brian sullivan with development on famed investor leon cooperman. what is he up to. >> yes.uick on this. data a fau weeks old but still a goodwin dough to what they cold. leon cooperman of omega, famously open wrote the open letter to the president, saying this is class warfare and making plan is not bad, is going heavy into banks. filing shows new holdings, not increased, but new holdings last quarter of bank of america, black stone, capital one, select sector spider financial, the xlf, as well as wells fargo. cooperman going aggressively into banks. also opening up a new stake in sprint. a real beaten up names. he sold out of 26 stakes but perhaps the two big headlines there are microsoft and best buy. so cooperman, guys, not optimistic on best buy. completely got out of that. and microsoft. bill, i will send it back to you. >> thanks very much. cooperman making his name, in buying low before selling high. looking for a place in the financials. >>> we head towards the close with about five minutes to go. down the eighth day in the last nine sessions. year to date gain is c

leon cooperman of omega added new positions in citi and b of a as well, also added to jp holdings. bk, you have to put a caveat to all of this. this was as of march 31st, right? so the end of the quarter. there's frankly no way of knowing whether these guys have paired back their positions in any of these, given what the market has done lately, you can only assume if they're as smart and nimble as we think they are, maybe they did. >> yes, and you have no idea what kind of hedges they have on as well. so, to just simply look and say they made or lost "x" amount of dollars i think is naive, as you stated. but what they were looking at, at the end of the first quarter, is it's the first time since 2009 that the banks actually traded at book value. in other words, the markets said we actually believe what's on the bank's books for the first time since 2009. so that's a bullish signal. i think certainly you have this european problem and now you have jpmorgan, and the question becomes, can jpmorgan expand its business without the ability to hedge its business? i think that's still up i

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