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. >> last up, four shares of baidu up 5% here. >> yeah. and you want to see that.me this is a tough one. i was eyeing the 140 level. it looks like an interesting support level there. i'll make one point. there's been talk about this alibaba filing. i think once investors dig deeper into alibaba they're going to have a lot of new metrics to compare against baidu. just like the starbuck's, i would use 140 on the down side. you don't want to be below that. >> coming up next, spotting some major call buying in one high flying chip name. plus nadella's first conference call in minutes. stay tuned. know what the expers at your ford dealer think? they think about tires. and what they've been through lately. polar vortexes, road construction, and gaping potholes. so with all that behind you, you might want to make sure you're safe and in control. ford technicians are ready to find the right tires for your vehicle. get up to $120 in mail-in rebates on four select tires when you use the ford service credit card at the big tire event. see what the ford experts think about you

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baidu as well.will continue to watch the downward movement. ♪ >> you are watching "bloomberg west." i'm emily chang. popular american tv shows are no longer available on some of china's biggest websites. they are no longer being streamed. this comes after government censors launched a recent crackdown on content deemed offensive. speaking of the streaming site,it just got a big investment by alibaba. alibaba and its founders have been on quite the shopping spree ahead of the company's highly anticipated ipo. last year, they purchased an online mapping company, acquired a stake in a tv and movie production company, and invested in both a messaging app and a department store operator. today, they agreed to spend $1.2 billion for an 18.5% stake. joining me now is someone who helped set up google's operations in china. thank you for joining us. when you look at the stuff that ali baba has invested or bought, it is incredible. why the shopping spree, why now? >> i did a quick calculation. $4 billion wort

i like baidu here. >> coming up, move over ebay our traders are fired up over ama n amazon. spending concerns have pete worried. it is the street fight after the break. plus we have got the latest from the twitter's conference call. the shares are down more than 10% in the after-hour session. could it cross into the $37 range? we'll see. >>> let's go to dom with noodles and company. >> noodles earning 5 cents a share. this on sales of $90 million. light of expectations. noodles shares down about 7% on failure light volume. just about 11.5,000 shares have traded. back over to you. >> thanks, dom. brian, do you have a trade on this? >> not really. actually i think -- this is a tough one. you can only trade it technically if we can get a bounce above 35 and it closes above let's call it 36 tomorrow. then you might say they shrugged off the bad news. for now stay away. >> this has been a sideways trade for six months. these numbers are more or less what this company had expected. i don't think you run out on this one either. >> let's talk amazon shares rising slightly today. tak

on the earnings front, honda, mazza, also with reports from ag bank ccb and baidu. india results from icici bank and suzuki with numbers out. >>> plenty more to come on the show, including slicing apple. >>> welcome to "worldwide exchange," i'm karen cho. these are your headlines from around the world. m&a talks and alstom shares soaring. the french trainmaker says it's not aware of any offer after reports of ge planning to buy the firm for $13 billion. >>> telekom austria shares soaring. >>> investors are taking a shine to apple as the company easily beats earnings forecasts and announces moves to return more of its massive mountain of cash to shareholders. >>> and making money for mobile, facebook beats the street with its latest earnings report as the social media joint generates nearly two-thirds of its ad revenue from mobile devices. >>> you're watching "worldwide exchange," bringing you business news from around the globe. >>> if you're just tuning in, thanks for joining us. here's how markets are shaping up. a little bit of green on the board for all three in

baidu down, tesla not faring too well ire, 3.5%. we're looking at underlying weaknesses in these momentum stocks. a lot of investors concerned they continue with profit generating or productive as they were off the highs we saw last year and the year before, melissa, jo, you talked to a lot of tech people during the day and there was concern whether this would continue today. what is sentiment like? >> there are certain analysts i spoke to very early before the markets opened thought it would be a better day on nasdaq. we're not looking at bad as of a day on friday. we're looking at worst in two years. other analysts over lunchtime feeling a little more bearish about some of these stocks looking especially at trip advisor and dish network. these are tech companies and mass media companies that appeal to a lot of different types of investors so we'll watch specific categories. melissa: thank you so much. the pain is everywhere. the nasdaq down 1.6%. the dow, triple-digit loss, 143 points on the day. >> wasn't gm aware of a problem wi

so a lot of focus on microsoft, then there's baidu, a chinese internet players other chinese internetading lower. you're seeing weibo, and two ipos here, lombard medical, quotient, both trading lower on their debut. >> thank you so much, seema mody at the nasdaq. >>> well, they're selling stocks, but they've been buying bonds. investors are looking for safety. that's where we find rick santelli. >> thank, sue. viewers and listeners, the analysts must be getting smart to be able to parse a couple basis points and say it's from the ukraine, or $10 in gold and say it's from the ukraine. margin call a. $30 range, yes, there's an influence. it's highly overstated. a two-day chart of ten, but we're only two basis points lower on the day. half a dozens basis points, and in the last two weeks, three sessions have closed lower than this. you open up the chart to february, it's a pattern well established. i think it's more interesting to look at the backyard. it's actually up a bit. dollars versus the yuan, yesterday it was 12, 12, 12, now the third week in -- and every day we come in, it seems

baidu has a majority stake in qunar. tyler, back over to you. dom, an all-out brawl breaking out.or form party was speaking, saying -- let's listen in. saying the country was facing a real war shortly after he spoke, the head of the communist party chimed in, then angry radical national 'tis party members rushed the podium and a brawl broke out. demonstrators have started fires. they've been clashing over who should control the country, about half of those in eastern ukraine are ethnic russians and many accuse the acting authorities of oppressing relations. when there are problems in ukrai ukraine, there are worries in the energy market. you see oil higher by 1.40. natural gas also higher by a 1.4%. >> ty, the retailers taking a hit. the retail market over the past year has not been performing well at all. abercrombie & fitch, aeropostal and american eagle decidedly negative. here with a closer look is john kernen, director of with cow cowan & company. welcome. nice to have you here. >> thank for having me on. >> the stock is down about 40%, american eagle. over one year. today it

we're talking about baidu -- liz: and don't you find it interesting that trip adviser was one of the performers yesterday and the day before -- >> reporter: exactly. liz: and here we we have it as e of the best. >> reporter: cisco relatively unchanged when i last checked, they were doing much better last friday, so a very interesting role reversal for a lot of these stocks. and like you said, biotech dragging down the market for the nasdaq today, gilead having a pretty tough day, so a lot of role reversals here, and traders and analysts i've been speaking with throughout today are saying we're waiting and seeing what's going to happen with earnings. it's a touch-and-go situation, and it's true. you're seeing this in the nasdaq 100 really flipping and flopping. liz: here's what's a done, barely, apple's lower, applied materials, amgen, we've got a competitor coming on with skyworks ceo of internet of everything, stay tuned for that. and we've got comcast also lower. let me get to nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. you're always picking through interesting n

. >> caller: i've had baidu for the last couple of years but i'm not happy with it.your opinion on it? >> i don't know, sandy, it did report a good number with it. and it's the only chinese stock i'm recommending. i want you to stick with it. i think it's a good one. let's go to mark in tennessee, mark? >> caller: hello, coach cramer. >> how are you? >> caller: announced this week they are real close to global adoption reimbursement on their breast cancer screen. today it hit a 52-week low. >> yeah. >> caller: what do you say? >> yeah. what happened is when gilead reported the amazing number and the stock didn't fly up, everyone started selling these, sir. so i think you've got to give it room. i think you can go still lower, sorry. can i go to clifford in utah, please, clifford? >> yes, long-term molly corp., jim. >> i don't like that. i'm a balance sheet guy and like core earnings power and dividends and they don't have anything i see that i like along those lines. let's go to cory in massachusetts, please, cory. >> caller: big boo-yah from massachusetts. >> nice,

decline ease internet company baidu, it's turning into a tough day for the bulls, especially with the dom, sure is. there's a lot of money coming out of the equity markets, we're seeing yields drop. right now we have the ten-year note yielding 2.6%, and the 30-year bond yielding. so we are seeing a bit of a bit in the treasury market, as we see the dow jones industrial average from a pretty strong opening to now in negative territory. ty, up to you. >>> sue, we're watching microsoft. the department of homeland security says users should avoid using internet explorer because of a security flaw that lets hackers launch and tacks. our jon fortt is here. this is news to me. i hadn't heard about this. >> a lot of geeks out there would say you shouldn't use i.e. anyway. but this has to do with the vulnerability in the browser itself, in the way memory can get corrupted. if a hacker tricks into going to a certain corrupted website, they can take over your computer, have access, even within your business, to all sorts of permissions, administrative permissions. >> they're going to try to fix

i have said over and over again, i like baidu. just be careful. i need to go to gail in texas.s, i need some information about firi. >> a lot of people ask about sirius. have i given up on sirius? a bunch of people. and i said sirius is fine, it was bad that liberty walked away, but the company itself is doing well, more of a play on car sales than it is on radio. how about eric in florida? eric? >> caller: hey, big earnings, boo-yah, cramer. how are you? >> good. how are you? >> caller: i'm good. looking at tesla, i bought a little bit, wondering what you think about it. >> tesla's a cold stock, the cold stocks are in the grips of a major shakedown. i cannot push tesla here in the shakedown. linda in pennsylvania, linda? >> caller: hi, jim, i sure do look forward to your show every night and i appreciate the information you share with us. my question is, i'd like to know your opinion on hp. >> great american company, it's down some, oil's getting hit. i remember i went to the university of oklahoma, if anybody remembered right around world series time, and i can tell you they

. >> quickly, moderate covering seen in micron and baidu. >> i think micron's definitely got some reallyntial upside. and so, that one's an interesting name to me. going back to facebook, a second, we didn't really touch on it, it seems to hold support, 56, 57, in that area, and each time it comes down, we get another rise back today. we see people coming in the options, in the stock, the volumes increase. it seems to be an area where there definitely is a line in the sand, at least for now. >> pandora, also strong covering. the stock got blasted yesterday, i think, by 12%, 13%. you guys have a chart of pandora real quick in. >> -- huge short interest, too, judge. so on a big dip like you got yesterday, if you chose not to take some of the table, i think you were violating the pig rule. >> yeah. >> okay. well, still ahead on "the half," is boring your best bet? utilities the outperforming sector, but which stocks will keep working for you? we're naming names when "the half" comes back. ♪ mine was earned in korea in 1953. afghanistan, in 2009. orbiting the moon in 1971. [ male announcer ]

are a small number of firms that dominate the chinese market of which seema and weibo, ali baba and baidu worthy of noting that ali baba already owns a piece of weibo here and that's likely to end with the public offering. >> i would add one other thing that's important, that in the united states and globally, twitter and facebook compete with each other for ad revenue. i don't really think that weibo has to compete with facebook even though they are active in 70 countries. mostly an overseas chinese population. >> also important to note, you know, weibo's ad revenue has gone up by 160% so they are doing well in that area. >> it's weibo or moreve morphedh the section. >> you've got to wonder if they will look to expand overseas in other markets. it is primarily geared to a chinese audience, but over time you have to see what weibo does oint national opportunity. >> we should keep in mind, too, that there's an enormous overseas chinese community throughout southeast asia and north america and europe so as big as it is in china, china is pretty big outside of china, too. >> i was just going

baidu forecasting better than expected revenue. the core online search business strengthened.50. broad couple earned 51 cents a share for its first quarter, excluding certain items. beating estimates by 5 cents. revenue essentially in line. the top and the bottom were below year ago figures. chipmaker with increased competition. you heard me say oh, my god. stein berg is here. we talked about his murse last week. he calls it a satchel. wearing his murse. a self-confident guy. >> this is how i work. these are my papers. >> that's how you roll, with the murse. >> this is how i would normally be traveling. >> lots to cover. we're going to talk about that. indiana zones carried a murse. all right. we have to go. big vote for northwestern football players. possible outcome. waste management and ceo to talk earnings when we return. n we re. you, my friend are a master of diversification. who would have thought three cheese lasagna would go with chocolate cake and ceviche? the same guy who thought that small caps and bond funds would go with a merging markets. it's a masterpiece. tha

lastly want to point out, chinese internet name baidu did report results, sees better than expected revenuebusiness is strengthening. we've been watching the chinese internet names very closely as we await for alibaba to file its s 1. back to you. >> and, of course, the ceo of zi lings will be on with us. in the meantime he spent 32 years serving in congress with critically four of those years as chairman of the house financial services committee during the worst financial and economic crisis in recent history. now the former congressman barney frank is heading to the tribeca film festival on sunday for the world premier of a documentary that looks at both his career and his personal life in a film called "compared to what, the improbable journey of barney frank." here's a sneak peek. >> it is a sacrifice for anyone and barney made that sacrifice. certainly he postponed happiness in order to serve the public. >> one stop i stopped and i said to him, how much time do you -- >> he's with us at post nine. you were saying in the break you haven't seen the film yet? >> no. the rules of independe