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cantor fitzgerald repeats its buy rating pointing out the new product initiatives, but the stock is getting hit hard today, and for the year, tyler, down more than 34%. >> that would be splunk right there. >>> regulators finally responding to i kroos of tough credit stalling the housing recovery. diana olick is in washington with details of big changes coming. hi, di. >> hi, tyler, credit is too tight and too expensive. those are the claims of housing industry leaders and now they're getting action. first mel watt announced he will not lower the loan limits for fannie and freddie. his predecessor, who focus odd shrinks thor mortgage giants had considered that. >> this decision is motivated by concerns about how a reduction would adversely impact the current health of the housing finance market. >> now, lowering the loan limbs would have hit higher cost states like california and new york much higher than others. as for.-backs to banks, he said he would relax some of the requirements for relief from those so-called reps and warrants and clarify some uncertainties. watt will direct fannie and

joining us is cantor fitzgerald global technology brian white. you've got one of the highest price targets on the street at 220 a share. why the optimism on a company that some recently have suggested may be simply too big to succeed. >> if you look across the i.t. landscape, a lot of these big tech companies have been challenged over the past 18 months. i.t. spending has been softer, number two, you've had a big shift into cloud and big data trends. and number three, the economies around the world, more recently have been soft, but i think as you get through these, when we look at ibm, the profit cycle, the sell side street analyst opinions have never been lower, only 14% of analysts have buy ratings. the lowest in a decade. i think they're going to make this transition. i like ibm here. >> but peter, you're not necessarily in agreement with that. i understand you do not need a near-term inflection point fundamentally? >> no, we think it's going to take longer than that. they have good assets, but the transition to the cloud will be very painful

nicole: you have one firm today, cantor fitzgerald raising it from a buy to a hold. few things here. they think they will be generating meaningful terms. those loose shares are pretty much done. secret at budget for twitter. the interest from abroad is growing as well. really a couple of great days for twitter. you can see it today. stuart: robin. give us more. >> all new phones. we are talking about 50 million new phones. like i said, 50 million a big number. just a couple months ago, google added bloomberg data to its maps app. we see this all coming together. stuart: that is another reason why uber has gone from 10 billion to 17 billion a couple of weeks. stuart: i know. >> evaluation is about the same. stuart: thank you. charles says he will make us some money. here is a company i know about. priceline. what? charles: it went to the moon and got hammered. late last week it broke the news. that is my initial target. a very quiet market. a very nice rebound. including some of their more, you know, notable names like priceline. stuart: a new elaborate hacking scheme

yousef is head of research at cantor fitzgerald. hold from sell three weeks. yousef, good morning. thank you for joining us. >> thanks, kayla. >> when you initially upgraded to hold from sell about a month ago, yousef, you were basically saying you believed the new ad formats were coming. given that there are hundreds of millions of shares that are up for expiration today and could be sold, i mean, how much do you think the technicals will overshadow any positives for the time being? >> well, look, in the short term, absolutely, the technicals are going to define where the stock goes. out of the 450 million shares, by our estimates, there are probably somewhere between 200 to 300 million shares that could actually -- or should be coming to market over the next days and weeks. so clearly, we did the upgrade recognizing in the short term -- the upgrade to a hold from a sell, recognizing two things. one, that most of the downside from $75 all the way to 40, where we downgraded it, was pretty much done, meaning that we're not going to s

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