we have not seen weather channel on directv for nearly three months. is up about 2%. >> morgan brennan, good news for customers. >>> the dow down about three points. doesn't the dow know it's tuesday. it hasn't fallen in like centuries on tuesday. >> no street talk today. this is where we hit it nike getting a boost. stifel nicolaus making the stock a buy, and slapping an $87 price target on it. so should you just buy it? just buy it? >> let's start talking numbers. rich, i'm going to start with you, because you are a great bun master, but also a great chartest. >> i'll tell you, consumer discretioniaries stocks, that's the worst performing sector on a year-to-day basis. nikes is the poster child for in a underperformance as you alute the to. then we sets into a sideway trading range. now, brian, we haven't had a close bud low that 200-day until yesterday. so that's your first warning sign. i respect this upgrade out of steve in the short term, but when we zoom out and look at that long-term chart, we have to consider that nike's best days are behind i

>> i do. >> i'm a directv subscriber. so -- had problems with cable. >> if i can say, you're proof of the point that i am making. >> i've got problems with directv when the weather is bad. so i'm trying to revisit this. i really am. i don't know what to do. i'm trying to figure out what's the best -- i think most consumers want as much as they can get as cheap as they can get it, right? at least i do. and the details kind of cloud us over. so the bottom line is this merger, you're not taking two people that compete in the same marketplaces. am i right about that? >> that is correct. >> so my choices would be if the merger comes about, to stay with directv, go with dish, go with y'all. who else could i choose from? >> you could go with at&t as a wire line competitor. >> i've got four choices? >> you've got four choices. and again, depending on where you live, other competitors in broadband and cable, are charter, home telecom, and wow in various places in south carolina. >> so it could be up to seven or eight to ten choice

, the broadband space, and they say, well, look, you know, on the cable area we're competing with directv and satellite tv. well, even if you get directv or satellite, any kind of satellite tv, you still want to be on the internet. and guess what? you're going to have to go back to comcast. and then when they've been talking to their 2346sers -- investors in these talks with, you know, goldman sachs and all the other investment banks that have investment in it, they talk about about how, oh, we're going to bundle. we're going to use this power to leverage. that's what we're going to do. that's what they say. and that's their job as a corporation, to make as much money for their investors as possible. so they were mischaracterizing what the market looks like, and this is going to, you know, their service is terrible. that's -- i sent out an e-mail asking people to tell me their views on this merger. i got over 100,000 letters and e-mails, and people talk about how lousy the service is, how they can only go to comcast. and actually mr. cohen said, he essentially thanked me for pointing out

directv has wonderful assets. michael white has done a terrific job. i own both.ntial in our holdings. in that context, a merger between the two companies -- directv, using capital structure, has taken a number of shares out but probably down to 500 million. has 100 million. a deal is logical. the name of the game is speed and it is broadband. >> where else does it make sense to see a merger? >> you have already going on a merger in the broadcasting industry. media general, which warren buffett is a big shareholder, is trying to buy lynn. soft stuff, so the supreme court ruled on the notion of a lot of money being able to be put into the elections, raising money -- that is great for broadcasters. not only is there a mini tsunami this year -- >> we will see tons and tons of political ads on television. >> and that will help because advertising for cars and other subsets is very important area that is what we do -- important. that is all we do. we like the hard news and the soft news. >> we like both. >> let's look at malone and charter. where does he go from here w

it is back on directv. the two sides are settling their three-month-old dispute. no financial details were disclosed. the weather channel did say would cut back on reality programming and offer more local weather news as part of the deal. they're getting back to bread-and-butter. >> every time i turn it on, they were off doing something -- >> you watch the weather channel? >> i go to a when i want to know what the weather is doing. >> when we come back on "bloomberg surveillance" blackstone is cashing out again. we will discuss with the lucky nta ipohat the la qui means. ♪ >> good morning, everyone. the senator from arizona is in the loop today. john mccain. a number of topics, including nato and their relationship with europe and russia. good morning, everyone. it is "bloomberg surveillance." with us this morning, scarlet fu and erik schatzker. he will be on tv for 14 hours straight this morning here at bloomberg. [laughter] wonderful to have you here. >> it is nice to be here. >> what do we have? quinta priced its ipo yesterday. this is blackstone stelling part

>> i do. >> i'm a directv subscriber. so -- had problems with cable. >> if i can say, you're proof of the point that i am making. >> i've got problems with directv when the weather is bad. so i'm trying to revisit this. i really am. i don't know what to do. i'm trying to figure out what's the best -- i think most consumers want as much as they can get as cheap as they can get it, right? at least i do. and the details kind of cloud us over. so the bottom line is this merger, you're not taking two people that compete in the same marketplaces. am i right about that? >> that is correct. >> so my choices would be if the merger comes about, to stay with directv, go with dish, go with y'all. who else could i choose from? >> you could go with at&t as a wire line competitor. >> i've got four choices? >> you've got four choices. and again, depending on where you live, other competitors in broadband and cable, are charter, home telecom, and wow in various places in south carolina. >> so it could be up to seven or eight to ten choice

scott, we've got spewtive surgical -- intuitive surgical, although directv has been a beautiful fliert is down 3w.73% at the moment. scott, we saw that flight to quality into treasuries. is it orderly? tell me what the pits are like right now, give us some feel. >> yeah, it is pretty orderly. be you rewind back one week, that jobs number when we had the stocks and they melted, and we came in on monday with bad chinese export numbers, and then you've got to be kidding me moment of the week was the greek bond auction. eight times oversubscribed to 4.95%? what is going on in this world? has everybody gone mad? [laughter] i think these things are slowly but surely sinking in. and then we've got jets from russia to the ukraine, so there are a lot of things to be worried about. no one's going to go home long, and that's why we're starting to see the stocks melt down. so we're going to see this ten-year bond market go to 2.5 and then 2.25. liz: alan, for a minute there we thought crude oil would look pretty good, it too is down in the last hour. for push of the session it was above $104 a ba

control so much broadband in the broadband on theand they say -- cable area, we are competing with directv and satellite tv. if you get direct tv or satellite or any kind of satellite tv, you still want to be on the internet. you will have to go back to comcast. when they have been talking to their investors in these talks with goldman sachs and all the other investment banks that have investment in it, they talk about how -- we are going to bundle. we're going to use this power to leverage. that is what they say. that is their job as a corporation, to make as much money for their investors as possible. they were mischaracterizing what the market looks like, and this is going to -- their service is terrible. i sent out an e-mail asking views on tell me their this merger. i got 100,000 letters and e-mails. people talked about how lousy the service is and how they can only go to comcast. cohen said -- he thanked me for pointing out how bad their service is. i said, you're welcome. >> senator franken joining our conversation on "the communicators." thanks for joining us. i'm going to start wi

time cable faces growing competition by satellite tv, and the two biggest satellite tv services, directvnd dish are said to be in their own talks. with customers migrating more to the digital space to view their media content, we explain. >> comcast is the nation's largest cable provider. taking over time warner would give the company 30 million subscribers, dwarfing the competition, but dominating the cable landscape may not add up to much in the end. >> you have to wonder if they're trying to be the biggest in a declining industry. the people are pulling the plug and they're going to other ways of getting their television. >> devices from apple tv to roku and amazon's fire tv allow viewers to cut the cable cord by streaming media over their internet connections. companies like netflix distribute their content directly to viewers. and in 2015 one in five americans will not longer be watching tv. >> roku, comcas netflix, apple r more ways to watch the shows you like. and it attracts the behaviors and worrie has comcast worried t advertising. >> giving the company what some critics say co

time warner is asking a hefty fee from other providers, like directv, to carry the dodger channel.ey refused. who's at fault here? >> the biggest fault is with the dodgers. right now, they are furious. fans are furious at the dodgers because they feel like they've been sucky punched. >> reporter: dodger fans have already seen a hike in ticket prices and parking to help supplement the largest payroll in all of baseball. and now, lifelong fans like arto and melanie baghdian and their seven-year-old son, will, feel shut out. >> up to the sit down have your meal with your family, and you want to be able to turn on a dodger game. up to the hear sculley's voice. >> reporter: not hearing vin scully, an announcer so beloved, he got the loudest ovation on opening day, has struck a nerve in this town. >> they took away one thing dodgers fans have trusted for more than anything else, vin scully, and these owners took them away from 70% of them. how dare they. >> reporter: among will's vised possessions, a vin scully auto graphed baseball glove. >> he's seven years old. explain to him why he c

doubleing offenseive none is bothering retired marine sergeant, i decided that turn to fox business, directvfree. all of the other cable programs, you, are the best of the best. as for airline fees on baggage, fedex and ups and all be there when you arrive. cheaper than $50 to $150 a bag, insurance is cheap buy all new clothing with newfound cash or you know, fly commando, i arg and you still cheaper. listen to me. just that image of high-flying like this, as some of you -- think stuff like this. gene rights, you don't have much muss muscle, what possessed you to put your picture on facebook? modesty i guess. i do not think that is neil cavuto, he has way too much class for, that right. and when i saw that picture of you, in the all together, i thought of former congressman weiner, wondered if you will suffer the same, no, i am digitizeed. he is dilllusional. >> hot models and a skimpy swimsuit and a bare cavuto. john writes. i through up in my mouth. really. >> red said, this picture is photoshoped unless neil has gone on a instance diet and lost a ton of weight, it is like that show naked

by satellite operators like directv and comcast. >> that is what is under threat right now.ne second, i want to bring in scott galloway, professor of marketing at nyu stern school of business. do you talk about this? is it a case study? >> aereo is going to be put out of business. way.u go the other >> they are taking on a $57 billion industry. you have got to pay for content. one of the ways content is shifting is from advertising to such reaction to paid model. >> what does mr. greenfield get wrong? >> he is talking about -- this guy will -- my stance is when you talk about technology, enabling consumer behavior makes it legitimate. you can use technology to steal. that is what the industry is going to say these guys are doing. tofrom battling broadcasters battling the elements. the company that has people pay to swim through eyes and run through fire, the business of tough mudder is next. ♪ >> this is "lunch money" on bloomberg television. also streaming live on bloomberg.com, your tablet, and your smartphone. i am adam johnson. so you think you are tough? maybe you shoul

directv is looking into it as well. wanting to jump on the streaming bandwagon to try and fend off the cord cutting as it's becoming known. it will be a fascinating industry to watch to see who strikes deals with whom, but at the moment, amazon is focused very much on itself, i think. back tousm >> caroline, thank you. caroline hyde there with the latest on amazon. >> still ahead -- the secret source behind the superhero move he's why, the captain america sequel will make you marvell. ♪ >> good morning, everybody, welcome back. you're watching "the pulse." let's talk about the currency markets. the e.c.b. is meeting, press conference to follow. you're row dollar not doing much in advance of that. now there's a dollar component to this. payrolls tomorrow, so think about that in the context of this number as well. but nevertheless, if we start to see movement from the e.c.b. today, could see a big reaction in euro dollar. it has been levitating at a much morrell invited level that is justified. single currency, a big part

>> comcast, directv. the name of the game is still alive, linear programming.cans watch five hours of this stuff today and these technology companies have been hitting their heads against the wall because customers are not really cutting the cord in huge numbers and programmer still love to bundle their channels together to still them. >> it still the oscars, baseball, foot all. >> until they can write a huge check and starts unbundle some of these networks, these are nice add-ons. the amazon set-top box will be on top of the big comcast set-top box. ku whatceo of rop happened when google chrome cast launch, they went up more because now people know what it is. theye of the advantages, have all of the customer reviews of the set-top boxes and the best reviews by far are for the chromecast. >> all of a sudden there are new devices and people here when they are all about. they like them. they are not that much money. $100, $35. more consumers start to learn about these so it's kind of been a no-brainer that the market is growing. like i wonder what it also means

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so if you're getting your tv from directv, you still got to get your internet somehow.you want to watch high -- you know, if you want to watch tv, you need high-speed internet. and that's comcast and a combination of comcast/time warner cable. >> do you see any way this merger would help consumers? are there positives to this? are there silver linings? >> you know, i can't see one. i mean, i really can't. this is -- look, comcast has been shown to leverage their position. and i'll give you a perfect example of the leverage. they were told by the regulators, you have the neighborhood. now, what's the neighborhood? well, we're on cnn right now. >> so cnbc, bloomberg, fox news should all be around us? >> it should be, shouldn't it? bloomberg isn't. cnn -- sorry -- comcast agreed to neighborhood, so agreed to put cnn next to fox next to msnbc next to cnbc. 24-hour cable news, and in the case of cnbc, which comcast owns the financial network. what is bloomberg? it's a financial news network. so it should be next to cnbc so that people see bloomberg and say, oh, i'm curious a

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some of the biggest losers we would like to show you, directv, biogen, trip advisor, intuitive, vertex pharma, ending solidly in the end. there were some winners. sir rum xm radio. gilead sciences turning around a pretty bad couple of days and one of the few biotechs actually doing well here. as you know we've been discussing past couple years, biotech, nasdaq index down solidly. now in a bear market. liz: you know the headlines, everybody, are going to read that the nasdaq closed below 4,000. that alan knuckman, the 30-year started to jump to its session highs right at the top of the 3:00 p.m. eastern hour. let's talk about the sentiment in the pits and what you think is really happening. this is an awfully strange week, where in the middle of the week we had some of the best days we had ever seen because the fed came out and was very dovish. >> right. it was two steps forward. we've taken two big steps back. we've taken out the lows we've seen monday. looking at it from my terms we did not go much lower where we opened this morning. we saw a gap lower. we filled the gap. it was disap

dish, it asst directv, at&t.rybody is thinking about this stuff. >> a lot of these companies used to be one in the same. time warner used to be the same company as time warner cable. the content and distribution were one. now that time warner is a different company than time warner cable and there has been a bifurcation between content and distributor -- a few years ago, when they were one company, it they would have been unlikely to do a deal like the amazon deal where they are prodding people away toward getting pay-tv. .> my head hurt i just want to watch tv. >> it is changing so fast. thank you so much for breaking it down. it is not just hbo. you can watch bloomberg tv on amazon fire. president obama just kicked off a three-day visit to japan and a world-famous sushi restaurant. ♪ >> president obama is in japan, the first stop of an eight-day trip designed to underscore america's commitment to the asia-pacific region. megan hughes joins me from washington with more on the travels. the trip began with a world

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they get into this video business, what we may end up seeing, the big picture here, that dish and directvo merge together because the video world is expanding a ban the more competitors like him into this the larger argument could be made is that the traditional players have murdered managers and 12 years ago it would've been seen as a nonstarter. the more you can say the competition is out there, so we should be allowed to consolidate -- >> what does that do to the pricing overall? player ine one more the space combat it seems like every week we are announcing another player, something trying breakinged the next bad or another hit show, what does that do to the production side of things. and thinking can help. at the aegon definitely help. one of the frustration some people in hollywood have had with the platform like yahoo! in the past is you do a show, and the homepageu page, and you're frustrated not being able to get the views that you thought you would get even if you're getting paid well. people still care about you talking about their stuff. if you get paid, that is great, but the

up 7%.pany posted -- the owner of -- em will buy >> number seven, directv, the weather channel has beenestored after almost a three-month blackout. in the deal, weather channel said it would cut back on reality whether programming. slightly.p the world's largest microchip maker will cut jobs as it closes its site in costa rica. >> constellation brands is down 1%. it recently acquired corona beer brands. the company cited brewery expansion project costs higher than estimated. the first quarter net sales could be in the low to mid single range. dropped to the lowest level since february. so things are looking >> number four, toyota post-up more on this story in the roundup and a little bit. matt has details for you. >> number two -- number three, hershey postop it cites biggest decline since november. it was also downgraded from neutral to sell at goldman sachs. >> and number two is barnes & noble. the struggling book retailer may spin off its e-book reader division. actually, it looks like its shares are up. liberty media dropped its stake in the company, which makes -- which may make th

nuvo tv does not have contracts with directv and cablevision. for sure, they will get a deal with cablevision now because ownswas owned by msg, who the dolan family. they will have a 15% equity in this company. incould this hurt diddy terms of advertising dollars? sorry, let's call him sean. if i'm an appetizer and i am considering sean or jennifer, how will he compete? sean were interested in fuse, he would try to find another cable chatter -- channel. there is no other one out there that i know of that is a music channel that he could go out and get, but there are a lot of smaller channel that are potentially available. transfer theoretically a non-reason channel to a music --nnel >> but a question of how much you are prepared to pay. and if the pay-tv provider wants you to. wants to re-create a dance show, i'm available. >> mario lopez was on her channel, too. our own media reporter, alex sherman, giving us the latest deal from j. lo. >> how to prevent another massive credit card fraud like the one that hit target. the answer could be smartca

>> directv has a lot of exposure to venezuela that you would not normally take about. were to book, the total cash or the entire company would fall 26%. >> really interesting. other examples of countries like this? is this an emerging market problem, or a capital control problem? >> well, they go hand-in-hand. argentina has its own multitiered currency system in a way that is not official. you have the official exchange rate, then you have the black-market rate. >> bottom line, if i go there tomorrow i am better off taking might u.s. dollars down to the street corner? >> yes. >> thank you very much. really interesting story. coming up, stanley banks has -- stanley bing has some interesting theories on improving yourself and your business. ♪ >> all right, everyone. time to embrace your craziness. you may know by next guest, gil schwartz, a.k.a. stanley bing, known for his business humor. he is the vice president of corporate communications. the curriculum, everything that you need to know to be a master of the business arts. he breaks down how to harness a different per

documentaries on it, on free speech tv, which i highly recommend people look into that channel on dish and directvd then the one in mayflower, arkansas, that happened two or three years ago. those neighborhoods had 15 minutes come and can you imagine? imagine you are in your home, taking care of the children of a blah, blah, blah, and you have 15 minutes to get out. host: cindy schild. guest: the eminent domain applies to any company in the same laws apply again. is transcanadag has gone above and beyond in that regard and again, they are not just building a pipe and leaving it there, they are responsible for the life of the pipeline. just for any incident or monitoring or taking care of the pipeline, but also for taking care of the land around it. so it is not true that they are -- forilding a pipeline the life of the line. guest: you can claim responsibility, but what kind of response really did we have an kalamazoo where four years later we still do not have that area cleaned up, and we don't have clean up on the horizon anytime soon? we can say that there is responsibility, but does not do any

caller: i just wanted to say what i'm not happy about, like for example, i have directv and i pay $112 to watch tv and i'm told by the corporate company, they worry about their stockholders more than they do the customers, just like grocery stores and all these other places . and you know, higher and higher prices, you talk about raising the minimum wage, what will that do? that will just have inflation on groceries and gas and all these things. if things were lower and stop worrying about the stockholders so much and worry about us, we could create our own jobs because we have part-time people working in grocery stores and not full time because they're not moving the product off the shelves because they're so high. host: jesse from south carolina and we'll go to edward from new jersey. good morning, on our independent line. caller: good morning, gentlemen. mr. eisenbrey, i called in in 2006 when you were with william miller from the chamber of commerce about the economy and politics and i was saying i would never vote democrat ever again. i never would vote republican. i feel like wit

our deals with the mvpds -- the comcasts, directvs -- will not be affected. we will be fine. lead to? if, in fact, it's upheld -- >> if it's upheld, there could be a la cart. there could be a lot of ramifications about this, where the ecosystem won't be the same as it is now. >> right. >> and as i said, there are a lot of companies that are paying us for our content, and we're very pleased with those relationships. and we have the ability to go over the top and direct to our consumers, which is one possibility as well. >> i know. you've raised over the top a lot. you mentioned a la cart. many would argue we're going there slowly but surely anyway, regardless of aereo, given the choices available to people in terms of what they can get over the broadband. you're helping that. clearly, you have an important netflix deal. you're one of the early adopters there. >> yes, exactly. >> so we're moving to that potential world regardless, aren't we, of whether we have an aereo or not, even though it may obviously quicken that pace? >> that's a very good question, david, whether we go a