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this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from right here three blocks from the white house washington d.c. i'm bart chilton. coming up today most of the tech stocks absent apple have reported their first quarter earnings will take a look at what the future holds for last year's leading sector and the growth continue we'll ask the c.e.o. of the stocks. are mo plus r t correspondent ashley banks tells us about big tobacco profits and v.p. and there's new news about that southwest airlines flight where the engine blew apart killing one person former national transportation safety board director jamie pitcher joins us for the latest and the third time may be the charm for team mobile and sprint who have agreed to join forces but will antitrust officials allow the merger to go forward artesian alex mahela the joins us to discuss all that ahead but first to some stories topping today's. and speaking of an i trusts final

arguments were made today in the antitrust case related to the proposed merger of a t. and t. and time warner the justice department originally filed suit last november to prevent the merger. the two media go elias the antitrust unit at the department argued that the intraday shouldn t. is just your buescher of assets including direct t.v. with time warner is ponton sources including h.b.o. and turner networks would create an entity with the motive and the means of the keywords the motive and the means to get out of direct t.v.'s distribution rivals with higher prices if rivals were to bucket the higher prices a unified eighty and t. and time warner could demand the d.o.j. argued the newly merged entity might simply expand market share by keeping the content for itself the eighty five billion dollar merger will now be in the hands of federal judge richard leon who has seemed skeptical of the key premises of the government's and i trust case. and more news on wal-mart's shifting strategy to

conquer new market share in india last week we reported on wal-mart's plan to acquire india's top online retailer flipkart putting the arkansas based real tailor in a position to challenge amazon in that emerging market now the wall street journal reports that the flip side of wal-mart's play for india is a move to divest itself of hundreds of stores in brazil and the u.k. wal-mart reported plans to sell about jordi stake in its united kingdom's base grocery store chain as the to competitor j. sainsbury while keeping a forty percent stake as well as selling a controlling stake in its brazilian business advent it to advent international wal-mart currently operates six hundred as the stores in the u.k. and four hundred sixty five wal-mart's in brazil. wage and salary news alphabet incorporated owner of google has announced the median pay for its

workers the point where the wages of half the employees fall below while half half of the others make more it's reach one hundred ninety seven thousand dollars those figure. make alphabet the four highest paying company out of three hundred ninety seven of the s. and p's five hundred firms that have already disclosed pastis to sticks as of last friday but still left alphabet alphabets media and lagging behind that of rival facebook where median pay is two hundred forty thousand dollars interestingly median pay at amazon which as you recall released an impressive earning statement last week legs well behind these companies that are often mentioned in the same context median pay at amazon was less than twenty nine thousand dollars or under fourteen dollars an hour and now we move to talk tech stocks and one of our greatest pleasures hidden life is to be joined by the c.e.o. of the stock to our melissa thanks for being with us as we reported on the program the tech sector came in a hot and heavy with their q one earnings microsoft amazon intel and facebook all

did well and those earnings came amid some public relation problems for a few in particular facebook as we know but how overall did do the fundamentals look for the tech sector going going forward. well you know what i think on all is so far apple has reported it you're talking about the couple stocks that reported netflix reported google reported amazon reported but you know their earnings reports were going fundamentally they were good but i got to tell you as far as the stock charts go technically i was disappointed about the reaction about the reaction the stocks had right after the earnings none of them rallied even the stocks that kept up after the airings did not rally so we didn't see any follow through on the positive fundamentals in the reports of the positive technical jump up that happened overnight in the game you just didn't see any follow through so i don't know what's going to happen tomorrow night with apple but i know one thing it needs to see some follow through and apple's the one wire that still is still out

there but do you think maybe the reason they didn't get sort of. a jump there after the reports was this a concern about potential regulation we know the europeans are going to impose regulation beginning on may twenty fifth the day after those hearings with mark zuckerberg are concerned not concerned but it looks like there's a possibility will be regulations although there are a long way off in the u.s. do you think that might be something that is sort of tempered the expectations for future growth of the tech sector well i don't know if it's going to have a impact on the growth for long term but obviously it has i think right now for this earnings season second quarter it might have something to do with the e.u. is going to be regulating i guess the regulation start for facebook is one of what the privacy concerns i don't know what's going to happen they have to testify that mark zuckerberg testified in front of congress a couple weeks ago but nothing really came of that in the u.s. so i don't know what's going to happen in the us with that but i will tell you

overall what i see what i see the charts when i look at them technically no one seems to be really wanting to jump in and buy them as far as big institutional money power money there it's not coming in in a full sweep and buying up these stocks of these stocks you got to remember about big huge moves two thousand and sixteen two. thousand and seventeen all these stocks made brand new all time highs that's why that's what helped the market move up you had these stocks leading the way tech stocks and so on they're really feel kind of heavy right now even though they're still in strong up trends overall nobody is coming back in and buying them whether it's because of all these regulations or the threat of regulations all over the place i don't know but no one seems to be that interested in buying that netflix is the only one that really hide a little bit of follow through on the earnings report where it traded a new highs and was green amazon made new highs on the earnings last thursday night but it really dropped a drop and friday morning dropped big oil i wonder talk about amazon specifically i wonder melissa if you know amazon is so expensive they really have to keep their

like a shark right they have to keep growing they have to keep eating and getting bigger otherwise they're pretty hefty valuation to take on do you think that these big stocks like it like an amazon you know those are good investments you should investors be looking for some of the smaller or even some of the larger specifics like intel we're always going to need chips it seems what's your view but i don't think these stocks are bad investments again they're still in the trends but i don't think right now is a good time to buy and if you're already in them long term investing home they're fine they're still strong we could see better earnings report and better reactions into the later fall of the end of two thousand nine hundred for these companies i would say i actually don't think anything looks like a buy to me right now except for to be honest with each a poll today which is not fang stock but that's the only stock right now i'd say go you can go long because that that stopped at a correction on the earnings report last week but as far as buying right now i wouldn't buy any of them it doesn't mean the charts are bad investments if you're

ready and then hold as far as buying things that are cheaper no i wouldn't do that either i think this is just not appearing to be buying right now everything is had a good rally and i would wait until probably next quarter earning season to buy back in or when the market starts to look better the market fell today the market fell on friday that market. the markets nowhere near the highs right now the market feels heavy to me well i wonder about you know the it's easy for people on t.v. and elsewhere to say well bar the dips but the artistry as it were is really is when is the do i mean we know facebook for example has taken a big dip but is it done dipping is there another shoe to drop so your advice is sort of hold off for a little bit though i would say my philosophy is don't buy don't you don't buy dips you buy into momentum when the momentum is trading over example facebook would have been a good buy if it had kept up huge and rallied big time it failed to do that so let's

look at the next one out tomorrow night may first apple reports if apple gaps in a big way and really shows its hand right into the open and rallies it will pull the whole market a pull the whole sector up i don't know if it's going to do that but i know there's a lot of expectation around this report why because it's the first report since they had the tax law passed in december and there's this this tax law says you can repatriate money back to the u.s. with lower tax fees to be thirty five percent it's going to be fifteen percent to bring this money back so apple is going to bring over two hundred fifty billion dollars back to the u.s. supposedly and we're going to talk more about that and that's going to happen and they may increase the dividend so we'll see how it reacts to that but all of those things might be positive for the stock in a reaction where it would provide an opportunity to buy apple tomorrow night or maybe buy some these other stocks that have been dragging but i would say netflix would be the next one to watch but they've all got to move together in other words if apple sales. down earlier instead has

a negative reaction and falls or even gaps up like the rest haven't fallen like amazon did on friday then they're still not buys in this place in this time right now and you've got it you've got to wait i don't like the idea of that's not what i do i don't teach people to do that at the stocks where should people have to buy momentum you. when to go with when it's moving you want to take a position and get the left and if something if you're short something you want to eat you would short something when it's falling so you buy stuff that's moving higher and none of the reports none of the stocks really solid that movement which was what was disappointing except for netflix it just had a little bit of a move up but it never followed through that because google amazon the rest of them kind of went boom and they just fell we will be watching you're always full of great information melissa armholes c.e.o. of the stocks thank you for your time thanks for having me. and to clear away the smoke and give us a clearer picture of some of the better call profiteers r t correspondent who also

tells us about the move towards actually that's right bart smoking cigarettes are looking to be a thing of the past and in its place modern smokeless tobacco also known as reaping still tobacco companies are profiting more than the average that's due in part because cigarettes are more expensive than they've ever bent the industry's profit margins are growing every single year and according to the wall street journal since two thousand and seven the profit margins have gone up by seventy seven percent and the mid one nine hundred ninety s. there were seven major players in the tobacco market today there are just two altria and reynolds american both companies are making large profits and statistics show americans are spending more on tobacco products than on beer and soda combined although the defacto industry isn't taking a big.