people trust mastercard. it's not as easy to say bit coin will displace mastercard and visa.gins would come in. yeah. >> bit coin big bang by brian kelly our very own. still ahead microsoft's earnings call is under way. we'll get the latest headlines from the ceo right after our break. plus the snow coming down in times square. we'll get an update on the latest winter weather details you need to know. much more on "fast money". [woman] can it make a dentist appointment when my teeth are ready? [girl] can it tell the doctor how long i have to wear this thing? [man] can it tell the flight attendant to please not wake me this time? the answer is yes, it can. so, the question your customers are really asking is, can your business deliver? adammy. >> satya nadella.i. >> satya nadell >> shares are down 2% on united technologies. company posted fourth quarter profits. revenues came in a bit shy of analysts estimates. and lowered their four year guidance. shares down by 2%. they made a statement saying they expect to invest $1.7 billion in capital expenditures and planning to buy bac

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mastercard reporting coming in with earnings two cents ahead of expectations.y reported 11% increase in total processed transactions in the fourth quarter. quick check of the big tech names. google and amazon of course google missing but positive comments on the growth. investors like than shake shack, waiting for that to price. priced last night at 21. right now early indications 34 to 36. i'll be standing right here and have the price when it happens, guys. back to you. >> collect in with rick santelli and get the -- at the cme. >> good morning, carl. there's some out there that will say some countries would kill for 2.6 gdp. i get that. but it was a disappointment and reflected quickly in rates. the ten, 24-hour chart, down 7 on the day, down 12 on the week and down 50 on the year and it's not february yet. two-day chart the minute the weakness took us under from the data yesterday's low yields which were virtually real close to the 19.5 20-month low yields established on the 15th of january, everything changed. so as we moved down open the chart up you can

. >> mastercard's profits surged in fourth quarter. that's where we begin the market focus. credit card company saw earnings rise by about 30% on increased consumer spending meaning more swipes mastercard also bought back about 2 million shares worth of stock during the quarter. the stock was up fractionally today to $82.03. xerox posted earnings that topped forecast revenue came in slightly below because sales of printers fell. the company hiked its quarterly dividend to 7 cents a share. the yield on that dividend that converts to about 1.9% but investors weren't too happy with the company's decreased profit outlook and shares were off almost 3% on this down day. they finished at $13.17. eli lilly also out with earnings beat revenue that missed slightly. the drug maker way down by the patent expirations with negative impact of currency moves. shares there off slightly to $72 even. >>> the west coast port slowdown we've been telling you about is weighing on tyson foods. the company said the issues are starting to back up meat shipments and could affect livestock producers if

right now we're looking at mathercard -- mastercard shares, visa as well looking healthy. and if you're a burger lover or live in the las vegas or maybe even new york city, you probably know there's a new burger on wall street, and it's now worth as much as cities or small countries full of shacks. shake shack, a trendy burger joint that was born out of a hot dog vending cart years ago, owned at more than doubling its $21 list price, shooting up more than 150% at its high. moderating just a bit right now, up 132%. can the major indices refuel on shake shack's secret sauce? it's the last hour of trade. anything and everything will happen. and breaking news is coming. let's start the "countdown." ♪ ♪ liz: only one hour of trade in january, but the action not dying down. here we go, the braching -- breaking news, oil spiking $3.71 today in the regular trading session, about 8% higher at one point today. what happened? well, late in the session you see the wig spike there u.s -- big spike there u.s. oil rigs reported the number of them actually operating fell the most this wee

. >> speaking of banking, mastercard said it will lift a block on the west bank transactions -- u.s.k transactions in cuba. when will that move happen? >> it is a very big deal. you cannot use american credit cards in havana or anywhere on the island. which makes it difficult to do business here. mastercard says because of changes in relations, as of march 1, they will make it possible to use u.s. credit cards here. reside american express, i wonder whether they are setting regulations and plan to pick up on the same thing. -- visa and american express. tourists will have a much easier time doing business here. >> what has been the reaction to the talks from the folks on the streets? >> one of the most striking things for me. in a way that is not usual for cuban state-run media, they have covered these talks in a wall-to-wall way broadcasting the press conferences and rebroadcasting them again and again and people are watching this with a fervor usually reserved for baseball games. they are incredibly excited about this. people hoping for a better relationship with the united states

lista de paÍses e terroristas eso ha comenzado el proceso en el departamento de estado, crÍtico mastercardque se negocia? >> no, yo creo que no, porque francamente no fue una negociaciÓn sobre tal y tal cosa para ustedes fue una iniciativa por parte del obama sobre los intereses y como podemos avanzar los intereses del pueblo cubano para los fines que queremos todo un paÍs libre y democrÁtica. por ejemplo en el tema de paÍses que patrocina terror no hemos terminado el proceso es un proceso que tenemos que revisar y este vamos a ver en donde llegamos lo que es muy importante en todo esa posibilidad como master card y cuenta y como toda esa cosa es como podemos apoyar y quedar con la gente cubana y la sociedad civil. las personas que deciden. el gobierno. no son violadores. lo que hay violaciÓn de derechos humanos. >> como se puede llegar a un acuerdo o hasta aportar algo positivo con un gobierno que no reconoce lo que dicen que ocurre? >> no sÉ si vamos a llegar a un acuerdo. sobre derechos humanos. porque si tenemos concepciÓn distintas en el terreno. pero este mejor discutir el tema habla

proof that the reset is moving forward mastercard announced it is removing the block on u.s.issued card transactions in cuba as of march 1. mastercard said it acted after receiving guidance from the treasury department. >>> please join me for a special look at policy and fallout fox news reporting cuba losing the last battle of the cold war premieres saturday. >>> a final senate vote on the keystone pipe eline could come as early as next week. the debate lasted into the early morning hours. members voted and tabled a series of amendments disposing of five by democrats and leaving six more to review monday. >>> stocks were mixed today. the dow lost 141. the s&p 500 dropped 11. the nasdaq gained 7.5. for the four day week the dow was up almost a percentage point. the s&p 500 gained 1.23. >>> still ahead, if you think your personal information is secure and private on the obamacare website you may be in for a surprise. >>> a big weekend for republican presidential hopefuls. we will go live to the freedom summit in iowa after the break. [ female announcer ] we help make secure fi

mastercard is lifting a block on transactions in cuba.ing march 1st mastercard will remove the current block on u.s. issued credit cards. the move coming as the us and cuba try to normalize relations and relax travel and trade restrictions between the two countries. card holders are being told to check with their banks before visiting cuba to make sure the card will work on the island. >>> and uber the car service is rolling out a new feature called uber pool. it let's you share a ride with people for a discount. here's how it works. you enter your destination then uber matches you up with someone else going on the same route. uber is offering temporary promotional fare for five buck. >>> have you ever been flying you saw that sky magazine sky mall magazine sitting there and leaf through it. the popular magazine's time in the sky coming to an end. the company filed for bankruptcy bankruptcy. they say a changeing marketplace and competition like amazon and the wi-fi they now have on many planes is killing them. it's not clear when the cata

the company is working with mastercard to test ways to make the band to make every day purchases. >> when i put my finger on it, that will complete the circuit. it's the unique characteristics within your ecg. that's what we use to create our algorithm to create the digital signature. >> there's also intel's true key. that uses facial recognition instead of conventional passwords and for home security systems there's the simplicam. you register different people's faces. when the system detect an unfamiliar face, you get an alert. >>> we are tracking that clipper. right now the best chance for any significant precipitation both rain and snow will be between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. let's start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam. we hit 50 today. still 45 downtown. notice the dew point falling a bit. that allows air to get cooler at night and some areas will fall below freezing tonight, but the downtown areas won't. clipper no. 1 offshore. clipper no. 2 in cue off minneapolis and it will race off very quickly south and east, kind of dive right through us probably

. >> mastercard is planning to lift its ban on u.s. credit card transaction in cuba starting in march. it will be the first credit card company to unblock transactions there. mastercard is warning card holders that they need to contact their banks before visiting cuba nike sure the card will work on the island nation. >>> it took five days to acknowledge, but nfl investigators agree, the footballs use beside i the patriots for half of the afc title game were underinflated. the league confirming today that their investigation shows the patriots used the underinflated balls during the first half of last sunday's play-off game. the patriots deny any knowledge of this. the nfl setz says its investigation is john going. bottom line, at least for now, the patriots won the gym and will face the seahawks in the upcoming super bowl. that game is february 1 right here on nbc bay area. >>> well, coming up, the book that tempted us with things we didn't know we wanted. why the sky mall catalog is about to vanish from your airplane seat back. >>> c

. >> and mastercard tonight both sides acknowledging deep disagreements. and authorities telling abc news there is still much more work to be done especially with human rights. >> i don't know that i see that as an issue, human rights that gets fixed. certainly not in the near term. as we said we had no illusions about this government. >>> and we move on to a chilling new look at the danger lurking for so many young girls here in hidden america. right here at home men waiting to lure gurlirls in. this new documentary may change the way you think of prostitution. and it's great to have diane back. >> well dick kristoff is raising an important question. are these women hostages or criminals? >> reporter: new york's port authority, two plain clothes officers tell me we are surrounded by pimps just out of sight who come here to stalk runaways. kids from foster care. kids who've been sexually abused. these police may be the last chance before they are lured into the shadows. but you're in a kind of race against the pimps. >> absolutely, yeah. >> see, towards yo

mastercard announced u.s. customers can use their credit cards in cuba as of march 1st. and the two women, each the mother of two, who helped make this happen, how do they connect? can you get past the political -- >> we have dinners or lunches. and this time we use not only to talk about our work but also to have a normal, civilized conversation between normal people. >> reporter: that is a goal that the world's most powerful democracy and its communist neighbor can have normal relations for the first time in more than a half century, just like the women who are negotiating the deal. brian. >> andrea, thank you for your reporting down there tonight in havana, cuba. andrea mitchell. >>> still ahead for us tonight, a big name in the air goes under. a victim of changing times in the electronic era. the announcement today that made a lot of people downright sentimental about stories of buying stuff in the past they didn't want or need. >>> also, the reason behind some spectacular images off the coast, what's making the water actually glow in the dark. >>> for over a generat

card payments moved over the internet but then into the existing classic banking system visa and mastercard and so forth, things that we tried to build but weren't so successful were mike micropayments and checks and everything. paypal became very successful sometime later. so there's an awful lot of buzz about bitcoin. and i actually have some concern, not -- i don't want to say something negative about bitcoin but i want to say something cautionary about the idea of exotic new payment systems. we defend entirely -- the whole society depends upon the stability of the monetary system. and if there was something that disrupted that, if a dollar bill taken out of your pocket suddenly became worthless or there was a big inflation, the level of havoc that we would have would be -- would dwarf anything we've seen. the meltdown in 2008 would be nothing compared to it. so there's a lot to be protected there. and one has to proceed -- i think the country has to proceed and the world has to proceed quite carefully. the other thing is that there are some very interesting payment systems. in kenya, fo

it cannot be helping the scoobcuban government bp in theory visa and mastercard can put credit cardsmember two sides to this coin jose. just because visa and mastercard are permitted by the united states to go down there does not mean the cuban government wants them there, because the minute you allow that you've got to start complying with a lot of u.s. regulation. finra, you know the patriot act et cetera, anti-money laundering laws. we have to see if the cuban government is willing to open up the books of the banks to allow that to happen nap would be a significant milestone. >> and you bring up a very important point. that this is what the u.s. government is saying it wants to do for cuba. >> exactly. >> cuba has been for 56 years wanting to be removed from the terrorism list that the state department puts out every year. but then the issue of also not just credit cards, for example, software and communications. the cuban government la to accept an opening up of telecommunications and internet access. >> exactly. i think when people first heard all the news they had mistakenly th

. >> they are now working with mastercard to test payments with that band. >>> time now is 4:51. a brazen smash and grab burglary in san francisco. how the thieves managed to clean out a high end outdoor gear store in just a >>> backflow at 4:54. -- back now at 4:54. america's last freedom train honoring dr. martin luther king jr. has rolled through the bay area. 30 year tradition ended yesterday with the round trip between san jose and san francisco. the ride sold out when the word spread that this was the end of the line for the train. organizers blame low ridership and a lack of sponsors. riders say this tradition should continue on now more than ever. >> with all the killings that are going on, they should be here on this train protesting what's going on. not up there tearing up the community that people work for. >> coretta scott king launched more than two dozen freedom trains to commemorate the 1965 selma march demanding voting rights for african-americans. she chose this route because it's roughly the same distance traveled by the original marchers in alabama energies san

can you imagine visa or mastercard getting that kind of distribution in two years? is the underlying trend that is letting this happen what let's accompany go from zero to 6000 or whatever the equivalent miles per hour would be. why's that happening now? >> that depends on the industry you are in. bottom line is it is easier to reach consumers at great scale very quickly. if that makes it harder to identify these companies that are up-and-coming early enough that you as a large conglomerate can interact with that company. >> in the jack in the been stop world there are always been stewed the attention to. -- beans to pay attention. >> we are using our algorithms to keep track of a company's online footprint. they double their headcount and bring on an impressive ward member. these are nuggets of information you will find in a press release or in linkedin profile changes here. these of the kinds of things that you and i as analysts manual -- who monitor these things. you can and for that kind of signal. >> it does show us there is something different happening. there

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. >>> and mastercard, honoring charges from cuba. and the historic talks on when and how to open a u.s. embassy in havana. tonight both sides acknowledging deep disagreements. and authorities telling abc news there is still much more work to be done, especially with human rights. >> when we talk about profound differences in human rights, i don't know that i see that as an issue that gets fixed. certainly not in the near term. as we said, we had no illusions about this government. >> developments from cuba tonight. >>> and we move on to a chilling new look at the danger lurking for so many young girls here in hidden america. you've seen diane sawyer reporting on sex trafficking around the world. right here at home, men waiting to lure girls in. tonight, the first look at a new documentary, called "a path appears." it may change the way you think of prostitution. and it's great to have diane back. >> so good to see you, my friend. we have teamed up with our colleague at the "new york times". dick kristoff is raising an important quest

before, people were not capable of sending five cents or $.10 over the internet because you have mastercardks taking a fee. bitcoin is a frictionless system. >> last question. do you feel like this price adjustment has sort of separated the people who have actually been working in this arena around the technologies that are so interesting from the speculators? >> yes. i'm really excited because if you have been in bitcoin for the last three years, you have gone through big rises and big falls. right now it is the true believers that are building great technology in this space. >> the more you dig into this stuff, the more interesting it is. thank you very much. time for a check on your world news headlines. a kenyan marathon champion has been suspended for two years for doping. the runner tested positive for a blood boosting hormone. she won the last two consecutive boston and chicago marathons. russian executives close to vladimir putin say the company -- country is starting a science incubator run by putin's daughter. she has never done a media interview in the kremlin has ever released p

gross to mastercard accrue at a rate of 2.6%. constance hunter -- gross domestic product grew at a rate of 2.6%. constance hunter joins me. this growth came at the same time the u.s. of the biggest gain in consumer spending. why the disconnect and should investors be concerned? >> there were couple of sectors that were slower. one was inventory building. the other was investment. investment stopped and even pulled back a little in the fourth quarter. then of course we were hurt by imports. when you think about it, if we imported more, that is a sign that our economy is fundamentally very sorry -- very strong. you would not be importing goods and services if there wasn't an intent to use them and a demand for them. our import sector has shrunk as a result of falling oil prices and when you consider the fact that we have a stronger dollar. our buying power is greater. it really shows that the underlying strength of the economy is still there. >> the fed says it is going to remain patient on deciding when to raise rates. the debate

. >> jimmy, i want to know i have mastercard symbol ma shi buy more of it? >> you, me and a.j.es look like it is rolling over. i would like a bigger position. yes. stick with cramer! >>> all this week we are following the big jpmorgan morgan health care conference highlighting one of the hottest sectors around biotech, the next generation. as a group they trounced the s&p for the last four years. four years straight. tonight i want to look at the smallcap biotech company that a stock that doubled over the last month. halo for all of you home gamers. it is focussed on using human enzymes. an area outside your body cells that provide structural support for your tissue. it creates a drug delivery platform everything from fluids to small molecules to antibodies. the company partnered up with a number of big players. in a deal announced a month ago it is worth more than $580 million. they got fda approval for a treatment with primary immunodeficiency. it has its own products too. it allows for faster administration of therapies that are typically given intra vain usually. plus the c

can you imagine visa or mastercard getting that kind of distribution in two years?s the underlying trend letting this happen? what is the thing that lets a company go from zero to 6000 -- why is that happening now? >> it really depends in the industry that you are in. bottom line is that in the digital age, it's just easy to reach consumers on grayscale very quickly. that makes it harder to identify these companies that are up-and-coming early enough that you as a large company can interact with them. >> in a jacada beanstalk world, with a beanstalk is growing so fast, it's hard to know what teens to pay attention to -- jack in a beanstalk world, it's hard to know what beanstalk's to pay attention to? is it about seeing them on your data streams? >> we are keeping track of the company's entire online footprint. think about milestones that are important to the company success. they double their headcount, they bring on an impressive board member. these are little, very valuable nuggets of information that you will find a press release there in linkedin profile change

they hacked everybody from paypal to advise is a and mastercard to the tunisian government to the kulans to exact revenge on the ok stray tors of the charlie hebdo attacks in france. anonymous said they will hack the websites and social media accounts of the terrorist groups responsible for what just happened. >> in addition to the scary mask guy's statement, they also released a written statement vowing those opposed to freedom of expression can expect a massive frontal assault from us. because the struggle for the defense of these freedoms is the foundation of our movement. now, we have no idea in terms of what exactly to expect for this cyberattack or when to expect it, but given anonymous' recent history in hacking corporate and government websites across the world, including ones that are very difficult to hack, it is likely just a matter of time. and honestly it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of folks. watch this space. esurance was born online. which means fewer costs, which saves money. their customer experience is virtually paperless which saves paper, which saves money. t

lastly, mastercard became the first u.s. credit card company to say it would handle u.s.tions in cuba. that is your latin america report for this wednesday. coming up, we will look at how the markets are reacting to the fed's decision. that is next ♪. ♪--. ♪ >> welcome back. 45 minutes past the hour, let's check world news -- jordan is willing to swap a female iraqi prisoner for a jordanian pilot captured by streams from the islamic state. the woman was involved in deadly hotel bombings in 2005. this goes to the position of the united states of not negotiating with extremists. lebanon officials say israel has responded to a hezbollah attack by firing at least 50 artillery shells into southern lebanon. the attack that sparked the violence killed two israeli soldiers. it is the deadliest hezbollah attack against israel since 2006. facing its worst economic crisis in a decade, the russian government is detailing spending cuts and everything except military and social programs. russia's economy has been battered by energy prices, a weak ruble, and sanctions from the west over

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mastercard announcing american credit cards can be used on the island starting the first of march.ntime u.s. and cuban officials wrapped up the first round of talks to restore diplomatic relations after five decades of estrangement. hard to tell how the talks went judging from the faces here from around the table. both sides acknowledge common ground was made but they say there's a long road ahead before relations are normalized. >>> the nfls new england patriots claim they played by the rules. how they do simulations to find out how the footballs ended up underinflated. >>> from football we turn to baseball because baseball lost a legend this past week. we'll tell you howerny banks changed the game. >>> we have the latest on deflategate. the head coach of the nfls new england patriots is trying to end the controversy over underinflated footballs. he strongly denies cheating in the playoff game a week ago. he tried to show that cold weather may be to blame. >> bill belichick held an unexpected press conference to explain he con ducked a series of experiments to try to figure out wh

finally we hear from chevron, mastercard xerox and mattel. we'll be busy this week. >> absolutely. all eyes will be on apple and a story we're learning about from reuters, router is reporting that the company's taiwan based supplier plans to shrink it's work force due to slowing sales growth. an assistant to the group's chairman said a dramatic increase in labor costs was driving the move. an interesting development there. >> they had issues so this is probably some continuation of paying their workers more but i wanted to bring up facts about apple because a colleague sent this to me and they're mind blowing. revenues estimated to be at about $67.5 billion if that's true. most analysts expect these expectations to be blown out of the water. apple made more in three months than google all year. >> it's been a growth story. the focus will be on smartphone sales. howell did the iphone 6 do and will sailles in china be better. >> and money made just from iphones this quarter is expected to be almost the same as revenue from google and microsoft in the quarter combined. >> amazing. >>

this is not just, i'm stealing your mastercard number. i'm threatening you. >> this is american soldiers, we're coming. watch your back. that is a serious threat. and, again while our president is speaking, they're threatening our soldiers. again, we don't know if that's isis yet but they're right there and we have to worry. >> liz, what will happen? will we have a meltdown. >> until we get a miraculous back bone transplant to not be so apathetic, we can have all the conferences, high-level summit meetings we want with head grabbing sound bites, you have to get on it fast. shut it down fast. liz, hadley, tracy. president obama eyeing ways to prevent homegrown threats. the white house is planning a february summit to prevent violent extremists in the u.s. fred is not confident that that will change anything. obviously you're not too impressed of the idea of the summit. >> hey tom, it's great to be here. there's only one word to describe this summit. that word is ludicrous. how can we have a summit to discuss a global threat when the sponso

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you use their mastercard, they can check. what's up with red hat is. >> cyber security and cloud.t to go too tech in a small portfolio. i think actually the cloud momentum this company is building. they are one of the leaders in public and private cloud. >> they had a major breakout. i thought it was your santa play on his hat. when you look at something like a red hat and talking about how a lot of your earlier in the year picks had you held them would have gone substantially well. are are these the type of stocks you want to go the distance with? >> really good question. i do think they have catalysts and that's one reason i chose all of them. they are also a little off the beaten bath. i wanted to find different stories where the themes i like, truck i like for alison. the non residential construction. consumer, technology. i like the themes and i wanted exposure. they all have catalysts. but i also think they can go the distance. we'll see. >> red hat surprises me. you are a fundamental gal and i look at the pe and i think wow that is not a stephanie link type name. so i'm cur

i have been a mastercard visa person. i think they're entirely different companies. this quarter is fine. it wasn't exactly the revenue beat it seemed like when you first looked at it but the quarter was fine the report stock trades off and a week later it's back to where it was. that's the type of situation we're setting up for now. >> it's off a little bit but this is a premiere company. it's a great brand name. it's not expensive. not cheap either. >> is anybody concerned they're laying off 4,000 people? ebay is laying off 7% after their work force. nobody seems to have a problem with that? according to this, 62,800 employees. maybe 4,000 is a nice headline number but i don't know any practice. >> it's 7% of their work force, right? >> yeah, so you're talking on a macro basis. >> i think it's fine. 6% growth in their card member spending. it's affluent individuals doing it. the stock market is doing well. that read through is okay. i don't think you read through to the walmart customer clearly. but when you start to piece these together you're seeing a lot of job

speaking of nervous, my trust owns mastercard and the stocks acted skittish of late. time and again we've seen how a stock that doesn't participate in the big rallies will most likely falter when earnings are reported. the action concerns me. three other weeks a year like this one. more money will be made or lost next week than any other time save those other three weeks. may i suggest unless you intensely follow your stocks don't dabble. take a breather and stop and look and listen except for special cases i outlined. mike in michigan mike. >> caller: hello, jim, thank you for taking my call. is it time to invest in trans ocean, given the drop i is hitting a bottom. what you want to do is not own trans ocean, you want to own royal dutch and this is a chance to upgrade quality. that's what you look at. don't go for the fringe you upgrade quality in a bear market. if the bear market is ending you buy the highest quality not the lowest. bob in new york. >> caller: good evening. i received a letter explaining a proposal whereby mylon would acquire 78% of the laboratory a

that's a mastercard or visa. let's go to ivan in illinois. >> caller: hi jim, i enjoy your show. >> thank you. >> caller: can you please tell me why delta stock appear to be so undervalued relative to other airlines in the industry especially when you compare earnings per share and so forth? >> i think a lot of people feel because of the combination with u.s. air, american offers more leverage and upside. people feel like i want to be in southwest, the most consistent. delta hasn't done anything that makes people excited other than just do a good job as an airline. the other two are viewed as having catalysts or having a sleep at night kind of rap at southwest air. delta is caught in between. that's why. when we hear them next week let's make up you're own minds. dale in mississippi. >> caller: booyah jim, i'm calling about walgreens. my sympathy for your father. >> thank you for your kind words, i miss pop every day. walgreens is good. i like the combination, i think this is going to be an international power ho

mastercard and american express will let customers use those cards in the communist country.ent easing of restrictions by the obama administration, that would have been illegal under u.s. laws. other credit card companies are expected to follow along. also u.s. based airlines will be permitted to make commercial flights to cuba. there is a lot of organizing going on about this right now. flights are expected to get there before the end of the year. >>> a story of lost and found is making a big splash in las vegas. denise wood was filling her car up at costco saturday when she spotted a ring on the ground. >> and i picked it up and i didn't think it was real at first because it was silver and the rock was pretty big. >> okay. let's say that was you. what is your legal obligation? you can't just pocket it. finders keepers larry, is not the law. by law you must attempt to find the owner placing an ad in a local news painp the owner placing an ad in a local news painpaper is considereded a good move. you can also turn it over to the police. if no one claims it the sight yours. th

both visa and mastercard coming in with better than expected results and that helped the stock. i think that four for one split helped visa because the numbers while decent were blockbuster. >> we were reminded by our former colleague kristin pointing out visa's impact on the dow last year because this was one of the biggest components, and it had a strong 2014. >> it had a weaker open to the year. >> we will need another sector to step up. it was energy that was doing the work last year. >> visa was 9% of the dow last year. now it will be an average stock. the number one stock on the dow now, goldman sack 7%. if you're looking for an opportunity to get gains to move the index, goldman is that company. >> and the financials were under pressure and look at interest rates and cyclical concerns. to have goldman being the biggest component, mike? >> it's not by design. it's very haphazard. the price weighting always was. financials are not really that big in the dow. you have b of a. it's not like the s&p where it's one of the biggest sectors. actually down 6% the xlf. that's a trem

. >>> andrea mitchell just reported that mastercard is going to be removing its block to cuba on march 1st progress beginning in the lifting of those economics barriers. back here at home, the story that saw balls coming out of reporters and sports icons, take a listen. >> some guys like them round and some like them thin. some guys like them tacky, some guys like them brand-new, old balls, they are all different. >> oh, boy. tom brady and tom brady's hat on the balls. the balls still weighing on head coach bill belichick and sparking accusations of cheating. this past hour the general manager of the indianapolis colts that lost to the patriots said he couldn't talk about the issue. just moments ago at the white house briefing that is how high level the story has gotten, press secretary josh earnest talked about that memorable news conference. >> this specific issue, i can -- one thing i can tell you, for years it's been clear there's no risk, that i was going to take tom brady's job as quarterback of new england patriots but today it's clear there's no risk of him taking my job either

mastercard announced it would stop blocking transactions in cuba on march 1st. the obama administration is trying to make travel easier allowing more experts to the island. the full ban lifting that, involves congress. >> officials have suspended a fraternity at the university of michigan. indep never lit after frat brothers and their guests trashed a ski resort. a representative of the resort says they did almost $100,000 in damages. there's some photos of the aftermath here. at the tree tops resort in northern michigan last weekend shatters windows, beds and furniture in tatters, and a kitchen which we'll show you now, pretty well destroyed in response the national fraternity signal fa -- cigna alpha m banned the fraternity. students from other frats and sororities were joining the party. >> investigators in california and nevada say they may have solved a string of killings from the 1970s. there's a woman who has already confessed and has been serving time all this time. she apparently did not do it. the new evidence and the reason for it coming up. you show

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the past anonymous has shut down big, well-protected corporate websites like paypal and visa and mastercard and those hacks are not easy to do. after members of a local clan group, a local kkk group, threatened protesters in ferguson missouri a few months ago, anonymous launched attacks against a klan affiliated website in to twitter accounts affiliated with the klan announcing "do not be afraid we are here for you and we will protect and serve you. we have the law now." agree with their cause du jour or not, anonymous does it their own way. anonymous now appears to have aligned itself in support of the victims of the "charlie hebdo" massacre in france. on friday's show we reported that anonymous posted on-line this grainy spooky video threatening that in retaliation for the terrorist attacks in france anonymous would basically destroy the on-line presence the web presence and social media presence of the terrorist groups responsible for the french attacks. this video had the guy wearing the fox mask which was a symbol of anonymous. it shows the guy acting out this monologue even though you