the most amazing thing about activisio activision, they have over 400,000 monthly users. if you compare that to the number from twitter and netflix. >> that's a sustainable growth trend? those users are going to come back, we'll see more of this? >> absolutely. this is regular monthly use. the great thing about what activision is doing, number one, they have a great line of games. they launched their first new game in ten years. 10 million people signed up for the trial of it. >> in 17 years? >> yes. and they've been doing well with existing games. the game makers are actually putting in lots of new features. you subscribe digitally rather than having to buy a new game and that nets for new margins for the manufacturers. >> it's difficult for manufacturers like this once they have a top spot it's about maintaining that top spot because there's so much competition and the landscape changes every day? >> absolutely. it's all about content being king. if you look at call of duty, that's the number one gaming franchise globally, that is activision. last year, they bought king

you see activision, blizzard, ada also on the rise. betty: oil is not faring well as the nigerian system gets worse. julie: you have what's going on in canada was supply coming back online. and you have nigeria and continued supply constraints there. exxon mobil invoking force majeure, basically saying it can suspend shipments out of nigeria without breaching its contract. supply back and forth. but you see some of the oil majors are under pressure here today. on the flipside, the airlines, which have been falling a little bit recently as oil has been rising, they are rebounding today is oil goes down. caroline: julie, thank you. we have suddenly got a rebound on our hands, it was going to be three days of losses, and u.s. retail data came in and kicked into gear and europe. this digs into all the industry data they need if you are looking at the stoxx 600 index. you can see the outperformance, health almost a percentage point, you have the banks doing well, on the downside is energy, on the downside is a certain amount that consumer d

another company we are watching is activision's blizzard.uarter profits almost double what analysts were projecting because of the acquisition of king digital. benefiting from online sales in particular. the forecast for the second quarter also above estimates. those shares up nearly 8%. the serial company blowing away analyst estimates. $.87 per share in earnings. $.41 is what analysts had been anticipating. the company bought mom brands, its latest acquisition. binge been on a buying trying to diversify away from being just a cereal company. that is one of the elements that appears to be paying off her post. matt: activision blizzard just came out with a new addition to the "call of duty" series. a new map pack. you can play a bunch of new maps. if you come over this weekend, i will show you how to do that. coming up, shares are trading in the 52-week low, falling 14% yesterday even as the company met estimates. the c.e.o. is going to join us in an exclusive interview and explain, next. ♪ matt: this ismatt: "bloomberg markets." i am matt m

>> i like activision. i will tell you why, they are coming out with a new product.hey have, you know, i don't think that the street is giving them credit for the potential growth of the company, and i think that you can trade these stocks, because the question is have they near-term botm tom, and when the new entries come into the market, they will go for the junk that is sold down, because they rekuwaiting the price to value, and that is not always the case. but on a positive note, if the fed is saying that the economy is strong enough for them to raise the rates, that mean ss a spending cycle in technology, and that is going to be more of the e focus, and you could look at the stocks in technology that grows. so i have nothing against technology, but i want to play the higher quality companies. >> josh? >> well, i hate to be with weiss on the throwing the cold water thi thing. >> and you mean, just being with weiss period? >> well, no, i love weiss, bu ht hate to agree with something -- >> i thought that last night was a memory. >> oh, god. >> can we make it throu

. >>> activision blizzard posted results that easily surpassed street estimates. the strong report prompted the company to hike guidance for the year. the news sent shares higher. the stock finished the regular session up more than 1.5% to 34.91. >>> prince's roughly $hundred million estate is in limbo all because the muse eceic icon die without a will. surveys differ but surveys say well over half all adult americans, including two-thirds of women aged 45 to 54, don't have a will. the consequences can be devastating. joining us now with more on this is sharon epperson. a lot of people don't create wills, sharon, because they think it's -- they don't want to think about it, but they also think it's expensive. is it? >> it doesn't have to be. you need to really just lay out what you have and talk to someone about it, or go to a website that can help you figure it out. talk to a financial adviser, talk to an estate planning attorney. determine what your situation is. and that will determine how much you may have to spend. you can go to some legal websites though tha

. >> and activision shares also in focus after the call of duty has helped beat profit and revenue for the first quarter. shares rose, up now more than 6% in afterhours trade. >> neither of jack dorsey's companies enjoying 2016 so far. some disappointment if square as well,. >> -- hurt mainly by a jump in costs. analysts are also worried about slowing growth. shares down sharply on the news about 2.5% in the aftermarket. ceo jack dorsey sounded optimistic last night. >> the core business is strong. the small business economy and moving up market towards medium size businesses has always been our sweet spot and seeing more growth in the mid market and up market opportunity and we have this fantastic new reader as well that allows any one of our sellers to accept apple pay, also samsung pay and the world is moving towards chip cards and we have the fastest implementation out there. so we're seeing a lot of that in the business itself. >> there were some bright spots, including a 51% jump in net revenue and 45% increase in total dollar pamt of all card payments processed by sellers. squar

activision reporting strong first quarter earnings and raising full year outlook. benefitting from growing digital game sales and the acquiring of king digital. >>> what does the job market look like for the graduating class of 2016 as they get ready to head into the working world? landon dowdy joins was that. >> it is jobs friday and economists expect the u.s. to add 205,000 jobs last month. however new studies show the class of 2016 may have something to celebrate as they graduate. they are entering the best job market since before the great recession. 67% of ployers plan to hire new college grads. best since 2007. 27% are expected to pay them a salary of $50,000 or more. and overall hiring is thriving, economists say these are specific industries looking for fresh young talent. take a listen. >> if you are picked one of the business, science, technology, engineering degrees, perhaps healthcare as well, you have a higher prospect for employment this graduation season in 2016. >> new york, l.a., san francisco, washington, d.c., rank in the top 25 as a career launc

companies have been rising consistently, hurt and elmer beating estimates, activision blizzard, that videogame company, and a mixed report but analysts say because it is increasing its hiring, the company has a better outlook. has beenwnside, endo the big loser, cutting its forecast and plunging 41%. as i mentioned, many of the other drugmakers along with it. fluor also coming in below estimates. vonnie: we will check back in a little bit. , morek of the headlines from our newsroom. police in montgomery county, maryland have a suspect in custody in a series of shootings in the area. as auspect is identified 62 old who was captured in the aspen hill area. the first shooting occurred thursday at a high school. the second was that a mall parking lot and the third was a fatal shooting 30 minutes later at a shopping center. checking to see if he is linked to all three cases. president obama says donald trump has a long record the needs to be examined and also said you have not offered serious proposals for dealing with the economy and national security. to emphasize this is a serious job.

ford auto coil, activision, pfizer, csx, identifieser is a drug coil. auto, gaming, rail, and industrial. that's perfection. >> that was easy. >> norm an in ohio -- in arizona. norman in arizona. >> caller: yes, sir. boo-ya, jim. ford, at&t, facebook and johnson & johnson. >> i'm going right to work on this. okay. here we go. ford. we know, hey, we just covered that. that's oil. j and j had the best quarter of all drug companies. doing a terrific job. there at&t had a good quarter. the football package, mr. commissioner. we have facebook and exelon utility. again, hey, the game. it is tougher than it looks. let's go to glen in michigan. >> how are you doing? >> i'm doing well. how about you? >> caller: not bad. trying to see how my stocks are. >> good time as any to ask about it. >> caller: okay. i have some pharmaceuticals, apple, and i got verizon. >> wow! wow, wow! this one is a little more difficult than we realized. just a second. yeah. here's my problem. okay? i'm trying to figure out whether a company that does machine vision systems, is the same

entertainment business, you see a title like overwatch that launched last week because of things activision the physical and the digital versions together and let the consumer decide what's best for them. that's been a great title. we see there are titles that drive our business at the same time, liz, this diversification effort we're on, we said that by 2019 we want to be 50% nonphysical gaming which says that gaming is important to us, we're not just a games company anymore. we think that's a powerful part of our equation. liz: you are smart to diversify, you never wanted to be the blockbuster any way, shape, or form. >> no. liz: great to see you, keep charging ahead. >> thank you. liz: i'm looking at uncharted. maybe, maybe, i don't like the first-person shooters for little kids. >> get the digital add-ons too, liz. liz: yeah, my wallet won't be. paul raines, and thank you so much. by the way, check out claman confidential where we talk about things that are different from what you have seen. go to lizclaman.com and watch my exclusive interview. >>> best offense is a good defense, the do

and activision rounding out the top four when it comes to teblg.rising over 3% from june to august. on the other side of the coin, which tech names tend to underperform. micron technology down in the summer. and down half the time. yahoo! also falling around 12%. only trades up 20% at the time. sansdisk trades higher more often than yahoo! does. auto desk trades more positively than yahoo! but loses over 7% in the barbecue season. a look at the tech names in the hot season. >> thank you very much. apple is interesting. seasonally, that makes sense. because it lines up with the fall launch of a new phone. >> right. this year, are we going to have the same type of tailwind? i don't think so. i think everybody's out of the stock on that one. what this comes down to is you're talking about momentum here. if the market has changed over the last 12 or 18 months, then this may be the time. most of those were 70% of the days up or something like that. this may be the summer that doesn't work. >> which names stand out to you? >> in the tech space, the apple

and the digital presence is activision. they bought king. i misspoke earlier this afternoon. i would say take two is probably where you should be. call of duty. >> moving on to amazon. top trade tonight. bernstein slapping a $1,000 price target on the stock, 47% increase from today's close. history says that may not be such a great thing. take a look at qualcomm. back in december of 1999, after they gained 2,690% in the past year, and we should note, this chart is unsplit adjusted, the target to $1,000. qualcomm gained for another four days but has yet to revisit that $1,000 area. more recently, there's the example of apple. april 2nd, 2012, a $1$2012, a $e target placed on the stock. nearly two years later, in june of 2014, apple announced 7 for 1 stock split. at 1,001 target would be about 143. where is apple trading right now? 93 bucks. >> i'm looking at amazon. at $1,000, it doesn't seem as crazy as the other ones seem. >> really? >> only because of the fact -- and i don't own it, i wish i owned it. when you look at all the different drivers that they've got now, now they

activision blizzard.oody and world of warcraft video games are viewing the new videogame called oval watch. 10 million people sign up to test the game before it was released. here's the number that fascinated me. activision has a half billion 500 million monthly active users. >> more users than face the fear they've got more individuals than the nfl watchers. stuart: the wrong generation. i understand not to 500 million users. you like it out there in bermuda? you play on the beach, do you? >> i'm actually a videogame character and i'm doing commentary. i'm an old pac-man guys. unique users per month. this is the first game and 17 years. they just keep coming out with reiteration of the bowl games are great company. stuart: this is the first brand-new game and 17 years, really? >> yes. they keep coming out with new adoration of the very popular games theater ways to play to increase the subscriber count. stuart: i'm going to break away to breaking news from the ford motor company. the ford f. 150. ashley:

activision business gaining with estimates of 23 cents a share.ideo game maker gave upbeat guidance for the current quarter as the latest game in its "call of duty" line continues to sell well. and herbal life says talks -- >> herbal life! >> isn't the ceo's name herb? >> in advanced stages, the commission investigating charges that herbal life is operating a pyramid scheme. herbal life doesn't yet know whether a lawsuit or settlement will result, but if a settlement is struck, it puts the amount of the fine -- likely fine at $200 million. to anyone else that would seem like a lot, but -- like we made the point earlier. it is not an extension threat. they get the fine and the company keeps doing what it's doing. >> it totally occurred to me in the last hour. it says it could be near an sec settlement. let's see the settlement deal. >> that would be interesting if they weren't. >> because they also say we could wind up in court. >>> wynn resorts earnied $1.07 share and reported a slow in decline. the slump in the region may be bottoming out. >>> fi

activision call of duty. trading to the upside of 2%. up arrows across the board.ore cavuto coast-to-coast coming up. ♪ neil: they have just now uncovered this one russian hack. 272 million e-mail accounts. gmail, yahoo!, hotmail, many others. we do not know what happened to those or how they are being leveraged. and utilized. in ways they probably have not seen yet. something we have been warned about. something we likely go by and ignore. unless we get a handle on this, russia does have the upper hand. very good to see you. it is out of control. >> it is out of control. we just heard the revelations from the romanian hacker. him getting this to hillery server. he spoke from an american prison in virginia. this anonymous person hacker spoke most likely from a very comfortable place outside of moscow. >> the number -- there is no weight there were that many. >> maybe not something that big. hundreds of millions. i believe it is possible. it is not just one hacker. russian state. neil: why are russians, why is he good at this? >> the resources have been used to hack

meantime activision blizzard rising. the visit owe gamemaker's earnings trounced street estimates.provided upbeat guidance for the current order of cal of duty black ops 3. >> your favorite. >> i was going say the same to you. >>> the update on the wildfire in alberta, canada. deirdre, this one looks like it's getting worse. >> reporter: that right to. give you an idea how big this fire has become and how quickly it has spread, it went from 25,000 acres to 250,000 acres within just 24 hours. it is now bigger than the entire city of chicago and it does continue to grow. if it does continue grow even further, canadian officials say they may have to ask the u.s. for help. with no rain expected until next week, it's becoming a real possibility, guys. this is all taking place, as we keep saying, in the center of canada's oil industry. this is a region that produce 2/million barrels of crude day. estimates report that they've procut that in half now. canada's economy is already suffering from oil prices. bank of montreal has come out and said the wildfire, the damage from the produced ou

so then we have games maker a activision but down during an apple slide by around 3%.s&p during a big apple losing month though you can see it averages a 5% loss. so we should point out that typically when apple performs poorly in a month, the tech sector in a whole in particular underperform significantly. get to the stocks that get hit the hardest, first solar lost 26% on average during a bad month for apple, seagate technology has historically fallen by 25% and so has qorvo and then we have salesforce which loses 16% when apple's down over 20% in the month and trades positively less than half the time. and that's a look at sector no, ma'am -- nomics for technology. >>> susan li, thank you very much. >>> dismissing donald trump's plans that apple build its iphones here in the u.s., our next guest says that quote for once donald trump's rant isn't so crazy. in a "the washington post" op-ed today stanford law fellow argues that it certainly is possible for apple to bring manufacturing back to the united states. and he joins us now in the cnbc newsline. good to speak wi

sorry, i know it's such a jam with all that netflix and activision, youtube is like seven hours a daynd don't forget "game of thrones" that's a major impediment to doing homework. >> it is. >> but if they were on the jc penney, nordstrom -- >> wow, really depressed you. >> if they were on the kohl's call, shut up and close it, sears doesn't have calls mercifully. >> no. >> and they were going to be on the target call and on part of the home depot call which talked about the deceleration, they would say we've got to stop talking. we can't come on and say two to three rate hikes because the consumer's challenged and the only way the consumer get out of the jam is the government mandated higher labor costs, and that's what the fed is faced with. but instead they come on and they're cheery. and they're cheery because they haven't done the homework, which by the way is such a drag. it was my daughter's birthday last night, say, listen, i got to go, man. study this home depot conference call more. >> jim, they get every piece of data, they have data wrapped in data with data coming in throu