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it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. >>> some big ceo compensation numbers out today. cnbc's jackie deangelis joins us with that and more. the latest breaking headlines coming into the cnbc newsroom. hello again, jackie. >> hey, larry. well, goldman sachs ceo lloyd blankfein got a 14 1/2% raise to a total of $16.2 million, including stock awards from prior years. despite a decline in profits and share price during 2011. blankfein's take-home was dwarfed by cbs's les moonves, who clokcked a 21% increase in his package to 61.9 million. and you're watching speeded up more than 200,000 of your tax dollars at work, moving an 11-ton minzantea shrub, once thought to be extinct away from a highway project next to the golden gate bridge. the trouble is may not be rare since it sells for $16 or so at nurseries. our thanks to brett basel for finding this outrage. >> jackie deangelis, thank you. next up on "kudlow," president obama and vice president biden unveil their income tax returns. if the president is using the same rich man'

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it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. it is masters thursday. joining us live from the golf channel,en thinking about 1999? do you remember every swing? >> not every swing, but i remember a lot of good things about that week. mostly that i got play with the eventual winner on thursday and friday. and i got to see up close and personal the kind of genius it takes to win. but, yes, it was a lot of fun that week. >> those spaniards. he was like an artist. >> he was. he really was. >> in the past -- >> great guy, too. >> yeah. in the past, i used to think -- i could pick tiger or the field in a major. and it was about -- i always felt like it was about even. and then for a couple years i didn't feel that way. is it back to where tiger is a pretty -- not a bad pick for this tournament versus the field? >> yeah, i wouldn't say you pick tiger or the field, but definitely he's the best bet to win the masters this week and to win every major championship as far as that's concerned for the rest of the year. it's clear he's comforta

it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz.rosoft led the charge after the bell today. beating expectations top and bottom. nbc's own jon fortt joining us with breaking news and more. good evening, john. >> evening, larry. microsoft has strong business spending. gave the numbers a boost. the company also lowered the full-year operating expense guidance and windows 8 is on schedule for intel and on-base chips meaning apple's ipad will have more challengers by the end of the year. and in other news, housing in phoenix is starting to find buyers. diana olick has that story. >> reporter: well, jon, the rebirth of the phoenix housing market is all about builders and bidders. the builders out here 40 miles outside of phoenix is taking advantage of the zero money down usda rural loan program. they just started opening up the model again. they're seeing folks coming through and they just permitted to build two new houses. back in phoenix, the story is about foreclosures and investors are rushing in to buy them up. we spoke with colony

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it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. >>> time to put on the stocktolojist cap. nasdaq stats. there you go. also pretty positive market internals on a day with a little bit of a rally despite the walmart continued woes. >> do stocktologists have to wear rubber gloves? >>> chinese stocks. the sec is finally getting tough on them. how tough are they really getting on them? >> they're getting tougher than they were. look, over the past six months, the sec has revoked the registrations of 34 chinese companies and filed charges against three. the most recent of those charges was sinotech energy which regulators alleged overstated the value of its primary operating asset. the chairman was also charged with secretly siphoning at least $40 million from the company's bank account. this is an interesting one. because allegations were first brought to light last august by the website alfredlittle.com whose authors are anonymous. and which issued a 30-page report on the company at the time. the company fired back saying the allegatio

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it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz.ve been one of the unlucky investors caught up and you may want to rethink your strategy. buy equities. let's bring in the senior analyst to explain. ron, this is double negative. don't short bonds. would you buy bonds? >> when we were on and the final trade was to buy the flattener which was taking advantage of the drop in interest rates can which was where they were. five reasons not to short bonds. we have seen what? the world is thick as a brick. the brick countries are not doing well. they are slowing down. we have spain infecting europe and the possibility of contag n contagion. we could have another as we did in 2010 and 2011, a stock market that buys bonds. real risk is ben bernanke is not telling you that qe 3 is off the table and he has not said that. you don't go for the bonds until bernanke and dudley find out. they will get crushed in that trade. starbucks and mcdonald's and ibm. >> scale in. if we have a sell off in the spring, take advantage of lower prices to buy the ca

it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. >>shepard: monitoring a news conference from spring, next, from authorities regarding the case of a woman who is accused of murdering a new mom and stealing her three day old baby. so, where is the investigation? let's listen. >> good morning, ladies and gentleman i am working at the montgomery county sheriff's office in administration. part of my job is public information officer so i have had a chance to meet many of you. how we will run this afternoon, i will give you a quick, brief statement, and i will entremendous dues the sheriff to you for a brief statement and quick update on some of the events that have occurred. heel turn it back to me and i will bring you up to immediate where we are today in the investigation. and the captain will address you, the commander of the detective division at the her's office and will entremendous dues our district attorney who will bring you up to date on the prosecution end of this. leave all questions until after am the speakers have had a ch

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it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz.e a few minutes to respond to your tweets, but first, housekeeping to take care of. back on march 21st, howard from arizona wanted to know my thoughts on imos. i needed to look at the exposure to apple given all the stocks related to apple have ripped to the upside. a leading provider in test services with exposure to smartphones and tablets, cloud computing centers and gaming. all areas that are hot right now. while it benefits from apple's success, this has other end markets and high customer concentrations with novatech, neither company i want to be levered to, in addition, shares are up 201% year-to-date, despite losing 35% in the last few days, while this is part of the teardown trade, i think it's time to take profits here. i should have had this one last year. on march 22nd we heard from nathan in my home state of pennsylvania last thursday asked for input on ticker symbol invn. these techies are market pioneer and global leaders in intelligent motion processing solutions that e

it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. >>> we come back welcome. >> welcome back. trading well off of the session lows as focus on wall street shifts to earnings. alco-w market under pressure ahead of all that, down 59 points. 12,964 back below the 13,000 mark. at its worst, the dow had been down 164 points. we are well off of the weaker points of this market here. s&p technology index, clawing its way off of the worst levels as well, the tech index, one of of the day's better performing sectors. still up 4% over the last month. scott? >> maria, breaking down tech. technology is the second best performing sector since the low set in october. a gain of 30%. all contributing to the group's outperformance. and of course, there's apple, tacking on a gain of 70% since the lows. no doubt, the sector is among the high flyers this year. could it become one of the market's biggest decliners during pull back? grady burke et from morning star and collin gillis join me now to work in. gentlemen, good to have you. collin, good to see y

it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. not quite knowing what the next phase was going to be, you know, because you been, you know, this is what you had been doing. you know, working, working, working, working, working, working. and now you're talking about, well you know, i won't be, and i get the chance to spend more time with my wife and my kids. it's my world. that's my world. ♪ >>> welcome back. stocks stayed to the strongest rally of the year and investors are not too impressed because of a trifecta. ibm earned $2.78 a share in the first quarter. analysts only predicted 2.65. that was a beat. revenue came under $24.8 billion. a little lighter than expected. shares are selling off on that revenue miss. yahoo! shares, however, are spiking in after-hours trading. beating estimates by 6 cents. revenue increased to a slightly better than expected $1.08 billion. that stock is higher by 1.8%. intel earned 56 cents a share. they beat estimates by 6 cents. that only gets them to a year ago profit number. revenue slightly abov

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