we're talking ibm. and get ahead of the fed with two hours before the big decision "the halftime report" starts right now. >>> here to debate and trade, joe terranova, jon najarian, mark tepper is here, president and ceo, and chris bitterly is along as well, citi, head of markets for the americas good to have you with us on this wednesday. stocks are higher. we're trading the final days of the quarter. now one quite good for your money. you have the dow in the quarter up 9%. the best quarter since q-1 of '17, up month to date. this is where the action has been, the stralindustrials. >> what we've seen this month, unlike august when nasdaq was very strong up about 6% in august and this quarter, at the end of the quarter 2.5% on the dow negative on the nasdaq so one could say if you look at september that there's been a shift, but there have been more days in september than any month of the year where there's almost a 1% difference on a daily basis between how the dow trades and how the nasdaq trades. if

this is the best stock and it is time for other stocks to do some leading including ibm. >> ibm getsn upgrade they go to buy and they see upside 197 and they point out, service is not an ai and 4 x and mainframe head wings >> that's right, i was thinking about that piece when you mentioned about the dollars. it is called the evidence slab that they have with ups. the evidence is that don't count on those two positives to impact the stock any time soon. i am out here. there is just a tremendous amount of people rooting for ibm and the ethics of ibm remaining the best in the industry contrast to what we keep on hearing of facebook. >> yeah, it was interesting and i know we'll listen to those comments and benoiff who talks about it we have been talking about for years now. these things do tend to take a long time. >> yeah, david, i will tell you, i think it is a battleship, we had it through the ten-year. what i think is happening is that it is so hard to catch on i think ibm is doing many things right. at the same time you are up against these companies that for instance, ibm is a terr

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that would really hurt ibm. >> look, i'm a strong believer in free trade., you should have fair trade. i don't think anybody would disagree that there has to be fair trade. strongly believe those shsh negotiated. strong negotiations at a table with allies, with parties to get that to happen. we've got global supply chains and are capable of doing that. i think there are other smaller companies that don't have that flexibility -- it's not a huge issue for us. again, back to -- remember, we are 10% physical hard goods and 90% software and services. many done in their countries of where they are today. but in a broader picture for our economy, you want to have free trade across and you want to have that be fair trade, as i said. if you look at what our trade agreements looked like before, walter, they were not ready for this 21st century. they were not digital. so they needed modernization. there is no doubt trade agreement needed modernization to thrive in an i.t. data driven world. >> you are one of only 24 women ceos in the fortunate 500. and even more amaz

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>> it's driving profitabilities in our clients >> that's why you're doing it, for ibm. >> we're doinglients first and sharing in the profits. what are the margins >> we don't disclose them at the individual profit level. >> nice to see you fascinating. >> good to be with you >>> adecco shares are under pressure after it warned of slowing revenue growth in the third quarter. it's the world's largest staffing company it said organic adjusted revenues were up 2%. alan dehayes is the cor eceo and they were adjusting costs to reflect the environment. >>> kingfisher sales are falling after the french business hit half year profits. the firm behind b & q in the uk said it was on track to grow its full-year margin >>> britain's competitional authority referred sainsbury's merger to an in depth review saying the stores overlap in hundreds of local area the cma said shoppers could face higher prices or worse services where both chains had shops. >>> nestle, unilever and coca-cola submitted bid for horlicks the unit is expected to be sold for around $4 billion with multiple reports saying the th

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people forget ibm is the same thing.ey are getting a three way separation and i think you wait and take a look at those parts and pounce on the ones you like the best. >> just as a general principal if you're looking at how it will evolve over time these ideas that you want to go with, stuff that hasn't worked very well, can they improve on the fly as the market remains kind of advancing? it takes something like a serious correction to have that kind of a handoff take place >> good point. i think one thing that can help make that happen is higher interest rates clearly a lot of stocks that have been left behind are more value oriented and higher interest rates will be bad for growth stocks. by definition they are farther away in the future these are earning a lot of money today. a high interest rate will be better names like goldman sachs do better it has ban bad place to be so we would pick out goldman as very well siftuated >> we heard about ibm. >> i think the dow verizon makes a an awful lot of sense to me. again, ch

facebook and ibm.m cook with dollars and fence. >>> -- >>reporter: ed cross -- class action lawsuit filed thing the company violated agent determination laws. people included the suit under 50s and 60s but the lawsuit claims ibm has laid off 20,000 employees over the age of the $.40 2012. tesla is under investigation by the justice department over statements made by elon musk. the government is opening a criminal investigation into elon musk's tweet claiming he had the funding a place to take the company private. later said he would keep the company public. he turn over documents to the justice from it. all the specifics are not known prosecutors are likely looking at whether elon musk a try to mislead investors. >>> boy stocks shot up five dollars a share boeing as a part of the dow jones and that is helping it gain 200 point. bank stocks also part of that game this morning. on the role a higher interest rate for bonds. 201. 26,004 48. three quarters of a percent. the s&p 500 also at about quarter of

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maybe an amazon, a google can be your partner, right now microsoft, ibm partner, how about somebody hugehat you could land so i could feel better about the growth. >> we announced a big partnership with movemeicrosoft big one with ibm we work closely with google and amazon a large piece of open shift which is our container platform does run on aws and last year at our conference, we did a whole piece on open shift on aws and how it runs really well there. our dedicated service is there they are a good partner on the public side as well. google we made some announcements with i would say aws and microsoft are big drivers of our next generation portfolio. >> fair enough, jim whitehurst, says an acceleration is coming up ma "mad money" is back after the break. with the new chase ink business unlimited card i get unlimited 1.5% cash back. it's so simple, i don't even have to think about it. so i think about mouthfeel. introducing chase ink business unlimited with unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase. >>> wall street loves a good comeback story that's why we are always on the lookout fo

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you are very on the ball always, even at ibm the morning. let's look at city am, looking at the former brexit secretary david davis, it says he is fully poised to throw his weight behind the government's brexit strategy. what is he going to do next? what a mess. i don't care, which way you voted, one way or another, nobody voted for this. the chequers agreement, i'm not saying it has been torn up but it has got a lot of opposition, particularly within the labour party and the tory party. david davis has obviously been in cahoots with jacob rees—mogg, who has had a conversation with michel barnier to discuss the whole chequers thing as being absolute rubbish. i think it is race out of a negotiator comes out and says something like that, so what is coming up and putting on the table is to say that you go by the world trade organization and then possibly to a canadian, norwegian style deal. there is only possible alternative is right now. you have david davis was about to come out and suggest his alternative, it have others suggesting a second

there at the top of their game but that digital equipment and ibm were dominant forces with google and facebook and all of these companies to have that fundamental flaw of escaping the obligations of security and liabilities. and that transmission of the real marketplace. by this strategy. and sergei brin was the author of this insight what if it is all three? we went off market. but you cannot compete with free. that relieves you of the burdens of protecting because if it's free that hackers are so already available. >> so was the danger of google knowing you are a runner and a venture capitalist and you like books? if they know that about you? >> privacy paranoid. i don't worry about google or facebook but to master my data. i have my own creation in my own contact but google has 85% of revenues from the music from the market share but it only pays about 13% of all royalties. it is really the people who produce the content and through those media advertisers. and then to exploit the producers of the actual content of the foundation. >> it is smart business with that huge bonanza. it

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. >> you have the ibm boss talking to the british prime minister. format is incredible. i would rather be one of those guys interviewing those people. i think it's such a fantastic way of doing it. a little later on francine is going to be joined by the president of south africa. he's got a really tough job on his hands. really looking forward to hearing what president ramaphosa talks about later run. he has been shifting the policy over the last few weeks. i'm really interested to see what he has to say it will do that later on. more than 30e just minutes into the u.s. trading session right now. let's get to abigail doolittle. we have a 2:00 p.m. decision. abigail: taking a look at new home sales for august and looking at a bit of a beat. atse home sales came in 629,000 new homes sold in the month of august versus the survey of 630,000. but the big number here is the revision for the month of july. revised down to 600-8000. that means the growth on a month over month basis is much stronger than expected, up 3.5%. this is a relatively strong reading especially for the ho

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. >> ibm got back to me in 24-hours and said we acknowledge this is important and we will look into it. when they replicated the study, they found similar results so they invite piece to speak to their senior technologist and executive and rolled out a new product that was substantially . >> amazon has a project and you reached out to jeff bezos. >> they are currently selling recognition to police departments right now. in follow up studies we did, we even showed that amazon was not getting oprah's face correct. >> if you're failing on oprah's hece, you can't have very good so idea that human beings are biased so anybody who is a programmer is bringing their bias into this program, and if it is ai, it is really human bias that is just being reflected? >> i call it the coded gaze, right? the coded gaze, like the male gaze or white gaze reflects the priorities, reflects the preferences and reflects the prejudices of those who have th& power to shape technology. >> you wanted a moratorium on this technology? >> absolutely. because of what we know about the errors with facial recognition t

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charles: ibm, judge, that judge is being sued for age discrimination.e out a prima facia case of age discrimination, you were fired, laid off, replaced by somebody significantly younger than you are. that makes out the prima facia case. that forces ibm to come back and justify each one of those dismissals and each one of those younger hires. not an easy thing to do, especially talking about thousands. so these lawyers -- they are having a filth, these lawyers may have a gold mine for legal fees here. what happens to the laid off ibm workers, it is going to be up to a federal judge. charles: good stuff, judge. thanks a lot. >> you're welcome. all happened in the past ten minutes. charles: i know. by the way i do want to let the audience know we reached out to ibm for a comment. we'll bring it to you as soon as we get it. more "varney" after this. ♪ : . >> let's check on tesla shares again, down 15 bucks, near the lows of the session. word that the d.o.j. launching a criminal probe that elon musk's statements about taking that company private. here's a gu

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when the ceo of ibm was talking to her, i thought she looked a little jumpy around that. she was more certain addressing some of the other issues, but she does not appear to have the confidence about what is going to happen in britain next. she talked about lower taxes -- great. there are plenty of other issues that are out ending around the issue of exit, and business leaders saying to her look, if you were in our shoes, what would you be doing? you would be protecting your investments. we believe in britain, but we have to have fallback positions. we have to take into account what could happen next year in the u.k., and remember there is another issue of the possibility of that general election. business leaders are worried about the possibility of a jeremy corbyn administration in the u.k. as well. busy man -- guy johnson here with us in new york. let's figure out what is going on in the markets, with kailey leinz. we are in the green today, markets and a holding pattern ahead of the federal reserve decision. time,t about two hours this is all but priced into the marke

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dow ending in positive territory third day in a row, led higher by shares of apple, ibm, 3m. nicole petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. good day down there, nicole. >> good day to you, melissa and to you, dave. apple, ibm intel up there, technology helps lead the way on the dow jones industrial average. the major averages, you see up arrows across the board. the dow as you noted it is up 147 points now really holding on to some good gains today. we have several names hitting all-time highs. microsoft, nike, american express and visa. now we have to turn our sights on hurricane florence. you can see some of these names moving higher throughout the week gave some back today but have been really moving higher. for example, beacon roofing. these make building materials, protection, all those preparations needed before and after a hurricane. you see them all down today but they are really all higher for this week. they have given some back today but the preparations are underway. we've also seen home depot and lowe's hitting some highs. we turn our sights on jeff bezos

speakers include ibm, johnson & johnson, at&t and american airlines. they're expected to focus on practical implications of a i-4 people and companies. >>> a japanese billionaire is about to become the first private passenger on the spacex rocket flight around the moon. elon musk introduced yusaka maezawa at an event in southern california last night and here he is. musk said the fashion mogul will take a trip aboard a new rocket still being developed. yusaka maezawa is investing in the rocket to take that trip, possibly, by the year 2023. >> finally, i can say that i could go to the moon! [ cheers and applause ] >> the rocket is being developed with the goal of eventually reaching mars. elon musk said spacex could begin testing it next year and the last apollo moon flight was in 1972. >>> out he is to challenge tesla with a new fully electric vehicle. it unveiled the new car in richmond. the car company describes it as a premium suv combining comfort and luxury for audi. >> it is a sporty model on the road today. it has acceleration 0-60 in 5.5 second