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talking to retailers and they said they saw this happening last month. 30%, 40%, ann taylor, gap, bananaepublic starting thursday. >> competition too? trying to one of each other? >> part of a cycle. inventory. deal stuff got to move out the door. do that on the weekend. >> okay. >> and then end of the week, no one wants to shop on a friday. what's the >> happy hour. >> friday, not much on sale. in the retail world. best day of the week for happy hour actually. >> listening. you have my undivided attention. >> there you go. leaving work. rounding up the troops. go to your facebook page, favorite watering hole see what they're offering. happy hours throughout the course of the week. on friday you see the best deals. as the bars and restaurants kick off the weekend. >> is this the bar's attempt to lure you in and hope you are going to then, stay there? throughout, friday night, perhaps, into saturday morning? >> you will if it is cheap. >> as some of us have been known to do, perhaps? >> you will stay, yes. kick off the weekends by making it, two for one. $3 basket of chicken whatever it i

the owner of ann taylor and dress barn lowered year outlooks, saying it expects prospects to remain challenging. shares finished down 1% at $2.82. but then following the news, it got crushed in afterhours trading, initially losing a third of value. >>> the recent global ransomware attack that spread to more than 100 countries has shed light on one of the most pressing challenges facing the cyber security industry. it's a labor shortage. some experts say that shorter fall has reached crisis levels. aditi roy reports tonight from san francisc >> reporter: cloud passage, a cyber security startup in san francisco, has 122 employees. when executives are looking to hire, they have a tough time finding qualified cyber warriors. >> we're based in san francisco. but we find we can't just hire in san francisco anymore. those people are so scarce, we scour the country for them. when we find them, we hire them wherever they are. we have people who work in denver or florida. >> reporter: they're not the only ones. experts say the labor shortage in cyber security is dire. a cisco report estimates there are 1

and athena, what a drop, the owner of ann taylor. 38% decline after they slashed their profit forecast. its prior forecast had been 37 to 42 cents. is the worst performer in the s&p 500 today. brazil, we have been watching politics in the u.s. and rizzo -- and brazil as there is a brooding potential scandal involving bribery and the president. we are seen the brazilian stock market is triggering circuit breakers as it falls and pauses. it is down by 10%. we have a number of the stocks that trade in the u.s. trading lower. the brazilian bank all are falling, as is the brazilian currency. mark? continue.p's troubles the stoxx 600 is down for its third consecutive day. yesterday was the biggest drop since september last year. earlier, it was down another 1.2%. it is down near .6 right now. 192 billion euros have been wiped off this index in the last couple of days. the two day spike in volatility on the v stocks, the occluded the of the -- the equivalence of the vix. some earnings to tell you, burberry beating estimates. they are cost-cutting, improving consumer trends in china, and they

center retail owner of anne taylor really disappointing news after hours. under $2 a share. >> it seems like it's really at the epicenter of what's going on at the mall right there. the market's saying, really not seeing too much of a future necessarily. >> wal-mart in the morning a. lot happening today, michael. thank you so much. as always, mike santelli. >> that does it for "closing bell." "fast money" begins right now. >> "fast money" starts right now with breaking news on the markets, the dow sink about 375 points losses accelerating into the close, ending the day near session lows as the d.c. drama rocks the stockmarket status. they are having their worst day since september. the nasdaq down more than 1.5% haveing its worst day since june last year. all of this as volatility surges in about a month. the utility sector managers ends the day in green. the banks crushed, turning negative for 2017. all of this as the political turmoil in the white house over the events surrounding president trump's firing of fbi director claims just a momenty seem to have

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now, they own specialty apparel brands, ann taylor and lain bryant, 4,900 stores. when we talk about retail, but i want to get back to walmart now and check in a little bit. we have both jen who is with us and a cnbc contributor and we have brandon fletcher. thank you for joining us today. so i guess i'll start with you, what did you think, brandon, when you looked at walmart's quarter. was there anything not to like in there? >> yeah, just the notion they're still not going to hand any money out, right? it's not that they don't have capacity to increase their earnings any time they want given the scale value they have in each of their stores. it's that the ceo has explicitly pointed them to growth. and if you're explicitly pointed to growth, those are the only metrics you want to be worried about. you would be excited about the online growth, excited that stores are holding up. you would be okay with international having a little more profit, but you're not going to get the push in terms of the bottom line for a little longer. >> jim, is it grocery, is that the an

another horrendous store, that's dress barn, lane bryant, ann taylor. then of course, maurice. >> maurice, don't forget him. >> yeah. >> speaks with a -- the maurice chain. >> i like that word, pompey dis. >> steve miller made that up. >> tiffany is down 8%. >> everyone thought -- you know, they have the interim ceo. everyone thought this was tiffany's time, particularly since the president lives at the white house black market and not the -- where tiffany was being killed. frankly they're not saying the kind of things that we thought from the conference -- >> they said generally soft performance across the country here in the u.s. which they at contribute to varying degrees -- attribute to varying degrees of weakness in the foreign and the tourism demand. >> oh, come on. >> they said they had solid growth in latin america. >> this stock had run tremendously. there was a lot of takeover talk about that. this was one by the way, david, that was not mentioned with kraft heinz. >> no. no. kraft heinz not looking at tiffany. >> can you tell people how every

taylor's case. through allusion one can assume -- ann exclaim believably inescapablyee -- -- it was his method of reconstruction. many readers might take the second term of his title referring to nothing more than that. --the u.s. from 1865 21877 o 1877. here is the definition. to construct a new in the mind. to restore something past mentally. we use the word in this sense when we speak of reconstructing events or the purpose of analyzing or interpreting them as in a court of law. and richard taylor's hands allusion was reconstruction. tradition as he thought of tradition from his geographical and political vantage point. many readers agree with the final sentences of the it whiched review of is 39 pages in manuscript. katie and gary by providing me with a copy of this monster. here's the relevant sentence from early. i don't know why this wasn't published. there is often too great a straining after effect. too great a propensity for pedantic display for history. callll be much red and forth sharp replies, weber undertakes to read it might have an encyclopedia and biography at hand. others, will find themselve