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only at td ameritrade. action." it's been a rollercoaster ride for twitter as there are talks about a takeover. josh joins us with the very latest. >> our own david faber reportered that multiple bidders remain interested in bidding on twitters, who are they and why would they want to buy jack dorsey's company. investors are reacting to these headlines. it was not a good week for twitter bulls. you saw that stock drop almost 15%. the problem reports that some big companies aren't actually curious about making a bid. for example, alphabet was widely discussed, given its cash pile, nearly $80 billion. twitter would give larry page a real social platform, but from page is not currently interested, that's according to recode who said disney isn't in the running. so that leaves salesforce ceo. he declined to address the speculation, only saying that he looks at a lot of different opportunities. i was equally noncommittal with the "new york times," saying i'm not saying i'm buying it, but i'm not saying i'm not buying it.

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only at td ameritrade. hey nicole. hey! i just wanted to thank your support team for walking me through my first options trade. we only do it for everyone gary. well, i feel pretty smart. well, we're all about educating people on options strategies. well, don't worry, i won't let this accomplishment go to my head. i'm still the same old gary. wait, you forgot your french dictionary. oh, mucho gracias. get help on options trading with thinkorswim, only at td ameritrade. >>> welcome back to options action. stocks are trying their best to find their path to the upside. we took a look at s&p 500 stocks and turns out around po of them are within 5% of those mork -- marks. the stock's been trending lower but analysts still think they have 23% upside from current levels. another big name here, nike, also hovering near its lowest from the brexit vote in june. but they still think there's an average 22% upside. and milan hit a 52% low last week, but analysts say there's a 47% upside and those are just a handful of those on the notab

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only at td ameritrade. hey nicole. hey! i just wanted to thank your support team for walking me through my first options trade. well, i feel pretty smart. well, we're all about educating people on options strategies. well, don't worry, i won't let this accomplishment go to my head. i'm still the same old gary. wait, you forgot your french dictionary. oh, mucho gracias. get help on options trading with thinkorswim, only at td ameritrade. >>> welcome back to "options action." on the heels of at&t's proposed $85 billion deal to acquire time waern, warner, m & a and a number of media companies report earnings next week. julia boorstin joins us with the latest on ever-changing landscape. julia. >> that's right, melissa. there are two areas to watch. tv trends and m & a. they will be very much in focus as analysts and investors try to figure out where media is going from here. next we'll hear from discovery, time warner, fox, cbs and charter and then from disney the following week. everyone trying to figure out w

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td ameritrade will buy rival scott trade financial services for about $4 billion.hat acquisition combines the two largest online brokerages and comes at a time when the industry is facing pressure from lower trading volumes and sluggish revenue growth. and td ameritrade's ceo says his company has a strategy to gain the trust of younger investors. >> we're also investing in even more cutting-edge technologies, whether it be using amazon echo, for example, to be able to talk to td amir ameritrade. we'll be well-positioned. >> shares of td ameritrade fell 4% today's session. >> general worth financial, which provides mortgage and long-term care insurance agreed to sell itself to a chinese investment firm. the deal valued at $2.5 billion, and comes as gen-worth copies with rising costs. analysts say the low premium to fried's closing prices reflects the gloomy business outlook. >>> yet another chinese conglomerate is going to buy a 25% stake in hotel operator hilton worldwide. h & a group will pay $6.5 billion for its portion of the company, which it's sbig from privat

td ameritrade is still the most likely to acquire for e*trade.nes an eventual deal, does not derail one. what is your response? our belief is that the industry has been consolidating for some time and paused while, but might be picking up again. we have a lot to do to make sure we have a successful integration and our clients for both td ameritrade and scottrade are well served. oliver: when you talk about scaling up, not to be the horse, but when you cannot combine any more companies, where do you branch out in terms of asset classes to boost the income being lost as fees and. is it derivatives? more focus on those type of products question marks -- on those types of products? platformshave all the and technology and access to the right markets. where we have a bit of a cap is that we -- gap is that we continue with those advisory products. we see lots of growth opportunities going forward. anchor: great to have you with us. guest: thank you for having me. anchor: tim hockey. breaking news on fourth quarter earnings. it be the average analyst es

rickets with his history with ameritrade, et cetera. be an interesting series, two teams that have had more suffering than most, the indians haven't won since '48 and gone through some lean years as well. so we wish you -- we witsh you well on that. let's turn to business now, your main business is the packaging business, you make bottles and cans and things like that. you got a good pulse on what businesses are doing and what consumers are doing. how is business, what does it tell you? >> well, business is good right now. we sell to the food pharmaceutical cosmetic wine beverage industry. it is a pretty decent bellwether of the economy. and we have 35,000 different kinds of bottles and jars. so business is good. we see a strong economy in the future, although we do see a little bit of slowing down as we approach the election. i think there is caution out there. >> your business is global. are there certain parts of the world where you see any more softness than others? >> well, certainly in the european union we have our antenna up, bu

td ameritrade's ceo and president with us right now.y good to have you here. >> thanks for having us. >> any issues to clear here to make this possible? there certainly are significant numbers for that media one. >> well, clearly, we're a bit smaller of a deal, but, yes, there are certainly regulatory hurdles that we have to get approval on. we expect that to happen sometime in 2017. we have modeled closing at the end of our fiscal year, which is about 11 months, now. >> all right. you will be a retail brokerage juggernaut, the two of you together. offices all over the place. i know you're going to have some overlap. will that mean also some layoffs? >> unfortunately, yes. this types of deals rest a lot on synergies. and one of the attractive pieces of this deal is the amount of opportunity there are for expense synergies. so, there will be, unfortunately, some layoffs. but we commit to be very thoughtful and fair and obviously generous for those people who get laid off. >> you know, there are so many deals, not only yours with scottrad

td ameritrade not so great earnings. like you have a give and take. >> it is nice to see movement. hopefully investors are positioned nicely to make money in these days where we are still seeing low volatility. >> without a doubt. i did mention transports doing well. oil didn't do much of anything kind of just hanging in there. >> kind of similar to what we saw friday after an active day on thursday. that mark seems to be the resistance level that we are hanging on to. >> energy stocks have been a leader year to date. i guess the question is has the market already had everything figured out? the fed, election, earnings. what is going to get us out of this range. >> i think we saw about a 70% chance or so that we are getting that break in december. scarier and crazier things have happened i guess to markets in recent months. >> financial stocks we should take a look at. they did get a bit of a bid. still not up to the 1.8 level. you is to wonder if we are in for some kind of boom the investment banks probably should make

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td ameritrade is going to buy the brokerage operations for td.7 billion and then ameritrade, $1.3 billionn cash. you can see it is little changed here. td ameritrade is off by 2%. we have a couple of chinese deals to talk about as well. chinese-american deals. it has agreed to purchase jen worth for $2.7 billion. there is been a big buying spree on the part of chinese companies as of late. it will help jen worth manage its debt and strengthened the life insurance units. in the hn a group agreed to acquire 25% hilton from blackstone for about $6.5 billion. it has been an overhang for hilton. see hilton rising today. blackstone is higher. mark: the china deal still ahead. more on syngenta shares slumping. what it means for the $43 billion takeover. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: you are watching "bloomberg markets." i am vonnie quinn in new york. mark: in london, i am mark barton. let's get to another m&a story we're falling. shares of syngenta down 9%. it is raising concerns that regulatory approval may be delayed. let's bring in the bloomberg reporter who was first to report t

ameritrade is the big shareholder, they don't actually own the company.y and more balanced risk as they expand into the u.s. vonnie: how will they cut costs? there is a target there. can they do it without closing bridges? >> there may be some job cuts as well. we don't have a lot of details on that yet. there is some clear overlap in those two businesses in ameritrade and scott trade. they see some opportunities there. david: any sense of how long this deal has been in the works, is a catching anyone by surprise? certainly, there has been all of this consolidation in the industry. in that sense, not that surprising. i would note as well, the ceo of td has only been in this position for two years, but he made it clear he is interested in getting more assets into the united states, and so we saw today's deal. vonnie: was this start a competitive reach for other types of things that banks in canada could add on in order to meet his competition, is there anything else out there for them to buy? has made it, td clear, in addition to the brokerage business, lo

td ameritrade is trying to buy scott trade. a roughly $4 billion transaction. a small deal but at the heart of so much online trading and the digital revolution. >> toronto dominion is td ameritrade's largest shareholder. what is in it for toronto dominion? >> there is scale and cost savings. the scale comes with 3 million customers they are adding, not to mention $170 million in assets under management. on the cost side, you put the companies together. the estimate is they can save $500 million per year. >> we have about $1 trillion in client assets when the deal closes. what td ameritrade has that the founder of scott trade recognized, is we have a number of platforms that are cutting-edge that he would like to have but did not have the scale to be able to can invest in. combined, we have a lot to offer. >> tata group has unexpectedly removed its chairman, cyrus mistry, in a sign of conflict at the top of india's biggest conglomerate. what is going on here? >> the truth is there has been no explanation. we do not know why he was removed. in recent years, he w

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among them in the financial arena, ameritrade offering upwards of 4 billion but.o on and on. who better to go on a non-and the guy who crunches the numbers bob dahl and what is behind all of this. >> they're a bunch of things. one is if i'm a ceo i can borrow money at essentially zero. i've been buying my stock back. that's used in earning some in the top line starting to grow a little bit that it's still not good enough. maybe i'll buy the company down the street to accelerate. about a billion bucks for the shares. is there a sense politically but you strike while the iron is hot besides that? >> there's some correlation between the end of one administration and the beginning of another. people are testing the water. i still think the economy is doing a little bit better and ceos are sent in interest rates are going to be zero forever. if i'm going to get on with it, maybe now's the time. stocks are still cheap when i can borrow a good deal. >> back at it and when the dow was doing well in the financial i forget they're doing well. what if they were assuming all

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only at td ameritrade. what are you doing? getting your quarter back.'t earn interest, david. you know i work at ally. i was being romantic. you know what i find romantic? a robust annual percentage yield that's what i find romantic. this is literally throwing your money away. i think it's over there. that way? yeah, a little further up. what year was that quarter? what year is that one? '98 that's the one. you got it! nothing stops us from doing right by our customers. ally. do it right. let's get out of that water. >>> this market just doesn't seem to want to quit, and it's worth spending a few minutes describing why because i think this could be a sign of real strength and not merely short covering, meaning hedge funds having to buy back short positions that were meant to bet against the market. first, i've been rooting around the apple story of late and not just because of the bad news about the samsung galaxy or the fact i still don't believe the positive flow of customers from samsung to apple is reflected in the stock prize of the world's largest

. >> announcer: lightning round is sponsored by td ameritrade. >> it is time!s time for the lightning round! that's where i take your calls rapid fire. you tell me the stock. i tell you to buy, buy, buy or sell, sell, sell. we'll play this sound -- [ buzzer ] -- and then the lightning round is over. are you ready, skee-daddy? it's time for the lightning round on cramer's "mad money." let's start with richard in arizona. richard. >> caller: ppi composites, jim. what do you think? >> oh, that's a tough one. that is a tough one. you know what, i think -- i've seen some big orders for wind. i'm going to stay away from this one. i think this is part of a complex that has already had its day frankly. let's go to irving in new york, irving. >> caller: yes, i'm here. >> irving go ahead, it's jim. >> caller: yeah, hi. >> go ahead. >> caller: are you ready? >> yes, i'm ready. it's jim. >> caller: oh, hi. how are you? >> i'm good. how about you? who stock? >> caller: okay. i just wanted to know your opinion of kmi. is it a buy, sell, or hold? >> okay. kmi has got, it's an

same with this amazing deal by the toronto dominion bank and its subsidiary td ameritrade to purchase scott trade for $4 billion, with toronto dominion take scott trade's bank and td ameritrade snaring scott trade's brokerage. in the dog eat dog world of brokers, ameritrade can take out a competitor, cut costs, and i bet keep a lot of the business. again, this is the kind of additive transaction that i adore as opposed to the time warner thing, which is very, very abstruse. everybody wins. what else? i know that people who own genworth might be disappointed with the so-called takeunder by the chinese company oceanwide. but this $5.43-per-share cash deal is exactly double where the stock was just last summer when there were grave concerns about genworth's balance sheet because of the overexposure to the dangers of long-term care insurance. this is an industry where so many assumptions turned out to be wrong when contracts were let, mainly how long people would live and the sky high cost of end of life health care. holders. congratulations, genworth, for easing a lot of people's minds.

. >> announcer: lightning round is sponsored by td ameritrade. >> it is time!ime for the lightning round! that's where i take your calls rapid fire. you tell me the stock. i tell you to buy, buy, buy or sell, sell, sell. we'll play this sound -- [ buzzer ] -- and then the lightning round is over. are you ready, skee-daddy? it's time for the lightning round on cramer's "mad money." let's start with tom in new york, tom. >> caller: booyah, jim. you made my day. i'm looking at smith & wesson. >> i think that represents great value. i would be a buyer of that company right here. let's go to dave in pennsylvania, dave. >> caller: hey, jim. my stock is ex. >> i happened to be listening to the chairman of cnbc. interviewed steve schwartzman last night, and i feel pretty good about the prospects of the company. let's go to mark in where my daughter lives, oregon. mark. >> caller: hello, mr. cramer and a good day to you. >> i love oregon. what's going on? >> caller: hey, it's a nice, sunny, warm day out here today. >> good. my daughter lives in the high desert. it's alw

. >> announcer: lightning round is sponsored by td ameritrade. >> it is time! it's time for the lightning round! that's where i take your calls rapid fire. you tell me the stock. i tell you to buy, buy, buy or sell, sell, sell. we'll play this sound -- [ buzzer ] -- and then the lightning round is over. are you ready, skee-daddy? it's time for the lightning round on cramer's "mad money." we'll start with don in california. don. >> caller: hey, jim cramer. thank you for all that you do for us smaller investors. >> excellent. that's what the show is about. it's about you. what can i do? >> caller: as i lay around rehabbing from my broken leg, i have plenty of time. i am a long time action alerts member, and on my own i've accumulated a good size position in celgene. it's no secret that the biotechs are under pressure. i don't think celgene price gouges their customers. so before next week's earnings, what do you think? >> first of all, thank you for subscribing to action alerts where we address all the stocks my charitable trust owns and then some. second, celgen

what the td ameritrade, scott trade deal means for them as well.rofessor who never stops being a student? is it a caregiver determined to take care of her own? or is it a lifetime of work that blazes the path to your passions? your personal success takes a financial partner who values it as much as you do. learn more at tiaa.org >>> top investment advisers in america all gathered in one place this week. san diego, for the annual schwab impact conference, big event with big guests including your next one. joining us is walt bettinger, ceo of the charles schwab company. thank you for joining us. before we get to your initiatives and the overall market, i want to talk about the td ameritrade, scott trade, big deal a couple of days ago in your space. do you feel that schwab now will also have to make a deal? >> i don't really think so, brian. but before i respond, let me first say that we're going to miss roger ryany in our industry. roger is one of the founders in this industry, 35 years ago, one of the true gentlemen of our business. i'll miss spendi

td ameritrade. liz: dow down. been beaten bottom line seven out of last eight quarters. the dow component reveals earnings. that is imminent. lori on the floor with what we should look for, lori. >> the street is it looking for virtually what microsoft reported this time last year, but what will be interesting for microsoft is not only how it does with windows and office business but also the cloud computing. azure cloud computing unit. amazon has a huge cloud computing business. these are competitors to microsoft. this is the wave of the future. the wave of now, if you will. this will being, i believe the driving force how microsoft shares perform post-earnings release. shares, liz, are down half a percent ahead of it, back to you. liz: i have a t-shirt intel gave me. today is so yesterday. >> it is true. always going to be true. >> exactly. so very now. lori, great to see you. thank you very much. microsoft coming out after the bell. with just 19 days to go to the election day, investors scratching their heads w

. >> the bank is td ameritrade largest shareholder. what is in it for toronto dominion?e two things at stake, there is scale and cost savings. the skill comes with 3 million customers they are adding, not $7 billion in cost management. on the cost side, you put the companies together. the estimate is they can save $500 million per year. >> we have about $1 trillion in client assets when the deal closes. more importantly, what td ameritrade has that the founder of scott trade recognized was we have a number of platforms that are actually cutting edge that he would like to have, but he did not have the scale to be able to invest in. combined we have a lot of opportunities to add value to scott trade. >> tata group has unexpectedly removed its chairman and a sign -- in a rare sign of conflict at the top of india's biggest conglomerate. what is going on here? >> the truth is there has been no explanation. we do not know why he was removed. in recent years, he was pushing for more fiscal prudence, because the company inflated after they bought brands like rover, and a hotel.

sources tell us td ameritrade would take scott's brokerage operations for about $2.7 billion.eal would combine two of the largest online brokerages. malaysia has announced a budget that hints at early elections. the prime minister listed millions of ringgit in cash and grants for lower income citizens and young people. they include cheaper housing, discounts on student loans, and tax relief on smartphones and tablets. this aims to boost growth and shore up his support after months of political turmoil and financial scandal. china's leaders gathered this week for the final communist party plenum before next year's congress. the central committee issued guidelines on the implementation of the current five-year plan. they include what is called the appropriate relationship between the government and the market, the rule of law, and enhanced supervision's. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in 120 countries. this is bloomberg. yvonne: look at how the asian markets are shaping up. here's david ingles. david: at this point only one market i

. >>> and td ameritrade could buy scottrade.d ameritrade would acquire the broker operations while scottrade could acquire the buying options. >>> and now to this week's agenda. it will be busy for earnings and economic data. tomorrow look for case-shiller and consumer confidence. and on thursday, durable goods and pending home sales. it's the heaviest week of earnings season with the third of s&p 500 reporting. among the big names to watch, 3m, caterpillar, dupont, general motors, apple, boeing, coca-cola, alphabet, ford, amazon, just to name a through. tomorrow is apple, the world's most valuable company. a lot of the biggies, amazon, some of the top market companies will be reporting. so it could be moving the entire index. so far there's been a lot of beats. >> our parent company comcast is there as well. >>> and visa will point results after the close today. landon dowdy is joining us with three things to watch in this report. landon, over to you. >> good monday morning to you. visa reports fourth quarter results after the

we have a look at the market consensus for payroll growth and the chief pickup with incutive of ameritrade singapore. give me the thinking of the market for his offense. >> thank you for having me on. had the jobs created and a a slightonomy with wage increase around that and it picture int good the feds raising rates by the end of the year and they do not move on rates before general elections. notbsolutely and i do remember the last time this actually happened, but you see the 17% chance that they look to we arehe rates and looking at the 61% chance and for the fed to maintain credibility and that the fed will raise rates here at the december meeting. >> absolutely. we have the relief and the debate with trump a week ago. is it better than not risking things? the investors like clarity and they use this to see which candidate will be in office and people know what they are getting with clinton. trump is more unknown and we thismore chances for coming this weekend and the first one was a disappointment with the hype and it ended up being a well-prepared clinton from -- victory over over d

at td ameritrade we believe the best investments are the ones that matter most to you. >>> good eveningybody. the clinton campaign is reeling from more controversy tonight. critics calling for the resignation of communications director jennifer palmieri. the issue, a leaked e-mail exchange from 2011 when center for american progress senior fellow john halpin mocked prominent media moguls for raising their children catholic writing, "it's an amazing bastardization of the faith. they must be attracted to the systematic and severely backwards gender

only at td ameritrade. charles: here is lou dobbs.p it right here on fox business. >> it has been a big week in presidential politics and today the trend continues. wikileaks agreeing with donald trump that the election is rigged. the whistle blowing website tweeted this. there is no u.s. election. there is power consolidation. rigged primary, rigged media, and rigged pied piper candidate drive consolidation. a poll find nearly after of respondents

td ameritrade. >> when i talk about how we are going pay for education and invest in infrastructure andet the cost of prescription drugs down and issues people talk to me all the time. i made it clear, we are going where the money is. we are going to ask the wealthy and corporations to pay their fair share. liz: hillary clinton making her case for tax hikes on the rich in the debate wednesday night. anthony: how much will their fair share be. the politicians use that term but they never steam put a numb on it. liz: joining us, the bane managing partner. let's tackle the term "fair share. >> i don't think there is a definition for it. the democratic strategy is more and more spending. state, federal and local spending is 36% gdp. and they want to add another $165 billion spending. if you project forward into the future the federal budget office' expects it to rise even worse than that. i think the strategy is just more, more, more, no mat wear level of spending we get to. anthony: you make a compelling case in the differences in the up side of inequality. tell our viewers what you mean b

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