should i buy again in expedia? >> i don't like to recommend stocks that are up nine the next day because they tend to have profit taking come in. yes, this company is back. it had spent unfortunate time in the wilderness. it now crossed over the river. it's in the promised land of travel, and i say buy it. i also say, sid, thanks for watching and don't forget to go trick-or-treating. can i go to richard in new york? richard? >> caller: hi, jim. this is rich from new york? how are you doing? >> i'm doing real well there, chief, how about you? >> caller: okay. jim, i noticed, i was watching one of your shows a couple weeks ago, and one of the top performers you were talking about was the airline. >> yes. >> caller: and you said that you us airways may be a good, if not better value than delta air lines. that's what i got out of it what you said. you still hold that position? >> yeah, richard, my thinking was there, just so we know, there's a caveat. if they can get the deal with amr, if the justice department blesses

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expedia downgraded to hold.lysts expressing concerns around management changes made at expediahotels.com. the stock down better than 6%. >>> now, let's move over to the commodity pit where sharon epperson joins us from the nymex. >>> particularly a lot of focus on precious medals and gold is solidly higher as the budget stalemate continues. we are looking at three days left to the debt ceiling deadline and the budget as well. negotiations continuing. looking at the government being shut down here for going into the third week. all of these factors are ones that gold traders are watching carefully and oil traders are watching it very carefully. we got some very positive data on oil imports in china. in september, we saw the biggest growth we have seen on record. that is not enough to help u.s. oil prices or futures. both are lower on the section. we are continuing to watch what is happening in washington and here in the u.s. with a number of big increases in u.s. crude supplies. some traders are saying after all

adam: take a look at expedia. deutsche bank cutting. chance to speak with the ceo earlier this morning about expedia's new study on the travel habits. take a listen on how they intend to make money off of that. >> belen kneels to travel more than their older counterparts. that means that in general, business spending will go up. we also see them really combined business travel and leisure travel as well. theyymay stay over the weekend. the lines between pleasure and work is much more blurred. adam: how do you turn that into profit? they book travel through the in-house travel software that we have. how do you turn these raw statistics into dollars for expedia? >> with them using technology more, for example, they are three times more likely to use smart phones on their travel ban folks that are 45 years and older. for example, the expedia travel app is the leading tool out there. if we build the best tool out there, they will use our technology. we will gain share versus the traditional ones out there. adam: are you the number one trave

the in i own, expedia is very important. you want to cut travel expenses, go use expedia.moved. they've got some terrific, less market deleverage. >> what i've heard from airline executives is the government shutdown did have an impact but it came right back. t the minute it stopped, they saw bookings -- >> they just all fly by plane? they don't take cars? >> don't fly first class? >> no, i don't believe they do. >> and anything back below first class, very cramped. >> how would you know? >> when was the last time? give me a break. keep your eye on starbucks. it's not the worst loser today. just a little behind visa. a 2%, 3% move here, jim, will get your attention. but in the context, you were saying -- >> stocks have been fabulous. if we're going to turn on stocks and not recognize this is just profit taking, you're going to miss a great opportunity. let it come in a little and then -- i don't want to say go right back out, that will be glib. the companies are doing so well and stocks have advanced so well -- unless you shot the lights out -- i have harmon on tonight. pe

people log on to expedia, they expect to travel. they log on to amazon, they expect to buy something. why is this so difficult? >> this is true. it's nothing unusual to handle large volume. quite honestly, i'm just as confused in where the problem is handling the many millions of people who want to log on to the site. >> they say one of the biggest problems right now is the volume. you've designed websites for the government. how do you design a website for the government and not expect to receive millions of hits. if that's the case, what happened this time? >> you know, it's typical or historical when we launch anything for the government to do what we call load testing. so we anticipate how many visitors we're going to get and simulate the situation to accommodate that many hits to the website. how this went happen i can't imagine how to launch an interface to the government without this level of testing. >> are the problems that consumers are seeing with this particular website, is that indicative of what happens when you do tho

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it's -- >> got to be expedia. >> it is expedia. it's expedia.has been one that's beaten down, may be due for an upside break. just some factors some money managers are looking at. >> thanks very much. where are we going in down to sue. >> talking ketchup, ty, ketchup. mcdonald's dumping heinz from its menu over a beef with rival burger king. what will we dunk our fries into now? "power lunch" has the great ketchup taste test. the power rundown is next. americans take care of business. they always have. they always will. that's why you take charge of your future. your retirement. ♪ ameriprise advisors can help you like they've helped millions of others. listening, planning, working one on one. to help you retire your way... with confidence. that's what ameriprise financial does. that's what they can do with you. ameriprise financial. more within reach. >>> the teleprom ter has gone down but that's okay because we don't care about that. what we care about we have three topics to spend a little time on because we want to get to the condiments, to t

>> reporter: well, they looked at expedia and what's been going on.ce intense competition, that seems to be an ongoing story. they had some management changes over at hotels.com. the stock was down about 6% today on this deutsche bank downgrade to a hold from a buy. they put a $51 target from $66, you don't want to hear that if you own the shares, and the fact that they face this competition, so that's why they actually made this move overall. and then they said in this note from deutsche bank that all of this may actually cut into their numbers. and you may see -- a lot of mays, but not good ones -- that you may actually see expedia have to cut their guidance, and that, ultimately, would not be good news either. back to you. david: nicole, thanks. liz: who'd have thought that corn and soybeans would react so positively to a meeting in washington d.c. guess what? they did and just about every other commodity as well as signals out of d.c. suggest that lawmakers may be on the lip of ending the debt ceiling battle. david: let's head back to the floor of

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that, of course, we're talking about expedia.stock down about 19% so far year to date, but may be due for a bit of an upswing. let's talk about the other stock. this particular one, up about $30 per share. that's the current level of the stock. it's down 19%, 20%, just in the past three months. and it trades with a price of sales ratio of 1.8, or $1.80 for every $1 in sales. this company has a splash zone associated with it. yes, we're talking about shamu and seaworld because this stock is down 19%, like we said. but maybe if the tides turn right for seaworld, could head higher. overall, we've gone through all these different companies in a very unscientific basic look at two-factor model for how to pick stocks. a lot of professional money managers will take all these factor, put them together in multiple combinations to come up with some of these names and, perhaps, others. maria, bill, some ugly ducklings may not be turning to swans but it's one way money managers look to pick stocks. back to you. >> let's talk about it. is the

the firm believes expedia will decree increase competition here in the u.s., the stock lost, and sharesf micro devices. web bush updated that company to out-perform for neutral. they say the chip maker will trade higher if sales of new gaming consoles grow. the stock up more than 3 and a half percent to $3.97. >> so how long do you think that you will have to keep working? a new survey says longer than ever. that is because of the recession's impact on retirement investments and home buyers. a new poll shows that nearly half of respondents over the age of 50 now expect to retire later than they previously planned. and many say they will have to keep earning money even after they officially retire. >>> if you're looking for a size building increase in your social security check or veterans benefits it is not likely to happen. they suggest the year's increase will be about 1 and a half percent, the suggested boost since the benefits began back in 1975, the main reason, consumer inflation as measured by the government has not risen over the past year. >>> it is almost two weeks now since t

the analysts at deutsche bank raised major concerns about expedia.the stock trading at levels it was trading at that's why you see 7.5% correction. i wouldn't jump in here because it look likes major damage can be done to this story. >> coach, lower one and a third percent on a down grade. >> concerned about the traffic trends. who isn't concerned about traffic trends in retail? don't think you buy the stock on the next quarter. buy it for the restructuring, new management team. the new ceo ran the international baz and under his leadership they drew revenue 63%. they've got new products, reforemating stores. i any in the low 50s it's interesting with the free cash flow yield of 7%. >> talk chipotle. 443, down a touch, hit all-time high earlier today. >> this is one of the great miracles of the post-crash period. consumer has spoken. they love the company. they will not stop eating lunch there. chart reflects that. two things i want to mention, multiple on forward earnings has gotten ahead of what the forward growth expectations are for earnings. wha

the firm believes expedia will decree increase competition here in the u.s., the stock lost, and sharesf micro devices. web bush updated that company to out-perform for neutral. they say the chip maker will trade higher if sales of new gaming consoles grow. the stock up more than 3 and a half percent to $3.97. >> so how long do you think that you will have to keep working? a new survey says longer than ever. that is because of the recession's impact on retirement investments and home buyers. a new poll shows that nearly half of respondents over the age of 50 now expect to retire later than they previously planned. and many say they will have to keep earning money even after they officially retire. >>> if you're looking for a size building increase in your social security check or veterans benefits it is not likely to happen. they suggest the year's increase will be about 1 and a half percent, the suggested boost since the benefits began back in 1975, the main reason, consumer inflation as measured by the government has not risen over the past year. >>> it is almost two weeks now since t

close to where it was the day before the shutdown began and then we've got deutche bank, it cuts expediabuy. nicole, what impact on the stock? >> when i red through -- readd through the note, the analyst talks about a coupleeof things, management changes over at hotel.com. hotels.com and the quality checks they've been seeing there are worrisome and also the fact that they believe there's increased down side risk and they may even, this is one of the down side risks that you may see expedia has to lower their guidance and that wouldn't bode well. >> it would not indeed. nicole, thank you. and let's move away from the markets and standoff in washington for a brief shining moment. listen to what china is saying about the united states. calling for a deamericanized world. their state-run news agency says, i quote directly, we fail to see a world where the united states is helping to diffuse violence and conflicts, displaced population and bring about real, lasting peace. keith, they see our government as dysfunctional and our foreign policy as not what it's billed to be. our standing in the

concerns over manages in expedia's hotels.com unit.sident and ceo joined squawk. >> let's move on now. do we have excel ron. no, we have talking numbers. >> netflix is the name. this is a big name. shares on the move, up about 7%. the company said to be in talks with cable providers including our own very fine parent company of comcast. to allow its service on cable boxes. shares have tripled up around 250%. more room to run. let us talk numbers. fundamentally and technical. first on the technicals, carter the senior entertainment analyst with standard & poor's. a geechbs you move or a trap that could hurt comcast? >> it's a little bit of both. for netflix, it's hard to imagine how this could not be a positive development. if you're a cable operator you to be weary. i didn't see this coming. this deal netflix did with virgin media. a lot is going to be in the details. the devil in the details. we're going to be watching closely to see, you know, how the details are hammered out. whether things like revenue split, or who controls the cu

imagine booking a flight or a trip online to the popular websites like travel losty or expedia.n your dates or anything else and compare prices. the obama-care places will look the same, though they will be a bit more complicated. each state will have a website that will offer different coveraging os. if your family's household income is less than $94,000 a year, the government will give you financial help through tax breaks so you can afford the insurance. if you are an individual, the subsidies will kick in if your annual income is less than $46,000. the overall system that preserves the opportunity for doctors, hospitals and insurance companies to make money. in the past, insurance companies have covered their costs by raising prices or by dropping people that are more expensive to insure. obama-care is intended to make coverage more affordable in part by limiting how much insurance companies can charge. and it will bring the percentage of the applications that are denied from 18% to zero, so the sick, elderly, and those with preexisting conditions will be added. but there wi

. >> asking verizon, oracle, expedia, helping them in fixing the site, the administration hasn't been forthright on who he's called in to put this site together. this is the president who declared open is transparency. a lack of transparency and op openness with the american people, i don't think we have to put up with that, do you? >> when the president in his press conference, i thought that he was going to be forthcoming. here's the problem, let's define the problem. define the steps of what was going to take place. instead it was a description of another way for people to sign up. people should be able to go through step by step, here's what we did, here's where our problems were. we haven't gotten straight answers from the staff before, the president is not giving us a straight answer. people are still out there because they're scared to death, their insurance plans are being terminated. so, compassion dictates that we ought to be moving forward. how do we fix this? that's what we're going to drill into questions. >> compassion would insist that our elected officials both in cong

expedia a winner. this is our candy bucket, almost almost decimated. candy corn in there. >> no. we have a lot of hersheys in here. adam: chocolate. grab the candy corn? >> candy corn is gross. adam: candy corn is as good as gold. lori: are you kidding? adam: candy corn index. catch you later, lawyer rin. lori: i knew that is why liked it. candy corn. adam: best thing on earth, after scotch. lori: bring you the left over candy corn because we are in the minority. pull out the fannie pack and camera, egypt wants the business. they are launching ambitious campaign to lure back foreign tourists deterred by all the political turmoil in recent years. they are aiming to attract 13.5 million visitors next year that will bring in $11 billion in desperately-needed revenue. bob drummond specializes in tours to egypt. welcome to the show, bob. wonderful to have you. >> thank you, lori of the nice to be here. lori: general tours, great to have you once again of the your tour company, very old, 194. very well-respected. your tourism philosophy based on the genieve

initially this was talked about signing up for health care is as good as going to expedia and buying plane ticket, that is not the case. but for a lot of people it's going to be something new, they need somebody to point them in the right direction. under the law there are these, quote, navigators who are getting federal funding to help people go where they need to go. they'll tell you what options there are, what websites to go to. toll free numbers, go online for web chats and you can go on healthcare.gov -- >> part of the problem is it is complement. dr. heberth, it is going to make it very different than from in maryland where i live, this is going to be a different process. >> it's going to be different but not necessarily complex. when we let people think that oh my gosh i'm going to go on here and not know what to do, it's not a lot different than the things they have done before. it's that they have to take a activity role rather than passive. if you can read and find a navigator which you should be able to do, you can have affordable care which is the whole concept of this l

>> imagine booking a flight or trip on line through the popular websites like expedia.put in your destination, dates and compare prices. the obamacare marketplaces will look the same, though they will be a bit more complicated. each state will have a website that will offer different coverage options. if your family's household income is less than $94,000 a year, the government wonderful give you financial help through tax breaks so you can afford the insurance. if you are an individual, the subsidies will kick in if your annual income is less than $46,000. supporters say the overall system will preserve the opportunity for doctors, hospitals and insurance companies to make money. in the past, insurance companies have covered their costs by raising prices or by refusing to cover people who are more expensive to insure, including the old, sick and people with preexisting conditions. obamacare is intended to make coverage more affordable by limiting how much insurance companies can charge and bring the percentage of americans whose applications are denied from 18% as it s

imagine booking a flight or a trip online through the popular websites like trave travelocityr expedia. each state will have a website that will offer different coverage options. if your family income is less than $94,000 a year, the government will give you tax breaks so you can afford the insurance. if you're an individual, if your annual income is less than $46,000, supporters say the overall system will provide the opportunities for doctors hospitals and insurance companies too to make money. in the past insurance companies have covered their costs by raising prices or refusing to cover people who are harder to insure. obamacare is intending to make health care more affordable by limiting how much insurance companies can charge and it will bring the percentage of americans whose applications are denied from 18% as it stands now to zero. the old the sick or those with preexisting conditions are, older americans could be charged up to three times more for their coverage than younger irns ma. uninsured younger americans, if their state does not expand medicaid. the obama administratio

on top of that, expedia and c e kayak say now is the time. putting on $130. >> a lot of people wait for last-minute deals. is that not a smart strategy? >> it's better to buy now. there are tips if you're still waiting. if you buy the wednesday before thanksgiving or you buy your return flight the monday after thanksgiving, you will still find cheaper tickets. >> i hear macy's is getting an even earlier start to black friday. >> you and i are still thinking about halloween. >> i'm not there yet. i'm still in summer. >> they are engaging whether they are willing to work 8:00 p.m. on thanksgiving. this is a trend we have seen for several years now. last year we saw kmart, sears, walmart all opening earlier. we're seeing this because consumers want to shop on thanksgiving. we're seeing this because holiday shopping season is here. six days shorter. almost a week less time. >> is say it ain't so. morgan, thank you so much for your time this morning. >> thank you. >>> jimmy fallon on the many regrets of microsoft founder bill gates. he said making

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this free market expedia-like thing, they are going to say, really, that's your line in the sand in they are going to look incompetent. >> a risk of losing the foundational part of their narrative, which is that government is the problem. that's the only thing they have had to say for years, if not decades. republicans used to do some policy, free market-based policy but really thrown that to the curb and government is the enemy. if you have these exchanges and they start to work and people start saying, hey, this isn't so bad. the government is giving me something i want at a price i can afford, it throws their race out the door. >> there was a time they get target the budget deficit as emblamatic of the problem. it was 10% of gdp, now 3 or 4%. it's going down. if you look out far enough we have sustainability issues in the budget we actually really need to deal w as david correctly said, you can't deal with that with the kamikaze caucus. in fact, if you look at the impact of health care reform so far, it's been helping in terms of slowing the growth of health care cost. whether that st

david: no doubt about expedia in the green, way in the green. up 20% at one point. a winner. good earnings. broker after broker upgrading price targets on the stock. bank of america merrill lynch upgrading them entirely. what a winner today. [closing bell ringing] liz: the gang at viacom are at the nasdaq. we have telecom indonesia at the new york stock exchange ringing in the bell and numbers down as we see. stocks finishing up with the dow jones industrials losing about 61 points here. in the blink of an eye went from down 50 to down 61 right now. s&p 500 down six points. nasdaq down by 10. could not hold to the gains which were small but still green. russell down half a percent. david: pourfor much of the day basically flat-lining. couldn't figure out whether it would be green or red but toward the end of the day it was deaf move to the downside. time for the front page headlines. jobless claims fell to 340,000. backlog of claims from california, remember that, distorted previous reports finally worked its way through the data, liz. liz: key gauge in the manufact

getting them to work with modern systems that ebay and expedia use just boggs down speed.e bulk behind the website. amazon has 100,000 employees and is working on 1300 robot workers and can handle 300 orders a second. chris, the government in some ways aims to build something in two years that amazon spent two decades on. >> richard lui, thank you so much. richard writes more on this obama care challenge on the brand new msnbc.com. richard, thank you. >>> checking the news feed this morning. this is the senate foreign relations committee holding a hearing right now on the latest developments in syria. there weave got it just as the global chemical weapons watchdog says that syria is ahead of schedule completing the destruction of all equipment that can produce chemical weapons. next on the list is destroying existing weapons and stockpiles. >>> if you're under 21 you won't be able to buy cigarettes or e-cigarettes in new york city much longer. the city council voted to raise the age for buying tobacco from 18 to 21, the strictest limit for any american city. the law will g

. >> next up one low flyer seen love today, expedia is down 4% on the year junk 18% on better-than-expectedotten half in back of that disaster we saw in august. i hate chasing stocks typically. the quarter wasn't bad. we got a bunch of upgrades here at $59 up 18% on the day. i think you can go higher and recoup the losses this summer and push back that $65 or $56 level we last saw. >> finally the world's largest credit card company, falling below expectations. what does this mean? really, the troubling thing about this report is what they said about the consumer in the month of october and spending across the board was down. >> consumer confidence has been a really a problem for the whole marketplace. i wouldn't see this as a real surprise. but every time visa trades down like this it trades right back up. if there is a stock that's in and up channel and continues to be so it's visa i'd still be a boyar. >> are you worried they said they saw softness across the board, it was supermarket, it was travel? >> it was everywhere. >> categories related to small businesses in it's confounding when

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expedia losing ground after deutsche bank downgraded the travel website from a hold to buy rating, expressingcerns about management changes at its hotels.com unit. the debacle of the day from the small cap side of things. check out coronado biosciences after they said chrone's disease treatment failed. >> we said it's never a big thing when the change is bigger than the stock price. that's not a good thing. >> thank you, dom. 15 minutes to go before the closing bell. stocks off the high, as we indicate at&t a dow a third of the point, same for s&p. nasdaq doing a little better at this hour. >> if you have a couple of days of fighting and it lingers, and the market sells off, you should buy that selloff. >> because there will ultimately be a deal. >> that will -- that's barkley's barry knapp who thinks debt limit fears are creating a buying opportunity, michael kroften agrees but with a major caveat. and tea parties. i'll have more awkward conversations than i'm equipped for, because i'm raising two girls on my own. i'll worry about the economy more than a few times before they're grown. but i

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they have new partnerships, new sales agreements with a lot of other people, say expedia for one, thatelp them expand the revenue base. the bad on this particular stock overall is that discretionary spending for vacations may be slowing down if people don't make enough money. that's a bad sign here. so the value of homeaway, 130 times earnings, that's a lofty valuation, as well. and we'll finish off with one that everybody knows about. this particular stock is interesting, because it's facebook, right? facebook shares overall up 126%. the good of the story on facebook is that they are making money on mobile. that's a big deal. the bad of it is they might be showing some signs of slowing user growth in the u.s. and europe. those developed markets. emerging markets are still pretty food. -- good. the valuation on facebook, 207, actually. that answer is wrong. it's actually 207 times earnings, which is a big deal. you're going to pay, scott, $207 for every $1 in profit on facebook shares. back over to you. >> all right, dom, thank you so much. looking at f.b. gemma godfrey is back with us

so i sent it to her on july 3rd, and then my husband and i jumped onto expedia and looked for half priceon deals. we were going to celebrate the fact that i finished this manuscript, and we're going to celebrate the fact that we've been in business for five years as a bookseller. don't care what happens tomorrow, we're just going to celebrate. so we found this really cheap hotel and flight deal in chicago where we'd really never been. and we wound up -- i don't know if any of you know chicago, but it was the palmer house hotel which is a beautiful place, just gorgeous. and we didn't know anything about it, and we landed, you know, two hicks with their suitcase and a paper bag. and we looked up the palmer house has a fresco of the night sky painted on it with all the constellations. and we looked up at that and kind of went -- so we spent a week hanging out in this hotel, and on the last day we were there when i got up in the morning, my phone had a message on it. and it was from my agent, pamela, who was also on vacation. and she had told me you won't hear from me for the whole week you'

expedia started with a web site that cost $billion, they would have never gone the off the ground. martha: they were talking about privacy issues which are very important. a terrifying accident at a state fair. a ride that went more any wrong. what investigator think may have been the problem here. bill: a state attorney general and candidate for governor caught at an alcohol-soaked teen party. martha: what does it take to get fired at the white house? we just talked a little bit about that with chris stirewalt. but bill o'reilly took this issue on in a big way. do you believe the president is fixing problems? do you believe people are being held accountable? talking points ... martha: today is not a good day for doug gantzer. it shows him in the center of this teenaged party. a lot of underage drinking going on where his 19-year-old son was a deejay and that's dantzer was in the middle of the picture. at first he said he didn't recall if anybody was drinking but later he said he admitted his mistake. >> reporter: is that your hand on the cell phone taking a picture. >> i was readi

so i sent it to her on july 3rd, and then my husband and i jumped onto expedia and looked for half priceon deals. we were going to celebrate the fact that i finished this manuscript, and we're going to celebrate the fact that we've been in business for five years as a bookseller. don't care what happens tomorrow, we're just going to celebrate. so we found this really cheap hotel and flight deal in chicago where we'd really never been. and we wound up -- i don't know if any of you know chicago, but it was the palmer house hotel which is a beautiful place, just gorgeous. and we didn't know anything about it, and we landed, you know, two hicks with their suitcase and a paper bag. and we looked up the palmer house has a fresco of the night sky painted on it with all the constellations. and we looked up at that and kind of went -- so we spent a week hanging out in this hotel, and on the last day we were there when i got up in the morning, my phone had a message on it. and it was from my agent, pamela, who was also on vacation. and she had told me you won't hear from me for the whole week you'