cnbc's mandy drury is here with what's moving your money.hey are revising the number upward significantly. >> they are indeed. now as many as 17 million customers, chris, have had their personal information, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, mailing addresses that have been stolen in target's data breach. target is now saying its sales have been hurt by the breach. they are cutting their fourth quarter earnings and sales and warned that their fourth quarter financials may include charges related to that breach, so the ceo, obviously, in the hot seat. they say they are truly sorry customers have been able to endure this and customers will not be liable for fraudulent charges that occurred as a result of the breach and offered a year of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection to customers that shopped at target stores. you have three months to enroll in that program, so we're getting more details. it's obviously a developing story, but that's what we know so far. >>> on a much less serious note, apparently, the polar vortex was goo

cnbc's mandy drury is here. might give people cause before buying the cars. >> you're right, chris. after all, even if you want to downsize your fuel bill, you don't want to downsize your safety and the results aren't good. 10 out of 11 mini cars tested failed this insurance institute of highway safety test. admittedly, it was a new and more challenging test, but it is the kind of crash that is common out there in the real world. which one passed? the chevrolet lay spark, but only just. it got an acceptable. the institute says small, light-weight vehicles have a safety disadvantage, that's why it's more important to choose one with the best occupant protection. if you go up from the mini car section to the small car category, five out of 17 models passed the frontal crash test. in the small and mini car categories, results aren't good. >> some of them did pass, maybe that's a word of warning to the other car companies. >>> all right, here we go, close to college basketball bracket time and warren buffett is reall

. >> cnbc's mandy drury is here with what's moving your money. what else did he have to say?heart sunk on that very first day in december when he got word of the attack. of course, christmas was just ten days away, right, so he revealed in the interview he's still shaken and expects more sleepless nights because they are not going to sleep until they get it right and they regain the trust of customers. greg steinhuffle says he's aware of the anger felt by customers because apparently no one screens his e-mails, so he's read every e-mail that's come to him. bottom line, he vowed to do everything possible to make it right. >> as a result of this data theft, target announced customers can sign up for free credit monitoring. >> that is right. target is offering one year of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection to all target customers who shopped in their u.s. stores. they've chosen protect my i.d. all you need to do is do it before april 23rd, of course, this year, then register for the offer through protect my i.d. before april 30th, then you get all these complim

mandy drury is here with what's moving your money.for people with diabetes, it is a big deal. >> it is a big deal. google has unveiled this prototype contact lens, as you say, it monitors your glucose levels through your tears. the catch here is, though, chris, it's not going to be available immediately. google says it will take at least five years to reach us. obviously, you know, may be shorter than that, but that's what they are saying at this stage and the race is on. as you can imagine, this is a huge business. there are other companies out there trying to develop better testing methods, but so far, this seems to be quite exciting and getting a lot of headline action. >> very different kind of high-tech, because it has to do with chocolate. >> yes. hershey's is bringing 3d printing to creating chocolate. it's a multiyear agreement between hershey and 3d systems. they are going to develop a variety of 3d printed chocolate, but also nonchocolate items, as well. 3d systems, get used to the name. this was the first company to commerc

. >> cnbc's mandy drury is here with what's moving your money.oyal caribbean have to say about all this. >> the ceo came out and defended his company's business practices. let's take a listen to what he had to say, chris. >> we're lucky that it's so rare and our people responded very quickly, very aggressively, and so now the issue is waning. it is coming back early, so we have a chance to really do a thorough cleaning. obviously, we will be compensating the passengers. >> so talking of compensation, apparently passengers will get 50% of another cruise and credit for the two days their cruise is being cut short and $400 to spend onboard, so we'll just wait and see what kind of impact this has in terms of the stock and financial impact going forward. >> speaking of stock, we know how hard it can be to figure out wall street, especially for the casual observer. apple just reported record sales on the ipad and iphone, what's that about? >> problem is apple's iphone sales in the holiday shopping season, the most important shopping season missed expec

cnbc's mandy drury is here with what's moving your money and also making headlines, my friend, mandy,u, 4 million accounts here? ? more than 4 million accounts hacked. we're talking about the popular photo sharing app and someone claiming to be behind the leak of private account information on these millions of snapchat users. the goal was to raise public awareness ever online security holes in this app. there's apparently this website called snapchat db.info and it went online on new year's eve offering for download a database containing user names and numbers of 4.1 million snapchat accounts and i do believe the last numbers were blacked out. before then, a number of people managed to download this database. one of its readers found his own number and also the number of snapchat co-founder evan spiegel. they were on this list. >> really? >> if you don't know what it's all about. snapchat was founded only two years ago by spiegel and another guy, bobby murphy. it has been huge with teens because those photos that you post up might be embarrassing and they disappear shortly after they

mandy drury is here with what's moving your money.oyees of two different retailers, right? we have macy's, did have a strong holiday shopping season, but is cutting 2,500 jobs as part of a reorganization, they say to sustain their profitability. some of those workers will be reassigned or trfrds, there might even be positions added as part of this whole reorganization, macy's does plan to close five stores, but open eight others it says the moves will save it $100 million per year but then you have discount retail loamen's that was the third time it will begin liquidating its inventory. there's just too much competition. you have tjmaxx, it's a real pity. it goes all the way back to, apparently freda speaking of competition. >>> the global beverage business to take over the tequila brand. it's a 50/50 partnership. he became the face of the vodka brand ciroc back in 2007. they say sales have grown from 50,000 cases back then to nearly 2 million today. >>> however we'll have to see who is better. >> who doesn't? >> he ace cute. i don't

now for a look at what's coming up on "street signs" let's head over to mandy drury. >> yeah, anothere for nuskin in china. we'll investigate what's going on, sort truth from fiction. and what does a post net neutrality world look like? we will explain the winners and losers in this game and the blood bath continues for bed, bath and beyond. we have a couple guys here to debate it. all that and lots more. in the meantime, back to you in chicago, ty. >> thank you very much. scott burns is with me from morningstar. time to introduce the winners in our three remaining categories. fixed income, asset allocation and alternatives. who are they and why did they win? >> so the winner in fixed income category is the team headed by daniel iveson and alfred murato. this team looked under every rock to find anything they could to squeak out gains in the tough fixed income category this year. bar cap ag down 10%. this fund finished up 4.8. our winner in allocation is steve romick. steve and his team rode some amazing stock picking to get to the returns that they had this year even though they had

i'm mandy drury.n today's power pitch, we have a startup that has reinvented the wheel, literally. he's the founder of super pedestrian and professor at m.i.t. the associate director of m.i.t.'s sensible city lab and holds multiple patents. let's take a look at his power pitch. >> i'm founder of super pedestrian and coinventor of the copenhagen wheel. the copenhagen wheel is a back wheel you can throw on almost any bicycle and it turns it into a smart hybrid electric. captures your energy when you brake or go downhill, and it gives you an automatic push when you need it. it's a breeze to install. you turn two nuts, download an app and your bike is souped up. inside the red hub there's a motor which is also a generator, a set of batteries, about a dozen sensors and a control system that crunches up data and tells the motor how to give you a boost automatically as you pedal. there are more than 25 million electric bicycles sold around the world each year. tens of millions of individuals are looking for

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who better to go to than cnbc's mandy drury here with what's moving your money.'s about earnings and emerging economy. >> it's a double barrelled effect of disappointing earnings here at home on the one side and rumblings overseas, japan, also fears in europe that that economy might be stagnating, so a lot of things pushing the markets down. you know the adage, so goes january, so goes the year, hopefully that's not the case. so far this year, dow down 5%, s&p down about 4%. we had a great run last year, but it has been a shaky start to the year. >> shaky start, i like to look at it as a decade, first time in a decade i can say santa claus rally and i'm still remembering that. amazon concerned about its earnings, they might raise prime membership and the fee related to that. >> they say we have to to cover rising fuel and transport costs. apparently, the company is considering a $20 to $40 increase in the annual $79 fee that amazon charges us for the prime two-day shipping and also the online media service. as for the earnings, backing up a bit, their profit of r

cnbc's mandy drury is here with what's moving your money.y and what's behind the recent sell-off? >> really trying to see stabilization in the states today. had good earnings from caterpillar, but we're still sort of on shaky ground and don't know whether we're out of the woods yet. the s&p is down as we speak and the nasdaq is also dropping. as i say we are down, but not as bad as what we saw on friday, and there were also red arrows around the world overnight. of course, part was a reaction of the big sell-off we had here last week. a lot of concerns have surfaced, currencies in argentina and turkey are banking, why do we care here in the united states? well, in the current globalized world, the markets are very much interlinked, many investors have investments in other parts of the world, so everyone is sitting up and paying attention so we're trying to work out now what type of correction will we have and what will the fed do this wednesday, could they slow down their taper withdrawal of stimulus as a result of this? >> meantime, looking

natural rally continues, not gas logging the third straight day of big gains for more, let's go to mandy drurytures now desk. >> net gas hasded 10% this week alone bringing the commodity now to a 2 1/2 year high. anthony at the nymex, is all of this just cold weather or something else behind this rally? >> mandy, you know, it's not sexy. it's not earth shattering. but it is all about supply and demand. our supplies this year are running 15% below last year at this time. the five-year average is 10% below. the reit counted was 2012. demand was a record last week. i imagine with the cold this week that next week you're going to see another record demand figure. >> what do you think when this bad weather breaks, will natgas fall as fast as it's risen? >> i think it's going to go further, mandy. we are seeing the supply and demand but i think the real reason, now that the polar vortex has taken over new york, folks are soft so they need to turn the heat up so the demand will continue until the weather abates. >> got to leave it there. for more on natgas catch our live show where we are hear from l

i'm mandy drury. big story here at hq is the markets. let's take a look at what the dow is doing.own by exactly 100 points. however, brian sullivan is over there live in san francisco, a mile away from what's going on on wall street. he's at the 32nd annual jpmorgan health care conference and the biggest names in health care are there. he has a jam-packed can't-miss lineup for us, right? tell us exactly what you have on tap. >> you really s

i'm mandy drury. big story here at hq is the markets. let's take a look at what the dow is doing. it is currently down by exactly 100 points. however, brian sullivan is over there live in san francisco, a mile away from what's going on on wall street. he's at the 32nd annual jpmorgan health care conference and the biggest names in health care are there. he has a jam-packed can't-miss lineup for us, right? tell us exactly what you have on tap. >> you really sold it. i hope i can deliver on that promise. thanks very much. we have been here all morning but i saved a stat for our "street signs" viewers and listeners which is really going to make your head explode and one of the reasons we're here. this comes courtesy of jpmorgan chase who is obviously putting on the conference, which is this. so far this year, i know it's extremely early in the calendar 2014, but 94% of health care stocks have outperformed the s&p 500. in other words, they are outperforming and they are outperforming in a big way, and a number of those names have been on cnbc all day and will be here this hour as well

joining me now, lee gallagher from "fortune" magazine mandy drury, stephanie link nathan bachrach andven get into that. let's get to julia boorstin in this case who is size them up for us. julia? >> kelly, netflix earnings are out and the numbers are better than expected. key subscriber coming in at 2.33 met additioning. the international streaming subscriber also better than wall street had expected at 1.74 million. the company had 1.$1.75 billion in revenue. looking at earnings per share, the company reported 79 cents in earnings per share. that far exceeds expectations of 66 cents in earnings per share and is up from 13 cents in earnings per share in the year ago quarter. so kelly, looks much stronger across the board both domestic and international, and i see the stocks spiking on these numbers. >> absolutely. julia, i mean wow, for a company that -- it's always a little bit of a gamble as far as investors are concerned which way did it go. a decisively positive quarter it seems from this early read. the shares up 13%, better than 14% after hours heading back towards that 52-week

also with us stephanie link mandy drury, and nathan backrack. great to see all of you.e dow today? >> well i thought the data today was actually pretty good right? i think everybody was saying the data was pretty good and if you in addition to not only the adp number and the construction figure which was the best number we have seen in quite some years, you have had good ism employment numbers. the expectations for friday is that it's going to be a good number and we'll see what happens. the economic data in the u.s. is getting better. i think honestly kelly, we just have to get to earnings and listen to what companies have to say. we'll get a little bit of a read tomorrow from alcoa. i will listen more carefully to what they say versus how the stock reacts because they have very important end markets like aerospace and auto and that kind of thing. so let's listen. let's get to earnings. let's hear what the companies have to say before we panic about selling off and taking profits. >> a lot of industrial parts of the economy that are looking a little better. so what do