after priceline, i'd say expedia plays second fiddle. making the move to international, but the united states still accounts for 60% of the company's bookings and expedia's still in the process of upgrading its platform. something priceline's already done. in other words, expedia's in a very distant second place. no wonder expedia's most recent quarter was a disappointment. revenues coming in substantially lower than expected. that's just pathetic compared to priceline's spectacular 35% top line growth. orbitz, it's even worse. they get 75% of their sales from the united states. this is like canceled twice, you know? you're bumped to tomorrow. you stay at a cheap hotel. it's much worse than expedia. and the exact opposite of priceline, which is 22% domestic. to make matters even worse, orbitz is also more dependent on airline bookings, 35% of sales. no surprise that the latest quarter from orbitz was sloppy. they delivered a much larger than expected loss, shrinking revenues, downside guidance. if you're looking to play the online travel

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my question here is, obviously it's going up against companies like expedia.there anything that they can doing differently that can move them forward? >> there's no question that jake makes a number of good points and actually we agree that priceline is a good company and it's well positioned. one, is their exposure to europe where there is a big question mark in particular with the euro, if it would to decline against the dollar, that would affect priceline dramatically. when their reported q4 results last month, they talked about investing and investment. that to us means more narrow margins going forward. >> do you want to defend those arguments that scott has made? >> certainly euro is a big risk. every 5 cent is not in material, absolutely a risk. on the margin side of the equation, i would argue where i think the street has this wrong is there's still a lot of margin upside on the gross margin line. some of the company's businesses where they report costs of goods are flat. that gives you a big margin tail wind and helps offset the margin spending. >> sc

. >>> these days, it would be unusual not to book your hotel reservations on expedia or priceline. but some entrepreneurs at guest mob have a new model. they guarantee you on a heavily discounted price at a quality hotel room, but you don't find out what hotel until just a few days before your day. that is because guess mob auctions your portfolio off at the last minute. >> the price you pay at a hotel could be half the amount you would pay even on this. the tour bus pulling up to the hotel and the tour bus operator going out and saying, i've got 50 people in that bus. what can you bid me? and then going to the next hotel. that's half the holths model right there, right? >> that's part of the model. we have this expression that we call the bag of cash drive where we're basically approaching a hotel rel ofly last minute. and we've got a bag of $20,000. and we've got 50 people and we can learn, you can either get some or the guy across the street will get some. if they have capacity and they haven't sold it on the traditional channel, they take it. >> i think it's stucht tosy the way

expedia up almost 9.5% year-to-date. amazon 6.75%.lagging the broader nasdaq composite which is up almost 15%. just an interesting note how those two widely held names are lagging the overall index. of course gold and other metals closing in the open. sharon epperson at the nymex. hey, sharon. >> hey, brian. gold is ending the week on a slightly higher note. we've seen a reversal in gold and silver today. keep in mind traders are now focused on the week ahead and the weekend ahead. and of course iran concerns continue to percolate around this market. we're also hearing there is speculation that after india reduced its reserve bank ratio that we might see the reserve requirement for china lowered in the week ahead as well. and perhaps easing their also helping the precious metals in this session. keep in mind though for the week though we are looking at gold that's basically flat on the week while silver and copper are lower. but if you want to play gold, look what's happened so far this year for gold priced in yen. outperformed in any

expedia public schools creating a panel to combat billion. -- d.c. public schools. nearly 30% of middle school students are reported being bullied on school property and 10% of high-school students. >> the prince george's county the council is focusing on small businesses for job creation. there is the meeting tonight in hyattsville. >> it's 53 degrees in potomac on this monday monconnah. >> still ahead, caught by the speed trap, the results of a new study that might surprise you. >> and it will be tough for mothers to say no to video games. there is a unique new exhibit. >> >> 6:38 as been get ready for another check of traffic and weather. >> let's check in with adam caskey. we are in the last few hours of winter. >> that's right. at 1:14 a.m. later tonight and then it is officially springtime. astronomically speaking, that is. some areas of light rain off to our west, many west virginia, from western maryland, clipping parts of the shenandoah valley and interstate 81 corridor. basically in sanibel county. that is pushing east and falling apart. sprinkle pop up ne

expedia. >> this morning on today's travel family getaways for spring break.her gets warmer it's the perfect time to take a vacation. the features director for travel & leisure magazine is here. >> good morning. >> gas prices are a drag but you can get a spring getaway for a good price. >> families are looking for a place to have great memories, lots of access to programs for the kids so the parents can rest and value. >> we have a lot of good ideas starting on the west coast in california. >> monterey bay in central california is a gorgeous area. this hotel has had a renovation. they have a cute program called the pirate kids program. this is your little buccaneers will get a scavenger hunt and lots of fake tattoos, pirate paraphernalia, keep them distracted so you can rest and the aquarium is there. this package is only $179 a night. value conscious. >> i'll say. that's a deal. east now to cape may, new jersey. >> can i say screaming deal? >> you can. it's not patented or anything. >> another screaming deal. $139 a night this spring. this is not the jersey s

expedia. >> this morning on today's travel vacation rentals.eeds. >> good morning. >> this is the way to go. it's a $24 billion industry. rather than staying in a hotel people are booking homes, apartments or rooms. >> one-fifth of all the revenue for u.s. hotel room bookings come from this. not only can people save money but they can make money if they want to put their apartment or houses on the market. >> is it just semantics? what's the difference between renting a room versus a hotel room? >> some websites have you crash at someone's house. you take their apartment over or rent one room in the apartment. others have full amenities, spas, concierge. depends on if you want the chocolate on your bedside when you have turn down. >> i do. >> or not. >> chocolate always. for most people the big hesitation is at a hotel you know what you're going to get. if you're not happy you can go to the hotel manager and have it addressed. you book someone's home, what recourse do you have? how do you avoid getting scammed? >> the main thing is you have to d

>> caller: picked up some expedia this morning, expe. how do you feel about that? >> i like it. know the company from being someone who works with it because i have -- with my buddy haley in summit. i think it's a good company. i do worry that travel's going to slow down, however, because of high gasoline costs. let's hold off on the stock right now. how about arthur in california? arthur. >> caller: hey, boo-yah! >> boo-yah. >> caller: bank of america. >> why buy bank of america when i can buy wells fargo or u.s. bancorp, usb. we've got to be in best of breed, not worst of breed. eric in wisconsin. eric. >> caller: how are you doing, jim? a big badger booyah to you. >> nice. let's go to work. >> caller: my question is this. a lot of natural gas plays like lmg and westport have been doing very well. >> yes, they sure have. >> caller: i've been stuck with ung, which has been tanking for the last year and a half. >> if "getting back to even" i said -- and that was when the stock was much, much lower they did some kind of reverse split. i said do not do that, it's a bad proxy, it d

we have illumina, expedia, amazon, and directv and apollo group. maria?y and tomorrow we approach a second quarter and we want to get you set up in terms of where to focus on and where the growth may come from. according to our next guest, the bulls may be running in china and we could see and good to see you. the dow theory in china hasn't been done before in history. you say we're halfway there? >> absolutely. and what we have here, we have the transportation and what we started to see back in '07, '08, that was bearish. then the stock market itself started to turn to the top side in transports but not in the shanghai. that was a confirmation that the market was heading down. what is interesting is that just in september of 2011, the transport made a new low and that is dow theory nonconfirmation. can and hold the lows. transportation is led to the top side. if they can hold the lows, what you would have is a dow theory bull signal. >> jordan, are you saying that we should be putting new money to work. >> clearly underperformed as you can see by most av

>> a number you can call or a computer to get on to, like expedia, it will be an easy way to do it whereout in simplified information about your health insurance and you'll also get a subsidy if you make a less than a certain amount of money for a family of four about $89,000 or less, you'll get to get a subsidy to pay for your premium. >> okay, so it all kicks in when? some has already started to kick in. >> right. some of this already started. the consumer protections piece a lot of that has started. it was not available to children with preexisting conditions. already, we're saying the preexisting conditions. it must be available to people. two and a half million more young people getting insurance. we're also saying we need to make sure you get the preventive care you deserve. 50 million people are getting free preventive care through their private insurance as a result of this. >> i was asked questions on facebook. let me hit you quickly with a couple of them. will prescription drug cost shortages be addressed? healthcare legislation is great but it won't do much good when the healt

i lifted up in which expedia. there is no mention of his blindness until way down many paragraphs. just mentioned in passing. i thought, when stephen love that's got to have himself remember for a science. nobody even thought of the fact u.s. disabled. >> we don't know what would be remembered. the proposal ever become part of the mainstream of theoretical physics and cosmology. to some interesting beautiful proposal. people go on in the troubled, the affirmation paradox, things like -- seems to be sitting in the cells now. i think that his legacy definitely will be twofold. what he is generated about science and as a policy. when i attended the academic conference that preceded his 70th birthday back in january. all these because they had all the gray eminences of this field and had all these young people to. the young people, physicists that already are really contributing. well known. import universities. again and again i heard them say , heard someone say it was reading a brief history of time. as while working in cosmology. that's a wonderful thing. also i think he will conti

you heard us talk about priceline as well earlier, but check out expedia.up in this fairly mixed market. and we have to also check out what's in pharmaceuticals seeing a huge pop today seeing 8% to the upside. and in the meantime the final oil trades started to come in. why don't we check out what's happening in the oil pits with sharon epperson at the nymex. hey, sharon. >> hey, mandy. there's a great deal of anticipation about what's going to happen tomorrow in oklahoma. that is where president obama will be. and that is where the key delivery point is for wti oil futures. and we're settling right now up about $1 on anticipation of what may come out of his remarks from curbing. we already know supplies were down, the first decline we've seen in four weeks. there's plenty of supply there, but he's already supported the keystone pipeline's southern leg to texas. there's rumor that he might fast track that. of course the white house today saying he's definitely very supportive of that proposed leg 700,000 per barrels a day taken out of that down to texas. th

expedia up almost 4%. price line touching a new high of 730, pulling back a few bucks. now 60 cents shy of that. up 2%. in the next hour we will talk a lot more about the host of names more than 10% of s&p 500, maria, touched a new high today. >> all right. we will be bait waitiwaiting fo. >>> bill, the closing bell, a market up 152 point on the dow. pharmaceuticals driving the move. >> we can thank the benign comments from bernanke sparking the rally. >>> will we see another bull run in the precious metal any time soon? the ceo of newmont mining joins us. >>> take a look at chart and see if lion's gate shares keep roaring after the debut of the hunger games this weekend. >> speaking of hot media stocks, cbs ceo, less moonves joins us. his exclusive interview coming up in the next hour of "closing bell. bell..". >> you're watching "closing bell," first in business, worldwide. [ male announcer ] at scottrade, we believe the more you know, the better you trade. so we have ongoing webinars and interactive learning, plus, in-branch seminars at over 500 locations, where our

. >> expedia is down 2%. >> this is off of a 52 week high yesterday. i take it with a grain of salt. they bought a company in sweden. they're expanding their global rea reach. they're no priceline. >> linkedin. >> it's exploding to the upside. it's up 5%. look at this thing on a valuation, you can't get your arms around. you're talking about a multiple. 73 cents. you're talking about well poeov 100. this is too hot for me. i'd stay away. >> world whiskey day, an idea dreamt up by a 21-year-old scottish student. kudos to him. in the u.s., two kentucky legislators got a head start on the festivities. mayors of lexington and louisville exchanged battles of bourbon in anticipation of saturday's final 4 matchup between the cardinals and wildcats. >>> as we head to break, take a look at nat gas hitting its lowest level since 2002. we're all over the story. dig deeper into it when the "halftime report" comes right back. how do you know which ones to follow? the equity summary score consolidates the ratings of up to 10 independent research providers into a sin

so for instance expedia very much looks suspect to me.k that stock on the charts is topping out against $34. i think you go with priceline. nobody puts shatner in the corner. >> no indeed. do not mess with william shatner. let's go about as far away conceptually from priceline as we can go and that is to home builders. the xlf, home builder sentiment was better earlier this week. but then we get numbers like today's on new home sales, numbers like today's from k.b. where are you on the xhb. >> yes. i have no position right here. but i am definitely very suspicious of this sector. so unlike priceline, i think home builders, the news out of kbh was quite poor this morning. when you dig into the housing data, you find that new single family home construction is still pretty abysmal. it's all the multiunit stuff that's working. so because of that the home builders have almost doubled over the last six months or so. they've had an incredible run. i think if you're involved now, you sell. >> hard to stay -- for goldman to stay out of the news.

>> i was going to ask something about for instance the expedia move today. it's almost 3%, more than doubling up on priceline. but priceline as he said, is up 55% year to date. people can't have it both ways. you can't tell me that europe is such a big concern, when that is one of the primary reasons through the booking.com, that priceline is so strong. >> real quick on amazon, a third reason here is amazon is about to get above the 200-day moving average. it has not done that since the middle of november technicians will pay heed to that. >> and grasso, you've been talking about amazon almost every day. >> we flagged it last week on the unusual spike to the upside from 190, to 192 when it held it was conspicuous and now joe said you're up around the 200-day moving average. most people in the space don't understand the margin expansion. i think they're going to get wind of it shortly. >>> next up, are there new speculators rattling the oil markets? we'll show you how to game it. [ male announcer ] the next generation of lexus cannot be contained. [ clang ] t

expedia is long gone. expedia took trip adviser with it.lit off a number of the other businesses, but ise had a good run. >> had a good run. priceline, a lot of people use it. one thing i find with yelp, again, there is a lot of generational stuff going on here, david. when you see 15 and you say to yourself, i don't know, i'm busy working, how do i have time to play games and you talk to your daughter and you you try to figure out how much time does she allocate to games. i would say these are revolutionary and renaissance times for technology. and if you're too old at home and trying to figure it out, i urge you as i did on twitter, go to yelp, go to google, which is how people get to it, input i want to go to a good restaurant, in philadelphia, it is going to send you to yelp, and in yelp you look at the reviews and say, well, how many of these reviews are candid, are they good -- that's,000 wo how it works now america, david. >> that's how it works. let's see how things are working on the floor of the stock exchange. go melissa with bob

anyone who made a travel reservation, they it on expedia. ranks of travel agents are shrinking. >> thanks for being with us. have a nice weekend. >> you too. >>> speaking of jobs, no issue weighs heavier on the presidential campaign. yesterday, mitt romney took a swipe at president obama for failing to bring unemployment below 8%. while romney would like to stay focused on obama, right now his concern is nailing enough delegates. we have more from biloxi, mississippi. good morning, nancy. >> reporter: good morning. mitt romney said they're committed to staying in it all of the way to the republican convention in florida. if they do, none of them will band alabama? wouldn't you love to sing "sweet home alabama" wouldn't that be wonderful? >> reporter: in the race to wrap up delegates he has a it lead. newt gingrich trails with 97 and ron paul has 38. but with four candidates, splitting the vote. romney himself may not get the 1144 delegates he needs to clench the nomination before the republican convention in august. the scenario his points a

. >> you feel they're better able to execute an ebookers or expedia or the deep pocketed rival like goingicalogle and kayak is another one, they're going to be doing some interesting things in what they called medisearch but that's going to be a little bit different. those end up being not totally competitive with what the traditional online travel agents are doing. so yeah, i think that priceline is probably going to continue to be best positioned despite the other competitors in the space. >> mike olson of piper jaffray. thank you for being on the program. >>> coming up security fears amid the markets and the economy, we'll talk to the u.s. secretary of homeland secretary, janet innapolitano on a first cc interview. stay with us. ♪ [ male announcer ] aggressive new styling. a more fuel-efficient turbocharged engine. and a completely redesigned interior. ♪ the new c-class with over 2,000 refinements. it's amazing...inside and out. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services. here's a chance to create jobs in america. oil sands proj

obama for discounting or emphasizing diplomacy that he has kept the less ideological former president expedia council. one of his advisers have stated that iran is open to compromise, et cetera, that area. we can list a number of other positive indications. and the hope here is that sanctions will put enough pressure that he will back down. and we know he is a reasonable man. he makes decisions on calculations, but we have to also look past what is it didn't come meet me meet me, what are his political interests? for his ideological interests as a leader and more importantly, what is his worldview? how does he see the world, the united states in the nuclear program? and when we look, he really believes the islamic republic is engaged in a substantial conflict. khamenei believes the united states has never accepted the islamic resolution in 1979 and will never accept the resolution he doesn't leave the united states is just opposed to iran's specific policies in the nuclear program, for example, that he has stated the united states opposes the very essence of the islamic republic. i'll think t

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it's like getting on expedia or orbitz. shop around and find the one that's best for you. for too long, individuals and small businesses shopping for insurance on their own have had very limited options. the plans that were available were often too expensive. now for the first time, insurance companies will have to compete against each other for business on a level playing field. that will mean lower premiums, better coverage and more choices. health reform has also reduced government costs by dramatically slowing the growth in spending. according to our nonpartisan scorekeeper, the congressional budget office, health reform slowed the growth in health spending by 4%. that will save taxpayers dollars and help get our deficit problem under control. we need to let the law keep working to save families and taxpayers more money. the congressional budget office tells us that repealing the affordable care act, reappealing it now would increase the federal deficit by nearly $143 billion over the next decade. repeal would cost the federal deficit $143 billion over the next decade