will said groupon. i've seen a big increase and variety on the groupon good side of the business.h tomorrow, you need to look at it closely, two speeches by federal reserve members, esther george, kansas city federal reserve bank president scheduled to speak on the economy. she was the lone disenter yesterday and james bullard, st. louis federal reserve president scheduled to speak on monetary policy. david: my money is on esther george. hear from the dissident. why she was against let it be as it is policy the fed was about. liz: "money" with melissa francis is next. david: hope to see you tomorrow. tune in. it will be a busy day. liz: bye now. melissa: i'm melissa francis and here's what's "money" tonight. fox sits down with syria's bashar al-assad. he said he is ready to give up and destroy his chemical weapons. there is just one thing. he wants the u.s. to pay for it. will taxpayers forced to pick up the billion dollar tab? >>> plus more than $2 trillion has been migrated across the u.s. going where it is treated best. which areas are bleeding red and which are swimming in gre

the groupons? >> they're chasing these risky assets. look at coal, look at steel, these are names that had spiked. i think you should be selling those right now. >> selling themment would you sell names? i know you are not an equities trader, are the fundamental also there to support a run in some of the metals? >> i think it's a short covering rally. i think we have a little ways to go. i would sell into strength. china is coming off the bottom. so people are saying, hey, everything isn't as bad as we think. let's buy. are you right, hedge funds have underperformed. they're chasing performance right now. >> you know, renee brings up a really big point with gold and crude and everything else coming in, what happens with taper, if bernanke uses this, now that brings crude even in more and gold even in more. >> yeah, i think we have a real problem here if i'm making the bullish case on this desk. >> it is shocking when it came out. >> listen, to me, i think what's going to happen is what has been tel

>> yes. >> let's go to mike khouw for the options action on groupon.s one? >> it was interesting, we saw substantial institutional cal spread risk reversal trading. that's when somebody byes a cal spread, in this case it was the november 16th call spread and then collecting more money. they sold the november 9 puts and they did this many thousands of times. when somebody does a trade like this they're willing to make a bullish bet, hoping to have participation as the stock goes above 12, maybe up to that 16 level but they're not willing to buy the stock here. to dan's point they're not going to be forced to buy the shares unless they decline to around $9. this is somebody who is willing to play the momentum but doesn't like buying the stock right here. >> we want to hear from you on who you thought won the street fight. tweet us @cnbc using hashtag bull or bear. still ahead from the street fight to a football fight out in the field with the official nfl kickoff, our own former nfler dr. j. was right on the money last year with his super bowl pick. >> i

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groupon says it will rename the app blink by groupon but will separate spraet separately. terms were not disclosed. amazon steering clear of the smart phone wars for now, denying a report it plans to inkro tro dus a smart phone free before the end of the year. people do say that it is developing a phone. social media liftoff, nasa launched a new instagra page. nasa has 102,000 followers. in san francisco, i'm emily chang, larry, carolyn, back to you. >> thank you. >> a new study reigniting debate over when women should begin breast cancer screenings. researchers say mammograms before age 50 could reduce deaths from the common form of cancer in women. to cut down on high costs of the test. dr. beser weighs in on the debate. >> the question is, if you train those women younger would vit saved heir lives? young women tend to have more aggressive breast cancer so, would the early screening have changed the outcome for them? how many women would have you to dreen skreen to save one life? that is the big question. >> he says check to see if you're covered and factor in family hi

one concern was groupon's entire business model that had a low barrier to entry. that was then and this is now. facebook, pandora, groupon up double digits over the past through months thanks to more users, a stream line focus on mobile, commentary from wall street and silicon valley. >> i think recovering, proving that mobile can generate revenues, it makes sense for me to figure out now and take advantage of the market. >> the streets growing appreciation for how broad social platforms can generate revenues can potentially help twitter when it trades on the market. but investors are paying close attention to how twitter's ipo will be handled by goldman sachs. >> what will goldman sachs do that, you know, morgan stanley in terms of the way the price, the ipo that, you know, ed essentially got facebook to under perform for awhile. >> reporter: there is one advantage twitter has, time. it may be a younger company but twitter has been able to learn from the trials and transcribe la -- tribulations other companies faced wench faced. >>> we could have turned to twitte

looking at both groupon and apple, let's kick it off first with groupon, up 9%, huge move for grouponen jumping. stifel-nicolaus came out and put a new price target of 16 bucks. they love mobile apps and e-commerce with stability in europe. all of this and the trend of the apps for e-commerce bodes well for groupon, a real winner today. and a 52-week high that is worth noting. over the last year, the stock is up 115%. let's move it on over to apple. year ago today was the closing high of apple at 702 and change. today it is at 474 and change. so apple shareholders don't want to hear that in particular. however, they continue to work on new products. the lead designer just did an interview with "usa today" and said he is working on something new. let's find out what it is. you see shares today up 2%, tomorrow you can go to the stores and get the new iphones if you're interested. tracy: thank you, nicole. we'll check back with you in 15 minutes. did you do your up load? ashley: why? tracy: i'm afraid. ashley: will blow up on you? tracy: who knows. ashley: don't be afraid. be brave. trac

this is something else looming over groupon.oth of these headlines today weighing on the company. as a result you see it down five .5% today. david: by the way you have a stalker behind you. look behind you. like right behind you. you have a stalker there. >> that is ted weisberg. there he is. i'll get him. i'll get him. no, i'm kidding. >> you could have worse stalkers than teddy weisberg. liz: i think teddy is doing a individual for venezuela or "der spiegel." david: see you later. dropping to a six-week low as citigroup and morgan stanley warn the precious metal will extend loss as u.s. economy improves. liz: let's head back to michael gerka and sandra smith on the floor of the cme. sandra, what should we be thinking about this move? >> looking forward. the markets said good bibuy to the -- good-bye to knee-jerk reaction to the announcement of the fed or lack there of. we've gone from risk risk on to risk off. crude is down more than a buck. stock market is selling off. you have a market now looking forward and citigroup and

will twitter's ipo groupon is up 140% year to date. why there's not just a mini bubble in these names right now. >> the hottest thing for investors on wall street is basically social and mobile. that ties into the move towards consumption of media on phones and tablets. you know, twitter plays right into that. is actually perfectly positioned for that. i don't -- i don't necessarily argue there might be a bubble there. when you're looking at where media is going and how it's consumed, you could make the counter argument there's not a bubble at all. >> twitter has the benefit of learning from the mistakes we have also learned from facebook's ipo. they can try to avoid some hype that was in the leadup of the facebook ipo that led it to be trailing. >> there were some things that happened in facebook's ipo, beyond facebook's control. yes, twitter is trying to do this as quietly as possible. when you're on the cover of "new york post" when a cnbc does a prime time documentary about twitter, it's hard to be low profile about it. >> which is

they are raising what they are seeing and getting bullish on groupon even more so.ing and moving toward new highs. liz: this is a stock you need to hear why it is doing as well. gold rallying today. it has been a tough year for gold as you can see. this particular area right there that is really starting to shine. a nice move in the wake of what is happening with the federal reserve and the decision not to taper yesterday. jumping 4.7% log in the strongest gain since 2009. sandra smith on the floor the cme to talk about this. sandra: it is really crazy, actually. still seeing gold prices up $61 right now. the way we have been putting it on the floor is these commodities are on sale. when you get the fed announcement yesterday, you get less expensive commodities so the buyers flocking around the globe to get gold and silver. silver rights now it was a best performer in august, the best performer of this quarter so far up about 20% quarter to date. silver prices the biggest gainer on the cme up about 7%. gobbling up the precious metals and the industrial metals as wel

that's a big deal for groupon.0% of the contract that they've been securing these deals are from long-term players. stuart: hold on a second, nicole, hold on a second. the big deal about groupon is that charles hikliked it, recommended it, and make money early this week or late last week. charles: late last week. stuart: ahead of the game and you're doing a victory lap? >> not yet. when it gets to 13 i'll do a victory lap. stuart: go ahead, nicole. nicole: the other point i was going to make about mobile devices over the last two years up about 20% over the last two years, so go, charles. good call. it's your birthday. charles: it's my birthday. nicole: yeah, yeah. charles: if it was, would you go i have me the watch? >> no, i wouldn't. i've got a question if mr. hazelton is with us. could i get groupon e-mails, 10,000 a day on this watch? >> yeah, you would. stuart: thank you, todd, thank you, nicole, thank you, charles. north carolina is looking to eliminate their state incould many tax and replacing it with a co

plus, groupon chairman and founder of the revolution growth fund ted leones.l cover it all as the second hour of "squawk box" begins right now. >>> good morning, everybody. welcome back to "squawk box" here on cnbc. i'm becky quick along with joe kernan. andrew is in nantucket, massachusetts. he'll be joining us shortly with a special guest. barclays ceo bob diamond. yesterday, the markets eked out a gain after five days of declines. this morning, looks like the futures are indicated lower. dow futures down by about 40 points below fair value. in our headlines this morning, the senate has votes scheduled today on legislation to avert a government shutdown. the measure is expected to pass. but the senate legislation does not include house passed language that strips money from obama care. house republican leaders said they are unwilling to accept the bill. today, we'll hear from new york fed president bill dudley once again along with boston fed president. yesterday, kansas city federal reserve president ester george argues that the key thing is that the clarit

. >> caller: is stock is groupon. >> i think groupon's management has gained. i think this company is a changed company. i would not sell it. i would use the weakness we got today to buy groupon, not sell it. because i think it's doing better than people think. all right. let's face it, just as with actual apples, one bad analyst can spoil a bunch. remember, the bunch was already spoiled. on the new iphone, wall street hated it. okay? where did that get you? it's the critics who matter, and the critics have us all salivating for it. "mad money" is right back. >>> coming back, beating the odds. it's been a september to remember for the market. but can stocks continue to defy the statistics? cramer is searching for signals that can tell you where it's headed on a special edition of "off the charts." >>> and later, king of the castle? from film to fantasy lands, disney has been making dreams come true on main street and wall street. what's next for the largest media conglomerate in the world? can you fly high by buying in? find out with cramer's exclusive with bob

there are lots of tech billionaires on the list, facebook billionaires, google billionaires, groupon billionaires and 13 nba owners. that's not because owning this makes you a rich it's more of i'm already crazy rich so i will bite memphis grizzlies for fun. the highest grand total in the history of the forbes 400. >>> well, you can catch more stories like this one on the list. watch it followed by let's ask america. >> here's a look at what we're working on all new at 6:00. five people are charged with murder after that deadly shooting in cecil county. we'll show you their faces and explain what they were trying to do when the victims were shot. >> refugees in syria may not seem relevant to your life but hear from what a local fill maker has to say. that's coming up right here horn abc2 news at -- on abc2 news at 6. >>> you often hear about race morses being sent out to pasture, but many go to find success. >> a horse found a second career out in frederick county as an artist. >> reporter: he's still at it. metro meteor, the painting horse. >> there you go. >> he has his moods. he w

i think what you saw with groupon and -- >> yelp. >> yelp. the s.e.c.acked it off for -- added -- like, they had financial -- geez. they had financial results exposed and they came back and eventually the stock was priced lower than expected, anticipated. >> thank you for your insight. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> and be sure to tune in tonight for the cnbc documentary "twitter revolution" tonight, carl qu carl's great documentary. >> yeah. we'll see if this market changes materially. we've got a rally of 64 point on the dow jones industrial average 20 minutes before the close of the week. >> coming up, it may be friday 13th but most have been feeling luck with this market this week. and, in fact, for the entire month. we're adding up the gains next. >> after the bell, michael dell wins. he's taking dell private and talking to me exclusively. that's coming up on the "closing bell." stay with us. >>> september is supposed to be the worst month of the year for the markets. not so bad. >> how good? bob pisani is adding it up. >> everything's been wrong

the wild card groupon. it's something of a wild card but they have the act together. at 11 to become a momentum darling. a stock that all the fast money will chase. >> adam, any thoughts on that? >> yeah, now i'm mad at you for such good picks. the only one i quibble with is siris logic. it's so tied to apple. that is a problem. >> neil: i see no problems at all. that will do it here. thanks. cost of freedom continues on the place for business. ♪ ♪ >> david: well, here is a question on the syrian story many are not considering. can we afford to attack syria? >> senator jim imhoff is the top republican on the armed services says no, we can't. "our troops are stretched thin. the defense budget has been slashed to historically low level. no red line should have been drawn without the strategy and funding to support it." so this further proof the debt is a security risk? hi, even. i'm david asman. welcome to "forbes on fox." in focus with steve forbes, himself. elizabeth macdonald. sabrina schaefer. rich

. >>> no bargain today for groupon shares and that's where we start tonight's market focus. shares jumping after morgan stanley raised the rating to over weight siting straight in north america. they rose to $10.66 but more than doubled so far this year. >>> another company seeing strong gains today, the distributor of fasteners and construction supplies. it says sales in august surked 7% from a year ago thanks to strong demand. shares up more than 6% to $48.60. >>> a huge gain in the shares of kadon after sks said it would pay them. the deal value kaydon at 35.5 each. they closed at $35.55, up 23%. >>> shares were a drag on the s&p 500 after bar clays downgraded from over weight saying that stock is basically over valued. shares fell to close at $30.30. >>> now to a healthcare issue that impacts families all around the world. alzheimer's, 30 million people are affected globally and that number is expected to double by the year 2030. it's been more than a decade since a new treatment has come to market with some of the most promising drug trials coming up short last year. a

this is linkedin, groupon, s&p 500 technology sector. basically unchanged. no result, yet, these things are exploding up 100, 200%. actually the last six months, lincoln has underperformed the group. if you see the stats here, the most sort of benign, we think that's an opportunity. we think it will catch up with some of the others. looking at the chart of linkedin, what is important here is well defined levels from which it broke out. when i brake out from a range, a period of equilibrium gives way to dis-equilibrium. you only gap with news, obviously, it has to be good news. then you second a second gap. typically, you get a third. that's another piece of good news. you get one more. at which point we would play the name. here now, play for that fourth gap. >> it's interesting how carter focuses on linkedin. it has a different business model. it has more of a subscription based model. >> i think that's definitely true. like many subscription models, once they pay, you get dinged on your credit card, like me, i am a paying subscriber. i have been for a numb

dagen: i argue the likes of groupon was the commodity.ery obvious that discounting model, anybody could come in and do it. twitter could be low hanging fruit in terms of their revenue. ten times the valuation for facebook, ten times the revenue now but just beginning to figure out how to push it through, incredibly loyal. >> there is a social network exchange traded fund. it has them all, the good and the bad, a way to be in the sector, diversified, not depending on a big winner or big loser in. is not public, when it is there will probably be a change. the evolution if you want to be an investor in a piece of social network is to use the e t f, spread it among several companies and not try to guess which is which. connell: charles's point. dagen: and on going public, they have to and they need the liquidity of that. connell: charles payne, david, thanks to both of you. dagen: lands end ceo says earlier suppliers did not show any violation after a report of branded with a glance end label focus in north korea. the label belongs to seer's

one of them is groupon. nicole: you have the analysts upgrading.tinues to grow. it accounts for half of the total transactions in america today. this will all materialize for groupon and higher margins as well. up 155%. stuart: i guess that some of us would actually take that. what is this? the catamaran. charles: we are up over 20%. we are down on pier one today. pharmacy benefits management. it is a technology play. record revenue. the ceo was on fox business recently. something with tremendous long-term growth. it will be absolutely huge. stuart: any way of cashing in on that aging population. intel got to us. they gave us a model. they call it the robot of the 21st century. the man who is basically running this thing is with us right now. he is an occasional guest on "varney & company." >> it is designed to look friendly. stuart: it will be friendly. >> we are open sourcing the design. what would you do with this? how would you design it? you already have one that can do the vacuuming right now. this could work from a healthcare standpoint. stu

then let's get the names under pressure today just like groupon and netflix and blackberry with the apparelnames, blackberry underperforming and warning the latest quarter is not a good way to have the million dollar writeoff and also over at jefferies today a new price target, netflix hit a new high today than we saw profit-taking saw now that is down also with groupon. they're under pressure as well. back to you. cheryl: three do components making their debut today goldman sacks, the set and a nike replacing bank of america, hewlett-packard and alcoa. how does this change for the remainder of the year? this is a new dow 30. we ever senior equity strategist starting with you i know of you can see the return in your studio beyer is goldman sachs it is down $4 and change that is an impact to the negative. was this the right move? >> laura goldman sachs both of those have more potential than the firms they replaced that gives the dow little better upside. cheryl: you say it makes it less diverse? >> yes. you have more technology because it is classified as a technology stock even if you put i

. >> could we talk about a bigger market cap company, groupon.d to overweight at morgan stanley. so taking a look at the shares here. if you want to talk about getting mobile right, remember, this company after coming out with better earnings, holding in thereafter a tough year last year in exit of the ceo now doing a little bit better. today at 5.9% on the upgrade again. this year up 125%. >> we're trading at 10 $.90. the points target rose at morgan stanley. >> groupon moving higher on this upgrade. >>> retailers are struggling. we'll continue to hear from them all morning while we go mary thompson on the floor. >> hey, kelly, as we expected, pretty much a flat open for the market. dow is holding on to a 20-point gain right now. nasdaq is up just about eight. we're expecting low volume today again because it is a number of people are off for today's session. so these are the three things that traders are talking about. we've been talking a bout it al morning. most notably, the ten-year yield. that is something the traders are focusing on syria

we are talking about groupon.ason created this idea of journalists writing adds which are coupons. you are journalists who are writing articles with real add ver advertisements and could replace a network. >> i have the people, they report to ben smith. the people that do the branded content. we have a firm church and state. >> i should have asked you that first. i've dealt with them and they would say you are the enemy. no, you may be the future. >> thank you. >> that is john steinberg. i urge you to go to the site and understand this business model. there have been a lot of good articles about it. stay with kramer. follow us on twitter and tweet your questions. but he's not. ♪ he's an architect with two kids and a mortgage. luckily, he found someone who gave him a fresh perspective on his portfolio. and with some planning and effort, hopefully bob can retire at a more appropriate age. it's not rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. [ tires screech ] ♪ [ male announcer ] 1.21 gigawatts. today

we are talking about groupon.on created this idea of journalists writing ads which were coupons. you guys are journalists who are writing articles that have advertisement with real ads and could replace a network. >> i have the people, they report to ben smith. the people that do the branded content. we have a firm church and state. >> i should have asked you that first. i've dealt with them and they would say you are the enemy. no, you are not the enemy. you may be the future. >> thank you. >> that is john steinberg. i urge you to go to the site and understand this business model. there have been a lot of good articles about it. stay with cramer. keep up with cramer all day long. follow us on twitter and tweet your questions. >>> it is time for the lightning round. are you ready, skeedaddy? start with john in pennsylvania. >> thanks for taking the call. where do you see facebook? >> facebook is one of the largest positions and we want to scale it out but we think about 50% of the business is going to be mobile. l

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meanwhile losing money, everyone who owns groupon. sued alleging it committed fraud about finances around its ipo in november fell to 11th. fighting to get a lousy tur but a federal judge refused to dismiss it. the news sank stock by more than 5%. and 18 million viewers. a big boost. does not make jeff daniels heard any less. that is all we have for you. i hope you made "money" today. we will see you back here tomorrow. ♪ "the willis report" is coming up next. ♪ >> warning, the following jokes are raunchy, risque, and for adults only. >> suzanne, you look great. i think i'll have your room sent up to mine. >> no one threw a better party, a better black tie, a-list, racy, raucous, hilarious party than the king of cool... >> dean martin. >> dean martin. >> deano. >> dean, you're a phenomenon. you look like cary grant and you smell like ed mcmahon. >> starvista entertainment and time life present the dean martin celebrity roasts. >> dean and i have been on more floors than johnson's wax.

and groupon is down 54%. it is up 156 percent bluenose we were dealing with.vestment bankers to give shares to their best friends it is a club that should be broken up by a belief. that the individual of testers to be a part of the party. >> nothing will change. talk about being a more fair and level playing field so expected to change but there is one thing the investor has that is the ability to uts check things out major the company is growing. i said a lot of this for free and they are gains but then they were hit. just make sure it is a growing business ben you will be okay. gerri: are they growing? of the growing the topline? senate that is a lot of work good to talk to you. $100 bills are rolled out next month we will talk about that coming up. thank you orville and wilbur... ...amelia... neil and buzz: for teaching us that you can't create the future... by clinging to the past. and with that: you're history. instead of looking behind... delta is looking beyond. 80 thousand of us investing billions... in everything from the best experiences below... to

. >> and updated groupon today. >> it's still not too late to buy groupon.ess model, new management and is doing well. >> updated travelers. >> a lot of people worried about the last quarter, that's starbucks, not travelers. >> and pier one. >> i don't understand why they missed. i think it's a very, very good company. if you tune in tonight, maybe we'll find out. this may be a buying opportunity. >> anything else on mad we should know about? >> i got international game technology. very controversial stock. i don't know if it should be because they had a really good quarter. >> and finally, big game tonight. >> andy reid, welcome home to philadelphia. >> is that how you're putting it, welcome home? >> well, i like the reids very much. i like chip kelly, too. and tammy reid is a friend of mine and she's sensational. >> it's going to be a good game to watch. see you on monday. when we come back, breaking economic news times three, existing homes, philly fed, lei and the market reaction in just a moment. ♪ [ female announcer ] you're the boss of your life. in c

groupon, however, has struggled since going public.down more than 40% since its ipo in november of 2011. twitter's ipo announcement comes at the time of heightened investment interest in ipos. 1311 deals have priced so far this year. carolin, back to you. >> courtney, thank you so much for that. and i'm now joined by tech entrepreneur and expert benjamin cohen who founded the websites jewish net and cyberbritain. what do you make of twitter's business model? and specifically, the ad revenue model? is it enough to entice investors to come in on this ipo? >> i think institutional investors, yes. leave they're working towards achieving that. >> but that m&a deal, that made sense because it is moving in the right direction. based on that and its previous history, valuation around 10 $1o $15 billion would be feasible, right? >> i think it's pretty feasible and pretty realistic for business of that size. i think they will have to peruse that revenue is there. and i'm sure they would have wanted to learn the lessons of facebook. my last job w

meanwhile losing money, everyone who owns groupon. committed fraud about finances around its ipo in november fell to 11th. fighting to get a lousy turnout, but a federal judge refused to dismiss it. the news sank stock by more than 5%. and 18 million viewers. a big boost. does not make jeff daniels heard any less. that is all we have for you. i hope you made "money" today. we will see you back here tomorrow. ♪ "the willis report" is coming up next. ♪ gerri: hello, everybody. i'm gerri willis. tonight on "the willis report", companies defeating consumers by giving teviews online. one state on the crack down this topic. also, money-saving monday. this coupon misleading labels that are costing you a fortune. and just a week to go before the obama healthcare is changes go wide. your guide to navigating the changes to your health care. watching out for you tonight on "the willis report." ♪ our top story

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you have that very small groupon that extreme right wing controlling government here.ere is a hostage situation here. >> yeah. what are you willing to compromise on to avoid a shutdown? and also are you getting leaks or impressions that there is anything that that faction of the republican house would be willing to compromise on? >> no. no. these are things -- these are not up for negotiation, do you keep the government running, do you pay the bills. you know, and if you don't, you could, you know, completely collapse the full faith and credit of the united states. those aren't things you negotiate about. you pass those long and you sit down and you get back to regular order where you negotiate the budget process. i have not heard anything from the extreme conservative tea party faction other than defunding or delaying the president's obama care plan that we implemented a few years ago. and the thing about it is this doesn't make any sense. there's a democratic senate. there's a democratic president who doesn't have to run for reelection. has three more years in office

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. >> i actually bought a groupon just last night.e meantime, why don't we take a look at lulu lemon which is getting a boost in terms of its target price. >> it goes from 273. credits, we say, they continue demand for their products following resolution with buckgate. lululemon getting a nice pop in the target price from credit suisse. >> and now we have green mountain coffee. >> they have soup cups and also rising penetration. just basically current coffee makers in people's homes, not just coffee makers like the cnbc one, but in your house. >>> we have pretty good news for google partner himax te technologi technologies. >> liquid crystal on silicon. their target went to 12. nice up side. >> finally today's under the radar pick is louisiana pacific. >> despite louisiana in the name, this company was founded in portland, oregon and is now based in nashville. go figure. vancouver-based to deal with 1.1 billion. why do you care? deutsch bank upped it to a buy on the deal. it also gives the company greater access to the growing asia ma

. >>> groupon is having another great day. almost 5% up. the stocks now more than doubled this year. sue? >> simon, president obama arriving at the g-20 summit in russia, coming face to face with russian president vladimir putin. military action against syria and the fed tapering are dominating the overall gathering. cnbc's steve sedgwick is live in st. petersburg with the very latest. steve, over to you. >> yeah, a very good speech today. very interesting. they have just finished a chat which was supposed to finish two hours ago on the global economy. now, did syria come up in that conversation? we're going to go to a briefing in a few minutes with the russian finance minister and find out what went on. but there is no doubt about it, the cloud of syria and concerns about the relationship and the breakdown of that relationship between the united states, the largest economy on this planet, and the host of the g-20, the russian federation, and indeed, the individual presidents, obama and putin, is center stage here in st. petersburg. don't f

the price for this groupon is just 20 bucks. the race will be run in fort washington, maryland on saturday, december 21. if you have an offer you've seen or you're a local merchant with a deal for our viewers, i'd love to hear from >>> welcome back. if you're planning to head out of glen bernie, i've been telling you about this big accident southbound i-97 ramp to westbound route 32. it's to tractor-trailers, a fuel spill involved as well. one of the tractor-trailers lost its load so that's why it's taking so long to clear this up. southbound i-97 again the ramp to westbound route 32 blocked off with this accident involving two tractor-trailers. i'll keep you posted on the situation and any openings as you travel through this area. back to you guys. >>> for the last six weeks we've been focusing on the importance of knowing your family health history, especially when it comes to whether you could be at risk for the brca gene mutation. knowing your risk could be the difference between life and death. joining us this morning are s

groupon didn't make it. big rally among the social media. >> initially there was a certain level around the concept of social media. thanks to facebook, linked-in, other companies coming on the market, a lot of people are becoming comfortable with the idea of social media. they have the staats to back them up. verizon mobile ad revenue. that's very important. >> i have to leave it there. thank you very much. seema mody, kayla tash shi, we approach it. >> fire raging in the storm battered town of seaside heights. that's a town ravaged by last fall's superstorm sandy. they're reporting that 80%, 80% of the boardwalk has already been destroyed. we're going to go live to the shore a little later this hour. >>> switching gears now. all of a sudden government shutdown looks closer and closer. the deadline, as you know, is september 30th. a republican push to defund or delay obama care is at the heart of the latest budget standoff. you know what, right now it's republican versus republican rather than the gop versu

yahoo, groupon? oh my the high flying internet stocks can't be stopped.you should follow suit and diplomacy trade, syria is the wild card shaping up the commodity markets. we have a special guest trade tore make sense of it all. i'm mellissa