fedex got caught in none of the granularity, fedex got a lot of credit for how they handled the christmaseason, very soon we'll forget about christmas and refocus on the fact that u.p.s. is a great company. they've been stalled. they trade to 100 just on a benefit of the doubt catch-up trade to how well fedex is doing. >> not to mention, jim, u.p.s. on monday we were talking right hear on this set raised their rates by about 4% or so, right? >> yeah. >> yeah. take u.p.s. out of the doghouse if fedex trades to $140. that's ridiculous. >>> all right, coming up, brewing innovation, jim talking live with starbucks chairman and ceo howard schultz. the company gears up for its annual shareholder meeting it's a cnbc exclusive. >>> and also ahead former congressman ron paul sounding off on the fed. the first fomc meeting of the janet yellen era heads into the homestretch. >>> let's take another look at the futures ahead of the yellen news conference and the fed decision. the dow implied 17 open. more live from post nine at the new york stock exchange when we come become. come become. >>> i'm the

the real problem for fedex, though, was the weather. the response to it, ironically, in the quarter were said the situation from an earnings perspective. they dow dealt with it by throwing money at the situation. they paid their people more to work more overtime. they pay their people who volunteered to work on christmas day. i had a package delivered to mike -- to my house on christmas day. adam: was it all because of the response to the bad weather? >> this was weather related. last year was the second warmest most mild winter. this winter, of course, has been anything but mild. they were 99 plus% online. adam: fedex was able to grab a some of the market share. >> i fully expect them to. certainly, that is something we pointed out in the know we published yesterday morning. fedex should be able to translate this into future gains. this quarter will be bad. it should be good going forward. adam: the ground volume shipping is up and also they are improving their margins. it seems the stock may be a bit expensive right now. do you disagr

. >> earnings before the bell, fedex is the one you want to watch. after the bell, guess. >> stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities. not much going on. on to the second screen. currency markets. we will get to that in a moment. sort of.ly, even the australian dollar putting on a bit, a stronger aussie dollar. putin rally of the ruble, here's the weaken russian ruble. a one-day little blip of a --onger ruble off of that not a press conference or news conference, but a stage. >> it was a speech. a very dramatic setting. old russia kind of setting with high ceilings and chandeliers and the guys opening the golden doors with a white gloves. there they are and in walks el presidente. >> that's what you do. >> and then they shoo me out the door. >> scarlet fu gets us started -- i'm going to guess, ukraine? >> all the pomp and circumstance taking place in russia yesterday. there's a big pep rally. ukraine sees a somewhat differently. the new government calls putin a threat to international security. leaders will be meeting in brussels to decide if they go t

they probably still use ups and fedex. in city centers and areas it makes sense to have the rolling warehouses. melissa: yeah. >> that is where you see the hit first. melissa: they could probably fly some of those drones off the side of the trucks as well. maybe they don't need the drones if they have got the truck? well, if they ever do the drone thing. we started to get through the faa on that. we had a flower company try to roll that i think new jersey and didn't really work out all that well. they would have to put in place more regional centers. the range of the drones is pretty limited. you think about it you could have drones coming out. trucks. park the truck. deploy the drones to deliver in particular area. deliveries almost all at once. melissa: that would be amazing. rob enderle, thanks for coming on. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. melissa: mcdonald's making more headlines today as it gets sued for stealing workers wages. the hits keep on coming. our panel is fired up and ready to go. >>> some are selling for

i prefer ups to fedex because it never recovered from its holiday season. as i write in the chapter "get rich carefully" about how to listen to a conference call, i like pouring over fedex's report. it gives you a state of the state reading, telling us how all the regions they service are doing. fedex will be up too much from the get-go, after reports of a great number. what i would say is look at ups and if ups is unchangedsh maybe it picks some up for a nice trade. the most important article comes at 2:00 p.m. when we get the statement about interest rates, then a press conference hosted by new fed chair janet yellin. so far, her tenure has been flawless, although, it's been short. i expect the flaws to continue. if we get a strong showing by yellin, we are further away for some clarity in ukraine, then we could be ready for a rally regardless of what happens in china, at least a couple days. one other thing of photofor wednesday, remember i told you not to forget about first solar, they reported that a few weeks ago. people didn't like it, it was a squis

. >>> fedex will increase rates by 4% at the end of the march. last month fedex increased the domestic shipping rates. it comes as cheaper shipping services come. shares rose a fraction to 1 33.38. >>> an update on the story on the frigid weather. we brought you this story recently. the great lakes are now more than 90% covered in ice, that's the most ice cover in 34 years. i'm cold just looking at it. with a massive arctic front over the next few days, they predict the ice cover will set a new record this week topping 95% and the potential economic impact could be enormous as 20,000 tons of cargo including cole, fuel and more need to get through. >> speaking of the cold weather, coming up, how much did the bitter cold stall sales of new cars last month and what might happen when the temperatures warm up? >>> apple is driving a brand-new product. the automobile system called car play will make its debut this week in new vehicles from ferreri, mercedes, you can access maps, listen to music and respond to text messages at the push of a button locat

up shortat fedex came in the fiscal third quarter. i hope matt miller is listening to the world's largest cargo whatne it's -- guess they are blaming it on? >> bad weather. >> 2 lucky winners split the $400 million rise in the megamillions lottery -- sadly, not a spirit always know about the winning ticket is that one was sold in florida and the other in maryland. the sixth largest lottery prize in u.s. history. >> breaking news this morning out of washington. toyota will pay a record $1.2 billion to end a criminal probe related to the major recall 4 years ago. give us the details. >> good morning. $1.2 billion come at one of the largest penalties ever imposed on an automaker. it is not the price of the toyota motor corp ration has to pay to settle the criminal probe. settlementt -- the is 4 years in the making. dates back to accidents and deaths reported back in 2009. the investigation was led by the manhattan u.s. attorney, examining whether toyota intentionally misled federal regulate us by making false or incomplete disclosures ab

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. >>> winter hurt fedex's profits. they cut the forecast for the year after last quarter's earning missed the estimates. fedex said the bad weather made it harder to deliver packages and increased cost. >>> imagine being locked up like an animal. imagine the state knew about it and did nothing. that's the case in florida where they're looking at almost 900 cases of deaths related to child abuse over the last decade. "america tonight's" sheila macvicar investigates. >> this was cold and calculated and this was illegal. >> reporter: in a florida courtroom sharon glass faces sentencing for child abuse. a boy locked in this tiny bathroom for months, the window boarded up sleeping on the bare floor and starved. this was a case florida's department of children and families, dcf, knew about. in fact, had been warned about for years. teachers and principals from two schools called again and again. they reported bruises, black eyes, and that he was always hungry. the boy was rescued 17 months later, only after a chance encounte

there's two smaller versions at fedex field. i'm ready for one of those, too. >>> getting mom's mission ready. still ahead, the local program getting army moms in combat shape six months after giving birth. >>> after another round of snow, it's time to point fingers. the local sign

a fedex box with her name on it had records, test records, and credit card information from people all across the country. turns tout records belonged to a doctor in modesto. fedex mixed up the packages. >> my box came in and another package came in and it got mixed up and stuff was put in my box. what was inside got destroyed an they threw it away. >> well fed-ex showed up to apologize and get the package back. instead, she turned the medical records over to the local sheriff for investigation. >>> not unusual to research a doctor before you make an appointment, but christina johnson says more and more doctors are checking up on patients. >> reporter: when this patient visited her dentist, she never expecked her exam would go outside her office. >> he looked me up on google. >> reporter: he googled her. >> i never expected it. >> reporter: it is san jose growing new trend, doctors turning the tables on parents and checking them out online before they come in for an appointment. >> this opens up a new paradigm into how patients and physicians interact. >> reporter: this doctor admits h

fedex is going to release results we have general mills, we have nike and all of these are bellwethers for the rest of the earning season and also for the broader economy. fedex, as you know, is the transportation bellwether and whether it's the online shopping or the corporate deliveries we should get a sense of that from the results. oracle is the technology bellwether but on the old line side in this twitter and facebook age, but they have been struggling particularly on the hardware side because corporate capital spending has been so weak lately. > > and nike that's like discretionary spending. > > that's more on the discretionary side and that tells us how the consumer is doing and we have been the persistent trend that we saw over the past month, month and half was the significant negative revisions on these consumer-centric names particularly on the retail side. > > now the fed has its second meeting today. is that in any way going to play into this too? looking at what the tapering is going to be? > > well the key question on the fed front is not so much what to expect what the

toyota violated this basic compact. >> fedex reported weaker earnings today.t blames bad weather and cut its full-year profit forecast. it is one of many companies, including mcdonald's, blaming mother nature for it. turning now to american apparel, more problems. the company expects a wider loss this year and is delaying its 10k report and plans to file complaints by friday. sexual-harassment lawsuits, ads considered too racy in the u.k.. there is a lot going on. here is american apparel by the numbers. ♪ >> "game of thrones" debuts. tom keene was there. his favorite moments are after the break. the final four. the florida gators and michigan state made the cut. here is the president himself. >> great offense. they play hard. donovan knows what they're doing. i think they will end up winning. i am going with the spartans. a great tournament coach. i think they have got a great chance of winning. out west, i am going with arizona. i know these are not imaginative picks, but they are the right ones. arizona is weakened because they lost a starter but they will

fedex reporting profits in the last quarter below wall street forecast. fedex is saying that shipping volume dropped and cost rose because of the weather. then there's general mills, the food maker saying quarterly sales declined 1.2% and adjusted profits falling as well. the company notes the entire food industry was hurt by the ice and the snow. >>> fishermen from pakistan and india often find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time in territorial waters. hundreds of arrests are made each yore because they're found trespassi trespassing. long-running tensions between the two countries make their release difficult. >> reporter: ever since he was a boy, he has been fishing in these waters. he says he knows the sea off of the southeastern coast like the back of his hand, but in late 2010 a day of work turned into a nearly three-year ordeal. >> translator: we're putting out nets out in the area. we had fished it in many times before. the indian coast guard came and arrested us. everyone on the boat was put in jail. we don't know where we were held,

. >> reporter: the package arrived by fedex delivery sent to stella miranda in san pablo showing it was sent by the stanford university math department. inside was a check made out to miranda in the amount of $2,850 with the memo, pay to the bearer. miranda, who didn't want to be on camera, did a double-take. >> i was really shocked because i don't know anyone at stanford, had no kind of connection to them ever. so it was a big surprise. and my daughter and i were laughing, who would do something like this? >> reporter: miranda still doesn't know and apparently neither does the stanford math department. miranda called the department and was told others had received similar packages. >> stanford, to my surprise, said they had gotten 25 to 30 other emails and that they had still not reported it. >> reporter: stanford did call university police, who launched an investigation into what may be some sort of a hacking case. in another twist, the actual checks are not from a stanford account. they are from title 365 from southern california. the company said the checks are not real and the case

what did you think of the fedex numbers today? to save your life. just kidding, it's the starbucks annual meeting. we're in up mode so we're giving fedex a pass on the weather. we're in pass of weather moment where people say i know the weather is not a good excuse but we're taking it and people are believing it. >> give us a little preview of what's to come today. you had howard schultz on the show about, what, 9:30? >> yes. remember howard has really been talking about the digital assets of starbucks perhaps they may be worth a substantial part of the company because they have mobile and they have digital down well ahead of almost every other company i follow but in terms of being retailing, they are the best. i've gotten nordstroms speaking of the best of retail but is that enough? it's brick and mortar. look at the seattle genetics it's in keeping with what you've been talking about the small biotech companies. that will be on the agenda and zillow is the company dominant in real estate online but does that matter given the fa

much cheaper to go to fedex or kinko's. gerri: fedex, my friend, never put them on airplane. >> cheaper and track something much better than airlines. it will cost you a fraction of that $800. that another way to save money. gerri: george, thanks for coming on. have a great weekend. >> you too, thanks. gerri: we have more coming on including get this, comedienne, adam corolla. administration is cracking down on for-profit colleges. is this a matter of white house taking matters into their own home or is it time somebody started watching out for taxpayer dollars? ♪ i ke prilosec otc each morni for my frequent heartburn. zero heartburn. becat wohoo! [ male announcer ] prilosec otc is the number one doctor recommended frequent heartburn medicine for 8 straight years. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. gerri: a crack downon for profit colleges. the federal government proposing new rules to stop the graduates of a career training programs, that's what they call them from defaulting on their debt and getting in over

fedex missed and blamed bad weather. the markets didn't like what janet yellin had to say this week. joins us right now barry napp and aaron task. thank you for being here today. it mattered what she said from that point forward. the market has been passing at a overly passive rate height cycle. they have never gone slower than two. really, it is not a question of her miss speaking. it is good news that the fed feels confident that the economy is going to improve. my concern is that the fed is going to be wrong. his friend s there start hikin in 2015. >> that brings us back to the point of where the economy stands right now. where is your sense of what is happening. i think the economy is in good shape. the issue we thought was uncertainty about public policy and what was going on in washington? that slowed investment and hiring. that has gotten substantially better. let's talk about the other factors. it looked like we cared for about a day. is that something that either of you think could come back and pressure stocks

it is sort of like going to fedex office to drop off as a consumer something for fedex to ship.t is what they're looking at. the problem with h p and this is what wall street analysts were saying, watch out for this. hp has $18 billion in long-term debt in the balance sheet. $16 billion in cash. and a move into this market in a big way, that is the question. cheryl: love that story. two weeks ago, 5 million enrolled. ahead of the looming march 31st deadline. president obama chatted with ellen degeneres. >> the web site is working, healthcare.gov works the way it is supposed to end ipo people take advantage. cheryl: 1 million americans have been rolled but not being released from the administration, the 5 million had actually paid their first month's premium. the insurance industry. and the -- things were not all serious on ellen's show. she did ask the president, the house of cards and the scandal. >> most of my day is sitting in a room listening to a bunch of folks in gray suits talking about a whole bunch of stuff that wouldn't make very good television. >> that is what i do w

much cheaper to go to fedex or kinko's. gerri: fedex, my friend, never put them on airplane. >> cheaper and track something much better than airlines. it will cost you a fraction of that $800. that another way to save money. gerri: george, thanks for coming on. have a great weekend. >> you too, thanks. gerri: we have more coming on including get this, comedienne, adam corolla. administration is cracking down on for-profit colleges. is this a matter of white house taking matters into their own home or is it time somebody started watching out for taxpayer dollars? ♪ [ laughter ] smoke? nah, i'm good. [ male announcer ] celebrate every win with nicoderm cq, the unique patch with time release smartcontrol technology that helps prevent the urge to smoke all day long. help prevent your cravings with nicoderm cq. that helps prevent the urge to smoke all day long. gundyes!n group is a go. not just a start up. an upstart. gotta get going. gotta be good. good? good. growth is the goal. how do we do that? i talked to ups. they'll help

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>> i don't know the particular situation where fedex is making those criticisms. to happen quickly for the package to get they're so wherever it was is an issue. stuart: what is your first focus? >> customer and communicating with that customer where the packages. and not having a package and whether it is going to come. stuart: your company, your cellar, i you in a position to e-mail or communicate with a customer and tell him exactly arrive such and such a day. can you do that? >> a lot of insight into tracking. stuart: do you do it? do you call all the customers and say free:00 tomorrow afternoon. >> wherever we can we do. stuart: it will be late, you tell them? >> we try to. stuart: got to relate to the shipper. so it is not your fault, it is the shipper's fault. >> it depends on the very specific situations all i don't want to put all the blame on tax. there are situations it may be a shipper's fault or retailer's fault and communication in both directions as well as the customers we focus on. stuart: who ships for you? >> a number of different shippers depen

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we got that from fedex. of thedescription economy, and we probably will not say much other than to say that this is may be temporary. one other interesting thing, only nine voters today. brainard is not confirmed. there is one more empty seat that has not been nominated. so, anything that they do today could get reversed. >> we are all over it. let's turn now to the situation on the markets, the standoff in crimea. standoffer killed in a as the fight for the peninsula moves from the halls of parliament to the battlefield. berlin.ins me now from david, many had hoped that the unrest would be settled once vladimir putin effectively got what he wanted. he seemingly did. but me ask you, is he more like a shark that smells blood? and european union do not stand up to him, will he make a play for something much larger? >> there is the possibility that he will do that, but not until the crimean situation is under his full control, which has not happened yet. although you did mention some of the tensions going on in

the package arrived by fedex delivery sent to stella miranda of san pablo with a return address saying it was shown by the stanford university math department. inside was a check to her in the amount of $2,850 with the memo pay to the bearer. miranda, who didn't want to be on camera, did a double-take. >> i was really shocked because i don't know anyone at stanford, had no kind of connection to them ever. so it was a big surprise. and my daughter and i were laughing. who would do something like this? >> reporter: miranda still doesn't know. apparently neither does the stanford math department. miranda called the department and was told others had received similar packages. >> stanford to my surprise said they had gotten 25 to 30 other emails and that they had still not reported it. >> reporter: stanford did call university police who launched an investigation into what may be a hacking case. in another twist, the actual checks are not from a stanford account. they are from a southern california title company called title 365. the company told us the checks are not real and the case is

well, winter hurt fedex profits.he bad weather made it harder to deliver packages and increase their cost. and general mills, gm pointing to the weather for a 1.2% drop in sales, the company notes the entire company was hurt by the cold and the snow. and the food industry well. imagine a child being locked up like an animal. now imagine the state knew about it and did nothing. that is the case in floor where they're looking at 900 cases of deaths related to child abuse over the last decade. sheila mcvictor investigates. >> this was cold, calculated and illegal. >> reporter: in a florida courtroom sharon glass faces sentencing for child abuse. el little boy boarded up, sleeping on the bear floor and starved. this was the department of children and families dcf knew about, in fact, had been warned about for years. teachers and principals from two schools called again and again. they reported bruises, black eyes, and he was always hungry. the boy was rescued 17 months later. only after a chance encounter results in the

some of the transports, fedex specifically, they need to find their footing. >> let's get back to what's happening with tes will, a, a slew of news boosting this stock. u.s. safety inspectors said they closed the investigation. tesla will install new plates to prevent fires if in the future. during the testing of objects on the impact, with this new defleck or the shield, we can see there. >> it's deflecting right now. >> okay, it's going over an object there. crunch. >> is that a melon or something? >> it's a concrete melon. the point is being made, the new defleck or the shield that hopefully -- let's trade it, guys. >> on valuation, again, i have been wrong since 80 bucks on this thing but i still feel right about the valuation, they're valuing the stock they'll be able to multiply the production five times without the competition. this is not something that i want to buy on that promise. >> anyone else trading tesla sf. >> i'm in it. i thought we were going to get that. in terms of tesla, people are valuing it at these high levels because they're buying into the solar aspect of it. i

a fedex plane in '94, southwest airlines, alaska airlines in 2000 and one before 9/11. that's much harder to do in the united states now. we continue to see commandeering. sometimes people seeking political asylum, sometimes people are suicidal. so you can't rule any of those things out. right now. >> we spoke to andy pasztor "the wall street journal" reporter a little while ago. and he's reporting -- we're not reporting it. he's reporting based on information he has that u.s. investigators are looking at the possibility that this plane actually may have landed somewhere as opposed to crash landing into the water. >> think about that for a second and what it would take to land a plane unknown to any authority on a runway anywhere in the world, a plane of that size, how it would go undetected. how would the passenger if they were conscious not use cell phones to communicate. it has to be on the table. but the reason they're on the table is we don't have a clue. we don't have a clue yet six days into it. in fact, the investigation is really just starting last night. and t

we will see large drones that deliver your fedex packages.ee medium-size drones that do air quality management. >> safer: there's something spooky... >> cummings: it is spooky, right? >> safer: ...about no windshield. this experimental medivac chopper can be programmed to fly itself if need be; an on-board pilot is optional. >> cummings: this helicopter will take itself off, navigate itself, land itself, and then you will load that injured person and it will fly off, back to the trauma center, all by itself. this kind of helicopter in the future will be how first response missions are done all over the world. >> safer: so put your styrofoam gadget together. on the other end of the scale, it takes just a minute or so to assemble the skate, an almost- lighter-than-air drone equipped with night vision. american troops in afghanistan use it to seek out enemy forces. and weighs... >> about two pounds. >> safer: i would say nothing. the common denominator in the world of most drones is the camera. small drones deliver perfect high-definition pictur

as you heard, jimmy walker remains on top of the fedex cup standings and henley moves into the 16th position on that list. in case you missed any of today's action, get caught up on golf central. those will be interesting highlights to check out if you missed most of the action today. be sure to join us at the wgc cadillac championship thursday at noon eastern time on golf channel and saturday at 2:00 on nbc. tonight on nbc starting at 7:00, 6:00 central time it's "dateline" followed by "the voice." for our entire crew, dan hicks saying so long on behalf of our golf channel on nbc crew. what a day. russell henley emerges with a win at the honda. >>> rain is falling across d.c., maryland and virginia and it won't be long before it all changes to sleet and snow. >> snow emergency. thousands of salt trucks, plows and utility crews ready to hit the streets. they're asking drivers, keep the roads clear for tomorrow morning. >>. >> getting ready for the snow. people are packing for the next blast of winter weather.

i remember going to, actually was in fedex field for a football game, and it didn't strike me that thatort with the name of the team and what that name indicates and how offensive it is to people that that had seeped into at all the fan base. >> no, and, again, going back to brand equity, going back to daniel snyder standing behind this 81-year tradition of the washington redskins, it hasn't hurt his pockets. people aren't giving up their suites or luxury boxes. it hasn't affected dan snyder negatively. the franchise would be probably worth a lot more if he did go through this -- i mean, sure marketing people would have fun with this new name change and reorganization. but, again, you back to the foundation. the activists are saying don't throw money at the problem. >> right. >> but if the franchise is worth a lot more money, does he still throw money at it? >> go back. the argument that dan snyder has given, dave, constantly that the washington pr people have rolled out is actual american indians, they're fine with this. you hear this all the time. what's your response to that argument

if you went to fedex or ups you would pay an extra fee to get that insurance.is something we provide out of the gate no additional charge. david: i see this model growing. who knows, you could be the next fred smith who started something like fedex. what is to stop you from going to patrick byrne, the founder of overstock.com, look you probably have a big share of your business that's too small for to you really bother with. coy help with you that part of the business? have you thought of doing something like that? >> yeah, absolutely. we have a ton of requests from people that are like, they're sending out thousands of items per month. but with this first product it is really focused on people doing lower volume. we see a sweet spot for people doing 20 and 100 items a week. and right now just iphone app. so you have to enter everything through there. definitely down the line we want to basically help as many people out as we possibly can. >> is there anything you won't ship? david: good question? >> kind of rule of thumb, anything that will sit in the back sea

we had all the new business that is started up like apple, qualcomm we mentioned and fedex that startedey really blossomed in the '80s. we're not seeing a lot of that now, are we? >> no, we're not we're not. we're seeing longer trend in decrease and i and other academics is decrease in dynamism. decline of rate of new start-ups we've had. that is part of an ongoing trend. the trend picked up starting in 2000 and new business creation has just been in the tank ever since the great recession into the recovery. david: why? >> i don't think we have a very good answer. there are definitely, there are definitely some culprits we think are big contributors. number one, just overall, perhaps hesitancy to take on new risk. starting up a new business is risky endeavor. hesitancy in the labor mark in terms of hiring. in addition to that, i think bigger issue is the great recession in many ways with the financial crisis. our financial markets took a big hit. one of the big sources of growing jobs in a new business is access to credit. entrepeneurs really need credit to build on their new ideas. onc

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i think one has to be skeptical of classifying fedex as an i.t. company. track the movement of parcels. if one gets back to basics, it is stretching the imagination to say the parcel movement company is an i.t. company. >> all companies crossed the border and the content provider. ofit is an example reinventing itself and it has moved from what was the old utility company into what is now a media content company. the market has responded to that positively. when you say that you do not like it, the market does. >> bob parker. the head of strategic advisory at credit suisse. and what, alibaba could be a record-setting ipo. that is next. ♪ >> welcome back. when the things that we are watching is ali baba. u.s. over hongn kong. let's go to hans nichols. hans, they are not listing in hong kong because of hurdles. yes, it is hard to have the government structure they wanted and still be in hong kong. they try to work it out and could not come to an agreement. a clear loss for hong kong and new york is the big winner. will it be ons, the nasdaq or the new york s

. >> fedex facing an expensive lawsuit over the alleged illegal delivery of cigarettes to residentialjoin a federal racketeering lawsuit filed by the city that contends fedex wrongly delivered more than 140 tons of unpacked cigarettes ordered over the internet and mail. was raised to outperform from neutral at wedbush. the firm says the bad news is already priced into the stock and sees a rebound and investor sentiment. it has a 12 month price target of $64 a share. >> apple is your number four. the tech giant heading back to court this week where it will once again try to convince a jury that samsung infringed on its mobile software patent. apple is seeking roughly $2 billion in damages from samsung and wanted a judge to ban the sale of its android phones in the u.s.. >> so many lawsuits, i can't keep track. of this company surging, the fda approved its hemophilia b drug, the first significant advance in treatment for that and more than 17 years. >> number two is tesla. it reached an agreement with the new york state on how it may sell its cars. tesla will be allowed to keep the curr

we heard that one from fedex this morning. made it incredibly challenging for the fed to decipher what is real and what is not. ,e are back with ethan harris mike mckee, peter cook, and my cohost matt miller. weather is one of the things that the fed has been watching. unemployment is not the only thing they have been watching. they have been watching a few other indicators as well. >> they are watching industrial production. there watching the isn report. they are watching retail sales. there watching consumer confidence. -- they are watching consumer confidence. we talked to many fed officials since the first of the year who say we do not know at this point. we know there are other things going on, so we have to look past all of this. >> it has been five long years, right? your average american, and you can sit there and tell me, it could have been worse, what the point is, it could and should be better. behind janet hide yellen on this, but i do think she is right about the idea that you had a major bank and real estate cri