for example, darden restaurants, which employs 175,000 people, will invest $120 million in its most important assets, its employees. at&t announced that 2,000 employees would receive $1,000 bonuses. in turning point -- in kentucky, turning point, will give out bonuses. similar plans have been announced across the kund and in a -- country and in variety of industries, workers are receiving more beneficial retirement contributions. and the employers said it was tax reform that made this possible. how is all of this happening? how is it happening? after all those who were intent on opposing tax reform painted an apocalyptic picture. in the house, it was -- here in the senate my friend the democratic leader said there was nothing about this bill that suits the needs of the american worker. fortunately, a majority in the house and a majority in the senate knew better. we know that the economy is not a zero-sum gain. we know it is completely backwards to think that american businesses need to lose in order for american workers to win. to the contrary, in the 21st century economy, americans are all

think about buying darden which is the parent of olive garden. and the possibilities that other concepts grow bigger than olive garden don't forget even after amazing run, darden sports a 2% yield. the auto parts stores will keep winning. after the amazing run of auto zone, my favorite is the stock of advanced auto parts don't forget the department stores khol's we interviewed them. macy's not as well that is without even factors what the company can do with its real estate. i would love to see the macy's in harold square become a mini mall kind of like a temple in berlin. tried earlier, and this is better environment consumer loves bargains like we find at walmart, dollar tree, dollar general if there is a dramatic decline in a tax rate, we are going to look back at these prices and say, darn, why didn't i get in there is no need to charge in right now. take your time maybe wait for another reversal day that we had yesterday. much more mad money ahead. my exclusive where is his company headed. as the cloud and data center place, i am eyeing one

if if you want to believe that somehow restaurants are tied to improving prospects, take a look at dardenumer sentiment may have more to do with it than anything else, but it's fun to think how food and pot might be tied. >> are these a coins dents, or could pop pot stocks spark a rally? >> i don't think it's about the munchies or about getting high it's about getting well despite the sounds they love to play on this show. this is a biofarmo story, a wellness story, where the multiples are going to absolutely outflank the once that come from the recreational use. without the uses for epilepsy or all those things >> canadian companies have a whole business model where it's fully legal. >> and what risk they may not have >> but some valuation. >> i hate that. >> that long run might have been theb -- now the individual states are talking about it. now we have shined a light on it, so you know what it was bad for the day, i think you lose that battle, but you win the war. it's not just people getting baked, back to tim's oint. >> well said. >> your favorite fast food, word is, is jack-in-the-

less money being darden and pure domestic it is a really good interest until you mention selling. think if someone wanted to sell with the idea that the president says immediately, we'll go with wilbur ross and we'll put in 232 because we don't want our tank made by faulty chinese steel which would be the trojan horse of america >> yeah. >> car brings up a while way now. you see the trouble that erickson is having >> lets not forget about nafta lets see what happens with general motors they have to have nafta to stay especially the pay is going to get progressively weaker >> a lot more to come on that front. wall street is gearing up for a big rally to start this week we'll watch for the dow of 26 k when the opening bell rings in about 17 minutes we'll get research on proctor and qualcomm and more when "squawk street" comes back alpa in the trends, driving specific sectors of out performance. where a rising middle class powers a booming auto industry. a leap into the digital era draws youthful populations to mobile banking and e-commerce. trade and travel surge between emerging ma

liz: i don't think you saw it coming, and david we just showed darden restaurants, the parent of olive garden. we're going to have the full list of companies giving back to customers because of tax cuts, banks and utilities and visa, 401(k) matches going up. not the match, but the amount set aside going up. lot of stuff happening, david bossie. we love having out show. go buy his book. terrific stuff. good to see you, thanks for coming on. >> good to see you. liz: the dow posting fourth record close of the year. let's bring in nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange with the latest. nicole? reporter: another record day on wall street, the dow, the nasdaq, the s&p closed at record highs, the fourth record of 2018 for the dow jones industrial average and the 92nd record close since election day. we were about 18,300. you see it's 25,385 today. records across the board. retail a mixed bag, target moved higher as they raised profit guidance and did well with holiday sales. under armour and urban outfitters seeing weaker sales. liz: good to see you. wow, look at this s

>> dexter darden. >> oh, okay, yes, i'm not familiar with him, but who does he play in the film? >> oh, for the love of god. (laughing). >> you know what, i've never seen maze runner so i'm actually not sure. >> young adult, like young adult dis top yan thing? >> hold on, i'll google him. >> fly catcher,. >> he's african-american. >> walter hill? >> it doesn't make a difference. >> he plays fry pan. >> fry pan in the maze runner. >> oh, yes, yes, i love that character, he is fantastic in the move. >> i hey, kevin, have a great weekend, see you next week, okay? >> thanks, guys. >> thanks. >> thanks, kevin. >> oops. >> okay, so megan says she has something from the mountain between us, here we go. >> he's talking. >> (movie clip). >> like he's calling my name. alex. >> can you re cue that real quickly, megan? >> so, we take you now to a live shot of minnesota. >> minnesota. >> alex holley is doing some ice fishing, and ad race -- here's alex. >> alex. alex. >> edris! >> you guys have to recreate something from that move. >> i oh, we have to. >> out there in that cold. >> you know i

so many retailers are suddenly doing so well from kohl's to children's place to restaurants like darden. remember, they are owned by olive garden and then end up with a winner, of course, it is never that easy i think it's worth focusing on the consumer side. at least for now even as many of the big gains in the market are coming from what we call the capital good, companies that benefit from the global, not domestic but global economic expansion look, i've been recommending boeing for 240 points. i'm not whacking away. in fact i think this $318 stock could easily go to 400 bucks caterpillar will be huge, accounting changes in the new tax code and that's not baked into the stock as much as they try to do so united technology, honeywell, emareson, marker hannafin doing well look, when you sell elevators, jet engines and heating ventilation and air-conditioning or hvac as united technologies does you're going to be a winner in this environment as all three businesses are firing on all cylinders. however, down here at the icr conference in orlando, they're focused on a totally different st

darden says it will invest $20 million in their workforce. red robin going other way.ing out busboys because of rising minimum wage in many locations. market doesn't like that. red robin is down 1% as we speak. >>> big deal, consumer electronics show is underway in las vegas. gene munster, luke managing partners is there. gene, i want to talk about the battle for smart speakers, google's home versus amazon's alexa. in your judgment which is better? >> google home is remarkably better than alexa. stuart, before i get into that, i want to give credit to mark, will, steve, from the luke research ventures team they powered through 800 queries on the smart speakers to get us the results. so drum roll please. google home properly announced the correct results 81% of the time. that compares to alexa at 64% of the time. microsoft's cortana at 56% of the time. so comfortable lead for google home in the smart speaker market. stuart: very important market i believe. that is how you get computers no your house and respond to them directly. big deal, right? >> it is a huge deal and

it is obvious realization that these k-inds of proxy fights doe not work it worked for darden, that wasn activist situation. this is an outright take over. >> you made the point that you think it could be a stronger board and qualcomm would make the point given the refreshment their board is under gongone but, look, broadcom, as someone i can tell you that i care more of what broadcom stock will do than qualcomm. i am saying hock tan, you can just say qualcomm, good luck, go solve the problem with apple you are terrific, we are going to perceive without you. the most important thing is you walk away 300 bucks and some shareholders of qualcomm contacted me and said we want 300 bucks and you get it by walking away >> qualcomm's management team is in town and i talked to a few people they'll be visiting with shareholders they continue to sort of sound people out on what's going to take to acquire nsp. yesterday, they bring up this idea that well, we can use the money we are going to use on nxp which is over $30 billion and buy that stock, that's a lot of stock to buy one time. >> goldman s

i remember one tour in particular, a group from darden, i'm going to turn this on. i was 20 minutes in, i was spitting gold, it was awesome. this guy pulls me aside and says, so thomas jefferson and abraham lincoln, they were friends? i should have done more research on this, none of them were from the united states. sometimes you miss easily. sometimes it goes really well. and the same as christian said, i've had visitors, 80-year-old african-american woman cry and thank me. that feels like a win. and i would say the same, that when somebody says it's horrible the way that you discuss slavery, like when somebody is telling you that it's wrong that you're saying that slavery is wrong, you've done right. >> well said. >> i would say on the upside for us, when we made the research announcement in 2016 that we had found the foundations of monroe's original house, when you have the most wonderful things to come from that was that a man posted on social media named george monroe that he was owned at highland. our director was able to make contact with him and he's little

dexter darden from the mace runner movies is here. >> hole on. you have got ahold of him really?>> okay. i said i want to meet him because he since this song jealous, right? >> yes. he can sing the song jealous. >> and our area, so we will hear his voice hear him do cover we just moved in about four months ago, but the living room's pretty blank. we did a lot of research online. we just need to have a designer put it all together. mmm hmm. so, it's really nice when clients come in and have... done some of their own research. what do you think about these chairs and that table? working with a bassett designer was really easy. us being young professionals we're so busy... there's no way we could've designed it ourselves. no. we love it! >> the pothole between third street. we bay the challenge to either the street department of philadelphia or penndot. some kind of -- we still don't have an answer on. that will di will you get an answer from that from anybody? i always thought it was the streets department. somebody said it is penndot market street some kind of major thorofare? pen

earnings calls about whether cold weather has stopped people from going out check out names like dardentaurants, restaurant stocks may be ones to watch in the coming seasons. >> lots of stuff to watch as a result of the weather. thanks very much, dom. let's get the latest from rafael miranda. >> it is a crippling snow and ice across the country right now. savannah, snow and temperatures in the 20s we have snow in florida, this is moving out freezing rain in charleston. 30 degrees, very difficult travel conditions. expect all along the eastern seaboard you can see we have a blizzard warning in effect for north carolina and norfolk, virginia beach, that's the first time since the '80s we seen these blizzard warnings in virginia. and winter storm warnings in effect across much of the eastern seaboard not new york city but the jersey shore and long island winter storm warnings in effect and then another blizzard warning in effect for the cape just south of boston. let's talk about how much snow we're going to be expecting tonight into tomorrow. don't expect easy travel here. new york city p

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. >>> darden restaurants, parent of olive garden and longhorn steakhouse.you been going there in. liz: i love the breadsticks and italian cuisine. driving your italian producer up the wall. stuart: despite your best efforts. how about this for a number, a big one? $7.2 trillion of wealth added since the president's election. that is overall value of all stocks, up 7.2 trillion since november of last year. brian wesbury, first trust chief economist is here. brian, a big criticism, all the extra wealth, 7.2 trillion only goes to the rich. what say you? >> isn't that what we hear all the time, this class warfare. you about it is not true. it is, it is true that there are not that many people that hold taxable stock accounts. however, if you look at defined benefit, defined contribution pension plans, they all own stocks. insurance companies own stocks. if you look at state pensions, government pensions, they own equities in their portfolios, so the number is way close to 70% of all americans benefit from a rising stock market but then you add on the fact that