i said carl. i loved him so much. and admired him so much and looked up to him that i wanted to be like him. but it was not -- it was not easy. i mean the greatest funniest people in the world came over to our house. you think about the show of shows and what it has spawned, anything that you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century, you could look back to that show, i mean. between sid cesar mel brooks, carl reiner kneel simon woody allen, aaron ruben joe stien, mike stewart these are the big output of their work just between woody allen and neil simon alone and mel brooks, it's just astounding when you think about it. >> i could see you deciding to run 180 degrees in the other direction because there is so much pressure and expectation. all of these people you mentioned are at your kitchen table. i mean why set yourself up for that kind of pressure? >> you know, that's a good question. i don't know why i did it. all i know i loved so much what he did. and i was so fortunate because when i was 13 14, 15 16,

. >> carl icahn. >> so long.endary activist investor. i mean, a lot of interesting things. >> that's really been the drag there. do you agree with him? >> no, and i think he's brilliant, so this is not john smarter than carl at all. those are stocks that i bought. i bought rig, mid continent refiners. so i'm a believer in this space right here at this level, mel, for it to outperform going forward. has over the past two days. that doesn't make a year. but i think it does outperform. >> you know, apple's interesting to me because he still says it's a no brainer. here's the thing, a lot of the cash overseas. and let me tell you another thing, and he knows this better than anybody, there hasn't been a hardware company on the planet that hasn't traded at earnings multiple for most of their life. that's why it does. commoditized products. at some point, if they don't get these hits, they're going to have cash overseas, levering it up. and to me, i don't think it's a no-brainer anymore. >> just quickly on rigg. i'm cur

big show for the judge as he brings carl icahn to the half. let's get back to head quarters at the half and wapner. >>> thanks very much. welcome to the halftime show. meet our starting lineup. stephanie link the coportfolio manager of jim cramer's charitable trust. joe terranova senior managing director at ver tis investment partners and jon and pete najarian the co-founders of option monsters. icahn unplugged. the billionaire investor is live on his land mark deal with ebay, escalating fight with ganet and more. easy money, is the ecb's bond buying plan big enough to work and what does it mean for stocks at home? we begin with twitter, shares jumping today on heavier than normal volume on more speculation about that company's future. top analyst bob peck of sun trust joins us by the phone today along with our own jon fortt to help separate fact from fiction. guys, welcome. bob peck, to you first, there seems to be speculation in the marketplace today, driving twitter shares to their highest level of the day. is it real? could google, for exa

we're going to hear from billionaire investor carl icahn, his son brett and coportfolio manager david schecter in a bit. guys, though, i'm going to you first, it's in your portfolio. >> yep. >> been there for a long time. >> yep. >> hard to find anything wrong with this report. >> it's it interesting. i've list nd over the last couple days to many, received e-mails from some trying to find some form of a metric to suggest selling out of apple or potentially getting short apple. i think the whole game of investing when trying to achieve success is hard enough. when you get something that is so noncomplicated, so easy, 74.5 million iphones, we talked about it for months, that's what we expected. you got the number. it's easy. leave it alone. >> bigger number than people in the most optimistic of view. 75 million iphones. >> that's where in terms of wanting success, remove the e motion, the strategy is working, stay with it. you probably have another quarter, a follow through in terms of the positive momentuom. don't make it complicated, don't trade it. >> i was going to go there. weiss,

carl icahn has been quiet so far this year. what's he eyeing now, twitter or another social media new kid? what about his long tug-of-war with another activist over herb life? charlie gasparino will be here with details. back to liz claman. liz, you spoke with aol tim armstrong. what's that? liz: that is, are they going to allow themselves to be acquired by verizon or some type of link up? yes, we asked directly right here in las vegas. he came to fox business' cameras. wait until you hear the word he chooses to use when it comes to any kind of relationship with verizon or even i yahoo. stay tuned. and 3d printing goes mainstream. weddings. this is 3d me. it's a major 3d twist on the photo booth. an image of you. instead of the photo strips. come and see what each of the guests will get. an actual figurine of any one of 200 different types of costumes. we'll show you how it works in a fox business exclusive with the 3d systems ceo. on the guy who is here today, they made this one. look at his figurine face. we'll compare it wit

carl cameron is live in washington. carl? >> hi, andrea. it took only three weeks for mitt romney to, in his words, seriously consider a third presidential run and then say he's not going to do it. he did say the fundraising calls indicated he could have earned the money. the latest poll showed him ahead against the field double digits, but last weekend he began to see and hear about a lack of enthusiasm from the grassroots conservative base particularly. romney has said to the base, to republicans that he would really like to lead them and just they weren't enthusiastic and were, ultimately, some of his supporters were siding with other campaigns. here's what romney told supporters around the country just an hour ago on a conference call. watch. >> i feel that it's critical that america elect a conservative leader to become our next president. you know that i wanted to be that president. but i don't want to make it more difficult for someone else to emerge who-off a better chance -- who may have a better chance of becoming that president.

jamie: carl calls them be black swamp find. quickly shipped to dallas on an armored truck and locked in the safety of a fault. the next card is officially graded on a scale of one through 10. he goes as a professional sports authenticator. i meet up with the president of psa and a national sports collectors collection and -- convention. >> pavers cannot be just stayed number one and. >> looked at all of the defects with surface where, multiple krises it is as low as it could get. jamie: this is number eight. >> almost but if you look close you can see tight the little pieces of wear on each corner that is the difference. jamie: those tiny imperfections could make a difference of thousands of dollars this is worth roughly $100 if it was number nine may be north of 1,000 if number 10 more at 5,000. jamie: what about the black swamp find? was your reaction? >> it was mind blowing. jamie: before the black swamp find rawhided stick -- the highest grade ever given in that series was the seventh and his speech that at the first at bat

. >> maybe you should, carl. we have a shocking reason why investors may rush into the social media giant. hope you take notes. >>> it's a safety trade no one saw coming. >> that's classified. >> that's true. but we have the answer. we'll tell you what it is when "options action" returns. >>> a little aggravated when people come out with rumors about me, buying something and getting involved. i will tell you, i don't own any twitter. and i never did. not that i don't like the company. we do twitter and get involved with it. that's a great concept. but i have no real feeling about it. >> that was carl icahn, telling me yesterday on "fast money" he is not involved in twitter. but our dan nathan says e maybe he should be. what's the story here? >> this stock has performed very well after last year being down almost 40%. it's up 10% or more today. there's been rumors about involvement. carl just said it. he gets a little mad. people put it out there that he would take a stake. that's silly. what's going on right here

>> well, carl icahn won here clearly.y for years was talking ability how much synergy they were getting when a lot of skeptics were saying wait, explain to me again how skype is helpful here and paypal, where's the real synergy? they stood by that. ultimately carl icahn came in and said this is ridiculous, we have to split it up and he's won completely. i think the reason the stock is up is that people generally do believe that if a company is focused, they can do better than if they're ultimately hid within a broader corporation. investors probably look at ebay's core business, which as jon talked about is struggling, a much better acquisition target now if it gets separate, out there, somebody can buy it without having to deal with the other stuff. i think investors are looking at the breakup value here and a lot of value in paypal, paypal's person-to-person subsidiary and so forth. this is good. >> henry, to the discerning eye, this does begin to look like just one giant carve up. you have the enterprise unit which had

here's the thing, carl.eah, we are seeing a change in sentiment and there's takeaways we need to understand here. the strong dollar is good for the economy on a aggregate basis but it is going to cause some change. one of the adjustments we're going to have to see is on our multinational corporations. the second takeaway we're seeing a global growth slowdown which shouldn't surprise anybody, but the u.s. is not akieving the breakaway speed that last quarter gdp had suggested. we're already seeing most of the data soften a little bit. it's not unusual for an economy in recovery, especially highly indebted economy, to show some spurts of growth and then to pull back in. we've seen it all over the world, starting to see it in the u.s. a little bit. but, low oil prices, and a strong dollar, are on a net basis good for the u.s. economy. it's going to be a more volatile year, though. we have the central bank game of thrones with the currency wars going on that's created a lot more uncertainty and the central banks

good morning. >> good morning, carl.e three macro drags we talked about yesterday have reversed today. oil has stabilized, a little on the upside. bond yields are up. euro still a little on the weak side. two out of three ain't bad. take a look at europe. we're trading up despite the terrible attack in france. france has been up all throughout the morning, up 1%. so has spain. so has italy. and so has germany. fairly steady up day there. they've had a terrible couple days in trading there in europe. here in the united states seven to one. advancing declining stocks at the open. we're seeing a bounce in energy stocks financials industrials, technology, all the stuff that got hit rather badly in the last few days including energy trading to the upside. i said yesterday that for the markets to stabilize, we need oil to stabilize. maybe we need to change the conversation towards more positives in the u.s. economy. i think we had two positive talking points today. number one was jcpenney. i know you guys hit upon it. but 3.7%

i said carl, you outlasted the rater days. i was a raider and ran out of ideas or something, but i quit. the last time i tried it was 91. but carl stayed there. and now he is spoken of with great respect. he is an activist shareholder. i never got to be an activist shareholder. i went in and out as raider. but activist shareholders are handy. there is still mismanagement in corporate america. is it better today than the 1980's? it is better. let me take you to the gulf deal in 1984. never sold higher than 35. it was worth $100. asset was worth $100. for years and years, it would stay between 30 and 35. the ceo only owned 21,000 shares . i get up and make speeches. i said, mr. lee, we have 200 million dollars invested in your company, and all you have is 21,000 shares. where do you invest your money? you have a better idea than we do. he was a friend of mine, sort of. [laughter] we served on the executive committee together. he said, you are embarrassing me saying that. and i said, why do you not own more? he said, i put it som

and i said carl, you are left to the raider days. i was a raider and ran out of money, out of ideas, or something. i quit. the last time i tried was 1991. and __ but carl stay there. now here's __ he is spoken of with great respect. he is now an activist shareholder. i never got to be an activist shareholder. i went in and out as raider. there is still a lot of mismanagement in corporate america. is it better today than it was in the 1980's? yyes, it is better. let me take you back to the golf deal. 1984. thierry r, a here we are, a small company trying to make something happen. never sold higher than 35. it was worth $100. we felt like the assets were worth $100. for years and years it stayed between 30 and 35. the ceo only owned 121,000 shares. i get up and make speeches. i said we have $200 million invested in your company, and all you have this 21,000 shares. where do you invest your money mr. lee? you have a better idea than we do. he was a friend of mine, sort of. well, we served on an api executive committee together. he calle

but what would carl icahn do? i think the bigger reason to buy it is for acquisition of the company. it's got a $25 billion market cap. when you think about facebook paid $22 million for whats app last year. they're growing like crazy. they announced they have 700 million monthly active users. twitter has 300 million. but twit ster is not just a mobe messaging app. it's a tremendously interesting social media platform. and you know what? mark cuban said this to you yesterday also, mel, on "fast money." he said i'm using twitter more for realtime search. and so to me when you wrap all of that up together, twitter is a massively undervalued property because of its scarcity value, the synergies with a much larger player in the space. and that play tore me is google. google should buy these guys. and that's one of the great reasons why i think you should buy twitter. i bought it yesterday. but i want to tell you how i think you could play it in the options if you don't want to chase it up. let's look at the charts her

. >> well, maybe you should, carl. because we've got a shocking reason why investors may soon rush into the social media giant. hope you take notes. plus it's a safety trade no one saw coming. >> that's classified. >> that's true, but we've still got the answer and we'll tell you what it is when "options action" returns. >>> a little angry when people come out with these rumors about me buying something and getting involved. i will tell you i don't own any twitter. and i never did. not that i don't like the company. we do twitter and get involved with it and it's a great concept. but i have no real feeling about it. >> that was carl icahn telling me yesterday on "fast money" that he is not involved in twitter. but our dan nathan says that maybe he should be. so dan, what's the story here? >> here's the thing. this stock has actually performed very well after last year being down 40%. it's up 10% or more this year. had a great day today. there's been a lot of rumors. carl just said it right there. it was interesting. he

. >> joining us now on booktv is allen carl who has written a book called "forks". what is on the front of the book? >> it is actually a motorcycle believe it or not. it is in the middle of nowhere in southern south america. bmws-650. i took that motorcycle for three years alone and road it all over the world. >> you road it around the world? >> yup. >> why? >> a lot of us have passions and dreams and i want to travel around the world. my passions is photography and motorcycle riding and i saw myself at a fork in the road. unemployed and recently divorced. i decided instead of scrambling to try to find the next job, i sold everything i had, and hopped on the motorcycle to live and experience different cultures and different people all over the world. >> so why the name of the book? >> i came to a fork we come to forks in our live and forks are the things on the motorcycle that keep us going in the right direction and steer us. and forks are what we share and eat food with. if you a musicianer you know what a tuning fork is as well. there is a lot of meaning and it i

carl? >> all right.ome back after its announced spinoff of alibaba everyone has been wondering is yahoo! really a takeover target? kara swisher has answers. and she'll join us in a few moments. plus shake shack soaring after going public at the nyse this morning. do burgers belong in your portfolio? we'll take a closer look. and the super bowl just two days away, houston texans star running back arian foster will join us to break down the big game later this hour. "squawk alley" will be right back. >> post nine is sponsored by fidelity investments. opinions. there's no shortage in this world. who do you trust? whose analysis is accurate? how do you make sense of it all? a simple, unbiased stock score consolidated from the opinions of independent analysts... is that too much to ask? nope. equity summary score, powered by starmine, will help you execute your ideas with speed and conviction. and it's only on fidelity.com. open an account and find more of the expertise you need to be a better investor. if le

president i know where you're coming from but i can't stand with you on this veto. >> carl? >> i think that is entire plausible. what was that one area -- >> the president may not be able to deliver any democrats and we won't pe able to get out and negotiate trade agreements with foreign countries because they won't want to go through heart ache on their end of reducing obstacles in their country if they can't be guaranteed if it will get an up or down vote in the united states. >> it gets complicated quickly doesn't it. >> it sure does. >> carl rove. >> thank you sir. >>> and the president meeting with mexico's president at the white house. they discussed the president's new policies towards cuba and granting amnesty to 5 million illegal immigrants. on immigration, the president actually claimed he will be tougher on the issue of border security. >> we are going to provide a mechanism so that families are not separated who have been here a long time. we're also going to be much more aggressive at the border in insuring that people come through the system legally. >> it turn

. >> host: allen carl did you ever get treated poorly because you were an american? >> guest: never once was i treated poorly. in fact i was in brazil and i was at a little cafÉ a little restaurant chatting and practicing my portuguese at this point and i actually there was another american who brought up the fact that i can't believe we are always getting tossed under the bus so to speak mistreated or maybe misunderstood and what this personally and said, he is like i am tired of hearing americans think that people are mistreating them were look at them differently. he said i could think that's all in your mind. that's what he said to me. i found that very similar with other travelers that i met from all over the world is that no people are more interested in learning about us and though it's no you know amazing fact that i would meet people and all the different countries who would try many times to go to the lottery of getting a visa to come to our country. people want to come here. they don't want to push us away. >> host: in your travels did you ever have to cal

>> hi, carl. before i even get to the chartize want viewers to realize, you know some of our systems use a 3:00 close for cash and pair with futures. i continue to monitor the late evening cash close. so if what i'm saying done jive with the charts, you'll know why. look at two day chart of tens sorry, 24-hour chart should jump out at you, that is of course the data had a quick response from the treasury market yields moved lower. but they didn't challenge what i view is the late cash close from the 15th of january, right around 1.71 for tens. you can see the number on left side of the chart. but 30s a different story. again, the long end. the long end, intraday is trading under that 2.36 level. we monitor this closely because there's divergences. not only weak data, divergences and thank making the market nervous. i'll point to a couple out. europe stamped on the divergence that is worrisome to traders who expected a different kind of marketplace after thursday. they didn't get it. maybe the time

boone pickens, carl icahn, the list goes on. those are pretty fancy folks to learn something from about investing. you had to know a lot about investing and creating wealth and success yourself. who surprised you the most among that list of luminaries? >> most people don't know. lou: i.t. dear you to answer that. >> the top ten financial traders, had the privilege of that during the tech crash during 9/11, 2008, he has not lost money in 21 years so to work with him and sees that. if i could interview 50 of the most influential people on earth to were nobel laureates and simplified that i could help the average investor but to answer your question carl icahn was surprising to me because carl, i came to his office and schedule 45 interview and they go three hours and carl says nobody, however i suppose to do this? you have ten minutes. three hours later he is helping it up and is so generous but most people realize he did a measurement of his performance. warren buffett since 1968, 30% year if you have been with him since that tim

carl?opper's seen as a barometer for the global economy, things not looking too good. prices falling to levels not seen since mid-2009. we'll talk to rbc's chief commodity strategist though oil's on the mend in a minute. oil prices down more than 50% in 6 months. the question is what does that mean for neighbors to the north who depend heavily on oil? brian sullivan who conquered na boxen several times in calvary with the story. >> how are you doing. >> it's like 8:30 the sun's not up. maybe powered by oil. who knows? points of oil well taken. but here's the thing for investors. about 70 canadian companies that trade in the united states 15 major oil producers. viewers in the states are buying companies. two different types. hear about the oil sands, that's a strip mining but you've got steam extraction a different type. i don't want to call it fracking but a different production. companies that you invest in got to know which do they do. chatted with head of energy research at ihs yesterda

over to the cme group, check in with rick santelli. >> hi, carl. know, it's been a huge day and if i look at retail sales, obviously it was weak and wasn't expected stock so. i think there is a guy tie-in with the drop in wages and some say it was a one off anomaly. the reason i think it's important is in the context of gasoline. the drop in gas prices doesn't seem to be showing up everywhere and we've talked many times how the immediacy of how it affects things like the credit market is different than the long timeline of how it works into the culture of the retail. but here's the issue. okay. imagine a bucket okay, imagine you have a hole where the water is coming out. okay. the water coming out is, you know, we don't talk about things like property taxes, and even though there's all this disinflation with regard to a financial interpretation, you still look at food prices, look at all the things the middle class has to deal with and put in dropping wages or stagnant wages, whatever adjective you want to use and the water is coming out at a certa

campaign carl is here to breakdown the field. new york police officers once again turn their back on comrade bill de blasio as the officer's widow says good-bye. >> you are an amazing man even though you left us early i believe that he is still with us. >> geraldo, bo dietl and pat bronson here with their analysis. >> and i said if i got bin laden in our sights i would take that shot. >> president obama spikes the football for years, but now his administration is investigating the navy s.e.a.l. who actually killed osama bin laden. rob o'neill will be here with exclusive reaction. >>> plus, peta goes after former alaska governor sarah palin for an innocent photo she posted of her son and their family dog. palin is here to responds directly to her crazy critics. "hannity" starts right here, right now. >>> the presidential election is more than a year away, but many republicans are already hinting they may throw their hat in the ring including governor mike huckabee who just this weekend announced he was ending his show here at the

i'm carl quintanilla david faber. market calling for backup in the rough earnings season and looks like apple and boeing will deliver. futures set to bounce after the worst day for tech stocks in three years. oil back on its heels. down 2%. it's fed decision today, ten-year hovering above 1.8. road map, apple, boasting the biggest quarterly profit in its here. demand for iphones in china driving results. >> fedpushing markets to gain back some ground after yesterday's significant tumble in the major indexes. >> boeing's quarterly results soaring past expectations. the company seeing 2015 jet deliveries outpacing 2014. apple is the big story, up sharply in the premarket after posting $18 billion. ipad sales helped by strong demand in china. tim cook -- >> demand has been staggering, shattering our expectations sales over 74 million units driven by the unprecedented popularity of iphone 6 and iphone 6 plus. this volume is hard to comprehend. on average we sold over 34,000 iphones every hour 24 hours a day, every day of

if they raise, the dollar will go through the roof and that will hurt exports. >> carl riccadonna webecause after the ecb stimulus decision and the greek vote, we see a stronger u.s. dollar. >> the fed hinted at this. while there was not a lot of information, two parts are worth noting. they added international risk to their list of concerns, code language for we are watching the strengthen the dollar developments in europe. >> was it always code language that said we are paying attention -- also code language that said we are paying attention to this and we can pivot if we want to because we said we are looking at developments, geopolitical, and otherwise? >> well, that is one more reason for them to move slower. they did not want to take the media timeframe off of the meeting, but highlighting international risks was a step to move later. the other moving part is the inflation language. they were more in a key and linking low-inflation to energy prices than they were at the time of the december meeting. this could be a sticking point for the fed. they will be surprised that core in

thank you, carl. i'm david faber.ted to update on a report wes just brought to you from dominic chu regarding that move in amazon. a lot of the move seems to have come as a result of a twitter posting from something called zozo trader in which it was pos itted the activist investor carl icahn would soon announce a large position in the stock and a plan to try to gets the company to break off its amazon web services business as a separate entity. what i can tell you at this point, again the stock did start to move on that twitter posting by this particular account on twitter, what i can tell you is, that according to my sources, there is no position whatsoever at icahn associates in amazon. no ownership stake at this point in the company. and it didn't make a great deal of sense, given you have a large ownership stake, of course, of jeff bezos. you do not have special voting rights, i don't believe, but an 18.3% stake owned by mr. bezos. more as well by his family. so you would immediately have at least the potential t

carl, we are going to let you go on that note. just to confirm we are your favorite show, is that right? >> absolutely. go "the five"! >> thank you. >> we have a couple more minutes. andrea, do you think -- do you think mitt romney will endorse anybody in the primary or try to stay neutral until there is a nominee? >> that is what i was trying to get carl to answer because he had shown favoritism to some of the candidates specifically marco rubio in a big way. it has to be noted that he gave marco rubio that primetime speaking role on the night to introduce him at the republican convention. marco rubio, i think there is a lot that mitt romney will be doing to help one of the guys that needs his help. i would bet it is rubio. >> do you believe that mitt romney can deliver votes for anybody? >> yes. >> he did it in 2014 mid terms. >> absolutely. >> i think he can help. >> i have been away too long. >> do you realize what kind of lead that mitt romney had prior to bowing out? he was the favorite on the conservative side. >> it is nam

. >> ok mid 1980's, carl icon and i were discussing this. i said that you outlasted the raider days. i was a raider and ran out of money or ideas or something. i quit. the last i try that was in 1991. carl stayed there. now he is spoken of with great respect. he is now an activist shareholder. i never got to be an activist shareholder. i went in and out as a raider. activist shareholders are handy. there is still a lot of mis-management and corporate america. is it better today than it was in the 1980's? yes, it is better. let me take you back to 1984, a small company, trying to make something happen. we never sold higher than 35. it was worth a hundred dollars. we felt like the assets are worth a hundred dollars. for years and years and stay between 30 and 35. the ceo of the company only on 21,000 shares. i get up and make speeches. i said, we have two and million dollars invested in your company and all you have is 21,000 shares. where do you invest your money? you have a better idea than we do. he was a friend of mine. we serve on an exec

good morning, diana. >> good morning, carl. you from 500 lakeshore drive, a brand new luxury rental apartment building owned by the developer behind hudson yards in new york. related just broke chicago records, selling another of its new properties just a stone's throw from here, 500 unit luxury rental building for $328 million. now the rents there, range from 1700 a month for a studio to 12,000 a month for a penthouse. i know that's cheap by new york standards, right, but it says something very important about what's going on in this market. >> i think it talks most to how chicago is one of the great american cities and whereas in the past maybe hasn't been as recognized as much by the very high-end purchaser, today the people that drive investment across the country are recognizing the viability of the city. >> reporter: now related is embarking on yet another tower that's right down will you can't see it but it's on the lot next door. both condos and rental apartments. rents could be as high as $15,000 a month. why now? jobs

i'm carl quintanilla with jim cramer david faber at new york stock exchange.ulls continue to take incoming fire this morning as goldman and intel bring disappointment to earnings season. currency brokers feeling the first shockwaves of yesterday. dow's down 10 of past 13 sessions. oil higher after the biggest downside reverse fll years, 10% intraday move. and ten-year yield, 1.75 consumer prices for december biggest drop in six years. road map begins with the marketsen futures in the red. fallout from the swiss central bank move continues with sharp moves in the oil market. >> earnings from goldman sachs, intel. goldman's down 2% in premarket. >> favorable and selective treatment in luxembourg. eu lays out its case. >>> stocks in the midst of a five-session losing streak. markets continuing to absorb the surprise move by the swiss central bank. oil prices on the rise after iea slashes growth forecast for nonopec oil supply by 350,000 barrel as day, adding signs are mounting the tide will turn when it comes to price recovery. jim, seems like currency brokers wi

always interesting to have him on the program. >> carl's terrific.lot of views overall on the industry, a lot of views on whether or not college players should be paid. of course as you get ready to watch the game tonight, that is a big issue lurking in the background. he's got some views on instant replay and how that has overtaken things, as we saw this weekend. we're going to talk a lot about all of these things and i always look forward to having carl on the show. >> the college athletes, because there seems to be a ground swell of support at least in 2014 for them to get paid. because they figure everybody else is making money off of me, except me. >> you've got coaches making millions of dollars. >> sure. >> you've got a deal with the ncaa and cbs for an $11 billion deal over the course of the next several years. it is very clear that everybody has their hand out here and everybody's making something off of this. of course, except, for these kids. so it's becoming increasingly an issue. even think why not offer some kind of stipend. these kids

. >> hi, carl.t i want to point out this morning that the spread between wti and brent is really tightening here and what's interesting about this is we haven't seen a reversal like this since july 19th of 2013 when it reversed about ten minutes. the last time it traded and stayed over significantly was in july of 2010. it tells us that brent is falling out of favor when compared to wti, that the economies of europe and asia are slowing and demand falling off there. if we flip, traders say it shows us wti becomes the global benchmark. this could be intensified if we see exports from the united states as well. >> that one-year chart never gets less stunning no matter how many times we show it. appreciate your reporting this morning, jackie deangelis at the nymex. >>> huge round of funding announced for instacart, a start-up that delivers groceries from retailers like whole foods and costco. led by kleiner perkins and comcast ventures part of nbc universal's parent company also part pated in the round

carl, back to you. >> all right. she nice. thanks so much, josh.lipton in san jose on the apple quarter. for more let's bring in analyst jeffrey to talk about what went right mostly and the few things that did go wrong. your thoughts on the overall phone strength, the margin strength and how long that could last? >> it was an amazing quarter. i think we had some inkling volumes would be good but the asps setting prices on the gross margins were incredibly strong. obviously apple tends to have strong first quarters after launching a phone and the guidance implies a sizable drop in the march quarter so what we are sort of struggling with a little bit right now how much of this incredible growth was driven by existing iphones users finally getting the chance to upgrade to a nice big iphone versus maybe market share gains at the expense of android which would sustain that growth over multiple years. the concern would be if it's just iphone upgraders maybe december 15 will be a slightly difficult comp in terms of thriving growth. >> tim cook said that a

. >> carl cameron reporting from des moines. thanks. >>> and now let's bring in ohio governor john kasich who wasn't in ohio this weekend but has been on a cross country tour, increasing chatter he may run for president in 2016. governor welcome to fox news sunday. >> always good to be with you chris. >> in his address, the president talked about middle class economics, raising taxes on the wealthy to help secure working families. what is wrong with that? >> well raising capital gains is a notion for slowdowns. the last time we balanced a budget since man walked on the moon, we cut taxes and ended up with a surplus that was spent unfortunately by republicans. but the fact is if you cannot build a little guy up by tearing a little guy down. abraham said it then and he's right right. in our state we haven't tried -- we have the largest tax cut in years. we lowered the top rate but also provided tax cuts at the bottom to encourage more work. but the idea that raising capital gains taxes to raise the economy just isn't going to work

s&p 500 now up more than half a percent and with that we'll send it to carl for "squawk alley." >> thanks, guys. good morning. it is 8:00 a.m. at intel head quarters in california, 11:00 a.m. on wall street and "squawk alley" is live. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome to "squawk alley" for a friday. joining us kevin o'leary, chairman of o'leary funds, investor on "shark tank." >> great to be here. >> kayla is out, jon fortt with us as well covering intel which we'll get to in a moment. really quick as sara said, the dow up about 70 points. real story it continues to be the euro after the move by the swiss this week people getting to make positions ahead of ecb. the euro at an 11-year low below 1.15. oil the other big story close to session highs as we saw consumer sentiment numbers at an 11-year high making everybody wonder if the december retail sales were that bad. we'll talk about that in a moment. kevin, on the currency aspect, i wonder, you've got to have opinions about whether people should be allowed to trade currencies, levered 50 to 1. >> i don't mind that. the market is the market. largest market

lou: carl, thank you very much as always. can i ask you quickly, you've covered more than a few of these rounds. what is your sense of the, in and the direction of these early candidates for the 2016? >> reporter: there's a lot of enthusiasm. when you come to iowa the first caucus state in new hampshire, the first primary. there is a tremendous amount going on. i talked to one activist who had half a dozen different interviews turned down a couple of jobs and mentioned candidates. ted cruz is looking for people working, rick perry looking for people to hire here. we've been reporting on this for a while. on the political classes, great deal of enthusiasm. in iowa there are 4 million people, only 250, 300,000 will take part in the republican caucuses. they are very conservative ardent and enthusiastic for the caucuses to take place next jeer thanks so much. i suspect you're not alone in that. carl cameron, thank you. >>> the first round of high-level talks between the united states and cuba have wrapped up. today diplomats fro

joining us is the ceo of the parent company of parties and carl's junior. probably on his way to the game, i would assume? >> i will be watching it from home this year. >> four point $5 million, while we have seen a number increased dramatically, i suspect is just a drop in the bo bucket compared to what you will spend to highlight the ad itself. >> carl's junior is regional on the west coast. the sister brand is hard thesees. our big exposure on this has actually been digitally, on the internet. we have already had 2 billion earned medium impressions. when somebody sees the ad for free, that is in earned media impression. we have had 2 billion to date. that is an incredible number and we have an even run the ad yet. >> it hasn't even run in this segment yet, but it well. 2 billion, seriously. how many of those are repeat views or new people? surely there aren't 2 billion people looking at carl's junior. >> how many times did you look at it today? i am sure people are watching it over and over, but they do try to eliminate when people watch it twice. i don'

carl icahn probably does not have that view of michael dell.ll be sitting down with a man putting in a 100 hour work week. are watching a special edition of "market makers." ♪ >> welcome back to "market makers." i'm stephanie ruhle. we are with christian meissner. i'm guessing you had one outlook for 2015. now that we have seen some of market volatility, has it changed? >> probably a little bit. basically, the underlying focus for us is the recovery among financial institutions. that is good for our business. >> is this volatility affecting mna flow? >> not in the short term. as long as markets stay relatively friendly, which they are and the need for mna is still there which it still is yeah. >> it took years for conference to return in the unites states. the ecb just announced quantitative easing in europe. how long will it take in europe? >> i don't think we are starting from the same place. european ceo confidence has been improving for some time. relatively speaking, we are pretty far off. this will be a positive. it is a factor that reall

where is carl sr.?nd i blame hip-hop music and beyonce. >> what is more american than burgers, babes in bikinis and the big game? we had this two weeks ago in paris. je suis karlcarl's jr. >>>? georgia, there is a guy -- turner is his last name, okay? so he's driving and he's got a giant burger all right in his hand. all of a sudden the cops pull him over. roll tape. >> for most of us i think we can safely eat a burger and drive our cars at the same time. i stand by the right of every american to enjoy delicious fast food while they safely traverse the roadways. >> so what's the beef mcgirk? >> nicely done bill. >> what did the cop cite him for? >> he cited him for distracted driving. he wrote on the ticket eating while driving. now, it's not specifically against the law. distracted driving is against the law, but the cop followed this guy for two miles and apparently he was -- >> all over the road. >> well, no, he wasn't. that's the beef with the guy. again, no pun intended, and again, it's potential.

apparently carl's jr.rs were offended by the sight of a farmer's market. [ light laughter ] splash back. [ applause ] this is pretty great. anne hathaway, you guys all know anne hathaway. incredible actress. anne hathaway is set to star in an off-broadway play as a drone pilot. so if you want to see anne hathaway on stage with a drone, watch the oscars that she hosted with james franco. [ laughter and applause ] it will be a sneak peek. that would be a sneak peek. finally, al gore has announced that he is producing a worldwide music festival for environmental awareness. he's calling it yawneroo. ladies and gentlemen, this is the 8g band. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: how you doing, 8g band? it's good to see you guys. fred. always so good to see you. and i'm very excited, tonight on keyboard joining us, james canty. hello, james, how are you? thank you so much for filling in for our normal keyboarder deadbeat eli. that's our new nickname for him. fred, it is so great to have you here because every nigh

if you are good and innovative like carl's jr. know how to play into that, you know that it had let the audience you can just get exponential performance. >> nationwide has this very funny spot may have going on. they are great advertisers. might nine-year-old is -- my nine-year-old is playing the nationwide theme on her recorder because it's so memorable. they are going with a very clever, very chaste ad. does that play well on social media? >> is the question of what your audience is, and how to reach them. the fact that we just talked about that will give it a little bit of lift. but the things that are really titillating, things that people will talk about get the most reach. if you get a lot of reach sometimes it's the wrong reach. think about what happened to groupon. they pushed on a commercial couple of years ago that pissed off everybody it was the wrong kind of reach. >> kind of like their ipo. [laughter] there are classics, we had budweiser, victoria's secret again, what makes -- maybe you have a great ad. is the ad goi