that's why, fellas, always look for the adams apple, okay? (laughter) that's a pro tip. for the adam's we us in. (laughter) because you know what they say, fool me once. (laughter) now, folks, this hard truth has been attacked in the mainstream media. it evidently ruffled a lot of lady feathers. at least i think they have feathers, i'm not sure. i a lot of them pluck these days. of course, this thin-skinned reaction won't surprise banker. in the article, she wrote that "what if the derth of good men is women's fault? since the sexual revolution, men haven't changed much but women have changed dramatically. in a nutshell, women are angry, they're also defensive." women are angry and defensive. you need proof? go up to any single woman and say "the reason you're not married is because you're angry and defensive." (laughter) and not only -- (applause) not only are today's shrill haarpys scaring good quality men away from marriage, but also making these men deadbeats! banker says the rise of women has pissed men off and underundermineded men's ability in the hopes of someday

your friends. >> can i ask a quick question about the big news yesterday with apple and google? >> yeah. adamad this very intriguing article. everyone sees this as google victory and apple loss, black eye for apple. they have a comparable iphone which has comparable mapping applications and they didn't have that. their map was no good. they didn't have google maps. now they got it. isn't this victory for apple? shouldn't investors consider that. >> i think this is win for both parties because google maps gets to be seen by more eyeballs and apple has the best mapping function on its phone. this is killer iphone. adam: bingo. >> some reviews i was reading yesterday. it fixed iphone one flaw that it didn't have a maps program. apple is concerned, it is not ideal. we want everybody to use our software but the fact it is on there and people are still buying the iphone it is a win-win all the way around. they will fix that, they will fix issues with apple maps and we'll see if people go back to it. but choice is key there. adam: when i put my address into apple maps it puts my home in the middle o

adam you were giving tutorial. yours still isn't working. >> this is an apple and iphone 5.address there in new york city. you see that red dot? that's my home address. right in the middle of central park. >> you don't live in central park. >> fortunately i don't live in the middle of central park. it's about 30 blocks off. it's never functioned properly. the question is why? is the google map really that much better? if you have an android phone with a google map system it worked really great. had you great mapping. now, with the apple iphone and the new google app. you get the same mapping. you get great mapping. investors and people who use iphones are loving the new google application. it's the number one download from the apple i store. and of the thousands upon thousands of people who have downloaded the application between last night and today 90% have given it a 5-star rating. apple has just scored a victory. they now have an equally good map as their competitor phone on android system. >> harris: you said we should smell something here? >> that's the conspiracy. a l

a huge hot story and shows you apple doesn't have the upper hand in all departments right? adamprice down 2% already today. shibani joshi thank you very much. lori: congressional leaders battling over the fiscal cliff but who will end up losing? s&p dow jones indices david blitzer says it is the economy. he joins tracy and ash next. tracy: i'm tracy byrnes. ashley: i'm ashley webster. new verbal sparring on the fiscal cliff and no new progress on a deal. house speaker boehner says he is heading to ohio tomorrow. that is not a good sign. with 18 days and counting until the new year is it too late to avoid the cliff? tracy: republican congressman tom cole is our guest. he says congress should pass the president's tax hikes but it won't solve the whole problem. ashley: businesses bracing for the fiscal cliff and even more government regulation. chairman of oil and natural gas produce other energy xx 1, john shiller is here and how his company is bracing for the worse. tracy: time for stocks as we do every 15 minutes. nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. ni

apple and jb penpejb-- j.c. penney. we have shibani joshi and adam shapiro as well and first to nicole, j.c. penney, a lot of people worried about retail sales, think it's going to hit companies like j.c. penney hard? guess what? the stock is up 4%, why? >> that's a huge move on a day when the major market average, look the at j.c. penney, it's posted comments from oppenheimer this morning, talking about the fact that promotions are working well and bringing traffic into john kerry opiniony, you know that we spoke about ron johnson and came up from apple and his whole theory, was no promotion and great prices all the time and that really was working. the and so, they're back to the promotions this holiday season and it's working. traffic is pretty busy there. >> it's working very well, at least today for the stock. thank you, nicole. well, president obama has always promised not to raise taxes on the middle class, but if he can't reach a deal with republicans in the next seven days, that's exactly what will happen and adam shapiro, i've got to tell you, looking at the numbers, if the preside

gods," something with wings whispered back in my heart, and i crunched the apple-a taste so good i just had to share it with adamwe were naked. oh yes, we were nude before, but now, grabbing for fig leaves, we knew that we knew too much, just as the slippery serpent said, so we crouched all day under the rhododendrons, trembling at something bleak and windswept in our bellies that soon we'd learned to call by its right name: fear. god was furious with the snake and hacked off his legs, on the spot. and for us it was thorns and thistles, sweat of the brow, dust to dust returning. in that sizzling skyful of spite whirled the whole black storm of the future: the flint knife in abel's heart, the incest that swelled us into a tribe, a nation, and brought us all like driven lambs, straight to his flood. i blamed it on human nature, even then, when there were only two humans around, and if human nature was a mistake, whose mistake was it? i didn't ask to be cursed with curiosity. i only wanted the apple, and of course, that promise-to be like gods. maybe we are like gods. maybe we're all exactly like gods. and maybe th

apple. the 108-year-old subway going high tech and we have adam shapiro coming up next. an apps in a subway when you can't get a signal? this i have got to see. ♪ >> the dow still down 68 points, 1337. you know, traders worried about the cliff, but i'm not afraid. they are going to work it out, and if they don't, it actually could be a good shock to the system. >> they will, but it shocks us

apple pie and chunky bacon peanut butter. word he will have a heart transplant in an hour. >> there is bacon shaving cream. adam loving like bacon. >> i favor of bacon necklace when you go bike riding. >> bacon infused bar in new york. it is best thing i ever had. i can't even talk anymore. adam: julie and dennis, thank you for joining us. we're going to have to

apple for 5 million commuters on subways, things will be easier. now if they can only clean the darn things, look at met tams -- mellals -- metals as we head to break. ♪ ad. adamyou have to ask which companies will hurt the most if we go off the cliff. we have the bottom line, and, liz, this is something to use as investors plot a strategy with no ciedged of come presenceble answers. >> here's the companies that could dive first without the compromise. you'll see them here. it's curtesy of goldman sachs, and dozens of companies expected to be affected. it's not just defense companies. it's also other companies that get a lot in the way of government contracts, and there's companies here, get 50% or more of their sales from government contracts. really interesting stuff. it's not just, again, defense companies. you're going to see waste management in there, an environmental company. motorola in there as well. we talked to fidelity. they are concerned as well telling amists to watch for certainly insexes -- indexes and others that cover financials and others cited there. adam: i have friends saying there's no fiscal cliff, it's make believe trumped up by the med

. >> officers say shooter adam lanza was unsuccessful and that employees at the store has been interviewed by police. the sporting a chain is applertain kinds of semiautomatic rifles of their cells. >> temper sports is by getting all their permits and licenses and having the police department go in and inspect their safety mechanisms to make sure the public is save their of those that would not a place open. >> of course nurse or rot in connecticut. right out there is a plain brown nearby as well as an apartment complex. >> they are upset that the city did not notify them that song was looking to open up a gun shop. >> the city says by law they do not have to have a public hearing for anyone looking to open up shop. >> will get reactions from the store owner is well as people war against the shop brought the morning. >> reporting from los gatos will tran kron 4 news. >> < update on the forecast. >> it is cold it will be colder. >> tomorrow morning it will feel very cold some of our colder temperatures we have seen all the year. a chilly start in the north bay we can see some patchy fog also potential for some fog. visibility, par

adams. >> i hope so. >> david eisenhower, evan thomas, the new book is called and this bluff reinforced a status quo. it was invoked in berlin. where the applesllen. >> i get the point. i think about ike, i think about him as humble and how can a guy from kansas be where i am at right now and some things i really think are great about that guy and you're doing what david did for john adams. >> i hope so. >> david eisenhower, evan thomas, the new book is called "ike's bluff." post world war ii history, it's the best. anyway, we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] we all make bad decisions. like say, gas station sushi. cheap is good. and sushi, good. but cheap sushi, not so good. it's like that super-low rate on not enough car insurance. pretty sketchy. ♪ and then there are the good decisions. like esurance. their coverage counselor tool helps you choose the right coverage for you at a great price. [ stomach growls ] without feeling queasy. that's insurance for the modern world. esurance. now backed by allstate. click or call. >>> let me finish tonight with this. imagine having two political parties that are moderate on social issues, reasonab

adam: house speaker john boehner back on capitol hill. it is the latest round of fiscal cliff talks which, as speaker boehner opens the door for tax hikes. lori: don't count apple out. dissecting the opposing analyst calls. is the worst over for shareholders? melissa: it is time for stocks now. nicole petallides standing by. nicole: we are looking good. you mentioned boehner and obama speaking once again. many traders that i have spoken with that something, some white, would get done. we are up about one half of a percent. there is the nasdaq sitting right at the 3000 mark. i also want to take a look at two names that have been making news. that is sprint and clear wire. that is about a half of a percent for sprint which is the number three u.s. wireless carrier. now, they will have full ownership of the spectrum. that is some good news for sprint. you are seeing that clear wire is selling off the news. lori: president obama and house speaker john boehner meeting just hours ago. our rich and thin was first to report this news of the meeting. rich, the house speaker seems to be caving on tax hikes, at least a little bit. rich: they have been discussing the ratio

adam-- >> cool occasionally, but only thing i would use it for-- >> you default to google. but i'm also a middle aged guy. >> siri has a way to go, but appleon of cash and r and d dollars, research and development, and they need to get-- >> there was a report, i forget which channel put it out, but at the end of the day you have 7 billion people roughly on the planet, potential customers. majority are going to be buying android based operating system devices. david: you mean like the galaxy phone and-- >> and they have a market, but it's limited. will apple will have eventually have a limited market? >> i don't believe so. i don't believe so. i think they're going to continue to grow and i think in a lot of the emerging markets where you're seeing enjoyed you may see a little more, but i think that apple is going to continue to agree. david: e-mac, if the content is the key here, if we find out -- if you go on to netflix i'm disappointed i can't get a particular movie i'm looking for, i can't get the content, but apple has so much money and netflix probably has what, 5 to 10 million max and apple has over 100 billion in cash. they can make

apple, number one. and number two, we all have to talk amongst ourselves about where is the next leg of earnings growth? i've made my bed. it's health care. if you looked at adam'sraphic, that's his number one overweight sector. jpmorgan, ge among the stocks. ten of earnings growth. does that mean if you get any pullback in the earnings potential of those ten, that's going to lead to this drag? >> apple, specifically. you need continued earnings growth performance out of that name. >> i would look differently. if those ten stocks pull back, those are the ones you want to be buying. i think you want to be focusing on the companies that had good third quarter earnings and who have better visibility in 2013. i would also, though, say if he's right in terms of the earnings trajectory for next year, your trough is sometime in the first quarter, and maybe we can actually start to anticipate better earnings in the second half of the year. >> let's talk retail for a moment. a market flash on sears. bertha coombs is tracking that one today. bertha, what do you see? >> strength in retail today. and this afternoon, we're seeing sears take a little bit of a kicks-up. sears,

on halftime, is innovation dead at apple, former ceo john scully here onset speaking out on america's most valuable company. >>> a big bear makes another big call. adam best day of the year. what's the right play now? two traders, one heated debate at the top of the hour. carl, see you at 12:00. >> scully and parker, good hour. can't wait. thanks, scott. >>> 21 days until christmas and ebay seeing a huge surge in mobile shopping. question is, is mcommerce now as they call it the way of the future? steve yankovich joins us. >> thanks for having me here. >> some of the percentage increases are hard to believe. how sustainable are these numbers? are we still in early days? >> yeah, we are. the mobile growth has been phenomenal. if you think about four years back, people didn't think about mobile commerce at all. and now today we expect to do $10 billion in globally on ebay mobile and it's about the consumer. when and where do they want to shop? and the smartphone is changing the game. we're in a paradigm shift in how people are shopping these days. >> i read that the biggest mobile day for you guys was not black friday, wasn't cybermonday. it was the su