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contessa brewer on expedia. >> yeah. the weekend of super bowl here scott. we've heard from royal caribbean and hilton earnings about the growth in demand here for travel. and we're watching to see how expedia is capturing that interest. the focus here is not just on the business that's doing directly with with consumers, but also the technical services that it provides business clients. here, it's a focus for ceo ariane gorin. for and she comes from that b to b division. the street is looking here for a little more than $3 billion in revenue, with adjusted earnings per share of $2.04, so we'll keep an eye on that. but shares really have taken off over the last six months or so up, as you can see, more than 46%. scott. >> contessa, thank you very much for that. we'll see those numbers when we hit the tape. speaking of stocks that have taken off meta. yeah, up another 1% today. this is going to be 14 straight days that this stock is up obviously a record. >> yeah it's remarkable in the sense that it's just kind of fed on

expedia's the parent of hotels.com, vrbo and its namesake, expedia, seeing 8 6.4 million total nightsey announced they will reinstate and raise their quarterly dividend to 40 cents per share. that really has a lot to do with the jump here in the stock price. that will begin on man march 27th. now if you remember, the company had previously suspended its 34-cent dividend back in 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic when nobody was really traveling. >>> let's look at point pinterest shares, turning right now by about 17.8%. investors cheering the social media pin board platform for sur as passion a billion dollars in fourth quarter revenue. pinterest also announced its global active monthly users reached an all-time high of 553 million, an 11% jump year-over-year. the company said its a.i.-powered tools are boosting engagement with customers and advertisers. pinterest said users are leaning into its shoppable content, visual gift guides and vision board creation with 62% coming back to the platform more frequently. pinterest's artificial intelligence push driving investor confidence with a

expedia, best day since november 2023, holiday bookings beating expectations.. going through so many stocks. let's start with amazon. most analysts seem to be upgrading targets. they are convinced this investment is worth it. >> look, amazon does have the largest cloud business. almost $115 billion. it is quite impressive what they are able to do. the one negative i would cite here is that microsoft is the only one that has quantified their ai contribution. they said it was a $13 million run rate this quarter. in the case of google and amazon as well, we don't know exactly what the ai workload contribution is. remember, amazon only competes in the infrastructure levers. crosoft is selling you office copilot. google is also selling you other types of software. if we had kind of known what the ai contribution was, it would be more clear in terms of how things are shifting between traditional cloud and ai workloads. jackie: this crossed the wire not too long ago. bill ackman said pershing square owns 30 million uber shares. what do you make of it? >> when you look

expedia shares soaring on strong results. travel site also reinstating its quarterly dividend, and pinterest also rallying double digits here. the company reporting its first billion dollar quarter and says monthly active users hit a new record high. the ceo, bill reddy, joins us exclusively in just a few minutes to give us his outlook for the company and tell us about what's working right now. so those confidence numbers are kind of a damper because, you know, consumer confidence had been looking up actually since the election. we know that there's a little you know, that's always a little bit politically tinged. but i think also the inflation jump in terms of expectations is something worth watching. we know the fed watches it. you know previously in the last inflation spike fed chair powell did mention you mention inflation expectations at one point. now obviously it's the market expectations. and overall inflation expectations have been in check. there hasn't been anything worrisome. but let's pay attention to that. it co

why is expedia up so much? st it's up 15%. >> yeah. we're that traveling.han we are domestically. the ceo said they're seeing really strong travel demand in the asia-pacific region, even in europe and actually even more importantly for the stock, they reinstated their dividend that they had paused back in 2020 during covid when no one was traveling. really they said travel demand has been really strong despite price increases. stuart: well, you know, the dollar is at a-- 2-year high. >> pays to go abroad. stuart: thanks, taylor. have a have a great weekend. >> you too. stuart: democrats gearing up to go after elon musk and get him out of the government. watch this. >> we are going to use every legislative, judicial and public pressure tool at our disposal as a members of congress until we fire elon musk. stuart: i don't get it. why are democrats opposed to musk cutting wasteful spending? senator ted cruz is going to take it on later in the show. >>> the big game, sunday. president trump will be there making him the first sitting president the attend a super

shares of expedia right now up just about 9.5%. for the big monthly jobs report before the open. take a look at futures right now. it's kind of muted all day or all morning i should say. ahead of that report similar story right now. the dow up fractionally. the s&p and the nasdaq down fractionally. with that let's bring in simeon hyman global investment strategist at proshares advisors. simeon good morning. great to have you here in studio. >> thanks for. >> having me. i think we got to start with the jobs report coming up later today. what are your expectations? how do you see the market reacting to what the numbers that we get. i think the market's. >> going to hold up. you know. we've seen the economy hold up in many ways. >> one of my. >> favorites is that. >> ism manufacturing. >> actually beat expectations just a. >> few days ago. >> and that's a broadening. >> out of the economy. >> so i. >> think we'll see a. >> decent jobs number. and of course earnings 12%. >> year over year growth in the s&p 500 with roughly. >> three qu

post-earnings moves from pinterest, affirm and expedia.ll three names have double digits after posting their results on thursday. and finally, meta locking in a 15 day win streak. the tech titan, up nearly 17% since the run began back on january 17th. meanwhile, tesla falling more than 3% after reporting that its ev sales in china fell sharply in january. this amid reports that the eu is set to lower tariffs on u.s. autos in a bid to avoid a trade war with president trump. phil lebeau joins us with all the details. hi, phil. >> hi, courtney. >> let's start. >> first off with the. >> sales in china, which were not good in the. >> month of. >> january for. tesla in. comparison to their competitors, they. >> were really not good. tesla down 11.5%. byd up 47.5. keep in mind. >> byd sells. >> not only electric vehicles. but a larger percentage of their sales are hybrid vehicles. nonetheless, they were up. >> 47.5% in. >> terms of the global ev sales race. yes, tesla. was number one. last year. not by a lot, but. >> still number one over byd. >>

is me, did i is at the same time guns key, expedia and using. nobody's going through, allows for america's expression as adults up by that ship, the desired storm and nights the world affairs is just that's the presentation of a listen. i am at the will, but he's going to be different speed to differ from what there was no, we start a plan, the democrats for their, the new loans and the president of the united states. i'm, i'm, but i have an issue with them. makes a lot of statements almost to try to use that reyes. you'll need that piece be, let me come find you easy for me. or it goes down to the reforms that you promised just to reduce the election campaign. let's see, but you have to do so at this point, just take is a long duration day long, some 200, you lose the documents. executive documents were assigned. there's all of them in line with these election promises who she's been, i got the lovely and you guys ladies, there is don't use this with us. the great my 3rd will say departments and for the items in place, it is the right to be shi

shares of expedia, though, are rising, with earnings coming in at $2.39 a share. that beat the street's expectations of $2.04. revenue also beat, and gross bookings came in at. $24.4 billion. that was better than the 23.3 billion. >> the company. >> had been expected to. >> hit. >> by wall street. stock right now up by about 10%. also announcing that it's reinstating a quarterly dividend of $0.40 a share starting in march. and again, that's shares of expedia up by about 1,010%. >> and coming up amazon passing walmart. revenue for the first time. but the stock down a little bit falling after guidance for short of estimates. we're gonna dig into that story next. and later president trump outlining his tax priorities in a meeting with gop lawmakers. thought about you, andrew. you finally carried interest might happen for you. >> he tried to do it the first time. >> yeah. >> couldn't get it done. >> biden couldn't get it done. >> no i'm saying trump tried, but biden could do. >> try this. >> last time. >> did he try. >> by. >> you remember because krysten sinema. >> o

expedia jumping after beating expectations on the top and bottom lines and reinstating its quarterlyplummeting on light guidance. dan, you're pointing to the chip data points and how it built a pastiche. about my eye. >> that's actually a very that's a. >> harder word, to. be honest. >> pastiche. >> well, max. >> meyers used to use. >> that pastiche. >> of payne mosaic. >> yeah. >> you know, all. >> these things. well, listen, you know, i don't think people had particularly high expectations of qualcomm, right? and we know that that is very levered to handsets. right. and at one point you could have made the argument that they're making chips for copilot pcs, which was going to be an extension of this ai trade. well, apple is a 22% customer. and based on what we heard from apple in china, down 11% year over year, obviously iphone is a big part of that. apple intelligence is not there. now the chinese are looking at, you know, the services fees and the like here. it seems like the whole growth story for apple in china is kaput. apple did not grow handsets last year while android grew

expedia gave you a monster quarter this evening. it's one after another after another. but the best one is american express. it's the ninth best performer of the year. plus, it fits the bill for 2025. after a fabulous last quarter, finally, a newbie added to the index. sherwin-williams a little odd here. paint company. this one's a tough it's tough. i don't get it. it's housing slowed 7% mortgages. i'm honestly shocked the stock is so high. still, it's not a tech stock. it's not a magic seven. in fact, it's a quintessential not tech stock. maybe that's why it's their bottom line. so far this year we've had many very big winners outside of tech, and i bet most of them can keep quietly working their way higher. let's go to james in connecticut. james. >> hi, jim. >> thanks for. >> taking my call. >> of course. >> jim, it's too. >> late. >> to buy. >> banco santander. >> no, banco santander is very inexpensive still and is doing a great job. now. admittedly, i did like it in three and four. i know, i just endlessly pounded the table, but at five i still think it's a great

that's why shares are down 3.5%, expedia shares hitting an all time high. >> today after posting strong. >> bookings during the. holiday quarter and reinstating its dividend. hsbc and bank of america say this name is a buy, and the stock is up 17% right now. airbnb shares are also up in sympathy, almost up 2%. scott. >> all right, christina, thanks back to you in a bit. we're just getting started here. up next, the former federal reserve vice chair richard clarida, is standing by. we'll find out what he thinks about potential tariffs, what they could mean for the economy and the fed's next move. that's just after the break. we're live at the new york stock exchange. you're york stock exchange. you're watching closing bell on cnbc. ♪♪ well would you look at that? jerry, you've got to see this. i've seen it. trust me, after 15 walks, it gets a little old. ugh. i really should be retired by now. wish i'd invested when i had the chance... to the moon! unbelievable. stop waiting. start investing. e*trade ® from morgan stanley. market volatility. to help. >> you follow. >> your plans wherever

expedia on the travel side of things up 15.5% better than expected earnings. they also reinstate their dividend. pinterest and affirm holdings, each of those stocks up 17 to 23% on better than expected results. pinterest growth and active users affirm holdings gross merchandise volumes surging, so keep an eye on all of these names. it's not all about amazon, but certainly these names here are not enough to counter that massive move in a mag seven name. i'll send things. >> back over to you. >> big movers today, tom. thanks. >> a smaller one, but. >> on a potentially big story, check out shares of u.s. steel, which are at session highs, up about 2% right now after. >> president trump said. >> he hasn't changed his mind, but will. >> discuss the nippon steel. >> deal with japan's prime minister. >> it comes as. >> cbs news. >> is. >> reporting the. >> president is considering allowing nippon to. complete its $14. >> billion deal to buy u.s. steel, ticker x. >> those shares had plunged briefly 8% before now moving higher, broader, more broadly, stocks are falling

next, expedia.popping up some 10% and that is on the back of strong bookings over the holiday season, and it gave investors something they loved, a quarterly dividend of 40 cents per share starting march 20 25. you are seeing a number of price target raises at j.p. morgan, barclays, and even an upgrade by hsbc. we have another riser, pinterest, soaring 20% because ai is actually paying off over there. apparently there ai tools are more lucrative for businesses because they are better able to target people and that contributed to a record quarter for the first time, revenue coming in above $1 billion. yes, you can see my pinterest board after the show. jonathan: i will take a look. i have one, too. sonali: for what? jonathan: i renovation i did not do but it still exists. would you like me to share? lisa: i don't have a pinterest page. jonathan: i was surprised by my experience. i will share that another time. also things going on there that i did not realize. annmarie: i have a pinterest board. jona

. >> it follows expedia. >> but clearly. >> a good report card. >> on the state of. >> spending globallyiott is the largest and most global stocks giving back. >> but it's. >> been a big outperformer lately. >> performer yeah. >> big performer. >> i just want to mention one fact on marriott, which i thought was impressive, which. >> is how much they're. >> increasing room. count 123,000 units. >> last year. >> bringing it to 1.7. >> million global rooms. >> which is at the end of this year. >> guidance for. >> next year. expects the rev par. >> which is the industry metric of revenue per available room, to rise 2.2 to 4%. it was. up 5%. >> this recent quarter. but what we're seeing in the hotel. >> industry is. >> the big. are getting bigger. >> and stronger. >> because it's look, it's. >> high interest rates. >> it's hard to borrow. so these companies have scaled they're. >> making acquisitions. >> and they are growing their. >> footprint and they're growing. >> and their growth is in part coming from that, but also really strong travel demand where they're able to get. >> solid pricing