(♪♪) at enterprise mobility, we guide companies to unique solutions, from our team of mobility experts. because we believe the more ways we all have to move forward. the further we'll all go. >> dew point and welcome to power lunch. i'm brian again with contessa brewer today. how do you say investing in europe is red hot in germany? good one. yeah, we don't know either. but we're going to find out because europe is red hot. in fact, doing better than america this year we're going to find out why. and all is well in the world because nascar is back. the head of nascar is here to talk about the great american

race. >> and while that dominates your weekend, i know brian. let's get a check on the markets dominating right now. you see the dow industrials off just slightly by 2/10 of a percent. the s&p 500 up just slightly by a 10th of a percent in the nasdaq. you know what. this all is all fairly meh. shares of nvidia slightly higher today. but let's take a look at not only nvidia but the impact it's having on other stocks. and it's 13 f nvidia disclosed a new stake in a chinese autonomous driving firm that is called we ride. that stock is soaring. look at that 73% higher on the day. but robotics and soundhound are just getting crushed because nvidia has cut its stake in both of those countries. soundhound off by 30%. serve robotics off by 43%. nvidia again up a little less than 2%. >> and so i want to be that was a little bit came in hot. that was because nvidia as like like a hedge fund like an investor saying we bought a stake in we

ride and we reduced our stake in these other companies. that's right. >> that's right. and look at and look at how those stocks reacted as a result. also i want to point out, because brian may love nascar, i love casinos. it's a good day for investors who bet on draftkings and wynn resorts. both of those stocks higher on earnings. you've got draftkings up by almost 11%. wynn resorts up the same. and we have a lot more about what's powering those stocks higher coming up. >> well it's what a perfect day to have you here. if we're talking about casinos and you're the not the most knowledgeable. >> hit the jackpot. >> i that's a casino pun. >> i'm good at those. >> wow. it's like a the pirate pirate cherry. all right. we've got a ton to do today, but we got to start here. i think this is the right place to start. and this is arguably. and i'm not this is not tv hyperbole. maybe it is, but whatever. this is arguably the greatest big cap stock run in modern american history. okay. we're talking

about meta. that is the parent company of facebook, instagram and whatsapp. it is on an unbelievable run for investors. it is higher right now by 1% to $737. if meta closes higher today we got two hours. meta will be up 20 sessions in a row. >> let me go through this one week percent change, up 3% month to date change up 7%. one month change up 24%. the quarter to date change up almost 26%. >> wow. meta's last down day contessa. we're going back and forth now with just stats. meta's last down day was actually in the biden administration january 16th. and get this here's an rbi for you. random but random but interesting. in its 20 day run, meta has added more than 250 billion in market cap. put more directly contessa in just over three weeks, meta has added more

than a disney in value. all of disney and more in three weeks. >> and what do we think is pushing this higher? >> no clue. >> is it the reports that meta is about to make a major push into ai powered humanoid robots? >> that's not definitely not. first of all, that report just came out today, so it doesn't explain the previous 19. even if you knew what. >> was just my way of working in a little. >> bit, you just wanted to say humanoid robot, i know, but even if you just explain the other 19 people, new humanoid robots are cool, but they're not a market moving thing. meta has been up 20 sessions in a row. its added a disney or half a netflix in three weeks. this is. is it because of zuckerberg? he's become all whatever. >> you mean politically? >> yes i don't know. >> yeah, i mean that it's entirely possible that that has some retail traders enthusiastic about the future. ai is certainly part of that. the futuristic robots. i would not discount that, because i think

if you look at the possibility that ai is going to vastly improve healthcare insurance, driving all these other things, if you add human physical capacity onto that, the possibility that our friends in ai could actually change the world as we know it becomes even. >> more, how do i know that you're not a robot right now? how do i know that you're real? this could be ex machina. ex machina. however you want to pronounce the. this could be. are you real? >> no, i very real. here's my question to you. because you follow these things very closely and you're very enthusiastic over this run is meta the new nvidia. >> yes. which was the new tesla. so by the way, folks, we were supposed to have tim seymour on this. he is going to be joining us soon. it's not just us talking, but there were some car issues. so we're just waiting. >> for the robots were in. >> charge if the robots were in, if tim seymour was run by robots, he would be here right now. all right. now we got to

get to a totally different story that is very serious and not getting nearly the attention it should. that is a potential full on war in the congo, and it's in large part because of technology. why do we say that? all right. the democratic republic of congo, which is not a democracy, is the capital of cobalt. cobalt was literally once a throw away mineral. you mined it, you literally threw it away. it had negative value. but cobalt is now one that goes into batteries and cars and phones and everything else. and what's happening right now is an army from rwanda is pushing into eastern congo, and thousands have been killed. now, to be clear, technology is not the only reason for this fighting. it's been going on for a long time, but because money now plays a big role, this fighting has accelerated. joining us now is siddartha kara. he wrote a book literally about this, a pulitzer prize finalist called cobalt red. we talked about it earlier this week. siddartha i've been listening to it audible. i want to be clear. i'm

not done. i've not finished your book. it is eye opening. this war that may take place in congo is a big deal. what do you think ultimately is going to happen in congo? because and i hate to bring it back to money and what our audience cares about, but this is a now a critical mineral for technology. yeah. >> well, thank you for. >> having me. >> on today. >> and as you mentioned. >> the congo is. >> home to some. >> of the. >> largest reserves. >> of critical. >> electronic component. >> minerals in the eastern. >> congo, southern congo. that's cobalt. >> tantalum, tungsten. and these. resources are vital. >> to our. >> rechargeable lifestyle and the transition to electric vehicles. they're used in the batteries and microprocessors of these devices. and the congo is an essential source of these minerals. in the case of cobalt, about three fourths of the world's supply of cobalt is mined in the congo. but as you note, it's mined in horrific, violent, degrading conditions, often causing immense environmental destruction as well. and we have this rwanda

backed militia invading the eastern congo. and it's in large part about securing control of these very profitable minerals, laundering them through rwanda out into formal supply chains and china and chinese state run mining companies dominate cobalt mining again in degrading conditions that violate the human rights and dignity of the congolese people, as well as the destruction of their environment in the southern congo. and it all flows into formal supply chains of consumer facing tech and ev companies. >> okay. >> so who has the influence to go in and stop this from happening? stop the enslavement of children and the trafficking of people in horrific conditions? is it the is it the battery makers? is it the chinese that import the cobalt for refining and then and then give to the battery makers? is it other businesses in rwanda? you know, the nba recently has expanded its investment there because they know that africa is a huge nba market who has

influence over stopping it. >> yeah. listen we're talking on cnbc. and i think that's very appropriate because i believe it's the market economy that has the most powerful leverage here. i mean we can't ask the congolese government, which is cash strapped and running a war torn, impoverished country, to try and solve this problem on its own chinese state run mining companies, if they cared about the people in the heart of africa, they would have fixed this problem by now themselves. they don't care. i think. >> they don't care. >> that's that's precisely my point. >> they don't put billions of dollars into congo. they built roads, they built ports, they built bridges. they got people there. it's an absolute because and all they want to do is they're going to come in, they're going to bribe all the leaders. right. and this goes back to our foreign corrupt practices act earlier this week, which i think is probably why you're here, siddharth. but they're going to do all that stuff, extract all these minerals and not give a, you know, what about any of those 11 year old kids that is down in a hole in congo digging out? no.

>> they don't care. they don't care. i mean, i've been to the congo multiple times on the ground. and what you see is the moral clock dialed back to colonial times under the control of chinese state run mining companies. and everyone looks the other way because, as you said, there's so much corruption and bribery taking place. they don't care that children are suffering shattered spines just to dig cobalt out of the ground for a dollar a day, or that the entire environment has been contaminated with toxic effluents from chinese mining companies, causing a complete public health catastrophe. there. it all flows out through chinese refiners into tech and ev companies. and ultimately, i think we have to stand for what's right. we meaning america and american companies. we can't point our finger downstream to our chinese suppliers or foreign mining companies. >> so president trump this week described the situation as very serious. and it looks like the state department has encouraged u.s. citizens to evacuate the

area, which is a step. do you think that that response is too muted? >> i think the trump administration has an opportunity to go much farther. i mean, we have seen from one administration after another halfhearted efforts to solve this problem. and it's not overly complicated. designing phones in cars is more complicated than getting decent wages and working conditions at the bottom of mineral supply chains. i think the trump administration has an opportunity to show genuine leadership in working with the congolese government and with us based tech and ev companies to say, listen, it's not acceptable that we are importing critical minerals from the heart of africa that are mined in conditions that violate the human rights and dignity of african people. let's solve this problem. and that gets back to the power of the market economy. major tech and ev companies are the big buyers of these minerals. and if they say this has to stop on a verified basis in a public private partnership with the trump administration, i

promise you, most of these problems would get solved very quickly. >> it would. i think the only thing that's going to talk here, unfortunately, are money. and even more unfortunately right now are bullets. and that's what's happening. siddharth kara, author of cobalt red, which i'm listening to right now, an excellent book, a must read, very serious, heartbreaking at times, but a big story. siddharth. thank you. >> after the break, be prepared to collect your winnings. if you took a gamble on this stock this week. it's up more than 16% since monday thanks to a solid q4 beat and strong demand. we'll reveal the name when power lunch returns. >> in a world of. >> uncertainty and disruption. >> how will your. >> investments stay resilient? we've been navigating change for 125 years, always looking forward, anticipating risks and trusted to manage over.

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star of cnbc's fast money, 5 p.m. >> that's not fair to some really talented. >> people i work with. i love everybody. thank you. on that program i'll be hosting. it's. >> it's a fun show. >> listen, 20 days in a row. is it fair to say this is one of the greatest, not the greatest mega cap stock runs in american stock market history? >> it is. and if you think about statistically, it's almost, you know, very difficult to do relative to the other mag six. it's been that much more extraordinary because it hasn't been a great run. it's also more extraordinary when you consider their capex announcement on four. q wasn't something that in a world of deep tech and a world of where we are relying on mark zuckerberg, who in the past has talked about the year of efficiency, that 25 is the year all of these long term initiatives come through and that actually you get follow through from the dynamic, which really is, hey, we've invested in ai, reality labs. it all comes together and it's all coming together. the stock price. >> is there anything that's fundamentally besides tesla's humanoid robots? okay, that is

there anything that's fundamentally changed on this stock that merits it? adding a disney's worth of value in three weeks? i don't see it. >> i feel like we had the reference to these robots. robots scare me, brian. i mean, i you know, i don't like robots in real life or and i don't necessarily like them as a, as a meta shareholder because i'm actually concerned. >> about them. if you think they're coming and are going to change the landscape, you could not like them and invest in them at the same time. >> and i think the monetization dynamics here are around robots are less clear than the monetization around the core business, which had 21% fourth quarter revenue growth neutral. the question for investors really has to be the age old. this is no longer with google. the cheap of the mega cap 7 or 8. this is actually it's 30 times trailing. it's about 26 times. do you think they're going to do 28 bucks a share and 25? this isn't this isn't a cheap stock anymore. and this is

a stock that i think at this point after this run is the beneficiary of relative performance versus its peers. >> in five years, you know, three bring up a five year chart. i know we got to go very quickly. they changed their name to meta. they talked about the metaverse. you could buy fake land with real money. and that was going to be where these goggles that died was stupid, right? i mean, it still exists, but the company was like almost left for dead. and now it's up 724% since those lows. how much of this just pure momentum. >> some of its momentum again, some of it to me is there's been a crowding out within the rest of the mag seven. i think it's relative value. but i, i do think that part of this move has been excitement around the spending on all of these initiatives coming together in 25, and i think this is priced in a lot. >> okay. the s&p 500 is up 4% to start the year. it's not a bad start. >> really annualized that it's doing okay. >> okay for six weeks. nothing compared to what's happening around the world and especially in europe. you've got poland up

23%, 17% in sweden, germany 15% just this year. one possible reason is borrowing costs, because for germany specifically, the ten year yield is a little more than half of the us ten year. so what do you make of this outperformance and will it continue? >> well, i think some first of all it's really exciting. germany's outperformed the s&p by 10%. if someone's been investing internationally most of my career there moments like this and they don't come often and talk about relative underperformance to the s&p, whether it's whether it's europe, whether it's emerging markets, you know, the story has been over time, you are losing money by investing in these markets. but as we think about what's going on with germany, i think it's a combination. excuse me. it's a combination of where i think the weaker dollar, the fundamentals around valuations are really interesting. look at the banks across europe. we're having a rerating of our banks here. these banks are 30% cheap to us banks. this is a case where i think the dividends are pay. they're paying out are more interesting. and i think it's a dividend story that's you know also part of it.

>> it's almost like a meta in a sense where, you know, the first flight after covid, i was pretty much on going to europe, telling the story about how the european economic disaster is coming because of energy and all this other stuff, and europe's economy isn't good. and maybe that's the point. the one thing about these european lessons, i think that's important to take away, tim. and if i'm wrong, i know you'll tell me it's that this is a perfect example of how stock markets and economies are disconnected. there sometimes are the same, sometimes they're not. >> well, the dollar if you think the dollar and rates have peaked, this is great for eu stocks. i was an international etf, i manage. we also have some exposure to china baba and tencent. again you know what's happening there. it's not that the macro in china is good is that you've seen stories that have been rerating around fundamentals. and i think sentiment got way too low. >> tim we're going to see you in a little bit. so stick around. thank you for that. a couple of pieces of tech news that are just breaking within the last few minutes. let's get to kristina partsinevelos for more on that. hi, kristina. hi. well, this is a potential landmark

deal for u.s. semiconductor manufacturing. taiwan's tsmc is considering taking control of intel's factories. this is according to a bloomberg report, the trump administration we know we've been talking about this has been in talks recently with tsmc with the aim to increase american chip production here on american soil and maintain tech leadership in the country. these early stage talks could could see tsmc operating intel's us plants with potential backing from american chip designers and government support, so that all of the ownership would not go to a foreign entity. the move comes as intel faces financial challenges, have recently replaced its ceo amid struggles with its expansion plans. intel. you can see the shares still in the red down 2.5%. they gave back some of their losses earlier. tsmc, on the other hand, did jump once that news came out separately. completely different story. elon musk's ai firm, xai, is seeking to raise $10 billion at a $75 billion valuation. that's a massive jump from its previous $51 billion

valuation. key investor sequoia capital, andreessen horowitz, valor equity partners they're all in discussion to participate, and this fundraising round comes as xai prepares to launch its grok three chatbot and negotiate a $5 billion server deal with dell technologies that we spoke about. brian, you and i, just in the last hour or so, contessa. all right. thank you very much, christine. appreciate that. draftkings stock soaring after the earnings call this morning, ceo jason robins laid out an optimistic view of 2025 and really some astonishing numbers from super bowl sunday, $436 million wagered, which set a new record for daily sportsbook handle at draftkings and led to the highest gross gaming revenue in company history. hey, that's a pretty good start to the year. then wynn resorts on fire fueled by promising business in macau for chinese new year. it's up almost. that's draftkings up almost 12%. let's move to win now. the performance in las vegas was against some tough comps. we heard that there was a notable increase in slot play,

something that mgm had talked about as well on its earnings call this week and this week, that stock is up almost 16% on what was a decent report. but really, the most promising piece of news was that in december, it was the best month ever for booking group business. so that's forward looking. >> hold on. they like slots because they because the house wins. yeah they're the most profitable for the casinos. correct. >> slot slots are the biggest piece of gambling money for the casinos. it's bigger than the table games right. but but listen the casinos get hit by luck, both on table games and in slots too. you want to talk more. >> about wynn in a lot. >> yeah. well you know you got to bring it with you. but for more on the casino space let's bring in chad beynon who's the senior gaming, lodging and theaters analyst at macquarie. you got a lot of companies in your coverage universe. and the gaming stocks this week have responded so strongly to their earnings, even though i would i don't you do this for a living. i would characterize it as okay

right. did you expect this sort of outsized reaction? >> we did not. thanks for having me, contessa and brian. so an interesting stat is the casino operators have underperformed for five straight years. so heading into this year our view was expectations are way too low. obviously interest rates you know have the possibility of coming down and that will be positive for valuations. and these were a few of our top names. so i think it was really kind of an expectations game. and to your point, contessa, the commentary that we've heard in terms of post election and then more importantly, the first 45 days in february that from draftkings this morning that from when last night was just much, much more positive than we would have thought. and, you know, historically, these companies are going to be somewhat cautious this early in the year. they're going to talk about all the puts and takes. but i think analysts and investors are more positive. so you've seen, you know, double digit increases on the three

names you touched on. and we have a lot of a lot of earnings to go this season. >> i thought it was surprising how much commentary we were getting on the current quarter on the earnings calls. so for instance, you got a lot of color around china and what's happening there around chinese new year. what does that how does that change your models or the way you're thinking about macau and the rebound? that has been sort of lackluster. we're we're still not back up to pre-pandemic levels in terms of gaming or visitation. how does that how do you set the scene on that? >> sure. absolutely. yeah. some of the companies choose to not give in order. commentary. las vegas sands, for instance, reported earnings last week. the stock stock popped about 10% on that print. and it's kind of came back down. now, they're one of the companies that are somewhat hesitant in terms of giving in quarter numbers. what we've heard so far is chinese new year was just a elongated generally, there's this this pause before chinese new year

and then after chinese new year, it's kind of the hangover, right? but what we've seen now, it's kind of a multi-week or multi-day period where it's not as much kind of a peak and valley. it's been a little bit more consistent. and i think that's positive for just the breadth of the market in china. obviously, there's a number of things that could stimulate that market. we're looking for about 8% growth in macau for 2025. that compares to, you know, us markets that are going to be somewhere between flat and 2%. and really, macau is probably the one that can dial up the most. >> what we have seen is the stock prices for the macau facing casinos hovering about the same levels that they were around the pandemic. they just have not bounced since then. i want to move to the sports books, because the other thing that you heard on the draftkings call was a question about events, contracts. we got some really interesting information from fauci talking about the massive increase that it saw in action during the game. if cal

xi and crypto.com going through, the cftc can offer what is essentially sports betting, but do it without paying the sort of extravagant billions that we've seen from the sportsbooks in terms of lobbying, licensing, legalization, making sure that regulations are up to date, state taxes which are going up if they can do all of that, how big of a competitive juggernaut are these events? contracts for the likes of draftkings and fanduel? >> it's a great question. it's the million dollar question. you know, we always have to remember that the gaming operators paid to have the rights to operate in that state, right? everyone isn't valid to offer a sports bet there. so that's something that draftkings worked really hard for, to, to have that opportunity to, to offer a contract there. now the contracts that you're talking about, they're very different

than what we see with regular sports betting here. we still believe that the gambling industries will try to push down some of these, these new competitors here, they've done it with things like sweepstakes. they've done it with the underground market. when items like this pop up, they take their time and then they'll voice their opinion. but we do think it could be a small threat, but something that these companies just don't have the tech or the license to really impede. on draftkings growth for 25 or 26. >> chad, it's good of you to join us on casinos today. i look forward to talking to talking to you more about the hotel business coming up, which i've just newly acquired. appreciate that. but, you know, it's interesting. the circa owner told me, he said, look, if that's going to be approved, if i know. >> detroit randomly. >> derek stevens. >> yes. nice guy. i met him and his wife at dinner. >> owns circus sports. detroit to. the more important point is that he says if it's going to be

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>> hi, contessa. >> indeed. >> you know, it was a wild. >> week for. >> retail. retail sales. >> just the pinnacle. we had hot inflation. >> but yet yields. >> went down. >> research showing that. >> many believe. >> at. >> the end of the month. >> our read on the. pce is going to be coming in lower. >> it's been a driving force. >> look at core. >> retail sales. that chart goes back. >> two years. >> we're on pace for the smallest core retail sales since march of 23. and twos and tens, as you see, responded rather dramatically. now if you open the chart up to a week, this is very interesting. we are now down on the week only several basis points in treasury yields. so we want to very much monitor 4.5% in a ten. that would be an important threshold. and the other big event this week is after that phone call between putin and trump, the dollar index really hasn't looked back. it's been moving lower. as a matter of fact, right now it's on pace for its first close since mid december below 107. so the lowest close of 2025.

contessa back to you and happy valentine's day. >> thank you rick santelli my friend i appreciate that. notice i did not say pal. all right. let's get to bertha coombs for a cnbc news update now. bertha. >> thanks, contessa. agriculture secretary brooke rollins said this afternoon she welcomes elon musk's doge initiative to help assess the supplemental nutrition assistance program, also known as snap or ebt. the program provides food assistance to low income americans. rollins, who was sworn in to the job yesterday, said today outside of the white house that doge would investigate whether we are giving people a hand up or hand out. german authorities say they're investigating a possible islamist extremist motive for a car attack yesterday in munich. police say a 24 year old afghan native drove his car into a labor protest, injuring nearly 40 people. they have not found evidence that he is linked to

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seymour asset management and cnbc contributor. >> good to be here, pal. >> thanks, keith. yeah, let's talk about intel. shares have been destroyed over the last few years, but this week up 25%. what's your level? >> let me come in. in the past, i have absolutely had a romantic attachment here. i am leaving until i feel almost betrayed by this one. i mean, this is a story. i understand the news flow over the week, some headlines around tsmc. we certainly know the administration wants, you know, made chips in the usa. the reality is this is a rudderless ship. this is we need a ceo. we need a plan. i get the fact that there will be there should be there could be a manufacturing relationship with taiwan semi. you could have their wafers and their fabs. and this is probably how this works out. this feels like that move we had on the qualcomm news back in the fall. i think you're fading this one. and again i'm afraid i'm sorry intel i'm leaving you. >> we need a sound effect. next up we have cvs health shares fell more than 43% last year. but the stock is off to a hot

start in 2025. it's up nearly 50% this year and more than 20% this week. following the company's strong q4 earnings report. tim, love it or leave it. >> yeah. >> this is. >> i tell you what, this is kind of a reluctant love affair. not that i've ever had one, but i mean, i think this is a story where this has been a disaster. this has been a disaster for probably 2 or 3 years, and also with its sidekick walgreens, too. but we just got numbers. i think you probably said a bottom in in these numbers. i think the floor is in. i think there's a margin story. i think there's they've rightsized the business. i think they've had a change in the c-suite. and i think mr. joiner really is focusing on some of the margin ability out of that aetna insurance business. i think this is actually a turnaround story that i think you can truly love them on boeing. >> that's a stock we've talked you've talked about on fast money for years. it's also been a disaster. but in the last three months, rather quietly, boeing has actually been one of the better performers in the s&p

500. love or leave boeing. >> buddy, i tell you what, you have to be patient in love. and i love this one. and i can't quit this one either. i mean, this is a case. where i look, i can't quit boeing and it's the wrong time to quit boeing. if you think about it, it's been a cash flow burn story over the last couple of years. we know the story there. there will be a major change in 737 production. it's not about demand. i think if you go from 20 to even 30, this is going to be free. cash flow positive in 26, 25 will be a year of kind of getting to that place by the end of the year. then i think this is really a free cash flow machine as you look out in the future. >> but what i hear you saying is that boeing had you at hello, boeing's. >> look, there's a lot to love there. i mean, there's a lot to be drawn to. and let's just. >> they only have one other competitor. >> i well. >> real real competitor i mean there's regional jets. bombardier i get it. you've got embraer in brazil. but as far as the big long haul jets right now it's two times. >> yes. but duopoly has not been the reason to own boeing for the

last two years. i mean, the reality is boeing's got to get their own house in order. i think they've done that. this is a safety dynamic. it's not the rerating thing. it's all about free cash flow. this company is burning cash. it's made no money. and i think that's about to change. >> you're saying you're the air supply, not the hollow notes i got it. i didn't. >> say that. i'm all out of love, brian. there's just. i'm so lost without you right now. anyway. >> thank you very much. tim seymour. seymour asset. >> i believe we did. >> that was great. power lunch will. >> be right. i mean. >> we loved it. we hope you did too. we'll be right back. >> crypto watch is sponsored by crypto.com. crypto.com. crypto.com is 5k fun run! say hi to patty. celebrated social worker... whose coming in second? self-appointed social chair. hmmmm. potluck. kickball. “last call”.

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>> but we are starting. >> to. >> get some. >> headlines to bring to you guys. the first topic, the main one that president trump appears to have been talking about is energy. on the energy front. he just signed an lng export license, according to an aide. this is coming from the wires. he's in there in the oval office with. >> both doug. >> burgum, the interior secretary, and kris wright, the energy secretary. and he's saying that they're going to be opening up the arctic national wildlife refuge and taking a bunch of measures that he says will lower energy prices. it also includes working on a pipeline held up by new york. trump says that will help bring down prices. and he says that he will be banning offshore drilling on 625 million acres offshore. all of this is something that, again, is supposed to bring down energy costs. trump has been clear that he wants interest rates to follow once energy prices begin to fall. but a couple other topics moving on from that as well. he's been speaking again about us steel and this nippon arrangement that he started speaking about last week. trump says now that he wouldn't mind a minority stake by nippon in us steel. and he says nippon is

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wagering on it. i got to ask you as my first question, like, how much is betting increasing engagement of your of your fan base? >> well, i think betting is. >> a good thing for. >> our sport because i think it makes it stickier. right? so if someone has a stake in the in the game, if you will, or in the race and whether they're betting live or they're betting ahead of time, i think just that having skin in the game really allows someone to feel part of it. and i think that's what sports betting does. i think it's no different in nascar than it is any other sport. >> brian just mentioned that you have a big race coming up in mexico. i've noticed. i mean, you've got the nfl expanding internationally, the nba expanding internationally. is that the trajectory of growth for the big sports in the united states to start to grow outside of the united states? >> well, it seems that's happening, contessa. i do think going south of the border to

mexico for us in mid june is a really important thing for us. so our cup race will be there, our xfinity race will be there. one of our racers, who's won a couple times in our top series, daniel suarez, is from mexico. so it's a it's a great homecoming for him. but it's bigger than that for us as a sport to go outside of our borders. i think that's an important thing for us. we're hoping that it'll be the first of many outside of the us. i'm not suggesting we're not going to become a majority of the races race, you know, outside of our borders. but it's important that we do that. i think we need global expansion as a sport, as other sports are looking at as well. so we're excited about what mexico city can do for us. but it's just one piece of our of our international strategy. >> well, it's not just expansion of physical locations. also media. you've got the first half court, first, third whatever of the season including this race is on fox. then you go to amazon

prime, then you go to tnt and then you go to us on on nbc. shout out to my good friend leigh diffey and the other broadcasters there. do you worry at all, though, about that fan that is struggling to find the race? kind of like football where like, where's the race this weekend? oh, it's on amazon prime. i don't have that. how much is too much? >> yeah, i think for us it was an important this is the first year of a seven year deal with those four media partners, as well as the cw, which has the full season of xfinity. i'm excited about it because you think about fox and nbc and they split the season last year. so we're adding amazon prime and turner sports. i think it's important to do that because of the distribution. so we wanted a peer streamer. we thought amazon was the right peer streamer to go with. and then turner sports has a mix with tnt and max. we think that's a good thing as

well. then obviously having broadcast television in both the fox portion of the season and the nbc portion of the season, plus plus cable as well, i think it's a nice mix for our fans. and i do think because we have so many media partners now, it'll be unprecedented promotional support for the sport. and we've seen that at the end of the 500. and that part's really i think you can't overstate that. it's really important to have people find us, watch us and participate. and that's exactly what we think is going to happen. >> what's happening with ticket prices? >> our ticket prices are up just slightly. we have a new ticketing partner, which is ticketmaster. we're excited about what they can do from a from a data perspective. so they're up a little bit. we've kind of held prices, frankly, since the pandemic. so nascar ticket prices are slightly higher than they were in 2020, but not by much. >> well look forward to i'd love

to see suarez, by the way, win this weekend, not just at the autodromo hermanos rodriguez. steve phelps, president of nascar, thank you very much. really appreciate it. fun way to end. >> we begin. >> danella. >> thank you for watching power lunch. >> closing bell starts right now. >> all right. welcome to closing bell. scott wapner live from the new york stock exchange. it's make or break. friday begins with meta's monstrous march on track today for its 20th straight day of gains, an unprecedented move by almost any metric. certainly for a stock this size, we'll track its every move into the final stretch here, as star analyst mark mahaney tells us how far it can go from here. in the meantime, let's show you the scorecard with 60 to go in the weak stocks right around a new closing high. we're about one point below it on the s&p. pretty resilient. giving the news of the week between inflation and tariffs and