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and that's a big, big change.uch of the '80s and '90s, the stocks of companies that grew consistently went up consistently. we saw tremendous appreciation in the stocks of all the companies that delivered consistent growth. but ever since the dot com bust began in 2000, maybe a long-term bear market began. the markets made everything into a trade, not an investment. first we traded stocks as a part of a larger sector, then we traded larger sectors on bets of growth. we took trading to the most absurd logical conclusion, with the peak of this lunacy being the risk off/risk on. last year we got an etf for putting risk on or turning it off. who knows. the pair marked the absolute top of the ultra trading era. ironic, isn't it? in fact, i think the risk on/risk off idiocy marked when common sense was hijacked and replaced with anti-investing. literally the notion that investing itself was somehow old-fashioned. all that mattered was intraday. it got so bad i often wondered if marx, carl, when he talked about how capit

this is a pretty big job multiplier because of the nature. it's a building block, and most of chemistry and the materials used in everyday life need these building blocks. >> tom: dow isn't alone in making new investments in chemical plants. energy firms shell, chevron and conoco-phillips have plans for building new chemical facilities, taking advantage of cheap natural gas. it wasn't energy but earnings that were in the market's focus today as stock prices sank. the s&p 500 made three tries to stay positive during the session, but the weaker march housing data and earnings concerns pushed the index lower this afternoon. the technology sector led the losers, along with industrial stocks and consumer discretionary stocks, each falling about 1%. after the close, microsoft reported it made 60 cents per share in the last quarter, better than what wall street was expecting. revenue was up across its businesses, except for its entertainment business, which includes its x-box video game console. while the stock was down a fraction today, shares were

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banks that are too big to fail are too big to exist. but we also got to look at what banks and what corporations are too big to be held accountable. because if they're too big to be held accountable, how are we going to have a functioning economy that allows workers and everyday people to get their fair share. but also a democracy that flourishes and allows people to engage and have real power and decision making. >> but in the spirit of milton friedman, one of your former chicago residents, the only accountability corporations have in the free-market system is to make as much profit as they can for their shareholders. >> and we have to change that. >> how would you change it? >> i think there's two things. one, you know, when corporations were originally created in america, they actually had to demonstrate a public purpose that you were going to serve. and you could make profits. but you also had to say, "we're going to do this good thing for the public." so how do we move back towards that? but there's also an interesting movement tha

india has a big appetite for u.s. and services but high tariffs and multiple languages can be limiting factors. three, south africa. its stable banking systems and business friendly environment makes it an attractive market. transportation consulting and franchises are doing well there. number four, turkey. turkey is both politically and financially stable. tourism related products and services and consumer products are in demand. and number five, vietnam. the country's economy grew an estimated 5.8% last year. there's room for growth in the waste water treatment and plastics equipment and machinery industries. >>> it's time now to answer some of your business questions. alfred and gene are with us once again. before we get to our viewer questions, i want to ask you about a question about something that's been in the news a lot this week. this whole idea as a small employer, asking perspective employees for their facebook pass word. i want your opinion on it. >> i have three kids in high school. they're on facebook al

big. big. procter & gamble r procter & gamble reports too. is the restructuring is the restructuring working? i think the i think the top line is hot but th hot but the earnings could be better. better i think i think it kimberly clark. kimberly clark. coal gate coal gate will report the day before and before and i think colgate have better numbers. have better numbers. last but nos least, last but nos least, vf corp. it's been a great ti it's been a great time. vf corporate is a f vf corporate is a fabulous apparel maker. apparel maker. it's going strong. it's going strong. the the company as well as pvh, are are terrific. but but vf gets hit conference conference call quite a because because eric wisen, the ceo, so so you've got you've got a 140 stock, when that ge that gets hit on the conference call, it goes down call, it goes down to 130. i say wait to the d i say wait to the down draft. in the tidal wave of in the tidal wave of earning there are some ter there are some terrific oppor

the big wall street firms have brought suit to the prevent it from happening.hey are the ones who are lining the pockets of those in congress and preventing another crisis or i should say facilitating potentially another crisis from happening. have you know shame? i mean, really, it's just so utterly frustrating. >> but on our side frankly, we need to be stronger and we need to be tougher because not much has changed on wall street. we need justice in the wake of this crisis. that means real. >> in what. >> real investigations and prosecution of wrongdoing. >> didn't the attorney againgeneral get changed with doing that? >> candidly the obama administration nights to do more. it's four years almost after the collapse of bear sturns and layman brothers and a lot of the things being enacted by congress are being gloccedblocked. >> do we need a greater separation between conventional and investment banks? >> absolutely. when i undertook this job, here is what i saw. i thought i was walking into my local community bank. i opened the door and i looked in and what i

at the time of the upper big branch tragedy of the lead inspectors that was at upper big branch, i think five out of six of them was hired in this latest class of 2006 forward. if you look back at 2007 and look at the makeup of district four and the agency, 33% of district four in the agency were trainees. >> let me ask one question. my time's almost expired. with a agregregious findings could y have shut the mine down? >> on 48 occasions msha went in that mine in 2009 and shut them down using the full measure of the law they had and the authority under the law which says once you correct a problem, you can put it back to work. and the mine did that. there is no silver bullet. we've asked congress to consider that. we've tried to come up with ways to what a holistic way to deal with the mine that's seen an immediate danger. we used that at the freedom mine in 2010. it took us three months to get there. >> it didn't shut down and a disaster occurred. that is a fact. >> the gentleman's time has expired. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you mr. secretary for being here today. thi

it's a big political storm trying to score points and big banks making an easy target. >> the other thingend of the day the consumer gets impacted negatively. if the banks have to pay higher fees what are they going to do? they are going to raise fees on things that the consumer pays. >> you're already seeing this. and dick bove was reeling about this last year. he said fees are going to start going up and it's going to start impacting regular customers. people are going to have to close their bank accounts. if you look at the numbers, that's happening. >> jeff, we will watch more on cnbc.com. jeff cox joining us. read the full story at cnbc.com, called break up the banks. why it could actually happen. investors getting set for another big day of the economic story tomorrow. >> announcer: tomorrow brings big readings on the labor market and retail sales. there's a lot more investors need to watch out for when the market opens. we'll round it all up when the "closing bell" returns. as the years go by, some questions loom large. are you prepared for your retirement years - 25 or more of the

we have the big map, the big map should be on the wall there. that's the wallpaper of the show for the rest of the year. because we can never repeat this enough, ignore those polls of the whole country, where they show them tied or they show obama ahead by a couple of points, it all comes down to this map, the toss up states, there's nothing toels think about. >> and we spend a lot of time in the republican primary talking about the fact that the national polls don't matter, you have to look state by state. it's the same by general election, you have to look at these battle ground states. one thing i would point out, there's a tightening in these states recently. what you see if you look there, is both mccain and obama got a little bit of a nice bump after they secured their party nomination. i think it's going to be expected that things would be a little bit tighter right now after all of mitt romney's former enemies have suddenly decided that he's at least already and sort of tepidly embraced him given the fact that this should be a strong tim

first, discount store big lots and a big drop, losing almost a quarter of its value. the company surprised investors by announcing its sales in late march slowed and continued weak through april. it now predicts same-store sales to fall. meantime, radio shack lost 10% after losing money in the first quarter. it was expected to turn a profit. well, if railroad kansas city southern is any indication, the economy is chugging along. earnings were up thanks to its freight and auto shipping business. shares popped 6% as volume more than doubled. the rally lifts shares to a new all-time high. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> susie: while "crowd funding" isn't an everyday term, it's transforming the way non-profits raise money. many organizations now use social media to raise funds, including accion, the nation's largest microfinance lender. as erika miller reports, accion's success has earned the support of a leader in big business. >> reporter: when willie whitfield decided to open his harlem salon a year ago, he discovered he was $5,000 short. that's the difference

and that's tonight's "market focus." >> susie: in an industry known for big ideas, big paydays and big egos, facebook's recent $1 billion purchase of instagram was a big surprise. after all, instagram's photo- sharing app may be very popular, but the company has no revenue. as harry lin explains in tonight's commentary, it's all about magic. he's executive in residence at idea lab. >> even by the outrageously out- sized standards of the technology venture world, last week's news that facebook is acquiring instagram for a billion dollars was seismic. instagram is a two-year-old company with a dozen employees in san francisco. a billion dollars! at my company, idealab, we're a technology incubator, so we talk all the time about what makes a startup successful. what makes an instagram an "insta-hit!" besides being dead-simple to use, instagram does something that many technology hits do-- it does magic. instagram takes your crappy mobile-phone pictures and makes them artful, instantly nostalgic, and something you want to share. of course, it's not magic, but to instagram users, it feels l

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, big number. it was on last night and i was flipping the channel before going to bed. to have that lead on likability, it can overcome some of the weaknesses. it's not a surprise he wins that. the number one issue, the top two issues are the economy and the debt. the double digit lead romney ordinary reasons there for the time being is a positive for him. the more he makes bone-headed comments or ill-advised comments about his own lifestyle, about the state of affairs from different constituencies the more it grows and the likelihood of obama goes up as well. >> mark, would you look at this slide? this is the one area where the president isn't doing as well. he dominates "the washington post"/abc news poll in all but what matters to voters, handling the economy and creating jobs. it's a wash here. >> i ain't good at much, but i have my finger on conventional wisdom. it used to be in a bad economy, a president couldn't win a re-election. if you look at the poll, it shows what matches the convention

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big lots.> it didn't pan out. consumers that are weak. big lots. not any time soon. >> yes, deutsche also downgrading. tyson foods. >> as long as he's demanding ethanol, corn is going to go up. i'm going to sell, sell, sell. >> it's worth the whole price of the company. i like this call. >> got some earnings out of etx? >> i am an organic growth guy and they had organic sales at 1%. >> finally, and take your time here, 3-m and we discussed some of the internals. >> h is a dividend stock. they pay a great dividend. this is a really major comeback. look at how well they're doing, despite weakness in other places. there, they're forecasting very big organic growth for the rest of the year. i think this company is well run. >> given the number of skus, you're talking a picture of the global economy. >> you know what, i'll take that dividend, sit on it until they come back. >> for more on those names, what's coming up tonight? >> ethan allen, this is a company that really doesn't have the pulse of w

obviously, big, big stores.ffer it to municipalities with book inventories for conversion to public libraries." very nice. and we have "low-income housing or a park. retail is moving online. just wait until the baby boomers start kicking the bucket." and chub writes "amazon should buy them all to be used as computer hubs for people to shop on their site." you can definitely tell where things are headed. rick santelli, you've got a takeaway on that? big shift in a big business model. >> yeah, i'll tell you what, i would answer the tweet of the day, they should take the exact opposite approach to the gsa and sell the property instead of sit on it. and as far as my final takeaway, carl, i guess what i'd say is we're 191 in r-10, 5.75 on a spanish 10. and with auctions coming out later in the week, those are the yields you want to watch. tale of two different fixed income markets, for sure. >> we had abby joseph cohen on earlier in the show and asked her about the generational call out of goldman, obviously saying g

the big u.s. exchanges have been competing for listings because they make big bucks by charging companies and information- seeking investors with fees. facebook's offering is expected to be worth as much as $100 billion when it goes public in may. making it the biggest ipo ever. so tom, you can imagine allots of disappointment here at the nyse about losing facebook. but big win for the nasdaq. >> tom: way, pitch battle. there is a lot of financial consequences, but also just bragging rights when it comes to new york and the financial market, no doubt about it, here, susie. we did see a business of a quiet end to a shortened trading week. the markets are closed tomorrow. the s&p 500 popped into positive territory late this morning before settling lower in afternoon trading. it was a tough week for u.s. shareholders with the major indices finishing with three straight sessions of losses. the dow industrials fell 1.5%, thanks in large part to the stiff selloff yesterday. the nasdaq fared the best, lo

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thursday is going to be a big day. >> yes, it's definitely going to be a big day.le host of earnings in technology as well as industrials, general electric, really good window into what is going on in the economy right now. >> you know, maria, every earnings season i've been saying, this is the most important earnings season so far. well, let me tell you this something. this one is going to be the most important earning season because we continue to look for some level of tone and what the forecasts are. we hear so many executives telling us things are getting better, things are getting better. the proof is in the pudding and it's served next week. >> okay. so where do you expect growth? s&p is saying that earnings are going to grow under 1% for the s&p 500. obviously not terrific numbers there and i'm wondering if in fact estimates have to come way down given this market performance year to date? >> well, i think a lot of people think exactly that. remember, we went through a period of a year or two of cost cutting and cost cutting and that's how they were keeping

big big >>> we're back on this wednesday morning. out with first quarter results this morning and we have more on those numbers. good news all around. what's the big takeaway for you? >> profitability is much franker than most people expected. top line was a little bit soft. mostly timing. but the number was quite strong for the quarter. and 2.37 beat everybody. >> how is that changing your forecast going forward? it's a line that mr. herndon hates. >> you know, they grow their guidance from 9.25 to 9.50. we're at 9.60. might raise it a little bit. the economy is a big factor. domestically the business is quite strong. you're seeing weakness in china and brazil and europe beginning to hit and we just went into a case, they dropped their global forecast because of international markets. you're seeing the effect of markets outside. secondly caterpillar is selling off the service business. they announced a billion dollars worth of deals. so you can't push the numbers too far but they are going to do 9.50. they will be fine this year. yo

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