even seema mody, hi, seema? >> hi. we are up about a percent just off session highs.pple rebounding after midday trade, about 0 .6%. sticking with smart phone space, research in motion beginning blackberry 10 beta testing with 120 customers. that's ahead of the official launch of january 30 of next year. look at two month chart, research in motion versus apple. you will see research in motion outperforming apple, up better than 70%. apple down about 20%. also watching shares of com pewware and offering to buy business from compuware. that's why we see shares of compuware. >> thank you, seema. >>> we add tw o-year note auction. rick santelli is tracking it for pups h you. how did they do today, ricky? >> well, 2-5-7 this week, holiday year-end issue, accelerated issue for debt, a $5 billion, five-year note. if we look at how 5s, 10s and 30s all traded, you can see how they are similar and varying around with time degreeses of time tests back it early november and last time you see the high yields. also keep in mind we have 174 ten tour. sound higher than it was. it is.

seema mody live with the latest offer on the table. seema? >> that's right.resident obama makes a new offer to house speaker john boehner as they try to reach a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff. they metaphor 45 minutes on monday and are expected to talk again today. reports say that the proposal will raise revenues and cut spending by $1.2 trillion over the next decade. the president is now reportedly seeking to extend the bush era tax cuts for everyone making below $400,000 a year. up from his previous earnings threshold of $250,000 a year. he has agreed to use the chained consumer price index to calculate most benefits. president obama wants to raise the debt ceiling high enough to take the issue off the table for two years. boehner is expected to brief house republicans on the president's offer today. so be sure to watch out for that. back to you. >> will do. thank you. seema mody at cnbc. >>> much of the focus in washington is on the effort to avoid the fiscal cliff. lawmakers are running out of time to pass a farm bill. farmers say if the bill is not incl

i'm jackie deangelis along with seema mody. ross and kelly are off for boxing day.hey'll be back tomorrow. >> that's right. >>> let's get a brief check on the markets this morning. energy and metals are trading at this hour on the nymex. you see crude oil up .6%. brent crude also up. and take a look t yellow metal, gold. down just fractionally. now u.s. futures will begin trading in about a half-hour. the cme globex has been closed for christmas and will reopen at 6:00 a.m. eastern time. that also goes for treasuries and the foreign exchange market. >>> as for the action in the overseas market, the youu.k. is closed for boxing day as are british colonies, hong kong, australia, new zealand. in europe, the dax in germany is up and running. we are higher -- lower, rather, sorry, by half a percent. overnight in japan, the nikkei, that was higher. let's see the nikkei up about 1.5%. >>> now the holiday shopping season is drawing to a close. and early numbers suggest what started out strong is ending with a whimper. mastercard spending pulse unit estimate sales rose .7% o

we'll talk with seema mody about that. and the s&p 500 index at this hour is down 1.80 in change at 1407. in today's "closing bell" exchange, we go over what is going on as we head toward the end of the year. seema mody is at the nasdaq today. jeff, what do you make of what's going on in washington? i'm most interested in the fact that the markets have lost the volatili volatility. we're not seeing the markets respond to every single statement that comes out of washington right now. what do you make of that? >> i think it's the same washington waltz we saw last year. they didn't extend the bush tax cuts until december 17th. they didn't handle the payroll tax until december 23rd. i lived inside the beltway. i have a pretty good network on the hill. i think they're going to have some kind of staged in agreement and then agree to attack the entitlement situation in the new year. >> michael, what do you make of what's going on? how do you try and trade this? at least we had some volatility the traders could trade on. now we do

hundreds. >> seema is up at nasdaq where it is very hard, seema, for the nasdaq market to make progresshen apple isn't. >> absolutely. apple is the topic of the day, of the week as well. definitely a volatile week for shares of apple. want to point out at this point, nasdaq is underperforming the major indices. that weak consumer sentiment number offsetting the better than expected jobs report but back to apple, the stock now is on track to have its week in 2 1/2 years. more than $45 billion in market cap washed away. taking a step back though, looking at other tech stocks moving lower, ceo john chambers of cisco outlining its forward looking strategy at an analyst event. he spoke about taking a more diversified approach to i.t. as the networking demand slows and that cisco has gone too long without making a major acquisition. that stock moving lower in today's trade. quick look at deckers outdoor, the maker of uggs, getting a pop on renewed speculation it may get bought out according to street account and a seeking alpha article. >>> to chicago now, let's find out what the bond markets

seema modi is manning the nas desk. >> a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff thought it was a certainty at the beginning of the month. today not so much. senator reid's comments and a dismal report triggering a selloff that a lot of pessimists had expected sooner than today because they didn't think the deal on the cliff would be done. the dow dropping below 13,000 for the first time today sings the beginning of this month. now negative as well for the month of december. trading at a three-week low with all 30 of the dow components in negative territory. with the dow below 13,000 the s&p is notching up its fourth straight loss trading below a 50 day moving average and also hitting a three-week low. if investors are moving out of stocks, where are they moving into? safe haven. a treasury e.t. after saving a bid after investors have a secure place to put their money. gld or gold up. gold seen as a safe haven. so it, too, is benefitting from that rush or flight to quality, flight to safety. and then of course on the heels of very modest gains in the metal itself, gold, there is strength in go

seema mody has more. let's start with the farm bill. >> absolutely, richard, the agricultural farm bill is set to expire at the end of this bill. right now the average price is 3.65 a gallon here in the united states. if this bill isn't passed, prices could increase more than 100 going up, from the average percent it is right now. there's worry this agricultural bill may not be passed and push ever over the so-call -- so any price hike could definitely impact a family's budget, and you willy how much they spend on groceries. >> just a short time ago, the white house called on dockworkers to continue to -- what's the impact? >> balely time is running out that could prevent containers carrying goods too and from the us. talks are taking place in an effort to keep more than 14,000 longshoreman at 14 different ports from walking off the job. the national association of manufacturers puts the cost of a potential strike at $1 billion a day. retailers could potentially deal with higher potential costs which coul

out performance there own likes of apple seema mody, up 3.5%. >> absolutely.finitely helping nasdaq given the fluidity of the situation in washington, simon, hard to predict where the markets will end on the day. right now seeing session highs of 1.2%. as you mentioned, apple shares providing a nice lift to the nasdaq. recent note from topeka capital, an insatiable appetite in hong kong and china for the ipad mini. some of the bullish commentary notes. facebook shares also up 2.6%. upgrading the stock from sell to buy, writing that facebook has ad spending from large brands. interestingly enough, look the at as in dab 100 just for q4, facebook made that list. other stocks on the list include yahoo! virgin media and green mountain coffee. sue, back over to you. >> thank you, seema. >>> we are waiting for president obama to come to the podium and perhaps detail some of the mini deal that apparently is being worked out in washington. as we wait for more details of what has been worked out, we want to talk a bit about the role that america's ceos played in the fis

. >> let's go to seema moti. >> hi, scott. time to get your man bag out. among other specialty retailers are making a comeback. that's sparking interest in the twitter sphere. how do you trade these. the holiday sales were generally lackluster. tweet us at cnbc "fast money." we'll discuss these names and more tonight. >> seema, thanks. final trades are next on "halftime." to help minimize blood sugar spikes. [ male announcer ] glucerna hunger smart. a smart way to help manage hunger and diabetes. when the doctor told me that i could smoke for the first week... i'm like...yeah, ok... little did i know that one week later i wasn't smoking. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix is proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these stop taking chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of depression or other mental

>> seema thank you very much. well, if your plan for christmas eve was to watch a movie on netflix you might have been disappointed. the outage left users without the video streaming capability, but the company blamed it on its arch rival amazon and its cloud computing services. brouhaha aside, we're wondering which stock is the better buy right now because that's what we do on talking numbers. let's do on the technical side and fundamental side with steve cortes. good to see you both. one has been a stellar performer and the other not so much. what do you like right now? >> bill, you just summed it up. the news came out over the weekend and the market is telling you what you should believe in. netflix is up 1% and amazon down 3.5%. look at the chart in amazon, you can see it's been showing us this over the last four months. amazon put a high in at 261. about eight days ago tried to take out that high and couldn't do it. it put in a double top. that's a sign of a -- you know, of a failure. you have a stock like am

back over to you, tyler. >> seema, thank you very much.n days and counting to the fiscal cliff. there is optimism that washington may be moving closer to a deal. what does an agreement mean potentially for smaller businesses. joining us frank sorrentino from north jersey community bank. good to have you back. how has the impending fiscal cliff affected your business? >> it's interesting. every client meeting i have starts off with what do you think about the fiscal cliff and what is that going to mean to me? should i wait on this decision going forth with my business to purchase something, leverage something, will my tax structure look different. maybe i should wait. >> postpone commitment, postpone decision making. if we do go over the cliff, what would that mean to your business? >> i think over the last number of years, this country has worked so hard to bring confidence back to the marketplace. i think this is the one event that would destroy that confidence that we've built up. if we destroy confidence, i think we're going to have a w

we are seeing shares of both companies down on the day. >> seema, thank you very much. let's check the bond markets in chicago with rick santelli. >> we are down a couple of basis points in a ten year note hovering at 175, as you see on the interday chart, but if you really want to see what's going on, let's look at the four-month chart. we're in a range and the highest yield on this four-month chart is around midseptember. that yield around 1.87. that's important, being the top of the range, because it also happens to be where we close 2011. so you can see we are about ten basis points, 12, to be exact, below unchanged on the year in terms of yield. if we move to foreign exchange, if you look at the dollar yen, the euro yen, the pound yen, you can pretty much get to see the same thing, that the yen is getting the short end of the chart no matter what major developed currency you plug up against it. this isn't lost on the foreign exchange traders, who continue to see very strong gains at the expense of the yen, mostly due to quantitative easing. look for that to continu

back to you. >>> thank you, seema. rick santelli, you're going to be aghast when i say this. i haven't actually paid a lot of attention to the treasury market today. i am going to guess that as people are selling stocks they are buying bonds, is that the case? >> ding, ding, ding. give that young lady a cupie dom. we're down a handful full of bases points. we're down 17 bases points on the year hovering at the yield. we would have a two-week low yield close as you can see on the three-week chart. let's switch gears to foreign exchange. we look at the dollar index year to date. we're still down on the year on the dollar index. that isn't a surprise. it may be a bit of a surprise considering how big the gains against the yen are. it isn't just the dollar. pretty much every currency. look at this three-year chart of the dollar yen. we are now comfortably above 86. it's been trading above it for a while now. a 29-month dollar high. tyler? >> all right, rick. thank you very much. so which retailer is favorite among consumers? amazon named the top website for shopping online for th

seema mody is there to give us a bit of pit on that. is there absolutely. hi.pple is the big story in tech, shares back in bear market territory. just when we thought the stock may have bottomed, a lot of technicians talking about this death cross which is a bearish signal. shares of apple right now the worst performing stock on the nasdaq 100 and the s&p tech index. elsewhere we're seeing chips under pressure after altera, a chipmaker, lowered its q4 revenue outlook. stock downgraded to hold mentioning higher inventory risks and an expectation of rising operating expenses in 2013. that perhaps weighing on the broader semiconductor space. lastly, a quick check on social media stocks, pandora shares underperforming after projecting slower revenue growth. >> thank you, seema. >>> to the bond market. rick santelli is at the cme pits in chicago. i know they're watching washington as closely as wall street is here, ricky. >> you don't want to watch too closely. sometimes too close, you see too much. if you look at an intraday chart though you see pretty much all you

. >> seema mody following it. >> the nasdaq is down for the fifth consecutive day.owever, keep in mind tech stocks off of their lows were down six to seven points on the nasdaq. there are hopes that a mini deal will be put into place to prevent falling off the cliff as you were just discussing. some tech stories to hit. nokia shareholders are unhappy with the details of the patent details settlement with research in motion. nokia is getting a settlement with rim. you can see research in motion higher and nokia lower. another event is aside from selling its cloud unit but you can see both stocks moving higher. >> from seema to the bond market. rick tracking the action. have you got your fiscal cliff parachute ready, rick? >> you know, when it comes to the fixed income market, i don't think anybody's going to need a parachute. >> you're right. >> i don't know if the credit markets are going to do a whole lot. there will be a response that will correlate, of course, with the moves in equities. it's about a range part of that is the hold 'em and fold 'em. the feds holdi

back to you. >> thank you very much, seema. failure of plan b last night, rick santelli, did that help sell off in the bond market? >> it helped some of the buying, good question, michelle. if we look at a 24-hour of tens, with you can see as we started to digest, some soft equity prices overnight in response to the fact nobody could pass anything because nobody is realistic about what the players want within the framework of congress. that caused buying. let's expand michelle's question. a lot of guys looking at equities to trade especially after some of the post statement selling pressures abated. they are correlating but a little whim maniy, especially after the turn where most of the selling run its course. many think it is end of year issues more than anything else. let's get back to the dollar. we have listened to the gold comment, we know the dollar is better. might be up today but go to the end of last year and you could say we are still down for the year. but within striking distance or potential trade towards unchange

let's go to time square and the nasdaq with seema mody. >> very similar story. the composite pairing losses over the last two hours. there is a rising speculation or hope if you want to call it that a mini deal will be put into place to avert the fiscal cliff. you can see the nasdaq down about 9 points or so. to get stock specific, facebook in the news. it was the worst performing stock on the nasdaq 100 this morning but rebounding over the last hour. a facebook spokesperson speaking out in response to a report that said instagram was seeing a decline in users. facebook writing that this data is inaccurate. we continue to see strong and steady growth in both registered and active users of instagram. interestingly enough, if you take a look at some of the best performing stocks on the nasdaq 100, facebook made that list but still down from its ipo that it made back in may. that's putting it into perspective. stockstill down 30% from its ipo. >> pick it up from there. seema, thank you very much. >>> in the meantime, it is what everybody is talking about, the fisca

seema mody with us now. this is not a typo, is it? >> not a typo. take a look at shares of research in motion. as you point out, best performing stock on the nasdaq 100, quite a sharp rebound when you take a look at shares in comparison to last friday, when the stock dipped lower by around 20%. of course, many traders calling this a relief rally when you have a lot of traders covering their shorts. there is also some blogs out there leaking pictures of what they say is the newest blackberry 10 of course. research in motion saying their blackberry 10 is slated to be released january 30th of next year. another bright spot, netflix. not the move you would expect. some customers were impacted by a service outage on christmas eve. it has been fully restored. we are seeing shares higher on the day. retail stocks getting hit. lot of the specialty retailers moving lower on that mastercard spending pulse report that showed holiday sales coming in lower than expected. so those are some of the names to watch. of course, also, online sales which grew only 8.4%

as a 10% unemploymenttyn rate, because both as president and republican parties parties, as you can seema, they aret playing at the margin in thecust national media is not focusing washit the reality is. they are just playing games. right along with the folks in washington. this president is guilty of class warfare. for what? are you kidding me?ma. president obama seems to love rt the drama. i thought he didn't like drama. the reality is that there will be so little impact on our fiscal future. the after all of the drama and whateeer the outcome, we remaih in great jeopardy. because this isn't a fiscals. future. this is not something that any of us want. don't you love it? a lame-duck session of congress. they areon the ones who have to steer us away from the fiscal cliff. joining us tonight, governor jo mike huckabee. , the dumbest spyr had. >> not a good week for spies. dra you add to the the drama with general allan and this ever expanding scandal. it is tragic.heir it is tragic for their families, tragic for all the people who serve with them. tragic for america. lou: and the part tha

seema?rse financial, a company that was set to ipo and trade here at the nasdaq apparently the ipo has been delayed. apparently there was some sort of human error, someone they market watch inadvertently hit the halt button instead of the extension button. the nasdaq has said no shares actually traded hands. they will announce shortly on the time frame when the ipo will resume. >>> postponed due to what the nasdaq says was a human error. >>> coming a big off the lowest levels of the day. so we continue to follow this story. >> people do not hang around for 17 cents. if you haven't sold it already, understand there was a secular change in the way human beings buy things. >>> freeport mcmoran buys two oil companies. for a total of about $20 billion. weiss? >> it's getting destroyed. i'm out of about 80% of it last time i looked. the best thing can say about what jim bob moffitt did, he's did i luted some of the international issues. they've had strikes even violence at some of the mines it use

. >>> let's bring in seema mody with a special twitter report. >> when the powerful internet analyst1990s speaks wall street listens and tweets her latest industry report presented today highlighted the rapid growth in mobile adoption and tablet usage. here are a couple of points here. meeker shows that android smart phone adoption is growing six times faster than the iphone. google shares under performing apple. fred tweets while i guess it is appropriate that i am reading mary's deck on my android phone. meeker illustrates that mobile traffic makes up 13% of internet traffic versus 4% back in may of 2010 looking at this trend steve tweets mobile payments will increase. what is the best way to play the fraud prevention or data security angle? and lora tweets trading the meeker report what is the stock to own? >> all good tweets here. i don't know. it seems like this is stuff that we sort of know already in some way, shape or form. >> it is a different distribution platform. somebody like meeker whether you liked her before or now it is a voice and it creates a debate. and it is a li

>> all right, thanks so much, seema. >>> we've got about eight minutes before the closing bell sounds on this day on this christmas eve. >> coming up, tracking santa is a little different this year. google has been dropped from the traditional gig. but now google launched its own santa tracker. who has the better? we're going to compare them coming up. i think there is no contest, frankly. >> then jetblue could have an even bigger problem that winter storms on its hands. how to tax employees in the face of the fiscal cliff uncertainty. coming up, we will talk with the ceo on how he planes it handle it. listen up because your employer is facing the same challenge and your tax bill could take the hit. >> then we take you live to the world's busiest airp a to find out how jetblue and other carriers are fairing this busy holiday travel day. stay tuned. ♪ santa claus is coming to town ♪ . [ pencil scratches ] [ male announcer ] chevy's giving more. get the best offer of the year -- 0% apr financing for 60 months plus $1,000 holiday bonus cash. plus trade up for an additional $1,000 trade-i

seema, thank you very much. meantime, nokia's shares lower -- they were early on by more than a percent and a half. may have come off those lows with the rest of the market. the dow down just 20 point. nokia's report comes amid reports that the new phones running on microsoft software are already being sold at a discount. is it a sign that the windows 8 phone is already dead, and if so, should you buy apple instead? let's talk about that talking numbers. on the technical side abigail doolittle, equity strategist and jeff kilberg, our founder and ceo at kkm financial. good to see you both. welcome. abigail, you've been bearish on apple for a while. does it mean you like nokia instead? tell us what you think. >> apple continues to look very bearish to me. it's trading in a confirmed double top. this pattern has been confirmed for more than a week now. it's careying a target of 353 so apple could actually tumble another 30% from here. supporting that double top, the fact that it's a very reliable pattern once confi

>> seema, thanks. rick san tellry is tracking action at the 162 on ten-year.t are they watching today, ricky? >> once treasuries opened today, we did see that rates were lower into our time zone. as you pointed out, we are virtually unchanged to really stress how side ways much of our action on a closing basis has been. look at the chart about 4 months to early august. we spent day in the high 150s, we haven't closed there unlike boone. see a similar time reference chart but they are at 4 plus month yields tp makes sense considering questionable politics going on. for example, italy. though there is a question of politics going on here, i guess. if we look at other issues, the euro currency has been up a little bit today. there are questions about the dollar index with the fed meeting. if you look at corporate barclays and both continues to super well behaved. not only are we looking for tax avoidance, we being businesses and corporations, but individuals looking for better yields than 1.614 i see on the current ten-year. tyler, back to you. >> rick, thank you

. >> seema, thank you very much. i'm thinking of brian bewith us today.bullish on equities all year long. he has a target price of 1425, about 15 points away, which would be a good couple of rellys fr rallies. he's even more bullish for next year. the target for the end of next year on the s&p, 1575. that would be a smooth 10% move. >> will the fiscal cliff derail market gains? how will the outcome change strategies for next year? he joins us right now. 2013 report ahead. sticking to your guns, no matter what. why? >> first of all, america. the greatest country on the planet, let's just admit it. but america in terms of corporations has done a wonderful job of rebuilding balance sheets and providing cash flow. here's the kicker. providing consistent earnings growth. the next ten years will be about multiple expansion. we as investors will be willing and we want to buy those kind of companies that are giving us traditional, consistent earnings. we're going to pay for it. dramatically different than the last 10 or 12 years. >> earnings have been slowing. th

. >>> to the nasdaq, seema mody is there following big movers.e is a lot of focus on apple with the nasdaq composite up almost 13 points. i know there is other movers too. is there we are seeing a nice recovery among tech stocks. apple is the movie that everyone is watching. it lost 6.5% yesterday. today hit a low of $518 a share. but as you can see, we're at $545 so we have come off our lows of the stock though still in bear market territory. broad com is the heavyweight in the semiconductor space, saying its sales have been better than forecasted. that's providing a nice lift to tech up about 2%. quick check on social media stocks. facebook down 1% but zynga rallying. that's on news it will soon offer online gambling in the united states. >>> indices have all moved into the positive territory. sharon? >> gold prices closing right now before the $1,700 an ounce level and up about $7 or so. we've seen a little bit after rebound here in gold prices. a nice one in fact today off of that 200-day moving average, the low of the session. that was just

seema mody is there folth big movers. >> we're flat on the day.al mover, deckers outdoor is the maker of ugg boots. stern upgrading from buy to neutral citing new product offerings could help the company next year. the stock up 8%. apple also a bit higher by .6%. the company announced this morning thatle iphone phone will be available in south korea on december 7th with more than 50 additional countries being added in december including brazil, russia and taiwan. trying to capitalize on the growing number of smartphone users in emerging markets. dell, best performing stock in the nasdaq. getting the strong upgrade over at goldman sachs. netflix up 4%. back to you. >>> fiscal cliff looming of course. corporate boards at the world's largest pensions and sovereign wealth funds have very hard decisions to make about risk and asset allocation. how do you generate returns and manage volatility in this kind of environment where there's so much you can't control? global head of institutional clients with jpmorgan asset management, welcome. i'm going to as

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seema joins us with what you have tweeted. >> that's right. acceleration valued at $129 million.ut of the 20 largest companies that have announced special or accelerated dividend program, 16 or flat or down in negative territory from their announcement date. so how do you trade these stocks? market guy is selling the stock right after the announcement and will revisit the stock after the dividend is paid out. another reoccurring theme on twitter is trying to bet on the next firm to join the special dividend bandwagon. paul has his eyes on tech and wants to know from the traders with oracle announcing its accelerated dividend program. will other tech titans like apple, microsoft, cisco or even intel be next? all these tech titans have a lot of cash on their books. apple sitting on $121 billion, cisco and google around $45 billion. will any of these join the race? >> i think the key question here is how much of the stock is held by insiders of some sort who can benefit by paying out a special dividend. that's been a key factor in terms of these screens floating around, screens of p

seema mody has details. >> apple the big. story.hares getting close to a death cross, which is when its 50-day moving average crosses its 200-day. analysts reacting. brian marshall says apple is cheap and attractive here, but damage has been done with that recent 20% slide from its recent high. shares down about 4.7%. whitehorse finance was set to debut and ipo today. due to a human error, it was delayed. apparently someone hit the ipo halt button instead of the ipo extension button. nasdaq said all orders were canceled and no shares actually exchanged hands. shares did resume trading at 3:00 p.m. it was priced at $15 a share. we're trading lower by around 7%. of course, not the way you want to kick off your first day of trading. back to you. >> it really isn't. of course, facebook, another name that saw a botched-up ipo. the stock still below the initial offering price of $38, but the stock has been on a tear this month. now the social giant will be added to the nasdaq 100 index coming next week. if you own an etf or a fund that tr

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seema mody there >> slightly lower on the day for nasdaq, waiting for a fiscal cliff negotiations inhington. marvel seeking to overturn a jury's patent infringement findings, you can see the stock continuing to move to the downside u stocks moving on the back of a holiday e-retail satisfaction index, a survey compiling -- a servais compiled between thanksgiving and christmas. amazon on top of the online shopping satisfaction survey you eighth consecutive year, however, customer satisfaction with apple's online store slipping three points this year, apple's lowest score in four years. speak of am, mobile wars heating up, nokia in the news. according to "wall street journal," the lumia phones sold at a discount or pro-sfrird free at some mobile carriers, seeing the stock lower on the day. look at research in motion after the being the best performing stock on the nasdaq 100 yesterday. carl? >> seem marks thank you very much for that seema mody at the nasdaq. >>> shift to bonds and the dollar, rick santelli at the cme in chicago. i did not see your hit on "squawk" but it became legendar

seema mody is over there. >> fifth consecutive days of losses at the nasdaq.g money flow out of tech, into some of those more defensive plays, as wall street continues to watch the discussion out of washington. apple shares staging a late-day comeback in yesterday's trade, but news today that apple has been fined $1 million yuan or roughly $160,000 by a chinese court for hosting third party apps in its app store that are selling pirated electronic books. not a large fine, but still something we're watching. speaking of apple, it seems like some of its piers in the tech space may be working on a smart tv, digi time, a citing source, reports that intel is working with hp and others on a smart tv that would be more than combining pc function with tv, facial recognition was mentioned. so clearly the tv wars will be in high focus in 2013. lastly, a quick check on social media. facebook shares, as you guys are mentioning, lower after reporting from app data that inexti instagram active users has fell since december 17th. back to you, carl. >> seema, thanks so much.