people aren't happy about the alleged skrupings in the amc. 20s million dollar of taxpayer money waspent to upgrades to the president's home. >> that figure is a big appeal for ourselves to win the african nation. by the way, including the president, himself, we need to correct that. >> along with access of corruption, poor service deliver, rising unemployment this could be a tough election. the black majority government has bought some dignity for many of those oppressed during apa aparthe apartheid. it has delivered water and electricity. those things are important because although the services are under severe thread. people who have access to water often get cut off. people who have access to electricity often get cut off. >> hussein says he isn't voting? >> i didn't renew my membership because i don't concur with what i see. it is for my own good. the ruling african congress is expected to win this election. it has to not only manage high levels of dissatisfaction but also deliver on promises of a better life made to millions who are so desperately poor. >> hurricane katrina hit

>> it's on amc, right? >> it's on amc.hts, 10:00/9:00 central. >> who's the young lady that plays the whack genius? >> lindsay davis. she's the one who sent me along with a gift for you guys. >> so she's not crazy? >> what is it? >> i think you'd like her a lot. she sent me with some moonshine from atlanta for you. >> is she a homegrown girl that makes this in her spare time? >> no, she didn't make it, but she got ahold of it. >> that's kind of scary. >> it's good. it's a breakfast moonshine. >> is it sweet? >> it's sweet. look. >> peach. >> peach moonshine. >> you've got to do it, too. >> of course. of course. >> to great success with your new show. >> okay, go. >> is it strong? >> no, no. >> that's good. try it, kath. you'll like it. >> no, i don't drink on national television in the morning. regardless of what you've heard. >> or seen yourself. there's this great little tape that shows kids now reacting to old computers of the '80s. let's just watch a little clip of that. >> what is that? >> go ahead. turn it on. >> hel

he is joined by the ceo of amc. i talk about the series and the shift to more original programming in cable. this is also from the 2014 cable show. it is 20 minutes. it out. >> sure. >> good morning. in a couplenow weeks you are getting ready to write and direct the final episode of "mad men." but really the burning question i have for you this morning is, what was your favorite long-term job with broadcasting and cable? at thed a one day job calling subscribers to broadcasting and cable, trying to get them to come to the luncheon. weight $100. closed all what. " lott i was the leader for the day. -- closed a lot. lot, leader for the day. you never have any idea who is sitting in your office. >> this is a big moment. this is a landmark show. you have been working on it for years. it is your baby. how are you feeling right now, as you wrap this up? of -- there isot a lot of feelings, you know? there are waves of feelings. i am not really at the real feeling yet of what it is going to be like, which i know will be los

the ruling amc has been fighting corruption scandals but are still favorites. from johanezberg. >> the economy freedom fighters says south africa's fighter jacob zuma is incapable of running the country. land is what tababuta wants. >> they sabotaged us as the people of south africa. we believe we deserve to have our own places, named as people. >> julius is the leader of the economic freedom fighters. he is tapping into the discontent some people have with the ruling african national congress. he wants to seize land from whites without compensation and nationalize the mines and banks. alex willis feels more can be done to help south africans. she said the democratic alliance has her vote. >> do you feel that they respect -- i feel they represent the people as a whole rather than making an exclusive thing to one. >> the dak win. >> but the democratic alliance is seen by some as a party that serves the interests of whites. it does have a growing number of poor and middle class black members. some in leadership positions. but perhaps the anc's biggest threat coul

>> i think it is why amc was interested in working with me. definitely, they weren't -- the word "sopranos" was bigger on our first poster than anything else, bigger than "mad men." >> i do want to get, josh, to your real answer. >> i went first because he knows the real answer. >> speaking to this real point of going to amc and what you could do with this show, tell me a little bit about your relationship and how it has evolved with amc. of course there have been tough negotiations. >> there is ups and downs. we got to a point where, i am an individual, and it is a corporation. it is kind of unmatched. it is like being a baseball player. it is hard to win that in the press. the reality of our relationship is, it has kind of been amazing. a show that weird, that specific -- no genre, no stars -- this is a risk-taking environment. that was the most spectacular thing i felt when i got there. these people are nuts. and they are -- these shows, "breaking bad" and "mad men" -- you can say whatever you want. they have nothing to do with each other.

the amc's dominance is guaranteed although it appears to be losing some of its appeal. tanya page,ays, johannesburg. >> still ahead on al jazeera. >> in south pao p sao paulo brazil. >> can manchester city regain the top spot in the english premier league. details later in the show. in five years an estimated 350,000 people from south america have migrated to brazil's capitol. it's known for its large economy and many jobs. many have no choice but to migrate illegally are coming in large numbers >> reporter: as a father, all he wants is a better life for his 12-year-old son. >> that's why they left haiti more than a month ago to travel to brazil. >> translator: i want financial stability for my son to become an artist, to have a profession. hawaiians have been coming -- haitis have been coming through the amazon border with peru. with skaurs resources, they are being bussed on a 3-day journey to this church shelter for migrants in sao paolo. >> in the last 2 weeks, 500 haitans have arrived here this is a lot of people for us in a short amount of time. >> the church mana

th like the freedom fighters say the amc is corrupt. eff is promising to national eyes mines and banks. it's targeting first time voters like ebanazi passing by the rally on her way to work. she isn't convinced by the eff nor daa leader, helen zila. >> when i see her campaign the way she campaigns, i see a lot of symbolic transformation. but i don't see her addressing the bread and butter issues. >> inequality is rife, especially in the poorest province, the eastern cape. most of these young men are out of work and hope. >> i will not vote because the government is doing nothing for us. we can't get work. >> they aren't likely to be many changes at this election either. the amc's dominance is guaranteed although it appears to be losing some of its appeal. tanya paige, johannesburg. >> let's get a check on your weather forecast a milder weekend after abeds week. >>>. >> it was actually the strongest storm system we have seen all year long pushing through. it began last sundays. we are dealing with some of the remnants of the storm toward

thanks a lot. >>> tumblr getting a big vote of confidence from amc.hannel is streaming the first episode of one of its new shows, "halt and cash fire," about the dawn of the pc industry on the tumblr site. part of the promotional campaign leading up to the show, it's tumblr's first tv premier, and amc said given the tech story line of the show, tumblr seemed like a natural place to post the premier as between that, silicon valley, amazon series, tech is, i don't know, creeping into the formal zeitgeist of television. >> it's interesting to see them to do something like this. many thought this would be something that would live on yahoo!'s home page, but they're really trying to prove they can monetize some of the properties as well. >> yeah. >>> keeping an eye on the bounce in treasuries. let's get to the cme group, rick santelli with the "santelli exchange." hey, rick. >> hi, carl. hi, kayla. you know, when we talk about treasuries, i think you really have to start looking at the spread relationships. so as i'm talking, what you're going to see is a

the ownership model has paid off with "the walking dead" for amc.rns this fall. as for whether "halt and catch fire" can get the results, we have to see if the early access to the tech audience catches fire. >> i think "mad men" lost some of the momentum going into the finale. interesting new business model for amc. >>> do you want to talk about next week? >> a big week in the market. we're rounding out may here with a slight loss. next week -- >> markets were higher for may. >> they were. 3% on the nasdaq. we have ecb, jobs next week -- >> and the apple split. >> and the walmart shareholders meeting. >>> that's a lot. let's get through today first, s&p, 1920, as we have been saying all day, that's four straight days. it is 8:00 a.m. here at the staple center. 1 11:00 a.m. on wall street. ♪ ♪ if you want to have a good time, just give me a call ♪ ♪ don't stop me now ♪ i'm having a good time, i don't want to stop at all ♪ ♪ >>> it's a great tyke to be at cnbc. you have been at this two-day conference, and the read -- red sea parted and nothing is goi

you can watch the final season sunday nights 10:00 on amc.pplause ] how are you? >> i'm very good. and very happy to be here. thank you. >> jimmy: i want to tell you something a little bit weird. i think about your mother at least once a week. >> that is weird. >> jimmy: because -- the reason why is you talked about your mom always playing harmonica in the car. i always play harmonica in my car. >> i know. >> jimmy: and so when i'm fishing my harmonica out of the wheel well or whatever, i think about your mother doing that too. >> she will be flattered. >> jimmy: will she? okay, good. >> i'm disappointed that's the only way you think about her. >> jimmy: do you play musical instruments? >> i do not. i play nothing. my only musical talent is i can sing jay-z's songs sometimes. >> jimmy: oh, jay-z's -- you're a rapper. >> i know all the words to one song. >> jimmy: that's a very limited scope of talent. >> i like to think of it as specific. >> jimmy: which song is it that you know? >> "i just want to love you," parentheses "give it to me" with

. >>> coming up right here, with mad men in its final season, amc is on the hunt for the next big hitso will it be halt and catch fire? up next, the creators join us live ahead of the show's sunday premiere. and solar stocks taking a pretty big hit, but one of our traders is staying long. we'll find out why. don't just visit new york. visit tripadvisor new york. with millions of reviews, tripadvisor makes any destination better. bulldog: i can't wait to get to imattress discounters good and early for the tempur-pedic bonus event. i'll have first pick from the huge selection of tempur-pedic mattresses. then, i'll get to choose $300 in pillows, sheets, and other free gifts. on top of that, up to 48 months interest-free financing. it's a beautiful day for mattress discounters' tempur-pedic bonus event. mmm, some alarm clock you turned out to be. ♪ mattress discounters >>> amc is debuting what it hopes will be its next big hit following mad men. halt and catch fire is a drama about the pc revolution will that let's take a look. >> no one who matters pays attention. >> stop selling me. i d

you know him from his work as don draper on the hit amc series "mad men." may 16th. please welcome my good friend, jon hamm. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> seth: how are you? >> man, i'm good. how are you? >> seth: i'm great. it's so good to see you. >> that's so pretty. >> seth: isn't that gorgeous? >> yeah. >> seth: and it got a whole lot better looking when you came out. >> i mean, right? [ cheers and applause ] that's why you give compliments, everyone. to get one back. >> seth: there you go. it works. >> it absolutely works. >> seth: this -- of course, we first met in this building, when you hosted "snl." >> right down the hall. >> seth: and it was something -- we did something that we have never done for any other host. >> that's what i heard. >> seth: which is we have a pitch on every monday. when you came, the writing staff and the cast were such fans of "mad men" that we all dressed -- we all wore suits to pitch. >> yeah, you all came in costume. >> seth: we wore costumes. >> men and women. >> seth: men and women dressed like we were in the 60s. >> s

. >> now 58, cranston is best known for his role on the hit amc drama "breaking bad."grew up in los angeles, his parents were both actors. he first thought about becoming a cop. he started taking acting classes in his 20s and began landing commercials. >> now you can relieve inflamed him roidal tissue. >> and small roles on tv. >> just a minute, i don't have much money. [ laughter ] >> he played a dentist with an off-collar sense of humor in seinfeld. ♪ his nearly seven-year stint on malcolm in the middle as the kooky father increased his profile. but it was the wildly praised and popular show "breaking bad" that finally made cranston a major star. >> say my name. >> before the show ended its six-year run last september, cranston won three emmys for playing walter white, a chemistry teacher turned violent drug lord. >> i am not in danger. i am the danger! >> in terms of narrow casting, everybody sees you as that one character. >> it can, if you succumb to that kind of easy out. when malcolm in the middle ended after seven years, i was offered two pilots for tv that wer

zuma knows he has a lot of support because of the legacy the amc has. black south africans thanked for helping to end apart eye i'd and bringing freedom. he will be counting on that loyalty come the election on the 7th may. we have got some radical policy ideas. he wants to nationalized the country's mine and banks and sees farms from white owners without giving compensation. he wants to introduce a minimum wage of $450 a month and double the salaries of police officers, teachers and nurses. there isn't a lot of information and daily given by the party as to exactly how it will be achieved and the critics are certainly slamming those ideas as unaffordable and unrealistic. it may not be very long depending upon the outcome of a corruption case. it will be rejected from parl parliame parliament. two years ago. his radical messages are resonating who say it hasn't done enough to benefit their lives in the last 20 years. >> a suicide car bombinger killed six soldiers in yemen it happened in the province where the arm has launched an offensive against fighte

current president jacob zuma and his amc party held a massive party at the stadium. despite a week economy and allegations of political corrupti corruption, south africa is better than it was when apartheid ended. >> we have worked together to build al new society based on the foundations of human rights, equality, justice, unity, and e reconciliation. we have worked together to build south africa that truly belongs to all who live in it. >> since nelson mandela entered office in 1994, the anc party has won every general election by a landslide. but that could end this week. the main challenger to the anc is the economic freedom fighters party or the esf. they held their rally ahead of wednesday's election. they are trying to capitalized on growing frustrations with the anc. al jazeera reports why they are losing power after 20 years in power. >> latabala and her cousin are excited on voting on may 7th. >> i am going to vote for the anc because it found our struggle and gave us freedom. >> apartheid ended 20 years ago. the ruling african national congress has a lot o

amc has had a string of hits like "breaking bad" now their latest drama is banking on the pc era.year after ibm corner the market in the early 1980's. you probably see many commercials for "halt and catch fire." jon erlichman spoke with the creators in asking where the idea came from. moved ourer, who family from chicago to dallas, an opportunity in computers. he started working and system software in the early 1980's. i watched his career evolved from systems software to application software to the internet and then finally to security software and about two weeks after he retired in the mid 2000, i had graduated from college. his company was acquired by ibm. ibm was his presence and his career life and also our personal lives where it is always nipping on the hills of what everybody else was doing. >> writers looking to do. worked we were working together in social media at disney. we were getting interested in technology and our lives whether it pushes us further apart or brings us together. we got to the genesis of the story was 1983 and the rise of the personal computer. and

. >> chris cantwell and chris rogers, creators of amc's new series "halt and catch fire" with our jonichman. coming up, with the massive growth of chinese social media companies like weibo, will internet censorship in china and anytime soon? you can also watch us streaming on your phone, tablet, and at bloomberg.com, apple tv and amazon fire tv. ♪ >> it is 26 past the hour, which means bloomberg is "on the markets." i am matt miller. take a look at the indexes as we near the end of the trading session on this friday. just a couple of hours away. use the red arrows across the board after an investor was disappointed by some consumer spending figures, but still, 1918 on the s&p 500 ain't bad. one stock we want to highlight bidt now, hillshire -- the is on. tyson made a bid to buy hill shire, which would make it one of the top bids. it topped pilgrims pride by five dollars a share. hillshire's stock is trading above the $50 per share offered. optimism that an even higher bid may be coming along. "bloomberg west" is coming right back on bloomberg television. ♪ >> you are watching "bloombe

amc entertainment. fidelity guaranty ad life and hilton worldwide. a company called, i hope i pronounce this correctly, zulily? >> zulily is interesting one. internet based company. hilton as well, very interesting. those are two companies still kind of consumer oriented. hilton may be more established kind of like the ge comment you made. you have to watch out for the dates, lockup periods where people get out. it's a simple supply and demand issue, gerri. when supply hits market or there is more of something typically it goes down in value. that is what you're seeing when folks dump these shares, prices sufficienter. >> an opportunity one way or the other. either to get out before the selloff, or to pick it up if you like it. can you make a recommendation on one of these stocks right now that we just mentioned? >> yeah. i like hilton, gerri. because they're established. hilton is a worldwide leader. they have good revenues. they have pretty good profits and the hospitality industry as we've seen in recent economic data is contributing a lot to gdp

ok has amc ever said no to a script now not that i know of.we you know they're a network they have notes but it's never been know to a script. any thought of a spin off there is a spinoff in the works i'm not involved because this is a very very demanding show robert kirkman who created the comic is co-creating that up i think i believe he's creating that show with a very talented writer dave erickson you know they're going to call it i'm you know i don't but i i'm smart enough to know that the walking dead will be in the title do you know how the show's going to end. you know it's funny the comic book continues to this day the comic book of the show is based upon their issue one twenty four five comes out i'm sort of ahead to get him early and. robert said he's going to go at least three hundred issues so it's kind of a strange thing i read the comic every month every month or bi monthly occasionally comes out as a fan zone yeah i'd tell him not to spoil things for me has in the past i really got angry at him so. i read the comics a fan in th

>> amc is weird. i don't understand why it's a stand-alone. it's a great business.roperties on television, but these shows last five seasons, and then they're gone. it's stuff spinning plates. >> how about jazz pharma? i only picked that from the space. there's always m & a chatter. >> i don't really know the company's pipeline all that well. i would say the most interesting name in the list of barron's was sit rick systems, ctsx. this is a no-brainer for virtualization. almost any tech giant could fit this into their offerings and it would make perfect sense. >>> speaking of health care, stef, the bear, won the debate on pfizer. sore, guys. that's three in a row, by the way, for you. you're on a bit of a roll. >> i didn't realize you were keeping tabs there. >> don't get too cocky. that's me. >> i'm totally cocky. >>> final trades quickly, josh. >> a matt look for the breakout. >> sprint. >> american express long. >>> have a great rest of the day. "power lunch" starts now. >>> halftime is over. "power lunch" and the second half of the trading day start right now. >

. >> amc, and caremark holdings, both up about the same. b.pgrading both from buy to neutral. at mc targets goes to 28. cine mark. >> northland cutting it to an underperform. that's wall street fancy speak for sell, sees margin and sails pressure ahead. their targets $240. the stock is at 49.6. you can do the math. >>> we also have our under the radar name of the day, bonanza creek industry. it's a denver-based oil and gas company. it's up, the target up to 68. so they see about another 25% up side on dcei. that stock another hot one. >>> all right. from street talk to talking numbers, our daily look at a stock from a fundamental and technical perspective. today, autozone. it's down more than 2% depiatt beating earnings by a penny. richard ross, and andrew berkeley of open hyper. andrew, would you be a buyer on this weakness in autozone? >> hey, brian. overall, you know, from a portfolio strategy perspective. they don't like consumer discretionary stocks. we want to be on the look on the later cycle, but i would say within discretionary. the a

missedt-quarter profits estimates, so amc is down. dead increased profits but also costs. also, it does not have breaking bad. >> we just showed somebody cutting a zombie's head off. >> you loved that show, right? >> i did love it for the first couple of seasons then it jumped the shark. >> raymond james analyst upgraded the stock to a buy. >> solar city is number three. the world's largest solar providers surging after the company forecast a number of installation increases this year. solar city, which is one of elon musk's companies, is expected to install 500 50 megawatts. so many megawatts. nobody knows what that means. dish added 40,000 subscribers, more than estimated. overall though, growth has heat. >> coming up on the number one stock of the day -- comcast down just over 1%, time warner and the midday down as well. ringing] ell at the close of trading right now -- so much for that rally we saw earlier. the s&p two points at shy of them all-time record, dow jones industrial average had been up day upnts -- ending the about 33.

speaking of content, and amc tv show will appear on yahoo tumblr.oud. if you are somebody in our family is an extreme skier, biker, surfer, chances are you've seen some footage shot with a gopro. the company filed to go public but wants to be thought of more than just a hardware company. jo ling kent' is with me now. how will it be prize, as a media comp

price line, liberty media, amc networks and wendy's report before the open.erage, news corp. and seymantesymantec. >>> tesla, facebook and amazon are being hit this week especially as the nasdaq and the dow diverge. our next guest doesn't think weakness in these names will last. we have chief strategist at btig. the washout in the tech names, the momentum stocks, do you think we're coming to an end of that? >> i think so. i look the a basket of about 20 momentum stocks. and about three-quarters of them are deeply oversold. the deepest oversold condition in some cases since late 2012, of course, when some of the names bottomed. that's compelling to me. it's the kind of environment where you think you might look back and say i wish i had taken that opportunity. about half of those names are still above or testing their 200-day moving averages. that tells us the move can still be considered corrective in some cases. that doesn't minimize the damage to p & ls, though it does suggest that the long-term uptrends could forge higher in the month ahead. we'll be looki

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since i recommended it they signed a deal with wanda, which owns -- controls amc in the united statesat made the hall low gram of tupac? >> yes. >> they crashed after that. >> yes. >> why do you think it -- >> real d you're talking ability? >> yes. >> basically the business that real d business is flat in the united states three big movies in the next three years and making movies in china. in addition to which, speaking of activists, last week starboard value filed 7% and now there are two activists there. i think this company is going to realize share shareholder value cutting r and d and a good acquisition for somebody. >> you weren't going to give us a new one? >> i wasn't going to give you one. thinking about hillshire and a company we like is maple leaf foods, which owns 50% of the branded food market in canada. if you look at it now they don't have much ebitda and a lot of debt but about to sell their bread business for $1.6 billion and they're consolidating their meat business so 2015 you're buying the companies eight times ebitda. >> i think eventually it will be a takeover.

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. >>> immediate wra and tech news, amc is using tumbler to promote its new series about the early daysmputers. >> what's your other nerdy thing out in silicon valley. >> on hbo. it's funny. >> you know what i watch? >> fargo. the two brothers that did the show billy bob is also. >> did you see true detective? they have a second coming with brad pitt. >> i know those two guys aren't coming. but brad pitt. >> brad pitt could take over. >> matthew mcconnaughey would be with him. >> no. matthew mcconnaughey says he is out. i wish they would come back. >> the two of them were in new orleans yesterday. not together. they happened to be there and they were talking back and forth across this balcony. >> looking at a tattoo and all that. >> i thought they said it would be a completely different everything. >> it will be. we'll see whether brad pitt joins that. if you're wondering how technology is affecting the youth of the world, british researchers launching the largest study to date investigating whether using mobile phones might impact children's brain development. my children are on the ip