they jumped on a report john malone is working on a plan for charter communications to buy timewarner table. liberty owns a piece of charter. timewarner and charter up more than 4%. liberty gained more than 2% and cable vision up more than 5%. >>> and rvs are back on the road and that's why wirnnebago, reported the backlog more than doubled as baby boomers take to the road. their stock has also doubled over the past year but today it was flat closing at about $21 a share. >>> and gold prices fell below 1200 announced today for the first time since august of 2010, and just as there were a lot of buyers for gold coins and bars, what consumers are doing now that gold prices are falling. >> reporter: when gold prices fall, gold trading rises. >> whether we see a spike to the downside, it gets busy real fast. >> reporter: it started getting busy real fast this week at california investments in los angeles where they buy and sell gold and silver, coins and bars. gold has falcon prices not seen in three years and while that led to panic selling, $1200 an ounce are a bargain. not everyone is

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time warner cable all spiking on media reports that the chairman john malone is possibly exploring somerios for buying time warner cable. we're also seeing heavy volume in these trades as well. when we have more information, we will bring it to you. tyler? >> he is still one powerful guy, moves the stocks or markets with just an utterance, or not, as the case may be. >>> ford is revealing it's 150 truck series, and phil lebeau is here with us today. >> this is the new truck they unveiled. this is the 11th trim version of the popular f series truck. it contains an eco boost engine to drive more efficiency. when you go to a sales floor these days, you will see a wide variety of f-150s. why? they make about a $10,000 profit on sale of f-150s. they see a change in the market right now particularly with what's happening in the real estate markets. >> the whole segment is growing, especially the regular cab and super cab versions for those who work on housing, work on construction, so offering more derivatives in the regular cab and the super cab helps us touch that base even more, but more i

in an interview with me last season liberty's chairman john malone made no secret of the fact charterent and the highly valued share price, you can see it's done very well, it seems how that will take place whether through a giant deal via time warner cable, larger deal such as the privately held cox or family controlled cablevision or the smaller but significant sudden link, all very far from being decided. each of those potential deals would require a great deal of financial firepower and finesse. for now while media types are getting hot for a deal, charter and liberty are still mulling their options of pursuing a transaction that can actually happen in homes of bringing john malone back to preeminence in the business in which he got his start. >> interesting. >> yeah. >> a little bit of smoke but not as much fire as i originally thought when i fuinally picked phone up and started talking to people but worth sharing. >> thanks, david. the ron johnson model is working somewhere, just not at jcpenney. we're going to tell you which company is actually copying his strategy when we come

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charter is focussed and its key shareholder 27% liberty media, again john malone. >> he's everywhere.cused on trying to bring another wave of console day, using charter perhaps is key with tom rutledge -- there's john -- well regarded as operator at charter. we'll see whether they succeed in that. various impediments to any number of deals you might consider. >> verizon at a spike is coming back. >> what about at&t at 5.2 yield? >> not justify. i think it can go to 5.5, 5.6. >> sprint. >> that's done. that's done. >> now because american towers and the real estate trusts, american tour is the worst chart in the book but probably the company with the most money. >> and benefits from the sale. >> if the bond market were done, i would go reach for american tower. i want to see this tnx back off. tnx backs off, people come in, that's what everyone should be watch, that's the ten-year and you feel more comfortable. i need the velocity to stop. the velocity, 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 bond market rally, it's just -- from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00, trying to get dressed and the bond market's saying, listen,

they've confirmed they have an approach from john malone's liberty global, looking at a price tag around $7.5 billion, vodafone looking at $7.2 billion, expectations that vodafone will come back with an indicative offer for kabel deutschland as well, so keeping eyes on that. and i mentioned the data out of the eurozone. it took euro/dollar up to 1.3390, which is worth pointing out, because that is the four-month high on the euro/dollar pair as well. and just keep your eyes on dollar yen, 95.33, a little firmer as we've gone through this morning, still not far away from the 93.75. there is expectation it's bolstered the market a little bit this morning that maybe china will come in with some easing policies as well. they're stuck in a bit of a tight spot between rising high prices and, of course, still a weaker economy, but that's also in the market today ahead of the fed meeting starting today. back to you guys. >> all right, wes, thank you. >> ross. >> ross, ross, ross. >> he was doing this to you yesterday, ross. >> it's interchangeable! >> he wants you to be wes rossgate. >> what's wr

i talked with john malone, liberty global's chairman a month ago when we sat down for a long interviewthe prospect of buying it is out there. and the question is was it, can it get it through german regulatory authorities? >> there would be enormous sinnynergies in creating a germ language entity that would cover all of german-speaking central europe, austria and switzerland and both parts of germany. >> right. >> so i'm not sure when, as, when, they would, the regulators allow us to combine with kdg to get into the other businesses and give deutsche telecom across the footprint would be beneficial for the german consumer, and the german business base. >> that is the argument they are going to be making to the the german regulators, and in is a great battle right now. >> did you see that he filed for the offering? >> well, the agency -- >> and the buying power? >> well, they have to watch it. >> on speed dial, too? >> they just finished virgin media. >> and let me end with this belo. >> what? >> blc, remember it? $ $13.75 deal, and remember that the buyer there was up enormously, and g

controlled by the dolan family, unclear what if any motives they have in terms of selling, but john malonean of liberty, and chuck dolan, are close and have been in constant contact for many years. and there's cox, privately held. there's sudden link, run by ply friend jerry kent. there are a number of options to go. >> the original charter. >> the original charter. they built that up. >> nice man. >> a great operator. you know, we'll see. but very interesting, charter shares positive. time warner shares are down. our parent company, by the way, comcast, mayby think of the threshold of how many homes, in a positive take. >> people if you want to see, cnbc.com, david's story, charter communications, reviewing acquisition targets, thorough analysis versus chatter we heard today. great piece. >> thanks. again, time warner shares up enormously, perhaps more than we anticipated they might be. >> anybody know the media landscape or have as many connections within in as the gentleman to your left? >> pretty good. i did that just to get you. >> a good analyst. >> ford motor had some commentary abo