so up 12%, mandy. >> okay. look at this. what a sight. shuttle enterprise flying over new york earlier today. the shuttle piggy backed on a boeing 747 making its way down the hudson river before landing at jfk where it will eventually be taken to its new home aboard the uss intrepid, brian, amazing sight. >> really, you know, one of those scenes you're proud to be an american. the 747 and the shuttle. as nasa retires its shuttle fleet, a new space race is heating up among private investors. and jane wells, perhaps this time the sky is not the limit. >> no. not if you have enough money in the right business plan. elon musk put up $100 million of his own fortune and got investors to put up another $100 million. now he's getting help with down payments from future customers like nasa adding hundreds of millions more. nasa, which means us are helping subsidize a private space company, which sounds crazy, but it's cheaper than nasa owning and operating everything. that's the argument a big test of spacex will come at mission control as it laun

brian. >> i can't wait to hear that one, mandy.lso coming up after the break, transcanada, the pipeline getting a new suggested route. we're talking thousands of jobs. and we are going to talk to the man who runs the pipeline division for transcanada. will the new route get the pipeline, the xl, the keystone, will it get approved? we're going to ask the man from the milken institute in lovely los angeles right after this break. ♪ i'm making my money do more. i'm consolidating my assets. i'm not paying hidden fees or high commissions. i'm making the most of my money. and seven-dollar trades are just the start. i'm with scottrade. i'm with scottrade. i'm with scottrade. and i'm loving every minute of it. [ rodger riney ] at scottrade, we give you commission-free etfs, no-fee iras and more. come see why more investors are saying... i'm with scottrade. and i thought "i can't do this, it's just too hard." then there was a moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going. go for olympic gold and go to college too. [ male announcer ] ev

mandy, thanks very much. well, it is not such a happy monday for your money thanks to a global cornucopia of negative headlines. with that in mind, here is your trip briefly around the world of worry. first, we've got walmart's bribery allegations right here in the states. you've also got kellogg cutting its 2012 profit outlook. then we're going down to latin america where ypf, remember that is the joint venture with spain -- or it used to be. a three-year low on argentina's takeover move. the spanish government condemning argentinargentina's effort. the dutch government is collapsing. and new data shows german manufacturing shrank at the fastest rate in a few years. that's not all, folks. chinese manufacturing data may be a little better than expected but still below 50 which means it's in a contractionary range. ie, disappointed. pretty big wall of worry. let's get to bob and rick. bob, back to you. you've talked about spain and supermario in europe. i'm not sure supermario can solve what's going on in euro

it is now exactly street legal yet, mandy, but a guy can dream, can't he? >> we've been dreaming about it for a very long time. in the meantime the dow and s&p on pace for multi-year closing highs. the nasdaq just a few points short. the dow is trying for its third straight session of gains. s&p touching a fresh multi-year intraday high. the highest in fact since may of 2008. and the nasdaq coming off its best first quarter since 1991 wu trying to avoid a five-day losing streak. and here's your stat of the day, the beginning of the week, historically april is the third best month for the dow, s&p and nasdaq. there you go. brian. >> in addition to what mandy talked about, global data really setting the scene today as well, right? and as we went to bed last night, things seemed pretty dog on rosy though private measures showed a slight deterioration in chinese manufacturing demand. the official chinese figure showed a rebound keeping the china hard landing crowd at bay. now, we woke up this morning to data out of europe where a pmi index dropped for the eight

brian. >> mandy, thanks.ne of the president's top economic advisors out with a plan to combat a so-called middle class jobs deficit. what is it? how will it work? let's find out. go now to steve liesman who has a very special guest first on cnbc. steve. >> yes. thanks very much, brian. i'm here with alan krueger, who is the chairman of the president's economic council of advisors. before you got into government work a noted labor economist from princeton university among other things. let's answer brian's question because if you don't he gets angry. what is the middle class jobs deficit and how can you fix it? >> the middle class jobs deficit, steve, is a problem that's been brewing in the economy for quite some time. we've not been creating enough middle class jobs. the job market has become more polarized. more jobs at the top, more at the bottom. and the middle has been shrinking. and the deep economic crisis that started in 2008 has made that problem even worse. >> so when you say middle class, you say jo

brian and mandy, i'm sorry. i didn't get any write ins for your guys' names. >> shenanigans putting it politely. >>> brian shactman, you've got more for us. >> hlx. helix energy. about a $2 billion market cap in the oil and gas space. it had good earnings. take a look at the intraday. it peaked in "street signs" just a few minutes ago at the highs of the day. back to you. >> thanks very much, brian shactman. >> thank you very much. >>> all right. what exactly do we expect to hear from the federal reserve tomorrow? what do we want to hear from the federal reserve tomorrow? let us bring in david kelly, jpmorgan funds' chief market strategist. all right, david. first, i want you to respond. you probably heard steve liesman's piece. the exclusive survey. most people say, you know what? ben bernanke might be out. steve refused to write in our names. i'm going to tell you something. thank goodness. i wouldn't want that job. do you think behr bernanke is gone by 2014? if so, who and what kind of person would you want t

>> 100% safer, mandy. we still have more things to do.en you have the money, maybe if you're mf global or a firm like that, you've got your money in a bunch of different bank accounts. there's no reason why every day all the banks can't just wire into a place and electronically, talking about the disrupters and all the technology that exists out there. we know the money is there 100% of the time. that needs to happen. i also think we should have an insurance fund for when somebody does violate the law and the money goes away. trustee mentions that in the senate banking committee and it's something we're working on. >> for months. >> we're going to have a break, obviously continue this conversation throughout the hour. meantime continue our disruptor series with biggest technology innovators. up next, video service that attracted investments from music mowing up jay-z and pop star shakira, ceo of viddy will join us next. next half hour founder of second market and buzz feed joining us. squawk returns after the break. >> announcer: but firs

empire make, so i recently spoke with dame julie andrews, the author of 26 children's books, including "mandy," "dumpy the dump truck" and the "very fairy princess" series to ask her help finding my way through the dark forest of children's publishing. this is grimm colbert-y tales with julie andrews. thank you for being here. >> i'm thrilled to be here. >> stephen: dame andrew, why children's literature? >> i started writing books for children by accident. i loved the games. i was playing with my kids. >> stephen: what was the game you loved? >> well, they were acting out all over the place. and the mary poppins in my rose up and i said, okay, everybody, we're going to play a game here. you do this or you pay a forfeit. and jenny my eldest said, well, all right, but you have to play the game too. and i said, what do i have to do? she said, you have to stop swearing so much, jules. >> stephen: i've heard you have a mouth like a drunken sailor. >> it is true, but i wasn't swearing at my kids in a bad way, but it was [bleeped] [bleeped]. so of course i had to write the story. >> stephen: i didn

mandy drury is here. >> reporter: this past quarter has been a best stock start since 1998 with the dow s&p 500 up 12% year to date. the techs were really the stars. the nasdaq was up 19% in the first quarter. the best since 1991. why? it's been a combination of things. you've got continued easy money from the fed. you've got improving economic data and even the massive debt problems in europe was somewhat resolved. i say that because that might have been just kicked down the road a little bit. we'll say resolved for now. as for whether we can get similar gains in q 2, a lot of people say it will be hard to replicate. a lot of the good news may have been priced in. it has for the techs, t meteoric rise of apple has lifted all boats. if apple rolls over, so may the nasdaq. >> from a whopper of a quarter to the home of the whop r e what's going on at burger king? >> reporter: they're out with the biggest expansion of their menu. they're putting ten new items on its menu. you have a choice from a line jip of things like smoothies and snack wraps, more healthy stuff. it's to try to reserve

mandy drury, your money. how much are we talking about here?in cascia refund of overpayments made in previous years to a federal retirement fund. that would give the post office immediate liquidity, chris, to pay down debt, forestall bankruptcy. that's the end guam. try and forestall buyouts to 100,000 postal employees. also controversial decisions on closing post offices and ending saturday delivery. the post office for its part, chris, really does feel these hard decisions need to be pushed through. because the post office says, look, it's totally inappropriate in these economic times to keep unneeded postal facilities up because there's not enough mail in the system to warrant them. the senate bill, however, would stop immediate closing of up to 252 mail processing centers and 337,000 post offices which was part of the post offices cost-cutting plan to save about $6.5 billion a year. before i go, in case you're wondering, the postal service is an independent agency of government, it does not receive taxpayer money for its operation. it is, h

mandy drury here with what's moving your money and the numbers are headed in the right correction.rices are continuing to fall and aaa is saying prices fell by a nickle this past week with the average price for a gallon of regular at $3.82 nationwide. that of course is the average. some pay more, some pay less. that means, chris, prices are now 8 cents lower than a month ago and 5 cents lower than this time last year. whether or not we'll it continue to fall is nebanybody's questiof course. but nonetheless at this stage, it's good news. >> mandy drury, thank you. >>> an australia billionaire has announced plans to rebuild a replica of the titanic. just weeks after the 1 oo00th n anniversary of its sinking. it will go from england to new york just like the original. and it's slated for late 2016. wake up! that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. only hertz gives you a carfirmation. hey, this is challenger. i'll be waiting for you in stall 5. it confirms your reservation and the location your car is in, the moment you la

as mandy has said many times, gina, it's ladies first. i want to get to europe. they've added a line about financial conditions. was that a direct shot across the bow that the fed is maybe more worried about europe than they are letting on? >> i think the fed is certainly concerned about europe. there's very good reason to be. i think what it does is it continues to open the door for more action, more easing later if necessary. and it opens that door through europe. i think ben is just trying to keep his options open. >> he's always tried to keep his options open. i want to follow-up when you say there's the potential there for more action. what form would that action take? and when would it be, gina? >> well, we think that politically if qe-3 doesn't materialize before the july fomc meeting, then it's probably really off the table. and so some time before then it's going to be the timing, if we do hear it. also, politically, something that is sterilized would be more likely. something that doesn't actually extend the balance sheet. that's also to us a more likel

and mandy will debate whether or not the dow is irrelevant now. bicoastal "street signs" coming up in just a couple minutes. i'll send it back to the "power lunch" team. >> all right. brian, thank you very much. 100 years later the titanic is getting ready to set sail again. the australian billionaire clive palmer building a replica of the hallowed ship at a chinese shipyard. maiden voyage expected to be in late 2016 and will be from england to new york just like the plans for the original. kate winslet and decap row autoto book a state room. >> absolutely. europe's fiscal problems, they continue to worsen. we talk about it every day here on cnbc. the new york fed is turning to high school students to perhaps some some of those issues. the new york federal reserve hosting 25 teams competing in the challenge. and we are lucky enough to have some of those semifinalists with us today. so, we're going to go through the list right here. i'm going to start right here. victor victoria, you're from bloomfield hills, michigan. you're from fort pierce, flor

. >> mandy says, i thought you meant santa, not panda. and our favorite comes from jonathan, when animals attack. -- when stuffed animals attack. >> my nephew's second birthday, my brother dressed up as big bird, all the kids cried except my nephew. >> there you go. >> all right, 56 today. felt like march. it's going to sort of feel like late march tomorrow. we're back to average weather by friday. let's have a live look outside with the live weather cam brought to you by michael & son. it we are looking at winds to continue all night. that will keep us from having a frost or freeze. here's the deism breezy and cool on thursday so still a little bit below average but not the biting winds we had today, nor are we going to have any snow flurries. grab a jacket and shades. please give a jacket to the kids at the bus stop. cold thursday night. in fact, with winds dying out, maybe the coldest night so far inside the beltway this week, anyway. just spectacular on friday. temperatures bounce back up to average levels, which means mid- 60s. prett

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to these reports that decision to even ask for the documents might be seen as sort of a setback for mandy because that means that now a judge has seen the documents and that means that their arguments for getting the whole case dismissed because documents the. haven't shown anybody fall flat and so today elaine ruled that the trial will proceed her remains to be seen whether or not she's actually going to allow the defense to take into account those reports which perhaps isn't really a shock right the obama administration's war on whistleblowers is so pervasive that it's almost become a cliche but i still managed to find absurd though is the inconsistency when certain national security officials for example shed light on government abuse by leaking to reporters people like john kiriakou they get charged with the most serious of crimes how about when the exact opposite happens how about a government official destroys evidence of government of abuse and obstruction of justice and then writes a book about it take the case of former cia head of clandestine services jose rodriguez in two thous

cnbc's mandy drury is at the new york stock exchange. >> reporter: we've got the federal reserve behind us, and chairman bernanke kept the door open to the possibility of more stimulus if, indeed, the economy needs it. and that should be one thing that should help to keep a floor on the stocks going forward. elsewhere, we're watching to see whether apple shares can keep on gaining after a massive surge yesterday, and that helped the nasdaq have its biggest gain in a year. and we've also got a flood of corporate earnings coming out today. so far this earnings season, natalie, corporate america has on the whole delivered better than expected results. back to you. >> mandy drury at the new york stock exchange, thank you. >>> and this guy definitely isn't up for a boyfriend of the year award. the prankster decided to put his day-off work to good use, scaring the life out of his girlfriend and her roommates. that's him dressing up like a burglar. check out what happened next. whether or not she decides to keep him around, she may want to take that tee back that she gave him. 7:06. back over

. >> mandy joy leads the university of georgia team investigating how much is left on the sea floor.were shocked by 80 square miles of devastation. >> so cenk, right there you see what the bottom of the ocean looks like. you see all of these deformities that the fish have, and at the same time we get notices from the government indicating that this fish is safe to eat. there is no problem at all. at the same time fishermen are saying, we've never seen anything like this in our entire careers. >> it's all a wild coincidence. it just so happened when we dumped an insane amount of oil and chemical disper santas into that same gulf, that the deformities started happening. you come up with facts and show video of things that actually happen, just trust bp, everything will be all right. >> what is incredible bp immediately started damage control. they had an entire pr strategy, and part of that strategy included these ridiculous ads that they had on cnn msnbc some of the major networks. i wonder why they're advertising on those networks. let's watch some of their ads. >> when bp was commit

p.c.herron told us sounds like a typical pep talk to me and mandy said it says a lot of the character. and shelly reacted to coach williams saying thank god he's not in washington and can you still comment on the facebook fan page. >>> sales of prescription pain killers are soaring in new areas. coming up, a drug control policy expert talks about the problem and why experts are worried about a new wave of addiction. >>> and remember the group that tried to stop mcdonald's from using toys to market the happy meals? what a judge thinks about that class-action lawsuit. >>> and later on the news at 5, find out why wine drinkers in maryland will be able to bring their favorite bottles to the favorite restaurants. sue. >>> and hello, maureen and laura, a beautiful looking day. 15 degrees cooler and maybe 16 degrees cooler than yesterday. a good amount of sunshine getting through the clouds and the showers passing to the south. coming up, a first look at the forecast and we'll let you know who is going to watch out for freezing temperatures again overnight. fox 5 news at 5 will continue. [ f

for more economic news now let's check in with mandy drury at the new york stock exchange. >> it is jobs week, natalie. we're going to find out this friday how many jobs were created by the u.s. economy over the past months. but, considering how many disappointing economic we've had lately, expectations are being pared back to 159,000. let's hope all the earnings we're going to get this week, about one quarter of the s&p 500 companies are going to report, let's hope we get upside surprises there. we've got a number of big companies like gm, time warner, kraft all coming out with their results. let's also hope there's no sell in may and go away like the last few years where stocks hit their highs of the year in april. back over to you. >> all right, let's keep hoping. mandy drury at the new york stock exchange. >>> an amazing survival story for 59-year-old victoria grover. she's recovering after braving four days lost in the utah wilderness. she got lost while hiking the trail and broke her leg while trying to return to her car. rescuers say she survived by sheer will. >>> and a suspected

mandy perez sent this one. no vp 4 u. my favorite came from alex. it says womb r8r. better on the way. check this out. holly of new mexico. she sends us this. yes. get your own show. you can say it how you want. i say it virginia. we had a debate whether the license plate would be approved by the commonwealth of virginia. can you say virginia with a y in the land of governor vaginal probe? on monday, we got an answer. we got an answer from the delano family of williamsburg, virginia. they saw the extensive coverage on our blog and when their virginia license plate expired, they went out and blessed the delanos of williamsburg, they got this license plate. this is not photoshop. this is the actual plate. virginia with a y in the commonwealth of virginia. david and sand i delano put it on the prius between the class warfare bumper sticker and the human rights. david says sand i asked their kids if this was maybe too much. one of their sons said and i quote, no, you need to rock that, mom. there's more. we got another one from becky of virginia. even before our blog pos

mandy drurry is here with what's moving your money. stellar is one-way to put it.y have really done it again here. it is fanning the flames of that love affair that wall street already has with the company, just to do a recap here, announced another record-breaking quarter. in fact, second best ever and some $11.6 billion in profit over 35 million iphones and nearly 12 million ipads sold in the quarter. of course these strong iphone sales have also helped, chris, to quash the concerns it was losing market share in the smartphone market which of course has been one of the reasons that we have seen that 13% decline in its shares over the past couple of weeks. as a result also after these earnings at least 4 brokerages have upped their stock by average of $40. in fact, i think according to thompson reuters 22 analysts rate it a strong buy, 23 rate it a buy, 7 a hold and only one out of the whole lot rate it a strong sell. >> how are the earnings affecting the market overall. >> the shares are up sharply. i haven't got the board in flont but they were up as much as 10%

brian sullivan, mandy drury, herb greenberg, darren rovell and the mad man, jim cramer.aking trades now. who's moving up? who's moving down in the draft? sue. >> excellent, ty. hopefully i'll get back to home base while that's still going on. all right, time now to continue with leading money man chief investment officer of litman, gregory's new masters alternative strategies fund which is a new multi-manager multi-strategy fund with an all-star lineup that includes doubleline's jeff gun blatche and fpa's steve ro mack. great to have you here, gentlemen. >> thanks. >> you say it's all about risk management. which may seem pretty intuitive to most investors, but it's not always that easy to achieve in a market environment like this. >> right. always you need to think about risk and managing risk, but particularly with this macro environment, with the huge amount of debt as we all know in developed economies, we're focused first on managing the downside risk for our client portfolios. and we have selected managers for this fund that we're talking about today that are speci

mandy still out. we hope she'll be back soon. the dow is lower for the first time in three sessions. it's about 1.5% gain for the week. the s&p 500 is also falling today. and it's in danger of posting its eighth losing day in 11 sessions. the nasdaq is the only major average -- try to mount a rally attempt for a few moments this morning only to fall back. goldman sachs raised price target on apple and estimates for the company. and we all knew apple stores were money making machines, but today's stat of the day shows just how profitable they really are. in dollars per square feet, apple stores 17 times more efficient than the average mall retailer. the top five, tiffany, coach, lululemon and, gamestop, whether that's halo effect or crowding out effect. in any case, down to bob pisani at the new york stock exchange. seems we're back in risk-off mode today. what gives? >> a three-to-one declining to advancing stocks and the very sloppy closing in europe, spanish bank stocks ahead of the 10-year auction tomorrow i think is part of t

we welcome back scott ren, tim leach, also with me, is our cnbc all-stars, joining us, sue and mandy.cott, let me kick this off with you. let me get your take on the events of tomorrow. fed meeting, any news to come out of that, you think? >> i think clearly the market want something to come out of it pip certainly believe that quantitative easing 3 could be implemented. i just don't think it'll be tomorrow. so the feds will tell us what they need to do but i think tomorrow we won't see any action. fed needs to see the labor situation worsen and the economy slow down from here to do anything is my belief. >> sue, isn't that right? you know, you've got all of this stimulus on the table. but we know that it's over. the federal reserve has said many times, yes, rates are low until 2014 but not necessarily signalling further stimulus. so why jump into this market at a time when you know that we don't have any additional stimulus to actually boost things? >> well, i think one of the reasons would be because we look like the best girl at the dance. frankly. i mean, europe is a mess. and jus

mandy looks great.f heads this past december in this beautiful black strapless gown. at the military awards in london. >> by alexander mcqueen which of course is priceless that dress. and also turning a lot of heads here. >> no doubt. >> jaws are dropping everywhere. this is our own ali foster. she works here at the "today" show with us. now this is actually a rented dress. >> so you want to get in and you want to feel like you're in on the trend, this is lendingluxury.com. it's badgley mischka. you borrow the dress, wear it, and send it back. this was $120 to rent. >> that's absolutely beautiful. $130 to rent and you don't have to worry about wearing it again. >> or dry cleaning or anything. you just ship it back. and the jewelry is $38 and up. so obviously she has access to the real thing. but if you don't, this is a great outfit. >> absolutely gorgeous. ali does not come when you rent the dress. does not come with the dress. come on out, ladies. let's see one last look. one last look at our kate midd

can't wait, mandy. are you looking to roll the dice on the casino stocks perhaps?n is at the cnbc realtime exchange with some insight on how to play the gaming stocks. >> hi, sue. i'm splitting this into vegas, macau and more regional. and then we'll go into companies that make the slot machines et cetera. dennis from keybanc says it's definitely improving in u.s. and vegas. people aren't gambling as much and there still isn't much pricing power in rooms. revenue per room not what it used to be. other things if you think revenue starved states are the future, penn national is a good prospect. operates in more than a dozen states including canada. 14.5% to the upside year-to-date. if you want vegas exposure, mgm has had a nice run. they have ties to foxwood in connecticut and that has major debt trouble right now. macau just reported a 24% pop in gambling revenue for march. wynn is well-known and strong in both places. 15% or so year-to-date to the upside. las vegas sands basically came back from the brink because of the bet on macau. look at this chart. i had to do

it was the gores and the clintons coming into new york and mandy grunwald, harry... >> and the "newsweek" cover. "young guns." >> rose: >> but, charlie, here's where he's going to hold... is in a hole is in the physical operation. barack obama has more offices, more people in many states than mitt romney has in the whole country. something like 80 staffers versus 300 staffers. the obama staffers have had these months and months to quietly be in chicago building this incredible machine behind the closed garage door. people don't know exactly what they're doing. they're about to role out some of their social media and technical tools but they've been able to... in the past the technical advance was to be able to identify exactly who you wanted to vote. they're finding people who through their profile should be obama voters if you can identify with them, communicate with them register them, turn them out. so they're saying you would be an obama voter if we communicated with you and we're going to. >> rose: that's what's the president's biggest weakness other than you might argue the obvious

. >>> first, julia boorstin watching the markets as our mandy continues to enjoy her vacation. >> brian, the selloff continues with just two hours left in the trading session. the dow hitting a two-month low. the s&p and nasdaq hitting one-month lows. the dow having its biggest five-day drop since november. we're just a third of the way through april, and we're on track for all three averages to have their biggest monthly drop since last september. the s&p breaking a key resistance level. >>> the nasdaq having the biggest one-day drop since december 8th. only three stocks in the nasdaq 100 are higher. no, apple is not one of them. >>> brian? >> how do we have a market day if apple's not one of the new highs? all right. you're looking right now live at gettysburg, pennsylvania. rick santorum expected to hold a news conference any minute now. he is expected to make a major announcement. when it happens, we will bring that to you. >>> in the meantime, let's get back to the markets. let us begin with your money and what many believe now is the single greatest risk to the global economy, and