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talk to a pnc investments financial advisor today. ♪ >>> welcome back. metawound at the nasdaq. those just two of the nine ipos we're expecting this week. bob pisani is on the floor with more on that. the parade continues. >> we've got a lot coming, too. q2 had a very strong open this morning. the price talk was $13 to $11 and priced at $13 and opened at $16.25, up 28%, $16.65. this is a continuation of a trend started yesterday, paylocity ended up close to 47% and we ended at $17 and they had a tremendous day yesterday. a cloud-based payroll software provider. so, the important thing is we have huge amounts of supply coming. and not just today. i said two days ago, scott, more than 20 ipos in the next seven or eight days in the close of the first quarter. if you look at the ipos in 2014, the estimate right now is there will be 64 ipos for the first quarter. is that good or bad? that's twice what we had in the first quarter of last year. and 2013 wasn't a bad year for ipos. that was definitely an improving year over 2012 which was kind of on the youawful

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pnc investments works with you nders and helps plan for your retirement.nvestments financial advisor today. ♪ >>> quick >>> quick update on the markets for you. the nasdaq there slightly above water. in fact, it's really trying very hard to avoid a five day losing streak. that is something that did not occur for the whole of last year, can you believe that. as for the s&p, slightly lower but still less than 1% away from its all time closing high. it's only about .7% away from that. candy crush maker king is hoping investors have a big sweet tooth for it. the company says it is seeking to price its ipo in the $21 to $24 a share price range. that puts an equity value at more than $7.5 billion. the company expects to go public later on this month. unbelievable. >> yep. your next guest says there may be a big red flag here that is not being taken into account not only in king's ipo valuation but perhaps with already traded stocks like zynga. let's bring in tony wybell. i loved your research report this morning. you did a survey of a couple hundred multi-genera

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pnc investments works with you to understand yours and helps plan for your retirement. talk to a pnc investments financial advisor today. ♪ >>> welcome >>> welcome back to "street signs." shares of exelon, along the best performsers in the s&p today. their price target up to 35 bucks from 23. they believe that expectations and fundamentals for the competitive power business have bottomed. that's helping to push shares of other power and utility companies like edison international and first energy up as well. they're also leaders, brian, in the s&p 500. back over to you. >> dominick, thank you. vladimir putin signing russia's annexation of crimea into law today. and russians celebrated minutes ago, with look at that, fireworks over red square. let's bring in eamon javers. is there any risk now that some of the other baltic nations could be in russia's sights? >> the question is how far is vladimir putin willing to do? there's been a lot of attention on diplomats from moscow on what there intentions might be. the annexation of crimea was done under the pretex of protectin

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