that's a microsoft problem, not lenovo.none of us own anything lenovo. >> it's come a long way. melissa: i don't know. let's check back in six months and see if we still don't know anybody. thanks, guys. happy halloween. from the u.s., every corner of the globe money has been flying around the world. first to syria,ment inners have completed the destruction of machinery used to dispense chemical weapons. in a statement, quote: verified and seen destroyed all of syria's declared chemical weapons production equipment. no word, of course, on syria's undeclared chemical weapons stash. on to england where the public is about to get access to a database aimed at busting tax evaders. the new database contains company ownership details. in an effort to expose international money laundering and tax evasion schemes, the information is specific to those with 25% or more of a company's shares or voting rights. by making it public, the british government is hoping to put pressure on firms and individuals trying to hide money and profits

in addition to pcs, lenovo makes smartphones that are only sold in china. blackberry could give the brand more global access. blackberry shares- gained 7 cents yesterday to close at $8.20. apple is expected to take the wraps off 2 new ipads next week. this week-- apple officials alerted the media about a major event planned for october 22nd. according to tech bloggers-- the new ipad and ipad mini be revealed then and go on sale on halloween. traditionally-- apple rallies into large events and that's what is happening this week. apple closed last night at $504 dollars. facebook shares are also on a roll. the stock hit an all time high yesterday of 52 dollars. the social network could have instagram to thank for the momentum. facebook bought the photo sharing app -- last year. analysts say instagram's new video service...could help bring in major ad revenue by next year. in earnings watch goldman sachs is the latest bank to report in disappointing earnings in the third quarter. it beat on profits but missed on revenue causing the stock to lose more than 2% ye

so this lenovo deal would make sense. -- >> of course the report -- the reports various other >> various other companies have been sniffing around blackberry. i heard names like fwogoogle, cisco. obviously the preliminary offer from fairfax. i think the co-founders want to look around there as well. who do you think would be the best fit for taking over some or part of blackberry. >> google would be interesting. >> yeah? >> again, i want a secure network. i want to feel my network can't be violated. one of the reasons why blackberry had such success for so long, you go to a bank. the bank will say, listen, we can't -- we have to use blackberry because the security is the best there is. that's got to be worth something. it's never talked about as intellectual property value. >> jim, you know, with the apple, the iphone, core corporations now embracing other technologies, the security is there with other technologies. and when it comes -- i have to say something about this. the last guest, the prior, before the break, someo

all of this while china's lenovo eyes blackberry. of course to our twitter question of the day. so if you had an extra $5,000 to invest, would you buy shares of google or blackberry? that is actually an interesting question. adam: it is. tracy: tweet us your answers. we'll put your responses up ahead. and all you. adam: u.s. feature, tech minute. makers of "grand theft auto", they're making out like bandits appropriately. how you can make money on it straight ahead. tracy: jeff flock is kind of living on the edge today. he is live overlooking o'hare's cemetery runway. you will be shocked to learn why it actually has that name. we'll have that much and much more ahead on markets now. big news news of the day we're n sirius xm 113. adam: did you listen? tracy: i listened on the way in. i'm not sure if you need in the morning is varney yelling at you but i got it. road rage, the englishman, road rage, but it was great. 113, you got to listen. adam: tune in. great stuff. first, top of the hour, top of the morning to you, top of the hour

lenovo has money to spend and they have a target.eportedly signed a nondisclosure agreement to take a look at blackberry's books. "the wall street journal" says the chinese pcmaker is actively considering a bid for the company. mrb said it was exploring options that could include an outright sale. last month, the struggling smartphonemaker got a blim $9 a share offer for a consortium led by its largest shareholder fairfax financial. but shares have traded well below that price on doubts that that deal would ever go ahead. other suitors may include cisco and sap. lenovo has long been rumor ed to be interested in blackberry. earlier this year, the company's cfo casually suggested management had given some thought to making an offer. a few months later, lenovo's ceo told a french paper an acquisition would make sense. the company has a strong track record, foreign acquisitions, buying ibm's pc business in 200 5, german pcmaker midion in 2011 and a majority stake in a join venture with japan's nec. and a blackberry deal could face major

. >> david, at the same time, the other news this afternoon was this report that lenovo may be making a bid for blackberry. didn't actually see much movement in blackberry shares there. either they're pricing this in already or the market's kind of shrugging. what's the read through? >> i think the read through is basically lenovo signed a nondisclosure agreement to go in and basically look over blackberry to see what kind of technology they might be able to find a way to sort of pick up cheaply. but i don't think it's going to be an acquisition that actually works for a number of reasons. one of those being national security. >> we've certainly seen that get in the way before. >> that is the old ibm computer business that lenovo, the chinese company, bought years ago. it's chinese based. that could be a problem because of blackberry's security capabilities there is what david is is talking about. i just want to know, if they go out of business can i still use this as a camera? i love this as a camera. >> somebody will pick them up. someone will pick them up. you'll be able to use it.

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dow jones reporting lenovo planning to take a look at library's books. david: first-time jobless claims fell 15,000 last week to 358,000. numbers remain elevated because of a backlog of claims in california. that resulting from computer glitches. liz: lockheed martin has announced 600 layoffs. jobs lost for the defense contractors mission systems and training division later this month. david: the latest philadelphia fed report showing firms are the most optimistic about the future in 10 years even though the monthly index slipped slightly this month. liz: verizon starts getting an nice pop after the upbeat earnings reports posted better-than-expected third-quarter profit and revenue on strong growth. david: microsoft released the long-awaited update to the troubled windows 8 operating systems. hoping it will help and criticism of the software that is provoked computers and mobile devices. we have very important earnings coming up including google. "after the bell" starting right now. let's break down the market action. financial chief investment officer

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but lenovo managed to pick up gains in market share and shipments. that's despite a share in its chinese market. lenovo traded about 1.3% higher on the news. let's check in on how asia is trading today. we are seeing some outperformance on the nikkei 225. sixuan has all the details for us. good afternoon. >> yeah, good morning to you, carolin. thanks for that. it's a mixed bag for asia today, but japan outperformed its asian peers on the back of strong data. in a stronger dollar against the japanese yen continued to lend support to ex forter stocks. the nikkei 225 climbed over 11%, climb to go a one-week high. but china markets pulled back after rebound trading ahead of more official data due out later this week. korea's kospi is waking up from yesterday's one-daybreak ending down by just a touch. over in australia, the latest jobs data is taming low expectations for further job cuts and the asx 200 lost a modest 0.1%. we have earnings news out of japan. takashimaya was a top gainer. the department store is increasing its outlook and is expecting its

. >> where the san jose state graduate worked for lenovo, who had just acquired ibm's business. he described it as an eye opener for an american working for a chinese company. >> the heightened competitiveness of the country, and so many jobs migrating overseas and china has become the scapegoat as a whole. >> we have been demonized thoroughly. >> the world's largest te telecommunications equipment producer tried to buy a majority stake but the deal fell through. >> the consequence is that 3com is completely gone, here was a chance where he could have saved some american jobs if the acquisition was allowed. >> hewlett-packard went on to acquire 3com in 2010. >> you criticize china for corruption. you won't hear any rebuttal for me. >> but right now, americans only have room to worry about one government, their own. >> our own source of corruption. how money corrupts all the political campaigns. that should be a concern to us. >> while, the u.s. invested more than $50 billion in china last year, china only invested 10% of that in 2012 in the u.s. $5 billion. looking forward, it's

and lenovo. which i think a lot of americans don't know these companies make phones. apple sales the most expensive phones with the best margin, they are the most profitable. these other phones are undercutting them. and apple can either be the one that makes the most per phone, or the one that sales the most phones can they be both? >> they have also come out with a lesser-priced product with the "s." so the question senior they going to play in absolutely both ma? we don know yet. but what i can say is that they are doing a good, solid, fine job in the market that his they are playing with now. i do believe that apple is an innovation company. they need to lean on their success. there is no question what will they do in shin china? the chinese market is still very important to them. >> and the chinese are competitors in the chinese market? >> they are selling a last phones in china and they aren't telling phones in china. the question will be is this a market that they can go after? i believe that -- i would bet on these guys, you look at where this organization is

speaking of china, chinese computermaker lenovo has signed a nondisclosure deal to examine blackberry's book. but the company reportedly faces regulatory obstacles if it bids for all of the company. it is said to be likely to pursue parts of blackberry. bank of america reportedly considering a plan to introduce a checking account that curbs overdraft practices. "the wall street journal" says the plan will not allow customers to overdraw their balances at an atm or when making an automatic bill payment. no word on whether bofa is considering boosting fees as part of its checking account overhaul. joe. >> thanks, michelle. i was going to ask him to do that, too. great minds. he's pretty brave today now that we've got a deal. you were -- ooh, but you were trembling about going over before. weren't you anxious? >> i was a little anxious. i was. >> well -- >> but now we can all relax. >> take a breath. we've got three months. >> to hold our breath is what we have. >> in the market yesterday, that was impressive. because ibm was down like 10 bucks or something. >> and people still -- i don't

giant facing powerful new competition from rivals like samsung and amazon, google, don't count out lenovotner group believes apple shares of the tablet market will fall below 50% this year, that from 65% in 2011. this is a battle that apple cannot afford to lose as ipads are now the company's second biggest revenue driver after iphones. checking apple's stock right now, it's a name that's up about $12 above $520 now, $520.81. that's another 81 cents out of there, so it's seeing a nice gain of two and a third percent today. let's get to other investments, you know, we're always looking for the next big thing. some investors might be running away from places my next guest thinks are hot, japan and greece. but $1 billion investment firm just launched a fund to get the best returns from everything you might be terrified of right now. joining us is mark usco, six and a half billion in assets under management. you started years ago with about, what -- >>400 million. 2004. liz: not that long ago, and now you've got six and a half billion in assets by doing what when it comes to your philosophy?

we told you yesterday that the chinese computer-maker lenovo which has gotten very big in smartphone land is considering making a buy for the company. any offer is certain to face close government scrutiny in both the u.s. and canned today. >> oracle ceo, larry ellison said his company overtaken ibm to become the world's number two software company. oracle takeing a victory lap after ibm's disappointing revenue numbers on wednesday. liz: capitalists are pouring more money into startups. money tree invests said startups rose 11% in the third quarter from year year ago to $7.8 billion. "after the bell" on this friday starts right now. david: let's get right to today's market action. we have michael musio. he will tell us why he thinks the upward momentum in the market still has room to grow. larry shover is in the pits of cme. larry, i want to start with you. seems to me, larry, the good news has been kind of absorbed by the market. good news on the debt deal. good news on the fed. really now it is up to individual earnings reports to moves these stocks, these individual stocks that is

market, it's got 33% followed by samsung with 19% and then there's all those others, there's acis, lenovot it's a day of lots of presents. you have microsoft's new surface 2 and surface pro 2 tablets and it's got to remain to be seen how much of a serious threat that is. also nokia's hand set business soon to be part of microsoft coming out with six new devices, including their new first tablet computer. so if you're into gadgets, today is quite your day. >> holy hannah, we can have a tablet for every day of the week, right? >>> netflix, more subscribers than hbo now? >> mm-hmm. as a result of that they came out with its earnings and they graud ru quad ruped. they attracted 1.3 new u.s. subscribers in the latest quarter. now they have 31 million u.s. subscribers. part of this, of course, as i said is thanks to the original content like the critically acclaimed "house of cards," "orange is the new black." and this is making netflix, believe it or not, this is an incredible factoid, the fifth most walked television network in the united states. they're planning to go big into this original

we're going to begin with blackberry which spiked on a dow jones report that lenovo has signed a nondisclosure agreement to look at blackberry's books. meantime goldman sachs reporting better than expected third quarter earnings. raising its quarterly dividend by 10%. investors focusing on revenues that came in well below expectations due to weak bond trading volumes. that stock taking a big hit today. amarin plummeting after an fda panel said its fish oil drug designed to low eer tri glis ris shouldn't be approved for a broader patient population. and darden residents rising today. there were reports that darden had hired goldman sachs as its financial adviser. also, mattress makers losing a little sleep today. this after select comfort slowered its fwi dance for the year, blaming the u.s. economy. finally, bill, ibm falling to a two-year low after reporting a 4% drop in third quarter revenue ahid amid a decline in hardware sales. hardware mostly hit in china which accounts for about 4% of big blue's business. >> this proves my premise. people are losing sleep during the slowdown. they're not

that chip could go into a device that they don't want to make, so you get a partner like he novo -- lenovoit. patents have been valued up to $3 billion in worth, on so top f they've got $2.6 billion in cash. so if you look at the fairfax offer, it's worth $4.7 billion. the intellectual property and the cash, it's worth more than that. so things are heating up, november 4th is the deadline. cheryl: that's not going to be a boring negotiation or a boring bid. adam shapiro from the newsroom, thank you so much. >> you got it. cheryl: 27 minutes to go. what a day. right now we're up 291 oints on the dow, and there's a lot of news breaking today. one fast food chain is literally giving away one of the newest additions to its menu. is it a sign of desperation? we're going to have that story, it's a good one. plus, it's taken hershey 30 years to launch a new brand of candy. what is it? thinkkabout it. we're going to talk to the man who is in charge of the global launch. he's going to be here, it's a fox business exclusive coming up next. ♪ ♪ [ male announc ] need help keeping your digestive balanc

clearly, you know, we talked -- we have had the discussion recently about lenovo, the chinese company being interested in buying blackberry. that would raise a lot of hackels and worries about security in the u.s. and canada. so i think it varies from sector to sector about the sensitivity of those and also, really, about the identity of the buyers where you're talking about the state-owned companies or private companies. it's clear that chinese investment abroad is going to continue to increase. i don't think there's any doubt that that will happen. and so it's up to china partly to make sure those doing the investment are more transparent and, therefore, more acceptable to the rest of the world. >> peter, thanks for that. always good to see you. have a good evening in hong kong. >>> still to come, delayed september jobs data from the u.s. is set for release today at 8:30 eastern. we'll dig into that right afterthis. ly in my 60's... i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i got a medicare supplement insurance plan

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