that's why i'm saying the easy money has been made in moneygram.or 2014, i think that western union could be the one to own. western union. their price cuts should let them take back market share from moneygram. stock is super cheap, only 11 times next year's earnings. 8.6% long-term growth. some of the cheapness is because when western union last reported in late october, the company issued downside guidance for the full year. went down a quick 12%. however, the quarter was pretty darn good. the earnings revenues were better than expected. the quarter saw acceleration in the number of transactions, which i regard as the key metric of this business. up 9% year-over-year. jobs keep coming back next year, that means more customers for western union who want to send money home for their families in other countries. i think it's the best way to play the business in 2014. i think that zoom could have a good year, though. but, remember, there could be more pain ahead for this one in the near future. you should wait before you buy. that said, once the pai

so i think for a lot of these guys and i will say the bulk of the guys in the nfl, it was a giant moneygram i'm not doubting that there's some guys that were suing the league that had damage that walked away from the game with a lot of damage. we know there's guys that's true of, but i think for the 40th or so guys that were suing the nfl, a lot of them thought they had the litigation lottery, and they were right. now, what bothers me about all this is that the propaganda surrounding the professional game has been projected upon high school and pop warner. there are players who have played football and, we damaged, as i said. and at the nfl level they are finding that this confines itself to alzheimer's and als generally with skill position players, have really elevated rates. to project those findings upon high school players or pop warner place, to me is beyond reckless because they have done science on this. the mayo clinic last year released a study in which the income hypothesis was they were going to find elevated rates of narrow degenerative diseases amongst high school football play

we've had a good run in texas with moneygram and vanguard natural resources and texas instruments anday with american airlines. i think for us it is about explaining that it's a new day. it is new day for our competitor as part of a larger entity as you said, part of ice. it is a new day for nasdaq. we made a significant acquisition earlier this year with the ir, pr, multimead y'all assets ever thomson reuters. we have 10,000 global customers. 96% of the s&p 500 use our tools to support the different parts of their businesses. so we have a very, very strong value to demonstrate to these companies. we just want an opportunity to go in and explain that to them. american airlines and us airways are both listed on our competitor for a long time. american certainly long before we had the opportunity to talk to them about nasdaq. and so we, we took this opportunity to bo in and talk to tom horton and doug parker and when they heard about the great things that we're doing at nasdaq, i think they were duly impressed and that's why they chose us. adam: do you think, so many of us still associa

popular with a lot of the household name companies, kraft, mayrriott, money graha moneygrah mon moneygramhe same pitch to talk to anybody about the value we have at thaz dabbing. it is about combining our world leadership in corporate solutions, those businesses that help a company be the best public company they can be. that was reinforced by our acquisitions of thomas reuters, ri and pr multimedia assets earlier this year combined with some very unique visibility opportunities we talk about, our global leadership in technology and trading and we combine that with lower fees and we think we have come up with a very, very compelling proposition for companies that are looking to ipo on us. 121 companies so far this year or companies that will be willing to go through a review like american did in conjunction with their listing. >> bob, we make no bones about the pierce competitive war between the nysc and you guys. we are broadcasting from their floor. we try to talk about you guys as often as we can. how would you characterize the new issue for you, the new transfer issue since facebook?