>>> in the south bay harley davidson fans held a fundraiser for veterans. the san jose harley davidson store organized a bike blessing event today to raise money for injured veterans and their families. there were no reported problems. >>> a renaissance of sorts today for records. in case you didn't know today is national record store day. 2,000 locations around the world are celebrating. streetlight records in san jose was one of them. nearly 150 people waited in line there. on this day music fans are supposed to unplug from itunes and visit good old fashioned record stores. some people camped out overnight and one guy told us he was hoping to pick up a cake box set for $125. >> to help support the local business and made friends out here over the last 12 hours that i feel like we have been out here sleeping in our cars and hanging out and talking about music. it's been fun. >> fun. musicians release special edition albums for this day, as well, including cold play, jay-z and lincoln park. >>> right now what is really fun is henry. >> the golden state warr

thank you so much. >>> what a ride it has been for harley davidson shareholders today. igher after very strong earnings. so what's driving sales, and can harley keep sozooming past the competiti competition? we'll speak to the ceo next. >>> jesse ventura is no fan of american ceos. >> ceos, just because they're the boss, that doesn't mean they work any harder. do you think they sweat more? do you think they need a different deodorant from the laborer because their work is harder? i don't think so. >> he says physical lay borers should earn the same as ceos. jesse is here and kevin o'leary is ready to talk back. that showdown is later on "the closing bell." ♪ [ male announcer ] when fixed income experts... ♪ ...work with equity experts... ♪ ...who work with regional experts... ♪ ...who work with portfolio management experts, that's when expertise happens. mfs. because there is no expertise without collaboration. mfs. carsthey're why we innovate. they're who we protect. they're why we make life less complicated. it's about people. we are volvo of sweden. >>> harley davidso

should republican learn from harley-davidson?009 they saw a big a lot with customers and investors. so management is staging a huge comeback by focusing on four key groups. blacks, hispanics, and women. now they're sending shares up dramatically. so for product is great if people don't know it's gray, they need to be sold on them. so what politicians can learn from this. you know, i think it is phenomenal harley-davidson has been able to do this. >> a great business lesson and story. and that is to target those groups specifically. this is a woman to the gop needs to reach out to. this younger demographic of voters that are more moderate looking for people. that middle of the road kind of rhetoric that they are looking for. and it could be the gop has a chance here to read drink their strategy. so if anyone can do that, that is fine. matthew are just like the personification of cool. [laughter] >> if you go around and say asked people what they believe in, a lot of people are fiscally conservative, but they are more moderately li

we're watching shares of harley-davidson this morning. ker reported earnings and sales that came ahead of wall street expectations. harley was helped by better retail sales of its motorcycles. it also said it would ship between 7 and 9% more cycles to its dealers this year over the same time last year. again, some nice upbeat news and, of course, we will have more with the president and coo of harley-davidson on closing bell. >> after the good numbers and good stock market reaction up almost 7.5% for harley-davidson. thanks very much. market check because we are looking at the sixth straight day of gains for u.s. equities and it's really across the board. the s&p, the dow and the nasdaq. carl you were mentioning that s&p level to watch. >> closing high for the year is 1890. >> not too far away. >> ten more points and basically talking about the highest close of 2014. given where we've been in april, we were in the red for a long time, s&p now in the black for the month as of today, so we'll see how much of this continues. >> we're looking

harley davidson ran over the short sellers after a monster good quarter. nobody needs a harley. to me people are spending on superfluous goods again. a real break to the retailers, hey, many have been saying that if gasoline kept going up, plus fuel is such a business expense for airlines, so today's decline helped with the retailers while lighting a fire under the transports like cramer's favors american air and delta. when you see this kind of action where the losers become the leaders, it's clear that -- between non-airline transports. of course it's not just these sectors fueling the rally, but actual revenues we're witnessing despite the pundits who really do know nothing. remember that rap about all we ever see is a better bottom line. well, we have more earnings reports in the last 24 hours that put a light on that. i mentioned harley, and netflix, how about united technology, especially in aerospace and nonresidential construction. hall i burton gave you regardingable sales growth. they join a parade of other countries, chipotle, wells fargo, general electric, alcoa. now

. >>> in the south bay harley davidson fans held a fundraiser for veterans today. the store organized a bike blessing event to raise money for injured war veterans and families. hundreds of people turned out. members of the controversial hell's angels club were among them which prompted police to monitor events, as well. there were no reported problems there. >>> the unusually dry and warm winter was hard on people who make their money on the land. what this man does in his backyard caught our attention two years ago. what he wanted to do outside of it is tonight's bay area proud. >> reporter: big dreams sometimes require a big canvas. that is perhaps the simplest answer to the question many who passed this hill side may have been asking, what is that guy doing up there? well, that guy is rich santorum. and his answer to that question runs a little deeper. >> some people find their purpose later in life. got to keep trying. >> reporter: we first met rich two years ago in his backyard. by then rich was already semi famous as the bulb guy of san jose. for decades he

harley-davidson, with good reports. netflix reporting after the bell yesterday, raising subscriber fees. vesselors like that news as well. wynn reports, a leader within the s&p 500 on the news of the increase in macaw gaming revenues, and vertex pharma, bakley one of the benefiting from the gains. on the flip side, though, as we sift through these earnings reports out, there are some loser the pentair, tsai zone bank card, and allegheny technology, lockheed martin saying the operating margins could be tough to maintain, so the to be is under a bit of pressure. the dow is not. it's up 102 points. >> certainly, folks, a big part of your market story is mergers, especially in the pharmaceutical sector, a number of big deals announced today. some friendly, some not so much. meg tirrell is here. she's going to start with the friendly ones. >> the friendly ones really took place in the orchestrated swap of parts of these pharma companies in you novartis buying glaxo's canner business. glaxo selling the vaccine business to nov

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harley davidson's earnings topped estimates. the market said that the first quarter was jumped by 20% helped by strong overseas sales, also sales here in the u.s. were up despite the winter which kept people away from the dealership. shares were up to $71.87. >>> and jetblue voting to join the union, about 70% of the company's pilots were in favor of the move. shares fell almost 2%, 8 dollars, 59, and the fda cleared the davinci medical system. the surgical procedure will be used with intuitive robotic machines, the stock went to $422.33. >>> general motors is looking for even more protections against potential lawsuits over faulty ignition switches in its cars. the automaker filed a lawsuit in the federal bankruptcy court, asking to be shielded from a potential avalanche of claims related to crashes and fatalities that took place before gm came out of bankruptcy in 2009. >>> another big car maker taking a big step today, tesla selling luxury cars in china, eight of them in all, throwing in the converter. the ceo was on hand in

harley davidson world record jumper.living riding a motorcycle because the men's club kicked me out in alabama. >> bubba has been riding bikes for as long as he can remember and he's the first to admit jumping motorcycles for a living is a pretty cool gig. >> you know, when you are going through your routine in the dressing room, you are putting on the gear, putting the leathers on, the boots on, you are zipping them up, part of me kind feels like, you know, dad gum, this is the coolest job in the world. i'm like fonz, you know? >> he'd like you to think that he's just a good old boy from alabama, but all joking aside, what bubba does takes talent, skill, planning and a lot of guts. >> when i do a big jump, anything can happen. >> on july 4th, 2001, the worst happens. >> the last thing i remember is putting the bike in gear and letting the clutch up. >> bubba attempts to jump 22 cars at the del mar fair where he performed a crowd pleasing show in 1999. >> i jumped over 14 school buses. a really cool jump. it went great.

announcement that fees would modestly rise for new customers was welcomed by investors.owners of harley davidson shares were feeding at the trough of profits. ticker symbol - hog, its shares popped a wheelie after a strong earnings report first quarter earnings were up almost 19 percent on strong sales. where are most of its buyers? asia, especially china where owning an american harley is a distinctive mark of status. our trader today is todd horwitz, with avg. joe options. todd, let me ask you about mcdonald's -- didn't hit its numbers, market didn't seem to care, what's going on? >>good morning bill. not only did the market not care but mcdonalds stock didn't care either as it rallied a little bit. here's the bottom linewe continue to sweep bad news underneath the carpet and good news we try to celebrate. when you're dealing with a low interest rate environment in which the fed continues to print money, stocks don't care. they just want to go higher. >>you sound like a short seller. >>i am a little bit short. this market has been really range bound. if you go back and take a look at the last

comcast, harley davidson and netflix have surging earnings. sales of existing homes slipped in march to the lowest level in 2012 in july. taking a live look at the big board, the dow is up 90. the nasdaq up 41 and the s&p up 10. >>> there is talk of a possible partnership between apple and nike. it comes just days after nike announced plans to lay off some of its team responsible for the wearable device for the fuel band which measures physical activity. apple has not entered the wearable tech field and now mean bleav the two companies could be partnering to create a wearable product. neither company is reporting the -- confirming the reports. >>> google is challenging nonprofits this earth day and offering a free pair of google glass in return. today, the tech giant is asking groups to propose ideas how to use google glass in their work. the five charities that propose the best ideas by may 20th will get a free google glass, a trip to google for training and a $25,000 grant to help make their project a reality. conservationists at the world w

davidson known for there should be torn bikes built for the open highway has unveiled a new light. harley like a new model has released four with an expected retail price of six thousand five hundred to seven thousand five hundred us dollars to st will be the most affordable by the company of book marketing years in the first u s small bike bring the holy name in over fifty years the harley davidson motorcycles are known as hogs are usually bigger heavy bikes suited for the open road to be incredibly stable on the highway on so they wouldn't be as suitable for a city environment where you have to hunt the terms and i in an hour traffic and so forth. so this new bike is designed with that in mind the release of the street put charlie in direct competition with japanese bike makers who already have strong brands of them on the street is one of the simplest motorcycles the party has ever produced and with the costing just a bit more than the best school to the company hoped to strip down to zion with check the younger demographic with them and in this number one market the us declined. since

book marketing years in the first u s small bites praying the holy name in over fifty years the harley davidson motorcycles are known as hogs are usually bigger heavy bikes suited for the open road to be incredibly stable on the highway on so they wouldn't be as suitable for a city environment where you have to hunt the terms then i'm in an hour traffic and so forth. so this new bike is designed with that in mind the release of the street put charlie in direct competition with japanese bike makers who already have strong brands of their own history is one of the simplest motorcycles the party has ever produced and with the cost is just a bit more than the best the school to the company hopes its trip down to zion with check the younger demographic with them and in this number one market the us declined. since traditional customer base. why is it a white man all over fifty are round fifty nine years in asia and over the last few years they've really it moved to break that demographic and reach a much wider audience history will arrive in american jewish it this way the party expects to ship anyw

. >> in latin america, they can't get enough and harley-davidson, this is every country in the world.ple in china one a harley. it's not just about us getting our act together, they had the blueprint. and they are sticking to the blueprint. we had so many opportunities here. and silicon valley, over half of the new businesses are started in silicon valley. so we better wake up tomorrow. mackey is right about that. when push comes to shove, everyone wants to watch our movies and just have access to our media entertainment and everything that we have. so we have the makings but we're just not jazzed about it. >> i think there are some great points and to charles' point about the younger generation or the nu silken belly leaders being borne out in the country, if we could entice him to stay in america and love america and make it a place that they can thrive come i think that is how we carry on in the game. >> i've never known a country that says people are not intuitive. so we are going to get all of this back. so in the meantime, moody this is all part of the problem. a judge striking

so mny people own a harley davidson motorcycles. have to start thinking with school style again.use in my house, i keep using it and i keep buying it and it could actually be okay in the end. >> someone says that she is going to raise this. only because management has done a terrible job. what we looking at? this is going to be some sort of crazy volatility and whistling past the graveyard kind of thing? >> just my think so. it's a liquidity driven market. volume driven, whenever you want to call it. it's the only place willing to put money right now and you can see what the housing stocks have done recently. some interest may come back in the next couple of years. and so i think the place to be is still the u.s. market. to trace this point, know what you own. it's really that simple. >> yes, and we raise the rates no time soon. guys, thanks so much. a lot of you thought president obama looked weak whe really... so our business can be on at&t's network for $175 dollars a month? yup. all five of you for $175. our clients need a lot of attention. there's unlimited talk and text. we

a couple of individual stocks, harley davidson. i mentioned earnings.res setting a new five-year high after they posted first-quarter profits that beat estimates. the move toward lighter weight hikes have been winning over international writers, crossing overseas sales to rise 11%. also looking at netflix. the online video subscription service planning to charge new customers a couple dollars more each. that coming on top of an earnings beat for netflix. in three quarters of a million internationally. that is higher than forecast by the company. more on the markets in 30 minutes. ♪ . . . >> welcome back to the second half-hour of "bottom line" on bloomberg television, i'm mark crumpton. thanks for staying with us. let's check out the top stories we're following for you at this hour. president obama plans to visit a town near seattle where a mudslide left at least 41 people dead. dozens of homes were buried in the town of oso, a an hour northeast the seattle. crews continue to dig through the wreckage in the search for bodies. the confirmed death toll fr

harley-davidson, that move, that stock up higher as well. >> learned a new phrase, tax inversion up therethat will do it. >> "street signs" begins right now about brian sullivan. >>> is owning a home one of the dumbest financial moves you can make? hi, everybody. welcome to "street signs." how is that for an open. realtors save your nasty-grams until it's over. >>> but who might be the next biotech to get bought? iconic investor bobs on steen is here with what he's calling one of the biggest accounting

. >> caller: in january of 2007 i bought some harley davidson stock for $68 a share and rode it down and back up and wondering if now is a good time to sell the initial purchase and get some of the merk stock and a block of wisconsin cheese. >> i like that. but i like green bay here too. here's what you want to do with harley. i like the stock very much. that bodes well. i believe you should keep a part of it but i love your strategy of taking a profit on some because no one ever got hurt taking a profit. i like the common sense approach that you're taking to a stock that's run up a lot that's still good. you don want to give that back. the real sin would be to round trip that gain. damien in new york. >> caller: booyah jim, how are you? >> i'm all right. how are you? >> caller: doing fantastic. i had a question concerning bcl. >> yeah, they had a hit the other day. >> caller: yeah, the last couple of days the stock has taken a hit and i was reading because it was the devaluation of the current sy. should i buy, hold, or sell? >> i guess they hadn't communicated the problem as well a

if you look inside of there, there is a dozen or so custom harley-davidsons buried in the debris as the building collapsed on top of it. and power crews are trying to restore the power, and we have 80 to 90 businesses and homes here damaged. and the governor has declared a state of emergency here in the town, and the weather is nicer, but they have a long way to go here in baxter after this torp doe swept through here last evening. >> indeed, the calm after the storm. and as we look at it, did the residents get enough warning, and i grew up in tornado alley in texas, and we knew that when you hear those warnings, you have to heed it. did they get enough of the warnings? >> well, the folks said that they did hear the warning, and one woman said that she heard the siren go off for 20 seconds, and grabbed her son and the next thing, the roof was lifted a off of the roof, and betty, the storms were move sog quiing so and 50 miles per hour ground speed, so if they had warning, you had a small amount of time to get to the shelter. that is how fast they were racing around the ground. >> mike b

strong reports from at&t and harley-davidson helped pushed the stock market to its longest winning streakseptember yesterday. the dow finished up 65 points. the nasdaq added almost 40. >>> jetblue pilots have voted overwhelmingly to unionize. the airline's roughly 2600 pilots will join the airline pilots association union which represents about 50,000 pilots. jetblue's stock dropped after the announcement because of fears that costs could rise. >>> coffee lovers may be in for a jolt. coffee bean prices have jumped to their highest levels in more than two years. it's thanks to the drought in brazil which severely damaged coffee crops. the big coffee companies buy their beans way in advance so these sky high prices haven't dripped down to customers just yet. but unfortunately, experts say we will see higher prices in a couple of months. ouch. frank and juliette? >> hurts at these hours. who knew skechers would be the huge winner at the boston marathon along with the men's champion? >> reporter: well, that's right. when you think of skechers sneakers, you probably don't think about long dist

yesterday the market was propelled by the likes of netflix, comcast and harley- davidson all toppinga lot of bay area firms adding to the list this morning. couple of losers out there on their reports are juniper networks and vm wear while gilliat science is doing very well off a -- gilead science is doing very well off sales for hits hepatitis "c" drug. two heavyweights report after the bell. apple and facebook. analysts looking for apple revenue to increase slightly to $43.7 billion hoping to top what they did in ipad and iphone sales a year ago. facebook meanwhile expected to see its revenue rise more than 60% to $2.36 billion. mainly on strong online ad revenue growth. the market off to a challenge this morning. once again you have tensions in ukraine rising with russia weighing on investors a bit this morning. let's check the big board. dow lower by 16. nasdaq is down by 15. s&p is moving lower by 3 points. juliette and frank, back to you. >> okay, jason brooks from kcbs news, thank you, jason. >>> all right. about those sharks, they are just one win away from eliminating the lo

. >> take a look at harley davidson, hog with wells fargo lowering its estimates.ck is saying meh. >> here's why we put this in here. this goes to what we tried to talk about with larry, the weather. they have expectations of poor sales in the first quarter. it's a weather call. they are saying next year, next couple quarters, sales will rebound. that's the thesis we were bringing up that retail sales probably won't get killed, they will just get pushed forward. >> absolutely. >> if you want a motorcycle, you are going to get a motorcycle. i should not have had that second cup of coffee prior to the show. i want the motorcycle! >> i get it. today's under the radar company is mannkind. you might remember if you are a loyal "street signs" viewer that we did flag this stock earlier in the week. look at it today. >> here's what happened on monday. piper jaffrey downgraded the price target, says that affrezza may not get approved. unfortunately for that analyst, the fda recommending approval. the stock up 77% today to $7.13. tough timing of that. >> indeed. talking of t

harley davidson. after reporting first-quarter profits, it topped analyst estimates.es of increase. i cannot dig into the rationale of it. i do not know about the two of you. suburbs, have a motorcycle in there. why do you think matt miller is in the suburbs? harleys fork about a moment. allergies are searching today. why will ackerman is teaming up -- a hostile bid. we will be covering that the next hour. up six percent as well. still relatively more expensive they wills yesterday. have to come up with cash. especially with a poison phil. ♪ live from bloomberg headquarters in new york, this is "market makers." showdown-theurt arguments are about to start in a case that may determine the fate of online video service aerio. >> captain america made darth vader. a disney studio executive who has to manage those rounds under one umbrella. won't have that sinking feeling, the silicon valley entrepreneur will be ready for the next tsunami and is building an escape capsule. that's right. leave it to the rich people. welcome back to "market makers." tore is a lot we are going

. >> i like the fact that a kind of looks like a harley davidson. ducatiooks more like a to me. ttle bit blade runner a little bit tron. >> i think it is more of a harley. we will agree to disagree. mine theoing to call ryno. for those listening on bloomberg radio, the first word is up next. for our viewers, it is a second hour of "the pulse." >> we will be talking about european luxury and earnings. lvmh and also burberry. >> we are going to be talking central banks. comments from angela merkel saying that the euro crisis ain't over yet. we will talk about the ecb and the bank of england meeting tomorrow. busy on central banks. more when we come back. ♪ >> toyota. one of the biggest recalls in history. >> president putin meets his government to discuss stopping ukraine's gas supply. >> greece is expected to announce its return tho the bull market this morning. good morning to our viewers in europe. good evening to those in asia. it warm welcome to those waking up in the united states. " live from"the pulse london. >> tiny robots inspired by termites. these are a few of the tasks

i'll kick it off with hog harley davidson, up nearly 7%.aker reducing the most in more -- i should say rising, most in more than two years. the company reported first quarter profits with analyst stills of sales of their bikes increased and they expect to ship 284,000 hogs worldwide this year. >> reducing, rising, what's the difference? allergan is rising, i think we can fairly say, up more than 10%, valaen pharmaceuticals offered to buy them at $47 billion. pershing square builds hackman company. linkedin, down slightly. they've agreed to fully leasing a san francisco sky escaper, -- skyscraper. the property includes 450,000 square feet and has more than 2,200 square feet for retail space. >> number seven is canadian solar, up 10%, the best performing solarmaker in the past year, solar panelmaker the past year won a contract to supply 43 mega watts of modules to japan's second largest ever solar project. deliveries begin next month. no terms of the deal were disclosed. >> number six, rent-a-center is up, beating earnings estimates. they sa

we get numbers from mcdonald's, travelers, united technologies, bank of new york mellon, harley-davidson, lockheed, zeier rove, amgen, gilead, juniper and yum grands. >>> the automaker will soon name mark fields to replace alan mulally. fields was appointed coo in 2012 and was previously northern american sales chief. fields hand been assuming more of ford's day-to-day operations, something he talked about with cnbc's phil lebeau just last week. >> i take over some of the bpr meetings and the daily operations of the company. we're all working as one team, staying focused on this record number of launches we have this year, growing the business both here and in international markets. we're not missing a beat. we're staying focused and doing our jobs. >> mulally who entertained the idea of becoming microsoft ceo last year is reportedly expected to explore taking on another high profile position. ford in germany is trading higher by 1.5%. >>> as we were talking about russia could face further sanctions from the white house has rebels in eastern ukraine show no sign of backing down. more of

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and the president of harley davidson is going to join me tuesday to talk hogs and earnings.ion. financial noise financial noise with all the opinions about stocks out there, how do you know which ones to follow? the equity summary score consolidates the ratings of up to 10 independent research providers into a single score that's weighted based on how accurate they've been in the past. i'm howard spielberg of fidelity investments. the equity summary score is one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. call or click to open your fidelity account today. >>> final thoughts from our panel. the big news that broke 20 minutes ago that valeant and ackman teaming up to by allergan. >> i'm glad he's not doing on his own. >> they just do the financial stuff. >> bill is a smart guy. slow-footed management team. a lot of money is going to be made here. >> she'llia. >> valeant approached allergan and bringing in ackman to bring in big guns and turn up the fire. >> that would explain bringing in an activist, right? >> this is just a hostile takeover or acquisition

harley davidson shares earned $1.21 for the first quarter, 13 cents above expectations.he company is maintaining its prior full-year forecast up to 284,000 motorcycles sold for 2014. that stock is up 6.6%. xerox beating estimates by 27 cents a share. but it did go below consensus. they are impacted by declining sales, printing, slower growth and services. that is down 5.8%. netflix reporting 86 cents a share. 3 cents better than expectations. video streaming service announcing that it will increase its monthly membership fee by $1 to $2 a month for new subscribers. and profits above straoefp estimates. that stock is up $28. shares of mctkopd's. just out of the top of the hour. earning $1.21 a share. 3 cents below estimates. but if you take a look, the stock is trading higher. right now to give us his action is r.j., senior restaurant and retail analyst at morningstar. r.j., why is the stock trading higher? >> the initial reaction is it was down on the earnings miss. if you look at the numbers a little bit closer, there was a one-time close beyond the operating profit lin