now, my most active taggers are size, toke, miller, merk, miller, rats, break, i know eight of those right now i have identified. still got to go out and check them. the way we like to do t though, once we identify them, we like to sit down and catch them in the act. it's easier to do in court and make a big case after you catch them in the act. what did you say? you got merc? let's take a look at merc. this is what happens. once you get on graffiti checker, you can find somebody, you can put a search in there for any tagger that you want. i know you had m. ob, money over bitches, that's a big tagging crew. over 700 incidences right now in phoenix. and the cool thing is you find out * the other thing it tells you activities with other taggers, activity with crews. how many times they were with. you can pretty much find out who their crew is. you can see this one is stk. >> i got that.

he's chief investment officer at merk. suki, make the case why you think investors shouldn't put gold in their portfolios. >> if we look at the two key factors driving gold this year, on the one handist investment demand and we've seen sizable disinvestment, whether exchange traded product or in the future of the market and that's because investors are attracted to other assets. the second factor, it's the physical market. when we saw the strong buy from india and asia, a strong period for demand and haven't seen the same level of activity coming through from india or china which could start to pick up before the chinese new year. the key factors are lending very little support to gold and further more, gold had a number of positive factors to push prices higher so far this year and prices have sidelined entirely. so we think the risk to the gold is to the downside. >> suki says the risks are to the downside, which doesn't mean you shouldn't hold gold for the long term. make the case for it. we got lots of debt around the

industries affected most by the nearly 48,000 announced cuts are pharmaceutical companies most notably merkriginated fewer home mortgages. >>> in the meantime, applications for new mortgages fell again last week. applications for refinancings and new home loans fell 7% reversing the gains made the week prior as interest rates inched higher. crude oil prices posted the biggest gains in five weeks today up 1.5%, what a surprise drop in u.s. oil and gasoline inventory this week. crude rebounded from four-month lows but closed below $94 a barrel. >> nuclear talks between iran and western nations starts tomorrow. it is possible there could be a preliminary deal as early as this week. sharon epperson takes a look at the potential impact this might have on the price of oil and on u.s. consumers. >>> one of several factors contributing to the shock and drop is optimism about iran's nuclear cape bts. the thought of nuclear weapons kept the benchmark of oil above $100 a barrel for almost three years. >> there is a 10 to $15 risk premium and been there for quite awhile with what is going on with iran.

merk was one of them. we saw some pick up in activita. really moving higher on technical reasons.ically they came out. their skin cancer treatment turned out to be very positive. maybe they will get some approval behind that. >> merck was one of those, and we also saw very interesting call activity. big buyer of the weekly. these are call options expiring this friday, paying ten cents for the 48.5 strike call. typically when i see these cheap calls being bought, that tends to mean that merck is moving higher. i play them to the upside here. >> thanks for that. and check out the web site. coming up next, bitcoins are soaring. a hearing in washington over virtual currencies may have something to do with it. we will talk the bits and pieces of bitcoin after the break. what do best buy and etrade have in common? your answers to those tweets, next. [ indistinct shouting ] ♪ [ indistinct shouting ] [ male announcer ] time and sales data. split-second stats. [ indistinct shouting ] ♪ it's so close to the options floor... [ indistinct shouting, bell dinging ] ...you'll bust your brain box

what do we see on the traction, you have jeff merkely, of oregon who has co-sponsored it. am i wrong that it is not a very good idea? >> no, it is not a very good idea. now, it is an idea -- it is only a good idea if they can never get the website working, right? so what i think you're really seeing here is not just a set of policy proposals but an increasing suspicion among the democratic senators, there really is no time line here. not by the end of the month or any time soon. what her proposal would do, it has jeff merkeley on it, dianne feinstein, what the problem would do is accelerate the problem. because it is so difficult to sign up, you have older, sicker people determined to make it to the end, younger people are not. that is creating a spectre of a risk problem. if you add these factors in, you don't have the younger people coming into the individual market. you have made the core problem, the laws worse. it would solve a short-term political problem by creating a much longer term policy -- she would actually be running for re-election and premiums would go up.

lawmakers in the middle of it, republican senator ron johnson of wisconsin and democratic senator jeff merkelyoregon. senators, welcome. explain how this came to a head today. this is a discussion we've had for a long time, this discussion about filibuster reform. starting with you, senator merkley. >> you bet. this is all about to restore the constitutional framework of the balance between the benches of government. the senate is supposed to service advice an consent on nominations but it's not supposed to be able to systematically undermine the executive branch and the judicial branch and what brought this to a head today was a decision by the minority that they were going to block any nominee-- no matter qualifications, no matter their high character-- if the president -- if they were nominated by president obama. and that type of approach was just completely unacceptable. >> ifill: senator johnson, on the losing side of this today, is this that the way you saw, is that the way you saw, about president obama's nominees? >> no, again gwen, that is very sad day for the senate. basically senat

it was structured in such a way that cle merks convicted on three counts of rape would not serve prisonve parole. per the judges orders, he will serve two years in the llcp. limestone county community corrections program. their website claims to keep violent offenders incarcerated longer by placing nonviolent offenders in the corrections program diverting them from the penitentiary. during this time the convicted rapist will spend in this program for nonviolent offenders, he'll be able to live at home. mother jones quotes his defense attorney, dan toten saying his lifestyle for the next six years is going to be very controlled. if he goes to a party and they are serving beer, he can't say, can i have one. toten said this sentence was no slap on the wrist. by now, i'm sure you are seeing the parts of the story that, at first, we thought were simply unbelievable. this man was convicted of three counts of rape of a minor and the primary punishment seems to be about having to stay sober while at a party. the survivor in this story is now a college student. she's reacting publicly. here is w

will fill that job in india, they will fill that job in england, they will fill that job in south merks, it's a global economy -- america, it's a global economy. and as americans we want those jobs and that economic productivity here. the house refusal to take up immigration reform has cost this country over $5.3 billion in potential revenue so far. the cost continues to go up every day that we fail to act. one of the issues in the contentious budget discussions about restoring fiscal solvency to our country is how we can repair our entitlement programs, make them secure for the next generation of retirees, take the solvency of social security trust fund, for example, the social security trust fund is already paying out more in retirement benefits than it receives in taxes. and from an actuarial perspective, that's scheduled to get worse as baby boomers age. but as a social security administration estimates, close to 2/3 of the eight million people who are here illegally currently work in an underground labor economy where neither their employers nor they are declaring their earnings or