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deirdre bolton has more on this one, deirdre? >> thanks, melissa.world's biggest chip-makers intel has this vulnerability in its processer chip. this is in everything we use, modern pc's, laptops, servers, you name it. these chip vulnerabilities make it easier for hackers to steal passwords and other data. this is affecting intel and other companies which they do manufacturing, a md&a rm. intel is rapidly issuing up dates and software patches. bid end of next week and it will issued updates more than 90% of the products. chips five years old or slightly newer, are the ones that need patching. this is the second layer, melissa, this story is making question their commitment to the company. the ceo apparently knew about the flaws when he sold $24 million of stock this fall. so the ceo, brian krzanich, he sold stock and options in late november. that was several months after the company learned about these vulnerabilities. so google essentially told intel of the vulnerabilities back in the summer, in june, months before the ceo put his divestiture prog

and despite some controversial comments at another meeting, deirdre bolton says this is public relationsgration and this is what everybody should be talking about hello i'm charles p in for neil cavuto , to charlie gasparino, and adam lashinsky, deirdre it was remarkable something many people have never seen before. >> it was indeed and listen president trump understands the media. i mean, it's not a thing he had a very successful tv career and that was a great visual. it did get people

and despite some controversial comments at another meeting, deirdre bolton says this is public relations on immigration and this is what everybody should be talking about hello i'm charles p in for neil cavuto , to charlie gasparino, and adam lashinsky, deirdre it was remarkable something many people have never seen before. >> it was indeed and listen president trump understands the media. i mean, it's not a thing he had a very successful tv career and that was a great visual. it did get people talking and the problem is less than 24 hours later, we had some very vulgar language from him on a completely different topic, but even if we just want to look at that immigration issue, it was a very good visual by brass tax nothing got decided. charles: 55 minutes and here is what i liked about it charlie. everyone was able to speak their mind. it wasn't one of those meetings like the cabinet where everyone is flexing, you had folks like dick durbin saying this is what i like and don't like and president trump was listening. >> 55 minutes and he didn't say anything stupid which is maybe a recor

deirdre bolton and niger innis. ike lindsey graham should be giving the president a hug because they are in aagreement. deirdre: i think what is a shame is i feel like tuesday there was this moment of potential true bipartisanship, working together, we had the president calling republicans and democrats into the same room, inviting the cameras for almost an office and having everything be clear and transparent. granted he likes peck cal, he knows tv and he knows the media. lou: another way of saying that, no one has a god-given right to both american people to death, even if they are president. deirdre: the line on daca has always been, congress, give me something. do your job then give me something. lou: he went farther than any president has, including president trump in point of fact. instead he gets dick durbin and lindsey graham pewing their usual partisan bile. >> it's very, very sad. you have a washington that essentially has three factions. the democrats, i call them the socialists, and you have got republica

deirdre bolton. it is a little weaker according to these reports. slowing down on a sales and production. they did not cite any sources. as far as the information 20 million units of the iphone ten will be produced instead of 40 million. all companies adjust their production schedule but 50% is still a pretty big amount. even though santa was good for you. maybe you were a very good person. the sales were not as strong as expected on three continents. ten points in the south pole. is there a reason given why sales were like that. they also put out at the same time the new iphone seven. that thousand dollar sticker price did scare some consumers off. the believers of the 3% on revenue. just 66 and a half billion dollars that all. there has been a production is slow down even if that is the case. we are still betting on apple. what price is it become expensive for people to consider getting in. we will mention today. close to $15 billion worth of market cap. thank you for cringing at the numbers. the once red-hot bit coin it seems to be cool enough ju

tonight deirdre bolton of fox business network joins us. i join her, really. >> and indoors.e comfortable here. the markets, they closed off the highs that we had the statement from the fed, rates on hold. the indication is we are going to see some rates going higher, which essentially means that just becomes more expensive from corporations or even us if we to pay. that sometimes puts a little bit of water on the stock market. we are watching the health care stocks. this is an amazing story. amazon, jpmorgan chase, berkshire hathaway, saying it's really expensive for our employees. we are paying a lot of money for their health insurance. we are going to form a nonprofit. they haven't even really been that much more specific than that. they are going to try to tackle health care. together these three companies have about a million employees. they have a lot of weight, a lot of muscle. once you say amazon, it's like, do you remember in august when amazon bought whole foods, the markets went crazy. although grocery store stocks went down and that's where sing with health care s

deirdre bolton is here with more. wow! >> you have two, a big pension fund, calsters out in california. that is one of the biggest pension fund in this country. jana partners is a activist investor hedge fund, normally they go to the boards or ceo of a company, say this is what you need to do to increase share value. the reason they are getting involved now, they co-wrote, this pension fund and activist pension fund co-wrote a letter to apple this weekend saying we're actually concerned this issue, that is to say, this idea that the more that children use iphones or any kind of electronic gadget the more they suffer from anxiety and depression. they're saying we're worried if apple, you don't do something about it, it is actually going to hurt your stock price, why we as investors are writing this letter. trish: wow. it is an interesting thing to think about. the libertarian in me says, i've got three kids of my own, you have a few as well, as a parent you need to police this you can't allow your kid to just -- >> is the c

our own deirdre bolton is here. and wow. >> this is a bombshell and it makes intel look pretty irresponsible although i want to point out its stock is not suffering too much. we can come back a little bit. nuts and bolts of the story first. intel bus business with lenovo, huge computer maker in china. does business with alibaba. of course our equivalent roughly of amazon. huge e-commerce company. intel warned these chinese companies about its flaws in its chips. the reason that this is becoming such a story is because some of the some of the flaws in the chips basically left systems vulnerable to hacking. that is where this comes about. in fairness, so far none of the information has been misused by china or anybody else. i just kind ever want to make the point on intel's behalf so to speak, they basically told their clients before they told the government but the problem is in this land where technology and security are so important, it might have been nice to give either the u.s. government or the nsa or somebody

deirdre bolton joins us with a look at what is driving the markets. >> good evening. the best headline today came from drudge on twitter and it said bull beats wolff. outshining some of the upset cost by michael wolff. excerpts of the book have cast an unfavorable light on the trumpet with attrition. stock market investors shrugged it off and the dow jumped past 25,000 for the first time ever. fast is 1000-point game in the average is history. financial stocks, tech stocks, the biggest momentum. oldman, american express, jpmorgan, amazon. the big question is whether or not it can continue. market optimist, they say lowered corporate taxes are going to help these companies, especially ones with lots of cash receipts. tech giants. they are going to be able to repatriate money at a one-time low rate of 15.5% and in the future, they are not going to pay taxes on revenue earned overseas. these rules put u.s. corporations in line with most other industrialized nations in terms of the overseas revenue treatment. job market looks pretty strong, another reason for optimism in

our own deirdre bolton joins me now. you know it is just such a innovative time, that we're living in, there are so many changes and so many things that hadn't been thought about that need to be thought about. >> yes. trish: and he is making a very interesting point. >> he is making a very good point. even according to the analyst community a very logical point as well. because of facebook and google, these are social media companies, as you say changed our world, but they're growing up too, and they are evolving. i think at the heart of mr. murdoch's point these companies are just as much media companies at this point as tech companies. right? so this analagy in essentially -- analogy asking for carriage fees, "washington journal," "washington post," "new york times," whatever it is, facebook, google, you can just get that, unless the companies have a pay wall for free. the analogy is exactly as you stated just as a cable company would basically have agreement with content provider, there is business arrangement and car

deirdre bolton here with this story. deirdre, what is this all about?leading activist investor, leading hedge fund writing to apple this weekend needing to address a growing public health crisis, youth phone addiction. you see it in the streets. this challenge which is a serious one to kids mental health. more psychologists are doing link to increased teen anxiety, depression, suicide and phone use. activist firm jana partners usually pressures companies to make changes based on financial reasons but it says apple's high-flying stock could actually be hurt in the future if it face as pr backlash. long story short, they think kid's phone use is brandish issue for apple. it could ultimately affect the stock price. that firm could wrote a letter to apple this weekend along with one of the biggest pension firms this country, along with california state teachers retirement system, calpers. maybe strategicgy apple doesn't have to listen to them because apple has 900 billion-dollar market cap. apple could ignore the letter. in the past apple made strong statem

dow jones glen hall, democratic strategist michael star hopkins and deirdre bolton. it got me thinking, deirdre, it happens sometimes, when we're focused on federal tax cuts that the impact at the local level, of your state and local taxes don't go down or worse, go up. >> to up, right. neil: could offset the boom. >> meantime do not tell that to any single person invested in the stock market right now. right now this is euphoria. no one cares. you started talking about the 1000 point milestones. last year alone we blew by five, right? 2014, two to add to that. you're saying within seven days two more. this extraordinary. put this in larger context, this is nine-year bull run. neil: that's right. >> this is awfully long stretch going up and up and up. to your point about the federal taxes to me this is all about that, right? corporations got a huge break, right? 35%, down to 21%. that is feeling good to a lot of companies. for all of these companies that make money overseas, they get a one-time forgiveness tax, not the governments. from this point on, nothing, you're

deirdre bolton and ceo lisa. deirdre, what are they warning about?hey're essentially warning about brand risk because these are two investors. they own about $2 billion worth of apple stock. so apple actually could ignore them because their market cap is 900 billion, so apple could just say we're sorry and that's that. however, apple in the past has shown itself to being open-minded and flexible and actually responding to either shareholder feedback or consumer feedback. so these two companies, which is actually an investment, an activist investor usually talking to companies and their boards about increasing value and then one of the biggest pension funds in this country saying we're actually concerned this could be a public health issue. they're talking about it from a point of view of an investor, particularly janna saying, listen, if this is found to be true, these linked kids found more depression, anxiety, suicide, that's going to be bad for the stock. it's obviously bad in many ways. but we're talking about the investment point of view where t

deirdre bolton with more on that. hey, deirdre. >> hey, neil.e best headline i have seen today comes from twitter from drudge, and it says bull beats wolf. so, of course, the bull is the reference to the markets just climbing, climbing, climbing as you can see here against journalist michael wolf and, of course, this book fire and furry that has really unsettled dc. but just take a look at what the stock market is doing. i mean, this is an amazing climb. so the dow jumping past its 25,000 mark for the first time ever. there's not enough superlatives to underline that. but it is also marking the first 1,000-point gain in the index's history. the average is not the index but there you go. the dow hit five 1,000-point milestones last year. neil, that is the most records of this kind in its 120 years. so longer term we have to remember this is a nine-year plus bull market. so we are just on a tear. now, take a look at some of the tech stocks that are motoring the overall markets. the dow sentiment if you would like. you have facebook, you have amazo

we have deirdre bolton joining us, tech analyst extraordinaire, shanna glazer.nteresting, shanna, i will begin with you, end with you, the same stocks we were told would take a breather really have not. what do you make of that? >> i think you're seeing from these stocks, people's excitement and enthusiasm around innovation they announced this year. i think what we're looking at in 2018 potentially stagnation in innovation. like you i'm interested to see if these stocks can continue to rally and improve or if we're going to see a little bit of cooling off coming in 2018. neil: what do you think, deirdre. >> that is a good question. the "fang" stocks, facebook, apple, amazon, google, microsoft, netflix, hitting all-time highs on friday. the question, can they continue? my personal opinion for what it is worth? yes. i think a lot of these companies are getting into new markets. the potential foot print of any of them are so big especially amazon. amazon is going to have 500,000 employees by the end of this year. that is second only to walmart. and they're just beg

deirdre bolton, connell mcshane, welcome to both of you. >> crypto connell mcshane, crypto neil cavuto harkens back to the dot-com feeling, right? where you could run most basic of businesses, maybe you're a florist, it actually did happen, florists.com, suddenly have a lot more investors. the idea with this, kodak is actually creating this blockchain system and there are a lot of people, and i've been kind of reading about this, a lot of artists and a lot of photographers say honestly this could eventually help to solve a big problem, if you're a photographer, sometimes your images will be used in whatever website or stock photos but nobody actually paid you. so there is an element, a positive element of ip protection, intellectual property protection for creators. >> sounds more real than that i was comparing earlier to that long island iced tea thing. >> that was actually funny. first time i read that, i thought that was a joke. oh, its not. >> exactly. so the stock goes through the roof because they renamed the company to long island iced tea. skepticking but some people come back,

the read on all this, we have deirdre bolton here and connell mcshane. russ, a tech analyst extraordinaire. russ, apple always had a lot of money. >> sure. neil: this is the catalyst to start sharing that dough. >> yes. neil: this is unheard of though? >> this is staggering amount, they got a lot of flak because they focused manufacturing from china to away from the u.s. they're bringing focus to the service not with manufacturing jobs, tech support, data manager jobs. they are more attuned to what the u.s. is capable of previous providing these days. neil: hard to relate where the money is going versus where it would have bonn if they had not gotten the money. there were long-term plans russ validated with the expansion of this facility, what have you. would the numbers be as big without this 15.6 one-time tax to get the money home? >> i don't think there is any question that it wouldn't be as big. tim cook said as much. don't underestimate what hillary reported at the end of her report there is good corporate pr what they're doing here. keep that in mi

market watcher, fox business charles shane and deirdre bolton.rles payne, will we see a rate hike today? >> i don't think so, but i've got to say, today's we saw wages go up for the first time euro per year during the great recession. 2.6% into playmate%. this is an area bubbling for a long time. anecdotally we would've thought it would have been a pioneer. this is the last component that pushes the fed can. we will see. i think wages are going to go up so we could have three, and maybe for rate hikes this year. the mac they always talk about never get behind the curve. alluding to a job growth in the private sector was stronger than that. what is the expression behind the curve? >> we don't see anything. neil: you might want everything out. >> i do think we will get if you rate hikes this year. they are going to go out, but really what caught me yesterday was the 10 year yield. i was bananas. pretty much a four year level as your guest was saying. neil: that might be going bananas to you. but you think the jolt is there. >> may be beginning to g

charles: deirdre bolton, thank you very much. appreciate it. plans to raise wages of those one-time as business confidence continues to expand following the passage of tax reform reaction from one needed to gain. first of all, the last number out, on others drawn, strong number, but as i combed through the internals of it, it feels like it spinning its wheels a little bit. the first to react positively almost instantaneously. what do they need to see now? >> thank you for having me. nfib has been conducting this research for 44 years than we have an extraordinary 2017 in that it is the highest monthly reading of the optimism index since we began the survey. this is an extraordinary statistic and it does reflect the fact that small businesses desperate for tax relief, desperate for regulatory relief. now that they have it, they were enthusiastic and exuberant about the economy. charles: how do they stay exuberant and more importantly, has the will of congress to kind of move? success begets success. >> there's no question. we are seeing capital

intact certainly in washington spends more than any other company i guess when doing just that deirdre bolton that closely. what do they do? >> they spent $18 million for google. that is a record. google is not alone, all these tech companies together, apple, amazon, facebook, google, together spent $50 million last year. neil: what do they want? >> they take congressman out to lunch, out to dinner. they have a point of view that suits their business. if i were a lobbiest, i would invite you out as congressman. we would have lunch. i would present my company as point of view. maybe why you should loosen the regulation a little bit. maybe why you should look at this issue or that issue. because at the end of the day because it will help my bottom line. all these companies see it as spending money on the congressman, wining an dining building relationships. neil: a the lo of them rounding error on a rounding error. >> the change we see now, most of the time these were defense companies. these are interest additional sectors. the big money coming from tech, shouldn't surprise, a, these companies

deirdre bolton, mark murphy and chris hogan. i start with you on the market side we're at it again but the resolve is still there. >> the resolve is still there. main thing people are watching. companies hold on to more of each dollar they make. look at the dow, say 26,000 for the first time ever. what you have to look it is not expensive because you're seeing earnings expand, seeing bottom line expand. market still has room to run to the upside. >> p-e ratio, markets are moving up, p-e ratio is not necessarily moving up, because underlying fundamentals justifying that? >> market moves up even further. there is p-e expansion. people will pay a higher price. charles: irrational exuberance phase. >> correct. charles: chris, a lot of people, as sort of a hunch, it has had a hell of a run, some people look at yesterday a yellow flag. maybe i should cash out here. you're retirement expert. people guessing tops and is dangerous thing. >> last things you want to time the market or chase trend. be superclear what it is you're trying to

deirdre bolton on the latest that she's learning from retail land. >> yeah. sears has been struggling for years. hedge fund manager turned sears chairman and ceo eddie lampert, he's been trying to turn this company around, but most analysts agree his changes, well, they just came too little, too late. amazon, other digital retailers, they are so strong that these bricks and mortar stores can't make too many management mistakes. this is what the stock is doing today. eddie lampert, listen, he did to a little experimenting, blending old and new. he allowed some brands to even be sold on amazon, outright sold bigger brands like the craftsman tool line to stanley black and decker, that generated a little bit of cash, but even with those efforts sears' sales down 45% in the past four years. debt load topping $4 billion, and the company is losing more than a billion dollars annually. so as a result, more than a hundred sears and kmart stores are going to close in march and april. the list of unprofitable stores, 39 sears stores in 22 states, 64 kmart sites in 29 st

deirdre bolton on how they did that. >> i am here, neil, and as you can see, if you squint, anyway, likeou can see the statue of liberty and ellis island. and these properties were kind of caught in the middle this weekend, neil, and we know this resolution, it seems like the shutdown is going to be over soon. but saturday and sunday, tourist traffic was actually stopped to these two sites. so obviously as far as geographics go, they're in the state of new york. but the statue of liberty belong to the federal government. so the new york governor andrew cuomo worked something out with the u.s. department of interior and is actually paying the u.s. national parks department $65,000 a day because the tourist traffic, the foot traffic that would be missing from this whole area would add up rather quickly. i'm going to give you some stats from 2016. those, in fact, are really the most recent that we have. four and a half million visitors came down here to this park to go visit the statue of liberty, visit ellis island, and visitors spent an estimated $263 million just downtown. whether it was

deirdre bomb ton. the market -- bolton. the market is ig negotiating the immigration talk that has everyone worked up, focusing on the positive stuff. companies are giving bonuses as a ruchlt tax cuts. the companies will have better earnings as a result of the tax cuts. the economy is picking up steam, growing better 37b%. john layfield joins us now with whether or not it's going to keep going, better than 3%. so far so good, what is amazing, makts up 228 on a day when the mainstream media is obsessed with these supposed comments the president had to make just late yesterday. >> yeah, fortunately being in the market, the market is apolitical. all of this stuff going on in washington, kk, we have a polarized country, the president a polarizing figure. the president previous to him as well. the market is doing incredibly well. 3% gdp, it had been ten years, a record since gdp was measured, under 3% growth. we're seeing that 3% growth, another year, seven straight years of two million jobs plus created in the economy. seeing g