su keenan has details. sa capitolc, the insider trading trial, the jury has a verdict, an unusually quick return for a verdict. we are still waiting to hear what it is, the case of the legal trade tied to a drug study that was secret -- we do know the jury just yesterday asked to reread testimony from a medical professor who said that the tips allegedly received were similar to those that had been already released publicly. what is important about the testimony is that it was key to oma defense that there was no secret information. there are two prongs to any case . one is that they receive nonpublic information, and the second is they use the nonpublic information for any legal profit. legal himn -- and you illgal a -- should an profit. >> us and as we get that verdict, we will get to you in the sec case involving matthew martoma. we look at what will likely happen with the debt ceiling with dean baker. ,"at is next when "bottom line on bloomberg television, continues in just a moment. ♪ >> the suspension

here comes keenan tucker over the skies of turkey. keenan gets out there and starts to just manhandle this our foil and his parasail and does different acrobatic moves. looks like he's doing moves and spins. >> oh. boy, that will get you dizzy. >> is he messing up or is he actually doing this? he just can do this. >> he can do this and he's doing it quite well although the name of the video was my first set. it looks like these are some of his practice moves as he gets ready to learn the acrobatics, it's beautif out there when the horizon is level. >> he did good. his first set looks pretty darn di carry a bag in your pocket just in case? it's hard to watch. >> some people feel that parasailing isn't exciting enough so they need to do acrobatics. >> isn't that true? if you got really good at just gliding, wouldn't you want to up it a little bit? why wouldn't you? >>> i think we can all agree that the world just is a more spectacular place when seen through the eyes of a child. this is a little 16-month-old watching man of steel for th

that was jackie keenan reporting. the newly passed farm bill has allocated 125 million dollars for research to combat citrus greening. coming up...social network names-- take center stage in chart talk. and after the break, why the small business sector is divided on whether the economy is ramping up or slowing down. bill moller steps in, next. a lot of analysts & economists are expecting 2014 to be a year of growth and gain. but there's little evidence of that in the first month of the new year. just look at the findings of the just released small business scorecard which is produced each month by surepayroll the online payroll company. michael alter is ceo. so michael, where's the growth? >>unfortunately we're not really seeing it. i think everybody was really excited as we moved into the new year. we had some strong optimism coming into the new year but in the end what we have seen is more of the same. we saw a slight decline in hiring0.1 down. we saw a slight decline in the average paycheck0.2 down. we saw optimis

for first business news, i'm jackie keenan. smoothie giant jamba juice is just now jumping into "juicing" the chain is rolling out cold- pressed juices in 300 locations and pricing drinks below typical market prices. well, they gave a mesmerizing performance, but failing to bring home gold could cost the u.s .figure skating team. yesterday on the ice...russia scored gold for the women's singles skate. team usa's gracie gold finished fourth, and ashley wagner seventh. sports business daily reports figure skating revenue has lost millions of dollars since 2007...and, that a key to more money is more medals. still to come: in traders unplugged... stocks behaving badly. is a wicked crash ahead for the markets? plus... burger bump. why beef prices are moooving up? and after the break... why family farms are vanishing... we'll be right back! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [female narrator even if you're not planning on getting pregnant now, you should know that foods rich in folic acid like white bread and leafy greens can help prevent some birth defects b

sac and cohen are free of further robbins. >> su keenan joining us. stay with us.oming up. >> fast food chains like burger king and taco bell are focusing on breakfast menus in hopes of taking on the mcking of the morning meal. we break down my breakfast has become big business. >> rise and shine. it is time for your fast food breakfasts economics. fast food chains want your business before lunch. is a huge opportunity for them to ring up extra sales. their employees are already preparing lunch. case in point? mcdonald's. burger king has been trying to boost its breakfast sales and taco bell is rolling out a new breakfast menu with creative items like a waffle tocco. -- taco. it is not as easy as it looks. when you try and it did not go too well -- wendy's tried and it did not go too well. fast food restaurants are trying to get more customers through their doors. coffee. not just any copy, but good coffee. look at the recent success of starbucks and dunkin' donuts. coffee is a daily ritual. low prices. many people don't even eat breakfast. those who do you do not

a lot of traders are looking at a global situation for the economy as bullish. >> su keenan, thanks.an 100 french and his men are visiting iran this week. executives from france's biggest aviation and industrial companies are looking to explore deals with the country that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. the u.s. state department says such trade visits are "not helpful." , our bloomberg foreign policy correspondent in washington. --retary of state kerry for phoned the french prime minister to express concern. as we know, talking to iran is not a sanctionable activity, but actually going through with deals that are not permitted, that would be sanctionable. sanctions were enacted in the aftermath of the agreement in geneva, which just on january 20.t it would basically fix -- to iran from fixing it failing aviation fleet. when you have other companies coming in, like the former ,rench monopoly for natural gas and the third-largest european oil company, then you have concerns about a possible breaking of sanctions. that has not happened yet, but as we heard, a top u.s. o

let's go to headlines with loomer's su keenan. >> disney is said to be close to a program agreement with federal litigation over technology. disney could receive compensation for technology known as auto hop that lets dish -- skipers get commercials and broadcast shows that they recorded. finishing the day down four percent, blame it on barbie. mattel trailed estimates from analysts, while hot wheels declined eight percent. the company reported profits that missed analyst estimates for mastercard. >> i want to go to washington dc where there has been a lot of news today, and i want to bring in our white house correspondent phil mattingly. i want to start with the keystone pipeline, tell us exactly what came out today? what did we learn? >> this was the final report from the state department that everybody was looking to. the final report said what supporters of the keystone pipeline wanted it to, that there would be minimal environmental impact. a problem for environmentalists that are against this pipeline. listen to what transcanada ceo just said on a conference call. >> we know that o

and so i've been working on this with the amazing artist, keenan white for three years now. >> for those who don't know about it, tell us about it. >> it's a true story of a unit of african-american soldiers in the first world war that were set up to fail by the u.s. government. the last thing they wanted was a unit of black heroes marching home in triumph, showing the rest of america what they were capable of, so the u.s. army essentially went out to sabotage them, and put all of these restrictions on them, and gave them to the french as a throw away. so they fought with the french, and became one of the most decorated combat units, black or white in the u.s. army. >> do you think that it's more diverse or is the mainstream audience noticing what has existed all along? >> i think particularly when it comes to gender, there has been a lot of pushback from female fans, and as max said, they make up half of the audience, and half of the population at convention, but in some ways comics have been lagging hand in the presentation of women themselves. so i think there's an ongoing conversatio

sue keenan follows matthew martone. it the global response to the crisis in ukraine. that's coming up in a moment. order in, restoring the ukraine. when region that threatens to spiral out of control is crimea. saysne's acting president russian troops are "directly involved" in the growing conflict on the ground. the country's newly appointed secretary of national security and defense counsel. we asked him about the growing tensions with russia. yes, i am. i'm worried about it, for sure. also, the capture of the government and crimea by units which in my opinion were sent from russia from moscow. we see a very aggressive method of carrying out politics towards ukraine. we could serve their attempts to divide ukraine or at least take crimea. >> with all the tension and crimea, would you call for native support across -- against russia for wire? >> yes, for sure. guarantee of safety in the black sea region. of course we are sure about nato and it has already been announced that they have their own vision and it will not allow the russian federation to create conflict. m

thes time now for commodities report, su keenan joins the from the newsroom with details. >> just int few minutes, we saw crude oil teachers crossed the 100 mark for the first time since december 30. the lock buster storm has failed to materialize, but the oil markets being heated up by the weather because they are looking week data as an anomaly anomaly.ata as an one veteran says that prices could climb again on another snow dump. is winter effectively over? the worst of the cold and snow could be behind us, but supply could continue to squeeze prices higher. looking at the energy complex the given bc oil posting a big gain for the week. data is is that that being looked at as an anomaly, and we saw technical factors pushes above 100 as we went into the close. coffee futures, the biggest rally since 1997. sugar, orange juice, coffee, all pointing -- posting gains for the week. >> what is ahead for next week? >> a lot of concerns about power companies, new england power prices doubled last month was a lot of consumers will be getting a bit of sticker shock on their bills. believe the

su keenan is standing by in the newsroom with the details. inback to explosive gains natural gas.e futures have jumped more than 35% since november a windows two together have put commodities to a six-week high today before they gave back some gains. meanwhile, call in the janet yellen effect. gold rising to a three-month high today on the fence outlook. one strategist says you have janet yellen and james bullard picking it clear that the fed is hurry to endin a stimulus. silver in its longest run of gains since 2011. natural gas was in rally mode again today, rallying the past but getting back those gains right before the close. as one trader said, the market is finally finding the big supply picture. some predict more volatility, like what we saw at the close today. ahead of this latest storm which is set to hit the northeast are warninglities of power outages. we are seeing electricity prices jumping as cold weather protection the man boasts. oil prices the highest in four months on bottlenecks in supplies. gas futures jumped on refinery issues. forecastnment's latest shows gas

we're going to go to su keenan for the headlines.portedors fourth-quarter profit that missed analyst estimates. fourth-quarter profits fell to one point zero $4 billion. over $1 billion. fox will be increasing its stakes in the yes network to about 80% and will be getting results from new york area sports when the deal closes. and earnings are out with a surprise in january with the month rising one percent for cap. -- gap. shares -- earnings beat analyst estimates. click the apollo theater in harlem, new york is celebrating its 80th birthday. the legendary peter has hosted such megastars as ray charles and james brown. jonelle.e here is the theater itself is owned by of york state, the people new york state, but it is managed and organized and kept alive by a foundation. tell us more about it. andit is a not-for-profit has been since 1991. a lot of people don't know that because it is 80 years old and the brand is so recognized around the year -- around the world, actually. the apollo theater foundation and the foundations charged w

su keenan is in the news and for the details. >> good afternoon. this is driving across the board. sending natural gas on another ride. oil is back above 100. 11 times sincehe february 7. they talked it up to a one-two punch. the stock market charging higher, all of this is providing this out. check the hits keep on coming. we saw wide swings in both to wretch in spirit it is up 10%. we are down now. the polar vortex causing hedge funds to piland. they are pushing this 15% higher. bullish that are up for a fifth time in six weeks. the big oak as traders say is the end of the supply. a hot summer. something to think about. already it is summer in brazil which had the highest or driest january in six decades. chart.ut the highest in a year and a half. more rallies absolutely weather driven. would you believe gold is up roughly 11% since the end of december? february is on track for a second month of the gains. it is boosting safe haven demand. >> winky. john dingell is announcing his retirement today. it is the longest-serving member of congress in american history. he has served in

su keenan joins us with the details. >> we are seeing a shift away from weather to political climatee key driver. we saw the price of oil fell and the difference between brent crude and west texas intermediate also narrowed. unrest in the ukraine is having an impact on the futures. one strategist says giving the it is havingation, an impact on wti. energy futures are on track to post gains for the month due in part to the weather and huge spike in heating oil and natural gas. toc crude production dropped the lowest level in more than two years in february. look at today's prices as we head to the close -- lower across the board with gasoline futures falling on speculation that above average supplies will keep prices in check. natural gas futures rebounded from a five-week low. one-week dropis a of almost 26%. that's the biggest one-week truck we've seen in roughly a decade. those comments are impacting gold today. >> part of what we are looking at is the fact that the ukraine situation and yellen's comment pricesortiva of higher that create a demand for a safe haven. we are seeing a

su keenan is in the newsroom with details. >> two big movers in commodities, energy with the latest roundstorms bringing more activity in gas and oil. and gold and silver are heading toward their longest rally since august. when you are looking for a break in the winter weather ahead, which is warmer, that is causing a break in the rallying gas. normal.s will be above you see that drop. given that wild ride for natural gas, it is at nine percent year to date thanks to the frigid weather. pimco's deputy chief investment officer told bloomberg he sees opportunities in that asked market and plans to exploit the differences between high winter prices where demand is clearly strong and the summer contracts where demand is much lower. he also sees opportunity in gold, which is staging its longest rally since august. >> i think the emerging market demand will come back. it is there. the chinese have been buying a lot of gold. indians bought a little less gold because it is not very pensive for them -- expensive for them because the market demand has gone down. what has changed is the u.s. financ

safe and have a quick look at what has been named said on social networks said this evening james keenan is best made a list that give us an idea of what's going on that tonight online. alright well as we've been super awesome birthdays come at a charming images making their way on such media and from there onto news web sites almost cinematic imagery rainy which brings me to this article which the call. i made some very salient points about all this and political magazine calling it almost a disaster for the tide is a quote from an article in victoria by sarah kane's year she says looking at the images of ukraine. look at those images but to no consume them without context we see a headline of it somewhere apocalyptic remember that an apocalypse does not consume enough that the person experiencing is at its heels instead with the end of the worlds within something to bear in mind bender see all of these points were the images come across to the computer screens and television screens. all eyes will sausages also and the people in the center of kiev would like fools and it is to control

we talked about this earlier with jack keenan with this means the nation's ability to respond to troublethe world. >> we will be following the proposed military cuts. at one o'clock there is a news conference. we will be back at one p.m. today. >> we will see later this afternoon. "happening now" is starting right now. >> today's top headlines and brand new stories >> changes for the military and what the cuts will be look and why we have not seen anything like it since world war ii. and the most-wanted drug lord has been captured and the battle over where he is going to fight justice. and the a murder warrant shutdown for -- issued for the former ukraine president. >>> new plans to cut the military to levels not seen in more than half a century. i am john scott. >> and i am jenna lee. we are waiting for a briefing from defense secretary chuck hagel in two hours where he is going to a announce cuts of slashing the army since before the world

. >> we keep reading that speech writer cody keenan grew his beard for this. did he shave it? >> yes. this is good news. he grew a fulsome beard and he is -- i didn't realize, i thought this was just a beard but he is going to shave it. he's going to shave it in pieces. but the great news is that the is that he fenally got rid of the awful beard. as communications director, i had some say in how the person representing the president should look. >> did you tell carney to shave? >> i did but i think maybe it was his mother. i thought it was terrible, the president had derogatory things to say about it but it wasn't until his mother weighed in that he showed up clean shaven. >> thank you so much jennifer for your time. >> thank you. >> it's time to wrap up here. i want to thank you all of you for sticking in here even with the weather. i thank all our c-span viewers and everybody else out there and i want to thank our partner in this, innovation alliance. have a great day and we hope you come to our next event. \[captioning performed by national captioning institute] \[captions