off cnbc's first broadcast ever. bob wright joins us next for a trip down memory lane and we will hear about the day cnbc's future was saved and that day changed my life drastically as well. we'll explain that coming up. >> you got a lot colder didn't you? from california to new jersey? >>> and who would have thunk it? the s&p heading for its best week of the year. what happened to that scary correction? we're going to talk to the pros about how long this stealth rally could last. >>> plus, netflix is seeing green on the heels of an analyst upgrade. but is it too soon to fall back in love with this black and blue stock? our netflix watchers will duke it out coming up. something you cannot afford to miss. stay tuned. ♪ [ banker ] sydney needed some financial guidance so she could take her dream to the next level. so we talked about her options. her valuable assets were staying. and selling her car wouldn't fly. we helped sydney manage her debt and prioritize her goals, so she could really turn up the volume on her dre

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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 announcement on wednesday after noon. this sun with of the meetings that does not come with a news conference. check out the markets right now. yesterday we did see a mixed day for the markets. the dow was up by about 87 points, the nasdaq down yesterday. this morning you see green arrows across the board. the dow indicated to open up by about 63 points. s&p futures are 8.5 points above fair value and the n

>> no, the 25th anniversary of cnbc. cnbc 25 list. we're going to be ringing the closing bell. how cool is that? >> ding, ding, ding, ding, ding? you'll get to see the whole cnbc team. they deserve it. >> stick around. "closing bell" is next. ng bell". >> hi, everybody. welcome to a very special edition of "closing bell." i'm kelly evans at cnbc global headquarters. >> and welcome, everybody. i'm tyler matheson in for bill griffith. the actual closing bell will be rung right here on the floor of the cnbc newsroom which will be filling up for the full hour, nearly everyone, hundreds of people who work for our network. we won't time lapse it. will show it to you in realistic as it all developments as part of the cnbc 25 celebration, and we have a very special broadcast just ahead. >> yes, including an interview with one of the first cnbc 25. former federal reserve chairman alan greenspan joins us exclusively. we're going to talk about his biggest achievements and his biggest regret over the last quarter century. when we ask him we'll speak with him in just a moment. >> and we'll

it is from the cnbc gop debate back in 2011.'s three agencies of government when i get there that are gone. commerce, education and -- what's the third one there. let's see. sflu can't name the third one? >> the third agency of government, i would do away with education, the -- >> commerce. >> -- commerce. and let's see. i can't. third one i can't. sorry. oops. >> john and melissa, we are not picking on the goef vernor. it was a tough moment for him obviously. how often -- does that still come up in conversation? >> first of all, i have to give a shout out to my buddy sandy who was in the control room telling me in my ear not to let the moment go because it was a very memorable moment. there's never been a bigger brain freeze in a presidential debate. but i got to tell you that governor perry has been incredibly gracious ever since that happened. in fact, sandy came with me to a washington dinner a few months later. i took him up to be introduced to governor perry and governor perry was making jokes about had it himself. he coul

and in honor of cnbc's 25th anniversary here are the top five best brought to you by the voice of cnbc without further adieu, here they are. number five, spider monkey. number four, yea sure. number three, #jerk. number two, ridonculous and number one, if ur twerken you're not workin. >> so much to choose from, obviously. he can say anything and it sounds amazing. >> silky smith. >>> still ahead, we take a look back at some of the top moments on "fast money" to celebrate our silver anniversary, complete with a toast. plus the one stock betting on for the next 25 years. more "fast" straight ahead. [ hypnotist ] you are feeling satisfied without standard leather. you are feeling exhilarated with front-wheel drive. you are feeling powerful with a 4-cylinder engine. [ male announcer ] open your eyes... to the 6-cylinder, 8-speed lexus gs. with more standard horsepower than any of its german competitors. this is a wake-up call. ♪ >>> from the nasdaq market site in new york city's time square this is "fast money." america's post-market show, i'm melissa lee. these are the "fast money" trader

now also for cnbc. jim cramer. >> hey, mark.ow are you doing. >> we have to put up with you twice a month. >> i wish it were more. you know that. >> come on. i wear this on my sleeve. quit kissing. >> that's kernan. >> have i professed my love of "squawk"? >> that was mark. miss mark every day. >> cnbc turns 25 today. i think this is a terrific moment to reflect on how business has changed over that period. how we have changed wit. first of all, when the network was born i counted myself among skeptics. the financial news network when i first started managing other people's money out of my dorm room at harvard law. i thought it was useful. until then you had to call brokers to get information about how stocks were trading. i did watch it for the tape. that ticker thing in the lower third of the screen. much more than for the information. i wanted to get a feel for the action the way the day was going. nothing tells the tale like the tape. i went to goldman sachs after graduating from law school. i thought i would have been fired

the consumer news and business channel, cnbc. your attention, and we promise to work hard to keep it. >> well, good morning, and welcome to cnbc, the consumer news and business channel. i'm neil cavuto. >> and i'm kathleen campion. this is world business, and this is what's happening. >> great looking at the old clips. >> i think those are the najarian brothers -- pre -- yeah, a slight issue after. >> look, a lot has changed over the last quarter century. >> no kidding. >> yeah, but certainly how you guys have interacted with the market and kept up with the market, and the way that it's changed the way you do your jobs, right? no one watched television before when they were figuring out what kind of trades to make or what the sentiment was or to get a look at what some experts were thinking about the way they were investing their own money. >> before the net was big, scott, cnbc was democraticizing the markets. today, the combination of cnbc, twitter, internet, people get the information and it's bang, bang, bang, almost leight-s

and in honor of cnbc's 25th anniversary here are the top five best brought to you by the voice of cnbcim. >> thanks. without further adieu, here they are. number five, spider monky. number four, yea sure. number three, #jerks. number two, ridonculeus and number one, if ur twerken you're not working. >> he says it. that could be the fun book. >> silky shoo y smith. >> still ahead. some of the moments on "fast money." complete with a special toast. plus the one stock betting on for the next 25 years. more "fast" straight ahead. [ indistinct shouting ] ♪ [ indistinct shouting ] [ male announcer ] time and sales data. split-second stats. [ indistinct shouting ] ♪ it's so close to the options floor... [ indistinct shouting, bell dinging ] ...you'll bust your brain box. ♪ all on thinkorswim from td ameritrade. ♪ i'm spending too much time hiring and not enough time in my kitchen. [ female announcer ] need to hire fast? go to ziprecruiter.com and post your job to over 30 of the web's leading job boards with a single click; then simply select the best candidates from one easy to review list. y

obviously we're cnbc.on in davos at the world economic forum and talk about loans and bonds and social good to build the wells. where do you stand with this right now? >> we've launched this fund to leverage money from social investors in the u.s. with a targeted financial return of 2% and we can on lend that to our microfinance partners in developing countries who then lend that to really poor people so they can get a microloan so they can connect to the water utility, so they can build a toilet, so we've got the thing rolling. we're going through the regulatory process of this, and we expect to be raising the actual debt by the third quarter and disbursing loans. 50 million in demand with this capital and with our partners they can help millions more get access to water. >> incidentally, we've been doing this for years now and we've completed over 300,000 of these loans. they pay back over 98%. so -- so this is not -- >> that's a pretty good rate of return. >> a pretty good rate of return. not just makin

they want as many eyeballs on cnbc as possible so they can charge as much for their advertising on cnbc. that's how the game works. that is how tv works. if they put bloomberg in the neighborhood, people go like, i would like to watch bloomberg. i would like to sample that. i want to see bloomberg's financial news network. and then they might like it. they don't want people not watching cnbc. the put bloomberg way in nosebleed seats so people could not find it, would not find it right -- it. they did not put it in the neighborhood. that was leveraging their position, which is what they talk about when they talk to their investors. conversation had a with one of the big wall street banks who was complaining, we do not think you are leveraging your position enough. the executive from comcast said, we are. customer, we are going up four dollars or six dollars a month for internet. asked mr. cohen, aren't you going to use this -- that is your job for your investors, to get them the biggest return on investment. aren't you going to use this leverage to do things like bundle? told theird inve

. >>> today also is a special day, our 25th birthday here at cnbc. we take you back to april 1989 throughout today's show. >>> 25 years, folks, of the good stuff. so here we are, stocks fixer despite that futures were suggesting we might open down in the states. this morning, this is where we stand, currently just down. we're flat for the xetra dax as for the cac current and the ftse mib down 0.25%. let's recap the asian markets. no sri today. shang the hang seng is up marginally and the nikkei ended fairly flat as well. inconclusive session. bond rates, i saw treasury yields between 2.6 and 2.64% in the last four sessions. we're still there with the ten-year yield as well. in the currency markets, the yen 102.37, we're just below 102 at the moment. euro/dollar, 1.38 handing that we've had. ukraine's interior minister says three pro-russia rebels have been killed during a crackdown on separatists in the east of the country. this is after separatists rebels seized military vehicles, whilst ukrainian troops were met by angry crowds in a number of towns

a member of the cnbc 25 list.n, we will hear from her about what made her a success and what she thinks is her biggest mistake. the ceo of our parent comcast, brian roberts will join us live and talk about time warner, liberty media and a lot more. dow is up 85. "squawk on the street" will be right back. right back. [ bagpipes play ] make it happen with fidelity active trader pro. it's one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. call or click to open your fidelity account today. at your ford dealer think? they think about tires. and what they've been through lately. polar vortexes, road construction, and gaping potholes. so with all that behind you, you might want to make sure you're safe and in control. ford technicians are ready to find the right tires for your vehicle. get up to $120 in mail-in rebates on four select tires when you use the ford service credit card at the big tire event. see what the ford experts think about your tires. at your ford dealer. >>> welcome back to "squawk on

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and they don't want people not watching cnbc. so bloomberg is way in the nose bleed seats so people couldn't find it. they didn't put it into neighborhood and that was leveraging their position which is what they talk about when they talk to their investors. they had in a conversation with one of the big wall street banks in 2012 that was com plaining we don't think you are leveraging your position enough and the executive from comcast said we are. our per customer we are going up $4-$6 a month and that was for internet. and i asked are you going to -- that is your job to get the biggest return on investment. are you going to use this l leverage to do things like bundle? and they told investor after this deal was announced we will tell your call center people to push bundles. to push it. and this again goes back to that earlier condition that they were fined on where they put stand a aloneband bud di -- broadband but didn't tell anyone. and was very frank. we instructed people to say they do exist, the stand alone package, but do

we go to the cnbc hq. we're trading higher, getting a nice boost. >> let's start in europe as novartis unveils a major overhaul. they are buying glaxo smithkline's oncology unit for $14.5 billion. novartis is selling its vaccines business to british drugmaker for $5.25 billion, both deals include milestone payments that could raise the total values. novartis and glaxo plan to combine their consumer divisions in a joint venture. glaxo will own 63% of venture which will be one of the world's largest with nearly $11 billion in annual revenue. the deal's fundamentally reshape novartis, bringing it higher, margin products such as cancer drugs. separately, novartis will sell its animal health division to eli lilly for $5.4 billion and is also looking to sell its flu business, checking shares of novartis, glaxo and lilly, all higher on the day. >>> a programming note, sir andrew witty will be on "squawk box" at 6:40 a.m. eastern and john lickliter will follow at 7:15. >>> allergan has a market cap of $42 billion.

cnbc. and, in fact, we talk a little bit about that merger or that acquisition of nbc universal in the hearing yesterday, and i talked about it. we, you know, when we were discussing that and i was against that one too, brian roberts, the ceo of comcast, said that, you know, look, we compete. it's okay if for us to buy nbc universal, buy all this content because we have to compete with all these other distributers. and he mentioned time warner cable. as one of those competitors. and he said at that hearing, at the hearing with us that we're not expanding our distribution. so it's okay for us to vertically integrate this way. and they can't have it both ways. and they are trying to have it both ways. in one hearing you say, look, we compete with time warner cable. and in the next, you know, a couple years later it's, oh, we don't compete with time warner cable. that's literally what they said. so they're completely contradicting themselves. and when they have this power now of, you know, the

of course it is a big day for cnbc.5th anniversary on the air looking at some of the big moments in the last quarter century. we have great ones from you, rick. >> i'll tell you it's been a heck of a run, buddy. >> a few rants coming up. can't wait for the coverage. but now what we do best here, the markets. the dow, s&p and nasdaq down for the first day in four. the stocks lower across the board. let's bring in david with deutsch bank and anders, jpmorgan funds vice president and global market strategist. david to you, this is a strange market. i think i need to go way move often. coming off the best three days in two months. big moves, little catalyst, what's driving it? >> been a wildly volatile month in april. the s&p swing 5% in less than two weeks, many investors are confused about the macro outlook. will things accelerate strongly or muddle along and what does that mean for interest rates? i think 10-year yields that's the real debate going on with investors and earnings season, usually earnings season is support

eunice yoon, cnbc, beijing. >>> we're off to moscow.pmorgan says it will process a transaction from the russian embassy in kazakhstan, having initially proposed to do so. the russian foreign minute city says the bank initially prevented the money transfer from the money industry to the insurance group sogaz. one of the banks that was hit by sanctions. geoff has been speaking to the economy minister. he joins us now in moscow, as well. it's a strange sort of world we're in pp. mil miley cyrus is in a concert in helsinki and it's being threatened because of russian sanctions, as well. >> it's the difficulty of dealing with the new normal as it relates to washington's relationship with moscow now, ross. and jpmorgan, like a number of other financial institutions have found themselves in a difficult the place. sanctions have been imposed. there are some restrictions now on the transactions that russian entities and particularly the government can engage in. and companies are having to work there way around the language. and trying to unders

welcome back to "squawk box" here on cnbc. along with becky quick and andrew ross-sorkin. comcast discussed a deal with charter communications that it hopes will convince regulators to approve the $45 billion takeover of time warner cable. not sure that's the rational behind the deal with a lot happening here. the transaction is worth about $20 billion all in. and it involves divesting subscribers to charter or selling them to charter for quite a bit of cash. $7 billion in cash. a new independent publicly trading company, which will be called spinco, and a subscriber swap with charter. there are only tax advantage reasons and reasons to lower comcast debt to back to where it was before the time warmer deal was announced. and also so use some of the cash to -- >> these guys were joining us originally and buy back stock with the mark they like. astro zeneca is a stock to watch as pfizer considers its options after having two takeover bids rejected. s a that zeneaccides a tra zene confident. and a recovery could be stalling. the

we'll be speaking to the ceo in a first on cnbc.nd the easter truce is over, ukraine's government says it will act to eliminate militant groups in the east of the country in the coming days. >>> and fast food translates to fast money for yum brands as the operator of kfc, pizza hut and taco bell reports better-than-expected results thanks to strong sales in china. >>> you're watching "worldwide exchange," bringing you business news from around the globe. >>> if you're just tuning in, thanks for joining us on the program today. markets are faring ahead of the open, futures suggesting a weak start for the s&p 500, the nasdaq, after six straight sessions of gains, the dow showing firmness still, suggesting we might see green on the open. the ftse cnbc global 300 index has been in positive territory. still holding on to that and off the lows of the session. up less than 0.1% so far. it's been a fairly weak session so far. we've had selling across the main markets, germany in particular, the cac in france, the weakest of the bunch on con

>> no, the 25th anniversary of cnbc. cnbc 25 list. we're going to be ringing the closing bell. >> ding, ding, ding, ding, ding? you'll get to see the whole cnbc team. they deserve it. >> stick around. "closing bell" is next. >> hi, everybody. welcome to a very special edition of "closing bell." i'm kelly evans at cnbc global headquarters. >> and welcome, everybody. i'm tyler matheson in for bill griffith. the actual closing bell will be rung right here on the floor of the cnbc newsroom which will be filling up for the full hour, nearly everyone, hundreds of people who work for our

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one of the cnbc's first. the story on number nine on the list, a true financial innovator coming up on "power lunch." >>> also tonight at 7:00, a special reveal of the top five. i would have to say of the 25, apart from the gentlemen at this table, the guy i would like most have dinner with would be larry ellison. >> i thought one of the most interesting lines is we have no idea when we react with oracle's products. maybe that's why we sometimes forget about oracle's power and its reach and importance. by putting ellison where we did on the list, we no longer will forget that stuff. he's a really important guy who did a lot of important stuff that we use every day. >> hits products aren't on these desktops, but they're behind the desktops, and behind the hr things, and all the softwares that -- all that management stuff that's so vital to making commerce flow. guys? thought? >> one interesting thing, he took a big gamble, almost -- at one point oracle lost almost 80% and made a big gamble on the internet. >>

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also cnbc contributor jared bernstein. diana, listen, i know where you stand on a lot of these issues but the american public is getting sick of hearing about this cash sitting overseas while american middle class workers haven't had a real raise outside of health care benefit costs in years. >> well, apple did give a lot back to its shareholders. we just heard about apple. how well it's doing. that is giving back to its shareholders. if we lowered the corporate tax rate closer to oecd levels, we'd see more repatriation of these earnings. right now, our state and federal corporate tax rate is a top of 39%, compared to about 25% average for oecd countries. we tax companies on worldwide income. many companies just tax companies on their territorial income. we need to move closer no line to our competitors because it's a global race for capital out there. >> yeah, you know, and listen, we're not picking on apple necessarily here but because, diana, the size of their cash hoard, it's hard not to. what would be the answer? i kn

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call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. happy birthday, cnbc! ♪ hallelujah and congratulations to all the top 25 icons and, yes, winners that we've anointed. you deserve all the accolades. hold it, though. in the end, this is "mad money," not mad awards. so on a day when the dow hit an all-time high, thank you. closing up 45 points, s&p climbed .3%. you know what, i think it's only right to use this moment to tell you which of these gentlemen and ladies i think can make you the most money with their company stocks while at the same time putting it all in context with the market that hit a record dow jones high. that's why i've decided to isolate five companies. remember, i believe you can't just bet on the horse, you have to bet on the jockey. and there are plenty of jockeys on this list and we've got to talk about them from that perspective. it's okay. we're iconic in our own right. first, number 14 on the list, howard schultz of starbucks. here's a company that just reported a smashing quarter with same-store sales better than just about any r

the ftse cnbc global 300 is down marginally ahead of the u.s. open.ty markets are fairly flat. shell has been the outperformer. xetra dax is fairly flat. we had the present of inflation coming out for the eurozone, 0.7%. it was 0.8% in march. it's expected to go up to 0.8%. still a fairly weak. is it weak enough for the ecb to do anything next week? possibly not. the ftse mib is down 0.7%. the what are investors to do as the fed concludes its two-day policy meeting today. here's a recap of some of the thoughts we had on the channel. >> inflation risks aren't going away anytime soon. if the ecb is carrying on, talking about potentially doing something further down the lane, speculation about qe will continue. that's a good environment for peripheral bonds. i think they can continue to do reasonably well. >> some of the names like bp, they're big dividend payers. as a result, what you'll see in a low yield environment is more funds come into this type of sector. they want to make sure investors are set up. >> the yield is now so much in spain and italy,

to discuss the results, and he will be first on cnbc. sue?ix people were wounded, three critically today at a fedex facility at ken saw, georgia. police say a worker showed up for the early shift armed with an assault rifle and began fires. the shooting ended when the man shot and killed himself. >>> three of the biggest winners in today's trading coming up in a moment, if you first what's coming up on "street signs." >> i was going to do the tease, but i'm going to let the legendary chris tucker do it. >> i'm here with brian and mandy, tune in for "street signs" right now. >> better than i could have done. >> thank you. back from the milken conference. ♪ [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. ♪ she can print amazing things, right from her computer. [ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] she makes trains that are friends with trees. ♪ my mom works at ge. ♪ i'm spending too much time hiring and not enough time in my kitchen. [ female announcer ] need to hire fast? go to ziprecruiter.com and post your job to over

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we do have a big morning for cnbc.st 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 announcement on wednesday after noon. this sun with of the meetings that does not come with a news conference. check out the markets right now. yesterday we did see a mixed day for the markets. the dow was up by about 87

. >> welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm steve kroft. in this edition, we look at the world of big deals on wall street and in las vegas and examine the impact of high-speed computers in both places. we begin with perhaps the most famous investor of them all, warren buffett. his fame extends far beyond wall street, his oldest son, howard, not so much. and yet he's the person warren buffett wants to succeed him as chairman of berkshire hathaway, the mega holding company that buffett built. for most of his adult life, howard has been a corn and soybean farmer in nebraska and illinois. and as lesley stahl first reported in december of 2011, howard doesn't live the high life, and he loves getting down in the dirt. >> this is the man who'll become the next chairman of the company-acquiring, investment-picking, moneymaking machine berkshire hathaway if warren buffett has his way. howard is a farmer who would rather dig up the ground and drive big machines than sit in a boardroom. were you stunned? were you surprised? >> i was surprised. >> but

one thing i disagree, there is growth but you better have a valuation, whether talking cnbc or other names, tesla, netflix, amazon do not fit that bill. >> hold your thought. dominic chews has news from the newsdesk. >> the clippers and owner donald sterling's alleged racist comments, we have two of the first companies to drop their sponsorship of the l.a. clippers in response to this controversy. the first is car max. a statement from carmax says it finds the statements attributed to the clippers' owner completely upacceptible and these views are for culture of respect for all individuals. we have a second company dropping its sponsorship. this time state farm insurance and says it strongly respects diversity in its workforce and customers. and clippers say we are taking a pau taking a pause with them and the advertising campaign involving chris paul and now other nba players. carmax, state farm, two of the big companies to drop their sponsorship of the l.a. clippers in response to the donald sterling alleged racist comments. back to you. >> anybody who watches television has seen t

"squawk box" on cnbc. profit from it. profit from it. . celebrating cnbc's first 25 list.l is here. >> the board of french industrial alstom backing ge's bid the latest on the buyout tug of war ahead. plus, banned for life. the fallout over don sterling's racist comments and economics of basketball are ahead the final hour of "squawk box" begins right now. ♪ raindrops keep falling on my head ♪ and just like the guy woes feet are too big for his bed ♪ . welcome back, everybody. it is a rainy morning in new york city. you can see times square. in our headlines, we have a busy morning for economic numbers. the adp is coming up on private sector unemployment. we follow that with the first quarter gdp numbers. congress is looking for 210,000 new sector jobs. a big deal in the utility industry this morning. pope e pepco is being bought by exelon. 25 cents a share. >> that is a 20% premium for pepco shareholders over yesterday's close. they are up 17%. france's alstom is backing a bid for ge for the energy business and is giving germany siemens to come up with its own bid. >> mar

kayla tausche is joining us from cnbc's headquarter q. what's going on with his pay packet?rk zuckerberg wasn't taking home as much money. he took a decent pay cut last year. his total compensation fell 67% to about 653,000. he took a bail salary of $11. he didn't walk away completely empty handed last year. he reached more than $3 billion from exercising stock options. zuckerberg is not the only one who saw a smaller paycheck. cheryl sandberg's pay fell 38% due to lower stock awards. she is still the highest pait paid executive at facebook. s.e.c. filings show sandburg has more than half her holdings since facebook's ipo in 2012. she says ipo shares under $4 billion. executives often choose to spread out their investments over time. now, even after those sales, sandburg still owes abo owns ab0 million restricted shares of facebook. that's roughly $1 billion. right now, facebook shares just below $44 in frankfurt trading down just slightly today, ross. overall, facebook up big in 2013. executives just taking a little bit of a smaller piece of the pie. >> yeah. now, kayla, ta

i was watching you long before you ion went to cnbc. i remember you on pbs. many places have you been fired from? not a one, tom massena. i've never been fired ever, i suspect there skulls a first time i might be tempting fate. paul in toronto. just how much blood of virgins have you been dripping to look this good after all these years? plenty, paul, plenty. ernest e-mails, neil i remember you like elvis presley reporter from pbs in the 1908's. you must be what, 80? 55. i'm 55 years old. sara, do you get early birdies counts? well if i so choose, sara, but i hang out hopefully long enough in a restaurant for some fan to pick up the check. not too much luck with that one yet but i still do it. steve in new orleans. cavuto what's been the biggest event thaw covered in 25 years of anchoring? steve withou 9/11. nothing, nothing, comes even close. tim via comcast, neil as accomplished anchor what colleague in your business have you most admired over the years? all right, tim, in my business that could be a tough one i would say they all had something special. as

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cnbc's eunice yoon joins us with the details from beijing.his is down at an 18-month low and helped as well, i guess, by an easy comparison to the first quarter last year when the economy was certainly weaker. when you break down these figures, what's the true underlying picture, do we think? >> we do know there's weakness in the property sector and so that's one of the reasons we did see a bit of a slip in this number. overall when you look at the set of numbers for the first quarter, we are seeing, yes, the economy is slowing but it's just not as bad as people have thought. that's one of the reasons we saw the relief rally. the number came in above consensus for 7.3% and in line with where the leadership has already said they want the economy growing for the year at around 7.5%. so the main takeaway from this is that the government probably won't feel a sense of urgency to come in with any form of stimulus because they've already indicated that they are comfortable with this level of growth. at least for the short term. longer term it's pos

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we have a cnbc contributor and best selling author of karen roth, also a contributor here at cnbc. and folks, welcome to both of you. ben, your thoughts on this, you heard what john thinks. >> i'm not sure i agree on mary landrieu. her whole case democratic from louisiana facing a tough re-election. she has a lot of influence in washington. the energy committee, she's not just displaying that by getting the keystone pipeline done. i think it's probably in that negative for they are. i mean, there's some truth to the fact to say i'm standing up to my president who is unpopular in louisiana and for key stone, but what would help her in louisiana would be to get this thing done and be able to say, it was partly due to my influence we have approved this. it is bad for landrieu and mark pryor in arkansas. i think it is negative for democrats across the board totally outweighed by tom steyer who says if you aproef keystone, my money goes away. the white house sayses they need that money to win the senate. we need to counter balance that with $100 million from tom steyer. they are making