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tune in this afternoon with nhl commissioner gary bettman will talk with liz claman about the season in the business of hockey at 3:00 p.m. on countdown to the closing bell. one of the biggest banks on wall street is looking to do business on main street. goldman sachs-based plans this morning. nicole: there is some agreement and some not. goldman sachs is focused on big companies, large investors. he reportedly plans to offer loans online to consumers and small businesses starting next year. this is a marketplace nearly $850 billion. they shift from high net worth clients to ordinary americans comes as regulation and g have cut into their profit at big banks and other units and most notably trading of course. the question is whether or not the smaller type loans maybe 15,000 is that really value added to the company. that is a big area. 850 billion. he did have one analyst saying maybe not sure this is the best move for return on equity even notice pretty high, but we will see. sandra: i will be clichÉ and say time will tell. "the new york times" weighs in on the aig case after gove

that is the arch debate here gary bettman's strategy to boost u.s. tv ratings.f you do not make it in the south you're right, there is a welcome home for you north of the border, and i need to know from jeff vinik what is the strategy long run. how do you make a teamwork in a place like florida? to you know why they are called the tampa bay lightning? tab a is considered the lightning capital of the world -- tampa is considered the lightning capital of america. tom: he is legendary. erik: he certainly knows his stuff. tom: he made a bond call a million years ago that worked out after he exited from fidelity. i would love to know what he thinks about the low interest rate environment which correlates to michael feroli's low gdp call. that is where vinik was able to write the check. erik: he has been with us for a while. he has got steve yzerman for a little bit, which is a plus/plus. jeffrey vinik, look for that around 9:30 this morning with erik schatzker and stephanie ruhle. dell futures -16. let's do a twitter question. it is existential. it is a haiku. can ba

we have the nhl commissioner here, gary bettman. the rangers are not in this thing. ly don't care. no offense to gary. i will talk to him anyway. stanly cup playoffs are now. finals are now. rangers are not in it, why do we care? we should because we're all americans after this. ♪ the real question that needs to be asked is "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day. whatever i can do to help compute a cure for cancer, that's what i'd like to do. neil: all right. the stanley cup finals, that's hockey will be a big deal because they kick off on wednesday without the new york rangers. i don't even know why i'm proceeding with this interview. because i like my next guest the nhl commissioner gary bettman. he said if you had any doubts about it hockey is back. the ratings for the playoffs were certainly very strong. do you root for certain team, knowing if you have a new york market team in t