at a 30% premium and names marisa mayer as their new ceo. this is a different world when microsoft tried to buy yahoo! last. they need a wow candidate to replace steven balmer. it's not going to be alan mulally. this will satisfy investors. the company needs somebody to change microsoft culture and that is focused on the consumer. >> talk about some gutsy predictions. >> that is a bold prediction is all i've got to say. >> you don't want to come out with wish-washy predictions saying there's going to be ceo changes next year. >> not at all. now bob, he's joining us right now. also joining us with their own prediction for the markets in 2014, paul hickey and hugh johnson. so maybe bob, the floor is yours for right now, very bold picks. talk to us about why? >> you know, we all have to do this all of us, including you guys, every year, and the problem is, it's very easy to sort of fall into what mandy said, wish-washy commentary where you make predictions you know will probably happen and then look good because you sound really smart. i've bee

today we move to marisa mayer. >> writing the first act of a turnaround story you could hardly do betteroo! shares closed above 40 a share earlier this month. to put that in perspective, aside from two months around eight years ago, the stock hasn't seen those levels since the year 2000. why the rally? by myers admission previous management invested in chinese e-commerce giant alibaba and yahoo! japan. but there's more to it than that. in 2013 marisa meyer established herself as a hands on product executive an the most marketing savvy ceo in silicon valley. all but forcing employees and investors to believe in yahoo! again. >> vince lombardi was a phenomenal coach. one of the sayings, he was like look my priorities are, you know, god, family, and the green bay packers in that order and i joke mine are god, family, and yahoo! except i'm not that religious so it's family and yahoo!. >> product wise she managed to build and buy some interesting properties. in may paid just over a billion dollars for tumbler, a sought-after social media darling. earlier she bought sumly for $13 billion more

fortune 500 companies, joining hewlett packard's meg whitman, pepsico's indra nooyi and yahoo's marisa mayerfirms with more women at the top earn 50% higher profits than those without. and a woman at gm could have other benefits. after all, it is women who make 80% of the car purchase decisions. barra's original dream car? this red vintage chevy camaro. she wanted a firebird but settled for a chevy chevette. today she drives a cadillac cts and on the weekends a corvette. >> i like cars that go fast. >> reporter: now after her slow and steady climb, it's full speed ahead. rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >>> right here on "world news," the court case hitting celebrity chef nigella lawson against her former employees reignites. and all those photos you're taking, are they making your memory worse. hear about a new study when we're back in two minutes. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of all day pain relief. this season, discover aleve. all day pain relief with just two pills. or treat gas with these after you get it. now that's like sunblock before or sun burn cream later

marisa mayer was there from yahoo! and so was apple's tim cook and sheryl sanberg from facebook. while the white house characterized the meeting as being primarily about the health care website, and it started out that way, much of the two-hour discussion then centered on data mining, electronic surveillance. just yesterday a federal judge called the nsa's phone surveillance program unconstitutional, and today the company has asked for new limits on what they have to turn over. >>> perhaps you are in an office pool. perhaps you're not seeing this at all because you're in line to buy a lottery ticket. like this line near nipton, california, just over the border from nevada, which is one of seven states where they don't play mega millions. the lottery line is so long it stretches back into nevada because tonight's jackpot is $636 million, the second largest lottery in u.s. history. as you can imagine, the odds of winning are astronomical, but that doesn't stop anybody from lining up. our report tonight from nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: not to put a damper on the country's mega

among the bold faced names heading to the website tomorrow, marisa mayer of\cheryl sanberg of facebook and google executive chairman, eric schmidt. >> americans have one more week to sign up for a new health insurance plan for those online exchanges. one more week, that is, if you want coverage to start january 1st and new numbers from federal and state authorities now point to a big surge in new members as we approached that deadline. bertha coombs has more. >>> from day one of open enrollment, the exchange has seen strong interest in affordable care act plans with more than 45,000 enrollments in the first two months and in the first two weeks of december, enroll ams in the new york state of health has more than doubled with more than 3300 people a day signing up for coverage and that's well ahead of projecti s projections. covered california has been signing up residents at a pace of 7100 a day, reporting more than 156,000 planned elections through the first week of december. that's 46% high are than the total for october and november. kentucky, the only southern state operating its

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ceos including twitter's, marisa mayer off yahoo!zuckerberg and ceo of google larry page put forth five goals. they're calling on government to limit surveillance to specific users, not to collect data in bulk. they say the company has the right to publish what the government is demanding from them, how much is asked for and how often it is being asked of it. the change comes at the same time reports that american and british spies are using popular videogames like "world of warcraft" and second life to conduct surveillance and gather data about millions of users online. inttlligence operatives disguise themselves with avatars like no, ma'ams, supermodels. this was unveiled in the guardian things to linked documents from edward snowden. back to you, cheryl and david. cheryl: thanks, jo ling kent. david: incoming new york mayor bill deblasio wants to have a new tax on wealthier people. will it cause rich people to move to other parts of the u.s.? steve "forbes" editor and chief will weigh in. cheryl: buffett on buffett. howard buffett

all things are apple ceo tim cook and marisa mayer and sheryl sandberg have insight on to. at the white house with those rock stars, tech rock stars. big gain in stocks yesterday. a rock star day there. after the posting the biggest drop since august last week, the dow industrial is surging 130 points really great day yesterday. fed, fed, fed, fed, fed! it really matters to you. this is the second to last fed meeting for ben bernanke. there have been these fears that he might announce tomorrow he is trimming the stimulus that has kept interest rates so low and kept the market so juiced but citigroup fed watcher says history shows they don't like to pull back the punch bowl in september. it hasn't happened the last 40 years when they do that at the end of the year. a well-stocked and spiked punch bowl called an accommodating fed put us where we are today. the year the dow up 21% and nasdaq up 33% and s&p up 25%. >> that is good punch. >> it tastes so good. i don't know what the hangover will feel like but right now the ride is good. >> how long can you keep this going? >> ho

ceo marisa mayer, tracking a storm our winter weather guru calls a slow-motion disaster and kicking offr long game today. this is cool, melissap. about $1,000 to spend for the next 12 months, which would you buy? five shares of the s&p 500 etf, ounce of gold, thousand dollars of really good wine or one bitcoin. we want to know what you think. street signs.cnbc.com. >> that's great. glad you clarified one bottle of wine, not 500. >> i would rather have the latter. >> wall street's buying spree likely won't be enough to keep the dow from its first weekly loss in nine weeks but the s&p 500 has a chance to extend its winning streak to nine. right now hovering around break-even for the week. the nasdaq hit another 13-year high and gone positive for the week and could chalk up its fourth straight weekly gain. let's send it to our market reporters bob pisani and rick santelli. bob, over it to you first. >> thanks very much, melissa. not the number that was surprising the market reaction to the number that's got people trying to figure out what's going on. look, if you figured out this number t

top guys and women who are in charge of big silicon valley companies, eric schmidt of google and marisa mayerthe president. did you walk away with the sense smart people like you guys can work with the government to make life better in america? certainly when it comes to technology get the u.s. government up and running in a more efficient way? >> first of all i was very honored to be invited. it was a very elite group. i was pleased that the president really listened to what we had to say but i really think when i think about these things it is very important that government and technology work well together. in etcy's case we have a million micro entrepreneurs, small businesses. i really think that government should think more about these, you know, smaller, micro entrepreneurs when making regulations and needs to be really simple to understand, for the types of people who sell on etcy. liz: absolutely. would i be remiss if i didn't ask you, an ipo or somebody wants to buy you? seems like you guys have an interesting genetic structure that you're very, very independent. would you hate it if

marisa mayer and cheryl samburg. what's your take on the meeting? who have traditionally been supportive of the presidency. he's doing the smart thing and getting the gang back. will it work? these are smart people and policy largely ineffective at best. look at the nsa sca achla scan the obamacare. and the people will see through it. sttart: it's pr, isn't it? it's an optics occasion. >> sure. that's a normal thing to do. if i were the president i'd probably do the same thing. stuart: they're going to get down to the knitty gritty, especially on the nsa spying scandal, the technology companies are being used to by the nsa to record all kinds of stuff. they're being sued. what is the president going to tell them? >> i knew you liked me an awful lot and maybe the relationship hasn't turned out great. >> what would happen if president bush was in the white house and the scandal was erupting? >> it would be a much, much bigger deal. particularly in the mainstream media. it would be a betrayal of american values. that's muted and greatly etenuahed. stua

it seems to me that-- mar marisa mayer totally transformed the company, it's not the same yahoo!.he logo that kind of flopped, but yeah, i agree with you. she's making important moves and it puts it up potentially against netflix and h.b.o. space. a lot of things to do with it, but whether she does it remains to be seen. the remaining piece is the alibaba piece over in china. stuart: the nasdaq is up and dow is up. not a bad start to a monday morning. it's a harsh reality, one of the greatest wealth distributions of all time is happening right here at home. the young paying for the old. it really is a generational clash. we'll deal with it after the break. ♪ pleased to meet you hope you guess my name♪ ♪ oh, yeah (announcer) at scottrade, our clients trade and invest exactly how they want. with scottrade's online banking, i get one view of my bank and brokerage accounts with one login... to easily move my money when i need to. plus, when i call my local scottrade office, i can talk to someone who knows how i trade. because i don't trade like everybody. i trade like me. i'm with sco

marisa mayer, the ceo of yahoo! and others. press secretary jay carney finished a briefing with us. he said he could not confirm that the ruliig on the constitutionality of this nsa surveillance programs yesterday was discussed but definitely nsa surveillance programs were discussed. president according to carney said he wanted to hear tech executives concerns. he wanted to explain how he sees these programs. and, he canted to reiterate he is engaging in a comprehensive review of these programs and intelligence gathering. that will conclude in january. here's what carney said. >> we need to look at our activities through the lens of making making sure we're doing what we can and should but not just, or what we should to keep ourselves safe and not just what we can because we have the technological capacity to do it and i think that is sort of the way framework the president has been approaching this review. >> carney repeated that the justice department is reviewing yesterday's decision but that the administration believes and

finally, microsoft buys yahoo at a 30% premium and names marisa mayer as the new ceo. a different world than 2008 when they tried to buy yahoo last. they need a wow candidate to replace ballmer, the company that needs somebody to change microsoft culture and focused on the consumer. for cnbc, i'm bob pisani. >> thanks, bob. and make sure you tune in throughout the week for more predictions and on the web you can see all this, predictions.cnbc.com. >>> coming up, volatility in context. we're going to talk to william lloyd from velocity shares about volatility in 2013 and his expectations for the vix in the new year, as well. we're aig. and we're here. to help secure retirements and protect financial futures. to help communities recover and rebuild. for companies going from garage to global. on the ground, in the air, even into space. we repaid every dollar america lent us. and gave america back a profit. we're here to keep our promises. to help you realize a better tomorrow. from the families of aig, happy holidays. [ male announcer ] here's a question for you: the ener