we see them make comments about investing in, you know trying to be a part of big data the big data trend. cloud computing. but we don't see it reflected in their numbers so i would put those on the top two on the vulnerable list. on the good list you know, microsoft i think is really impressing in a lot of ways with the future not just in xbox but they're showing a new virtual reality headset called holo lens. it's forward thinking. they're looking ahead and in front of things. i would separate them like that. >> brian thank you very much with rosenblat security. >> you bet. >>> one dow component that wasn't up with the rest of the market was american express. in fact down quite a bit. shares lost more than 6%. the dow's worst performer today after costco said it would stop accepting american express credit cards at its u.s. stores. dominic chu is joining us now with how important the relationship is between costco and amax. >> it's huge and the reason why amax said you can expect to see earnings and sales way down by this relationship ending over the next couple of years because believe

it's big. some of the mcdermotts are up big. check this out here. year-to-date these three stocks have been the best performers in the s&p 500 energy sector through at least the end of yesterday. >> they're up 10% a piece. they're on a huge run over the past two weeks because of the price action in crude oil. if you take a look going back to mid-june, back when crude prices peaked for wti, college this out because valero you can see here, over the past year is still up about 10%, and then you go through and cycle through again with what's happening with tesoro and some of the other names here. they, you can see here as well tesoro, up about 38% over the course of at least since june 20th. you can see there a big move higher. then, of course newfield exploration, that lost a quarter of its value since that june 20th period. >> the energy stocks are getting a bid underneath them. would you be entering into them at this point? >> we've seen a significant bounce over crude prices in the last few days. the fears is it is predicated on news like recounts

that is a big story. those are two big economic things.the first one, warren buffett with liz and other people have said that the dollar is so strong right now, that it would be the worst time to raise rates because it would strengthen the dollar even more and hurt exporters. will we get a sense of their feelings about the dollar? >> that is the big thing. the market is starting to get the idea in its head, situation is changing, the fed will have to push things back. the fed has not intimated that. you want to know if they're talking about it even a little bit. you want them to say we're raising rates this year, timing is up in the air, keep this mind though, they will make small changes to interest rates. they will not go from zero to 3%. it will be very incremental, very slow, whatever the timing and pace is. david: paul screen yaw of the journal. thank you so much. >> he mentioned next week. we'll be here on monday. >> hi, everybody, i'm gerri willis and this is "the willis report, the show where consumers are our business. tax cuts fo

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another big move was apple.res hitting an all time high on the back of the stronger than expected earnings we got out last week. that seems to continue to fuel the rally in shares of apple. >> now a hand full of u.s. retailers reporting january same store sales numbers today. january is typically a post holiday clearance month while february is the lowest volume month of the year. the consensus forecast is for sales to drop 1.1% last month. >> this a day after underarmour posted a rise in 4th quarter profit beating estimates the company that surpassed addidas to become the sportswear brand expects sales to grow 22% this year. it hit a record in yesterday's session as you can see up about 3% in today's rate in frankfurt. ralph lauren with a stronger dollar and macro environment for weaker than expected third quarter results. it also trimmed it's 2015 revenue forecast but raised it's quarterly dividend to 50 cents a share. the stock falling to its lowest not seen since august of 2012. to discuss more we have stacy

energy a big part of the rally. technology another big part of the rally. it's been on a winning streak. that propelled the nasdaq higher. it's trading at 4,987. it's a bigger number to watch in terms of which stocks have been propelling the nasdaq higher think about apple up about 24%. amazon up about 22%. the best performing stock on the nasdaq 100 so far this year has been netflix up about 40%. >> let's talk about your ftse 100 touching new highs. >> it makes you a little bit nervous. on the earnings you'll have no shortage of people that come on the show to say where's ternings?the earnings? where's the earnings growth? we have to be concerned as of how much of the ftse is bought in place of bonds. gone with 1.5% and they chase that yield approaching 4%. that makes you a bit nervous. more than a bit nervous if you like to go elsewhere in order to substitute what they used to in the old asset class. >> oil and gas plays a big part of this. makes up a big part of the ftse 100. the fact that we have been seeing the big oil majors and gas majors they think

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the big decisions are going to come tomorrow. when he goes to see pack later -- cpak later in the week, he has to give a real political speech. >> i don't think the new jersey economy has failed to improve -- his big calling card was that he could be tough on unions but still make deals with them. having a deal is good. >> that things have gone past that now. people are looking at christie through a new lens in this economy thing is one of the untold stories. >> he's a springsteen guy and i'm a barry manilow guy. he's got to get that feeling again or he has no chance. scott walker is running, bashing unions, not working with democrats. christie, tough love work with democrats. if he can recapture that, he can get his mojo back. >> i am moving on to one of your favorite people, bill o'reilly who refers to his show as the "no spin zone." poppa bear has threatened a new york times reporter and might cancel the subscription. mark, my question to you is will the allegations against bill o'reilly stick? >> i don't think they will becau

it's a big business. back over to you guys. >> big advertisers, too.p thinking of those jingles growing up. dominic chu with big news for smuckers shares. they're responding positively. the u.s. government announcing nearly $1.4 billion settlement with standard and poor's over its ratings. what, if anything, has changed in the credit rating agency since then? we'll get you some answers. >>> and then -- >> the hope is that we will actually see that it is a net positive over five years and that we will renew it and hopefully this is a step towards making it permanent. >> that was senator rand paul telling me yesterday why he thinks an offshore corporate tax holiday this time will work so well even democrats will want to make it permanent. is he right on that? we'll talk about it coming up on "the closing bell." stay tuned. take a deeeeep breath in... and... exhale... aflac! and a gentle wavelike motion... ahhh-ahhhhhh. liberate your spine... ahhh-ahhhhhh...aflac! and reach, toes blossoming... not that great at yoga. yeah, but when i slipped a disk he pai

if that is a big part of it.the fact that mcdonald's is so far out of step with the direction of how they wanted to meet. >> the u.s. is a 4%. ok, whatever, it was flat. like you cannot get good food there. that is the point. he is by a huge multinational reiteration with the amount of supply they haven't country, and they cannot import their food. it was not so good. i speaking of ceo's is, we will discuss the challenges the new ceo has after taking science earlier this month. this company has is essentially thrown out of his time? we will be back. >> we continue our countdown to the opening bell. we are halfway through and it is time for the deep. number five is --'s new ceo who took the reins over the retail giant beginning this month, replacing glen murphy as a longtime executive he has been instrumental in key aspects of cap growth, including acquisitions, digital innovations, including wi-fi. many analysts cite that the brand is still in need of a russian perspective to reengage and numerous as it competes

more iphone sales, or will they need other, big rock's to drive growth -- big products to drive growthut both of those. the phone business and the conversation about china was interesting. he said that it took time, they spend a lot of time in china, going to china, understanding and respecting the chinese market. the iphone 6 and the larger screen size may have been tailor-made to china but so was the iphone 5 and how it worked on the emerging 4g standard that is growing in china. what he said is, we have not done the same thing in india. we do not understand that market and have not put any time there. in a matter of time he would not describe how long, one might expect just as big a market could be for apple. stephanie: what did you learn about the what did you learn about the iwatch? you know i don't want one. >> he divert -- he compared it to the tablet world before the ipad. we weren't first, we were very late. the way that they did it made it a lot better process and more useful. the use cases from people would be very different in the applications. i think elected as an open-en

looks like next year's oscars will be a big deal. >> she is talking about the big budget, big films that get nominated. don't see "ironman" nominated things like that. but maybe it could be different next year. would be great to see. >> i loved seeing lady gaga with julie andrews. like the old and new and seem to be big fans of each other. >> what a transformation of lady gaga, wearing meat dresses and bird nests on her head and now look at her. up on the oscar stage. do your thing, lady gaga. we'll be right back. oscar stage. we'll be right back. that's what i like to call, the meta effect. 4-in-1 multi-health metamucil is clinically proven to help you feel less hungry between meals. experience the meta effect with our multi-health wellness line. i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn. because it gives me... zero heartburn! prilosec otc. the number 1 doctor-recommended frequent heartburn medicine for 9 straight years. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. does your carpet ever feel rough and dirty? don't avoid it. resolve it. our new formula with a special

>> caller: yes boo-yah, big fan, jim. thanks for having me on. >> excellent. >> caller: calling about c.r. barnes, i want to know if it's a buy, sell or hold or if you see anything with a better valuation. >> got to go to bard. it's a terrific stock. the only thing i like more than that is everett life sciences. mike mike mike in new jersey. mike. >> caller: hi, how are you. i'm mike from new jersey. big boo-yah to ya. long time listener first time caller. love your show and hope you provide to the average investor. i purchased a lot out of micron technology in 2014 at the $32 level. >> yeah. you know i think micron's part of a whole cohort of tech stocks nobody wants right now. i think the stock can work its way back to 30 31 but i think you've got to cut your losses. i don't see a big upside coming from that stock anymore. if you want a tech stock, i prefer facebook or google. let's go to mark in new jersey. mark? >> caller: mr. cramer, thank you for taking my call and all your support staff that help you run the show,

big tax troubles for msnbc host al sharpton. than $3 million in federal taxes and liz macdonald tells us other people from chuck berry to leona hemsley have gone to jail for owing less to uncle sam. what's this -- leona hemsley chuck berry -- >> right. let's set up the story. so, you know, according to news reports -- and i've looked at al sharpton's, you know profit filings as well -- he personally owes reportedly $3 million in federal back taxes, another $778,000 in the state taxes. you know, his two for-profit businesses tom, owe roughly $800,000. so -- and his nonprofit national action network also has owed money, a lot of money, hundreds of thousands of dollars in his operation. some of this involves fail to even file tax returns. but we know now and i've dug into tax records i've talked to awe to haves, chuck berry went to prison for $200,000 pete rose went for owing $300,000. less amounts be i they ended up in -- but they ended up in prison. even leona hemsley for owing $1.7 million in back taxes. tom: right. so the big q

on the next big thing.ne company that is really focused on this is intel. intel is from new york. chris joins me right now. why should we care at the mobile congress the syriac oh >> this is really the main event where people will launch their products for the next year. >> what is going to be exciting? >> intel is known as the pc company. they are going to be announcing a up of computing and communications chip that makes consumer devices. a much higher performance and longer battery life. and we are launching a new set of user experiences. move the whole world in a new gesture of user interface. >> no passwords? i love that. >> we interview hundreds of thousands of people per year. what is frustrating people are those passwords, the ones you try to get into your 401(k) account in the weekend. our job is to make your face your password. five years from now we were -- we will be wondering what the heck those things even work. >> we are talking about the dual identification to biometric identification. what

bigs. -- big spike in cable stocks.s on the phone to explain what is going on. cory johnson is back with us as well. peter cook in bc -- in washington d.c. i would have thought this was just another revenue stream that is shut down. >> i think you are right. this has been telegraphed for such a long time that investors knew it was coming. one theory is people are buying the bad news now that it is in the open, or, the more plausible argument is people are responding to the portion of the message where the chairman says they will encourage investment in broadband networks and preserve incentives by ensuring they can earn acceptable returns. that means no rate regulation. no last mile on bundling. i do not think that should be a surprise. my bigger take is the spike in cable stock is a reminder that the investment community does not understand this issue very well. >> i wonder how forward-looking the fcc is when they mention wireless as an important part of that. the same rules will apply to the emerging world of video co

however, it's the law of big numbers. 2015, we're laughing very big numbers. on the call, management essentially was talking about same store sales flattening later this year. well, you know, let me tell you, those are words that typically -- you know, especially for investors who look at a name at the valuation that chipotle trades, you know, makes people a little bit squishy and skittish. >> all right, bob. we're going to leave it there. thank you. >> thank you. >> what do you do with it? >> you can't have a 36 times multiple and grow the way they're growing. it's nice to feel right about this one. i think this is down to 600 the operating margins are going to be very good. they're going to be 28% to 30%. people want to see the top line growth. i'd rather own mcdonald's. if you remember 2012, the stock went down 46%. i'm not saying it's going to do that here, but it got way ahead of igttself. >> not only do they have pricing power. crucified the 6%. i think there's room to add to that. expansion possibilities in '15 and '16. i think there's strength there. s

we saw a big deal being announced.edia buying about $1.4 billion. >> it would be speculative from my point of view. but still conjecture there's something to do with merger and aqua sises there. a lot of funds are quite large. and i think they'll probably be looking at that particularly. and in terms of, you know, the mergers. i think that's gone back to the health care. that's happening there is that, you know it's the top sale of $1 billion, you know, the hedge funds are moving out of that hedge funds moved out of that completely and activist as well. and i think they're pulling out of these stocks. which is interesting, as you said, last time they. >> thank you very much for joining us. it's all we have time for today. director of credit market development at sp capital iq. >> the world waits on greece as at thens scrambles to deliver the reform proposals today. we'll speak to the goldman sachs chief european economist. that's coming up after the break. opportunities aren't always obvious. sometimes they just drop i

this one's up big, too.l it settles in. >> karen, i have a couple. >> intimidating. >> intimidating. that just cracks me up. should we be mortified of that clip or amused? >> i don't know, hybrid. >> steve spacey. >> amused. >> not the kind with the c, the s kind. if you want to have a little dip your toe into the energy space, here's one that has been absolutely annihilated. i think you can buy it right here. we have some common, some call. so you know exactly what your down side is. and we see oil flatten out or go up, i think you're going to make decent money here. the other one is sort of a roundabout way of playing. it's oak tree capital. they are masters of distress debt and we are seeing a massive amount of distress debt in the energy space. they are so good at capitalizing on situations just like this and it's sort of an easier way to play it if you can't do it yourself. they'll have great returns in an environment like this. oak is the ticker. >> guys. >> what do you have in your hand? >> a horse ri

that's pretty big. profits have risen by 47% per year com pounded annually for the last five years and the asset size, what they have on their balance sheet that's up 34 percent per year. so guys, when it comes to apple and its market value it's perhaps no surprise to some of the people out there who have been disciples of apple because every time they put out a new product it drives sale big, profits big and assets grow in size and why people still think apple maybe has room to grow, guys. >> yeah. dom, thanks. pete, you x out the cash. >> yep. >> you have a cheap valuation. >> sure. >> that's what the icahns point to, the apple bulls point to. about iphones, as josh said, ability payments. since about giving cash back to shareholders or buying back stock which tim cook says they're going to revisit again in april, two months from now. they're likely to keep doing it. >> right. i don't know why they wouldn't keep doing it. >> they will. they will. >> they will keep doing it. >> it's going to be some ma

we'll soon see how big it is. how big a threat do you anticipate it to be?i don't think amazon, alibaba, ebay are threats to us. these are services which are everybody is using them, i'm using them, and they do a part of the business, but they don't run companies. so we use these services in combination of -- with the software we run inside companies. we have class services, concord services, services of that type. these are network so we call them business network services and we combine them with the enterprise applications and enterprise services. >> what do you tell investors who are excited about the cloud, but they don't understand the accounting, they think the guidance on margins is still opaque, things like that? >> yeah. this is -- it is a change, but look, we had in the '80s, we had rental business, that was the best business we ever had. because the renewal rate, you just have to check the renewal rate. without any sales effort, you renew the contracts on a high percentage base. >> like an annuity. >> that is where the positive impact comes from.

problem and it needs a big solution and there are not any people looking for big solutions. >> there's anonymity that appears between communities and civic leaders and business community that there needs to be more money. there's not agreement where the money needs to come from. you cannot have a world-class education system in philadelphia without putting more funds. we have tough decision where do we spend the money and how the system works for everybody but there needs to be more money. >> there needs to be a new approach. it can't always be more money and there are folks in harrisburg on both sides of the aisle, i spoke to the speaker a half-hour ago, we have to get children out of schools that are not performing well, whether they are traditional public schools or charter schools that are not performing well and put them into a better classroom. the philadelphia school partnership ponied up $35 million to help with transition costs to move kids to charter schools where it's warranted. 39 of a -- applicants, exists schools want to expand into different grades and more grades and ta

the big question is on slower earnings growth next year. three things will will watch a this monday morning. future markets higher. i am looking at my else. the ftse 100 and the dax. we may get a higher opening. straight to manus cranny. >> only so much of the viewer can take. equity markets, the best since 18 that in 1989. european equities arose by over 70%. first-place germany. the germans win. -- european equities rose by over 17%. if the euro stays together, germany wins. the omx that was up 7.8%. i have omitted the fsi. we are waiting for that to open. china the market has shaken up the contraction, the worst in two years. a wave of european manufacturing. greek remarks trying to women them elves off a drug addiction in terms of -- trying to wean themselves all of a drug addiction in terms of cash. individual names who would've thought that tarmac and cemented would be so interesting. paying 6.5 billion euros for lafage. issuing share capital they are introducing some new debt a use a little bit of cash. the market the likes it. they

gerri: big, big day in the markets. stocks surging. more on that in just a moment. but tonight we begin with the legal battle brewing in the robin williams saga. it has been only six months since the academy award-winning actor and comedian passed away. now his widow and three children are in a family feud over his estate and property. each say belongs to them. with more on this "tmz" executive producer harvey levin. thanks for coming on the show. >> sure, gerri. gerri: this is story everybody in america can frankly relate to. tell us what are your sources telling you about the situation of trouble brewing there. >> the trouble was brewing literally days after robin's death. susan snyder is his wife, was his wife of three years. robin has three kids, none from her. zack zelda and cody. and they say, we've got, our sources on their site, she refuses, susan refused to let them in the house. and they wanted to be around his stuff, his memories. she would not let them in the house according to them. and one of the things they wanted and still want is that robin made it

and they didn't play those big singles and they didn't turn into the big hits that sometimes graph grammyof the year. who should win, who will? >> i think beyonce should win and i think she will win album of the year. this is such a strong album, both artistic and commercially. that's what grammys love. i talked to sam smith a few weeks ago and asked him who was going to win album of the year. he's up in this category. he said well beyonce, of course and if anybody else wins they should give it to her immediately. if we have to hold him to that we will. >> talk about best artist. who should who will? >> best new artist. well again, i think sam smith should will and will win. i think he is a lock in this category. but these are strong nominations all the way across the board. brandi clark, who's written big hits for miranda lambert and others. she's nom naturedinated and it is great to see her get this attention. >> i'm going to go out on a limb here and say, joe levy maybe you think sam smith should win this one? >> i think maybe you might be right. it goes to the song that feels like it

it cleared a big opening in the understory, killed small trees and left a big opening in the canopy. and in that ening, a rush of trees germinates and establishes. and we call those trees -- they're very fast-growing -- we call them pioneers. they pioneer the new gap. and they're specialists. they don't occur inheerstor theynly occur these gaps. so this promotes diversity because you have species specialized to these gaps. you have species specialized to the dark understory of the forest. and if we look at a big landscape scale the forest is a mosaic of trees and gaps. or: somerees are specialized by the nutrients in the soil. dr. hubbell: this species is rare. this is casearia and itnly occurs in this local little area that we're in of about 100 feet by 100 feet. and there are a couple hundred individuals here t nowhere else in the pl or very rare in t rest of the plot. and so we're trying to understand why this species likes this particular place in the forest. and one idea is that this particular species kehigh-calcium soils and poor-phosphorus soils. and so thiis one area that ha

-- because you've got all these big companies going after the big dollars?ink we are seeing that innovation. we have parallel paths. if boeing or spacex has a problem, we have parallel paths to get humans do the space station. any time you bring in competition you are to get innovation. cory: i'm glad we were the matching blues stop welcome to -- we went with the matching blues. thank you for coming to "bloomberg west." now for a check of world news headlines -- big innovation the packaging business. colorado-based ball will buy london-based rexam four $6 billion in cash and stock. it's a large -- largest maker of beverage cans. ball says it will keep its headquarters in the u.s. the european central bank released transcripts of its monetary policy meeting for the first time and documents show most ecb policymakers see buying government that as the only -- government debt as the only option large enough to fight against inflation. the ecb will launch a 1.3 trillion dollar asset buying plan next month. lenovo has disabled software known as super fish. it's pr

we have big names in the spotlight.tter, gopro, and linkedin, each tech titan is fighting their own battle. here is tech crunch reporter colleen taylor. let's start with twitter. because it's all about the user growth. if they don't show user growth, many analysts say that will be a very negative sign for the company. what do you expect to see for user growth after the bell? >> you're absolutely right. i think that the signs here are showing that user growth might be lackluster. i think all of the analyst expectations here are looking at 2.8% user growth this quarter, which is the lowest growth this company has ever seen. the concern is that all the people who are going to use twitter in the future are already on twitter. they're not attracting new people quite enough. and i think this is interesting that wall street is so interested in user growth, when the revenue has been strong and is expected to be strong again up more than 40% this quarter is what's projected. this shows that wall street is not only about the mone

he wants to be a big help to whoever the nominee is. he's going to do what he should have done before. >> john, this is somebody who was so haunted by what went wrong in his campaigns. i was with him last week in mississippi when he gave a speech at mississippi state university. in his comments in that address, and also in a more extemporaneous comments he made at a barbecue where he was with the coach of mississippi state, it was increasingly clear that he had spent the last couple of years consumed with what had gone wrong, complaining of the political process, focus on what you say instead of what you did and your record, talking about the fact that the parties, the party was too focused on the primary voters instead of -- >> welcome to the nfl, right? like that's proof that he shouldn't be -- >> but i think that was what was driving his desire for one last go. i figured it out now. i know what i did wrong. i figured out -- >> i was right. >> i figured out the process. i was right. now i'm going to do it and i'm going to get it right

is both now a big, big producer, of shale but still a huge consuming country so a macro effect where consumers benefit like a tax cut for consumers yet the shale i have and shale industry .. have been hit hard and the interesting dynamic this happened because of supply and the supply has been in large part shale so one question is, can these prices last? because the investment horizon in shale -- they, a lot of u.s. shale is not profitable at this prices but once you build the rig which you can do quickly you then pump what shale you can get, so now production is still very high but if prices are low we are already seeing a lot of v plans not going forward. >> rose: yes. >> so how quickly will supply be hit? how, will affect how high the price goes up g en. >> rose: is that what the saudis intended to do? >> it is an interesting question. who knows. there are a whole lot of conspiracy theories of what they intended to do but there are parallels with the previous time they let oil prices go down and stay down, but the difference this time is the shale investment cycle is much shorter

emily: you spend a lot of time thinking about big problems, big problems that you can solve. you have been pretty outspoken about the lack of big innovation in silicon valley. why aren't you working on flying cars and rocket ships? max: i try to find places where i can add value the most. i don't know much about jet propulsion engines. i am not sure rocket ships are my forte either. i really like math. my idea of a good time, until very recently when i had kids, was still curling up with a book on probability theory and solving the problem. so applying that passion and that love for numbers to places where numbers can really make a huge difference, such as consumer finance, health care, quantified self. emily: you mentioned your kids. you are very passionate about your work. you're passionate about cycling, which is your hobby. what kind of parent are you? max: i hope i am a good parent. my number one worry these days is am i as good a father as i can be. i think i'm pretty fun. although my wife has now determined that not only am i a nerd, my son is a nerd, too. i am very ha

[ buzzer ] you want to do it up big, so big that all the world will say, wow!yahoo! and tell us your love story. and you just might be hearing from us. >>> okay did we get over the hump? >> yes. >> i think we're good. >> thursday eve. tomorrow on "gma," "deals & steals." also portia de rossi from zap scandal will be live here as well. >> gladiators unite. have a good day, everybody. >> ♪♪ >> this is just into "action news." little league baseball has determined the team that ousted philadelphia's taney dragons out of last summer's world series did in fact cheat n a statement just released the international organization says it has determined jackie robinson west of chicago used players that lived outside that league's boundaries. west has been stripped of its u.s. championship. that goes to former runner up las vegas. >>> more info on 6abc.com. karen rogers is here with traffic. karen. >> matt, we're looking live at the schuylkill expressway and you see this westbound jam up here as you exit off for lincoln drive from the vine to the blue route it's a 30 minute

big shawn, who else, who else?ay-z, tiger, you don't know who he is. >> i have it on my ipod i got him. >> i know you have it on your ipod the big parties going on today king of all parties puff daddy shawn combs having big brunch today i think that will turn to a big thing and everybody goes to grammys i'm going there. rock nation jay-z sporting label and company ha a brunch big thing brunches out here. do you a brunch. what happens in los angeles you have too many people at a party the fire marshall shuts it down. that's the issue. >> quincy you mentioned a whole bunch of men it's a dude fest out there do we have ladies any lady fashion out there any of the big women. >> i saw kim kardsahian yesterday i don't know if you saw on instagram this red piece. she's pretty you know she's hot karen. but i went to grammy special merit awards honored bee gees and buddy and jane fond alooking good at age insert the age, but she looked amazing. but everyone is really excited for the grammys and philly's own meek mill threw a

the big key big vince, you will watch him warming up, the guy with probably the biggest belly in the field, he will see a cog in the middle of the defense. so collins, it will be important they can take down the first running game of lynch because if they can run the football, that being seattle, it opens up all the other elements. the defense of the new england patriots and the offense of the seahawks could be the side bar to this game. >> charlie: i can't imagine what it would be like to be a coach or a team heading into the super bowl but i would assume everybody that's part of the game is saying let the games begin. >> yeah they're enjoying it. if you get closer you feel the magnitude. the longest day and i have been there twice as the super bowl head coach is the game day. you don't kick off till 6:00 you're sitting in the hotels and everyone is starting the pre-game shows and you can't escape it. best thing is to find a movie watch it for the morning clear your head and then when you get in the stadium, you can feel the buzz and the excitement. there will be a lot of nervousnes

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i mean how big is this market? >> well that would be an example of some nonlicensed prdz merchandise. a company trying to cash in on the craze without sort of going through the formal license process. i think it's too soon to say just how big this could be. when you hear of companies doing the likes of that it should be massive. mandy, the bigger the demand for the products and all these different types of merchandise, the bigger the box office is going to be, ask vice versa. >> it all happens on valentine's day. how fitting. although it's not really about love is it? it's more about something else. thank you very much. julia. tirl, over to you. are we making you blush? >> gold prices. gold prices mandy, they're closing right now down .7% at $1,233. let's look at copper, paladium and platinum. silver, copper paladium platinum. they're all down today. down more than a percent. let's go to dominik for a quick market flash. >> so tyler, you're telling me my valentine's day gifts that i'm giving are going to be cheaper

for the big show.kristen wiig and sia's dancing sidekick maddie ziegler. take a look at their dancing showdown. ♪ >> kind of like a scene out of "dance moms," right? from maddie's hit show. and then in the corner, you can see her right there, that is the elusive sia who never shows her face in her videos and apparently even on the red carpet because take a look at her photo-op with maddie before the show with that now-famous wig just showing her lips right there. what do you guys think? a little cousin it right there? >> it's got to be heavy. >> she never shows her face? >> no. no. >> i read that it's a statement against the celebrity culture we all live in and she wants people to hear her voice and not focus on how she looks but we're all focusing on how she looks just can't see her face. >> no. >> it's totally working. >> did you see some of the memes, though, amy? >> yes. iggy azalea's hair was apparently a favorite. this is an easter egg basket. and then, take a look at rihanna's dress. yes, we lov

big mover. trip advisor. priceline moved on the big deal. expedia and orbitz. $1.2 million deal.he whole thing jumped. they expect more consolidation in the industry. last, but not alast, but not le, american express comes under pressure as it terminates its deal with costco. great day overall. charles: golly, so confident. here to help the investment pros. paul diedrich. ceo chief investment officer. ceo and chief investment officer came back on a good day, paul. we have a new guy who we've been trying to get for a long time. matt vetto. hilary kramer. of a&g capital. hitha herzog is with us. retail sales are out. we'll need help to go through those. and matt mccaul founder and president of penn financials group. huge, huge day. got me tongue-tied. let's dig into the first real, real deal. the market got a lift from geopolitical news. it wasn't the greece news we were looking for. it wasn't greece who came to the consensus. maybe vladimir putin now, whether you believe this whole orchestrated cease-fire will hold or not, i think it was a pleasant valentine's day gift to humanity

it isn't too big to fail. it's too big to succeed. it's too big to succeed so we can afford no retreads or nothing will change with the same people, same politics that got us into this status quo. another of that word status quo. and it stands for, man, the middle class, he have day americans are really getting taken for a ride. >> this isn't about one bad speech. this is places like national review that cheered on sarah palin in 2008 when she was the vp nominee now kind of cutting her loose. >> it's taken the conservative media a bit too long to realize the sarah palin problem quite frankly. she's been giving the same type of speeches for the last eight years which is go after the left media, go after obama, little on substance, little on solutions. and so i think that at that point when there was a time beforehand after the convention where she gave this wonderful speech and then youed had the libya media attacking her and her family, that they came out and defended her. but then when shalle comes out in iowa where she said i'm seri

big up trend. big consolidation. just now starting to break out here at the 37 level. we like blackstone a lot. we think it goes to 42. it's the exact same setup for ingersoll. a strong asset, but consolidates and rests, ie gets cheaper. the value is outed, we think this is going to go to 75. >> so blackstone and ingersoll. carter, you know we love you, but on january 5th, you said there was one stock that was definitely going to break out this year. take a listen. >> home builders. >> here's the thing. down today half as much of the market, over the past month, the market down 3%. home builders up 3%. relative strength matters. and then the pattern. a well-defined double bottom. you also can draw it this way. but either way, we think this is a big outperformer. absolute and relative in 2015. >> it's down 2% since it started the year. >> in line with the market. what we do like about it is how certain component parts -- for instance, you've got things like lenar unchanged. things like toll up on the year. dr horton. basically the marquee names are acting quite a bit be

a big loan of about 10 million euros. policymakers see extra stimulus is counterproductive for now according to people familiar with the toss. concern more stimulus a decline in the end. it is already dropped 21% from the bank of japan monetary easing almost two years ago. shares of credit suisse rose the most two years today. a new step to boost capital. >> we did feel it was right to knowledge the impact on the earnings of that settlement. as a result, the executive board voluntarily took these reductions as compensation as acknowledgment of the impact the government had. click for central-bank buses decision to examine capital bank said profits by about 3%. a rocket would elon musk's spacex finally took off. a technical glitch had costs to attempts. abandon its plan to recover the rocket booster aboard a ship. that's the ukraine cease-fire it took all night the leader of germany and france a deal to stem the conflict in eastern ukraine. even vladimir putin seems to be relieved after more than 18 hours of nonstop talks.

i don't see the big rig.hp and flares blocking off two of the four lanes heading south 880 past tennison. there's the traffic flow narrowing down to one lane at the off-ramp, a significant change from the southbound direction which typically has four lanes extreming into the area. traveling south from hayward past "a" street things bog down to tennison. improvement, instead of three lanes blocked only two. they need a couple more tow truck there. that is the big issue pretty much for the east bay and bay area. traveling between the san mateo and dumbarton bridges, traffic smoothes out south of industrial and my drive including the bay bridge toll plaza. >> it's 5:27. >>> google not the only company talking about expansion in mountain view. the other major tech company that says it needs room to grow. >>> plus a possible major announcement from the british palace. what we're hearing about the future of prince harry, coming up. is there an elk in your bed? with sleep number, now there's an adjustment for that.

he liked big navy and big forest. and he stuck by that principle. and then the panama canal situation, which we don't have time to get into all. but basically it's created in new york, the country of panama. waldorf astoria, let's get a flag to build this canal in what is today panama. people said to theodore roosevelt, you stole panama. from colombia. and he said i never stole it i built it. i built the panama canal. and it was an engineering marvel. the great historian david mccullough and many others have written about it. combating malaria and how much machinery was needed to accomplish that. all in the name of america and monroe doctrine, supremacy in the hemisphere, and our big navy, and be able to protect our borders. theodore roosevelt was a great leader as president because he knew how to manipulate the press. and he would tell every reporter he saw, your article was the best thing i've ever read! because he knew how the egos of writers and all they wanted to do -- you can't hate a president, just write your stuff and lined it. and also he

give our mayor another big hand please. so i know you noticed these three guys out here and i know you know what they represent. does everybody know what they represent? who is the green? >> [inaudible] >> comp post. who is the black? >> [inaudible] >> all right. who is the blue? >> [inaudible] >> recycle. okay. so i want to thank our partner for the clean team, but also leading the nation in this rheology and has been instrumental in making sure that all the stuff that we try to get rid of it goes to the right place and reused and by their leadership san francisco has been able to increase its rate almost up to 80% now. 80%, so we have to go that 20% and that 20% is the hardest to get to, and so you see these guys out here and they're here to remind you to recycle and put it in the right place. all right. give them a hand please. [applause] as we go from district to district it's always our honor for us to ask the supervisor of the district to come up and say a few words and i know julie has been involved in many, many com

[ buzzer ] you want to do it up big, so big that all the world will say, wow!odmorningamerica.com on yahoo! and tell us your love story. and you just might be hearing from us. >>> okay did we get over the hump? >> yes. >> i think we're good. >> thursday eve. tomorrow on "gma," "deals & steals." also portia de rossi from zap scandal will be live here as well. >> gladiators unite. have a good day, everybody. >> good morning. it is 8:56 a.m.. i am jummy olabanji. jack taylor has his eyes on the roadways for you. >> it has been one of those mornings. if you have been trying to get out the dulles, there was a vehicle fire before the parkway that at one point blocked the access road but fire and rescue pulled up to assist, maine lanes eastbound open but it is a gigantic delay on the greenway. northbound on 295 we had a crash that got moved to the left shoulder on the beltway. 270 northbound, just before 109 unfortunately not a lot of traffic moving on 270 north. you will find it at this point that the left shoulder only gets by with a serious crash into the woods. al

i say go big or go home.>> it's keeping up with the -- that's crazy. >> i will say this. i drive a jacked up jeep. it's pretty high up in the air. i can confirm this. i look down driving now. 100% of people are texting and driving. literally 100% of everybody is technicaling while driving. >> i hope every single one of them gets a ticket. >> stock two. you know how i know that because i was text and i saw them. microsoft search engine binge correctly predict, get this 84% of the oscar winners last night using a model based off its search engine research. they also did some world cup stats. is microsoft now, melissa, perhaps the king of predictions? they seem to be. >> somehow they can get people to pay for this or advertise this as a feature of bing maybe they can get more people to use bing, and that would be good for their search business. >> we gave them free publicity right there. >> that's true. >>> our last point-kousht point, does bank of america knowates negative note on tesla, and cut the price targe