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bertha coombs is standing by at the nasdaq. bob, 10:00 was the magic hour when everything changed. >> improving economy trumps virtually everything. yes, we had a drop. but not as much as you might think here at 10:00. did you see the beige book report? mr. bernanke said the u.s. economy is slowly improving. the baej book report came out and said this just an hour ago. look at this. hiring is higher, manufacturing is expanding, consumer spending is positive, residential real estate is slowly improving. this is the beige book just an hour ago. mr. bernanke had comments out this morning. of course, the idea of supporting the economy is improving. yes, that means less qe-3. let me ask you something, would you take less qe-3 in a better economy? i sure as heck would. and i hope everybody else would. the dollar rose, gold moved to the down side, less inflation, less qe-3. we'll hear more about that in just a minute. the s&p up 9%. are you looking at this for the year? this is the best start for the s&p since 1998. 191 -- 1991, excus

bertha. >> thanks very much, simon. addressing investors today, she said, i know there are things we could have done better and wish we'd done better over the last five years, but between the financial crisis, integrating the pepsi bottling merger and also the problem with the commodities spike, she said she just didn't have enough visibility. but she's making changes now. 2012 is going to be a very big transition year for the company. and the main focus is going to be on the company's core brands. they have lost market share here in beverages in north america and they are going to reverse that this year. they say they're going to focus on core pepsi, gatorade, those big iconic brands. they're going to streamline operations. and they are also going to try to streamline the marketing and make it global. it is going to impact earnings. they're going to take a hit as the company is going to spend more to promote those brands. they're going to boost between $500 million and $600 million. they hope to generate $1.5 billion a

back to you. >> bertha, thank you very much. stocks are kind of stalling a little bit today after a five-week rally though. as the eurozone worries move front and center once again. what's the next course of action? should you retreat or pile on more risk? let's ask david steinberg, $250 million in assets under management. up 16% year-to-date. and sandy lincoln with bml asset management. welcome to "power lunch," gentlemen. nice to see you again. >> thank you. >> david, i'm going to start with you. you were bullish early and paid the price for that when we had a lot of volatility. as we've noted you've now moved up to a gain of 16% year over year. are you satisfied where you are? >> i like to look at this as risk. if you put opportunity on and there is opportunity out there and it continues to be out there. the risk aversion that took place to what was going on in europe and greece moved lots of money into bonds. and, you know, basically bonds are probably overvalued and people are paying too high of a price to feel safe. and va

now, over to bertha coombs with a check on the nasdaq. bertha? >> privacy very big issue. likely to loom over facebook as well. nasdaq fractionally lower. we still have 49 new highs, including intuit at an all-time high today after posting better than expected earnings. the company actually saying that its mobile ipad app is the best-selling app on the app store. folks doing their taxes that way. meantime, among those new highs today, microsoft continuing to rack up multi-year highs. ross high, and garmen at a new high. tomorrow apple will be holding its investor day. it's a drag today, even as credit suisse ups the price target to $600. bill, the big question on a lot of people's minds, will tim cook talk about a dividend tomorrow. >> as he's talking about all the cash he's got. thank you, bertha. let's keep with the nasdaq theme here. as we head toward the close here, forget dow 13,000 for a moment. quietly the nasdaq is off to the best start this year since 1991, believe it or not. is nasdaq 3,000 just around the corner and maybe an even higher number? we talk numbers o

let's get straight to bertha coombs at the nasdaq. bertha. >> thanks very much, mandy. nasdaq at new 12-year highs. today sears one of the best performers. in fact, the best of the week off 20% extending gains after announcing that liquidity move. their shares have actually doubled year-to-date. meantime, wynn also up another 2%. they have kicked off the board member from the macaw division. meantime nasdaq 100 going to reflect that forced redemption. finally, apple on track for an all-time closing high here above $520 a share. jpmorgan says it's now a sector unto itself. and if apple were to issue a dividend, that would prompt more fund buying and help the overall s&p. back to you, tyler. >> bertha, thank you very much. time for buy, sell, hold. a look at the stocks and stories that are making news this week. mike murphy is with us, "fast money" contributor and ceo of rose cliff. welcome back. >> thank you, tyler. >> let's take a first look at johnson & johnson. that sort of overstates the move today. it's only down 11 cents but looks like it's falling off a cliff. the

back to you guys. >> bertha, thank you very much.le foods among the big names getting ready to report earnings after the bell. today the stock up almost 10% so far this year and almost 45% over the past 12 months with rising prices and a tough economic climate, can that growth continue? jane wells is at a whole foods in glendale, california, to focus on the big issues investors need to know ahead of the whole foods numbers. jane. >> reporter: tyler, you know, whole foods has a history of surprising to the upside even in the economic downturn. and many analysts are expecting a beat today. some even expect management to raise guidance for the year. it's what i call the keen wau indicator. if you shop here, you know what i'm talking about. the street's looking for 60 cents a share with $3.9 billion in same store sales. piper jaffry points to costco is usually a good indicator for whole foods since there's a lot of crossover in their customer base. goldman sachs expects a beat and points to three issues. improving labor markets, strong e

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. >>> i'm bertha coombs at the nasdaq.itting an 11-year high, the nasdaq is on pace to close down fractionally lower this week. the downdraft today coming from stocks that received negative analyst comments. first solar, net app, and some of the gamers. the nasdaq 100, though, still going to be fractionally positive for the week. the only major average to have that distinction, if we continue at this pace. the reason why, apple continuing towards those record highs. today, nearly reaching $500 a share. but it's not $500 a share, but $500 billion in market cap that will really put it in the big leagues. check out my piece on cnbc.com about where it ranks among the all-time most expensive stocks. >> bertha, thank you very much. heading to the closing, exactly 20 minutes before the trade of the bell rings. a stat check on the nasdaq. the composite, as ber thae mentioned, was at 11-year highs for the day. concerns in greece, the nasdaq down 26 points, almost a percent, now at 2900. it was down 32 points at its low of the day.

bertha coombs with the story. >> remember talking about u.s. attorney, calling this a tale of greed run amok. he's calling in the alleged architect of the scheme, to turn himself in to face charges here in new york. two former credit suisse traders have pleaded guilty. david higgs admitted he and others reversed engineered pricing on a $3 million portfolio. rather than mark them to market. in a make-believe scheme allegedly led by his boss, who had recently been promoted to global head of structure credit, hicks told the court they inflated the trading book in order to hide losses in that book. and to achieve specific daily and monthly end profit and loss objectives. because achieving those meant that they would get the year-end bonuses. investigators say kareem saw a bonus and incentive award of nearly $8 million. it was rescinded after credit suisse discovered the f and missed him and the others in 2008. credit suisse is not implicated in the case. the firm, in fact, reported the fraud and took a writedown in february of 2008 in connection wi

>>> i'm bertha coombs. oil prices were higher today on growing concerns with the tensions in iran.ing 170,000 barrel drop in crude inventories. that was driven in part by higher refinery runs. we've got exxon saying its massive beaumont facility is down for repairs. so that's one of the things we keep watching with the tight refining situation. nat gas is on tap tomorrow for eia. we are expecting a drawdown of 112 to 120 billion cubic feet. big drop today. glut there continues to be the problem. we'll see if we get tomorrow's report, whether we will hold that $240 support level. >> thanks very much, bertha. here are some of the stocks we're following on the ticker right now. lower than expected q-4 revenue. weight watchers disappointing with the full year profit forecast. as you can see, it shed more than 3%. elsewhere, safeway upgraded to outperform from neutral. raising the price target to $26 a share from $19. fourth-quarter sales continuing on west coast trends. the shares, as you can see, up nearly 2%. and dean foods moving to higher ground after the ceo of the u.s. dairy gian

. >>> i'm bertha coombs at the nymex.he best performer in the oil patch this week, up more than 4.5%. better than expected economic news here in the u.s. and of course, the underlying continuing concerns about the supply disruptions in the event of an iran nuclear confrontation. meantime, we did see products today, and also brent crude which yesterday closed out at 2012, closing new highs. did see some profit taking today going into the long weekend. the big mover on the week turns out to be natural gas. we've got a better than expected eia member, and today we get a count from baker hughs that nat gas rigs are down to 2009 levels. and they actually have fallen now for the sixth straight week. maria, nat gas producers trying to fix that equation on the glut of nat gas by cutting back on production. it looks like others are shutting in. >> thank you so much, bertha. let's look at some of the stocks we're following on the ticker tonight. oppenheimer raises its price on the stock on apple because of higher expectations for s

. >>> i'm bertha coombs. we saw big support this afternoon for oil prices. brent closing above $120 a barrel. amid continuing concerns between the tensions with iran, and lower production numbers in the north sea. that has pushed the energy complex higher. we got a bullish report when it came to natural gas. the drawdown this week, according to the government, was 127 billion cubic feet. that was near the high end. a big reversal in nat gas from yesterday, and then some as well on the back of this news. interesting day in gold as well. the headlines about the european debt swap, the ecb debt swap for greek debt, that turned the euro. that turned gold in dollars. we ended up high on the day for the second day. that also brought up silver and copper as well. >> bertha, thank you very much. the s&p as we've been pointing out has been hitting a seven-month high today, breaking through what has been considered a technically important level of 1350. back above that. cords according to our next guest, 1400 is not far away, despite of rising oil costs. let's find ou

rick santelli over to you in chicago. >> well, thank you very much, bertha. you know what, mer vin king set us early on the track. look at the gilt, 10-year and uk. started rising up a baker's dozen 13 basis points. then the post ltro hiccup. up a mere 70 basis points. who wants to be subordinated to the ecb with respect to something like a haircut? then look at the bund. even though it's only up a couple bay si points, you can see the pattern. then there's our 10-year. look at the fact that gold's down $61, equities move lower. there's one conclusion to draw, that is somebody might be taking out a mop quantitative easing might be in a halt for now mode and i'm surprised to answer bob's question that you didn't see a much bigger move in 10-years. rates moving up, the risk trade debting modified and i think a lot of bankers working in central unison, this was a fat finger, covered multisectors and probably belonged to the statue of liberty. one big finger. back to you. >> rick santelli, thank you. let's switch on the power surge. keeping an eye on oil today af

let's check in with cnbc's bertha coombs.he joins us live with more on that ands that rest of the day's business headlines, too. bertha? >> hi, barbara. checking the dow is up more than 130 points. markets are higher on bullish data out of china and in the u.s. on manufacturing. so that and a lot of people feeling better about the economy moving higher. also here at home, we have a preview of friday's labor department report. private payroll firm adp says the economy created 175,000 private jobs in january. while the dow is up over 1%, amazon is having a really rough day over on the nasdaq. after reporting does appointing earnings and n sales. the online shopping giant continues to spend big building out the business and eating into the bottom line. kindle sales were up. introduction of the kindle fire. analysts say amazon is selling it at a loss. as it tries to combat apple's ipad's reach. apple shares meantime today again seeing record highs. but the hottest buzz on wall street is about-face book. social networking giant ex

bertha, thank you very much. herb. >> yes, ma'am. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> very polite. >> and polite. yes, ma'am. just the way i like it. i've been training him well. what's trending? >> you haven't been training me. listen to her. other than the oil and gas exploration stocks you would expect on a day like today, universal display, which is one of those battleground stocks we talk about every now and then, they make l.e.d.s used in smartphones. anyway, big battleground stock being chatted a lot about today. have no idea why. just mentioning it to you. hmsy, a company that does cost containment and consulting for corporations, terrible earnings -- earnings that were -- >> easy for you to say. >> let me get this straight. earnings weren't what people expected. stock is in the chattersphere as i like to say. and career education, no idea why people are chatting about it so much today, but they are. and i wanted to bring that to your attention. >> how about that story in "in the huffington post" win

i'm bertha coombs at the nasdaq. time now for "3 in 30." three stocks stories in 30 seconds. an apple, new high a day helps propel the nasdaq higher. apple right now up over 1%, closing in at $470 a share. and closing in on more enterprise clients. dow jones reporting that halliburton now is switching over from blackberries to iphones. meantime, sears holdings, that momentum continues as it approaches its earnings on february 23rd. the company's announced it's closing a number of stores. a lot of speculation about potential restructuring there. and mattel hitting a 13-year high, set to launch a new barbie tv campaign, too. you better watch out. apparently that's going to include not just clothes for barbie but clothes for girls. >> oh, yes. yes, we already have a few of those outfits in our home. thank you, bertha. >>> and we are about halfway through the earnings season. 60% of the companies have beaten consensus estimates. a little weaker than it's been recently. will earnings be able to propel this market rally? let's bring in jonathan golib. welcome back. >> hi, tyler. >>

thank you, bertha. see you later.s we head to the close, traders are watching shares of cisco, set to report earnings after the bell tonight, making this your last opportunity to either buy or sell that stock ahead of the event. do you buy or sell it here. let's start talking numbers on the technical side with j.c. o'hara, and on the fundamental side is alkesh shaw who covers the name for evercore partners. bearish, bullish? what are you doing? >> this stock has been extremely hard to value over the last year. but i can tell you this, looking at the earnings tomorrow, we can expect volatility. take a look at the chart, going back to 2010, around earnings, we saw a constantly downward gap, which is a very bearish sign. we're seeing one gap after another gap after another gap. and they were never filled. until last august, where we saw the first upward gap. it will be interesting to see how the stock reacts to the news. >> alkesh, that chart really embodies how it is as john chambers tries to turn it around. >> with $5

bertha coombs at the nymex. >> thanks, seema.ntioned in the energy pits we are seeing prices still high, but a selloff across the board here in terms of the metals today. copper, the worst performer for the week down 4% on continuing concerns of rising inventories in china and slow demand. gold, a real poppy week where we went from resistance level at the top down to support and then pretty much flat a little to the downside on the week. the currency and gold analyst at citi index says an interesting phenomenon is developing with those high oil prices. the gold-to-oil ratio is coming down. it's now at a 6-week low. and historically he says that has been a bullish sign for global stock prices. over to you, sue. >> thank you so much, bertha. stocks kind of moving sideways right now. markets are waiting for that approval, perhaps, of another bailout package for greece. so how do you invest given all the macro risk out there? let's bring in katie nixon, chief investment officer for private partners at northern trusts. more than $163

. >> hi, i'm bertha coombs at the nasdaq. time for three in 30. on a day when the nasdaq is flat, couple stocks under pressure. one first solar. solar stocks overall under pressure. germany looking to perhaps cut solar subsidies. meantime rising after its profit and forecast beat analyst estimates among the catalysts they look at this year is a development of a generic advair. netflix still under pressure on the comcast our parent company's streaming video. meantime the company will be streaming videos, tv and movies on the ps vita. tyler, i don't want it to cook, i want that ps vita to be able to clean the ring around my bathtub. that's the device i'm looking for. >> it will do that and vacuum the house and do a lot more, bertha. this is a boy's toy here. i'm here with brian. he's been playing all morning on the new powerful gaming handheld. it's the ps vita. it officially lau lly launches today. launched earlier today in asia. under $300. it folds in netflix, youtube, twitter, facebook into that ps vita. and into the ecosystem there. the questio

other metals getting ready to close, bertha coombs at the nymex. >> thanks very much.'m in the gold pits in the final trade here. well off of the day's high but gold breaks a three-day losing streak. and issue for traders is they say the continuing uncertainty over how this greek situation will be resolved and the growing rhetorical tension between iran and now europe as iran says it's going to cut off oil exports to europe. you can see that in just how much bigger the trade was today and the move was today in gold in euro terms. that's something that dennis gartman watches and a number of traders watch now. we saw the move up in precious metals breaking the three-day losing streak but we did not see it in copper. copper in fact a fourth down day despite the fact we had the bullish builder sentiment, sue. a lot of folks say the fundamentals in china continue to be the big drag. >> bertha, thank you very much. global hedge fund assets off to a good start this year. the global median is up 1.52%. our next guest is considered one of the most influential players in the hed

i'm bertha coombs at the nasdaq. three stock stories in 30 seconds. apple not the only at a historical high. all-time high sips going public last may on better than expected traffic for january. dollar tree also historic high here up nearly 1%. it reports earnings next week. and zynga reports earnings tomorrow. this will be one to watch. expected to put in 3 cents a share, but it's going to tell us a lot potentially about facebook, which is the other big company that everyone is watching from silicon valley. back to you. >> sure, bertha. thank you. the annual westminster dog show kicks off today. cnbc, we're taking a different angle on it. you've heard of the dogs of the dow. today we're releasing the hounds. some of the best stocks you maybe haven't discovered so far. our brian shactman is sniffing them out, if you can with a heavy cold. >> i still can, but i won't do it on air. my hound knows how to find a good investment. his only goal in life to find a hard to find stock for you to consider. there he is. there's my boy. how about this one. in the

we went behind the scenes at media bertha prices to find out. >> it has to be different, unique. >> reporter: brian knows it takes a lot of pitches to get someone to buy in. his suitcase has pots and pans to a product made from panty hose. >> you put it in and then put your hand through and the hose is connected up and now you can clean between the crevice. >> reporter: it's called the vacuum mitt. a catchy name, crazy claim. does he ever have to do tv magic or creative editing to make it work? > >> no. you can't. the old days i guess -- i heard people used to do that, fudge it but now, you know the ftc is waiting. that's good. >> reporter: product claims are tested but sometimes they fail during testing even filming. bill said this happened recently when an i-phone case to protech the phone if you drop it. >> we dropped from ten storeys and it broke. >> reporter: what do you do? >> they were prototypes so we have to fix it. they -- those are the things you have to make sure it does. we stopped the commercial. >> reporter: people are used to commercials making it all look easy but in real li

. >> let's head to bertha coombs at the nasdaq for the three in 30.ake it away. >> thanks very much, mandy. worst performer at the nasdaq 100 today is the company that operates the wireless service under the nextel brand. posting an unexpected loss. ceo promising this is going to be a turnaround year. meantime liberty interactive at a new high after posting better than expected results and saying it's going to split off two tracking stocks to better track its interest in qvc and home shopping network and its stake in other travel sites. finally o rilely automotive at an all-time high. folks are holding onto cars an average of six years. that's the longest folks have held onto cars in an awful long time. >> thank you very much for that, bertha. straight ahead on the show, they may not be a household name, but sxc is a major player in the pharmacy better management services. the stock is up 46% in one year. and the ceo will tell us if today's earnings report can drive the stock even higher. it's a "power lunch" exclusive. >> we'll be back in two minutes

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our bertha coombs live outside of that meeting. bertha, good morning. >> hey, good morning, carl. better than expected earnings for the fourth quarter, $1.15 a share, 3 cents better. but what investors were all about were what the company's plans are for restructuring after its comprehensive review. admitted to shareholders during the meeting this morning, there are things she wished she'd done better over the last few years, including moving to boost spending on advertising more quickly and also offering better performance metrics that might have helped boost the lagging stock performance. but she says one of the things she had trouble with in terms of resetting the focus was the fact she has to integrate the pepsi acquisition and then change the financial downturn. now, the changes that they did outline today are all about refocusing on core brands. they're going to focus on advertising on 12 core brands, six drinks like pepsi and gatorade and snacks like chee-tos and lays. and they're going to boost their ad spending, similar to what coke announced. they're going to do that by

. >> thank you, bertha coombs. about 7 1/2 minutes before the bell rings.ime for cramer's mad dash. let's talk amazon.com. poised to open about ten bucks lower on the morgan stanley downgrade to equal weight. price target cut. decelerating sales growth. >> it's making less money per sales, too. one of the things that has dogged amazon is that they have blowout revenues. but it's not falling to the bottom line. morgan stanley is now questioning whether the problems are apple related, meaning apple taking some share, kindle not doing that well. but really talking about the idea that this is a slowing growth stock. so it's very difficult to put a multiple on it. think the stock can go lower still. >> tough stock to trade because their guidance, they only give you a quarter out. >> right. >> part of morgan's complaint is once the other quarterly guidance does arrive, you're not going to like what you see. >> this stock did -- it went down a lot. and then it slowly -- like google, another one that disappointed. then started going back slowly. this is part of wha

. ♪ >>> i'm bertha coombs at the nymex. gains this morning on optimism that we will see a deal done over greece over the weekend. we are watching the technical levels, though, at 103.74. we will reap a resistance level if we can get above that. a number of traders saying it will be very bullish and we could actually see a move up to around the $114 range. brent this morning giving up a little bit of gains after topping an eight-month high at $120 a barrel. overall, fairly quiet trade. we've got gold has been slightly up this morning. extending gains from yesterday. if we close higher with gold today, it will be the third straight day that we close higher. back over to you, melissa. >> thank you very much. about six minutes before the bell rings this friday on wall street. let's bring in cash director floor operations at ubs financial services. art, we can't forget it's expiration friday. >> the 30 dow stocks, 29 are pretty steadily to the buy side. only bank america seems to be a seller here. that's helping out. continuing

i'm bertha coombs. traders say technology continues to show momentum.e moving in there. apple notching yet another fresh all-time high near $470 a share today. but that's not the only thing that is pushing the nasdaq composite today to a fresh 11-year high. microsoft mock the new highs today. some of the big tech stocks starting to show momentum. we had a number of consumer stocks at new highs today, including elizabeth arden. o'charley's, now trading above the offer price from fidelity national yesterday. bill, if there's any indication those folks from the parade downtown, seem to be all up here in times square right now. and they look like they're spending money. >> yeah. i'll tell you, some of the restaurants around here downtown had specials going this morning during the parade. hopefully they left some money behind here. walt disney is the big name on the earnings calendar after the close of trading, as we mentioned. julia? >> bill, when disney reports, all eyes will be on advertising trends, theme park performance as well as subscription fees for

bertha coombs who was covering for us today said if you take the multiple of other market giants way back when, oracle, ge, so on. that was like 25. so you put 25 on apple at this point, that would be, you know -- >> wait. apple right now is 11, not 25. >> i'm saying if it was -- >> microsoft was nearing -- >> in the heyday. >> cisco back in march of 2000 topped out at the market cap at the time it was trading north. it went to probably under a hundred billion. so when you think about it, i mean, we know how the story ends for these names. >> and it also looks like in 2012 you'll get expansion which blends well for apple itself. >> apple continues to chug along and others have struggled lately. is this an overall red flag for the market? doug, i know a couple days back you said it's an nba market. nothing but apple. it also has a downside. >> right. i think if we remember bob ferrell at merrill lynch, he told us in market rallies we have to be intentive. and we are starting to see a market that is far too focussed amongst games. particularly apple. i'm not referring to jeremy lin. i'

. >> all right, bertha, thank you very much. we've got about 19 minutes left here.ime for a quick market stat check on the nasdaq. of course, we're watching dow, possibility of 13,000. but the nasdaq composite is pushing for its best close since december 2000. american beauty won best picture oscar that year, i'm told. right now the nasdaq is up five points, trading at 2962 and change. and another indicator we're watching right now, the volatility index at the chicago board options exchange, as the dow moved lower, the volatility index, the vix moved higher, and hit a peak about an hour ago. right now it is up 3 1/3% at 1737. it has not settled above 20 since february 15th. we can watch the dow at the moment as well as it tries to come back of sorts, down just about eight points at the moment at 12,976. >> okay. well, investors have been keeping a close eye on market moves, of course. our next guest is keeping a close eye on the euro. and silver in particular. he says the levels in these areas are telling us where we're going to be headed next. well, peter is the di

. >> bertha, thank you very much. 18 minutes left in the trading session, time for a market stat checkmposite chicago its way off session lows, despite concerns that greece is running out of time to avoid default. you have heard that before. right now the nasdaq is down 6 points off the lows of the session when it was down 18 on the open. so hasn't been all that volatile in terms of the amplitude today. the cboe's volatility index looking flat throughout the session, it is positive right now, up almost 5% near the 18 level, spent much of the day here in that range, right there, maria. >>> bill, the opening market showing some real strength in 2012, our next guest, ken marshener, says investors need to be care half is ahead. keeping a close eye on the volatility index and what it is not telling investors. ken, good to have on the program. thanks so much for joining us. we just saw bill talk about that vix index, down to 1718, low levels. what is that signaling? >> at the moment that is signalling that equity markets should move about 1% per day and what i think potentially miss, the tai

. >> lots of love for technology, bertha. thank you. about 17 minutes before the close today.asdaq, the market leader today for its third consecutive winning session. albeit on light volume. right now, it's up 12 points, about half a percent. but i think the other averages would take that right now. the nasdaq was up at 20 points. the fear indicator is not showing any fear right now. down another 2.5%. we're trading at 18. it's testing that 18 level right now. it's been below 20 since january 18th. so it's been for a while. below that level there. >> wow. we've got about 15 minutes before the closing bell sounds. our next guest is keeping a close eye on the move of the dollar-to-yen relationship. paul richards with us from ubs americas. joining us right now. first, your expectations, paul, good to have you on the program. >> hi, maria. >> your numbers tomorrow? >> i think the numbers are going to be slightly on the stronger side. i think the market's been lulled into a dove sense. but things don't feel so bad to me. i would expect numbers 175,000, maybe employment around 8.4%.

. >> thanks very much for that, bertha. about 20 minutes away from the closing bell. a quick market stat check. the composite is on check to snap a three-day losing streak. currently up by .8%. about the session high. it did drop ten points at today's low. the vix has pulled back, down by 5%. it has not settled above 20 since the day after valentine's day. bill? >> let's keep the focus on technology here as we can down to the final minutes of trade. which companies should be on your radar screen right now. joining us with some thoughts here is the managing director, specializing in technology with credit suisse. hewlett-packard's turn was last night for earnings. they disappointed. the stock is down 6%. what do you do with a company lie hpq right now? >> i think it's just too early to buy the name. there are so many fundamental problems that the company has. they're losing market share in all of their key markets. and you've got services, businesses going through a two oh three-year transition of lease. while the stocks are seven times with mixed execution, it's just

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. >>> but first, let's go to bertha coombs at the nasdaq for more on nasdaq 3,000. bertha? it's the first time in 11 years the nasdaq crossing 3,000. the last time it brastz crossed on an intraday basis was december 13th, 2000. we just hit right at 3,000 within the last few minutes. what's interesting is if you look this year in terms of the biggest gainers on a percentage basis, sears holdings more than doubled year to date. netflix up 61%. whirlpool, up nearly 60%. when you look at it on a point basis in terms of the big caps, they've moved up about 360 points, 110 points, not surprisingly, coming from apple. we'll have much more and fed chairman ben bernanke when "squawk on the street" comes right back. ♪ >>> mitt romney sweeping yesterday's two primaries in arizona and in the key state of michigan. today the gop candidates move on to focus on super tuesday in ohio, the next big race. reince priebus is the chairman of the republican national committee. he joins us this morning after last night's busy night. mr. chairman, good to see you again. >> good morning, carl. >> a

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. >>> thank you, bertha. >>> let hayes touch on the ongoing pain at the pump.tures over the last month have skyrocketed, up 11%. the american automobile association reporting a national average for a gallon of gasoline is now $3.51. that's up 12 cents just in the last three weeks, of course, the key questions, are we going to see that start to hurt consumers. >> he's at the cme group. gary, good morning. >> good morning. >> i guess in terms of explaining where we are on gasoline we should identify it's the link to the brent, the links to the london train, if you like that's important to people than arguably wti as things stand at the moment? >> there's still a lot of people driving. i'm seeing the prices going up on a day-to-day basis. one of the things i'm looking to, is we're seeing the refineries are slowing down. they're exporting more petroleum products. they're not refines the gasoline here we need to keep our prices down. that's probably pretty much really what's controlling it right now. >> where do you think prices will go? ivities right now we're look

. >> thank you, bertha. >>> before we went to break, we showed you clint eastwood's super bowl pitche strong new data out that may justify clint's praise for detroit's comeback. cnbc's phil lebeau is in chicago. he has the latest on an auto sector story with big implications, phil, that may be underappreciated. >> i think very underappreciated. david, did you know that we are currently on pace to set a record when it comes to vehicles exported from this country? take a look at the numbers compiled by iho's automotive for us. this year we're expected to export 1.65 million weeks from the u.s. by 2015, more than 2 million vehicles. where are they going? look at the top five. it might surprise people. first of all, look at china. it is the number three export country in terms of vehicle value. 144,670 going there in 2011. what do they want? classic american brands. cadillac cts built in michigan. jeep grand cherokee. another vehicle very popular in china. in saudi arabia, it's number four in terms of exports. they want luxury suvs, the ones built in south carolina and alabama by bmw and