pursue a reet structure. this is not a positive benefit for shareholders at this time. second, they're going to increase the number of franchises to 4,000. this was announced in may. and the company also have increasing the gna cost savings to $500 million. the previous estimate was $300 million. again this just first couple minutes of the mcdonald's investors conference. we have four hours to go for more potential news. but so far that -- those are the three biggest points that we've heard so far. tyler? >> all right. thank you very much. much prettier day out there than it was yesterday. not so cloudy. the ceo of mcdonald steve

easterbrook will be on cnbc tomorrow on "squawk on the street." don't miss that. that's favorite on cnbc. steve easterbrook. >> talk of a deal in the railroads. emerging again. what is driving m & a action in this sector? should you buy those stocks? plus, the latest read on the american housing market. the most and the least expensive housing market in the nation. you're watching cnbc, first in business worldwide. don't change the chabl. equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like ordering wine equals pretending to know wine. pinot noir, which means peanut of the night.

. mylan is doconfident of the successful completion of an offer. that should be finished friday morning. and vodafone is moving higher with the mobile phone giant boosting the full year earnings outlook despite a first half loss. the outlook comes amid a recovery in the key european market and product development. that stock up is by 3.6%. >> controversy swirling at the university of missouri following the departure of the president and the school's chancellor is moving to a new job. phil lebeau is live in columbia with the latest.

hi, phil. >> hi. there is a sevense of normalcy returning to this campus. there is no doubt that demonstrations over the last few days have had an impact on the 35,000 students who attend this university. >> they accomplished the goal. >> is there any change in the atmosphere or it is going to take more than that? >> it happened earlier today. i think it's a wait and see deal. >> i was very surprised that they would resign this fast. but i'm actually not surprised because of all the money that is going towards football and we couldn't not play the football game on saturday. he didn't really have a chance. >> the threat of a boycott about it missouri football team and the fact that would cost the university at least a million dollars had an impact here. by the way, the athletic department brought in 83 plt $9 million last year, a profit

$36.5 million. most of that money brought in about it football team itself, over 40%. 32nd most profitable or 32nd most revenue brought in of any university in the united states. here is the athletic director talking about the rolfe the football team and this controversy. >> certainly there was financial ramifications if we didn't play the game. that wasn't our focus. it's not hard to look at a contract and understand what those ramifications are. >> away from the football program, what are the change that's we'll see here at missouri? the university is appointing a cheap diversity officer and there will be diversity education classes for all members of the faculty as well as incoming students. again, tyler, there is a sense of normalcy returning to the campus here in missouri. back to you. >> all right. phil, thank you. >> we're watching the railroad stocks. we're seeing renewed m & a

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hi, everybody. here is your cnbc news update for this hour. president obama asking the supreme court to save his plan

to keep illegal immigrants from deportation. republicans consider criticized the plan as illegal exclusive overreach. democratic presidential hopeful bernie sanders rallying on capitol hill with fast food workers fighting for higher wages and better benefits. he told the crowd it's time for their representative to represent their interests. >> target unveiling the black friday deals including bundling apple products with free target gift cards. so consumers who buy an ipad air 2, a mini 4 or an apple watch will get a gift card ranging from $100 to $150. shoppers purchasing an iphone 6 on an installment plan get a $250 gift card. ohio state quarterback j.t. barrett pleading guilty to drunk driving charges in court this morning. he must complete a three-day program and pay a $400 fine before february 14th. he was suspended by the football team for one game but expected

to start this week. >> that's the cnbc news update this hour. let geese to courtney reagan. breaking news on mcdonald's. >> hi there. that's right. the mcdonald's investor day continues. we have a couple new items to update you w mcdonald's fourth quarter 2015 dividend has been increase bid 5%. it will be 89 cents. the company is also going to take advantage of low interest rates. it says go ahead and increase its debt. also return $30 billion over three-year period ending in 2016 to shareholders. and, again, to recap what we learned earlier, mcdonald's decided not to pursue a reet spinoff transaction. they don't believe that is beneficial to shareholders. and looking to franchise 4,000 locations, that's an increase from the previous intention of

franchising 3500. so that 4,000 will take the total franchise model to 95% of companies stores. tossing it back to mandy and tyler. >> just to mention once again, we got the first on cnbc tomorrow, steve easterbrook. that is going to be very exciting on cnbc. the shares are still halted. they're flat at $112.89. thank you. >> we also got news data today calling it the question the strength of china's economy. what does it tell us? >> this is data on the inflation front. continued decline in producer and consumer prices in china. here's why it's important. low inflation in china suggests the domestic demand for goods is weak despite the central bank stepping on stimulus over the past year. it puts china in a very special scenario from other merging markets battling deflationary pressures.

and that's because china is in addition to grappling with lower commodity prices, dweeealing wi low food prices and strengthening currency. there is more news continues on the pboc front. now switching focus, there is another pain point in europe where a leftist socialist party in portugal forced the current government to resign as leader antonio costa gains popularity for the anti-austerity pledge. expected to become the next prime minister f that happens, intelligence says the minority government will push for reduced austerity. the worry is this could hinder portugal's economic reform. and this uncertainty around portugal and dovish commentary if from policymakers is sending urt yoe lower. goldman sachs may be projecting the euro to hit parody against the dollar by year end. so that talk is heating up here. >> we heard the parody talk a lot of times. >> it can really happen. >> get party hat ready.

thank you very much. tyler? >> folks, major investor in snap chat writes down the value of the stake in the company. what does it mean for the evaluations for deck companies? julia boorstin is all over it for us. >> it's certainly not good. snapchat's valuation was $16 billion as of this last fund-raising round. they just drove down the price by 25%. the combination of the filings and monthly holding reports show fidelity dropping the value of each year of the 4-year-old messaging start-up from $30.72 the end of august to $22.91 tend of september. now fidelity won't comment an individual companies. this could reflect concerns about snapchat's ability to make money from fast growing user base. in september, snapchat shut down the snap channel, the own content production and launch aid few tour that charge users to replace snaps. they have been launching more content partnerships and more targeting tools.

this writedown comes on the heels that fidelity cut the valuation, their investment drop box by 20%. these writedowns feed into concerns about private internet companies evaluations and the ability to groet valuations in the public market with uber valued at $51 billion. i reached out to snapchat. they said no comment. tyler? >> thank you. another down day for stocks. fourth in five sessions if we close lower. the question, are small caps a better bet in this environment? with me is lamarvillery, co-manager of the morning star four star ratedville -- rated villary fund. i don't think a balanced fund managers as being wild and crazy small cap dudes. why do you like them? >> we think the u.s. small cap market is the place you want to be right now. >> why? >> for one thing, we think that's where you can find some

growth. that's where you can find some companies that aren't as well followed. can you get in attractive evaluations. finally, we think you're more defended, you're a little more safe from outside pressures, whatever is happening in china, whatever is happening in europe, whatever, you know, janet yellen, whether they decide to raise rates or not, if you pick the right small cap stocks, can you do right. >> how have they done this year? not as big as the multinationals, right? >> they lagged, absolutely. >> which is why with you like them. >> we think that's where the opportunities are. if you can find the right small caps, you're in good shape. >> why don't you react to what lamar just said and also more broaden it out a little bit. the wall street writing yesterday some concerns among investors like you that big blue chips are selling at extended price earnings ratios which you look back over the preceding 12 months. are you concerned that stocks have gotten a little expensive? of course, there is nothing to say they couldn't get more expensive. >> yes, tyler.

thank you. so specific to small cap, really doesn't mat cher way you look at it. whether it's future earnings, past earnings, the ten-year average or five-year average. all of them will tell you the small cap is extremely expensive. the multiples, most of the times that comes up they're on a 30 multiple. and whether you look at it on an absolute basis compared to its own history or relative to other asset classes such as large cap or overseas, small cap is very, very expensive. the time you want to buy small cap is when the earnings -- the multiple difference between large cap and small cap is relatively compressed. and right now they're very, very wide. and small cap is very sensitive in our view. >> let me let lamar jump back in here. i'm confused. lamar, he is contradicting exactly what you say. >> not exactly. so we're not here to be -- we're not cheerleaders for small caps broadly. we think this is a stock picker's market. we only own 20 to 25 of ourt

best ideas. while there are plenty of expensive and overpriced stocks in the small cap market, we find really interesting opportunities. >> so he is not wrong. >> no. >> he's right on the point that as a group small caps. you have to be selective. >> you have to be very careful. >> there are two you like financial engines and taser. do you have one with you? >> i don't. i left it in the car. >> he's going to taser you the next time you're together. >> no, we agree. the there's always opportunities when you look at individual stocks. as asset allocators looking at creating portfolios, you have to be find million of what is there. so we are relative value investors. and so we look at valuation across multiple different asset classes. >> lamar said he likes a small caps. as an asset category do you like best and quickly, please? >> so when you look across the spectrum, u.s. equities are generally overvalued. european equities are

undervalued on a relative basis. we like europe more than the u.s. that doesn't mean we don't have money in the u.s. we still do. it's just an underweight compared to what we would have in europe. >> you like european stocks. all right. thank you very much. bring your taser next time, will you? >> i'll do it. >> all right, lamar, thank az lot. let geese to dominick chu with mcdonald's news. >> it is reopening. it was down by about 1% going into it. this, of course, after headlines coming from its investor day that it is not going to pursue a real estate investment trust strategy. also it's going to try to franchise more of its locations and also boost its dividend by 5% to 89 cents a share quarterly. it was down 1%. you can see it turned around and gone up by 1% intraday. the stock just reopened about two minutes ago here. you can see here we did fall by 1% after the open. reopening rather of trading. now we're up 1%. we'll keep watching the mcdonald's shares. this is the fourth best

performing stock so far this year to date. and also sits near a record high again. mcdonald's is surely been a large cap blue chip jugger not in this particular year. we'll keep watching the shares as the afternoon progresses. >> we will. up by .7% as we speak. thank you, dom. >> norfolk southern is having a volatile day. we're looking at the consolidation that seems to be going on the rails. what's driving this? >> let's call this round two. we have canadian pacific reportedly setting the sights on norfolk southern in a deal that could top $24 billion. both companies declined to comment on this. fwhut wouldn't be a surprise. it's coming a year after the number two freight railroad abandoned csx. the cp ceo is calling for consolidation. he's been arguing this with reduces congestion in chicago and boost service. analysts add this would stoke growth at a time when the

commodity class and strong dollar pressured rail volumes as well as earnings. but a deal would create a trans couldn't nental railroad with little overlap. 35,000 mile of track that would stretch from vancouver, canada, all the way east and south as far as miami, florida. but some questioned whether rail and m & a activity viable, including norfolk's ceo who back in may said in today's political and regulatory environment, i think trans couldn't nental mergers further consolidation in the industry would be a mistake. now that's the biggest hurdle. getting this cleared by regulators after several decades of previous consolidation, ther carriers left including these two and that group accounts for more than 90% of industry revenue and nearly 70% of freight rail mileage already. so a lot of question marks over whether something like this could happen. >> get the green light from regulators. thank you very much. twins today. even down to the shoes. how about that? >> ladies in red.

>> thank you. most expensive housing market in america, okay, yeah, we know san francisco. but throughout tl are others on the list that may surprise you. that is coming up next.

a new report out on the most expensive housing market in america. >> i'm going to surprise you right here. you've been talking san francisco. it is actually not in the top ten most expensive housing markets, at least according to coldwell banker. it's number 11. nine out of top ten are in california with newport beach winning the priceyest. average list price $2.3 million. then paloalto, saratoga and

strangely, a town in minnesota. most of the homes are on the lake. it is vacation country. after that, next noncalifornia city on the list is greenwich, connecticut, $1.3 million is the average price. when you round out the top 20, honolulu, cambridge, mass and wellsly mass make it outside of california. california accounting for half of the 100 most expensive markets. now here's my favorite stat of the report. the average list price for a home in newport beach is 7 1/2 times the national average and 30 times the cost of a similar home in the country's most affordable market and that most affordable market is -- i will tell you coming up in the next hour of "power lunch." >> that is what they call a tease. diana, thank you very much. newport beach. bill gross can afford houses out there in newport beach. coming up, wait until you see the painting that someone paid

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$170 million for a painting of a naked lady? >> this is mashgt of extreme high ands lows. at a sale last night this painting sold for $170 million, making it the second most expensive painting ever sold. now the painting was estimated at $100 million. after nine minutes of bidding, it was sold to a chinese billionaire and former taxi driver chen who plans to put it in his private museum in shanghai. now also selling last night was nurse which went for $95.4 million.

just above the $80 million estimate. of the 34 works that came up for auction, ten of them failed to sell. the question now is whether we're seeing a deflating art bubble or a sustainable adjustment in prices. $2 billion worth of art to be sold during this fall auction season. still to come, a prize portrait of mao. that could fetch over $40 million. big irony there for the founder of the communist party in china. back to you. >> ironic. great story about the former taxi driver being the buyer of the painting. good for him. thank you very much. robert frank. shares of placeies are down 30% over last three months. can you make money in this stock during holiday season? we have a good old fashioned bull-bear debate. you know the storey.

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best idea, the name and fast price target coming up one stock, that's it. single favorite most best as we say zblc say. >> most best. okay. macy's is set to report earnings tomorrow before the bell. the street is estimating eps at 53 cents and quarterly revenue at $6 billion. we have a bull-bear discussion ahead of the earnings. let's start with the bull here. you know this company has basically missed estimates for the last estimates. why do you like it, richard? >> dominant in the sector. enormous omni channel investment and tremendous importance to the suppliers. sure this is going to be a long term successful player. they also have the real estate opportunity, the ability to monetize the real estate over time and provide cash wind falls. we've seen 250 million of these so far. >> what do you think of this

bullish real estate case, rick? how much is that worth for the stock? >> if it -- it is very hard to tell. i'll take you back to the second quarter when the stock was $73 and the real estate bulls were telling you it was worth $100. macy's completed a deal worth about 73 cents a share. the problem was the stock was overvalued by 50%. that's where we are now. we still think there is a 20% real estate premium in the shares. and we think -- we think there is actually a fallacy of presumption in there, presuming that the current price values only the operating earnings. we think that value is significantly lower. >> putting aside the real estate question here, rich, there are a lot of other things that macy's is battling, right? obviously the online retailers out there, slowing traffic, strong dollar hurting. i can keep on going. what you would counter on those issues going into the holiday season?

>> no question it's a tough 3-q. no question they have 800 points of distribution that gives them an edge from omni channel and from retail. they're the most important distributor rather than an antagonistic relationship. so macy's has the support from a wholesale side. and now needs to turn on the marketing machine to drive traffic and drive sales. >> do you think gasoline savings will help? >> no. gasoline really doesn't affect this consumer. the incremental change, they've got a credit card and moving on. >> you would agree or disagree with the things that richard just said? rick? >> i would agree that they have good products. the problem is none of it's really selling, particularly handbags. the handbag market growth has slowed to low single digits from high single digits. that is a huge category in terms

of sales and margins for macy's. so we think -- we don't think they can make that up. and in termsst vendors, we think that we're going to see a lot of markdown money. i think richard is right there. that's not good for macy's either. >> so you have rick, there a $43 pricetag. once again, a sell on macy's. richard, you have a buy with a $60 price target. we'll see who is correct later on. thank you very much to both of you. >> i'm buying fewer handbags these days. >> i'm buying more i'm making up for you. >> i give handbags to my wife. good luck with that. >> happy wife, happy life, tyler. >> that's right. >> happy co-anchor, happy anchor. that's it for the first hour. >> hand it over to you. >> twint hear tyler more about what he means about having good luck. thank you both very much. all right. 2:00 in wall street. hello out west. the dow is struggling to find direction. dout is almost exactly

unchanged. but apple is not. it's thinking. hi, everybody. welcome into a very special shoutout to all of you marines past and present. today is a 240th birthday of the marine corps. all right. i'm brian sullivan. melissa lee is at the nasdaq. let's start with apple. apple shares taking a hit after credit suisse announced they lowered the hardware performance by 10%. we've got two apple analysts to day. outperform still and collin gillis with a hold rating. he's going to join us in a second. dan, we'll begin with you. following up your appearance last night this morning, you say that many people are infeeffecty yelling fire in a crowded room full of apple stock much it's nothing to worry about. why? >> the timing is impeccable. you're seeing a lot of bears yelling fire in this crowded theater. just like we saw three months ago. it comes down to iphone 6 sales

are strong. especially on the holiday season. now guys are going to worry about march and june. we see the forest through the trees. the strength is in the channel. we'll see year over year growth. and it sets us up for the blockbuster iphone 7. i expect given why the groups, they'll say similar things over the next week or two in the supply train. it's an opportunity just like we saw three months ago they say the same thing about december and look how apple guided. i think that is really the view here. this is an opportunity. >> dan, you are not concerned that upgrade cycle is slowing down. that a phone today is probably going to be good enough to use in three years? >> yes. there is definitely an iphone 6 hangover. you'll start to see that in march and june. but then it sets up for the iphone 7 which is really the blockbuster elite. you got to look 30% of iphone users have upgraded to iphone 6. there is a massive runway here and android switchers which we

saw last quarter. that is how i view it. right now, apple is still in the third or fourth inning of the overall growth story as they're trying to tap the growth areas. i think that's the thing to focus on for a stock trading at eight times the class. >> collin, you heard dan's bull case. why do you have a hold on the stock? >> no matter what people say, the iphone market is slowing down. this whole smart phone market is slowing down. if you look at what unit sales are going to do for the december quarter, they're going down to the mid single digit range. i'm not worried about the market contracting yet. it may happen in the march quarter. but this is a company that is dependent on hardware. what you're seeing is the market rewarding a lower pe. there is pe contraction happening for apple. any time there is a hiccup of news on the name, you see it wants to become a source of cash. i would not want to be actively buying it even at these levels

until we get later into 2016. >> what you are waiting for? >> let's get to the 6s cycle. we have four difficult quarters of costs. let's make sure that they're going tibl to take market share from android users. tim cook gave this stat that 30% of new iphone users are coming from android. a little misleading. it's really only about 3% of the total android market on a worldwide basis. apple is a sub20% player. if they can get traction on the upgrade program and get people to, you know, try to move to a new iphone every single year, that will be wonderful. that's not happening any time soon. the next o two quarters are difficult for apple. >> very convincing argument both ways. the bears are wearing the stock down much there's a long way to go. you both made convincing cases. thank you both very much. we'll see you soon. let's get a market sflash now. what do you got? >> let's talk about shares of

anheuser-busch. molson was spiking earlier saying the company is near a deal to buy the remaining miller-coors stake for $10 billion. now this deal is contingent on the anheuser-busch takeover of miller and will pave the way for that sale. a.b. in bed for the offer for miller. that is likely to be formalized tomorrow. something to watch. brian? >> thank you very much. also topping your headlines today, the war of words over mallinckrodt. they're firing back at the ceo. both men appearing right here on cnbc today. let's get to our reporter with more on this increasing fight. >> brian, yes. it's an interesting day to watch here. mall inckrodt, they say theret worst example of reimbursement and pricing pressures. they say that's not true. their drug is doing just fine.

and then les joining scott wapner. this is one of the claims he made. >> this year they were supposed to do an proxy statement around $1.5 billion in sales of a drug. they're coming in in under a billion dollars right now. that's a colossal miss which means -- i mean you have the ceo on cnbc this morning saying that everything is fine with insurance. when you're supposed to be $1.5 billion and you're going to do less than a billion, you're either having problems with the insurance reimbursement or with the sales force. >> i can say that apgar is the main drug that mallinckrodt sells. i spoke with the ceo. he said les made a number of statements that were incorrect and he took me through point by point including on that estimate as to aktar's sales this year. he said he was probably taking

the number from a projection for 2016. questcor is a company from which they acquired that drug. as the drug is tracking now, it did just under $1 billion in sales last year. it's been growing 8% to 9% the first three quarters this year. one would presume if it grows on that level, it will come in above $1 billion. taking issue with. that he also took issue with the claim that les said they were an inversion play. they're based in ireland. he said they're based in ireland because they were spun off in 2013, an irish company. he went through a couple points, essentially saying we're just wrong. also taking issue with his characterization of a trial in lupus. they were testing a drug. the drug did miss the primary goal. they were saying that it was successful because it did well in some secondary goals. you can see there the stock really recovering after yesterday's fall. not quite getting up to the same levels. very interesting, brian, to see this kind of point counter point

here from the two parties. >> yeah. heavy duty throwdown. thank you very much. >> let's get an analyst take on all. this he covers mallinckrodt. you heard from left and from the ceo, david, any change to your rating or price target base ond what you heard on cnbc today? >> none whatsoever. so i have a long history covering mallinckrodt and questcor. what is interesting about them is they have raised these red flags regarding sales potentially collapsing because of disappearing managed care act. this is when questcor was a stand alone company. none of that has happened. the fact of the matter is axar works. and it works in a number of different clinical settings. and the product continues to

grow. volume growth hasn't been quite as strong as what it was a year ago and two years ago. the fact of the matter is the product continues to grow. so my views on axar and my views on mallinckrodt haven't changed. we haven't seen any environments that this product is falling out of bed. >> you're one of the few analysts on the street that does not have a buy rating on valaent. you have a neutral rating on avlaent. do you see any potential issues when it comes to reimbursement, the assertion it will be a poster child for problems with reimbursement. >> to paint them with the same broad brush i think is just flat out wrong and overly simplistic. the issues for valaent are special to valaen. when we look at these companies, we know that product is essentially restricted to patients that have intractable disease, who have essentially

failed every other therapy. so managed care is already quite restricted. and will they get incrementally more restricted? that is certainly possible. but not a way that's going to dramatically an impact on sales. again, this broad brush approach and that kind of inendothnuendo wrong. you have to look at each company. >> can i just ask you to emphasize that a little bit more? what exactly are the differences between mallinckrodt and valaen's business models? they both have acquired drugs. raised prices. what is difference ben b. what the companies do? >> we think valaent orders of magnitude more aggressive on acquisitions and on the price. and then you mention the filidor thing. that is a captive pharmacy for valaent.

mallinckrodt, they're third party relationships as is the case with many pharmaceutical companies that work with specialty pharmacies. and that is a meaningful difference. so the bottom line here is that these -- yes, these are two companies that have been inquiztive. but there are real fundamental differences between the two. >> david, i want to ask you about valaent specifically. the ceo michael pierson said that he is working on quantity fig a short term impact with ending ties with filidor. the ceo himself is trying to figure out the impact. how big of an asterisk do you have on your price target and estimates? >> my price target assumes some sort of normalized pe multiple for the stock. but the reality is this -- we

don't know when valeant is going to get a decent multiple. it's not because of filidor but because there is this tank on the whole company. it's not just a question of filidor, it's question of fear of the unknown. what other information, what other stories, what other things are hidden under the rug so to speak? i think that's something that is problematic in terms of perception of valeant. because of this aggressive nature, because of the scorched earth this is a company that is perceived as having no friends. and so in that -- from that perspective, you kind of look at a management team that is radioactive. and so that's a problem in terms of multiple recovery. >> david, you may not touch this. michael pierson of valeant, should he quit or be fired? >> i think right now i think for the foreseeable future, he will

be radioactive. i think if they do want to see multiple recovery, i think he is going to have to step aside. or if that's not something he is willing to entertain, then maybe the answer is breaking up the company. there are segments within valeant that get a morrow bust multiple. but they'll never get the value they deserve under the valeant umbrella. >> david, real pleasure goat you on. thank you very much. appreciate. that we'll see you soon. thank you. >> my pleasure. >> the rather bizarre trade many hedge funds are getting into. we're going to show you the other places that you may want to look. plus, an analyst rolls out his single favorite stock and last hour we told you about the nation's hottest housing markets. guess what? they got to be got news. mandy and tyler, that's what they do. we're the bad news. we'll show you where the prices have fallen but maybe there are real bargains as well.

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the deflation cycle continues. live cattle down 14% over 90 days. the protein category, soy beans, that crop is high.

the price is down 13%. morning coffee, it should go down because, guess what? coffee futures are down 12%, again, in just three months. on the other side, the metal side, platinum is down. corn is down. copper is down 6% and wheat is down more than 6% as well. almost every commodity you're going to eat or build something out of is down. but there is one commodity that, shall we say, has been on a real high lately. it is sugar. it is up 38% over the past three months as well. apparent lit big buyers are mini hedge funds. kate kelly can unravel this mystery for us. why are they buying sugar? >> that was so full of delicious puns. there is rarely so much excitement about a commodity overflied around the world it's given away for free in many

restaurants. a markdown taking production this year which sent prices to seven year lows plus emerging markets plays on brazil and other places are making sugar a popular futures trade. year to date, sugar is the fifth best performer among major commodities that are otherwise in a sea of bread. other companies are getting involved. one commodity trader i know caught a big part of this recent move which is actually up as he said, 40% or more over the last several months. but sold out recently on a bet that strong u.s. dollar which typically hurts the price of raw materials like sugar and oil would likely continue. and like him, not everyone still buying the bull case. they said that price curve involved here where sugar futures outpaced cash prices suggest that the commodity is, in fact, overvalued. but wet conditions in brazil this year hurt the crop. that is a place where sugar is a mathor export tamped town

production. we can certainly see more of an upsurge in sugar prices, brian. it is definitely one to watch. >> you're not suggesting our viewers go into restaurants and load their pockets up with free sugar pacts and put it in contango. >> i'm sure no one would do that especially with the lean towards stevia. it's so plentiful, you could do that with impunity. it is a commodity that is overproduced. >> take a lot to make any real profit, probably more than you had room in your pockets. >> it would be nice do that it's gas pump, right? >> kate kelly, thank you very much. >> everybody knows the phrase lost in the crowd. right? usually used to refer to people. but does it also apply to stocks? it just might says bmo. jack, would everybody's attention so focused on a few named, right, apple, netflix, facebook, amazon, whatever, do you feel like as an investor there are some really good companies out there that are just become completely ignored?

>> yeah, i look at it from a ma macro sense. you're right. the names you mentioned over the last three months are up between 13% and 16%. the average stock on the s&p 500 is down. in fact, the average stock on the s&p 500 is underperformed the s&p 500 by nearly 5% since april. i look at it as an indicator, a really two sides of an indicator. one, i look at it as the breadth indicator to say as technical, as the technicals start to weaken and fewer and fewer companies are participating in the rally thashg, that's a conc. we had that in a big way in the late 1990s. but i also look at it in terms

of credit. credit conditions started to tighten as the average stock started to underperform. if you talk about apple and amazon and ge and the big companies, the microsofts of the world, these are company that's have unfeddered access to capital. i think apple's bond is trading at .5% above equivalent maturity treasuries. smaller companies -- >> i heard this morning that dallas cowboys are 0-8 or 0-9 without tony romo. the quarterback has gone down the last two years. they haven't won a game. if facebook, google, netflix and a couple others are the quarterback of the market, if they roll over, can the rest of the market win? >> and right now i would say no. in general, in most markets, the

average stock tends to outperform the market. so i think that in a healthy, strong robust market, i'm going say four years out of five, the average stock outperforms the market in general. and that's really just strong breadth. and i would say that is the underpinnings of a lot of active manager strategies. and a lot of hedge funds. hedge funds tend to short the mega companies. and they go long the individual opportunities. but right now the environment for that is reversed. and it's reversed because i think the quality of the rally that we have seen certainly for the bulk of this year is probably suspect. >> very quickly, i have to ask you, how do we make money? >> what we're looking at. there are cheap markets. we're waiting for a little momentum. high yield bonds right now, yielding over 7%, looks pretty interesting right now. we haven't jumped into those yet. commodities, if we can just get

a little stabilization and improvement, obviously against the backdrop of stronger dollar, it's probably not happening too soon. and then lastly, emerging markets. particularly commodity consuming emerging markets really cheap. cheapest i've seen since 2002. >> all right. jack, wee'll get you back on. a real pleasure. thank you. >> thank you. >> all right. up next, a tale of two home builders. we're digging in on a pair of earnings report thatcy a lot about the state of the housing market. first, it is "street talk" time after the break. the five big analyst calls of the day that caught our attention.

time for our daily segment "street talk." it's a daily segment. first stock is nordstrom. buy on the $76 target. they say this year they inflection point for nordstrom. they think management investments and continued push towards the web will pay off. nordstrom rack is also doing well. $76 target is 18% above the current price for them. >> the bigger question is, are consumers shifting away from

buying from department stores? yesterday was a terrible day for department stores across the board. macy's hit a two year low. nordstrom was down 5% yesterday. and this is ahead of earning onz the 12th. this will be interesting to watch the report. second stock we're watching, dean foods gets downgraded to a rare underperform rating. dairy cycle turned favorable for dean. dairy supplies radically cut the costs. but there is still underlying challenge here's. declining consumer demand, excess processing capacity. they think the stock will have a less than average upside over the next 12 months. >> you would say that analysts are saying that milk soured? >> i wouldn't say that either. the third stock, don't cry over that pun. the big off shore driller now boutique shipping and commodity from clarkson says sell this name. the analyst also cutting the target to $15. that's about 15% below the current price. i e-mailed him this morning.

he said brian, the call is not fancy. it's just that the stock moved up -- that was his word -- the stock moved up 30% this quarter. he thinks we're not out of the woods in off shore drilling. the energy stock lately appears to be selling. >> that's interesting. we highlighted another call, downgrade of an energy stock because of valuations. the ones that have good balance sheets, the ones that have ample liquidity are in that category. they are being rewarded in terms of share price depreciation with a certain burst when the market actually moved higher. so it's interesting to note where we are coming from. we need take a look at exxon and chevron. they're up a lot. the fourth stock here, gap. as you know, posted disappointing results last night. fell short on october. and reiterating the neutral rating on the stock. there is down side risk to november comps from old navy and expects a downward revision for the fourth quarter guidance. also expect continued weakness

at banana republic which has been a problem. >> and i give a shoutout to the analyst there, roxanne. she downgraded the stock a couple months ago and that's been a sec of a good call. all right. finally, to day's under the radar name is lados holdings. reston, virginia best national security and i.t. produce r. provider to the government. it was spun out of an old company. they won a huge five-year potentially $660 million contract recently. they raise the target to $60. yes, 10% upside. the stock has also got a couple upgrades in the past few weeks so maybe a stock to watch. >> that is a nice top. take a look at the tail end of the chart. the chart is up 25% since mid october. huge move there for them. >> through go. and with that, we wrap up street talk on a very rainy day in new york. let's get to the oil close. >> good afternoon, brian.

oil prices getting a boost today despite the fact that the dollar index is moving higher. one of the reasons is there was some comments in the marketplace that the opec secretary-general made at a conference today. misinterpreted says opec. people were interpreting what he sbed a price cut if it happened the last meeting to be a price cut will happen at this meeting coming in december. and he didn't say that. so opec wanted to clarify. having said that, the iea report was out this morning. you probably know. $80 target for oil prices in the next four to five years. that means we're going to be lower for longer and slowly grind higher. so expect the volatility to continue. expect this to remain range bound. a lot of raiders think we can touch that three handle before we come back up into this range that we've been settling in around $45 a barrel. as for the close today, looks like we'll be over $44. brian? >> all right. jackie, thank you very much. >> let's get a news update now with sue. >> hi, brian. here's what's happening at this

hour. the syrian government releasing video of fighting near the coast. state run media reporting at least 23 people were killed. 40 injured by explosions. the blast struck two separate areas of that particular city. pope francis denouncing the exploitation of migrant workers. that area is a magnet for chinese nationals looking to work in the textile trade. the pope lamented the inhumane living conditions and unfair work environments. indonesia continuing to spew volcanic ash. this time over 7,000 feet into the sky number evacuations but flights from an airport that just east of bali have been canceled until at least tomorrow night. "playboy" launching play boy shop.com, an online shopping website for the brand's merchandise. you may recall last month it shocked the readers by saying it would no longer publish fully nude photographs in the

magazine. so now you might be able to say that it wants readers to cover up as well but with "playboy" clothes. that's your news update, brian. >> are you trying not to say something or laugh, sue? what is it? >> i think it's a little giggle. just a little giggle. >> the articles, man. the articles. thank you very much. up next, more on that iea call that jackie referred to that oil may not hit $80 a barrel for another five years. we'll talk about it ahead. and apple ceo tim cook taking a not so subtle jab at his biggest competitor. we're going to tell what you he said about computers. you pay your car insurance premium like clockwork.

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we're going to get to our trading nation team. they were on camera. everyone was confused. we're happy to you have. i was shocked it wasn't iea said about $80. you disagree. how come? >> well, i think that $80 is the right number. they're thinking it 2020 and i'm thinking it 2016 or 2017. the headwinds are stronger dollar and chinese demand and some oversupply that we've been dealing with for the past year. i think the tail winds are really the fact that investment contracted a bunch. and we're going see supply fall. i'm more bullish on chinese and asian demand in general. i think we're going to get a tighter market faster than the iea is talking about. >> how tight and how fast? >> you look at the last 18

months, we're about a million barrels a day. i would expect in the next year, u.s. supply will fall about a miion barrels a day. i think demand in aggregate is going to grow about a million barrels a day. so a market that's been half a million to a million losing is going to get one to two million tight in the next 12 to 18 months. so i say fairly tight, fairly fast. >> you know, we keep hearing, dan, the bull case. and it makes sense. it's going to end the year writ began the year nshgts mid 40s. at what point do we say, gosh, maybe saudi arabia and everybody else is throwing so much oil on the market that no matter what happens here tshgsz going to overfill global demand? >> i think it has been a stubborn price. we've been fighting, you know, a

number of variables, market fear being the biggest one recently. the fundamental data is tightening. if we step forward another 6 to 12 months and prices are still this low, there's going to be real financial distress in the industry. and i think that something will have happened. most likely demand will be bad if we're at this price in another year. so i think the hard part is these markets trade day by day by day. the supply and demand dynamics settle out over quarters. and so it's very frustrating hearing the bull case and not watching it show up in price. but i think another year of this and there will have been something wrong. >> and what -- i get your morning note every morning, thank you, dan. what are your clients saying? are they saying what the heck is going on? or are they more sanguine about it? we've been here before. it will recover? >> i think it's a function of the type of investor you're talking. to the traders are very frustrated. it's a hard way to make money in the short term.

crude is 38 and 5 o0. stocks are in demand. there is a lot of incremental debt. i think the institutional investor base is frustrated. the value guys are slowly acquiring stock. the hedge fund guys are trading like crazy. it's been a tough market to make money. >> it has. dan pickering, you're leer to help douse that. we appreciate it. thank you very much. >> my pleasure. >> all right. now it's time for trading nation. let's bring up our crew once again. there we go. the ten year yield hitting a four month high earlier today before sliding bate this afternoon. after a treasury auction. but if rates do keep rising, what stocks might get hit? let us ask our very fine "trading nation" team. >> when you look at rising rates, what looks and what looks bad in that snef. >> also looking at prices rising

for bonds and also declining in those correlations. the two sectors that really stood out were industrials and materials. now obviously these are both heavily tied to the dollar story and obviously the dollar rising along with rates. but i think the most vulnerable fundamentally is the materials sector. we're looking at a 5% contraction of earnings over the next 12 months. on top of that, they're trading rich. they're trading at 17 1/2 times earnings higher than quite a few other sectors. so while funneled. ally they may have that correlation, they look good. materials are the ones to watch. >> all right. industrials look good. boris, what say you? which ones look positive to you? >> well, you know, when speculating, i believe it's best to kick the guy when he is down. so xop which is down -- went down to $31 is finally bounced back a little bit.

they'll get queez esqueezed low. and if rates go up and they're all very overleverage. any rally in xop is an opportunity to sell. >> to sell. you're not saying buy the xop. you're saying the opposite. >> i'm not saying the opposite. these stocks are going to suffer the most from any kind of rate hike. >> like our call on the street. the analyst said stocks gone up, problems are still there. sell the stock. similar thing? >> exactly. >> all right. >> thank you both. good to see you twice in one show. >> we'll seen our "trading nation" show on the web. all right, up next, we're going barringian hunting in housing. the markets with real buying opportunities and as we head to break, let's take a look at how all 30 dow stocks are trading. if you're on the radio, i'll say them for you. apple, the worst down 3.5%. visa up 1.5%. you're best for tuning n and we're first in business worldwide.

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anymore? no, really, why would you buy one? if pcs still dominate most desktops. we saw these comments and i thought it he is knocking microsoft and intel but also the way computing has gone, but is the pc dead, natalie? >> i think the pc is not necessarily extinct but it's evolving and that's what they're doing with their current sets of pcs which they don't really consider them pcs, the mack and i mack, they're doing ios-fiction of them. the mouse activates as a touch pad, you pinch and zoom. they're trying to make the two meet in the middle. that's where this new launch with the ipad pro comes. >> do you think, melissa, that cook -- he is definitely jabbing microsoft but do you think he was trike to make a bigger statement? >> i think he was trying to make a point that the days of the

pc -- the best days are probably behind it, but in terms of data, i think natalie is spot on. in the corporate world apple while its made inroads with the iphone predominantly on desktops across the country, on trading floors you see pcs you don't see macks. >> it's going to take a lot of time for the programs that corporate america uses i'm talking beyond word processing and spreadsheets to actually be usable on a mack. >> that used to be the big complaint that i.t. executives would say we can't scale this, we can't secure it so we are not going to distribute these in the enterprise, but apple has worked hard to combat that. they've made these deals and made big advances in security. the enterprise is more open to bring your own device. >> that's the i think this. melissa, this may be my last appearance on the show because i'm going to knock our company for a second. >> uh-oh. >> we can get our work e-mail on our phone and tablet if it's

approved, but we really can't get it on our own computer. >> well, you have to have some empathy for the i.t. people. >> you've got to love them. >> they have a tough job and one little security breach and who do we blame, right? >> my point, though, natalie, is that -- and melissa, because i'm able to put work e-mail on the tablet, i don't know about you, melissa, i would rather buy the tablet now so i can get a bluetooth keyboard that's at least sort of semi-normal size rather than trying to do the phone thing. >> have you tried keeping on a bluetooth keyboard for extended periods of time? >> it's better than trying to type on the phone. >> if you have a full size -- if you have to do an extensive report, if you have to access trading applications which we do every say, it's going to be on a pc for now. i'm not saying this is forever, but for now. >> those tps reports needs a

keyboard. >> two things very quickly, here we go, melissa, you have $1,000 to spend on some sort of electronic computing product what would it be. >> macbook air. >> how much do i have to spend? >> 1,000 bucks. >> yeah, a macbook air. id i'd do that. i want to also make the point -- >> dude, no one is getting a dell. >> no. i also want to make the point that forester has estimated that 20% of all tablets owned will be corporate distributed tablets. i think the enterprise really is coming around on this idea of giving out tablets and if you've got one that's really focused on productivity, why not this one, right? >> if you think the tablet is dead you haven't been to an airport lately because they are now staring us in the face. >> they are everywhere. >> melissa. >> by the way, in case you haven't checked out shares of apple lately, apple shares are down. according to its asian channel checks there will be pressure on units sold in the next quarter. we have a top technician on, is

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we're coming up on 4:00 a.m. in beijing which means the biggest online shopping day is officially under way it is known as singles day, 11/11 one of the

biggest players alibaba. will it give their shares a boost? tim, it's always good to see you. the numbers are staggering, $30 billion in gross merchandise volume was transacted in the first 30 minutes of singles day. the numbers are big, people expected the numbers were big, does that mean that the stock will react eventually to the big numbers? >> first of all, the stock last year if you look at it a month into the numbers it ral eed substantially, this year even more because it was beaten down. the expectations for gmv growth of 35% are out there. i think that's fantastic and i think they may even beat it because big ticket items, autos and other things could be part of this year's numbers. i think the stock is certainly in a place where people's expectations on china were built into what was going on in the stock into the lows it hit, 57, $58, i think things are not as bad as people are making it out. i think it's a good story. >> you're long baba shares.

you think the better play on alley ba ba's singles day is not alley ba ba. >> i think if you look across e-commerce in china, they traded in the u.s. names, whether it's 10 cent or jdr.come. these were names pushed around by macro fears and market fears. they will have higher numbers because they are coming off of a lower base. i think it is baba, 30 times neck year or 23 times -- it's cheaper than facebook, giving you the biggest growth i think you have right now in terms of the global player in the e-commerce space and e-commerce trends are china are more impressive than here and they are changing how the chinese consumer is behaving. >> you choose baba over yahoo or you are long on yahoo. >> i think long on gentleman hoo, too. i think ultimately play it through baba, you don't need to play into this number. disappointment is one of these

things that will be more profound on the downside than playing it on the upside. >> be sure to catch our interview with alibaba executive jack maw tomorrow. >> we will look forward to that. melissa. thank you all for watching "power lunch." the "closing bell" begins right now. hi, an welcome to the "closing bell," everybody. i'm kelly evans at the new york stock exchange. >> and i'm bill griffeth. dow component mcdonald's is holding its investor day right now, that stock has been on a bit of a wild ride as investors digest news the company turns out it will not be spinning off its real estate assets to create a real estate investment trust, but it will increase its dividend. we will have details from that meeting momentarily. >> yes, we will. another dow component, apple, mean while taking a big hit on a