qwest, force doesn't yet in 2014? forhard to me to know how low, i thought three months ago was how low it could go. it could drop lower. is people will start acting out. the majority of the company is so upset, and it has not been dealt with and so -- in so long. i think there will be social unrest. i believe we are on a verge of the arab spring. seen all the strikes for the minimum wage. qwest people have said we have gone through this for 25 years and nobody has done anything. qwest kobe bryant picks his dream team, surprising basketball legend not on his list. plus, still to come, ingredients of moonshine. as we go to break come in china's first unmanned lunar probe is orbiting the moon. these are the engineers making it happen. the probe will make a soft landing and ask where the surface of the moon. china will be the third company -- country to land on the moon after the u.s. and soviet union. ♪ >> welcome back. also signed a huge contract extension with the lakers worth about $48.5 million. jon erlichman caught

qwest that is right.ings about bit coin is a lot of it will be lost and a lot of it will be ported like this. more of ans even opposite effect of a printing money central bank. will have full coverage of the decision and chairman bernanke's news conference starting at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. one thing you cannot buy with it coin. ♪ ♪ >> it is 56 minutes past the hour. that means bloomberg tv is on the markets. but get caught up on where stocks are trading ahead of the fed division and any news on tapering. we are not seeing much activity in the markets. that is as investors wait for some news this afternoon. we will update you as we get more. we want to highlight a couple of individual movers. a flow wild wings, shares getting a boost after deutsche bank reiterated a buy rating on the stock. from targets were raised 150 five per share to 150. already doubled this year. shares falling the most in two years after the automaker cut is 2014 profit forecast. plans to introduce 23 new vehicles next year and the

qwest do they have a choice to enroll? qwest they can opt out, but that will cost them cash.e is the alaskan senator, deciding to enroll the exact same way alaskans are doing it through healthcare.gov. that means he gets no government subsidies, paying nearly $600 a month in premiums. others do not need to roll -- enroll because they are covered by other insurance. that includes ted cruz. he is covered by his wife's plan. she works at goldman sachs and her insurance is valued at some $20,000. he is by pat -- bypassing taxpayer help. i should point out his fellow texan governor, the only lawmaker choosing not to have health care at all next year. he says he is willing to pay the penalty. qwest thank you. -- >> thank you. the fcc has announced it has decided to push back its auction to try to make sure the software actually works. megan hughes joins us now from washington. deal is this whole thing? qwest it is a big deal for the wireless industry. the moment the first bid is placed at this auction, so, the original plan was for the fcc to publish auction rules by the end of thi

qwest was all this legal? absolutely not.the movie, we get a cautionary tale, of what to do and what not to do. when i was at the bottom and everyone was writing what a terrible and awful person i was, i was probably not as bad as people were saying and when i as at top, i was not as good what people were saying. qwest greed is not good. >> he is looking sexy as hell with his $2000 to an private jet. a lot of people bought into the notion there is something noble about making as much as you can as fast as you can and not focusing on who gets hurt along the way. it is not true. i was taking enough drugs to sedate an elephant i was not really focusing on the value. on thet making any money books or the movie. the only way i will is if everybody got paid back but until then, i do not want to make any money. as a broker or traitor, you're not really making anything. you are trading off the ingenuity of the user. there is an absence -- emptiness to the money you make. you try to of that -- attach value. >> jordan. my favorite line

qwest that is one without a keyboard.osed to save the company does it was supposed to be like an iphone but is not an iphone. qwest the only thing i think it has going for it is the keith -- the keyboard. on my iphone, typos all over the place. my blackberry, you know? i am pretty coherent on it. class it has been repeatedly said on the show the pattern is worth $2 billion. maybe there is salvage value. , was ity, the folks city? >> rish, you should get one of the t-mobile messengers? have you seen those? >> yes. do member the avon lady? they are both from rural america? iowa. ohio.nd the ladies to come to my house in new hampshire. the world's largest door-to-door cosmetics seller. the ceo has been cutting jobs and exiting markets as part of a plan to save $400 million by 2016. qwest urban outfitters, shares are up as the company reports shares have grown so far this quarter. they are growing, at least a couple of percentage points. the operator said fourth-quarter stores open at least 13 months and then rising mid-singl

stay with us. ♪ qwest good morning.utes past which means bloomberg television is on the markets. scarlett has your check of how we are shaping up. class i like the headline out of when newspaper. the fed begins tapering and the world is not and. yesterday, the s&p 500 find to a record high. a little bit of a pullback at the open. on the tapering announcement. nikkei 225 gained almost two percent. treasures holding onto their losses. that means yield on the 10 year, around a two-week high right now. we are getting jobless strains in just a couple of minutes. also, a firmer dollar right now. the dollar index at 8064. dip below $1200 an ounce. inflation still clearly a challenge with the fed challenging that level. >> thank you. off the redspinning lobster brand. the announcement is part of a plan the company says will enhance shareholder value. growth inans to spend the olive garden. blamesaid it is not to for a fire in a garage last month. reviewed saideing while there was a fire where the vehicle is plugged in, the car

qwest pepsico ceo scored a big win over coca-cola. pepsico announced it is replacing coke at one of the nation's capital restaurant chains. pepsico's made by leveraging the full strength of our portfolio, we are able to partner with customers to co-create new products and launch exciting new menu options across both food and beverage. it may eventually include snack foods in addition to drink. it is a chance to offset declines in retail sales of soda. havehain can capitalize on two boxes ties to baseball and the nfl. sounds like it is a match made in heaven in many ways. qwest we had dinner with someone the other night. pepsi's plans for the super bowl. halftime will be really big for them and they intend to take what they're doing with the nfl and really spread it across different advertising platforms. interesting about buffalo wild wings, they have been able to create a niche here in chicken wings and chicken and eat mcdonald's at this game. the biggest of sellers, the biggest seller of chicken wings. together ono match this, you c

qwest here is john from my sister, pennsylvania. qwest good morning. lot of the points i was going to talk about have already been covered. i just hear a little -- a little snippets that come out. that is the idea of our sovereignty. there will be tribunal set up. if a government decides to change environmental laws or canr laws, these signatures seek retribution or compensation from the government that allows it to happen. is that true or not? good question. thank you for that. we have not seen the tax release . i do not know how these things will be worded. there are exceptions in trade agreements for certain reasons that you can take certain policies. for national security, there is a general exception that governments can assume the actions they like to take. same for public health. in some cases, it is true. the difficulty with some --ironmental protection maybe we are doing it because we --t to keep journal rochester in the market. host: jesse from california, thank you for holding on our democrat line. jesse? -- let's go to paula. ohio, independ

qwest will we get an agreement by next summer? what's i think it will work very hard on it. think that this is a very important aspect. it is not just the u.s.. it makes it even more clear that the interim agreement is a good idea because what it has done is halted some production and has rolled back aspects and provided an whole kind of series whichential inspections we have not had before. it makes it much more likely that there will be one and we have to be supportive. we should not do things that make it more difficult. there is no question that the came that the iranians to the table because of the sanctions. a small part of them have been lifted. adding sanctions would make it worse. >> madame secretary, thank you for being with us. when we return, the latest on the budget negotiations with bloomberg reporters. ♪ ♪ >> budget negotiators are working through the weekend in the hopes of getting a deal. julianna goldman and heidi przybla join us. will they get a budget deal i the end of next week? >> both sides are optimistic. they started out with a very options.ount of b

qwest lice president joe biden held talks in beijing on wednesday in a bid to lower regional friction it followed a stopover in japan or what biden said the us would not recognize the expansion of china's military airspace to include violence also claimed by japan. the islands called the same cuckoo in japan and d are you in china sea in an area of the east china sea rich in oil and gas. chinese press and she didn't let her find the words with biden talks described as tense afterwards she limited himself to stressing that beijing sees itself as an equal partner with washington the world as a whole is not trampled as the two strongest economic powers and as permanent members of the un security council. we bear an extraordinary responsibility to ensure world peace and stability. biden urged caution to avoid the risk of an escalation of the dispute over the eyelids regional tensions remain. also on wednesday a senior commander of the lebanese shiite hezbollah militia were shot dead by gunmen outside his home in southern beirut kason all locke's death comes amid increasing tension in elev

qwest what i think is important to note is that the queuing system is a feature designed to improve the user experience. we talked about concurrent users , it was always going to be the case that on a day like today we would see a surge beyond even the vastly improved capacity result oft are the the changes that have been made and the fixes that have been made. what was important when we talked about this for -- before, is that we had a queuing system that made for a better user experience so that individuals could get into that queue, could he notified when the best time to return to healthcare.gov and enroll when they so desired. among the other improvements made to the site is the improved and more sophisticated windowshopping tool which americans who are only at the stage now as looking at of the -- at the options available to them without enrolling, and without having to get in a queue. >> on a conference call yesterday, there he seemed to managementwith the style that has been in place, and was he talking about secretary sibelius? who was he talking about when he's into question t

this covers the night and heard the constant looking for plot here is the qwest center and the city might also have a sign that says off my meds that anyone with a tight budget but if you must care for the very tight quarters when it first arrived to the fat owl is completely content is with this monastery at midday on myself for it otherwise it is that it's from here danica p seven hundred seventy euros for this twenty twenty square meter essential paris plot. a popular latin quarter area thus another hundred for bills and internet. she chose convenience over. it's a choice that's not quite there for others like sixteen who lives just outside paris with three other people. her bedroom in the basement. my aunt that it was about five confuse them with pants though. hey i was thinking an incentive for this offence in the year as the unthinking me it's expensive and i and the city that simply says that though. couldn't find any so i decided to move saw some lightness of a close. in more extreme cases not only did people end up far from the center apartments like this one where there's no kit

qwest -- >> in addition to the opposition, you also met with business leaders on both sides of the issuerobably met with more business leaders in any senior american had done. is there a future in europe, is there a future in russia? what was your impression of these men and their impact in ukrainian politics? >> i should've mentioned that in my remarks. it varies to the degree to which they have been affected by russia. one of the oligarchs had an empire that was originally based on chocolate. since then he has been cut off and embargoed by putin and the russians. that has had more of an effect. i get the impression that they are very smart man. i got the impression that they are watching carefully the flow of events. there have been guarded remarks supporting the demonstrators but not calling for a change in government or even specifically a change in government policy. i think they are going to primarily weathervane as to how the course of events take place. on the one hand, they would view economic reforms as a threat to the virtual monopolies that they have in certain aspects of ukr

>> my question, is, jim, what do you think of qwest diagnostics? >> the quarter didn't seem that good to me. i think there are better fish to fry in the health care year. let's go to steve in missouri. missouri looks good today. >> jim, a big record high boo-yah to you. >> i like that. what's going on? >> calling about kmt. >> i got to tell you, kmp was hurt by mark west. these companies have to step back and stop dishing all of that equity. it does have a 6.93% yield and it is rich kinder, but i have to tell you something, we need to see equities stop being issued. i will recommend the stock but i can't be that strong about it given the deluge of stocks. and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the conclusion of the lightning round! >>> the lightning round is sponsored by td ameritrade. >>> coming up, natural progression? a growing portion of the population is embracing organic food, and strolling past the old titans of the grocery aisle. so which brands are really cooking with the fresh crowd? >>> okay. it was a monster day ♪ hallelujah >> courtesy of

ch robinson and qwest.o it seems as if earnings misses weren't that concerning for wall street this year, with most of the naughty stocks posting nice gains this year. out of our list, discovery communications actually is the best performing stock, stock up 40% year to date. analysts write that the emerging channels have strong growth prospects and that international markets will be a big opportunity for the company. kelly and bill? >> all right, seema, thank you. let's get to dominic chu now. he's been looking at the biggest names in business and politics and what they really want for christmas this year. dom? >> bill, i mean, i just may be wanting the xbox one under my tree, but some of the big leaders of the world probably want something even more significant. let's start off with all i want for christmas, and vladimir putin edition, and all he wants is for the sochi winter olympics to go off without a hitch, and he wants them to have no boycotts, maybe have a few more g-7 leaders show up, remember, mosc

it didn't deal with entitlement reform and what we could have with doing nothing is all of the qwest.a step forward. that's why conservatives are upset. it is making promises about cuts sometime in the future with spending increases today. which is what usually happens in december. the washington winter wonderland. i understand if you cannot get it done but to say it is a great thing, a deficit reduction package is very misleading. >> i think it was call the worst least option even those who are saying it should pass are not saying it is a great deal. paul ryan's argument is, this is the best that can be done right now. you know that appropriate raters, both democrats and republicans and a lot of people who are on the military lady committees, obviously the pentagon and those in the defense industry really hate those sequester cuts, that there was going to be something of a rebellion and his argument is this is the best we can. do do you think you could have negotiated a better deal with patty murray? >> doing nothing maintains the sequester. it is to undo the limited spending cuts of

qwest they oppose contraceptives and the sterilizations and the abortions. the law says a policy shall be offered to anyone, at least one that does not fund abortion. how do i know that? >> i cannot answer the question of how people are able to find out the answer. a fair question. >> we have a mandate we will buy the policy or have the irs come with a taxnished us and not a penalty. how does a person comply with the law when the federal government is not complying with the law and if they are not, they have been obligated under obamacare to make sure there is at least one policy available that does not fund abortion. i think it is important to the people on this panel and those who might listen to this committee to know there are three other basic principles here that are mandated violated by this legislation. that is the contraceptives and the sterilizations. they are mandated to be paid for by everybody, even the people mr. rice is talking about, without a deductible, even though almost all of the other services have a deductible. it looks to me like this

i have heard a lot of people --ing questions about qwest medicare and medicaid. obamacare.not go on you already have health care. people need to investigate this and just find out what and who really qualify for this. -- i haveom new york experience with other people. $2500 premiums. the biggest problem with this plan right here is that people are not checking into it like they should to see if they qualify. to see what types of premiums and what types of benefits they are getting. host: how would you educated yourself on the program? caller: i do have a life and health insurance. jeff from siler city, north carolina. chuck schumer now was on "meet the press" yesterday. he talked about health care and the 2014 election. [video clip] >> i would just say one other thing with all of the focus on obamacare. the number one issue in the 2014 election is not going to be obamacare or the deficit. it is going to be who can get the middle class going again. who can expand middle-class incomes. who can create jobs. chuck schumer there from yesterday. emanuel from california

qwest you know what he is waiting for? public?u make that the prime minister of the republic has called in some thessadors, and has all hallmarks of a potential -- any --e white house have >> we do not consider peaceful demonstrations as to attempt -- coup attempts. we know that the police have exercised restraint since then, but there have been numbers of reports of members of the media being targeted. we urge the leaders to respect their people's rights to expression and assembly. these respect for universal values on which the united states's partnership with ukraine depends. ofcall on the government ukraine to foster a positive environment for civil society and to protect the rights of all ukrainians to express their views on the country's future in a constructive and peaceful manner. violence and intimidation should have no place in today's ukraine. to support the aspirations of the ukrainian people to achieve a prosperous european democracy. european integration is the surest course of economic growth and strengthening ukrai