and patricia woertz at archer daniels midland.ut among fortune 500 companies only 8% of top-earning executives are women according to a study out today by catalyst an advocacy group for women in business. and more than a quarter of those companies had no female executive officers at all as of june this year, including apple, citigroup, and exxonmobil. >> mary barra started at general motors the same year i started as an automotive journalist. and i had seen many women achieve great things in the business but that have walked out the door and said "i can't take it anymore. i just can't take it." >> reporter: mary barra's ascendancy may begin to change that. >> this is truly the next chapter in general motors's recovery and turnaround history and i'm very honored to be a part of it. >> reporter: barra becomes the first female c.e.o. of an american auto company. she said she first fell in love with cars at age 10 when she saw a red chevy camaro convertible. >> pelley: anthony, thanks very much. better management may be coming to wash

. >>> archer daniels midland is raising 26% and buying back 18 million of its shares. the company cited strong cash flow and expected earnings improvement in 2014 as reasons for the change. the stock rose a fraction to $40.66. >>> aig is selling its aircraft leasing uniity in an effort to focus on its share holdings. the dutch company will buy the aircraft unit called international released finance corporation for $5.4 million. aig has been trying to shed the unit and today, ceo robert bonn moshe says he's happy with the deal. >> they paid us in cash and in stock. so, therefore, we wound up owning 46%, but what you actually accomplished here was an ipo and a merger all at once and you get the accounting treatment so that we can write it once to market which is very important. >> shares of aig up 1% to $50.28. a $6.8 million deal in the semiconductor industry. the chipmaker avago technologies will buy lsi corporation and the deal helps avago get into the storage business and create a company with about $5 billion of annual revenue and that sent shares of lsi up 38.5%. i

losses at some of the producers, archer daniels midland, bolero.echnically, ethanol producers can make whatever they want. they do not have a maximum. cash margins are still around four dollars which is pretty juicy. they do have an impetus to keep working. >> how will corn production be impacted? >> i was speaking to an agricultural economist who says there were two main pillars that grow corn to those record highs. emerging market demand and ethanol demand. that shifts the story. now you need to find new demand. no longer our farmers looking at explosive growth. they are looking to keep what they have. of course, you have the price of corn going down significantly after the epa announced their potential ruling. maybe ourews for us, food is worth less. it will be good for chicken, livestock, etc., but it will have a ripple effect all over the farm economy, fertilizers, equipment makers. be watching closely. thank you, alix steel. obama'st barack decision to nominate max baucus to be the ambassador to china will trigger a chain reaction in washingt

. >> with the market cap of twitter is bigger than valero energy, archer daniels midland, a marathonlutely ridiculous there is no way a company with a metrics value has not been proven should be worth more than those that make real products with real products around the world a social meeting is vastly overblown and this has been a momentum darling i would like to short it frankly. liz: is a double willis start trading down and what word trigger that? >> let me give the analogy of tough love people said it is a bubble all the way in people made a fortune. yes it was down on friday ended think it will drop farther. ♪ liz: it is time for the nightcap. what do you think about? >> actually treasury yields over 3% the bears are overdone th yield is moving i am concerned that jimmy allen may lose control of the bond market. liz: you have a lot to think about. [laughter] very smart brain cells. >> i am looking at the start of 2014 a think the first few days set the tone. i am hefully looking, i think we are going straight up maybe think -- sideways a a little bit. liz: will you take sleepin

archer daniels is one. yahoo!o do this, even united continental. >> let's take the flip side of the argument. we're certainly not anti-capitalism here of course. we understand that people want to increase their profit margin. however, when you can't do -- you tell me, you're the expert on this, you can't totally just dismiss the quote/unquote older workforce. >> no. >> because then you need experienced workers around, correct? >> this is going to be different for different corporations. they're going to have to look at the pluses and the minuses of this. it's not going to happen overnight. it's going to happen over a very large period of time. attrition is natural. they're not unhappy about the fact their workforce is going to be declining in age. >> if you're an older worker willing to make the trek into the city, do you have a better chance of keeping your job? >> yes, you do, absolutely. >> all right, got to make adj t adjustme adjustments. thank you very much. good to see you. with your burnt orange texas tie

dividends increases one from archer daniels midland, buying back about 18 million shares.zer upping its dividend by 8%. we want to point out zion bank corp because there was speculation about what banks would be impacted by volcker. this company is taking a charge to write down the value of some of the cbos it has because it can't hold them because they're considered cover funds under volcker and taking a $387 million charge because of that. lastly let's check on the retailers because in the wake of the storm that hit a good part of the midwest and the northeast this weekend, there's some concerns that might impact retail sales, but again, this coming weekend is supposed to be one of the busiest for christmas sales. an expectation we could see those sales made up over the weekend as we talked about it, we might be two of those people. >> i'll be there. we'll have coffee. >> yes. >> thanks, mary. >> sure. >> ty, up to you. >> sue, jane, nothing beats a good tractor story on a cold day. sales up 2% in the year so far. how about that. >> you don't say? >> i've been thinking a

archer daniels midland along with pfizer today raising their dividends. pfizer changing, or infishing unchanged. after the bell, we had boeing saying it's going to be raising its dividend by 50% and it's also going to be buying back $10 billion worth of stock. should be active in tomorrow's session and give a lift to the dow. lastly, larry, we're keeping an eye on the ten year. it's at 2.88%. the markets behaving well, even as it climbed a little bit. of course, the 2.991-92 level tends to cause the market little bit of trouble. we'll be watching that tomorrow. back to you. >> mary thompson, thank you. a great optimistic, very bullish report. >>> now we go from mary thompson on wall street to washington. a federal judge ruled today that nsa phone spying is, quote, almost certainly unconstitutional. so what happens now? cnbc's eamon javers joins us live from washington. good evening, eamon, what can you tell us about this big decision? >> good evening, larry. it was a big decision and big defeat for the nsa in a federal courtroom in washington today. as yo

it blocked its $2.6 billion takeover deal with archer daniels midland. >>> a reminder what's on the agendaw. world trade leaders begin gathering in bali after a failed deal last month. in australia, the centralback will hold rates at a low. and after changing its expansion plans, tinto talks updates with shareholders at its investors day meeting. >>> and the dawn of the robot delivery man may be joining us. amazon is testing drones that can deliver packages within 30 minutes of the order. octocopters could deliver packages weighing 5 pounds. the drones could be done in the next four to five years depending on cost, noise and safety issues. we're asking you today, can amazon's idea work or is it pie in the sky? get in touch with us. let us know if you believe in drone deliveries. whether you've thought of the flaws in amazon's argument. what happens if you're not at home when a drone turns up? how does that happen? get in touch with us. e-mail us or tweet. still to come, fedex expects to move an estimated 20 million packages for cyber monday. just how big is it going to be? ya know, with ne

. >>> archer daniels midland will pay more than $54 million to settle u.s. criminal and civil charges. they bribed ukrainian officials for tax benefits. they have also pleaded guilty for violating the u.s. foreign current practices act. the s.e.c. says adm failed to stop bribes between 2002 and 2008 which had been paid to secure tax breaks. adm ceo first learned of the practice back in 2008. a number of employees have been fired or disciplined. >>> meanwhile, boeing's machinist unions will vote on the latest contract offer on january 3rd. last month machinists and boeing's plant in everett, washington, where the 777 jet is built voted 2 to 1 against an initial offer. in the aftermath boeing said it would look for other locations to build its fleks jet. the 777x, the only aircraft the company is likely to develop in the next decade. shares are up by roughly half of 1%. >>> still to come on the show, the u.s. securities exchange collected a record of $3.4 billion worth of fines in 2013. after the break we ask if firms are breaking more laws or if the sec is ge

archer daniels midland, up 2.5 after the board of directors authorized a 26% increase in the quarterlyto buy back 18 million shares of stock from the public by the end of next year to offset effects of stock tied to compensation and benefit plans. those shares, adm, up to session highs. >> a story about stock buybacks the front page of "the washington post." . >> to do it to offset delusion of stock options, but it sound likes that may be what it is, which gets back to the point is that the best way for a company to use its cash? >> a lot of critics regarding that point. they say new york is the city that never sleeps. maybe this will help. lawmakers in new york pushing a bill that would tax and legalize marijuana. we'll talk to a lawmaker when "squawk on the street" comes right back. [ bagpipes and drums playing over ] [ music transitions to rock ] make it happen with the all-new fidelity active trader pro. it's one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. get 200 free trades when you open an account. ya know, with new fedex one rate you can fill that box and pa

the first one is archer daniels midland, one of the biggest food companies in america.just this month in december, it's had a pretty decent move in the last week and a half or so. it's up about 5%. not too shabby for just the first couple of weeks, so adm. another one is the world's biggest making of computer chips, intel, up about 20% year to date. yeah, it's lagging the market. but if you take a look at what it's done for the past week or so, it was the best-performing stock in the dow jones industrials average, and some analysts/investors are getting more bullish on the company's prospects in the pc market, believe it or not. so that's something to watch for sure. also one we want to highlight is general motors, of course. it was under the radar for us up until this morning when they're getting the new ceo in mary berra, but it's a $57 billion company, going up some 20% since the ipo and november car sales are still showing signs that the company has sales momentum. so the stocks, all big names, large-cap companies making good moves of their own. of course, stay tune

daniel because he's given another shot in another county. >> the suffolk county jail has almost been a second home to cindy archer but today she'll have anotherchance to put it behind her. >> i'm leaving. i'm going home. i'm getting discharged. >> you are? >> yeah. i'm excited. i'm going to do the right thing, i'm going to stay clean. and i'm not going to come back. i'll remember where i came from. >> what's the first thing you're going to do when you get outside? >> i'm smoking a cigarette. you know? okay. bye, kirby. >> as she is processed out, archer gets to exchange her jail uniform for the street clothes she was arrested in months earlier. >> my pants fit me. imagine? >> let's go. >> bye! bye carey. i will, yeah. all right. my god, my god. this is the best feeling in the world. is to get out of jail, i'm in here nine, almost ten months on a year. >> you want to go home? >> yes, yes, sir. oh, i'm going home. 100-354. thank you. my release papers. thank you. >> take care. >> okay, this is my stuff. i'm going outside to smoke right now. >> archer has arranged to stay with an old boyfriend while she gets on her feet. >> i just got out right