i like letter d, dominion, more than i like exelon. exelon is not excellent. i go to ivan in new york, please? ivan? >> caller: hey, jim. how you doing, jim. >> real good, ivan. how about you? >> caller: all right. i'm going to give you a new york knickerbocker boo-yah. >> i'm a net ten-game package boo-yah. yeah, i got it. it's cool. they're really cheap. >> caller: i got a question about a recent ipo, man. >> okay. >> caller: it's scary. after recent market activity took a little wallop, acceleron, xlrn. >> celgene has a big stake in that. we liked them, but i got to tell you, today is the day where i'm pulling in my biotech horns. and while celgene may like acceleron, we think it's gotten too hot for this guy. it's a nine-second egg that has been left on for ten seconds on the red-shot griddle. we told you not to panic. the survival guide. and cimarex. stay with cramer. >>> tomorrow, kick off the trading day with "squawk on the street" live from post nine at the nyse. >> do you think he is talking about the debt ceiling? does he have the crossbow? is he tal

pg&e, ppl, exelon, all down on that news.il giants, revenue volumes are coming in, pricing gain as part of that picture as well. the railroad company says it expects full year earnings to be up absolutely from full year levels and moving higher in after-hours trading. over to you. >> thank you so much, dom. joining me to discuss those earnings, we're joined by csx ceo michael ward. thank you for joining us. >> good afternoon, maria. it's my pleasure. >> great. before we get to the earning, let me ask you about the current situation in washington. tell me how you think this plays out and has this impacted your decision-making in any way? >> it has not, although we've -- we've not seen impacts yet but clearly if this continues, it's going to start affecting a consumer and business confidence. so, i think it is important that our elected leaders get together, as mr. fisher was saying, to resolve fiscal issues to allow us to move forward. where we see the economy, it looks like it's at a good position to grow from this point, mar

exelon and southern company among the weakest performers. not that great of month for financials, either. up less than 4% as a sector. citigroup and bank of america among the least successful performers in that sector. overall, still, maria, a pretty darn good month for stocks in october. back over to you. >> really was. thank you so much, dom. >>> facebook had a great month as well. the company posted third quarter earnings yesterday. facebook is reporting a beat on revenue and that stock spiked right after the close. then quickly dropped when cfo david eversman cited fewer teens are using the social media website. is that why our next guest sold his entire stake in the last two days of facebook at $51.21 today. dan niles from alpha one capital partners. dan, great to have you. of course, you waited to buy facebook below $20 a share. now you sold it all. how come? what a trade. >> well, i think what was bothering me going into this trend, there were several things. number one, expectations had gotten really high in front of this -- you reme