sara eisen has the skinny on that. what's the biggest headline that stood out to you?you mentioned diet. diet soda is just one of the industry's biggest problems right now. there is this new report out from long-time analyst from beverage digest that shows that for the ninth straight year, soda volumes in total are down and the rate of decline actually sped up last year. volumes down 3% in the united states versus about 1.2% the year before. total u.s. carbonated drink volume, back to levels in 1995. and diet certainly was a standout on the negative side. diet drinks got hammered. volumes for diet coke down 6.8%, 6.9% for diet pepsi. these are important numbers because diet for a long time was a source of growth for the industry. now, it is very much a drag. everybody is talking about a study out this weekend from the university of iowa that showed that post-menopausal women who drink two or more diet drinks a day are 30% more likely to have a heart attack or cardiovascular event. 50% more likely to die of heart disease. the beverage association argues that there was n

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sara eisen has the details. >> i have breaking news on this front, tyler, relating to the carbonatedrinks industry. just out, a noted analyst for the industry at beverage digest just put out new data and new numbers. very disturbing from the industry. it shows that volumes in soft drinks continue to go down very sharply and in fact, in the united states, according to this new report, carbonated soft drink volumes are at levels last seen in 1995. it's going to be a challenge for coca cola who is the industry leader, for pepsico and dr. pepper. this comes hot on the heels of another negative headline, negative health study for diet coke, pepsi and other soft drinks. in fact, this one came from the university of iowa. it shows that for post-menopausal women who drink two or more diet sodas a day, 30% are more likely to have a cardiovascular event or heart attack. 50% are more likely to die from heart disease. now, of course, the industry association points out that there's no causation found here, just association. still, you get these negative headlines, you get shifts in consumers' ta

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hour two of "the closing bell" right now with sara eisen and company. come to "the closing bell." i'm sara icen. kelly evans will be back with you tomorrow. much more on this market sell-off into the close. first we have some breaking news right now on the banks. kayla tausche has the details back fromh q. >> sara, 25 banks will be able to return more capital to shareholders this year with no objections from the federal reserve. the fed did, however, object to five banks' plans for capital distribution. zion's didn't meet the minimum threshold so it faces a unique challenge and cannot return capital. for citigroup, hsbc, citizens and santander, the fed had quality issues for the way they were planning. the issues were different for each bank. fed officials acknowledging significant issues at the u.s. subsidiaries of those foreign banks but acknowledging it was the first time going through the process. citibank will be the surprise to the market. the shares are down nearly 3% falling off a cliff after hours. the fed said citi is a different animal. it had

cnbc's sara eisens tells us what its earnings implies for the global economy. >> a strong quarter for nike as sales dumped 13% beating the street's estimates. what do the consumer giant's earnings tell us about global spending is in the? in the united states, nike's most important market sales jumped 12%. western europe coming out of recession and nike growing market share in rival adidas's turf. the future looks bright in europe for nike with future orders, a key metric that indicates future growth. pointing to more double digit sales growth there. emerging market sales leapt 19% during the quarter. china, more of a question mark for nike. sales rose in china. future orders for the second most important market for the company dropped. japan also is still struggling to gain traction. but gains across most of the key regions are really driving nike's bottom line higher, reflecting the power of the swoosh, the brand, and new high margin products like technology, fuel band, wearable tech. expenses were higher during the quarter at 14%. it's fueling up for a major presence at the world cu

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. >> thank you very much, sara eisen. >>> speaking of booze, starbucks has been experimenting with sellingd beer in some of its stores for a couple years. apparently it worked. they plan to do it everywhere. jane wells is all over this story. is it happy hour yesterday at starbucks? >> well, not yet, mandy. you know -- i'm out in the middle of nowhere and there is a starbucks. it's along the i-5. the line was out the door. soon i may be able to stop off there for a beer. starbucks has been testing wine and beer sales for the last few years. rolled it out to a couple dozen stores. i have been to one. they also sell special small plates of food at those stores. i have only seen a couple people drinking. starbucks wants to do this to get people to go there after, say, a movie, and they're rolling it out very slowly, maybe to 40 stores this year according to "usa today." before the big rollout because the only thing that may have bigger profit margins than coffee could be booze. there is a new report out suggesting that people are starting to cut back their alcohol purchases when they're out i

sara eisen reporting on the economic impact here in the united states. first, though, to kayla tausche on the banks that are most exposed to this crisis. >> secretary of state john kerry said that economic dialogue with russia is suspended but nothing to president obama's threat of freezing assets in overseas banks. if that were to happen it would be billions of dollars, largely exposure to multi-national companies operating in russia. jpmorgan had $5.4 billion in net exposure at year end. bank of america slightly higher at $6.7 billion. in each instance, this is a tiny percentage of overall assets. goldman and morgan stanley, we should note, had no cross border assets there. citigroup had the highest at $10.3 billion. $6.5 billion of that is in direct loans to consumers. they have 45 branches across russia and the only american consumer bank to operate there, it has no consumer presence in the ukraine but did warn in its recent annual report that volatility could put some of its $600 million in third party assets at risk. a spokesman would not comment b

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much individual stock news, lots of different geopolitical stuff to sort through, jon najarian, sara eisenoth. also "fast money" trader guy adami is here. great to see all of you. dr. j, first reaction, the market closed ever so slightly positive. the dow was still negative. do you think it had anything to do with the headlines coming out of washington? >> it may have, kelly. it didn't seem to be there was much direction to trade today outside of people watching fannie and freddie again, second day in a row with just the taking apart of those two stocks, not the preferreds, but those stocks, and copper with the fallout from that, people that know that is the shadow banking system in china. >> we'll definitely get into that. sara, there are -- the ukraine issue has moved to the back burner. a lot of people are trying to figure out what the impact really will be. and do we have any sense yet of that or is it just going to take time for all of this to play out? >> you remember that one day where it really took its toll on the u.s. markets. that was when things were looking very tense. since t

cnbc contributor carol roth, eamon javers and sara eisen and "fast money" contribute, dr.st to you. what about the action? another record high it looks like for the s&p here. >> and hardly any giveback at all. of course, we took back much more than we gave monday yesterday, and then today to see it just continue on its way. as i said on "halftime," i can think of 3.9 billion reasons why at -- 3.9 trillion, i apologize, with a "t," not a "b." that money is going to have to go somewherdç and everybody knos it. that's another hand other than just the fed under the market. >> eamon, what do you think? >> look, the proposals are just that, proposals. nobody expects this to go into law as it's laid out here. the idea is the president is laying out a political wish list. it will have to work through congress. if you're in the markets right now, don't react too much to what's out there as a proposal now because what translates into the real world might be very, very different. >> tim, just as soon as i'm getting excited about a squeaker of the gain higher, now it's looking like a

cnbc contributor stephanie link, nathan bachrach from simply money advisers, sara eisen and sharon epperson also with us for more on today's events, michael borman, the ceo of franklin square and our very own rick santelli. welcome to all of you. rick, since we haven't heard from you in a couple hours since the fed's statement first hit, what you do you make of janet yellen's press conference? >> you know, i thought she did a very good job, but to me it's not -- i have to admit, i'm not looking for poise. i'm not looking for the empathy. all those are fine qualities. i'm just there for the steak and potatoes, okay? and with regard to that avenue, i really don't think we learned a lot more. forward guidance or forecasts a couple years down the road would be like talking to a horse track handicapper telling you who is going to place two years from now in a race. i don't think anybody has that kind of vision. i do think that the market -- i think the market said it all. flattening yield curve. holy cow, it was huge, and there was a lot of selling before the stateme statement, really made me sk

sara eisen is here. >> you have this unlikely group of factors that's driving up prices of commodities. a new report from the united nations shows food prices jumped last month by the most in more than a year and a half after a pretty long steady decline. look at some of the gains here according to this u.n. food commodity price index. cereal prices up over 3%. this is at global level. that's january through february of this year. vegetable oil, nearly 5%. dairy up 3%. sugar up 6.2%. meat was down but those prices have been rising. you've got abnormal weather, not just in the united states, also in brazil and other places where these commodities come from. you have supply issues. you have shortages. the question though is when does it all show up in the grocery aisle? you're already starting to feel higher costs. talked to a bunch of analysts and it's six to nine months, that's the normal lag time between the commodity price increase and when, say, the commodity company or the food companies have to raise prices except for hamburgers and dairy. they can't hedge their costs as well so t

so on the panel today we've got cnbc contributor michael, sara eisen and dominic chu and brian kellyto all of you. brian, first of all, how much of the rally today was janet yellen speaking earlier about monetary policy and how much of it, in your opinion, was due to other factors? >> well, we came into the day already strong. i think the s&p futures were up seven points overnight. a lot of that had to do with the fact that late on friday we had the announcement that john kerry and his russian counterpart were going to talk some peace in ukraine. we came in already elevated. we had the pmi, and then janet yellen came in with a stick save and saved the quarter. >> janet yellen saved the quarter. >> david, you said it was one of the most dovish fed speeches you ever heard. >> yes. i'm still actually in a little bit of shock, kelly. we had a fed chair actually bring up three individual cases of people who have lost their jobs, had struggled with getting back into the labor force, getting health care, all of these things that you would almost expect to hear from a governor or a president

somebody that knows something about beer, sara eisen. >> she joins us now with that story. >> i haveker but i was surprised to find out 09% of beer is actually water. by mass, everything from the crop to the can. the beer industry is realizing it cannot afford to ignore this problem of water scarcity. millercoors has been way out in front of this. 3.9 barrels of water for every one barrel of beer. it sounds like a lot. it's way less than the industry average. this is 5-1. millercoors increasingly focused on the barley farmers. they work with 850 barley farmers. we went out and we visited actually the growers meeting in the st. lou in san luis valley. they were hearing from millercoors people, water experiments. we met jamie hart, a farmer than been suffering recently because the surrounding mountains around him haven't received as much snowfall, which means less water trickling down into the rio grande water. which is the main source of his water basin. have a listen. >> water is getting to be more precious every day. we have to be able to conserve that to keep the livelihood we know

and i think that sara eisen said it yesterday when she said, look, a bad number it's weather, it's fantastice overbought and the market has moved up but the denialists are so strong. everything you see on your screen is wrong. take tesla. no. they're not all tesla, guys. they're not all tesla. elon musk is not the devil, okay? i mean, he's done a good job, but don't blame him for the reason why merck is breaking out here. okay? merck is like 12 times earnings. wow, oh, my god, they are paying 13 times earnings fork merck, short it. no! it doesn't work like that. this is not 1999. this is not a situation where we are looking at breakouts. >> there's going to be a point, i don't know what level it is at but where you'll get cautious again and ring the register like you say. >> if we start seeing a huge number of ipos bob had a huge analysis of the ipos not being as expensive as he thought. not bad news being acted upon, costco, better than ever, take it to 120. that's what worries me. sorry to be modestly positive. >> we'll see you tonight with csx. great work. >>> it's been a roller coaster o