liz: the stage director said it is more like plain-vanilla. because he likes everything vanilla. dagen: i will try to save you some. dagen: it would be stewards iced milk. charles: maybe water. dagen: thank you very much. big ben bernini' ben bernanke's. campaigning for best job. and senator rand paul may be a hard sell for yellen. and denying spying on german chancellor angela merkel's phone. they close the idea of lock in the u.s. out of german technology. carl i come latest campaign with apple has a billionaire investors using phone media as a pawn in his money game. charlie gasparino is fired up.

and the nfl denying it, but we're getting more information about it. a second thursday night game for the league and what it would look like. that and so much more with connell mcshane of "markets now." connell: there you go. taking you a while. already 11:01. dagen: i am southern, we move slow. and it is cold. connell: it is cold today. look at the flag behind us. that's get things going with nicole, and we will talk about the rand paul thing may or may not do with the yellen nomination. good morning, nicole. nicole: good morning, dagen and connell. stocks are still hot. the dow up 27 points. we have watched some of the dow names on the move including microsoft and dupont.

you do have up arrows across the board not only today but also for this week for all three major averages. it is worth noting the nasdaq composite has moved to record highs that we have not seen since the year 2000. russell is at highs we have not seen in 10 years. let's take a look at western digital. western digital came out with their numbers, doing really well. prophet speak the street. several and was upgrading moving on to the storage products and cloud. don't forget during the microsoft xbox and playstation four. connell: things. dagen: kathleen sebelius hitting the road to put a good face on obamacare. connell: you talk about the hot seat or whatever. rich edson joining us now. rich: she is getting out of town, and why not. investigations continue on capitol hill.

this time darrell issa is demanding documents from health and human services about the websites cost and construction. we does not get them voluntarily, he might consider a subpoena. meanwhile, kathleen sebelius is in texas today. she is addressing website issues. at an enrollment center. she also address questions and calls for her resignation. >> the majority of people calling for me to resign i would say are people who i don't work for. and who do not want this program to work in the first place. i have had frequent conversation with the president and i have committed to him that my role is to get the program up and running. and we will do just that. rich: she also adds no one has been fired, and she says her top concern is to make sure that the website is actually working. she imagines potential customers will have enough time to actually enroll for insurance that doesn't start until next year anyway.

but there are already questions about whether tg s ork, what had when they launched three weeks ago. that is why secretary kathleen sebelius will be on the hill next week to testify about that. back to you. connell: thank you, rich. rich edson in d.c. for us today. could a german only internet be on the way? we know now about the story involving angela merkel, and she is showing she is unsatisfied with a phone conversation she had the other day with the president. u.s. ambassador called in to talk about the monitoring of her phone after that conversation with president obama. and yesterday and this shall we talked about if germany decided to turn solely to its own companies, the likes of software giant sap, and companies like ibm, hewlett-packard and oracle, american companies, could be hurt i that. add to that now deutsche telekom floating the idea of a german only internet to lock the united states out. the state backed mobile giant

wants german communication companies to cooperate and shield local traffic from foreign intelligence. german only internet? it is out there. dagen: different kind of wall, if you want be at connell: where just going to do our own thing here. dagen: senator rand paul threatened to put jane jared yen nomination on hold. said to meets next week. connell: that is a story peter barnes is reporting on from d.c. with the latest on this. here we go again, another nomination fight it looks like. peter: the senator from kentucky is threatening a hold on the yellen nomination as chairman of the fed according to a source close to paul putting a hold on yellen's nomination is on the table as leverage to get a vote on the senators fed transparency bill. he's a big fed critic. it would require more audits of the fed.

25 cosponsors including one democrat. the source says it is early in the process. whatever leverage the senator has, he will consider. so we will watch that as janet yellen heads to capitol hill to start meeting with senators on her nomination. are her critics headed to capitol hill? american principles in action. opposes the easy money policy that is inflationary. two weeks ago to launched a website. no on yellen to fight her nomination. it features a view an online petition. the group plans to lobby senators to vote against her. already for republicans on the banking committee holding her confirmation hearings have questioned her support of quantitative easing and other aggressive stimulus policies for the economy. all four of these senators voted against her for vice chair in 2010. american principles in action thinks it can win a lot of no votes this time around.

>> ben bernanke got 30 no votes in 2010. opposition to the federal reserve nomination is really a new thing. it is a new thing because they have made themselves so politicized by trying to intervene in the economy in such a major way. peter: but yellen's allies are rallying around her. her calling from the university of california berkeley, acknowledge professor told us in an e-mail janet yellen is a respected economist and the central banker who enjoys widespread support from experts across the ideological spectrum. throughout her career she has shown a deep concern about inflation whenever it was a genuine possibility, critics of dr. yellen should study her record and writings closely. connell: thank you. set you up with a couple of things to think about going into the weekend. what sebelius roadshow looks like and yellen, if they hold up the nomination or not. dagen: people as actually do wat

the health care law to work, the exchanges to work. the reason they call for your job is because you were leading the charge and you failed at it. so it doesn't have anything to do with wanting obamacare to fail. the fact she is not getting it done. connell: and the website doesn't work. dagen: worst communicator ever. now we have some numbers on what the twitter public offering is going to look like. and we have a better idea of what the cofounders of the company will be raking in. connell: a lot of dough. using the media as a pawn. why car like this went public with his thoughts on apple. charlie gasparino going public with his thoughts on car like on. coming up. dagen: nfl said it is not happening so i was looking more details on what a second thursday night game would look like? and take a look at the oil market today. back below the $100 per barrel mark since it was last up there early summer.

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connell: twitter ipo, hashtag november because twitter set a price range per share for the io saying it could raise as much as $1.6 billion by selling between 70-80 million shares. they plan to list the stock under the symbol twtr. th7e,rárp)es go on sale november 6. trading begins the next day, and a number of people are standing by to make a boatload of money. largest personal stake belongs to the cofounder, he will take home or own 10.4% of the ipo or the company and the steak $1.3 billion is what it would work out too. jack dorsey, at that up, 450 million. i think he is probably on twitter. and the current ceo 150 million. pretty good. dagen: do you miss this during

sound of heisenberg's voice threatening, menacing, scary? you can still hear mr. white's voice in the latest apple commercial. on the now deceased "breaking bad" he voices over the new ad coming out november 1. in the commercial, don't know if we have any sound, quite stirring. a cool commercial, getting a lot of buzz. connell: you miss him because you were so into the show. dagen: he will work again, he just won't be walter white again. connell: it doesn't work when he is out of character. dagen: shares down a par third a percent. tech leading the charge on impressive earnings. what are you watching? nicole: microsoft, zynga, amazon.

where do i start? let's see what is going on with these three very big names. amazon came out with their names. in negative territory. sales continue to do well. they see momentum going into the holiday season. i have ups their shipping prices anin hopes more people will sign up for their service, which you can pay on an annual basis. amazon of 8.5%. that is a gain of more than $28. it hit an all-time high today. dow component microsoft beats the street easily doing well. microsoft and the shares continue to jump up 6%. and then there is zynga. they continue to do well. they expect full-year profit coming in. a lot of cost-cutting and upping their mobile efforts they have been working on. so we see three up arrows on the day. we have not seen since 2000. act to you. connell: the economic number today, the big one was durable

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>> at 19 minutes after the hour, this is your fox news minute. five people were injured last night, two of them seriously on a thrill ride at the north carolina state fair. a culinary investigation indicates the writers may have been getting off the ride when it started up again. the injured ranged from 15 to 39. demolition started on the sandy hook elementary school where a gunman killed 20 first-graders

and six adults. the building will be dismantled piece by piece without the use of a wrecking ball. the project is expected to take several weeks. a new school building is expected to be completed december 2016. the fda is proposing rules that will make pet foods and animal feed safer. the rules presented were not a direct result of this week's news that pets were dying from dog treats. instead, they're a result of a sweeping food safety rule passed by congress almost three years ago. and those are your news headlines at the fox business network. get you back to "countdown to the closin dagen and connell. connell: the eco-data we had this morning. new orders for durable goods. things are looking a little bit more rosy. dagen: so where is our jeff flock. what is he doing? connell: there is music. jeff: i am seeing if indeed this

is music to the ears of investors. the durable goods numbers. we always like to make these numbers come alive. they make harps and have been doing so for how many years? >> is going to be 150 years in the business, 125 next year. jeff: this is one of the most durable of goods. let's take a look at the numbers first. durable goods this month for the good number up double what investor economist have thought. mostly up over 50%. that means core durable goods down a little bit. you say your business is definitely impacted by the economy. >> no doubt. fortunately worldwide we are able to pick up losses in the domestic market. the economy hits us. for the most part people are still looking for a good investments. speaker you make about 1000 harps per year. you do them like they did back

in the day. these are handcarved. >> yes, we rough them out at this stage, and the artist craftsman will go ahead and hand carve it all by hand. jeff: i the way, katie ventura, harpist who fell in love with the harp, the one she has got there has a gold leaf on it. what is an expensive harp go for? >> about 53,000. jeff: i understand they go up well over 100. >> they do. we have special one-of-a-kind pieces that go up that are hand painted. jeff: there is money in musical instruments. steinway just went private again. that was a publicly traded company. went private again. there isn't a lot of opportunity for musical instrument companies. is there money to be made in musical instruments? >> certainly there is for the smaller investment of private ownership in that it takes sort

of a love of the instrument to be a part of it. it's not something that's very easy to project and analyze. jeff: got you. this is a place in chicago making harps over 100 years. we see them in all states being made here. this is craftsmanship. >> no doubt. we hold the position of building harps by hand. each piece is individually serial numbered and built by hand. jeff: perhaps the most durable of all durable goods. it lasts three years, they say. the class how long? >> over 100 years, but it is sort of fascinating. we get generations passing down through others. jeff: a way that perhaps you have not seen before. i feel cal more calm somehow.

dagen: i feel like taking a nap. connell: i will do the rest of the show, you take a nap. dagen: that is the way it goes whether i'm speaking or not. jeff, thank you so much. thank you, jeff. more on that second thursday night football game. the nfl has been denying it but we are still getting more details about it. go figure. connell: we have this assumption if we keep talking about it, it will happen. first, winners on "markets now." [ male announcer ] the founder of mercedes-benz

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dagen: coming up on "markets now," why a correction is such a long way off in what the market would look like if it happens? car like on using and abusing some members of the media to accomplish his big-money goals. and why we are still hearing about a second nfl game on thursday night. the league denying it. i'm iris icing people for reporg it. but the details keep coming on it. connell: you know you want to like football. you know you do. tesla is another stock we are going to look at. tesla is getting a pass over the fiery crash a month ago. you may be remember that. the video went viral over the internet. nicole is back with us with stock exchange to talk about the

stock. nicole: when you own the stock of tesla or her own tesla itself you don't want to see video of a tesla model s on fire. that is what viewers got to see. very quickly and went viral a video of exactly that. it would seem to be a freak accident in which tesla went over some large piece of debris. it was told the driver to get out, there was no fire within the cabin where the person was and nobody was hurt. one of those freak type accidents. in the meantime they will not face federal probes because of this. as a matter of fact tesla coming out saying our cards or even safer then the typical car that we all know so well. the other piece of news here is limburg reporting california regulators actually are delaying the changes in regulations which would have cut the number of environmental credit that tesla earns from sales of the model s in california.

tesla sells these scripts to other automakers whose cars not meet the emission standards. the big picture here is tesla still a real winner. new line must cap you about this one, i am sure. about the same thing. back to you. dagen: thank you, nicole. connell: the u.s. stock market has not had a serious correction in more than two years between 10-20%. but the market has seen a couple undeniable bull runs. the current streak would have to extend until october 12018 to beat the record run of 1990-1997. dagen: like in the market possibly do that? here to answer, paul hickey joining us. why can the market meet or beat that streak? speak out you have to take things one step at a time.

when you hear the sentiment we are overdue for a correction or the vexes at historically low levels, you tend to see it does not have to end because we are here. in the posse 90s and early 2003, you have the low six readings they generally last for a long time. in the next couple of quarters were positive on the market, can we go out to 2018? who knows. it would be a take move, but let's take things one step at a time. connell: we mentioned earlier about a-rod's contract, the length of it. which was idiotic at the time to sign anybody for 10 years. look at the cardinals with pujols. in that time, in his 60s still getting paid, where will the

market be? >> the thing you have to look at, we went through a bear market over 10 years long. we tend to have these cycles. we are in an extensive bull run. the fourth strongest. these things, when you have a lot of skepticism on it. which is some degree of skepticism which we are overdue and write for a correction, they can last a little bit longer than people would expect. dagen: how else can we put that in perspective in terms of who will be the president, or it will be midterm elections for the next president. >> that is a long way up. focusing on where we look now at sectors we like in the market. connell: such as question marks >> we like the u.s. consumer trend. it will be positive for increased spending. gas prices are dropping. that'll be another tailwind for the consumer.

industrials, european economies are strengthening, so these industrials, multinational companies have a lot of exposure to europe. they have been rebounding. connell: what is the biggest factor you think, this is a difficult question to answer, but making half joking references to how the world would change if we beat that run. china overtaking us as the central economy. these things we don't necessarily talk about every day, but what is the biggest x factor in this? politics, something else? >> like i said, if we are thinking about the midterm elections five years before barack obama was elected nobody even knew who barack obama was. things are going to change a lot. to predict what is going to happen. u.s. economy strong energy sector. if we really exploit those resources and remove our dependence from the middle east and middle eastern oil, that

will increase our terms of trade, we won't be importing as much. dagen: i tell you this, lest the economy goes to hell in a handbasket, interest rates longer-term interest rates will surely be higher than they are right now and the bigger question is can you have a market that continues rallying with rates going higher? >> interest rates are at historically low level. a rising interest rates are not necessarily good for stocks but the majority of the gains come as interest rates are rising. when we are still at 2.5%, that is investors in the bunker. you see rising interest rates, people coming out of the bunker. connell: you keep on throwing out the fleckenstein network. he said 3% on the 10-year, forget it. he was starting up his short fund again, start shorting stocks at 3% on the 10-year period >.>> our view is a tenurr

lower, it is still very manageable. 3%. connell: above it is trouble? >> it depends on how we got there be at the end of the year, a big move. as long as you're gradually seeing the rise, it is not necessarily bad. the long-term average is over 5%. we are still well below average. connell: great stuff, craggy. >> i'm used to being called the wrong name. dagen: it is intentional. the cardinals are the red sox? >> the red sox. i am more of a mets fan. dagen: god help you both.

connell: you know what it was? game seven, ' connell: the cardinals are the 86 to the mets. dagen: thank you, be well. >> thank you very much. connell: charlie gasparino is a standing by with some thoughts on a lot of things. he will have him talk about karl icon. the grandstanding we have seen in the media and why he is doing it. stay tuned for charlie. dagen: and "bad grandpa" set for release this weekend. johnny knoxville, spike jones behind it. some high expectations. connell: some high expectations. the nfl will play more games on thursday night. how do we know? we will keep talking about it. the idea of changing the thursday lineup, now there is more to it apparently. he will talk about that. what about the 10-year note?

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charlie: i have no problem with a rich fatcat promoting his position to get more bang for his buck. the way he is doing it is pretty unseemly. when you talk to people, talk to investors, how he is doing it is now starting to resonate as a really bad thing. it is clearly selective leaks between two other stations. if he doesn't like what he is hearing at cnbc he will switch to bloomberg and go back and forth and use both of those networks to promote his position. how they do it is pretty interesting. take for example yesterday, i'm not saying i know this for a fact, but mopping and he leaks a story to cnbc a couple of days ago. the anchor break the story about the letter he put out to the apple shareholders. everybody knows he wants a massive buyback. they mega huge thing out of this. former colleague of mine criticizes it. guess what happens next? karl icon appears on bloomberg to talk about it.

why is that? he comes on cnbc the next day and guess what they do, they give the new microphone and let him pout for a half hour uninterrupted and on critique. is that type of journalism i think which is bad. here is the irony of all of this. we did a story about this in the summer. how the apple board was growing patient with tim cook. i didn't think he was up to the task, or maybe not. big shoes to fill, steve jobs. we will give him that. they wanted more out of him. these attacks by icahn, him going out there saying i want double or triple the buyback they already have. i know they have a lot of cash on a balance sheet, but they need to innovate and do stuff. their whole business model is innovation, changing the iphone, going forward with another product. what they are doing now is

basically his attacks, i think, have caused the board to rally around tim cook. the opposite. perfect, perfect analogy. this was steve jobs and karl icon set i wanted to have dinner with you, okay, go, and he wouldn't show up. i just think the media is being used here. some are calling this guy a capitalist icon in all of this. listen, carl icahn is an investor, i am sure a very nice guy. but icahn? think about it. steve jobs is an icon. great investment record for warren buffett. carl icahn used to be known as a guy who invest in a company, tells his investment, goes out there as an activist and guess what, the stock goes up as he

promotes his position. that is not an icon, that is a green mailer or a savvy investor. dagen: i want to bring that term back. >charlie: gordon gecko. a great scene in the movie. connell: who are you hitting harder, the journalist? or facilitating carl icahn? >charlie: anybody who buys this guy stinks. on "brand x" put it in context. what kills me is you see these reports about carl icahn invested in x, y or z. we see this, and it is not really the context is there. i think that is worse than him

saying can you give me a freebie. if i ask you to give me a freebie and you give it to me, what is worse, me asking or you doing a? dagen: very well put. connell: we will look for this one on the net later. charlie: icahn and icon. connell: did you see who is on next hour? mark cuban. charlie: i sent him my book. maybe he will talk about my book, i hope so. i still don't think what he did was the greatest behavior in the world, but he made an interesting case why he did what he did. connell: we will all be watching. dagen: charlie and i are on tomorrow morning. charlie: what are we going to talk about? dagen: of course we're talking about health care.

neil is back. connell: don't let her get a word in. just cut her off. charlie: are we going to talk about unions? dagen: she gets so mad when she gets cut off. dagen: i did say once do you see my mouth moving? i am still talking. charlie: what did i say? dagen: you cut me off. connell: we will see if mark cuban talks about his book next hour. dagen: thank you, charlie. september durable goods not doing anything for stocks because it was all aircraft. on the floor at the new york stock exchange. always a volatile number. why do we care? >> would always care about these numbers. interesting report, if you strip the aircraft numbers out of there, the number would not have come in as well as projected. these numbers we get out of washington, you have to dig down deep in them and find the money shot in there that is really the true information.

take the jobless claims number for example, initial claims continuing claims. if you strip these down to the basic, basic numbers. sometimes it is not as rosy as it seems. dagen: definitely not come down one-tenth of 1%. have a great weekend, be well. >> thank you. connell: google glass has yet to be released to consumers but samsung is already working on some competition. watch out for this, the design for the sports glasses revealed by a korean patent filing coming out. just like google glass, the samsung device displays the internet, enables hands-free smartphone control and plays music and receives phone calls and the revelation comes as samsung is being fined for paying people to post fake online comments mocking the competitor in taiwan. look out, google glass, here comes samsung. dagen: you will never, ever see

me wearing a pair of those ever. dude, i have been wearing glasses since i was 11 years old, i am not aware in some goofy glasses to fuse internet. where there is smoke there is often fire despite the nfl denying changes to the thursday night lineup like another game, there is more details out about what that lineup would look like. connell: we are going to about it. how about gravity? losing the number one spot this weekend at the box office? dennis kneale, we were talking what his interview with mark cuban next hour, his command to talk about a possible new number one. winners on the nasdaq include amazon up 7.5%. thank you orville and wilbur...

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dagen: more on some thursday night football. the nfl has been adamant with its denials but the reports keep on coming. these are highlights of the carolina panthers and the tampa bay buccaneers last night. warner wolf almost got the score exactly right. sports business journal says the nfl may be looking to sell an eight-game package to another network starting in 2014 or 2015. the rights could sell for $700 million per year. a little more detailed than what was originally reported. connell: interesting. the monday night games often stinks now, thursday night games are not great and the best games

are sunday night. grandpa versus gravity at the movies. what can we expect at the box office? dagen: dennis kneale has the details on this flick, very cheap to make. dennis: "gravity" that the top of the box office three weeks now, but now the much hailed sci-fi flick some say the best sci-fi movie ever will be dropped from the box office by the lower brow jackass presents "bad grandpa." a semi-reality thing because they are doing hidden camera tricks on unsuspecting real folks expected to bring in 30 million this year. but "gravity" itself. it could still bring in 20 million or so. up over $300 million. "bad grandpa" will be kicking "gravity"'s butt.

bringing it back to earth. connell: you cannot lose with that. dennis: it is shocking it has empathy. empathy. some are surprised how sweet it is. dagen: spike jones is a cinematic genius. one of the names behind this movie. dennis: it is not polite when the anchor knows more about it then the reporter. connell: a fountain of useless information. dagen: i read the article about his new film about the man in love with the computer operative system called "her." dennis: i will catch it on pay-per-view or hbo. dagen: they did not want to risk

getting into a fight at the movie theater, i would go to it. connell: a huge interview to promote next hour joined by mark cuban, which we are all looking forward to. dennis: mark celebrating his victory against the sec. and would he do it all over again? connell: this should be pretty good. dennis: some say he's a maverick, some say he is a jerk. dagen: better than good coffee, good tv. connell: the world you came from. dagen: it will be great. dennis: 12:40. it is going to be a lovefest. dagen: gets nasty. dennis, thanks. connell: stock pickers going

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i'm, like, totally not down with change. but i had to change to bounce dryer bars. one bar freshens more loads than these two bottles. i am so gonna tell everyone. [ male announcer ] how do you get your bounce? [ woman ] time for change! >> the majority of people calling for me to resign are people i do not work for and do not want this program to work in the first place. my role is to get the program up and running. we will do just that. dennis: kathleen sibelius under fire.

i am dennis kneale here with cheryl casone to take you through the next hour of "market now." from one big win to another, mark cuban toppling the sec and cleared by a jury. it is the finale of our ultimate stockpicking competition. the fox business all-star showdown. we will announce the winner in the next hour of markets now. ♪ cheryl, i am getting goosebumps. cheryl: we began this stockpicking showdown the beginning of the summer. it will be a big show. we have mark cuban coming up as

well. we have some breaking news right now. the goal, we are just seeing headlines crossing. boeing and lockheed martin. nicole: that is right. they are teaming up. the story is that both boeing and lockheed martin are teaming up to bid on the pentagon's new program. lockheed martin, according to the same sources -- it is

hitting all the wires. it is pushing these stocks to new highs. boeing has done very well lately. we are looking out both of these names on the move. we are looking at them teaming up. cheryl: thank you very much. we are also looking at some breaking news that you saw last night. that is technology builders. microsoft and amazon. joining me now are all-star showdown finalists. you both like technology. the showdown later on. i want to know about microsoft,

robert. >> microsoft surprised a lot of people. they really did surprise. microsoft is one of those names where if you do not own it, i do not know if you want to jump in, but i would be looking for any pullback. cheryl: five different analysts upped their price target this morning. >> yes. if you are a conservative investor, i think that there are better pics out there. again, whether you are looking at microsoft or amazon, they are aggressive plays. being wrong and being early could be the same result. be careful.

cheryl: 24%. >> i think people a long time ago bought into the idea that this is a growth story. people are looking at this as the next mega- leader, the next all-star. people are buying into the future. cheryl: it is hard to trust that. >> we do not own the stock. it has done nothing but go up. fundamentally speaking, we have an issue with the company.

if you are a conservative investor, if you are looking to safeguard, it just is not the type of stock you want to own. you want to be a little bit more careful. stuart: the twitter ipo is coming. we have the date at least. we are hearing that there is news out of zynga. is the gaming side anything you even go for? >> i do not like zynga, personally. twitter is underpriced. i would definitely jump all over twitter.

>> i do not think you necessarily want to touch it on the day that it comes out. buying in on the first, second or third date is likely to have been proven to be a costly mistake. cheryl: bargain-hunting. thank you very much. dennis: before we go, cheryl, since this is the showdown, i got you a luna power bar. good luck on the next segment. [laughter] >> i will be limping down the hallway. [laughter] cheryl: you guys are coming back in just a little while. we will crown the winner.

who is it going to be? you have to stick around. dennis: cannot wait for that. will her head roll? just who should go, though, is a point of contention for republicans and democrats. let's bring in fox news political analyst juan williams. thank you for being with us today. is kathleen sibelius already dead and doesn't even know it yet? >> no. if you wanted to find out who is in charge of technology, you have to blame the white house. you have to get to the people right next to obama. dennis: do you think, though, nobody's head will roll in this

mess up? >> finger-pointing, blame gaming, the other guy should have done it, the government made last-minute request, they should have tested it earlier -- guess what, you, as a big boy, should be able to handle it. dennis: has anyone unlocked the mystery? we hired them anyway. >> the politics of the moment is kathleen sibelius is hanging out there and everyone is taking a punch.

what is this contracting procedure that allows that kind of contractor to get a multimillion dollar contract with a history of failure? cheryl: you have to wonder why. >> for us in washington, we were like, oh, we did not know. how was it possible that people did not know who signed the contract? dennis: kathleen sibelius survives. >> survives. dennis: it seems a little too easy. i'd rather see someone in the white house take a fall.

thank you for being with us, juan williams. cheryl: we are getting word from the cfd that all internet phone lines are down. this is certainly affecting trading. sandra: you will only hear this here right now. there has been a telecommunications issue here on the trading floor. we are looking at telecommunications. as far as overall trading activity, we had heard that there were some discrepancies and trades. we are hearing about the redundancy and trades. some folks did not know that this issue existed.

we will continue to follow it. most connectivity is starting to come back up right now. they will get back to it with more of a formal comments. they are still trying to trace down exactly what the problem is. as you can imagine, this started to happen around 10:00 a.m. central, 11:00 a.m. eastern. we will still bring you the details as the day goes on on how this is affecting trading. this cme says it is a telecommunications issue on the floor. we will continue to bring you the latest.

cheryl: we are seeing another tweet comment from the cme. they are confirming this now. it was a power surge that impacted the phone service of some trades. sandra smith, thank you very much. the fda urging tougher restrictions on products containing the painkiller hydrocodone. what that decision could mean for the billion-dollar pharmaceutical injury. dennis: dallas mavericks marked cuban cleared of all insider-trading charges. first, as we do every day at this time, energy prices. ♪

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not really moving right now. opening up their first ever store in mainland china. we are talking about microsoft, obviously. amazon, apple, cisco. it is time for stocks now. let's head to the floor of the new york stock exchange with nicole petallides. they are going to reclassify hydrocodone. nicole: a very interesting story. there may be a change in policy going forward. prescription drugs actually account for three quarters of

all drug overdose deaths in the u.s. over a decade-long battle, it looks like the fda is wanting tighter control. we are talking about hydrocodone in particular, but also watching names like vicodin. back to you. cheryl: a big story in the pharmacy industry this morning. dennis: breaking up is good to do. dupont is splitting into two.

nelson helped has taken a large stake in the company. breakups have been on the rise. some of the biggest deals this year include kraft and news corporation. cheryl: coming up, we will be announcing the winner of our ultimate stockpicking competition. robert and oliver have been trash talking on twitter for the last few hours. check it out. ♪

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those are your news headlines on the fox business network. dennis: or breaking news. this time out of washington. the fix-it man for the obamacare website speaking out. rich edson has details. rich: when the website first launched, the first few days, as few as three and ten people got through the process. they hope to relaunch and get everything working properly.

dennis: we have a little extra time. three out of ten, 30%, that seems like a very high ball number. they had 19 million visits to the website, so 30% of 19 million would be 3 million sign-ups. they say we have only had thousands of people completing the sign-up. rich: this could be 30% of the people who actually applied.

three out of ten people for the federal website or three out of ten people for all of the websites. dennis: that lack of specific numbers has been part of the problem. the one thing that kind of strikes me about this, he is by no means a real tech guru. lori: t and i think are looking for management here. they had no one coordinating. there were changes on the management level.

when that person. to register online and the completion is what exposed all of these problems. dennis: maybe they should be fired. dennis: mark cuban joins me one-on-one coming up. cheryl: the finale of our all-star showdown. we started with eight stock pickers. now we are down to just two. who will take home the trophy? we will be right back. ♪ (vo) you are a business pro.

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17. ♪ dennis: we are down to our final two competitors. today is the day. oliver porche and robert luna made their picks back in late september.

take a look at how we got to this point. it is the first day of summer. we have a hot new segment. summertime showdown every friday. we will be planning to stock pickers against each other. congratulations. >> i will bet a philly cheese steak that my stock picks beat yours. i am so confident, i will buy you two. >> i will match that with pizza. cheryl: congratulations. way to go. >> jimmy jimmy. my man. how are you?

you have been a humble winner. i am happy to bring it to you here. >> i took on robert luna. i am betting a pint of ice cream that i will win. >> i bet an arizona top go. cheryl: robert finished up almost 4.5%. robert luna, ladies and gentlemen. >> congratulations.

i will get you some ice cream pretty soon for the hot weather. dennis: it is the fox business summertime showdown. you gave us your picks in mid july. we have the results. we have david down. scott, not up much. scott, a win is a win. you will be moving on in the competition. the summer is ending and so is round one. cheryl: you are looking at the averages. congratulations, robert. >> thanks. cheryl: how do you feel? >> he was great.

i just feel like he played it a little too safe with his picks. >> i am so confident that i will beat him. cheryl: here are their averages. it will be dinner at dukes. you are buying. ♪ >> congratulations. cheryl: they battle head to head. now we are down to the final two. robert luna and oliver pursche. the championship of the all-star showdown. check this out. it is beautiful. it will be going home with one of these two men.

oliver pursche or robert luna. dennis: keep them away from that trophy. cheryl: let's get to your picks. robert, we will start with you. here is what you said about jazz pharmaceuticals. good chart. takeover. do you still own it? >> i still like it. unfortunately, it did not get the takeover. cheryl: the stock is up 65% over the last year. oliver, your pick, they make and i drug.

you said strong pipeline, positive technicals. >> i say the same thing. the company keeps executing on its sale plan. they have some new deals. we think the stock and continue to go higher. cheryl: now to linkedin. robert, this is your other pics. strong sec you liked it through 2013, at least. you do not care about the ipo, i guess. >> ever since oliver connected with me on linkedin -- they have some challenges. we were looking to buy. we bought the stock at that

point. we still think that this is the natural monetization social media stock. cheryl: oliver, your last pick. >> i have taken more abuse from this guy and i did in the years in the boxing ring. cheryl: they have skin care. the stock is still reasonable. >> strong third-quarter earnings. the company will continue to do

well, and our view. rob, you have been terrific. it is not that you lost, you simply ran out of time. >> my job is sore from that one. [laughter] cheryl: here is the moment of truth. let's see how these stocks fared since you to pick them. who will be our first ever winner. a moment of silence. linkedin down over a percent. will it be enough to rocket oliver to the wind? here are the averages. robert, it you are up nearly 2%.

oliver, up 7%. oliver pursche, you are our all-star. congratulations. i think we need to bring out the trophy. thank you, oliver pursche and robert luna. [laughter] dennis: were you more brilliant, oliver? >> strong quarterly earnings. the strategy was i wanted to pick a stock that would report during the last few weeks. you either get a bump or you fail miserably. it worked out.

[laughter] cheryl: vanity cells. >> he took the bigger risk. he got the bigger reward. cheryl: i got to see oliver when the earnings came out. >> i was busy.

dennis: be looking at ebay minutes from now. great job, cheryl. wonderful stuff. from one big win. mark cuban. cleared by a jury of insider trading charges. he joins me next. let's take a look at ten year treasuries. ♪ ♪

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dennis: mark cuban toppling the sec after a jury rejected the claims. market cuban joins us now. i appreciate you being here.

first, let's start with a broader picture. >> you know, i do not have the insides. i do not have the exposure to all the data to know if insider trading is rampant or not. i think the sec overplays the impact it has on individual investors and their decision-making process. there is no correlation at all. i think the sec may need to reevaluate. dennis: is as part of a bigger

and rotter part? >> i think there are certain individuals that are lifers. i think there are certain individuals -- i try not to generalize about the government or an entire agency. dennis: two companies, businesses and big investors, do they add to that?

>> i cannot argue with the companies that say, you know what, we have to settle. dealing with the sec, fighting with the government does not really help our business at all. if you have a settlement with the sec, consumers do not really care. we hear about jpmorgan chase. it is not like we are hearing about an outflow of money. it has become no big deal to consumers and investors.

dennis: can't you understand the sec's point here? >> before you even go there, you obviously have not even read the details. they did everything to keep me in the stock. they lied to me over and over again.

i know you have been very supportive and i really appreciate that. it was not like i called him to shoot information. he told me i could have anybody that i wanted to call this broker who i did not know to get more information. there was no confidentiality. nobody, not a single individual ever got a confidentiality agreement.

these guys were crooks. they like to need time after time. it was one thing after another. these guys did so many bad things. this was a tiny part of my portfolio. i probably spent a total of 15 hours in total. i told the bank where i was going to sell. i told my broker to check into it. then i talked to the sec two

days after i sold. i told them exactly what i did. i told them exactly what i did. dennis: thank you very much, mark cuban. we will be right back, guys. ♪ telligent servers, designed by hp, will give ups over twice the performance, using forty percent less energy. multiply that across over a thousand locations, and they'll provide the same benefit to the environment as over 60,000 trees. that's a trend we can all get behind.

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>> time is money, we have got you covered. adam: how about $220 million in advice? chief investment officer, now is the time to be risky. it is an interview will only see on fox business. lori: a dangerous proposition investing in banks. dick bove on wide banking stocks are, quote, that money. adam: ups forecasting its busiest shipping the will be 8% better from last year. this is a call we have not been hearing from retailers. we will ask ups at ceo what this means and what makes the shipping giant so confident. lori: