as part of theng west midlands. people will tell us that in recent elections, the youngest age group has had the lowest turnout. let me say this, have you seen the results for the make your mark ballot? [applause] how many young people wanted their voice to be heard and decided that they would take action and mark those ballot papers so we could be here today. elections happened not long ago, from the percentage of voters, only 12% came back. make your mark ballot's received 27%. that shows that our young people want this vote and will work for it. "hairspray," if you try to hold us down, we will say you cannot stop the beat. [applause] vote.l earn the we will use our vote successfully so we can be heard in our system. we will get what we want in our government. [applause] >> ok. doing my hear -- i am best to make it fair. i want to hear a guy from london. i did see this guy first. [applause] i represent the best region there is, london. [applause] we are all in london right now. so. [laughter] now, a great man once

what about the east midlands? yes, from the east midlands. i think we look over the gentleman there. yes, you, sir. [inaudible] [laughter] >> my name is alistair read from the east midlands link and share. i did two weeks of work experience a year or two ago. i've worked with technicians in a school and i found that very beneficial. the next week was a company i found -- i think work experience was very good and everyone should have the opportunity to do work experience. i also think people should take other opportunities also. the ncs in a summer, national citizen service. given charity were, volunteer, social action and skills that actually showed positive image for years. i think doing stuff like that is a good day if you like youth unemployment to go down and make yourself stand out. [applause] >> what about northern ireland? yes, okay. woman at the end from northern ireland. go ahead. [inaudible] >> everybody down here has work experience and everybody has good points and bad points. i myself have work experience working with the prime m

who have we got from east midlands? the gentleman springing out of his seat with a sort of gymnastic enthusiasm. >> in my home town, everybody complains about in nottingham, but that is starting a whole new campaign is not going to certainly abolish the issue of youth unemployment. instead what we should do is work with what is already there, see why is that not working, what is wrong with our current system, how can we better that instead of starting a brand-new campaign from scratch when it is much easier to support a system that already exists. over the past two years, i have heard my friend say the common phrase to me -- the struggle is real. i've always wondered to myself what is real but the struggle? what struggle are they talking about? the struggle is most definitely real. thank you. >> the west midlands. i have heard your cry. [cheers and applause] he is in a fit of uncontrollable excitement. >> thank you, mr. speaker. my name is vikram patel. i represent the glory of the second city of birmingham. i like to r

the youth claimant count is falling in the west midlands. i know how much time and effort he puts into things like the apprenticeship fair that he held earlier this year. that shows that the long-term plan we have is the right plan and it is beginning to work. >> mr. speaker, what the prime minister have to say to women working full-time across this country who have seen their disposable incomes fall on average by almost 2500 pounds since his government came to office? >> welcome that there are more women in work than at any time in our history. the second thing to say is that because we are lifting the first 10,000 pounds that people earn out of income tax, they will be better off by 705 pounds next year. that is progress. if he is saying, does it take time to recover from the mess left by his party? yes it does. we are going to do it. >> mr. speaker, dementia is a disease most feared by the over 50's in this country. the government is doubling investment in dementia research during this parliament and the prime minister hosting the g8 summ

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in midland, texas, and in williston, north dakota, starting mcdonald's workers are making $15 to $17ur with a driver to and from work and a $1,000 sign-on bonus because there is competition for labor. if we can get competition for labor up, wouldn't that, then, do what we're trying to maybe legislate to the minimum wage? >> well, if you increase demand for labor, it's going to cause the wage rate to increase holding other factors constant. you can see on our best performing cities list where the boomtowns are related to the shale, oil and gas boom that's occurring in the country. >> but what about some of the other cities you have like san francisco, ross, which is a place that has -- with a high minimum wage there and also really strong -- >> or australia, 16 bucks an hour. >> right. >> there's two stories here, guys. one is the technology hubs in the united states have really been surging ahead. and you can be an innovative economy and overcome the effects of higher wages because you can outinnovate the more productive than others. and then you also have this kind of energy resurge

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and patricia woertz at archer daniels midland.ut among fortune 500 companies only 8% of top-earning executives are women according to a study out today by catalyst an advocacy group for women in business. and more than a quarter of those companies had no female executive officers at all as of june this year, including apple, citigroup, and exxonmobil. >> mary barra started at general motors the same year i started as an automotive journalist. and i had seen many women achieve great things in the business but that have walked out the door and said "i can't take it anymore. i just can't take it." >> reporter: mary barra's ascendancy may begin to change that. >> this is truly the next chapter in general motors's recovery and turnaround history and i'm very honored to be a part of it. >> reporter: barra becomes the first female c.e.o. of an american auto company. she said she first fell in love with cars at age 10 when she saw a red chevy camaro convertible. >> pelley: anthony, thanks very much. better management may be coming to wash

gold gained 7 dollar oil 8 cents.archer- daniels-midland will pay $36 million to the sec to settle allegations of bribing officials in the ukraine to win tax refunds. and, janet yellen's confirmation vote is expected january 6th. if approved by the full senate. she becomes the next fed chairman february 1st. a lovely way to start the trading day on this monday morning. ben lichtenstein of traders audio is here. good morning to you. now that we're in the christmas spirit, what will be the christmas trade this week? >>it seems that the santa rally has come a bit late. it took a bit of prodding from one of his helpers, fed chairman ben bernanke. last week we saw that big come into the market to close the week out. it was in reaction to wednesday's fed announcement and the question and answer session afterwards. the mindset of traders is just status quo. this is not over until the fat lady sings and for the most part we haven't even really heard her warming up her voice yet. i think this was a bit of a relief rally. i think there was a lot of uncertainty in terms of the taper---when, how much, and

. >>> archer daniels midland is raising 26% and buying back 18 million of its shares. the company cited strong cash flow and expected earnings improvement in 2014 as reasons for the change. the stock rose a fraction to $40.66. >>> aig is selling its aircraft leasing uniity in an effort to focus on its share holdings. the dutch company will buy the aircraft unit called international released finance corporation for $5.4 million. aig has been trying to shed the unit and today, ceo robert bonn moshe says he's happy with the deal. >> they paid us in cash and in stock. so, therefore, we wound up owning 46%, but what you actually accomplished here was an ipo and a merger all at once and you get the accounting treatment so that we can write it once to market which is very important. >> shares of aig up 1% to $50.28. a $6.8 million deal in the semiconductor industry. the chipmaker avago technologies will buy lsi corporation and the deal helps avago get into the storage business and create a company with about $5 billion of annual revenue and that sent shares of lsi up 38.5%. i

whoever got from the east midlands? disarmament springing out of his seat with a sort of gymnastic enthusiasm. >> in my hometown can youth unemployment is a big issue. i've had everyone complain about it. starting a whole new campaign is not going to suddenly abolish the issue of youth unemployment. instead what we should do is work with authority fair, see why is that not working, what is wrong with our current system? said of starting a greater campaign from scratch, support a system that dirty exist. over the past years i've heard my friend said it's common phrase to me. the struggle is real. i'm sure a lot of you might've heard that as well. i've always wondered, what is real? i stand before you today in regards to youth unemployment, the struggle is most definitely real. [applause] >> the west midlands. [laughter] okay, i've heard your cries. he's in a state of uncontrollable excitement. we will not hear from the great man. >> thank you, mr. speaker. my name is vikram patel. i'm from the glorious second city of bir

losses at some of the producers, archer daniels midland, bolero.echnically, ethanol producers can make whatever they want. they do not have a maximum. cash margins are still around four dollars which is pretty juicy. they do have an impetus to keep working. >> how will corn production be impacted? >> i was speaking to an agricultural economist who says there were two main pillars that grow corn to those record highs. emerging market demand and ethanol demand. that shifts the story. now you need to find new demand. no longer our farmers looking at explosive growth. they are looking to keep what they have. of course, you have the price of corn going down significantly after the epa announced their potential ruling. maybe ourews for us, food is worth less. it will be good for chicken, livestock, etc., but it will have a ripple effect all over the farm economy, fertilizers, equipment makers. be watching closely. thank you, alix steel. obama'st barack decision to nominate max baucus to be the ambassador to china will trigger a chain reaction in washingt

santa claus may live in the north pole when he hit the books, he heads to the small town of midland,e than 100 santa claus is attended classes at the santa school there. they get instruction on makeup, sign language, and reindeer care. get the latest headlines at the top of the hour on bloomberg radio and streaming on your tablet and am bloomberg.com. that does it for this edition of "bottom line." i am mark crumpton. thank you for joining us. see you tomorrow night. ♪

. >> with the market cap of twitter is bigger than valero energy, archer daniels midland, a marathonllpoint, a target, twitter market cap is bigger than those companies? >> absolutely ridiculous there is no way a company with a metrics value has not been proven should be worth more than those that make real products with real products around the world a social meeting is vastly overblown and this has been a momentum darling i would like to short it frankly. liz: is a double willis start trading down and what word trigger that? >> let me give the analogy of tough love people said it is a bubble all the way in people made a fortune. yes it was down on friday ended think it will drop farther. ♪ liz: it is time for the nightcap. what do you think about? >> actually treasury yields over 3% the bears are overdone the yield is moving i am concerned that jimmy allen may lose control of the bond market. liz: you have a lot to think about. [laughter] very smart brain cells. >> i am looking at the start of 2014 a think the first few days set the tone. i am hopefully looking, i think we are goin

y name -- i'm representing the west midlands. people will tell us in recent elections, the youngest age group has had the lowest turnout. now let me say this, have you seen the results for the make your mark ballot? [applause] >> how many young people wanted their voice to be heard and decided that they would take action and mark those ballot papers so we could be here today. elections happened not long ago and from the percentage of voters, only 12% came back. and youth parliament received 27%. so that shows young people won this vote and will work for it. if you try to hold us down, we will speak in your eye. you can't stop us. cheers and applause] we will earn the vote and use our vote successfully so we can be heard in our system and we will get what we want from our government. cheers and applause] >> i want to hear -- i want to ear a guy from london. nd i did see this guy first. >> i'm representing the best region that there is, london. cheers and applause] >> we are all in london right now. [laughter] now, a great man once

at noon, and near record highs from low 60's at the coast and mid-to-upper 60 around the bay and midland and we will taper to a mile evening under stars and a few high clouds and low-to-mid 50's. and now leyla gulen? >> it is quiet with not too many reports of citizens with a couple of early citizens this morning but, mostly, look behind me, it is green and green mean we are at top speed. we have the possibility of fog affecting the commute through marin county headed through novato, and lucas valley down to san rafael and mike was telling us, very cold temperatures, so, possibility of black ice. speaking of black ice, we had fog reported along 80 and this is where we don't have any chain controls in effect but watch out if all of the fog and very cold out there, as well. this is going to be walnut creek as you make the drive through pleasant hill to the 24 junction and traffic is moving smoothly. matt and eric? >> thank you, leyla gulen, santa clause may have come through with presents for christmas but united states up and fedex have disappointed many customers we are in south distribu

tonight we have mid-30's to low 40's midland and low 40's in most of the bay and around the mid-40's for san francisco and if richmond. notice the low taking the breezy conditions down into arizona and new mexico and that is the system that will bring adverse weather to the midwest tomorrow and to the northeast as we head through the welcome. we will watch the high pressure that will steer our storms to the north and the high pressure developing over the great basin which will keep us dry and with an offshore wind so well hit the low-to-mid 60 tomorrow and hold them through christmas and the end of the seven-day forecast. i am so stunned it is so warm and dry. have a good one. >> good morning, everyone, at 5:21, we tracked an accident with our waze app northbound 680 at mission which is not impacting mission boulevard but lock at the slowing on 680 up to the dublin interchange with heavy traffic. we are trying to find out why the traffic is heavy. we do have construction blocking lanes until 6:00 and eastbound 5 80 we also have a little bit of construction in the westbound direction

the closest hotel was the midland hotel. we figured that's where they were staying. steps of the hotel until 1:30 in the morning. they came out of a nightclub, slightly drunk. instead of patting us on the head and encouraging us, they stood and talked to me on the steps of the midland hotel for what seemed like 20 minutes. it changed my life completely. >> that's amazing. mika wants to dig into the dark stuff. >> well, it's a rock 'n' roll life. i'm going to show you how wild the tales are. there's a fight over rita, right? >> yes. >> so, i guess that fight happens. >> that was between me and steven. >> yes, exactly. then how did he nurse his ego? >> i don't know. to his ego. >> i don't know. to this day i think he is upset about that. >> what are about the gorgeous sisters who are always naked. >> you are going to the dark side. >> rita coolidge and the guys. >> steven recorded the song called love the one you're with and he wanted voices on there. he calls me and david. no problem. we get down there and here's rita coolidge and her sister. unbelievable-looking wome

>> reporter: in midland, michigan, santa -- correction, 120 santas -- are making their lists and checking. they're staring at your hair. they're staring at your eyes, your fingers, your lips. >> reporter: at the charles w. howard santa claus school, an annual three-day crash course in all things father christmas, and the perfect place to clear up a few questions that have been on my mind. so are you the real santa, or are you santa's helper? >> i'm one of the helpers. >> does mrs. claus have a first name? >> some people like to call her mary. >> how many rain dear . >> prancer, dancer, comet, cupid, donnder and blitzen and f course rudolph. >> reporter: started 76 years ago, this school the oldest in the world attracts kris kringles from across the country. >> those fellows in there, they're portraying the image of santa. they want to show people this man that stands for all good things. >> reporter: santa dave becker is a retired principal from illinois. and from indiana, santa larry schuler manages a utility company. ♪ you know dasher >> reporter: the curriculum leaves no detail out whe

dividends increases one from archer daniels midland, buying back about 18 million shares.zer upping its dividend by 8%. we want to point out zion bank corp because there was speculation about what banks would be impacted by volcker. this company is taking a charge to write down the value of some of the cbos it has because it can't hold them because they're considered cover funds under volcker and taking a $387 million charge because of that. lastly let's check on the retailers because in the wake of the storm that hit a good part of the midwest and the northeast this weekend, there's some concerns that might impact retail sales, but again, this coming weekend is supposed to be one of the busiest for christmas sales. an expectation we could see those sales made up over the weekend as we talked about it, we might be two of those people. >> i'll be there. we'll have coffee. >> yes. >> thanks, mary. >> sure. >> ty, up to you. >> sue, jane, nothing beats a good tractor story on a cold day. sales up 2% in the year so far. how about that. >> you don't say? >> i've been thinking a

books in the small town of midland, michigan. santa received instruction on sign language, reindeer care, and communications during the seminars. injured soldiers finished the walking with the wounded challenge. there is a track through the south pole and rough terrain. that it was aaid mission success. welcome back to countdown. anna, how is your reindeer care. a lastingy think is sporting fixture. it barely looks like it was more than strolling. >> on the move starts at the top of the hour. the anchor joins us with a preview of what is on the show. >> i have to talk about reindeer and that is what i want to talk about. reindeer two live delivering a massive party and i was not sure where they fit in. >> no. >> there you go. >> i hope they were not drinking vodka. futures,ms of european there was a big day and week because we have manufacturing waitingd investors are on the federal reserve meeting that will start on our stage. futures are mixed and we can see them down 0.2%. >> an interesting plan that will have an impact on the

the low country, the midlands and upstate. that doesn't mean you don't want them to vote for you.nd going with savannah, she pissed off the entire low country. that was just not smart. >> it's simple. if you can't govern for your people, they're not going to like you much. >> one other thing quick. the rga has to defend a lot of incumbent governors next fall. maine, florida, michigan, all battleground states. do you think for a second they want to spend a time in south carolina? no, they don't. they better watch out. she's in big trouble. >> important point to end on. >> fascinating stuff, jimmy. thank you as always. >>> up next, the one little word that is the hardest to say. no. if you are overwhelmed with work, kids, family, friends, and holiday obligations, you do not want to miss our next conversation. ♪ [ male announcer ] if we could see energy... what would we see? ♪ the billions of gallons of fuel that get us to work. ♪ we'd see all the electricity flowing through the devices that connect us and teach us. ♪ we'd see that almost 100% of medical plastics are made from oil an

you have the big producers like .rcher daniels midland corn is a $64 billion business.nds a message that the u.s. means less corn. that could be painful. this is the corn price throughout this year. really hit by an oversupply of corn. out is when the epa sent its new proposal, continuing to put pressure on the corn price. an agricultural economist at purdue university said it was ethanol and the emerging market demand that had been the 2 pillars or the growth of the corn industry. now that debate has shifted. no longer for growth, but for farmers to keep what they have. it is continuing to keep pressure on corn prices. that means farmers cannot sell their products for more money, and which has ripple effects across the fertilizer and equipment industry. >> coming up, he is known as dr. doom. -- we willbeanie tell you where he will be putting his money now. warren buffett is everywhere in your life from your kitchen to your office. stay "in the loop here: -- stay in the loop." "in the loop." known asthe economist dr. doom for his nightmarish scenario for the housing col

archer daniels midland along with pfizer today raising their dividends. pfizer changing, or infishing unchanged. after the bell, we had boeing saying it's going to be raising its dividend by 50% and it's also going to be buying back $10 billion worth of stock. should be active in tomorrow's session and give a lift to the dow. lastly, larry, we're keeping an eye on the ten year. it's at 2.88%. the markets behaving well, even as it climbed a little bit. of course, the 2.991-92 level tends to cause the market little bit of trouble. we'll be watching that tomorrow. back to you. >> mary thompson, thank you. a great optimistic, very bullish report. >>> now we go from mary thompson on wall street to washington. a federal judge ruled today that nsa phone spying is, quote, almost certainly unconstitutional. so what happens now? cnbc's eamon javers joins us live from washington. good evening, eamon, what can you tell us about this big decision? >> good evening, larry. it was a big decision and big defeat for the nsa in a federal courtroom in washington today. as yo

when i went to midland texas, it was pir near's high of the year. pioneer natural resources. wait a minute. i'm getting the same e-mails. probably from the same guy. no, guys. but it's the -- there was a great week though. you were fabulous that week. i would love to see you do more of that. the big thing here with gold is whether or not we're near any bottom, everyone says they're giving up on gold. buy low, sell high. bulls coming out saying i think gold to be higher this time next year at the end of 2014 than lower. i'm rather surprised at that. i would think there would be somebody out defending it. >> what do you think being the biggest surprise of this year, rick? >> i think, two. first biggest surprise is the huge disparity, historic disparity relative value between commodity prices and the stock market. and i think obviously my answer to why that condition exists would be a beard and i'm not talking santa per se, i'm talking ben bernanke. i think one of those markets is going to be proven to be out of sync but time will take longer. these stock issues that i think wer

resources, the company plans to spend 950 million dollars purchasing oil and gas properties in the midlando west texas counties, helping them to increase production of high margin crude oil and natural gas. >> number seven, the former striker ceo, steven mcmillan, has been named to the top spot of the medical device maker, including two nominees of carl icahn in his settlement. down two percent today, they have agreed to buy back about 2 million shares held by charitable trust associates. mosaic says the move represents a major step towards their goal of more efficient balance sheet management. >> number five, disney, down one percent even as the animated coolsf "frozen," finally off "catching fire." cools off catching fire. >> how can it do that? >> i do not know, i have not seen it yet. it led the hall with the box office over the weekend. taking away the hall from the sequel.te hunger games >> i saw it this weekend in imax. >> what did you think? >> i did not like the ending, but i liked it. that theyng to guess will do part three in two parts. >> imagine milking this thing for all it i

it blocked its $2.6 billion takeover deal with archer daniels midland. >>> a reminder what's on the agendaw. world trade leaders begin gathering in bali after a failed deal last month. in australia, the centralback will hold rates at a low. and after changing its expansion plans, tinto talks updates with shareholders at its investors day meeting. >>> and the dawn of the robot delivery man may be joining us. amazon is testing drones that can deliver packages within 30 minutes of the order. octocopters could deliver packages weighing 5 pounds. the drones could be done in the next four to five years depending on cost, noise and safety issues. we're asking you today, can amazon's idea work or is it pie in the sky? get in touch with us. let us know if you believe in drone deliveries. whether you've thought of the flaws in amazon's argument. what happens if you're not at home when a drone turns up? how does that happen? get in touch with us. e-mail us or tweet. still to come, fedex expects to move an estimated 20 million packages for cyber monday. just how big is it going to be? ya know, with ne

midland, texas. and northern plains. they're sub zero and they're going to stay that way.tory is that ice happening tonight into tomorrow, for places like dallas, little rock into western tennessee. >>> good thursday morning opinion i'm meteorologist lisa argen. subfreezing temperatures with a freeze warping through 9:00 this morning and then again overnight. chilly temperatures this afternoon and we could see rain tomorrow maybe mixing with snow at times. 50 today for a high in fremont, just 48 in san jose. we'll clear it out but still chilly for the weekend. maybe some mixed precip early saturday and the warmer wea >> whether you want to stump me, or whatever it is, i love seeing pics and tweets from all over the nation. just like we always do. >> keep them coming. >>> amy, back to you. >> ginger, thanks so much. and here's what's ahead on the "gma morning menu." superstar recycler. how keira knightley made over her wedding dress for the red carpet. >>> and time to rock the holidays. great gifts for $35. and yes, with our happy elves there. >>> and the worldwide premiere

. >>> archer daniels midland will pay more than $54 million to settle u.s. criminal and civil charges. they bribed ukrainian officials for tax benefits. they have also pleaded guilty for violating the u.s. foreign current practices act. the s.e.c. says adm failed to stop bribes between 2002 and 2008 which had been paid to secure tax breaks. adm ceo first learned of the practice back in 2008. a number of employees have been fired or disciplined. >>> meanwhile, boeing's machinist unions will vote on the latest contract offer on january 3rd. last month machinists and boeing's plant in everett, washington, where the 777 jet is built voted 2 to 1 against an initial offer. in the aftermath boeing said it would look for other locations to build its fleks jet. the 777x, the only aircraft the company is likely to develop in the next decade. shares are up by roughly half of 1%. >>> still to come on the show, the u.s. securities exchange collected a record of $3.4 billion worth of fines in 2013. after the break we ask if firms are breaking more laws or if the sec is ge

is waiting in midland, texas. kenan ofn with joanne politico.aller: how are you doing this morning? >> good. caller: just recently president thea signed up with washington, d.c. plan, a bronze plan and his payment was $400 a month. i was stunned by that. because i work for a small regional freight company, we have about a thousand employees. now, we have insurance. it is through united healthcare. premium is like about $125 ally month and my hospitalization a thousandis dollars. but the one thing about our plan maternity because 10% -- 5% to 10% of our many employees are women. and i'm just wondering with the healthcare plan we possible have to take on maternity. going to probably cause our rates to go up or, you know, i'm just wondering how is that type of situation going to affect certain companies like which is a freight company who doesn't have a lot of female now we probably have to take on maternity and it other 90%'scost the rates to go up. >> if covering maternity is going to cost more money, it is go going to make your rates haywire. al

midland, texas, on our line for independents. your online with joanne kenen. president obama symbolically signed up with the washington, d.c., plan. that wasbroad plan $400 a month. i was really stunned. about 1000 employees. we have insurance. my monthly premium is like $100, about $125 per month. ishospitalization deductible -- the one thing about our plan, we do not have maternity because 10% of our employees are women. i am just wondering, with the new health-care plan, we will probably have to take on maternity. that will probably cause our rates to go up. how is thatndering type of situation going to affect certain company like ours , a freight company, who does not have a lot of female employees and now we will have to probably take on maternity. cause the other 90% house rates to go up. if taking on maternity causes your rates to go up, it will not cause them to go up that much. there will have to be more mental health coverage for people. and you cover more -- i don't know if your company covers spouses or just a worker, but if it is family coverage a

so we were heading down midland drive and all of a sudden i must have blacked out.mber what happened. what did your grandfather look like and what did you do? >> he looked all tired, so i knew he was -- i jumped out of the car. i ran to the nearest house in the area and we saw a big cloud of smoke and it was burning up rubber. it really freaked us out. >> how fast was this car going and were you scared when you jumped out? >> no. >> how did you jump out? what did you do? did you roll or how did you catch yourself? >> i rolled. >> you rolled. then you ran and got help, right? what did you do next? >> how did i do it? >> what did you do next? i know there was snow there. what did you do next? >> i knocked on the door. >> you knocked on somebody's door and got help. ronald, where do you think you would be without sully. what if he hadn't jumped out of the car? >> from word i got from the paramedics, my blood sugar was at about a 20. they said that at that point, your body functions start shutting down. so having sully with me was truly a blessing. i don't know where i'

he seemed alert in the foreground, but the background was like the midlands atmosphere; haze, smoky mist. and the haze seemed to be creeping forward, so when he stared at connie in his peculiar way, giving her his peculiar, precise information, she felt all the background of his mind filling up with mist, with nothingness, and it frightened her. it made him seem imperm, almost idiocy. and dimly she realized one of the great laws of the human soul, that when the emotional soul receives a wounding shock which does not kill the body, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. but this is only in an appearance. it really, it is really only the mechanism of the reassumed habit, slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt like a bruise which only slowly deepens its terrible ache til it fills all the psyche. and when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst. so it was with clifford. once he was well, once he was back at ragby and writing his stories and feeling sure of life, in spite of al

archer daniels midland, up 2.5 after the board of directors authorized a 26% increase in the quarterlyto buy back 18 million shares of stock from the public by the end of next year to offset effects of stock tied to compensation and benefit plans. those shares, adm, up to session highs. >> a story about stock buybacks the front page of "the washington post." . >> to do it to offset delusion of stock options, but it sound likes that may be what it is, which gets back to the point is that the best way for a company to use its cash? >> a lot of critics regarding that point. they say new york is the city that never sleeps. maybe this will help. lawmakers in new york pushing a bill that would tax and legalize marijuana. we'll talk to a lawmaker when "squawk on the street" comes right back. [ bagpipes and drums playing over ] [ music transitions to rock ] make it happen with the all-new fidelity active trader pro. it's one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. get 200 free trades when you open an account. ya know, with new fedex one rate you can fill that box and pa

the first one is archer daniels midland, one of the biggest food companies in america.just this month in december, it's had a pretty decent move in the last week and a half or so. it's up about 5%. not too shabby for just the first couple of weeks, so adm. another one is the world's biggest making of computer chips, intel, up about 20% year to date. yeah, it's lagging the market. but if you take a look at what it's done for the past week or so, it was the best-performing stock in the dow jones industrials average, and some analysts/investors are getting more bullish on the company's prospects in the pc market, believe it or not. so that's something to watch for sure. also one we want to highlight is general motors, of course. it was under the radar for us up until this morning when they're getting the new ceo in mary berra, but it's a $57 billion company, going up some 20% since the ipo and november car sales are still showing signs that the company has sales momentum. so the stocks, all big names, large-cap companies making good moves of their own. of course, stay tune

you're 1 degrees in midland, texas, and 21 in dallas and 4 in amarillo.an idea this cold has settled way far to the south. if you're in the southern areas you're not used to that kind of cold. a lot of people might not have heat in texas and arizona. phoenix at 32 degrees. big agricultural impacts from this storm or this cold air as well. this eastern coast storm where we saw this icing that's pretty much gone. little bit of leftover rain.% the cold stays in place and there's a new storm that is going to form. we're going to see this develop by tomorrow morning and you see that pink, that's potentially another bit of an ice storm across parts of kentucky. this time eastern kentucky and across parts of north carolina, virginia and eventually towards the d.c. area where i think we're going to see a little icing and by monday morning that bit of icing potentially gets in towards areas just outside of new york city and snow to the north of it, the rain continues, maybe a few thunderstorms, and then, of course, the cold continues for everybody for at least abo

midland, texas, on our line for independents. your online with joanne kenen. president obama symbolically signed up with the washington, d.c., plan. that wasbroad plan $400 a month. i was really stunned. about 1000 employees. we have insurance. my monthly premium is like $100, about $125 per month. ishospitalization deductible -- the one thing about our plan, we do not have maternity because 10% of our employees are women. i am just wondering, with the new health-care plan, we will probably have to take on maternity. that will probably cause our rates to go up. how is thatndering type of situation going to affect certain company like ours , a freight company, who does not have a lot of female employees and now we will have to probably take on maternity. cause the other 90% house rates to go up. if taking on maternity causes your rates to go up, it will not cause them to go up that much. there will have to be more mental health coverage for people. and you cover more -- i don't know if your company covers spouses or just a worker, but if it is family coverage a