that is amazon.at big-time on the earnings per share but again there were so many factors to be considered about whether this company is going to grow in the future there are price $350 for this company. as you can see after-hours it is slightly ahead but it has come back down-to-earth after jumping ahead initially. there is another stock we want to talk about, liz. liz: nothing like getting a nod from a billionaire for juicing a stock. jcpenney is moving higher by he have 7:00% in the after-market, -- 7%. george soros is taking passive stake, 7.9%, in jcpenney. stock is moving higher after a rough couple of weeks. david: we want to take you off the desk. robert kennedy center for human rights and justice offering a chance to sit down with apple ceo tim cook at the company's headquarters in cupertino. 54 bids were placed for the meeting. the top bid reaching a whopping 190,000. the last day to place a bid, may 1th. liz: buffett gets 2.1 million for lunch. we asked you on facebook and twitter if you h

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liz: are you amazon tribe? nicole: my husband belongs to amazon prime.et's get to these delays at major airports. the faa is apparently attempting to reduce the number of layoffs. nearly 1000 flights took off late yesterday. i mean late, they were late. they came in after the time they were supposed to take off. wrapping up earnings for the major carriers this year, excluding special costs. six of the nations seven biggest carriers did post a profit for the quarter. here are some of the names. when you see airlines finally posting a profit, you can criticize them for charging and niggling and diming you, if it is working for the company, it will eventually work for shareholders. closing bell ringing and 51 minutes. which companies will benefit th3 most? we talk to the ceo of one of the largest coal producers. that is helping them look a lot smarter than their peers. we are talking to him on the future of energy. that is coming up next in a fox business exclusive. plus, we head out to the cme. all of that and more coming up. we are so glad you are hanging

amazon and starbucks report momentarily. and you'll hear it directly from howard schultz of starbucks as well, exclusively on the second hour of the "closing bell" with maria bartiromo. i'll see you tomorrow. >>> and it is 4:00 on wall street. do you know where your money is? hi, everybody. welcome back to the "closing bell." i'm maria bartiromo on the floor of the new york stock exchange. the nasdaq, the s&p 500 now on a five-day winning streak, but stocks are closing well off the highs of the afternoon. here's a lack at how we're finishing the days on wall street. the dow jones industrial average on the upside by about 27 points, off the best levels of the afternoon. s&p 500, picking up 6.5 on the session. a roller-coaster ride for the day. we'll bring you some important earnings coming up in the next few minutes. but first, let's get to bob pisani with this volatile day. over to you, bob. >> well, the important thing, maria, at one point, we were one point away from a closing historic high, but we drifted south. just put

acquirees to find out what catches amazon's eye.: also we'll tell you, and i'm sure a lot of people have perfect examples of this. the least and the most stressful jobs for 2013. what is the most stressful job you have ever had? we would like to know. log on to facebook.chr facebook.chrm/afterthebell. we'll read the answers later this hour. ♪ at od, whatever business you're in, that's the business we're in with premium service like one of the best on-time delivery records and a low claims ratio, we do whatever it takes to make your business our business. od. helping the world keep promises. ♪ liz: -- david: a lot about spinners would jump at the chance to southern company to amazon. our next guest is on the inside currently advising company on the sale. so what does amazon look for? >> joining us now is managing director at dg strategic advisers. again, you're advising a company right now. so you're seeing the inside of the way that amazon really works. we always think back said the first by which was so great for the company and ha

amazon may call theirs kindle tv and it would allow you to stream amazon movies and tv shows on demand. that's not good news for roku which pioneered the idea of a streaming set-top box. it's already competing with apple's apple tv device. what's not clear is whether this rumored amazon device would also let you stream netflix. that's one of amazon's own competitors. the scary thing for roku and even for apple is amazon probably wouldn't charge very much money for the kindle tv or whatever they call it. amazon tends to sell their devices, say, the kindle, for very cheap and then charge you for the content. back to you. >> thank you, scott. >>> it's not something drivers around the bay area want to hear. your morning commute might be getting a little worse. but there is an upside. traffic congestion for the first three months of this year is up about 4% compared to 2012. but the good news here, experts say this trend suggests the economy is back on track, bringing more jobs, which of course in turn brings more cars on the road. the report also showed drivers wasted an average of about 6

amazon topped expectations with revenue that increased 22%. the 15-year mortgage rate fell to a record low this week of 2.61%. the 30-year dropped to 3.41%. todd horwitz of averagejoeoptions.com joins us on this gdp friday. good morning to you, and what will the trade look like today? - good morning. i think a lot of eyes will be focused on this gdp number. yesterday we made a run at the highs and failed a little bit, sold off maybe half of our gains. ben bernanke said a few words, maybe we are vulnerable, so maybe that was part of the reason for the sell- off. maybe the markeisetng a little tired. but it still looks like the bulls are in control. but this gdp number could be the secret sauce that could turn the market over. - gold is turning into a go-go for traders out there. why is that? - this is what is known as an old-fashioned short squeeze. they sold it off so hard, and they got everybody short into the market, that now what we are getting is people are climbing over each other to get out. they are short, and they are screaming for mer

amazon had a great position on that. longer term you still stay long this. >> i want to make a bridge here since we have you on the phone from amazon to apple. you know, when amazon went public, jeff told shareholders, it's all about the long term. do you think he needs to take a page out of the handbook? >> absolutely. if you look at how much google spends on r&d as a percentage of sales, 5 million in total, so there are things like that that i think does make sense. and ultimately i think we're going to learn a lot about what tim cook's long term play book was as they hinted to last night. >> you want to hear about his long term play book? >> i don't think we're going to be in a situation where apple will give us a good long term play book. i'm okay if we don't know the play book as long as they're working on one. >> do you feel like tim cook is dancing on the ledge here? he is enticing us with some vision but not giving us enough. >> i think he is saying what jeff is saying. be patient. we are in this for the long ter

amazon made 500 million. amazon's revenues of 35 billion per year, but the earnings are zero.t everything back into the business. there is a data trove that advertisers are drooling over. and they have to make money, that is the point. adam: i want to bring u.n., it is great to have you here. llt me ask you, i can hear the privacy crowd going you can't do that, you can't do that, but it doesn't sound as if there is anything new going on here. if you swipe a credit card, they were collecting data on you that somebody was buying. am i wrong? >> you're absolutely right. now they are collecting data, difference is it is much more refined, adam. what it really means is all of the clicks you make, if you buy a particular toy for your child, all those things are going to show up again in an aggregated profile of your transaction. the question is how secure is this going to be, how secure are you going to be able to keep that and how secure are the servers and the entire structure amazon is building up in this case. adam: i think there was a hypothetical, a big hypothetical, if you're

-- i will pick on brother amazon -- amazon's innovation was not technology. it was not technology. they have to use virtualization technology to enable what they are doing, but their innovation was not virtualization. for the old people in the room, ibm did this in 1972, right? their innovation was 12 cents an hour. 12 cents an hour. and transparently. we could go right now and look it up. you can buy it for 12 cents an hour. that ability to sell you -- and they are not the only ones. other people are starting to do this. so transparent, by the way. but that innovation to give you computer for 12 cents an hour. that is a business innovation. they were economically not possible before. let me give you a simple example. some of you may not know this. a couple of years ago, and they may not want to talk about this, but 350,000 people could not file their taxes on tax day. not very good. you may not know this, but the number one day for ecards on the planet is valentine's day. by a long shot. hallmark processes more on valentine's day. this is because you do not

in amazon web services, you have more than 3.5 billion objects. they have to know which one to go for it here that have to break your access. then they have to break the description on the of jets. the probability of stealing your data and getting away with an attack is vanishingly small. >> i think you address one of my concerns, which was the security of my data out on the cloud, but you raised a new question -- who owns my data? what if i do want it to go away? >> there are very challenging concerns. certainly, governed by state boundaries. for example, numerous canadians do not want their data in american dissenters. under a land the vessels, that can be subject to inspection and seizure.

amazon saw a ç22% jump.ues to rise, the stock price has been moving but the concern on the street is that its heavy spending will continue to impact margin growth for the coming quarters and thus the reason the stock is down today. rick i was noting that, you know, they have been putting some money into stocks but they are also putting money into the ten year note. >> you know, 166 yield. it was a far cry from over 2%. maybe a two day chart is a good place to start, sue. and it keeps on going. we always talk about the spread between boons and tens. look at this chart of that year to date and notice that the widest level was around a third week of march, just a whisker shy of 60. that proved to be a great indicator for the rally. now if you look at a chart starting on these first of tens around that same period of march, look at how yields start to accelerate.ç >> rick, thank you very much. shipments of iphones up 37%. that's the lowest rate of growth ever. are apple customers still loyal or is the company b

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amazon kendall. apple has a music what about movies? so they have do chase after the digital streams to capture the market. ashley: internet sales tax amazon says it supports it because it is inevitable? >> whether it is inevitable or not they do say they supported they are able to collect data would be losing a the price advantage even if they say it is not meaningful it is a price advantage for them but reality is with there prime program they try to lock you into the ecosystem with cuts for service and satisfaction and today delivery i am a heavy prime user they make it easy to buy things on their site. ashley: would be looking for today? >> not just the numbers but the june quarter guidance because ebay talked about europe not rebounding so let's see what amazon says is that a similar story with european weakness or if they are not seeing that plus we would like some metrics what they're doing with amazon candle sales this company is probably one of the worst giving part numbers if you are investing paying 192 pp you would think the

i think amazon with their new studios.re trying to do the same thing with all the pilots they put up on their site. melissa: they're trying to, chad, i get the last word from you. are they too late to that party? i'm apple tv. amazon prime customer. i wanted to look at video. didn't have that much time. mean time i just signed up and got netflix. i'm a prime customer would have gone there but now doesn't care. >> i have netflix and i have prime in my home. and i think that, this is a multiyear staged type of development. so they're getting in early and, this is going to take some time to progress and to mature. the companies are very well-managed company. it is highly profitable. it is very, very dynamic in their outlook. and you know, it is a direct play on the cloud. melissa: thanks to all of you. >> thank you, melissa. melissa: coming up all good things come to an end but does it have to be so fast? we'll tell you why the housing recovery. we were so happy about it. may be a flash in the pan. >>> plus uncle sam pulls th

the murder sparked outrage in a country with a long history of amazone against defenders. their trial begins this week. all three deny the charges, but prosecutors say they targeted the cup bowl over a land dispute. family members are hoping for closure. -- all three denied the charges, prosecutors say they targeted the couple over a land dispute. >> i have mixed feelings, but i just hope good things happen for the family, because we of suffered a lot. >> 32 people were murdered in brazil last year as a deck correct -- direct result of this conflict. nearly a 10% increase from the year before. much of that criminality happened in this part of amazon region where they used to live it. rank now in brazil, nearly 400 human rights or environmental activists that are leaving under death threats. under death threats. it is too late to change the fate of the couple but the jury could send a powerful message that those who carry on their fight will seek justice. -- see justice. >> rescue workers have dug up the bodies of 59 miners in tibet after major landslide on friday. two doze

they're stealing share from amazon online.thing that i look at is cash eps comparing what's on the income statement, to accruals on the balance sheet. in this case, walmart is losing cash eps, down $2.26, versus 12 cents a year ago. that's a big negative red flag. inventories are up year over year and there's some articles out there saying they're not doing a good job with inventory management, that might hurt sales and margins going forward. as far as nike goes, it's expensive. the company has a cash flow shortfall of $400 million. deathly overbought on the short-term basis. i think there's risk there going forward. >> and quickly, losers, does that mean you're shorting them? >> no, we don't. we exclude them from the index. they're graded a through f and we just exclude them overall from the s&p 500. >> great to speak with you. thanks. >> hat's off. one of the hardest thing any fund manager has to do is short stocks. because there's not a lot of bad companies out there. a lot of these companies are street fighters surviving t

amazon is a retailer. they're building out ware houses and has done an incredible job and they're fundamentally a retailer. we're a technology platform that's an online market place and partner. we don't own the inventory. so what we do is partner with sellers of all sizes, initially small smallers and now medium and now some of the largest in the world. we're helping them compete in this technology or commerce environment and we will not compete with them. and so retailers will come to me and say, you know what? amazon's our biggest competitor. but i've got 2,000 stores across the u.s. why can't each of my stores be a mini ware house? why can't i use those to get goods to my consumers better than anyone else can? and so what's being built out is what i referenced earlier is an eco system that allows the consumer choice. where i can buy it and have it delivered to me tomorrow overnight. i can buy it and go look at it and pick it up in the store closest to me. and remember, a lot of people like to shop. the

we could see a shift on amazon. >> i know amazon is a phenomenal story.ature of the trade? at a tile when it is trying to be so many things. it's trying to be like a netflix. it's trying to have the eco system that apple has. it's trying to do a lot at once. #. >> it's possible. when you think about where amazon is positioned, it's still a clear precedent for growth. in technology amazon web services is on the cusp on a deflection point. f it could be just as large as retail. in media amazon is making traction in music and videos. the commonç denominator, we stl think they're well positioned. >> this week has been dominated by apple. why is he able to convince the market he doesn't need to return cash to shareholders? you have tim cook at apple having to bum extra $50 billion? why is there a difference between the two? >> amazon is more of a software oriented internet company. they're still very early in the growth opportunities. investors may see it as short sided when they have these significant opportunities to grow in multiple areas. >> what do you t

we can't compete with amazon!ou got, for crying out loud. >> liz: we got to leave it there, guys. thanks. we've got next up, cute dogs, straight a's and process the connection. that's next my mother made the best toffee in the world. it's delicious. so now we've turned her toffee into a business. my goal was to take an idea and make it happen. i'm janet long and i formed my toffee company through legalzoom. never really thought i would make money doing what i love. [ robert ] we created legalzoom to help people start their business and launch their dreams. go to legalzoom.com today and make your busine dream a reality. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side. >> to be tobin's prediction. >> bullish on bank of america. up 40%. >> liz: what do you got? >> i'm a bear. >>iz: what do you got? >> i've got spirit airlines. discount airline, these guys are so greedy, they charge you for your overhead space, up 35% in a year. >> liz: gary b? >> i am bearish on stefan. i'm still bullish on internet retailers. i like am

>> i think both amazon and netflix are pretty expensive stocks.of them, i'd pick netflix, because it is a pure play on the streamingç aspects. >> okay, nick? >> i'll tell you what brand will be around for a long time, and i think that's netflix. they've got a great way of identifying which -- the big threat here is that netflix makes a bet on a show that no one watches and it's very expensive. but they've got a cool way of figuring out what to make. they looked at shows that kevin spacey and movies that he was in and that's why they casted him in "house of cards." so i think that netflix will be smart about the kind of shows that they produce and that will make them a brand and company around that's around for a long time and successful in this business. whether that means their stock is priced right, right now, i'm not sure. >> it certainly has been successful in the last year. >> absolutely. >> thank you, both. appreciate your thoughts. >> thank you for having me on. >> you bet. >> heading towards the close, 25 minutes left in the trading sessi

for instance, we sell multipacks on amazon.nd they really work well with amazon mom because they have a subscribe and safe program. we are moving a lot of volume through that program and it is phenomenal for building the brand and getting product out. it is also not hurting our other business because they are co complementary. >> appreciate you coming on the show. thumbs up to you, too. >>> we are here every week. just to help you with any small business problems you are dealing with. if you have one and you want our panel to talk about it just go to our website. openforum.com/yourbusiness. once you get there, hit the ask the show link to submit a question for our panel. again, that website is openforum.com/yourbusiness. if you would rather you can e-mail us your questions and comments to -- >> you can learn a lot about your business from what people are saying on the network. are you worried about same-day delivery? don't be. customers don't care. our small biz tech expert tells us that a sage survey finds more businesses seei

there was not a rush of customers from amazon to the main street. reason? >> they do not buy online to avoid sales tax, they buy online for lower prices, choices and convenience. the internet is here to stay. and businesses turn to the internet to reach customers. those are the ones that will run head long into the border less world that david talks about. now it's without borders for the tax department. >> address the constitutional portions that it brings up? >> the supreme court said in 1992, a time we were talking about catalogs. that that time, state laws were too complex for everyone. guess what? we are in a different day and age, everyone knows electronic commerce, the internet is here to take. it's robust and what you have now is because congress has not acted you are giving a subsidy to online retailer that is not needed. what we need to do is treat everyone the same. if you have customers in a state with a sales tax, you should collect and remit. >> steve, you got the first word, david got the last. thank you both for appreciajoin. >> first, let's

if weather's bad, that's good for amazon. if u.p.s. says things are good, that's good for amazon.'t want to get in the way with these guys. they're just too powerful. >> lot of peaks and valleys there, as you pointed out, technically. >> but your point about u.p.s. tieing in with this is a good one. e-commerce was a big part of them making and beating the quarter. although deferred. interestingly, we talk a lot about customers who go to u.p.s. or fedex being a little bit more cheap. deferred volume was almost double next-day volume as people try to take some of the lower price options. >> amazon is in a position now -- go ahead, jim. i'm sorry. >> it's still a dollar trade environment. people say it isn't that urgent for me to get it immediately. at the same time, let's not forget there's just this march of progress with amazon where it is more than just -- they're selling you everything now. this is interesting that best buy and amazon can do well. isn't it interesting the possibility netflix and amazon can do well. whether it be fiscal foods or your home streaming something good

amazon is, amazon is retailer in that. many about the retailer but will want to control every aspect of that transaction. lori: sorry, we've got to split. but i've got to ask you one more question regarding bigger technology space. how will google do tomorrow? what are you expecting especially considering intel, yahoo! posted disappointing results and some people saying ebay a soft report? >> between yahoo! and intel they have some inherent problems within their business models and secular headwinds but in the case of google you look at all the major trend whether it is search, display, video, social, local, mobile, they are number two and number one in all of these particular sectors. so they are set to benefit from all these trends. lori: appreciate your time. and your insight. we'll see what happens google reports this time tomorrow. david: thank you. thousands of flight delays and hundreds of cancellations nationwide yesterday were caused by this glitch in the american airlines system. how will this impact the airline'

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we can't compete with amazon!imize what you got, for crying out loud. >> liz: we got to leave it there, guys. thanks. we've got next up, cute dogs, straight a's and process the connection. that's next man: how did i get here? dumb luck? or good decisions? ones i've made. ones we've all made. about marriage. children. money. about tomorrow. here's to good decisions. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. ready to plan for your family's future? we'll help you get there. >> to be tobin's prediction. >> bullish on bank of america. up 40%. >> liz: what do you got? >> i'm a bear. >> liz: what do you got? >> i've got spirit airlines. discount airline, these guys are so greedy, they charge you for your overhead space, up 35% in a year. >> liz: gary b? >> i am bearish on stefan. i'm still bullish on internet retailers. i like amazon. i think it's up 40% for the end of the engineer inform john? >> i'm a bear for now on amazon. but go for yi

amazon could be following suit.or the details on that and a list of other interesting nuggets, we turn things over to bertha coombs. bertha, good morning. >> good morning, jon. >>> futures are higher. the stock posted small losses on monday, pretty low volume. the number of european markets and asian markets were closed for the monday after easter. the s&p 500 index sow its first loss on the first day of a new quarter in more than a year. we are going to get data on factory orders, the dow ended the day down five points to 14572 while the nasdaq lost 28 to 3239. mr. kindle is meeting kindle. amazon has hired charlie kindl who spells his name differently than the popular software device. he left in 2011. he isn't saying what his new role will but he says he is the director of something secret on his linked in page. the rumor may start to spin on whether amazon is thinking about its own phone. i am director of something secret here at cnbc, so secret i don't know what it is. >> you have really got my attention. we wil

second, we were just talking about amazon, here it is. company's epic battle rages on with those who are in love with it and those who hate it. okay, i mean the valuation of amazon is sky high, but so many people say don't worry about that, we love it. but if you need to catch up with what's happening in the mythical realm of is it westeros? okay -- [laughter] amazon prime, i have that, so i'm sort of cool, offers the first two seasons of game of thrones at no extra charge. i'm set. and, of course, there's time warner, the parent company of hbo, the premium cable channel where game of thrones airs on sunday nights, and it's on demand -- its on demand offerings, we'll put these up on facebook.com/lizclaman. it's got battles, long journeys, lots of effects, lots of people using each other to get ahead. sounds just like the local news. [laughter] oh, that's funny. [laughter] let's get to nicole petallides talking to the traders on the floor of the new york stock exchange. not a great day today, but, you know -- >> i'm too nervous to touch th

amazon viewers will vote for the shows they like.lot works follow-up episodes can be seen only a few are a member of amazon prime. it costs $79 a year and includes free shipping and online access to thousands of old movies and tv shows. netflix is spending $100 million on new shows like house of cards and it the revival of arrested development. the big question? why stray so far from your core competency and why compete with hollywood studios that now supply most of your video content you offer online? netflix is at $300 a share but since january is a 60% fifth pass and 1 $15 mark but house of cards fell off a cliff after its recent debut and the dvd release came out weeks later from sony, not from netflix but amazon copley square gamble is a lot cheaper like $10 million for the pilot and amazon stock has been down 3% today and is up 40% in the past year. content is everything for netflix, to amazon it as a sidelight, a way to get more people to sign up for its prime service, and ten million compared with thirty three million at netf

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. >> i think the amazon story is a one off in that we've waited for amazon to take a big header for aong time. and it finally did today, down 7%. but even today, more amazon calls than puts traded. so, i think there are people who were looking for a chance to get in a lower level, so, they bought some calls so they wanted to define their risk. p&g took a step back despite decent numbers but it just made a 52-week high at 82 bucks. the exception that proves the rule for me would be netflix. netflix did really well despite the fact that a couple years ago -- >> total outlier. >> amazon was an outlier. >> i want to go with carter. i think it's the velocity of the moves. woo mentioned them before. the procter & gamble and the bristol and the way these things have gone down from 52-week or all-time highs. that's what scares me on volume. >> right. and consumer discretionary, the same case. and dan, you are looking at disney. >> yeah, listen. disney, i'm not going to sit here. the stock is 1.5% from its all-time highs. i'm not going to tell you things aren't going well. things apparently ar

with this people are walking in the stores of their cell phones and clicking in often comes from amazon or whatever. and you know you had some insights into this that you shared with me before on the air are you willing or able to share that in short form with my maybe violating a confidence but in this sort of clash of the titans what you had is you had amazon was bankrolling the marketplace fairness act the sort of the idea of nationalizing the collection of sales tax over the internet fighting that was e-bay bankrolling it was e-bay in print and they were basically the advice. hits for all their thousands of resellers. e-bay is basically taking a dive and you will i'm not sure how operate in the house because there's still some this tax issues the house doesn't always like the senate making tax decisions or though this isn't raising taxes it's just in forcing taxes but what you will see is you'll see the e.p.a. advocacy will fall away and this is a very good chance it's going to pass in the senate so just to clarify this right now nationwide if you buy something on the internet and y

netflix, amazon, qualcomm, texas instruments. dr.ke your positions ahead of some of these earnings. which one looks tastiest to you right now? >> well, of the wednesday we're watching so closely, judge, i'll skip apple because we'll have plenty of time tomorrow to set up for that one. but netflix and coach, i think those two -- i actually sided with stephanie on the coach trade here. i like the upside of coach after this wicked selloff they've had. that's a shoutout to our boston peeps, wicked. and as far as netflix, i think this one has also been wicked to the shorts. and i think that could continue, judge. the 4 billion hours spent on the stream and so forth, i think that bodes well for them going forward as much as everybody thinks they can shoot holes into them, they haven't yet. so i like netflix as well. >> what about qualcomm, steph? underperformer but on overloved stock. >> totally, as is broadcom. but we want to g a s sense of smartphones. apple, qual dcomqualcomm, broad >> you might get decent smartphone -- >> you might. >>

it is the tale of two charts for amazon. shares have surged 40% over the past year but lagged the market in 2013. will tonight's earnings turn things around? two of our traders will battle it out in one spirited debate. >>> and later, businessman, investor, philanthropist, entrepreneur, nba owner, outspoken critic of high-frequency trading, as well, mark cuban joins the "halftime" gang. ♪ [ laughter ] ♪ [ female announcer ] each one of us is our own boss. ♪ and no matter where you are in life, ask your financial professional how lincoln financial can help you take charge of your future. ♪ >>> all right. welcome back to the "half." amazon underperforming so far this year. but will earnings finally get the stock back to its winning ways? we're going to debate it now. 90 seconds are on the clock. dr. j. is the bull, joe terranova is the bear. doc, make your case. >> they say that the traffic on the internet has been ramping up like crazy to amazon, up 25% in the last month. it was up 8% leading up to that. so i'm saying this is

amazon streaming live content from amazon two-year television. amazon is looking to debut this service later this year. there's speculation that the price could under cut apple tv which is relatively affordable at $99. we know the kindle tablets are much lower than the i pads. who knows how much. >> maybe it will be cut in half. we will see. >> thanks so much margaret. happy friday. >> it is 17 after the top of the hour. high on the highway? teenaged drivers say driving under the influence of marijuana improves their driving skills. that's what they say. more on that shocking study. they were supposed to be the next big thing. robots in the operating room. now there's a little problem. some sthar not working. are robots safe in surgery? we are going to ask our doctor, doctor david samoti. as we go to break a look at the gasoline prices the new national average $3.51. that's the same as yesterday. try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately we've got ink. it gives us 5x the rewards on our internet, phone charges and cable, plus at offi

though it's the buyer who owes the money the sellers have to collect the money and you're saying amazon and e bay are going to be doing this with the paper catalog you would with this law you would have a forty page ad on with every miss a pallet in state tax tacked on obviously on maybe or maybe maybe one g.b. hospital where he has developed a software program so. we're going to sell to exploit but we have just a minute left i want to get to the larger issue here which is it seems to me that if you've been and amazon go along with this it's going to make it more difficult for small after new company that's exactly it is that it doesn't have the right policies for breaking also a big companies in the city are now their argument for the sherman act one of the bright spots in our economy right now is our small internet businesses i mean the idea of a stay at home mom or a disabled person being able to turn your kitchen table and speared bedroom a garage into a global business is one of the bright spots of our economy you know what you're going to sentence what you can ask him he said twen

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and amazon, we talked to mark mahaney in a little while. amazon fell, beat the street, revenue slowed and fell a bit shy of estimates. margins were higher on lower shipping expenses and the expansion of more profitable businesses. what was interesting is i think that the revenue gain and the expense gain were about the same percent. and do you know what they spent on expenses in the quarter? huge. >> so crazy. >> 13 or 15 -- >> the number shot up dramatically. >> i was going to ask. you guys are mahaney. huge employee gains, new jobs. does it match the number of people that have lost their jobs in conventional retail? they're disrupters. are we net positive or -- i bet you we were net negative. >> was this seasonal? >> there's so much hiring that happened in the fourth quarter. >> but overall. >> and the first quarter to deal with returns and -- >> but i think he has a larger point of view. >> more or less than the people that they've -- >> they let go. >> in retail. they're just left. i bet you amazon is able to do it with fewer employees

this is still a growth story for amazon.lfillment side, they don't have any more plans for fulfillments to announce beyond what they had announced already. they continue to be in investment mode in china, italy and spain. some say priced for her infection, but still not far off its peak in after hours trading. guys, back to you. >> great stuff from jon fortt. let's get out to todd wore wits. todd, great to see you. first of all, wa do you make of this disruption? >> good morning, kelly. good morning, ross. the disruption was a failure in the computer system. not a real big deal. that market is a professional's market mostly for hedgers. if they weren't hedged coming in, there's other ways they could use it. they could have used the s&p futures, the etf. although it was a black eye for the cdoe for one day, they'll get it fixed, it will be done .we'll move forward. >> looking ahead to the session today, wa kind of activity do you expect around this gdp report? how important is it? >> i think it's real important. i think the m

well documented radio dead zones over the amazon. beginning at 4:26 p.m., air traffic control and legacy pilots make several attempts to verbally communicate. all unsuccessful. under normal circumstances they would acknowledge each other's calls. >> brazilian air traffic control system in overall shoddy performancegrammed its own consoles to give five radio frequencies for the area the pilots were in, four of which were in complete error, had nothing to do with that sector. >> they are told to fly 37,000 feet, when one controller hands it off to another at end of his shift, he says they're at 36,000 feet. in reality, the legacy and 737 are at the same altitude, traveling 500 miles per hour a piece. that adds up to a closure or combined speed of about 1,000 miles per hour. >> when they do collide at high velocity, there's typically total destruction of the aircraft. >> by the time radio contact is made at 4:53, the connection is so bad, the pilots and controller can't understand each other. the planes are closing in. >> everybody was

amazon, walmart, and best buy all support the measure. the government continues to spend less money, and the largest drop is in military spending. overall government spending fell by 8.4% in the first quarter - that's the 10th decline in the past 11 quarters. money for defense dropped 11.5% in the first quarter, following a 22.1% plunge in the 4th quarter of 2012. that's calculated to be the largest back-to-back decline since 1954. the latest data shows the economy grew slower than anticipated in the first quarter at 2.5% - roughly 3% was expected. for the most part, consumers are still in check, especially when it comes to buying homes and home improvement items. that could change as sequester cuts ripple through the economy. plus, a recent study by retailmenot.com uncovered that americans are becoming more savvy with their money. "as we emerge from the recession, we've learned a lot. we have a greater value on our dollar, and so i think in moving forward those smart shopping and spending habits are going to stick with us." that was trae

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