. >> tom: here's what we're watching for tomorrow: quaterly results from kellogg, mastercard and merck. along with weekly jobless claims, december factory orders and january chain store sales. we'll see if there's any impact from the winter weather. also tomorrow, ben bernanke meets the press. the federal reserve chairman discusses the economic outlook at the national press club. standard & poor's cut ireland's credit rating by one notch to "a minus" today. that's four levels above non- investment grade. it gives ireland the same rating as portugal, turkey and cyprus. s&p says a further downgrade is possible as the irish government struggles to contain bank bailout costs. the downgrade comes as ireland prepares for elections in which the cost of bailing out banks is a major issue. >> tom: h.p. will give a refund

chief competitor mastercard releases its results tomorrow. share price moving fractionally higher. earlier data on holiday spending showed higher volumes, which analysts say is encouraging. shares remain below 52-week high. shares seeing some mild buying interest today. one area of concern for both is interchange fees-- what banks pay when accepting debit cards. new regulations limit those fees, and one worry is banks may discourage having consumers using debit cards. and that could pinch some of those processors. one bright spot was commercial property managers. c.b. richard ellis has earnings tomorrow. shares jumped 5% as volume tripled. this is a new 52-week high. volume tripled. it was helped by fellow commercial real estate manager jones lang lasalle. a 5% rally came as earnings were better than expected and revenue jumped as well. all positive news. technology was the best sector, led by buying of video game maker electronic arts. this is a six-month high after raising its guidance and a stock buyback plan last night. semiconductor maker m.e.m.c. electronic jumped 15% thanks

. >> a group called anonymous organize attacks against visa, mastercard, and paypal. they willingly downloaded software similar to those with organized crime spearheaded what they have to unwittingly signed up for more? >> who is to know that it stops there? that machine is still available for use. >> and one of the most high- profile cyber attacks in the commercial world came earlier this year. it seems organized crime targeted the carbon markets. under the emissions trading scheme, allowances for carbon credits that exist only on line are bought and sold in an attempt to cut back on carbon emissions. >> it became apparent that the whole system was quite vulnerable. these accounts exist. you are supposed to be able to transfer from one account to the other. >> is not anything good enough. a broker in prague recorded that he had credit stolen. the european commission closed the entire carbon market. it seems that a total of 3.2 million carbon credits have been reported stolen in the last few months. murky. >> the details are still not known if this is a coordinated at

leaning on paper mastercard and other are private corporations to to allow donations to be made to wiki leaks the once heroic figure now hawking mugs bumper stickers and t. shirts to pay his legal bills who profits from the meaning of meaning. obviously it's the u.s. government which is really getting him makes no bones about it they're under the bus with a newspaper that once eagerly used his beak michelle impressions of. set up some some in a list say assigned and wiki leaks have been effectively neutralized consumed by litigation rather then leaks i think with the american government wants us to have mr assigned in custody so that ultimately he can be extradited to the united states to face charges for the release of those documents or u.k. court ruled that julian assange should be extradited to sweden but his attorneys say the next stop for the thirty nine year old computer programmer could be here in the united states where science could face as we know is charges and even the death penalty as a standard places jail time the future of wiki leaks hangs in the balance and its ability

as a potential future financial center by many analysts and investors but william winters from mastercard worldwide says there's still much work to be done. well i think there's a tremendous amount of work that we need to be done there's infrastructure work that needs to be done there's there's a creating a more robust the best capital market and financial market which is underway in russia but not completely and of course there are lessons to be learned in terms of things to avoid along the way in terms of market dislocations that come from from government subsidies or taxes that clearly came back to bite the western economies and pretty horrible ways in the last three years. and that's all for this hour more coming up in less than fifteen minutes from now. this is nature and discover it's. communicate with the wild and. test yourself and become free. see what nature can give you. in the united kingdom is available in the house bill and the forty one hotel the old waverly had to make it compulsory to the mill stone who took some of the old country house holiday in the pool to old governm

mastercard surpassed. gm rose 23% compared to last january. that was better than expected. toyota up 17%. ford was up 13%, but still below expectations. chrysler rose 22%. >>> the world is watching the uprising in egypt, but aside from the politics there is of course an economic impact of what is going on there. just what could it mean for your portfolio? joining me now is richard bernstein, ceo of richard bernstein advisers, whose firm is managing a mutual fund for eaton vance with a market cap of $135 million. rich, good to have you on the program. >> thanks, maria. >> thank you so much for joining us. let's get to egypt in a moment. but first, starting with the unemployment report that we saw out on friday. 36,000 new jobs created was much lower than what wall street was expecting. the unemployment rate, though, falling to 9%. what does this tell us about the state of the economy? >> i think there are mixed numbers in here. as an investor, these numbers are vastly improved over where they were a year ago. it's my opinion that if we were here in 12 years hence, we would s

there are those that will argue all this data in every click on every download in every mastercard ormastercard's wife will make our lives more convenient, efficient and safer and as i mentioned a couple of cases they actually do. we never seem to ask ourselves under this technological spell what price are we going to pay? what we do in the machinery becomes so powerful we can't stop it or step it back and undo it and get back to the personal privacy that we thought we had in a free society of yesteryear? i hope you agree with me that to ensure a future where citizens are ultimately calling the shots, we arm ourselves with the best, most timely and accurate data and information we can. and ironically this is the same reason julian astonished that he created wikileaks. thank you very much. [applause] >> okay, i think we have time for a couple questions go quicker you can either step up to the make great care or i can come and get the microphone to you. we have to make sure you tap into the microphone or else no one will be able to hear you on c-span. does anybody have a question to sta

hard to preserve and defend julian assange for they've taken revenge on companies like pay pal and mastercard for those companies suddenly cut ties with wiki leaks perhaps the request or the pressure of the u.s. government but it seems as if anonymous is that again this time they've taken their revenge against the feds themselves after word got out about anonymous the f.b.i. hired private security firm h.b. gary federal to track down the leaders of the hacker group to talk about a plan backfiring ten fold not only did anonymous catch on gary's efforts but they even hacked the firm's official website they uploaded sixty thousand internal e-mails from the firm and the site's page is still filled with a message about anonymous his mission now the group also hacked the c.e.o.'s twitter page leaving the following message they say today we taught everyone a lesson but we actually decided to bite back against those who try to bring us down by heart so ouch i hate to say it but they had to see this one coming right when the f.b.i. . search warrants for members of the organization forty of them execut

major gas companies like bp and sunoco and exxon offer 1% to 6% discounts if you use their visa or mastercard buying their brand of gasoline. the visa card sponsored by aaa gives 5% back on all purchases at the pump regardless of the brand. there's their website and phone number, so that's a very nice one to take advantage of. just be sure to pay your bill in full each month so the interest costs don't wipe out the savings. and by the way, this is an example of why i love our bottom line experts, our researchers and editors there. i, you know, i have been a member of aaa for over 25 years, and for some reason, until i read the book, i didn't know about this simple money-saving offer, and that's just, camille, one little example of how, you know, we all have, you know, lots of good money-saving ideas in our head that we don't execute on, but let me tell you, it's great to have them in one volume so you can go, "okay, i'm gonna do these thing." >> okay, all right. but what else do you have? i want to hear more. >> okay, i think these days, we're all sitting in a situation where we want to find

it hurt our ability to get information but when certain companies we are dealing with wikileaks, mastercardto pull out from their relationship they were attacked and the public saw that they were attacked. which is had which has had an attack in nasdaq. that is very serious. just think when you get yourou bank records every month. it is all based on records and suppose your town had beennt hacked and you had a million dollars and all of a sudden it is $10,000. cyberattacks and individuals and countries are doing this have ability to make a habit with all of our systems systems thaty technology. right now it is a major issue. we need to educate the public. the confidence level is n.s.a. is one of the best and homeland security needs to be the bridge to coordinate with the public. we will be dealing with this a long time. host: i am getting messages from twitter like this. concern about privacy rights and people's own constitutional rights and growth of surveillance, and also the cost. we will come back to those after we hear from a few callers. baltimore, aaron, republican line. caller: yes.

when mastercard, amazon, prevented their supporters from making donations, a group attacked these websites and shut them down for a period of time. cyber threats are real. the threat from cyber attacks is real and must be addressed. the last issue i would like to discuss the space. we have some of the best satellite but america is the most powerful country in the world because of the fact that we control the skies. satellites are important bause they keep us safe. wheezed into track suspected terrorist iran the world. -- we used them to attract suspected terrorists around the world. when our troops climbed a hill on the battlefield, they know who was on the other side of that hill because of technology. we can find that needle in a haystack because we have the best satellites and the world trade you may have heard the president mention our sputnik moment. more than 50 years ago, the soviet union a rock star world by lnching sputnik into space. america entered the challenge and landed a man on the man. the space industry was born. american made a massive investment in research and developme

two-year contract, posted its logo on facebook, or simply drive through a toll booth, or swiped and mastercard. a we join in never ending dance of data collection without a clue of what the consequences might be. there are those who argue that all of this data will make our lives more convenient, efficient, and a safer. in a couple of cases, they actually do. we never seem to ask ourselves at what price are we going to pay. what will we do when the machinery become so powerful we cannot stop it or step it back and undo it and get back to the personal privacy that we thought we had in a free society of yesteryear? i hope you agree with me that to ensure the future where citizens are ultimately calling the shots, we need to arm ourselves with the best, most timely and most accurate data and information we can. ironically, this is the same reason julian assange says he created wikileaks. thank you very much. [applause] >> i think we have time for a couple of questions real quick. we have to make sure you talk into the microphone or else no one will be able to hear you on c-span. does anyone have

when mastercard, paypal and amazon prevented and their supporters from making donations, the group calling themselves operation payback attack these websites and shut them down for a period of time. cyber threats are real. the threat from cyber attacks must be addressed. the last issue i would like to discuss is space. we have some of the best satellite systems. america's most powerful country in the world in part because of the fact that we control the skies. satellites are important because they keep us safe. we use satellites and images to track suspected terrorists around the world and stop future attacks. satellites allow us to monitor global development and provide real-time data to our troops on the ground in iraq and afghanistan. when our troops climb a hill on the battlefield they know what is on the other side of that hill because of our technology. we can find that needle in haystack because we have the best technology in satellites in the work. you may have heard the president in a state of the union mention our sputnik moment. and more than 50 years ago the soviet union rocked

when mastercard, amazon, prevented their supporters from making donations, a group attacked these websites and shut them down for a period of time. cyber threats are real. the threat from cyber attacks is real and must be addressed. the last issue i would like to discuss the space. we have some of the best satellite but america is the most powerful country in the world because of the fact that we control the skies. satellites are important because they keep us safe. wheezed into track suspected terrorist iran the world. -- we used them to attract suspected terrorists around the world. when our troops climbed a hill on the battlefield, they know who was on the other side of that hill because of technology. we can find that needle in a haystack because we have the best satellites and the world trade you may have heard the president mention our sputnik moment. more than 50 years ago, the soviet union a rock star world by launching sputnik into space. america entered the challenge and landed a man on the man. the space industry was born. american made a massive investment in research and devel

sign up for another two-year contract with horizon, where simply drive to a tollbooth or swipe a mastercard. we join a never ending dance of data collection without a clue of what the consequences might be. some will argue that all this data, every click, every download, every credit card swipe will make our lives more convenient, efficient, and state -- convenient, efficient, and easier. what price are we going to pay? what will we do when the machinery become so powerful we cannot stop it or undo its and get back to the personal privacy that we thought we had in a free society. i hope you agree with me that to ensure a future where citizens are ultimately calling the shots, we need to arm ourselves with the best and most accurate data and information we can. ironically, this is the same reason julian assange says he created wikileaks. thank you very much. [applause] >> can we get this microphone on, i think we get time for a couple of questions. step up to the microphone or i can get the microphone to you. talking to the microphone or no one will be able to hear you on c-span. does anyone

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