you sat down with disney head bob iger yesterday.d tour, talking sney. -- shanghai di i don't think i'm headed to shanghai soon. >> there's always a lot you can discuss with a company like disney. on top of the fact that bob iger is a clippers fan and everybody is talking about that. it is not everyday they introduce a new park and resort. billions of dollars already invested. they will invest even more. this one plays into the potential ceo changes. tom may be a frontrunner. he is running the parks division. and for iger's legacy. we talked about what this park means for him and the future of disney. i am very interested in not just disney today but disney long-term, well beyond my tenure as ceo. and one of the things i think any ceo needs to do is not just manage a business successfully in the moment or for the quarter or the year or the tenure, but to manage the business for success long-term. decisions that we've made collectively as a management team was to invest in china and to not just plant seeds, but to plant a big trees th

the battle for content and media is told by media these -- disney ceo bob iger. we are going to kick it off -- the owner of the l.a. clippers allegedly said something that was downright ugly. >> that was audio released over the weekend by tmz. the man's voice was attributed to donald sterling and he was having an argument with his girlfriend at the time. he has neither admitted nor denied it is his voice but the clippers say those are not his views. many people have spoken otherwise. >> there is absolutely no place in the nba family for ignorance, intolerance, reprehensible comments that are unacceptable and not fitting for what this league is all about. >> he's got to come down hard. he should not own the team anymore. >> there's no room in this game for a owner like that. >> he cannot -- he must pay a social price for his attempt to turn back the clock on race relations. >> donald sterling should be dealt with severely if the allegations are true. >> when ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, and you don't have to do anything, just let them talk and

we caught up with bob iger and talked to him about that.is what he had to say. >> i am very invested not just in disney today but disney long-term, and one of the things that i think any ceo needs to do is not just manage a business successfully in the moment, but you manage it for success long-term, and among the decisions that we have made, collectively as a management team, was to invest in china and not just to plant seeds but to plant trees, which will hopefully fuel enormous growth for the company long-term, well beyond my tenure. so it means a lot to me, because when i think about my responsibilities, my legacy, shanghai disneyland looms large. china looms large. >> talking about things and that theme resort that are unique to china. what are some examples of that? >> there is the team of great imagineers, and we are bringing a disneyland park to china, and our strong instinct and the research that we have done supports this, that people want a disney experience. but we also know like any other place in the world, there are cultural

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first -- can watch our full interview with bob iger today on "market makers."hares of linkedin almost doubled last year. huge payday for the ceo. we will talk about it coming up next. ♪ >> first. bloomberg. >> you are watching "in the loop , live on bloomberg television and streaming on your phone, tablet, and on bloomberg.com. steel, in for betty liu. it is time for today's bloomberg million, how $49 much linkedin ceo jeff wiener was compensated last year, a 40-folder increase over the previous year. it comes at the company gave out sincerst stock awards 2011. shares of linkedin gained 89% in the last year versus a 30% increase with the snp. they are expected to report first-quarter earnings on thursday. it is 26 minutes past the hour. bloomberg tv is on the markets. equity futures are grinding their way higher, capping off two days of gains. positive earnings are spurring momentum in future stocks. earnings from mark hoping to risk-off mindset coming out of the russia and ukraine conflict. the job number on friday. traders are not taking on a lot of positions

bob iger said he will still go to the games and support the players. the responsibility of fans? >> fans are to speak out. this is such a damaging blow to the players. sterling pulled the plug on a hand grenade and now it has exploded. what do you do? even doc rivers said i do not know how to handle this. do the players have out? are there clauses where they say i will not play for this guy anymore and get out. there guys can believe, is a lot of conversation behind closed doors and law offices all across the country for players, owners, league officials, broadcast organizations and sponsors to answer the questions. this is unchartered territory. this is raised. it is basketball, but this is race in a heavily black sport. firestorm of debate. hopefully it will move in a right direction. >> the sba -- nba will go on, but in terms of the clippers, how likely is it they will i do not work>> for them, and i'm speculating. they ultimately will be fine. a leak is a combination of all the franchises. small and big. ultimately fans come to see the greatest ath

the major used to come. >> you heard, some the disney ceo bob iger. full interview " at him on "market makers 11:00 a.m. this morning. as tom mentioned, the case-shil ler home price index and before that, futures are moving. >> good morning. onoomberg surveillance" bloomberg television, radio, worldwide. we welcome you to digital media as well. bloomberg radio plus and bloomberg tv plus and many of our interviews out at bloomberg.com podcast and the video images as well. i'm tom keene. with these, -- with me, colorful and adam johnson. barely describes the public service of richard ravitch, a new book "so much to do." pages of needed perspective of being the adult in the room. richard ravitch joining us this morning. >> location, location, location, the rallying cry of real estate. a movie and tv production business, tax incentives linked to location a specific drive. california trying to keep its moviemaking magic and space studiosorgia attempting with text credits. our next guest says the business of trading the tax credits turn him to an accidental

bob iger showing his face again, disney, 34.3 million dollars. it's worth mentioning that less questioning are not that. they make most of their money from advertising and also subscriber fees for their cable, as well as for satellite. his pay rose 7.7% last year. among the companies on the s&p a look at howtake cbs's stock is doing compared to the overall s&p 500 benchmark. it's pretty impressive. this is a white line, up some 30%. this is a one-year chart. all of last year, 2013, this white line showed you it was close to 70%. we know the s&p 500 rose about 30%. still holding steady onto those games. it has almost double the performance of the s&p 500. >> coming up next, growing pains. we will be discussing what in store for china ahead of the release of gdp figures this week. stay with "first up." ♪ >> welcome back. you are watching "first up."we headlines are coming from a bank and tech as yang yang reports from washington. >> or needs season is in full swing with big banks and financial services companies at the center of it all. we already

when disney bought marvel for $4 billion, before the deal had ofsed, bob iger. interns to start reading through the comments -- through the comics to add up the characters. they have come up with all these characters. >> that is the best interns job ever. maybe it wasn't an internship. read probably almost everyone of those. >> it highlights the skepticism that some had initially with some of the big characters tied up with other studios. looks like this deal has worked out pretty well. >> thank you. you can get the latest headlines at the top of the hour on bloomberg.com/technology. see you monday. ♪ >> from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i'm mark crumpton, this is bottom line. the intersection of this and economics with a mainstream perspective very we begin with the bloomberg exclusive rate secretary chuck hagel's making his fourth trip in asia since taking over the pentagon last year. the ministrations commitment to focus on the pacific rim. secretary hagel has more than just asia on his radar. peter cook sat down with secretary hagel for an elusi

when disney bought marvel, bob iger got a bunch of interns to start reading through the comics and addof the characters to see how much of value. they kept counting and came up with these characters. >> that is the best intern job ever. i read almost every one of them. >> jon erlichman. a great interview with stan lee. you can get the headlines at bloomberg.com. we will see you on monday. ♪ >> in this week on "political capital," paul ryan breaks down his 2015 plan. mike rogers talks about his plan. and billy packer on the final four. we begin the program with house committee chairman paul ryan. thank you for being here. you put out your budget this week with a divided congress and the president is a democrat. we know it will not be enacted. is it a blueprint for republicans?

when a disney bought marvel, bob iger got a bunch of interns to start reading through the comics andl of the characters as you much of value. they kept counting and came up with these characters. >> that is the best interna job ever. job ever. every one of them. >> it highlighted the skepticism that some of the bigger characters. it looks like the deal has worked out pretty well for down. >> jon erlichman. a great interview with stanley. you can get the headlines at bloomberg.com. we will see you on monday. ♪ >> welcome to "lunch money." i'm adam johnson. exclusive interview with the secretary. bank of america's brian monahan gets a title not usually associated with the thinking that -- a banking head. finally, the final four. forget the "we're going to show the love the engineering that makes it all possible.

sitting downso be with bob iger. we will share that interview with you tomorrow. >>rk's is the third hour -- it is the third hour. the future of the automobile. it is one of the reasons why we are here at milken. we will be back in a few four minutes -- few short minutes. ♪ >> market makers is live from los angeles. i'm erik schatzker. >> i am stephanie ruhle. >> with us as russian air, the global head of development at is rajd motor company -- nair, the global head of development at the ford motor company. >> increasing percentage under automated conditions, also about connectivity in the vehicle, more propulsion technologies are going to cold. -- going to go. >> what kind of car is ford going to be making five years from now? will it be different from the fusion or focus? >> i think you will see a lot of the technology you see in the car already. we already have cars with adaptive cruise controls, ultrasound sensors, cameras. an increasing use of those sensors will allow adaptive cruise to go all the way to a. and automatically parking your -- to a full stop and

second, bob iger of disney, abc7's parent company. news corps founder rupert murdock was third, honeywell's ceo and emmer son electric ceo round out the top five. >> well, i hope you know, tomorrow is tax day. it could be a very good day for some of us because americans have left a total of $760 million in unclaimed tax refunds going back to 2011. they do expire tomorrow f you think you're one of the lucky people who did not collect your full refund you have until tomorrow to do so. we have posted a link to check on our web site, abc7 news.com. >> a tech company come up with a way you can pay. the claim is that it will help eliminate fraud take a look. it's different. a start up in sweden kwauled quickster just let's you pay by placing your palm on a scanner the pulse wallet uses pattern of blood vessels in your hands to identify you. you type the in last four dick yits then post your hand on the scanner. it's only available in sweden. they're assuming i have money. i'll put my hand out. >> no matter how you pay, the cost of beef is s

i would like to see michael bloomberg, bob iger, eric bezos, all these geniuses, who are great americanswe ring them into the cabinet like the business cabinet and allow these great americans to clear out some of the terrible mismanagement and dysfunction because it is broken. >> indeed. thank you very much. the new york rangers playing in the playoffs will stop next, we will talk about the business of hockey. >> later, stephen marley, son of music legend bob marley speaks about his new album and the business of reggae. ♪ >> this is "taking stock." i'm cory johnson, in for pimm fox today. the stanley cup playoffs are underway. the rangers are playing the philadelphia flyers. we are here with a rangers legend. great to see you. my playoff beard has more going on than yours. >> i only started thursday. we played really well that game and one. >> i guess the sharks clinched earlier, slight a head start on my ear. it sounds like things are going well in the league. >> absolutely. because of the salary cap, they reinstated the fact that most things are equal and there is a lot of parodies and

and then you have bob. >> iger did he start out at one point on television? >> moon vves did.. >> and then mark fields. >> talk to jim and i'll look this up. >> to the new york stock exchange. i don't have to do anything. let me get to jim cramer who joins us now. >> who was a weather man. so was david letterman i think. what's going on? who do you want on and off? >> i thought the jack welch interview was incredible. i have howard schultz later and it's true, you want to be an entrepreneur but what jack said was extraordinary, it's not fun, it's not great anymore. kind of spellbound by jack because jack is inspirational for a lot of us who wanted it to own our own business or work in business and i think that if you look at what's happened over the 25 years i think it's been terrible to go be the president, be a politician, but it's gotten terrible lucrative to be a ceo and i thought what jack was interested, he never talked about the money. the money is great. doesn't seem to mean that much for people in his position because it's not fun. it's just a labor of hate. >> right.

viecome 37.2 and bob iger 34.3 million. and just to clarify, cbs was not part of the "new york times" study. again that was not part of the 100 of the largest publicly traded companies by revenue. you're looking at the top guy right there and one could say the reason he made so much money is because his network is the most watched tv network in the united states, his pay rising 7.7%. we want to show you also how well that stock has done if you take a look at the company's stock compared to the the s and p 500. you can see that up from 30%. and that stock was up 68%. you know that's very impressive compared to the 30% gain you saw last year. >> exclusive interview with investor guy hans saying china is changing the way deals are made. and the hong kong gets under way. we'll have opening prices when on the move returns. . >> at the sharp end. taking a hit in tokyo. going to global. china is changing the way. australians are told they have to work harder for longer. hard. working very 4000 lastl below week. works all day. of w

and bob iger, the pay actually down 7% from 2012, even though the total return chose 29%. >>> lastly,ou guessed it oracle larry ellison, whose options awards made sup most in the total pay for the year. the software company's board continuing to ignore the wishes of the shareholders who twice voted down mr. ellison's pay package with a no. so with average pay coming in unchanged at 14.6 million. of course, a lot of this rise should be expected given the big jump that we saw in the stock market in 2013. keep in mind that 56% of their pay is tied to their stock. so when you see an increase, you can see a corresponding increase in ceo pay. the bottom three on this list, interesting to note. steve balance mer with 1.2 million. warren buffett and larry page, who only earned a dollar in salary. >> yes, but don't feel badly, he is one of the founders so -- >> >>> and also won the america's cup. >> and spent a lot of money doing that, but he earned. >> and iger had "frozen" and other hits. >> that's right. >>> so let's look at america's super athletes. so we decided to look at the guys -- wha

we will have sean penn, bob iger. we are only getting warmed up.pe you get to do the sean penn interview. [laughter] -- steph, i hope you get to do the sean penn interview. [laughter] coming up, comcast is divesting 4 million customers to charter communications. u.s. agriculture secretary is joining us to talk about the rising cost of food in america. stay "in the loop." ♪ >> comcast announced it will divest 4 million subscribers to charter communications. is shaheedto discuss khan. shahid why does comcast want to get this deal done? is this the only way they can actually get the time warner deal done? >> this is a good move in that direction. the whole relationship between liberty and comcast reminds me from "sex and the city." >> [laughter] is where theyt all right now. it is a good combination price for charter. it is a very complex deal and very typical john malone. it really allows comcast to demonstrate that they are willing to -- >> not be the big fish. this has been the problem. sweeney, comcast, time warner together, they are huge. they ha

. >> someone who saw the potential for these films was his knee ceo bob iger thomas who paid $4 billionnment. the superhero success is this week's cover story of "bloomberg businessweek." >> when "captain america, the winter soldier" opens on friday, it will be marvel studio's ninth movie in six years. all have done well at the box office, some phenomenally so. how do they do it? here are four keys to marvel's successful thought stick to the comics. hollywood screenwriters tried to redo the ironman origins story because they thought the one in the comic book didn't quite work. but marvel said let's just do that and ironman grossed $585 million in its first year. has tried to stay faithful to the common books ever since. don't cast megastars. chris hens werth was a relative unknown when he was cast to play thor. made $640 a sequel million. his celebrity did not overshadow the character and marvel do not have to pay him a ton of money for either movie. a universe. years ago, marvel sold the rights to spiderman two sony for a pittance which the company now knows was a huge mistake. of marv

boardrooms where lessman does -- andy boardrooms with le -- in the boardrooms with les moonves, bob igerey have created content and now they are seeing this on the web. >> their market caps are based on the value of their cable networks and cable programming. they will be careful about making that programming available online. that is what destroyed the printing industry and the music industry. making programming that is available for free. they will be careful about protecting it. defensively, they are concerned people are going to be watching more and more television shows and content online. they have got to be involved in that distribution as well. arch coal what do you make of ron howard? >> i love ron howard. >> your first client when you were a practicing lawyer. ron howard getting into digital with discovery. whoainstream filmmakers appealed to a huge, broad audience worldwide are recognizing the importance of going online. it is fun for people like that. people like ron who make movies -- they think like a kid. they would be making movies for an online audience? is that where we

could she potentially replace bob iger or run for state senate? >> replace barack obama. highest profile kind of political social executive in silicon valley right now. she's not shy about putting her perspectives out there about work, about women. she's a high flier. >> is there a job you think she should take? >> i love this idea for president. if she's going to do that she better sell a ton more stock. it's getting very expensive to run these days. >> i got a few friends. >>> finally, the 3d printing sector set for some major growth over the next two years. according to the research firm canalys, the size is set to grow to over $16 billion by 2018. that market was worth about $2.5 billion last year. i mean, obviously dealing with a lot of unknown, jon. does that number sound right to you? >> no. if you believe this number there's a social game prog jekz i'd like to sell you. beware of the three and especially five-year projections. here's my issues with 3d printing. when you look at the idea of a consumer market like this, unless it's something like scrapbooking it's h

speculation, albeit what unfounded, that she could be in the running for the ceo role of disney when bob igerstep down several quarters. unclear if that's something we would be in the running for. she has a pretty good gig at facebook. she leaves the office by 5:00 or 6:00 p.m., she gets eight ours of sleep. don't count her out yet. i think she's pretty happy with what she has. >> taking facebook in an unusual direction. >> and they've used 8% of their common stock to do these deals in the last couple of months and facebook now looks more like a holding company, not necessarily a primarily advertising company. so i don't fault rob cox for drawing that conclusion and maybe it will turn out to be the right one. >> we'll see what happens. thanks for that. have a great day. >>> yahoo! is reportedly in talks to buy the online video service news distribution network for $300 million. the deal could further marissa mayer's service. mdn works with newspapers and online publishers. yahoo! stock in frankfurt down 1.2%. >>> elsewhere, a stellar report caterpillar avoided paying $1 million in u.s. taxes

we'll hear from the chief of the mouse house, bob iger.liest feuds on wall street be coming to an end? did carl icahn and bill ackman kiss and make up? it's tuesday, april 29th, 2014. "squawk box" begins right now. ♪ why can't we be friends ♪ why can't we be friends ♪ why can't we be friends >>> good morning, everybody. welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc. i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. we do have a big morning for cnbc. one hour from now, cnbc's first 25 list of the most influential rebels, icons and leaders that transformed the business world will be unveiled, that's coming up at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. we'll have a sneak peek at the number 15 on the list later this hour. >>> earnings central heating up today, drugmakers merck, bristol-myers and forest labs all out this morning. forest labs ceo will be talking to us first on cnbc later in the show. after the bell, ebay and twitter will be capping off the day. meantime in washington, the federal reserve kicking off a two-day meeting, leading to an announcem

. >> bob iger has figured it out.rd members, too. >> this shouldn't -- it shouldn't be a public company. the margins are not there. >> great parlor game, i tell you that. >> yeah. >>> moving to facebook, according to ad week, more companies are willing than ever to pay more on the -- to advertise on the social network. ad prices up 10% across the board compared to the previous quarter. that's not the oebl good news for facebook today. on the "today" show this morning, sheryl sandberg gave her clearest indication yet that she's staying at the company for the long haul. take a listen. >> you have, i guess, unloaded about half of your facebook stock, and some people read the tea leaves and say, is she planning to leave facebook soon? >> i'm glad you raised this, because there's been some confusion, a good chunk of what was sold was all for taxes. so there's just confusion on that. i have really plans to stay at facebook. i love my job. i love what we do every day to connect the world. and i love being able to work on my

relatively or bob iger. i did that rather than disney to antagonize you. disney does. know if they're going to come out and pay. >> mastercard above the 200 day, upgrade out of janney, earlier in the week, beard, impact crest upgraded them. >> these stocks have fallen off a cliff. mastercard did not report a good quart but visa did. visa dow stock. i think mastercard not unlike coca-cola, i think they're going to report a very good quarter and people are selling the stock because they've written it off. i think these companies have a great secular trend behind them, the paper to plastic, it's not done. people still use paper all over the globe. >> yeah. >> against that the -- >> paper as in money. >> as in checks. >> not writing -- or writing checks. >> money and checks. i use a credit card. i don't know about you guys. >> all the time. >> csx in the red going to report tonight. the journal quit with a curtain razor saying plants are below trend giving csx pricing power and margins are good? >> michael last spoke on "mad money" and he said look, this is a -- could be a