dennis kneale is all over it. dennis: it is opening everywhere.t will be great and powerful. take it fails in the u.s. down 15% so far this year. we have already had the big flop with jack and the giant slayer. it could do maybe $85 billion in the u.s. over the weekend. even more overseas. disney's stock soaring in the past year. more than 50%. no one in hollywood is better at turning a hit movie into extra things. this is a huge gamble. disney spent another 100 million marketing. plus, its recent record next. lost a stunning $200 billion last year on john carter, a sci-fi flop. sequels already in the works for ""the avengers"." there is no authority, scarecrow or the lion. you have the actor james franco and three absolutely gorgeous witches. ashley: i think franco was like the third choice for the role. dennis: yes. tracy: wicked on broadway is supposed to be the prequel to the wizard of oz as well. it is fantastic. my little ones do not want to see it. dennis: it plays the wizard as a loser. apparently, those flying monkeys, terrifying. my 12-y

dagen: here to read through the small print, dennis kneale. is: i want to take you back your time internet was free and unfettered and congress protected the internet from government intrusion. now we have government stepping in the next post like crazy, this new massive report from the fcc dictating in detail with 26 pages of detailed examples, 21 pages, 30 footnotes i wish to go about disclosing your ads on twitter. i know we need some sort of protection that could hamper the main business model that drives all the newest media. the fcc doesn't just want to dictate how you disclose it, they wants to compel speech rather than compose it. the government says if your ads disclosure otherwise required can't fit into the space of your ad message, you should not even advertise at all. commercial truthful speech protected by the first amendment. if they can't advertise you can't advertise on twitter at all, how can they block an advertiser from one of the most important mediums out there and isn't that taking away from first amendment rights? connel

let's bring in dennis kneale. we are looking at some other ones that have done well. : cause the great and powerful premiere, hollywood hoping to be great and powerful for raise sagging box office, ticket sales down 15% this year, already the first two hundred million dollar flop in the jack and the giant slayer. hopes are high for this prequel to the 75-year-old film that could do $85 million in the u.s. even more overseas where it opened last night, 27 markets and another 19 cities today. this is technically a prequel, not a remake but let's look at the most successful remakes of all time. look at this. they all came out in 2005-2006. casino royale, war of the world that 590, king kong from the guy who did the lord of the rings trilogy, peter jackson, $550 million. we will see whether this will do well. overall, past week, disney stock up 50% and no one knows better how to turn a good blockbuster movie into billions of dollars and other revenue in the next few years, already at work on the avengers. liz: jessica lange was my favorite in the second thing kong. dennis:

dennis kneale has that story. me nbc tried to make jay leno retire, the multimillion dollar's debacle. and it didn't take. now nbc will try it again. the hollywood reporter says they may announce the fall tv season will be his last making room for jimmy fallon to fill the chair. if that is news to jay leno himself, brace yourself for a year of awkward moments. three years ago nbc tried to ease him out and it erupted into public spitting match. he moves to 10:00, failed in a big way, conan o'brien walked away with millions in made money and a new life on tbs. leno took back the tonight show. nbc promised:conan o'brien he would take over. now they may be promise in the job to jimmy fallon only a year or so early. but jay leno's contract expires next year and nbc can't afford to lose jimmy fallon. he is the youngest host, now 38. in fact the succession would set up a battle of the jimmy's.]aç jimmy kimmel wil luring fans unr 30. this lead falls to 10% among adults under 50, and jimmy kimmel is more viewers under 35. t

i am dennis kneale. cheryl: hello, everybody. i am cheryl casone. ou can make money on gambling stocks and more. dennis: former senator, al d'amato, pushing to legalize online poker. how you could be dealt in. stock traders turning into a professional poker player. cheryl: tweet your questions. we will get your answers on the air later on the show. your chance to be on tv today. dennis: first, top of the hour, time for stocks now. nicole: that was a pretty hot top of the show. lots to talk about today. clearly, we are not too far off of the all-time highs. we have eight record all-time high closes for the dow jones industrials. pulling back some. the s&p 500 also slightly lower. the attack and drug stocks continue to do well. jpmorgan is under significant pressure. you do see jpmorgan under some pressure today. we do see oil and gold gaming today. the dow is down 32 points. back to you. cheryl: thank you so much. we will see you 14 minutes from now. jamie dimon managed to escape it. dennis: rich@sin is on capitol hill watching it all. rich: this has

i'm dennis kneale., and the s&p's run in history whether stocks are where you want money right now, we're talking about it. >> the cyber threat, china; right? why russia may be the bigger threat facing america online. cheryl: and if we are not paying enough at the pumps, the imfments a global tax on gasoline. dennis: thanks for that. a public war inside nbc. leno and lar, who stays and goes? cheryl: good question. the first quarter coming to a close. it's been a wild ride for stocks. the dow shattering its all-time record just a short time ago. the s&p, and -- dennis: nicole at the new york stock exchange, nicole? >> hi, i'm looking at the year to date numbers here on the major averages as we wrap up here, the first quarter, january, february, march, the last trading day of march. on monday, april 1 #st when the markets reopen. you noted the s&p highs, the dow jones industrials hitting a new record all time intra-day high today. you see right now, up one-third of 1%. year to date, the dow up 1 1%, s&p u

dennis kneale on the push for online wagering next. ♪ . stations come over to mission a for a final go. this is for real this time. step seven pointtwo one. rify and lock. command is locked. five seconds. three, two, one. standing by for capture. the most innovative software on the planet... dragon is captured. is connecting today's leading companies to places beyond it. siemens. answers. >> good afternoon, everyone, i'm sandra smith with your fox business brief. it is a bearish day on wall street, putting the dow's 10-session run in jeopardy. the s&p 500 is also backing off from its near record closing high. even as the point gone faces budget cuts and forced employee furloughs the department spends nearly a billion dollars a year on unemployment benefits for former troops who left the military voluntarily. eligibility for military compensation requires only that a person serves in uniform and was honorably discharged. >>> if you didn't bother filing a federal tax return for 2009 you could be missing out. the irs says it will claim $917 m

dennis: i'm dennis kneale kneale with your fox business rates.has a country rattling wall street. traders were the drastic move to the bailout might read them in stock down for much of the day after hitting new record highs earlier today. the senate banking committee chairman reportedly won't run for reelection next year. according to dow jones, he plans to announce his retirement tomorrow. his office said a press conference for tomorrow afternoon. if you wish here's a believe in open seat on the banking committee. johnson & johnson recalling more than 2 million blood glucose meters worldwide. centimeters failed to operate properly at extremely high glucose readings. that's when outside u.s. and no direct link to the meter has been determined. now continuing our "countdown to the closing bell" with liz claman. liz: it is the battl battle of e titans, let's be honest, but the bidding war for dell is powering up. nicole: michael dell stepping into the ring with his bid 24.4 billion now of course you have to go with the right of every company, two o

. >> i'm dennis kneale with our fox business brief.a big day for the markets with the blue-chips hitting an all-time high and blowing past it. the dow is up 149 at 14,277. bailed out and government owned fannie mae and freddie mac teaming up in a joint company venture for overseeing home loans, the first step towards shrinking the government's role in mortgage finance. the new company would merge fannie and freddie's bond units and would be a separate entity spun off from those two. >>> same day delivery failing to lure online shoppers. a survey from boston consulting group says one. hottest e-commerce trends is too expennive for most americans. when would get them to shop online more, nearly 75% surveyed said free delivery. thank you, amazon. that is the latest from fox business, giving you the power to prosper lori: say it ain't so. is the "oracle of omaha" losing his midas touch? fox business senior correspondent charlie gasparino here with a look at the performance of warren buffett. >> you know, he is supposedly a great investor.

dennis kneale has more on the story. in '07 as the answer to youtube and the internet. but now may be getting a new owner. hulu's three broadcast owners may be shopping for a buyer. hulu a classic case of how new upstarts win because they don't have old business to protect and they don't have to serve three giant masters. hulu amounts to a face-off between two media titans. the ceo of disney, abc's owner, a deal maker extraordinaire and rupert murdoch, the owner of news corp., our parent company. busy splitting his empire into two. disney has done very well, and news corp. up even better, especially since announcing plans to break up back in june. news corp. says hulu should be a paid service. nbc gave up any state to win approval of nbc takeover by comcast. with no ties to anyone at work, that may be the best idea. netflix may be, amazon may be a satellite distributor like directv or dish. three scenarios possible, an outside buyer could come in, disney, or hulu multi-headed ownership could stay unchanged and that could

dennis: i'm dennis kneale and look who is back. cheryl: hello, everybody. god to be back.dow is lower as the shanghai market suffers the worst drop in 2 1/2 years. a guest says that bank stock, though, may be about to buy them. dennis: the budget cut is already being felt at the airport with long security lines but how can that be as furloughs haven't begun yet? ho cheryl: we're talking about internet espionage. dennis: i'll talk to the national security agency. he's ahead. cheryl: it is the top of the hour. right now stocks down. sandra smith is on the floor of the new york stock exchange and china kind of hurting our markets over here. what's going on, sandra? >> lots of worries about global growth and that's weighing on market but take note that things could change on a dime here. we're looking at the dow down about 14 points, nasdaq down just a small fraction of a percent and the s&p 500 pretty much flat on this session. this is after we saw a significantly bigger loss earlier in the trading session and remember, the dow closed at its third highest level ever on friday

we are joined by dennis kneale and liz macdonald.bes has released its 2013 list of billionaires and i was not on it. there is a lot of new money on the list. ke tory burch and dolce and gabbana. and the first place goes to someone with $72billion. warren buffett dropped to number four with $53 billion. what the thing? were you surprised by anyone on the list? >> the top guys, you kow, i love that tory burch is the second youngest billionaire, right after the woman who invented spanx. melissa: denis, were you on the list? >> no, but it shows how the rest of the world is taking a part in wealth creation. >> a record number of >> 386 of them are across a check from one of the poorest pockets in the world. melissa: i would love to be dead last on the list. let's try to fix this microphone while we do this next one here. i would love to be behind him on the lt anywhere, i'm not denigrating. and next up, losing your job over dancing. check out this video of this work are doing the harlem shake on the job. saying that performance resulted i

. ♪ >> reporter: i'm dennis kneale with your fox business business brief.ints down at 14447. more airlines recording first-class customers. testing. united is revamping cabins for transcontinental premium service. premium travels make up only 8 percent of international passengers but provide 27 percent of airline revenue. in sales of carbonated soft drinks losing their this is according to beverage digest sales fell to their lowest level since 1996. the drop would have been even worse but for the rising popularity of energy drinks like a monster and red bull. despite the decline soft drinks still make up the biggest category of non out rowlock beverages. as the latest from fox business, giving you the power prosper. ♪ david: commuters are often held captive by monopolies to doe have interest in making rice geber a more efficient. our next guest has found a way to challenge the enemies of innovation by way of a mobile phone apple. it's called sidecar and recently expanded to washington d.c. and three other major cities. joining me now, ceo and co-founder. go

>> i'm dennis kneale with your fox business brief.n, turns out stocks can't go up forever. the blue chips on track to end a 10-day win streak and eight straight days of record high closes for the dow. the s&p 500 also pulling back after almost hitting a record high there. retail sales for new video games fell again in february adding to more than a year of declines. researcher npd group says sales of video game hardware, soft wear accessories dropped 25% in february from a year ago. worst hit was the hardware sector. customers waiting for the sony playstation 4 and a lot of gamers are moving online with no console at all. and to it ya recalling 310,000fj cruiser sport utility vehicles worldwide. front seat belt retractors could fall off, years 2007-302013. the japanese automaker says no accidents or injuries have been reported. toyota will notify owners by mail. now we continue our "countdown to the closing bell" with the fabulous cheryl casone. finish. cheryl: oh, dennis. all right, two once-dominant internet names are seeing their p

. >> i'm dennis kneale with your fox business brief.wing their way back on wall street today. the dow falling 25 points to end at a ten-day winning streak and eight straight days of record high closes. s&p 500 also pulling back after nearing a record high of its own. >>> the obama membership straugs reportedly eyeing north carolina democratic congressman mel watt as director of the federal housing agency. dow jones says the white house could make a final decision by next month. fha regulates two mortgage giants the government bailed out, fannie mae and freddie mac. >>> as boeing struggles to ex-if the dreamliner the chief executive just got a 20% raise and a regular lear to filing, the aircraft maker says ceo jim mcinerney's compensation jumped 20% in 2012 to $27.5 million. boeing's stock just hit an all-time high. be happy for him. have a great weekend. that's the latest from fox biz david: as you know nevada is the only state in the u.s. allowing legal prostitution in certain counties. the state makes millions in tax revenues from the

i am dennis kneale. cheryl: hello. i am cheryl casone. thanks and cyprus waiting to open. the cyber threat. turning to the department of homeland security to bring in their paycheck. it is top of the hour. time now for stocks. nicole petallides is at the new york stock exchange. nicole: are down about 40 points on wall street. yesterday we gained over 100 points. we were really testing some all-time highs. the rally yesterday allowed the traders to be a little weak. today we are looking at a market with down arrows. you see names such as jpmorgan, boeing, 3m and home depot on the downside. the u.s. is now probing jpmorgan's action in the madoff ponzi scheme. the banks really must have known. now, the probe is continuing am looking into more closely into jpmorgan in particular. back to you. cheryl: new capital restrictions are going into place and cyprus. there will be no check cashing, limits on with drop. ashley webster is here to tell us how everything got to this point. >> this did not happen overnight. the writing was on the wall. in the end, it was closer to 75%. that

dennis: hello, i am dennis kneale. cheryl: i am cheryl casone. the dow taking a bit of a breather.d up the highest level in five mont months. coming of the president and ceo of the international council of shopping centers. dennis: dollars and cents, the college major you or your kids choose could mean hundreds of thousands of dollars more or less that we earned. a ground breaking report with peter barnes. cheryl: fox business continuing to keep you up to the minute as president obama meets with business leaders to stop attacks on your bank, broker accounts and other valuable information that could be at risk. dennis: nicole petallides at before the new york stock exchange. nicole: we are looking at a market that is a little bit weaker today. six record consecutive closes. the dow was up about 400 points in the last eight trading days today pulling back a little bit down 14 points right now. the s&p down fractionally. we saw the numbers, the best numbers up 1.1%, the fourth straight monthly gain. what is interesting, you can take a look representing some of the retailers, americans

dennis kneale joins those with more. dennis: you call this history? channel is breaking in record high ratings on two new dramas. "the bible" and "vikings". it is working. "the bible" bringing and 13 million viewers from its purveyor and "vikings" 6.2 million fans. eat your hearts out. hitting some of the highest numbers in channel history. it is joined by amd that works. disney's stock is up more than 50% in the past year. the history channels formula for success more and more is leaving history behind. some of its better-known or popular shows include "pawn stars" and "swamp people". tracy: it is a formula that is working, that is for sure. dennis, thank you so much. your dow is up. liz claman is going to take you through the last hour of trading. we have john from emerald wolf. countdown to "the closing bell" is next. don't go anywhere. the local financial house on stocks, bonds, and insurance... and then saw it blow away with the first winds of economic change. when mary lost her husband, she invested in real estate. but when the housing bubble bu

trade commission out with new guidelines on advertising disclosure on social networks, and our dennis knealeis a problem. i'm not happy about it. >> maybe i'm just a little ornery, but in the 1990 the internet was free and unfettered. two decades later, the ftc issuing new guidelines, this big report here, that require any ad on, say, twitter must also make all the same disclosures required in older media. but that's hard to do in twitter's 140-character limit. it could block some advertisers spirally from the next media revolution, hurting twitter's ad sales. and at what point do ftc rules end up violating the first amendment rights that protect truthful commercial speech? so a couple points for you. first, is the ftc drunk with power? it says its mission is to prevent bad business practices, not just crack down on actual wrongdoing, prevent. and it also says its authority is, quote, it covers virtually every sector of the economy. pretty sweeping. in fact, the u.s. has 33 million bloggers who get manager like 25 billion page views every month, and ftc says it can force them to disclose fin

dennis kneale covering this story and joins us now. dennis. >> hello, ashley. good news, bad news thing for cbs because they're raking in some really good ratings so far in the first week of march madness, the college basketball tournament. cb. is putting out a press release moments ago saying this is some of the highest ratings that the basketball product has brought in over 20 years. just one problem, variety, the trade paper, reports that under cbs's contract with time warner's turner networks the games, the final four in march madness move to cable a at some point. sources telling variety and other publications that could happen as early as 2014. that is next season. that's a blow for cbs as the big broadcasters, the big four have steadily lost audience to the cable dial, the one thing they still control is really, big, exclusive live events you can't see anywhere else. more of those events are defecting over to cable. let's remember in 2011 for the first time the college football championship game ended up going to espn from the fox broadcast network. and

. >> i am dennis kneale with your fox business brief.nternational names andre as the company's new chief executive. he will replace the current ceo who will remain as chairman following the company's annual shareholders meeting on may 8th. >>> apple's ceo tim cook will testify in the government lawsuit against the tech giant over alleged price fixing in the ebook market. a district court judge granting the justice department's request compelling cook to testify. >>> shares of silver spring networks are soaring in their wall street debut. the energy company opened at $22 a share on the new york stock exchange. 29% above the ipo price. silver spring works with utility companies to create what is known as smart grids that help lower costs and increase efficiency. that is the latest from fox business, giving you the power to prosper lori: where is meredith whitney, remember her? she is promising a ratings agencies. nowhere according to securities & exchange commission. fox business senior correspondent charlie gasparino with the story. >> we

the dennis: i am dennis kneale. lori: i am lori rothman. flipping ahead of the all important jobs report. dennis: spring cleaning at facebook. we are live at the social media giant headquarters has facebook unveils its new look. lori: president obama steps up. the hopes reuniting talks i installed budget deal. dennis: how to break out of the office grind. we have had some well researched tips on how to stay health happe job. lori: time to check in with nicole celebrating a major milestone with 25,000 hits today. nicole: up one third of 1%. all three major averages have hit, record highs for a certain extent, nasdaq and s&p multiyear highs, all-time record intraday highs. they felt their lowest level in more than a month in the week, so that is some good news. productivity and labor cost basically shows americans are working long hours, but extremely productive. take a look at names of the dow jones industrials actually hitting multiyear highs, names including pfizer, johnson & johnson, boeing, jpmorgan. the highest levels since before the re

dennis kneale has that story. >> hi, guys.million gamble wins the box office raking in $150 million worldwide, and $80 million here in the u.s., and "oz" had the best opening this year, taking in three times as the opening the "jack the giant slayer," and it was the third best opening for a film in march ever trailing only "hunger games," and "alice in wanderland," cheering up hollywood pepping up a box office down 15% so far this year. it's sweet vindication for the mouse house. a year ago, there was a big "john carter" loss losing $2 murks billion. the stock was up today as well. disney could look at the next sequel fran chiz. -- franchise. it did well overseas even though oz is not big there, and this may do better among dulgts than children. 15% were teenagers, and 52% was couples. it's in spite of mixed reviews and scorching in the new york times with the malignant calling, oz, quote, disspiritting, small ideas, and ugly visuals. oh, really? ugly visuals. mila kunis, michelle williams and rachel weis ugly? i don't think s

. ♪ >> i'm dennis kneale with your fox business brief.ake energy are trading down on news the sec is investigating the company and its ceo aubry mcclendon. regulators are notifying the company that an informal inquiry has gone into a formal investigation. the sec is looking into a program where mcclendon received a share in every well that chesapeake drilled. >>> u.s. factories expanding for the third month in a row and at the fastest pace since june 2011. the institute for supply manage anti-index of manufacturing activity rose to 54.2. >>> sacramento mayor kevin johnson getting financial help in the fight to keep the nba kings to from moving to seattle. ron berkle and they are offering to buy the kings from the current owners the maloofs and keep them in sacramento. that is the latest -- lori: cyber attacks are on the rise and efforts to stay ahead of hackers are in high gear. adam shapiro is live from santa clara, california, where he has exclusive access to mcafee's world headquarters. adam? >> in the last hour we told you about proje

. >> i'm dennis kneale with your fox business brief.d airlines ceo is crediting the airline mergers for making airlines profitable. speaking at an aviation conference united ceo jeff smisek said mergers brought rationality to the aviation industry. too many airlines have been chasing too few passengers. >>> boeing ceo jim mcinerney says the company is, quote, very close to getting the 787 dreamliner back into the air. mcinerney said it will be sooner rather than later. he is confident the redesigned battery fix being tested will satisfy the faa. >>> and food stamp enrollment continues to climb in the u.s. close to 50 million americans enrolled in the supplemental nutrition assistance program as of december. that is up 70% since 2008. 15% of americans now using food stamps, costing almost $75 billion a year. that is the latest from fox biz, giving you the power to prosper adam: charlie gasparino says people on wall street are hawking what they say is sure pet to double your money. should you listen to all of the hype? charlie is here to

i'm dennis kneale here with tracy byrnes. still hopeful for compromise, way to come of the smarter cuts than the sequester called for but only if republicans will agree to tax increases yet again after weeks of stoking the big crisis he now says not every american or americans won't feel at all. even strayed into gay marriage for some reason. let's go to wayne rogers one of our contributors and ask what do you think of the president's comments? >> i found the holding of fraud if you will forgive me. that may sound like a drastic word but here's a man talking about the middle class and people who sweep the floors in the white house and the people who are going to lose their jobs. meantime he takes a trip to florida costing $3 million of taxpayer money to play golf with tiger woods. the guy should start at the top. if he really believe this, and i say this to you mr. president, start right there in the white house. mayor bloomberg who runs the city of new york, the largest city of the united states takes $1 year. that is whaa h