what is your opinion now for penn national? is it a buy at this level? >> i like penn national. done a lot of good things gambling is a very difficult job. the stocks are in a terrible war so, i mean, don't expect anything near term but i do like penn national. >> let's go to clint in california clint. >> caller: merry christmas, jim. >> merry christmas to you. >> caller: i've been watching this stock for a while i think it should be doing better i'd like to know your opinion and if you think they're going to get their fda approval. the company is vericel vcl. >> they have revenue i totally agree with you i think it's a buy they have good technology. a company will want to pie them. stick with it. let's go to leslie in nevada >> caller: hi there. how are you today? >> i am good, leslie how are you? >> caller: good. listen, i've had this plug power, plug, for over a year and it's $29 and i bought it at 52 so what should i do with it? >> okay. now the reason why it's down is because we don't like the speculative stocks anymore once the fed starts raising rates i continue to say th

for the next 40 years, pat welcomed students, staff, and the penn state nation and visitors of all kind to his restaurant. always greeted him with a -- them with a smile on his face. pat loved the community and loved penn state. he cared so much for his town and would do everything he could to make it a he could to make it a better place. his drive to connect to the community, to the college, and the college to the community was evident. throughout the years, owning the tavern, pat employed hundreds of penn state students. he's beloved by generations due to his years of mentorship. he was always giving back as an active volunteer and avid sports lover. he was a supporter of all penn state sports program. the tavern had several endowments, including wrestling. the tavern actively supported mount nittany medical center, nittany valley symphony, the pennsylvania chamber orchestra as well as the festival of the arts. pat always made the community a better place, it did not go unnotice, and his contributions to state college could not be overstated. in 1999, penn state named him the renaissa

my stock is penn national gaming >> it's been crushed it's down more than 40%.oming up. draft kings and penn may go down later. i think to sell them is a mistake. they're bad but to sell is a police take t-- mistake kenny. >> caller: you are the man >> i try to be the man what's going on? >> caller: gsk >> a 5% yields it's trying to bring out value i think it's doing okay. not great, not bad it's all right to own. income is important. richard in new jersey. richard! >> caller: hey, jim. how are you? >> i'm good. how are you? >> caller: good. love your show love your intelligence >> i'm trying. >> caller: more people on wall street like you. very quickly, i follow the asana from 93 to 145 any idea or forecast >> i think people are saying, it's too expensive versus salesforce salesforce did okay. let's own salesforce and not that one that's been the way this market is working i want to go to michael in florida. michael. >> caller: what's going on >> i don't know. how about you? >> caller: i was just wondering if dock -- dox going to go up? >> i like it we're tryin

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of double digit gains, but not all names have made it on santa's nice list peloton, zoom video, penn nationale asked our next guest which stocks could be setting up for a better 2022? the trading nation team is nancy tangler, quinn tetro nancy, really bad year for zoom and peloton >> yeah. our naughty list includes square or block they're in the perfect space for disruption but they faced a number of hurdles this year. not just that recent regulatory concerns about buy now pay later, but worries about slowdowns in payments, as fiscal stimulus checks began to fade into history, and, of course, the company has had, you know, spotty leadership, now we have that problem solved and there's a lot of good news going into 2022 they have a partnership with tiktok that includes a billion users who purchased -- 50% of whom purchased goods from tiktok and square will benefit from that the fees are attractive there. you have afterpay, that merger is in the books. you have a company that has introduced a number of new applications, so the ecosystem for square has improved dramatically it's down 27%, viable

penn national gaming, las vegas sands two of the biggest losers on the s&p 500, as you can see.novation frenzy continued this year. home depot, joined by microsoft as well as goldman sachs, and we look at those dow stocks, wow. it really was a good 2021. disney, however, verizon as well as boeing, they were the biggest drags on the dow this year but only two of them negative on the year. boeing down 38%. and then there's bitcoin. it hit an all-time high of around $69,000 last month, now changing hands at around 45,000. but it's still up more than 60% on the year, and we'll take it. one of our "countdown" closers is bullish on crypto. let's bring him in, todd horowitz, and we also have international assets advisory ed. todd, ed, this is pivotal. we're closing out which was a terrible year for many but a great year for investors and, todd, you're liking crypto in the new year as well. why is that? >> hi, lauren, how you doing? listen. i think crypto is the next big thing to come to markets, you know? it's really the currency of the libertarian. you're going to have much more of a

you have penn national, wynn resorts, las vegas sands, all lower today, all down between 20% and 40%his year and off 1.5% to 2% each today. >>> it has also been a december to forget. for many of the second-hand sellers and direct-to-consumer names with every name here set to post steep declines like thredup, stitch fix and rent the runway they're a little higher while the real real and posh mark are in the red it has been a tough run for the group. to kristina partsinevelos for a cnbc news update christina. >> thank you, brian. >>> here is what is happening at this hour. president biden says he is opening to shortening quarantine times for people who test positive for covid biden is pledging full support for the federal government for states facing surges in new covid cases. >>> $100 incentives to get booster shots are get inpeople to roll up their sleeves that's according to new york city mayor bill de blasio. he says 180,000 people have taken advantage of the program since last week. m meanwhile, new york governor kathy hochul says elective surgeries are suspended at hospitals due

forget monday night football, penn national gaming is catching quite a bid, charging higher right nowstems from the nfl having been forced to alter its schedule. since december 13th, 200 players have tested positive. for now there is no league-wide pause, but penn is jumping 8%, flutter up 2%. golden nugget is up 7.5%, mgm is charging higher. so we've got some real strength in the sports betting stock universe. >>> nike just did it, racing to the top of the dow after it beat second quarter revenue and profit estimates. the sneaker maker saw strong demand in north america specifically for its sports shoes and apparel and says it's more confident of easing spry chain issues -- supply chain issues. stock is up 6 percent. and, by the way, in ten days you will no longer be able to buy nike at designer shoe warehouse. designer brands, this is the parent of dsw, says nike shipped the last of its products to the company in september. nike making the move to sell is its products exclusively now only at nike stores and on its own web site. dsw shares shrugging off that loss, popping higher by 7

penn national, very small, but they're doing a great job. they're just not a big player. >> we obviously would keep our eyes on potential impact on sports television. disney yesterday got to 142, as they now have a new chair, jim, replacing bob iger it will be susan arnold. >> my charitable trust owns disney, and obviously omicron, terrible news for them, but i think the change at the top is somewhat expected. >> we expect him to step down as the chairman as detailed some time ago when he actually stepped asuit. >> hearing about disney plus >> well, i mean, the subnumbers did slow down, but the longer-term target didn't. >> that's what i thought. >> there's many people who don't doubt they will be able to achieve that. >> that's why i bought the stock for my trust obviously that was mistaken. i thought because they didn't lower the long term -- >> and then there's a question whether they need to broaden the service. does it appeal to enough people to be able to reach that that's a question malone raised it a bit in the interview we did a cou

losers, gambling stocks penn national gaming which was a huge chunk of dave port now's bar toole sports >>> talking of numbers, the powerball jackpot just jumped even higher. what's it at now, reign? lauren. lauren: half a billion dollars, and the drawing is tomorrow. >> are you feeling lucky, ashley? maybe the second time -- go ahead. [laughter] ashley: no, i was just going to say,ing i have played the lottery in the past, and i always have stuart varney's ear because he says it's a complete fraud, a waste of time, you're never going to win. but despite that advice from stuart very first i have bought the odd ticket just for the fun of it. lauren: right. and we know you haven't won. but i can tell you that there were six jackpot winners this year. they had $2 billion in total winnings. take out taxes, you know, lump sum, federal, state, under a billion total but still, i wouldn't be complaining. ashley: well, i tell you what, if you don't play, you can't win. lauren, thanks very much. we are just hours away from a new -- that's right. we're wrapping up pride ifennen's first year in off

penn and don't have a role related to a process of reporting for donations and contracts to the department of education. i want to explore this but i think the american public deserves the next when nation, not only as to penn but in the broader context of all higher education. we need to understand how and why you were not aware of the kinds of donations and contracts coming from authoritarian countries like china. i understand the university is a large operation. you are in charge of it. i believe the admission -- we will give you that opportunity. i have in front of me a portion of a large number of these contributions made to u penn and we will talk about that during the question-and-answer period.india is a critical u.s. partner. the defense cooperation is more robust than it has ever been. fruits of that were evident in u.s. support during india's border dispute with china last year. india plays a crucial role in the indian ocean region. our strategic competition with china. we cannot ignore the reality of concerns over india's defense relationship with russia. way to ensure relations are healthy and strong and long-term to advance a free and open endo pacific. we must work closel

her announcement comes as u penn thomas sparked national debate.on the women's team with some female swimmers calling her impossible and discouraging to compete with. those are your headlines, steve, over to you. steve: all right, carley, thank you very much. we have a warning this next story is extremely disturbing. but it needs to be told because the anti-police sentiment has led to police officers being ambushed and now their families and their personal dogs are targets, too. a three month old german shepherd puppy named ranger who belonged to a parsons kansas police officer, was shot and beheaded after he was taken from the owner's backyard. investigators believe whoever is responsible knew the dog belonged to a police officer. and parsons police chief bob spinks joins us right now from parsons, kansas. chief, good morning to you. >> good morning from the midwest. >> it's good to have you. thank you very much. what happened? >> well, what happened is on december 3rd, a friday afternoon, our school resource officer, who has had working patrol be

penn county. i was a senior, a clinical lecture at the university of exeter. as medical school. he says, unless poor nations are fully vaccinated, which are nations immunizing, their population multiple times will not stop variance emerging. every little controlled exposure to the wireless is proteins enables your body bodies immune system to be reminded and then reminded again that you need to make immunity against me. and more importantly, that remember me in other words, immune memory. so of course, it makes a lot of biological sense that a 4th and may be a 5th vaccine out would be beneficial in that it augment the immunity. having said all this, there is, of course, a concern that we need to do also immunize the rest of the world to we need to immunize people who have not had any vaccines at all. because that is where the greatest public health gain comes from. again, this is an example of the richer nations can do whatever they like, because they've got the vaccines that what the supplies and they can immunize their population once twice christ. and now the 4th time, the tragedy is people die. and we n

steve: one of the other penn swimmers on the team said that everybody is frustrated but the coach just likes winning. and winning they're. because so far she has won two nationalnational championships in the female swimming category in mash of 2022. ainsley: a lot of pressure on coaches to have a winning team. steve: anyway, that's something that's going on in the world of sports. brian: right. probably effects you. we have seen this over and over again not just at college and ivy leagues schools but around the country. i think women sports matter. ainsley: of course they do. brian: outrageous. steve: meanwhile, let's go back to the topic we were talking about a moment ago. dangerous criminals may get out of jail free if corrections officers don't get vaccinated before the new year. the safety threat is posing to one arizona county that may start releasing inmates on the street. do you like that? ainsley: sounds like new york. steve: we'll be right back your kindness outshines your highs and lows. your strength can outlast any bad day. because you are greater than your bipolar i, and you can help take control of your symptoms - and ask about vraylar. some medi