also on monday conoco phillips, w.o. -- c.o.p., they hold their investor update. i got to tell you, it's going to be a huge, huge meeting because conoco is going to split into two companies. i think you can continue to do so, but you look obviously if oil goes down below 100 or something, which would be odd. but you'll see the stock sell off. i own this for my charitable trust. you heard me talking about it this weekend on the bulletin, but the main thing i would say about conoco phillips is it has a big catalyst ahead of it. tuesday dick's sporting goods comes before the opening. dick's is the tell for this whole industry. now you know we already like under armour and nike. foot locker which we listened to this morning confirmed that the merchandise those two companies is selling is blowing out the doors. i bet we'll like them even more after dick's report. once again, just like arcos, i'm going to be listening for derivative playoff of dick's. we'll also hear from vail resorts. this is going to be a consumer test. you do not need to take a trip to vail. it's the

you have lin energy which is a terrific, terrific yielder and conoco.p linn and then i want you to take the conoco phillips money and i want you to buy some wayerhaeser. i want you to get out of the energy and i want you to buy a bank. why not buy usbancorp? only then -- let me give you something else. let me give you -- okay. i've got to give you something. just a second. i don't want to cuff this thing. let's give you costco. let's give you a retail. then i think you've got it. okay, let's go to mike in texas. >> caller: hey, jim, booyah to you, baby, how are you? >> real good, how about you, partner? >> caller: man, trying to hang in there, jim. hoping you can tell me if i have enough sauce on this taco with this mix i've got. >> all right. >> let me know when you're ready, jim. >> oh, i was born ready. >> caller: okay dunkin donuts, sandridge energy, netflix, wendy's corporation and diamond foods. >> diamond, oh, boy. all right. okay, dunkin, i already verified it's a great restaurant chain. netflix, talk about spec.ç wendy's, we covered that. you'

conoco-phillips and bp and exxon have -- the project would come at a hefty price as well.ook at that. laying a line from the remote reserves of alaska's southern coast is expected to cost, take a look at that, around $40 billion in total, andrew. this is a significant investment. if they do have 236 trillion tons of undiscovered gas, some are saying it could be worth it. >> some pretty big numbers going on there, isn't there? still ahead on "world business today," they were being paid for pain. but now they have to pay the price. the latest on a scandal that's hurt america's football league just ahead. i want healthy skin for life. [ female announcer ] improve the health of your skin with aveeno daily moisturizing lotion. the natural oatmeal formula improves skin's health in one day, with significant improvement in 2 weeks. i found a moisturizer for life. [ female announcer ] only from aveeno. take the privileged investing tools of wall street and make them simple, intuitive, and available to all. distill all that data. make information instinctual, visual. introducing tra

listen to conoco. i always like to say there is a bull market somewhere. i promise to try to find it just for you right here on "mad money." i'm jim cramer. see you tomorrow. >> staynected to kramer on madmoney@cnbc.com. >> in this morning on "early today requests. overshadowed as rivals seize on a major gap by one of his aides. >>> breaking ranks, an out spoken u.s. marine ends up in hot water for criticizing the commander in chief. and pecking order. a reporter from an nbc station is attacked while shooting a story. >> announcer: this is early today for thursday, march 22nd, >> announcer: this is early today for thursday, march 22nd, 2012 captions paid for by nbc-universal television >> today, we begin with damage control. instead of celebrating a solid win in illinois and a hay jar new republican endorsement, mitt romney's camp is back pedaling. nbc has details. >> reporter: mitt romney's 12 point illinois win impressed big-named republicans, one in the endorsement of jeb bush who said now is the time for republicans to unite behind governor romney. ric

[announcer] at conoco phillips we're helping power america's economy with cleaner affordable natural gas... more jobs, less emissions, a good answer for everyone. so, by reducing the impact of production... and protecting our land and water... i might get a job once we graduate. all eyes are on louisiana. it is the latest contest for the gop presidential nomination. there are 20 delegates up for grab. white house hopeful rick santorum is lookking for a rebound following the critical loss. we'll have a live report from louisiana at 1:00 p.m. eastern. the japanese sunshine fishing ship. no one was on board and 500 million tons of debris swept in. and i am jamie colby. i will send you back to forbes on fox. what do you mean, you do voices? . yes. that interview may leave you laughing but a new trend among boss says may not. they are asking for facebook past words. sounds like an invasion of privacy and facebook itself is threatening legal action about this. forbes foot side said it is a smart idea for accident. >> this could be an icky trend to be your el paso and there is legalities. b

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. >> talking about some of these integrated names, why is something like conoco philips performing?g we don't know about? >> what this is about is that they're divesting, they're going to divest, refining. so a lot of guys have been playing into that. so conoco has in fact, really been doing better in the sector. >> dan, your take on gold. >> i think this is a moment you can buy this stuff. most of the central banks like it when gold goes down 6%. that was really a lot of stocks from week long from 17.50. there's an opportunity here if you like the gold trade. i'm not one of those guys, but if you do, this is an opportunity to get it at a cheaper number. >> thanks so much. grasso, trade oil, gold, whatever you want in a commodities space. >> i'd be a buyer of silver, gold and the refiners. dan talked about oil before. hfc. wnr. names like that. i think buying gold, buying silver on dips, i think you're going to reap a lot of rewards in the oncoming months. >>> next up, the was turned uber bullish on apple. [ nadine ] buzzzz, bzzzz, bzzzz, bzzzz, you know, typical alarm clock. i am s

conoco, they're splitting into two. i think the business is terrific.oil, chemical, tobacco, bingo! let's go to lex in colorado. lex? >> caller: boo-yah, skee-daddy. >> hey, a tebow to be trained by peyton back at you. >> greeting from the southern colorado foothills. the stocks have apple, aapl, health care, hcm, honeywell, hon, energy transfer partners, etb, conocophillips, cop. thanks, coach jim. am i skee-daddy diversified? >> all right. let's get right into it. honeywell, dave cote narrowed the yield. very good. right here a really big read. health care, the other fellow mentioned new york community bank. i don't think i mention helgt enough. that's a terrific reit. we have diversified. a limited partnership and a health care reit. and i got to tell you, that is diversified with good yield and growth. that's what i want to see. congratulations to all our contestants for just blanking the bank and doing it so well. stay with cramer. choose control. introducing gold choice. the freedom you can only get from hertz to keep the car you reserved or simpl

and conoco are negotiating a $40 billion project focused on sending liquified natural gas from alaska to asia. other media reports indicate a multibillion-dollar international drug deal could be coming. generic drug maker watson pharmaceuticals reportedly is close to making a play for actavis out of switzerland. the price tag could be close to $6 billion, creating a global generic drug maker. shares of watson shot up on speculation of a deal, rallying almost 9% on very heavy volume. this is its highest price since january. after the close tonight, earnings from discover financial. they came in stronger than expected, beating estimates by 24 cents per share. customers using their discover cards more often helped improve its business, as did a growing number of student and personal loans. shares were down a fraction with the rest of the market today, and they fell another 2% after the earnings release-- perhaps some profit-taking after a 40% rally in the past year. another financial stock, insurance firm hartford, is bending to shareholder pressures to focus on its core property, casual

>>> i always say you got to listen to conoco. i always like to say there is a bull market somewhere. i promise to try to find it just for you right here on "mad money." i'm jim cramer. see you tomorrow. >> sta>> roger goodeltoday," sk? an important endorsement for mitt romney is overshadowed and rivalries seize on a major gaffe of one of his aids. >>> breaking ranks. an outspoken marine end up in hot water for criticizing the commander-in-chief. >>> pecking order. a reporter from anbc station is attacked while shooting a story. >>> this is "early today" for thursday, march 22nd, 2012. >>> hello, everybody. good morning to you. i'm veronica de la cruz. today we begin with damage control. instead of celebrating a solid win in illinois, mitt romney's camp is backpedaling this morning after a top aide admitted his conservative pitch would change once he's the nominee. steve handelsman has details. >> reporter: mitt romney's 12-point illinois win impressed big name republicans and won him the endorsement of jeb bush, popular former go

so let's pick up some conoco ahead of when they split.hen you will be diversified and still have better yield than what you just mentioned. >> hallelujah! >> no, a little less because we're taking away verizon. let's go to nick in michigan. nick? >> caller: boo-yah, mr. cramer. >> boo-yah to you. >> caller: i hope i'm faring better in my diversified portfolio than i am my brackets for the ncaa tournament. but anyway, here we go. >> okay. my commissioner from my bracket is here. i've frantically been trying to update my brackets. he won't let me go in now as i wanted to take out duke. okay. go ahead. >> caller: yeah, i know. >> the whole country wants to take out duke. can you imagine? the whole country wants to take out one thing. we should get a do-over that duke game. even though i like lehigh. i remember when they were the engineers. off topic. go ahead. >> caller: i know, i know. okay, mr. cramer, i am playing with the house's money on this one. but the first is ibm. >> okay. >> caller: the second is abbott labs. the third is deere, j

and cop, conoco phillips also brings us price to book value. a price to the net asset value per share of this company of only one and a half. that was the price and book racialo the s&p 500 had in the depths of the early 2009 slide. so that's a double advantage. >> tom: the last time we had you here was october 21st. you liked coca-cola then up 5%, sdpu liked exxon mobil up about 7%. of course, this is without dividends. you still like these two? >> we certainly do. >> tom: disclosure? do you center a mixed health care, consumer and energy stocks. >> we own them all. >> tom: that's good to hear. you eat your own cooking. randall, always good to see you here. let's hope we continue to see the rally as the first quarter comes to an end. randall eley from randall and lomax. >> susie: the deadline for filing your federal taxes is less than a month away and we're here to help. all next week, kevin mccormally joins us with his best tax advice. he's editorial director of kiplinger's personal finance. and he's taking your tax questions at nbr.com/tax t

$24 billion in tax breaks for what you call major integrated oil companies, exxon, shell, chevron, conoco philips and bp and modify dual capacity rules to eliminate tax foreign credits. stop on that point. explain. >> well, that's one of the whi reduced for these major oil companies that produce worldwide is this credit system that they currently enjoy. the main thrust of this bill, the bill that's going to be voted on in the senate today, or at least a petition for cloture closing off debate is going to be voted on today. the main thrust of it, try to provide some resources so that you can extend the tax incentives for other types of alternative energy sources, wind energy, for example. various efficiency provisions in the law today which have been allowed to expire, and we think it's important to try to keep those incentives in place so that we can continue to move in that direction, and the reduction in the taxes of the oil industry, the reduction in tax breaks for the oil industry is a way to find revenue to pay for that. >> and those incentives totaling about $11.7 billion extended o

exxon mobil, conoco phillips and b.p. reportedly would ship production from the field to a planned facility on alaska's south coast. alaska had threatened to revoke the companies' leases in the region because they had been slow to drill there. all three of the oil stocks gained ground on that pipeline news and may have also gotten a boost from higher oil prices. oil futures spiked earlier today on word president obama is moving ahead with sanctions against iranian oil buyers. the president decided to forge ahead with the sanctions, saying there was enough oil in the world market to allow countries to cut iranian exports. in new york trading, may crude futures gained about a quarter to close at $103.02 a barrel and are up nearly 6% this quarter. and, that's tonight's market focus. >> susie: our market monitor guest says the second quarter will be a good one for stocks, if you look at wall street history. he's sam stovall, chief equity strategist at s&p capital i.q. always a pleasure to have you back with us, sam. >> thank

breaking libya apart so after the death of dictator moammar gadhafi has libya any closer to achieving conoco say of course not i mean it's a bigger mess than ever before and let's keep in mind that you know khadafi is another example of where the u.s. government was recently. reaching out to him as part of their rendition torture program where they were trying to get him to torture people on on on the governor on the u.s. government's perhaps the same thing they've done with egypt and syria and other dictatorships but let me use a classic example of where libya belongs to the libyans it doesn't belong to the us government it's not a colony of the us empire or the british empire that libya should have been left alone and it's you continue to be left alone by the u.s. government because all they do by intervening is make things worse not only for the people within the country but for we the american people as well do you think the markets he is able to be achieved cameron diaz. possibly i mean you know it's a difficult process but that's that's something that should be left to them to achieve

chevron conoco phillips exxon mobil and royal dutch shell made record profits of one hundred seven thirty seven billion dollars and many of those companies pay a lower tax rate than the average american that in two thousand and nine exxon actually paid zero taxes even though they made over forty five billion dollars in profits very nice not to mention three spun out of the problems of policy logic here the tax breaks of the oil industry enjoys our corporate welfare so by asking them to actually pay their fair share of taxes and said again to use loopholes that amount to welfare something that someone of paul's ideology normally would be opposed to well that's not punishment it's bringing things back to where they're supposed to be but now a big part of paul's argument is that we shouldn't be penalizing the job creators. the oral company employs nine point two million people we don't need to heat punishment on them we need to give them a new urge meant to employ more people. fortunately for paul the oil companies don't exactly employ a nine point two million people the entire industry incl

has deemed those conditions conoco as cruel and inhumane but that's just one piece of the puzzle manning's defense team was doomed from the start of this article thirty two hearing in december when his attorney david coombs was prohibited from calling thirty eight out of forty eight witnesses and the cables in question of already been released to the public at the military still treats them as classified and they've warned government workers not to look at the public documents which let's face it that's just absurd to all of us all manning awaits his fate after being charged with aiding the enemy which brings us back to the plea from media outlets across the country they argue as we have before the prosecution of a u.s. service member over the largest allegedly in u.s. history belongs in the public eye i go on to say that it's a matter of intense public interest particularly where as here that person's liberty is at stake public oversight of the proceeding is of vital importance and i couldn't be more happy to hear that mainstream media organizations across the country are finally standing

[announcer] at conoco phillips we're helping power america's economy with cleaner affordable natural less emissions, a good answer for everyone. so, by reducing the impact of production... and protecting our land and water... i might get a job once we graduate. thanks for babysitting the kids, brittany. so how much do we owe you? that'll be $973.42. ya know, your rates and fees aren't exactly competitive. who do you think i am, quicken loans? [ spokesman ] when you refinance your mortgage with quicken loans you'll find that our rates and fees are extremely competitive. because the last thing you want is to spend too much on your mortgage. one more way quicken loans is engineered to amaze. ♪ ♪ c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c

[announcer] at conoco phillips we're helping power america's economy with cleaner affordable naturalas... more jobs, less emissions, a good answer for everyone. so, by reducing the impact of production... and protecting our land and water... i might get a job once we graduate. r mimmy lis is a rehberger, moxs about, president obama said that shings the nuclear stockpile will be a priority in may when he meets with putin. he also spoke directly about iran's nuclear ambitions. >> there is time to solve this diplomatically. it is my preference. the time is short, iran's leaders must understand they too face a choice. iran must act with the seriousness and sense of urgency that this demands. iran must meet it's obligations. >> translator: -- >>> now back to msnbc undercover. >> for six weeks, high school sophomore jasmine hahn was missing, but the search ended in tragedy when a battered body was found dumped in the snow six miles from her home. >> to see a body in that condition was pretty bad. her torso was basically cut in half. >> he says the body was the most brutal he had ever encou

. >> caller: how about conoco phillips? >> i like it.seeing people say it's not exciting enough. i like paint drying. the splitup, which is going to happen soon, is going to be great. my trust owns that one as well as kraft. we think breaking up is easy to do. j in california. >> caller: i was inquiring about nokia. >> as long as you inquire but don't pull the trigger. they are getting their butts kicked by everybody, but particularly apple. nokia is the anti-apple. stephen in colorado. >> caller: the only thing getting beat up more than my bracket is newmont miners. >> the miners are radically underperforming the price of the metal. i like god but the miners are getting killed. please, please, stay away from the miners, own the commodity. mike in judicial. mike! >> caller: cramer, this is mike from new jersey. >> you're right around the corner. booyah. >> caller: i've been loading up on heck man and i'm in a world of pain. this just keeps on going down. >> here's what's happening. i said this on twitter repeatedly. this is not for the s

[announcer] at conoco phillips we're helping power america's economy with cleaner affordable natural jobs, less emissions, a good answer for everyone. so, by reducing the impact of production... and protecting our land and water... i might get a job once we graduate. >> bill: great american news quiz, out of control famous people edition. two people who do not qualify, martha mccallum and steve doocy. martha playing for clint bradford and if you would like to win great prizes sign up at our website. out of control edition. >> i'm sorry. there was one time recently. >> bill: question number one. after bad behavior in office, richard nixon resigned in disgrace. >> i have never been a quitter. to leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every than stink need. as president, i must put the interests of america first. therefore, i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. >> bill: he was still a disliked figure for many years after that resignation. in 1980 he was rejected by building residents why when he tried to buy an apartment in one city. >> bill: cards