saying what darden should change operationally and it has made a number of changes.s replaced the entire board as well and forced out the ceo. there's the office depot transaction. office depot had already bought officemax, which is something geoff davis had pushed for as well and yahoo! selling its ali baba stake is something he push for as well. he says yahoo! and aol should merge that has not happened yet. >> any others that are under the radar? >> he has push for changes at one that is being acquired by rock 10. he has a number of smaller semiconductor makers were he's made changes to the board of directors. one of them is exploring options, which is wall street speak for potentially looking for a sale. there are some outstanding situations among these smaller players. >> thank you so much. coming up, global investment opportunities -- we will talk to mark t's at pimco about how global monetary easing will impact investments this year. "bottom line" continues in just a moment. ♪ >> welcome back to the second half-hour of "bottom line" on bloomberg television. i'm

. >> did want to mention darden, because they're keeping the interim ceo.rboard ran the table, so to speak, with the board of directors in a proxy fight. took over the company essentially with its own nominees. but gene lee has been in there as ceo and he's going to stay as ceo. i just spoke to jeff smith this morning. he simply said listen this is a portfolio of restaurant companies that we have here. gene's got a great view for the future. and he applauded the board for his decision to say yeah we looked at a lot of external candidates, but the guy we've got is the guy we want. when i asked what exactly is the plan for the future mr. smith, who is on the board as well said, you know we're working on it, and i'm not going to tell you right now. >> i'll tell you, here's my advice to darden. just open your doors every day, because what's happened is every restaurant company is doing great, with the exception of noodles and panera. i wish i were running darden right now, i would look like a restaurant genius. >> by the way, you do run a restaurant bar, and th

of the 30's here and there may lead marseille that none of the right now a chilly start and chris darden look for things to rapidly one from that point on the for to 3:00 this afternoon to see some of our warm temperatures and that will mean upper 60s to near seven is looking for 69 for a good bit of the south the bank it will be nice to be an upper 60s that we had yesterday and as a to warm up the site will warm up little more as a hit into tomorrow to look it was like right now outside the temperatures around the bay generally in the 40's were looking a 41 ante up 40 to a pleasant and 41 in san jose before is an oakland and san francisco right now is 51 degrees for to the forecast coming up our break down the south bay for cassie we can expect to the afternoon today. >>george: we're not looking any surprises in the commute this morning pleasant or otherwise no hot spots for the drive from the bay and is we are ready backed up at the bay bridge for the west about commute into the macarthur maze onto highway 24 drive times 26 now 28 minutes and the backed up your trip to the san mateo br

lobe, or the case of darden fighting and watching the entire board be replaced by starboard.y say, hey, why go through it, why go through the distraction and everything else let's just give him a board seat now. in the case of dupont, of course that was not what they chose to do. if he wanted a board seat this summer they would have taken one. they said no and they are fighting strongly. yesterday many people argued regardless of which side you believe in these two directors, jim, who turned around liondell and ed breen, very familiar with spin aufs and splitting up a company as he ran tyco, are certainly superior to the directors that they are replacing at dupont. so that is one we'll be watching closely in the weeks and months to come as both sides argue on the fundamental viewpoints that they have. dupont continually coming back to the fact the stock has outperformed its peer group, trian remembering they learn less in 12 13 and 14 than they did in 2011 and that the company need better management and focus. all right. let's get some focus from rick santelli at the bond pit

autozone, home depot, darden, monster beverage, united health, aetna, the list goes on and on. all these are at record highs. liz: "after the bell" starts right now, don't move. david: today's action. we have larry rosenthal from rosenthal wealth management. he will tell us to boost profitability. he sighs buy europe. why is now is the time to jump in. larry shover, from sfg alternatives in the pits of cme. larry shover, let me start with you, do traders have any doubts? a lot of this, the word greece and europeans came to some kind of a decision here, did traders have any doubt despite the euphoria over today's decision greece will be right back in the hopper two or three months from now? >> you know, yeah. traders right now are viewing it that wow, the coast is clear, breezes in the backburn -- greece is in the backburner for four months. so we have four months to worry about it. that is what markets tend to do. it is a risk and real risk we should be concerned about, but not front and center. so today, the coast is clear with regards to everything. ukraine, greece, yellen of

autozone, home depot, darden, monster beverage, united health, aetna, the list goes on and on.. liz: "after the bell" starts right now, don't move. david: today's action. we have larry rosenthal from rosenthal wealth management. he will tell us to boost

there is no a permanent ceo of darden restaurants. the owner of the olive garden chain. he will be in charge of efforts set up by starwood capital. the oscar went to a birdman. the movie about a washed up superhero won for best picture and best director. patricia arquette, who won best supporting actress, use the opportunity to call for equal pay for women. patricia: to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else's equal rights. it is our time to have wage equality once and for all, and equal rights for women in the united states of america. alix: late last year emails stolen by hackers indicated that sony pictures paid phenyl stars less than men. i've a five-month-old and i do not watch any movie settle this year. did you have a favorite pick? stephanie: i watched the movies i watched the oscars, i watched patricia arquette's speech, i watched amy pascal being interviewed about women in hollywood being paid less than and i think women in those jobs should be advocates for women. i'm not saying i don't believe in free markets, as i absolu

interesting to note first time in pepsi that it was not a trian, it was not nelson or darden. >> themical board, you know, ray millchovich, miller turn around. those guys report in a weird way. additions are not wackos. they're like guys you know what? i don't mind. the say when nelson went on the board of heinze johnson liked it. >> i'm not sure i -- rosenfelt likes having him on the board. >> it's not about fun. >> no. >> you have a club somebody comes in you done like them but what do you do? it's a public company, a public club. hey, nelson owns a lot of dupont. i think it should matter. >> it may. but right now, still fighting. >> amongst the other names working today, based on either guidance or earnings estee lauder, snap-on, good results. >> love snap-on. >> allergan 217, beats by 34 cents. people saying they should have asked for more. >> no no no one believed that they -- i mean no one thought that there wasn't a vicious overpay going on there anyway at actavis. david pyott came on mad money over and over and said we can do this huge number, and everybody said it's not true

darden restaurants has a permanent ceo. it named interim chief eugene lee to that post. over until october replacing clarence otis who stepped down amid pressure from activist investors. how cold has it been in the midwest? operate darn cold. cold enough in fact to freeze lake erie. a coast guard cutter is breaking up the ice on the great lakes. the last time the lake was completely frozen was back in 1996. baby, it is cold out there. that's the cnbc news update this hour. back to you, guys. >> thank you very much sue. >>> okay. dominik is here. a bit of a down day for the nasdaq. inching away from that 5,000 mark. nonetheless, it's up, what, 4.5% year-to-date, and up 16% in a year. >> it's been a stand-out among the large or the major inteks that we follow, but not one of the ones without a record. other ones have been. if you look at the nasdaq composite, year-to-date like you said almost 5%. a real standout. there have been large cap companies that have really outweighed other ones. the nasdaq composite is full of 30 million, 40 million biotech companies and smaller t

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