did les moonves get julie chen? nice try, charlie. nice try. >> rose: thank you for coming. >> thank you for asking. >> rose: great to sigh, much success. >> good to be with you. >> rose: julie chen, back in a minute. >> angus king is the most prominent, independent political office holder in america. a two-term governor of maine, he was elected as an independent to the united states senate in 2012. he serves on the intelligence, budget and armed services committee. he caucuses with the democrats while endorsing republicans as well as democrats. senator king, thank you so much for being with us. >> al, always a pleasure. >> we have never quite seen a political year like this. has it been good or bad for the country? >> i think it's been good for the country. everybody has gotten their views out. you've got a candidate representing every slice of the electorate. and i think that's probably positive. the real question is can we put it all back together again in november and then in jafnlt the danger, al s that we're h

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coming up, i will sit down with les moonves. that is 11:00 eastern time. watching "bloomberg ." big changes on the way or apple. -- the usere music interface will be changed to make it more intuitive. a warning from the air france klm group. costs,rop in fuel but they say it will be harder to maintain ticket prices. inbev claimsh weakness in brazil -- they are ofthe middle of a takeover miller. megan: a surprise decision by ted cruz to bow out of the presidential race. john heilemann is with us. ralph schlosstein still with us for this hour. what are your key takeaways from last night? john: i thought back to 2008 when tim russert when on nbc and we know barack obama will be the democratic nominee. no one said that last night about donald trump but it was obviously clear. 1237on a path to get to delegates and cruz made it official by dropping out. ironically, we have a still ongoing democratic race, even though hillary clinton is equally on track to be the nominee. we will see more spending, more battling, more bruising on that contestedotentially a de

moonves joined us earlier.es: a lot of money that had potentially moved to digital -- suddenly, people are realizing that not all digital is that great, that there is a lot of false viewing on digital, and i think a lot of money has returned to network television. in addition, network television has proven it is doing better than most of the basic cable networks. we are seeing a return right now to the broadcast. there is no better bang for your buck. helped by the big events like super bowl and grammy, but the underlying growth without them was 12%, so we are pretty excited going into the upfronts. like from at numbers, facebook, and they seem to be growing to the sky. les: there are certain digital places, facebook, google, doing extraordinarily well. we have a number of digital assets that are doing well. i think overall people are is broadcastst buy along with digital. the facebook's of the world are doing extremely well, but not all digital is created equal. >> you mentioned your digital assets. i would li

emily: that was les moonves with our very and david west.ng you need to know about -- before alibaba's earnings report on thursday. and we bring you all the best interviews in the week. more my exclusive conversation with ellen pao, former interim ceo of reddit and partner at kleiner perkins that he sued in a gender discrimination case . ♪ emily: we will be keeping a close eye on alibaba when the report for the fourth quarter. they more than double their profit in the span of a year, but you would not know it looking at the stocks. they lost whether one third of their value since peaking after record ipo in 2014. the reason they become a proxy for the chinese economy as it navigate a puppy transition from manufacturing to consumer spending. what will alibaba have to show investors? joining me is stephen engle of bloomberg news. jack ma has come out and said he has a lot of faith in the chinese economy. what will you be watching when it comes to alibaba's numbers? stephen: we will be looking at a number of different things. you are right. thi

ceo les moonves saying he believes they can see double-digit price increases.also said cbs expects to set a report for political ad aref knew in the coming year. cbs also saying that digital ads will be increasingly more important but you'll get more bang for your buck with broadcast ads. >> clearly, there's a shift in dollars coming back to network television. part of this is because there are questions now arising because of the effectiveness of certain digital advertising platforms. and as a recent study by standard media index showed there say direct correlation between tv advertising and sales results. >> as for the rise of skinny tv options and bundles, moonves saying it's a huge positive but higher from what cbs gets from its other partners. when asked about reports that cbs is looking to collapse its two classes of shares, he said cbs is a strong independent board and says they're evaluating all of the options out there. plus, he said, they won't comment on rumors as for the spinoff of cbs' radio business, moonves them creating a stand alone company mak

cbsng up, interview with executive les moonves.on the media earnings and how they are boosting the bottom line. plus, u.k. prime minister david cameron will take questions in front of the liaison committee brexit. with europe down for the fourth consecutive session. i am sounding like a broken record, but that is the story today. that was the story yesterday. every industry group is falling on the europe stoxx 600 today and it is all about earnings from the likes of air france, bhp billiton, just to name a few. the european close is next. ♪ betty: that is 11:00 in new york and 11:00 p.m. and hong kong. from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i'm betty liu. i am mark barton in london and you are watching the european close on "bloomberg markets." mark: we are going to take you from new york to london to california in the next half hour. cbs earnings results beat forecast inks to live events like the grammys and the super bowl. we are going to hear from leslie to what the future holds for the $25 billion corporation. in on she

. >> les moonves talked a lot about it. advertising sales are up 31%.ohn chen: those are -- lucas: those are huge numbers. even if you take the super bowl out of the equation, it is still pretty impressive, when you consider readings are down in every tv network. emily: it is interesting, because cbs is exploring strategic options around the radio division. it is certainly an interesting thing they are looking about -- looking at. it is also just as interesting when you look at, as lucas was just talking about, the network thing was unexpected. there has been such a deterioration across the line for this business. that 14% rise year-over-year specificallyvery in their television business, which was most of the revenues. it is a place where they are expecting to see some weakness. but this was so much better than anyone else, 14% year-over-year growth is a powerful number for these guys, in their most important business. and this is at a time when others are hurting. lucas: you brought up the radio sales. one of the reasons they are trying to sell the ra

david weston his here joined by ceo les moonves. david: welcome to bloomberg. glad to have you today, . we have seen advertising market cycle up and down. is there something more fundamental going on? s: a lot of money potentially move to digital and suddenly people are realizing that not all digital is that great and that there is a lot a false viewing on digital. i think a lot of money has returned to television. network television is showing that it's doing better than basic cable networks. we are seeing a return right now to the broadcast. there's no better bang for your but. it is helped by the big events like the super bowl and the grammys. the underlying growth without them was 12%. numbers fromk at facebook and they seem to be grown from the sky. les: that is certainly digital places like facebook, google doing extraordinarily well and we have a number of digital assets that are doing well. i think overall people are saying that the best buy is broadcast along with digital. obviously, the facebook's of the world are doing extremely well, but not all dig

we were with julie chen before she could share the news with her huuband lesley moonves. >> you put yourband on hold after winning? >> i know my priorities, e.t. first and le seven second. >> among the winners, dr. oz and his daughter daphne. he forgot to thank his wife and had to run back on stage. >> the one person you can't afford to. i was doing this. >> i looked around the table, his wife gave him a look. then he came back and thanked her. glad he did that. there was winning all over the play is this weekend. gwen stefani got radio disney hero award. their love was owl full dis play with their biggest pda to date. >> it was a big day for you. >> it is a big day for me. is this happening right now because this feels weird? >> someone my brother blake shelton knows, truly has a heart of gold. >> their pda was ooc for them. the crowd clapped. casually touching her hand and a big kiss on the cheek. shelton avoided saturday's carpet. gwen showed off her 6-year-old niece stella. >> asking my dad for $5 to rent a microphone, doing a show and getting on the radio what? it doesn't happen to

president and ceo leslie moonves is also supporting matt again. >> developed "friends" and "e.r." in the same season. >> because i'm not your friend. i'm your father. i'm the warden. >> by the way, jenna fisher from "the office" was orrginally cast as matt's wife, but they will recast for a new character playing his wife in the fall. >> hmm. all right. one more tv note. tomorrow on the rachael ray show, enjoying an office makeover and it happens to be ours. lord knows we need it. >> boy, do we ever need it. >>> still ahead tonight, the hawk shirtless at 63, but it's what is on david hasselhoff's cell phone that had us staring. >>> inside the new "baywatch" movie with the sexy villain trying to take down the rock. >> eva never looked so good. >>> a size 22 and pregnant. this curvy cover girl gets naked and puts body shamers in their place. >> i'm going to make you even angrier. >>> and why is jenny mccarthy back in her high school prom dress? >> it actually fots better now than it did then. >> because i got boobs. >> closed captioning provided by -- (scal): good day, m'lady! i am s

. >> moonves graduated in 1971. he performed in campus plays after initially pursuing an acting career in new york, he got into television business where he quickly rose to the executive rankings. his wife was also on hand. the host of cbs television tv talk. my husband is delivering the commencement speech at his alma madder. #graduation. >>> a brave singer receives a private concert from one of her favorite singers. florence and the machine singing to a 15-year-old fan as an austin texas hospice center. he had planned to see her on thursday but too sick to attend so florence and her guitarist brought the show to her. the girl's mother thanked the band on facebook writing florence is an awesome artist but an even more amazing human being. >> that's so great. >> your favorite singer showing up. >> it's so not cool i got to keep this umbrella again couple more days. >> are we water logged enough? over two inches of rain in philadelphia just over the weekend. not even earlier part of the month. >> it's a nightmare. >>

. >>> bucknell graduates were treated to a commencement speech delivered by cbs president leslie moonves university awarded him, a graduate of the class of 1971, with an honorary degree, the doctor of humane letters. >> i want to offer very humble thanks for that. it means my parents, who god bless are still alive, can start bragging to all their friends that he's finally a doctor. >> he may not be a doctor-doctor like a medical doctor, but he told the crowd he eventually did plenty to make his parents proud. i'm sure of that. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," governor john hickenlooper. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." "cbs this morning," sfx: streeeeeetch...thwang! sfx: smack! flock together, and let the fun fly! because angry birds are coming to mcdonald's. how ya doin'? isn't that cool? now you can order, scan and unlock in game rewards based on "the angry birds movie," rated pg only in theaters. ugh! the door, why didn't we think of that? (rothat cigarette smokingght just messed up your lungs. i never thought that at only 45, it would gi

les moonves gives and the quarters ahead.any insight he gives into the strength of the digital revenue the company is bringing in as well as the company's direct to consumer's apps. i'll be back at the top of the hour as soon as the cbs earnings cross. guys? >> thank you, julia. we'll see you soon. our julia boorstin. >>> joining us, john frosh. you could go either way. you could understand the argument for the bullish case and the bearish case, but really what does your gut tell you? >> long term, we're definitely bullish. very, very loose monies. long term we're still very bullish. >> despite the gdp figures, do you think it's really the story? >> this is lousy gdp numbers. we finished the year decent. this is like a plow horse economy. it's not racehorse, but we still think it's got strength. >> on the fed, do you think they would raise interest rates next month? >> we're looking at june. we need more medicine in the medicine cabinet, so we think they should raise interest rates and we think they will, although we think it

. >> moonves graduated in 1971. he performed in campus plays after initially pursuing an acting career in new york, he got into television business where he quickly rose to the executive rankings. his wife was also on hand. the host of cbs television tv talk. my husband is delivering the commencement speech at his alma madder. #graduation. >>> a brave singer receives a private concert from one of her favorite singers. florence and the machine singing to a 15-year-old fan as an austin texas hospice center. he had planned to see her on thursday but too sick to attend so florence and her guitarist brought the show to her. the girl's mother thanked the band on facebook writing florence is an awesome artist but an even more amazing human being. >> that's so great. >> your favorite singer showing up. >> it's so not cool i got to keep this umbrella again couple more days. >> are we water logged enough? over two inches of rain in philadelphia just over the weekend. not even earlier part of the month. >> it's a nightmare. >>

joe: earlier today, bloomberg talked with cbs ceo les moonves is about buying dreamworks. an extraordinarily smart deal. they are a big feature film company, they are in the it mayon business, so it not have been a great fit for cbs. we are still primarily a television company. are we looking to expand in content areas, absolutely. discussning us to dreamworks is the bloomberg director, paul sweeney. a huge jump up in the stock of dreamworks, already up to an elevated level. aboutxactly is so great this deal? paul: when one comes up on the market, you have to pay a big price because there are not lot out there. dreamworks is a fantastic studio, arguably the best animation studio in hollywood. jeffrey katzenberg, the founder of dreamworks has been shopping this company for the last couple of years and it has become clear that is a small, standalone studio, it is hard to compete in a global media business. alix: what happens to jeffrey katzenberg? this is his a.b.. what does he do? : i don't think there's a roll here for him. he will take his money and his other business dea

les moonves will be "squawk on the street." >>> and growth in revenue improving strong for etsy.t rose 40%. outpacing costs. a brooklyn-based company. >>> match group reporting better than average profit. as its popular tinder group, they get the bulk of its revenue from membership fees and paid features. >>> and more stocks to watch. abi's first quarter profit sell with weak sales in brazil and currency rates in latin america. and financing cost it's. ab inbev says it still expects to close its takeover of rival miller in the second half. inbev down 2.5%. >>> shell first quarter profits fell 58%. however earnings did beat forecasts. shell which just completed its $54 billion takeover of bg group will shut spending by another 10% this year. >>> siemens reporting a strong first quarter growth. the margin for the high margin short cycle businesses may not pick up as much in the second half of the year as expected. >>> as we mentioned data is going to be important, it is a busy day of data for all shapes and sizes on the adp report, expected to rise by 196,000, that's roughly in lin

. >> i took it out of my bra, but i knew you would be upset over meeting the pope-- les moonves, geter. do you like it? >> stephen: yes. >> listen, that's a very special gift. >> stephen: that is unnervingly warm, for one thing. >> it was not blessed by the pope, though. so it was-- it was blessed by my breast. >> stephen: blessed by your breast, exactly. let's do it. >> yeah, see if it works. >> stephen: hold on, hold on. >> i hope it works. i haven't tried it. >> stephen: let's see whether it worked. hold on. yeah because when i put it in here that was just water. >> that's funny. >> stephen: thank you very much. we try. we try, you know. that's very nice of you to say. >> that was very funny. >> stephen: you have a documentary you're doing now. it's called "under the gun." >> right. >> stephen: and it's about gun control and the n.r.a. >> yeah, we try on say gun safety. >> stephen: gun safety, not gun control. >> gun safety and gun violence prevention because gun control i think makes people freak out. that's one of the things we discovered, it seems to be such a polarizing issue.

tv ads are able to hold ground, and the really interesting point les moonves, from shift back tog a tvl with all the problems of ad fraud and ad blocking. the ad content is secure. the other content is affiliate fees, and it looks like that is fairly stable. i think they are in good shape. ramy: thanks very much. we have to leave it there. thanks so much for joining us. week, "bloomberg west" goes east, with a special series focusing on tech innovation and entrepreneurial spirit in the city of boston. join us, 6:00 p.m. new york time. ♪ ♪ >> from our studios in new york city, this is "charlie rose." charlie: the musical "hamilton" is nominated for 16 tony awards. it tells the story of america's founding fathers based on a biography of hamilton. the production has earned a pulitzer prize for drama for lin diggs miranda. daveed plays both the marquis did a and at -- lafayette hamilton.

this was someone that asked me to ask you -- how did you get a guy like les moonves?: i know he asked you to do that. the question is -- how did les get julie chen? [laughter] nice try, charlie. nice try. charlie: thank you for coming. julie: good to be with you. charlie: julie chen. back in a moment. stay with us. ♪ al: angus king is the most prominent independent political officeholder in america. a two-term governor of maine. he was elected as an independent to the united state senate in 2012. he serves on the intelligence, budget, and armed services committee. he caucuses with the democrats while endorsing republicans as well. senator king, thank you for being here with us. senator king: always a pleasure. al: we have never seen a political year like this. has it been good or bad? sen. king: it has been good for the country. everyone has gotten their views out. you have a candidate representing every slice of the electorate. that's probably positive. the real question is, can we put it all back together again in november and in january? the danger is that we are h

tv ads are able to hold ground, and the really interesting point you mentioned from les moonves, theya shift back to tv from digital with all the problems of ad fraud and ad blocking. the ad content is secure. the other content is affiliate fees, and it looks like that is fairly stable. i think they are in good shape. ramy: thanks very much. we have to leave it there. thanks so much for joining us. next week, "bloomberg west" goes east, with a special series focusing on tech innovation and entrepreneurial spirit in the city of boston. join us, 6:00 p.m. new york time. ♪ announcer: the following is a paid advertisement for time life's music collection. these are songs that can relax and soothe you. >> ♪ somewhere, my love there will be songs to sing ♪ announcer: songs that make you feel good. >> ♪ you are just too good to be true. can't take my eyes off you ♪

and tomorrow, we will have leslie moonves tomorrow on "squawk on the street." >>> rough day por for the here on post 9 ubs is down, and art cashin with us, and you are noting european markets are closed for the moment? >> yes, it is going to give them an opportunity to pull the act together over here, and the bulls need to get off of the lows as i wrote in the morning comments before the opening. it is important that they not close below 2062, and that is going to be changing the momentum somewhat and put the bears back in charge. i think that we didn't hear enough people talking about the weak pmi in china. and that is sending the commodities in a tail spin, and the currencies have been the story of overnight. i mean, the yen around 105, and you have euro up around 1115, and these are dramatic moves -- 115, and these are dramatic moves and they have the market all akilter, and tokyo is closed the equity market, and it is going to be remained through thursday for golden week. that is going to be add iing th volatility through the week. >> and is the indication of japan the markets are g

but it is interesting that les mo moonves has no problem, because a lion's share of his investments aren the kcontrol of viacom, and if we weren't on cnbc, i would say, why would anybody want to be a minority shareholder in this business with the 20% stake is risky to be in there. >> yes, and lessons here, and decades down the line for tech investors, and is some of the most successful businesses in tech are monarchies like facebook, and google and others that where the strong founder in effect controls the company. danger there, and something that the investors should be pushing for now? good luck. the monarch controls the company. >> and there is danger, and it is a good question. in the recent deals, mark zuckerberg and facebook, and jack mal in the second bite of the apple as an ipo for alibaba, you have in those two cases, the emperor for life. it is written in there, and they have incredible control, and if you go through the -- the manhattan director is shorter than the alibaba filing, and jack is secure. people are taking a bet if they will get in and out of alibaba stock and fa

compare that to the wonderful job les moonves is doing at cbs. the track record is pretty clear. that will play out naturally in the months ahead. >> what signs, if any, are there that this ends soon? that there is a neat bow wrapped around this situation and investors get some answers? >> we will have this drama for quite some time and it will make news for -- >> does it mean the execution that dan refers to gets better regarding the television product? can redstone do that better? >> i think yes, because i think she yurunderstands what some ofe digital opportunities and challenges are and is willing to take them on. sticking your head in the sand is not a viable strategy. >> wow. just to think when the ex-girlfriend was taking him to the beach and sitting him there thinking it was "weekend at bernie's" he was plotting this whole thing? you're right. this drama deserves to be on cbs. >> we will watch that for awhile. good to see you. thank you for coming in. >>> the markets are -- have been mixed throughout the morning. we are now seeing most in positive territory. we had hawkis

this is cbs ceo les moonves speaking at a morgan stanley-hosted conference in san francisco earlier thisear. >> who would have thought the circus would come to town, but, you know, it may not be good for america, but it is damn good for cbs. that's all i've got to say. what can i say? you know, the money is rolling in and this -- >> the polls are open. >> i've never seen anything like this. this is one to be a very good year for us. [laughter] sorry. it is a terrible thing to say, but bring it on, donald. keep going. any code that was lesson invests s, the ceo of cbs. ralph nader? >> there's a perfect monetized mind of the commercial media using public airwaves, our property, to cash in and give the candidates a free ride. by a free ride, i mean the questions are not particularly pointed when they interview them and they are very repetitious, and they give these candidates like trump and others front stage. but also, they exclude leading citizens who could criticize the process, the candidates, and aurish the content of presidential election campaign. and that is what these networks do.

and then he stepped down as both cbs and viacom, and replaced by the ceos of those companies les moonvesfound to be true, that is going to shift the trusts of viacom over to the seven trustees and his daughter shari and his chairman and ceo philippe dauman, and for viacom in particular, the stock is down 39% in the past year. now, there is also some other testimony scheduled for today in addition to sumner redstone, and the herzer's medical expert, and plus the granddaughter karen, and if there is time, also testimony from the viacom ceo philippe dauman. and that by videotaped video. >> quite a day. and now, the markets are looking at the dow down 30 point, and shaving some losses, and the s&p is down 30%, and the nasdaq down half a percent after the nasdaq added lower than expected 160,000 jobs in april. and we will be joined by rick santelli and ed lazear in a moment. >>> twitter an square both having a rough month after disappointing quarter. square is on track for the worst day since going public down now close to 20%. jack dorsey joined kayla on the "closing bell" yesterday saying t

hour now with les moonves. futures at -14. a foggy new york.ce." ♪ david: it is trump. donald trump becomes the presumptive republican nominee. bernie sanders beats hillary clinton in indiana. jon: we get earnings from time warner and priceline, just seconds away. vonnie: the june rate hike is a real option. david: welcome to "bloomberg ." what better day to have our washington bureau chief here? megan: a big day in politics. we have several great guests over the next few hours come including ralph schlosstein from ever court. -- evercore. in theother soft session cards, maybe. futures and soft in the u.s., stocks down in europe as well.

cbs's stock fell as moonves got a 4% pay hooik. your coal rounded out pulling over $53 million.hey polled a grook of ceos with over a billion in revenue. on average the pay of these ceos, 15% lower than the 200 highest paid ceos in 2014. the average paycheck for the group last year, $19.3 million, down. median pay fell over 5%. behind the decline, a flat stockmarket and fewer big paydays. the number of executives paid more than $40 million dropped to eight in 2015. the average made 525 times more. back you do. >> that's the number you were mentioning the other day. >> a lot of activist investors taking them to taf forecast that kind of ratio right now. wouldn't you nknow less moonvez and philippe dauman. >> two of the companies, disney andirius satellite radio. even though it is 529 times or the ceo is paid 529 times more, they actually received a slight increase this year from 2014 for the average worker, although it was slight, 2%. >> everyone wants to be a media company. wasn't oreo wants to get in the game? now we know why. mary thompson. thank you. >>> the transport is up.

. >> bull is the fascinating next step that kind of fell out of the sky, out of the lev moons moonvess it. i was really fascinated edd by this concept of trial analytics and services. what that really means is looking at why we do the things we do and human behavior as it applies to jury trials. it turns out that dr. phil mcgraw before he became television's dr. phil ran a company that did just that. incredibly successful. >> in fact that's how he met oprah. >> that's how the two of them got together. she credits dr. phil with her victory in that case. very much so. he was very frank with her and said look you're going to have your ass handed to you. i mean in his plain-speaking way of talking. because she was saying but this is how i feel. these are the facts. he goes the facts, there's one way for the facts and there's one way to tell the facts effectively. >> right. >> he really made such a difference for her. >> you have stephen spielberg producing. it's a real heavy-hitter show. >> and you, michael. >> yeah but the great thing was the client said what about innocent until proven

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. >> by the way les moonves key speaker -- >> he's probably been on the phone with his bankers too.rybody holding on. >> friday is going to be a big day because historically that's not been a big day, i'm working. i'm coming. because she's coming in. >> was that ever in question? >> no. >>> germany's buyer making unsolicited offer to buy monsanto for $62 billion in cash, more than a 20% premium over friday's close. earlier on "squawk box" buyers new ceo spoke about his company's decision to make the bid public. >> our decision to make this public follows the announcement of monsanto last week that monsanto received a private offer from us. it was out in the open. and of course we want to respond and explain to the public and to shareholders what the content of the offer is and why it is so attractive to monsanto shareholders. >> they also want to explain to their own shareholders why it is attractive, of course one of the key things we've pointed out a number of times last week is that bayer's stock price has declined dramatically. there was a lot of concern the company was going to

and when they're not at a shift they're watching -- i know that i want to say anything about les moonveseryone watching his stuff, but people watch videos, i mean, we watchdog videos all the time. we watch them. >> you look ashamed. >> it's like what a terrible use -- just watch, we're okay. it's not a great use of my time watching dog videos. it's like they always show you like the dog does something and they make the dog look guilty and the dog acts guilty. i don't know, i'd rather read shakespeare. to me i'd rather read the mark, i'd rather read research. but people they like those videos, they like them. >> and actually it's a small slice of videos that make up the lion's share of all total views. >> and the things that go viral i don't necessarily think they're as good as reading or watching bbc documentaries about chauser. >> that's true. a lot of people do listen to podcasts now. people listen to long form. >> for the most part, david, they like to see dogs that carry eggs to the door. they love that. they love dogs that do remarkable things. that's what it's about. that's what it

cbs's total stock return fell 14% last year, ceo les moonves had a 4% pay hike. 42% stock fell and oracle'so-ceo rounding out the top five. media firm taking six of the top spots, only two had positive stock returns last year. ceos also continue to make multiples of the average worker while government data saw slight increase in wages last year to over $36,800, the average ceo of these 200 firms made 524 times more than that. one last note, if you compare apples to apples, meaning if we keep the group of ceos constant, the top paid ceos in 2015 got a raise with median increase of 5% while the median stock return was up 3%. carl, back to you. >> amazing numbers, mary, thank you very much. getting some word from carl icahn he's got a new name. >> apparently. according to reuters not sure where this is coming from, everybody, but there are a number of headlines saying carl icahn has required a large position in allergan, says he has every confidence in brent saunders, the company ceo, ability to enhance value for all allergan shareholders and very supportive of mr. saunders. you can see the st

cbs' les moonves is going ton on "squawk on the street." >>> and losing streak, when did that start? the dollar is on a losing streak? i know we need to shift, we need to quickly get on this, i thought the dollar was too strong for the manufacturers and the fed definitely could not raise rate. the greenback, not only a losing streak but a 15-month low and current strategists are predicting further falls. so they made sure that they didn't in any way affect currency around the world. >> fed. >> fed because of the worries about dollar strength. next thing you know, you wait a couple months, here we are where the dollar is weak. maybe it will help manufacturers at this point. >> well, it was a huge headline for over a year. >> this is what happens when you have a forward-looking fed, though. they're looking at everything that's happened. then yesterday, somebody in china said something that wasn't that great yesterday about manufacturing. >> about the economy. >> that's why we're down yesterday. so australia is like, wow, that's an important part. we better cut interest rates. instead o