. >>> and avon settling a probe on whether it paid bribes to gain favors, the company missed estimatesles dropped in every region as more of the company's sales representatives up and left. shares fell to $13.72 making avon the bigs decliner. >>> and linkedin posting revenues, they saw their revenue from the recruiting business increase by 50% from last year. but its full year revenue guidance was a little bit below the consensus, that sent the stock down initially in after-hours trading. shares were up more than 5% in the regular session to $61.22. >>> there were reports that pfizer may up its offer for britain's astrazeneca and raise the cash portion of the deal. earlier this week we told you that pfizer approached its british rival twice about a takeover only to be rebuffed. shares fell to $31.15, astrazeneca went to 32.09. >>> and surging from higher revenues from the group disability and life insurance. revenue came in slightly short of expectations. the insurer upped the outlook but the ceo is still being cautious. >> we had a strong first quarter that enabled us to increase its

avon is agreeing to settle bribery charges with the justice department and s-e-c. the cosmetics company will pay a total of $135 million in fines to government agencies to resolve the probe into bribes paid in china. shares slipped more than 10 percent thursday after avon revealed first- quarter profits - were hit by slow sales and a shrinking crew of sales reps. the new york stock exchange and 3 affliates will pay a $4.5 million penalty for repeated rule violations. the sec says the violations happened between 2008 and 2012. it involved the handling of orders and other practices. the exchange will not have to admit or deny the sec allegations. the nations coal mines face safety violations. regulators issued 152 citations after inspecting 10 coal mines and three metal mines, in march.the report cited hazards such as "under" trained workers and the accumulation of combustible materials in mines. the inspections began after a west virginia mine explosion in 20-10 that killed 29 coal miners. at&t reportedly is considering a bid for directv. the wall street journal rep

. >> avon shares declining sharply.illion. -- will pay 130 5 million for a justice criminal department investigation and noncriminal investigation, similar investigation. the company reporting a wider first-quarter loss as sales fell in all of the regions. we have been watching a lot of pharmaceutical deals recently. a company called merrimack pharmaceuticals reported in a study that patients treated with the experimental cramp -- cancer longereated -- lived than those who receive standard chemotherapy. no approved drugs. if it were to get approved, that would be a big heal. shares are surging. the other deal talking about is in telecom. at&t has approached directv for talks. .hares are at a record of course there has been a lot of merger talk in the industry. this reportedly also approached directv. our big story,to a megamerger in the telecom industry could be in the works. softbank planning to move forward with a bid for t-mobile. the company met with them this month to make that arrangement for the t-mobile offer an

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a drop for avon down 10%. >> avon is everywhere you don't want to be.a, brazil. >> very a centric for you to say. >> the stocks lower, i don't think it's cheap. >> drop mww down 18%. >> the stock is lucky to be holding up 5. otherwise institutions would be dumping the stock. $4 and some odd cents was the 52 week low. >> t-mobile up 8%. >> they were looking for a 900,000 number. sprint mentioned they are going to explore a deal possibly in june and july. this is one i don't think you want to chase on an up day. but if you can get it back toward the 25, 26 level that's where you get in for a deal. >> drop for walter energy down 4%. >> this is the octogon of death. >> is that worse? >> it's got to be worse. all i know is a 50% short interest and these folks have been raking it in. this company can't get out of its own way. you're talking about a market cap less than half a billion dollars. a few years ago they were talking about this being a takeover candidate. it's amazing how quickly it's turned. there'll be an opportunity to buy it but nothing indicates

avon for being patient here and i'm glad to hear that you are 100% leased up and takes up a little bit of urgency on your part, as well as the commission's part. i will also say that i think we're creating an interesting hybrid product here. i do like the idea that this is a san francisco-owned building. it if given an opportunity to keep it a san francisco-own building and for those concerned about gentrification and globalization, some other may come along if you are not able to adapt to this building and usage. the idea of a hybrid, i think is good. i think we're maybe creating something a little bit different and new and ask staff to give heavy consideration to how we approach this? as we don't enter a slippery slope. i would like to make a suggestion it's not necessarily, by percentage, if it's not floor by floor, but by square footage of the building in the situation that maybe pdr wants to take the ground floor and the second floor. things could move vertically as opposed to horizontally and could give latitude to this building and other builds in the future to create interestin

in a statement, avon public school says "we will continue to review the content of the complaint.s former students is standing by her. >> nothing strange at all. she was a great teacher. i really enjoyed her class. >> reporter: amid claims of a classroom cult. in the lawsuit the parents say they've had virtually no communication with their two older girls since last summer. the suit seeks unspecified monetary damages. >> all right, mara thanks. great to have you with us on a holiday morning. lara. >> more on that rescue on mt. hood caught on camera. a mountain climber saved after a terrifying fall. he plummeted hundreds of feet down the slope and abc's john muller has the details. >> reporter: this morning, 59-year-old michael adams is in serious condition after a dramatic black hawk helicopter rescue saturday at oregon's mt. hood. >> our initial assessment was that it was quite grave. >> reporter: adams described by his son as an avid climber slipping while at an elevation of 10,000 feet and then plummeting 750 feet down a slope landing in what's called a fumerar. >> it looks lik

playwright william shakespeare's four hundred and fifty of the state in his home town of stratford upon avon the ceremony featured marching bands and spat out into the amp and axa stress to shakespeare and many of his characters. he joined flag featuring the dog was also on trial in the town center was one of the greatest dangers of abating actually run initiative to have a good day we are still evident yet these people celebrates out the exotic things like that but anyone with family a lot of outside is nice on the twenty third of april to just celebrate the birthday of william shakespeare. just two lost two of the religion history. really i think the tradition of celebrating the right to the fans got that dates back more than a hundred years. it wrecks people for a wide range of industries including mixture in the attack and grimacing ben bought them both. since it was almost eveything comedy tragedy. the line when the side of life and with that so many times that god has abandoned its meanings. the japanese about choose desmond politician who worked digby jones was also present the same s

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let's see how fake avon holds up. alberto gallo, head of european macro credit research at rbs.ing up, as manchester united prepares to release earnings, we take an in-depth look at the family buying the iconic franchise. ♪ i am manus cranny in london and this is "on the move." here is one stock that hasn't been moving, french connection. stock was down 50% at one juncture. the volume has changed hands. french connection are saying that north america is below forecast and u.k. and european , but sales arese going to be tougher going into the second half. in light of german gdp, let's return our focus to one of the most famous companies in the world, adidas. it relies on high-tech innovation. company famous for its three stripes is going to fend off its biggest rival, adidas products have to be cutting-edge. this is the room where the products are perfected. this robot leg helps adidas simulate kicking a ball in controlled conditions. cold, wet or dry and it hits the same every time. >> the reason for this machine is the repeatability. to takeplayer is able the ball 10 times, 100

. >> female execs run h-p, xerox, avon products, and stl a victim of culture out there among women, achieving women? >> the whole victim mentality to me, it's a choice to be made, when someone is hurlingant g or racial epithets it's how do i take this energy and translate it on something positive? one quick example, on asian-americans in executive leadership, there are not many asian-americans in ceo. john: is it discrimination? >> other cultural factors affecting asian-americans'ability to rise through the corporate ranks of america. john: we tend to forget how different america was recently. just wasn't that gays couldn't get security clearances. 40 years ago women couldn't get a credit card without her husband's permission. good old days were not so good for women or blacks. when i was born black people couldn't attend the same schools or eat at the same lunch counter. now we have a black president. he's my president, even though he's wrong about most everything. >> this is the moment when the ocean began to flow and the planet began to heal. >> if you've got a business, you didn't build,

avon products we have not gotten to, misses by 9 cents. down in every region, down 25 in north america. they make coach's comps look good. >> avon just sherry, she came from j&j, very, very strong exec shows you how challenged that model is. i think ma coy, i thought macoy could turn it around. they did do settlement with the government but it ain't turning. its just isn't turning. look, there were a couple companies in freefall for trying to get a quote up not looking at the camera and doing that stuff. weight watchers in a dch thought they were in race. weight watchers using the word stabilization of earnings even though the earnings were hideous. avon no stabilization. >> none. >> none. >> no stabilization. avon not calling at all. >> mastercard did beat by a penny. revenue a beat, purchase volume up 13. >> i misjudged and thought this would -- after visa, i thought they couldn't deliver. this was last quarter, it was mastercard's turn not to deliver and visa delivered. this quarter visa's turn not to deliver and mastercard congratulati

here's another one, and this is called the avon plan. 4,226 square feet.e there, i love that. phoenix, arizona, these are hot home areas, but also areas that were slammed during the housing bubble. tell me who's buying. are these boomers? certainly not millennials who are having trouble finding jobs onshore. >> probably not millennials. our average age customer is about 44 years old. we get a wide cross-section of people from semiretired to people that are, you know, very active in the work force. it's a great time to buy a house. housing is still incredibly affordable. we're only building 40% of the homes that we traditionally build in this country, and the market's way underserved. there's a lot of great opportunities out there, and these markets that were previously hot are getting hot again. liz: yeah. steve, can i just ask you because the ten-year yield hit below 2.5%. are you cheering something like that on? it makes eventually, perhaps, mortgage rates a lot lower, but are the banks being generous and opening up their wallets? >> oh, absolutely. they

avon products. trading is higher this morning. into brazil with fellow makeup giant, cody. netflix. shares are pulling back slightly from friday's rally, following the fcc's decision for internet fast lanes. soup are of campbell lower ahead of the bell after revenue came in below forecasts. grow three percent. that was down from about four percent to five percent. are in recovery after taking a beat down on friday when it fell as much as 48%. investors are not pleased with its new tv deal. >> carnival. shares of the cruise ship operator are lower ahead of the bell. they doing more business in china, being the first global cruise company, the industry's fastest-growing market. >> ryanair. they saw its first profit decline in five years. michael o'leary was "in the loop" with me and expect to return to profitability by chasing business passengers. go go. the company behind in-flight wi-fi service. they purchased additional shares last week. its purchase of directv. the deal gives at&t a satellite-tv provider to go along with its pho

. >> reporter: it seems like duct tape is on a roll, it's because of what happens here in avon, ohio,s of duck brand duct tape. >> this where duct tape is made. >> before it gets in to the form that most consumers see in the store it comes to us in this particular type of jumble. this is 1200 yard roll of duct tape. >> reporter: marketing director scott summers. >> this is cute. flamingos. >> reporter: that's gist one of 250 styles. strategy that moves duct tape from hardware stores to craft aisles. this is all duct tape. >> layers of duct tape. as far or prom couple's outfit, duct brant is behind that, too. thousand of high schoolers entered the company's scholarship contest "duct at prom." dance floors are long stretch from where duct tape was first introduced. on the battlefield of world war ii. >> the division of johnson & johnson created waterproof case. it was olive drab army green color. >> reporter: so at the time was it called duct tape? or duck tape? >> it took on the duct, d-u-c-t during the housing boom when it became silver and color to match the duct work in your house.

shares of avon products are falling sharply to a new 50 week low.y products. it will pay $135 million to settle a government bribery case. matt, we have been watching what has been going on with the automakers. class i'm concerned. jessica simpson as a celebrity. is she still? else is aho celebrity, a car company executive, but he had to eventually start carrying around his sharpie because so many people on the street would ask him for his autograph. talks withously in microsoft about becoming the ceo. that did not happen. a lot of people are now saying, why wouldn't he go on to become a chairman of theexecutive compd then you can see all kinds of possibilities opening up for him. a few questions i will put to .im when i interviewed him live he is only 60 a and he looks 48. he plays a mean game of tennis. regular pastime, i think he will probably stay in the corporate world. class going back to fort itself, it seems it is steady as she goes in terms of strategy. we're on the markets right now to talk about the share prices for a minute. it was teleg

jm smucker, wall greene, hormel, avon, a great day with m&a outlooks in focus.ifornia where the company is out at the code conference. >> thanks so much, dom. some might consider netflix a consumer staple. we're back at the code conference with reed hastings, ceo of netflix. round two you talked about "orange is the new black" premiering june 6th. what can we expect? >> next friday showing up at midnight and it's amazing. the writer has done, the fans are just going to love it. it's an amazing story. women in prison. >> i remember "house of cards" the percentage of subs who watched the whole thing in the first weekend. are you sensing that cult following for "orange?" ? >> absolutely. as a broader demographic for orange. "house of cards" appeals to everybody. "orange" is much broader. >> do you have a sense of the impact of the return of a show like that in terms of signing up new subscribers? >> we're hopeful but don't have a precise impact. so much of the netflix relationship with consumers is intangible, all these different shows and the expectation of future

some years earlier co-authored a publication on selected writin writings, avon rep deeply insightfulwriting on war and peace and nuclear age by two of america's most controversial anything of consequence strategists. very pleased to have you on our panel and looking for your thoughts on world war i adolescence. >> thank you, dakota, for that kind introduction. it's a pleasure to be on stage, and also it's a pleasure to also follow an honor to follow was chairman thornberry, given x. of speech and also as an aside, he's got a great reading list on its website. not many members have that but he has one, so check it out. and mandate here today was to talk about the 100 year anniversary of the start of world war i, what lessons the united states learned from it in terms of its defense budget, national city planning and the like, and what we should do, take from it today and go forward. dr. holmes pointed out that history doesn't repeat itself but it certainly rises come as a source often says. but where is the day is i see a lot of rhyming out their -- but what worries me today. if any o

avon products, the worst mover on the s&p 500.day's panel, cnbc contributors carol roth and josh brown, our own sharon eper southern. also with us today is john tapper from bar rescue. for more on today's markets is "fast money" trader guy adami. guys, welcome to today. seems like it was a relatively quiet day of trading. not that much to write home about. josh brown, i know you can always find something colorful to say about this market. >> i think the biggest thing that's going on right now, we cannot figure out the bond market. bonds are still on fire. tlt just took out a high that hasn't seen since 2013. according to the cftc, short positions in the 10-year bond hit the highest level they've been in four years. everyone is leaning the wrong way. utilities are ripping. it is just a very bizarre market right now. bonds ripping with economic data somewhat improving. no one can figure it out. >> john tapper, this is one of the busiest wakes for data. only eight times in the last 14 years do we get a fed meeting, a gdp number, jobs

there's avon down about 6%. there are a couple standouts in the retailer.at month. terrific numbers. japan that did it by and large. tiffany's on the upside. the winners, smaller names in the s&p. airlines and home builders had a good month. you see southwest and pulte doing well. here's the problem. these are relatively mid to small cap names. you need big names to move the s&p. big market cap. here's one, eog, some of the big e and p companies had a go ahead month and this is one of the -- good month and this is one of the reasons. eog, for example, had a terrific month overall. look at that up almost 9%. essentially a historic high. down a little bit today. don't worry about that. overall a good month for that company. let's just talk about the retailers. ann taylor, i know they talked about all this restructuring, but the flagship store down 2.3%. that was a bit of a disappointment here. sales picked up in april. the guidance, basically in line with expectations. that may be the reason that the stock is opening to the upside. big lots had a much better

avon earned 12 cents a share in the first quarter, nine cents below expectations.ll talk deals and corporate taxes with roger altman. i have a couple other ones i want to talk to you about. top of the hour, jim paulson and josh feinman. squawk coming right back after this. this. [ grunting ] i'm taking off, but, uh, don't worry. i'm gonna leave the tv on for you. and if anything happens, don't forget about the new xfinity my account app. you can troubleshoot technical issues here. if you make an appointment, you can check out the status here. you can pay the bill, too. but don't worry about that right now. okay. how do i look? ♪ thanks. [ male announcer ] troubleshoot, manage appointments, and bill pay from your phone. introducing the xfinity my account app. >> i was confused. we have quality control issues. go ahead. >> we can move on to other issues. i want to talk about coca-cola for one second. we had news this morning. we should probably bring it up at some point. dave winters sent a new letter to coca-cola in light of what has happened, "the wall street journ

center katic steve has proposed creating an international agency to combat the global drug trade victor avonoffice says the body should be set up in afghanistan which provides most of the world's opium u.s. led occupation forces are now pulling out of the war zone having failed to stem the drugs flow ivanoff stress that russia will continue to cooperate with america in the war on drugs despite a string of sanctions imposed on moscow by washington afghanistan produces more than ninety percent of the world's heroin which has killed around half a million russians in the past fourteen years. meanwhile a potentially risky runoff presidential election for afghanistan has been confirmed after all ballots were counted and voting complains dealt with none of the candidates were able to secure a minimum fifty percent needed to win frontrunner of dollars dollar will now face off against. next month and the runoff will be held the middle on terror threat of the withdrawal of u.s. led military forces. riot police in istanbul use tear gas water cannon and thousands of protesters who blame the government f