. >>> and steeples financial announced after the bell it's going to buy rival firm stern ag. it will combine two of the largest u.s. brokerages located outside of new before the close it was up 1% to $52.09. >>> coming up shareholders are agitating for change at some of the nation's biggest companies. and some of the battles with the boards are already becoming very. >>> goldman sachs could face a lawsuit related to the sale of mortgage bonds. in a regulatory finding, federal lit gaters informed the firm in december it may face a civil suit. the bonds in question were sold during the period leading up to the financial crisis. and as a result goldman sachs listed the top end of its legal losses range to about $3 billion. >>> over the next several months public companies will be holding their annual shareholders meetings to elect directors, vote on govern nance issues and hear from shareholders. the issues slg that will be front and center this time are currently being hashed out behind the scenes and in the headlines. >> a public event, the annual meeting can provide a flash p

birmingham alabama faces stern ag for 100 and $50 million in cash and stock. stifel's ceo says the addition will help the wealth and, and fixed management divisions. and google working on phones and tablets for google's upcoming wireless service. it will allow them to compete directly with major carriers. google owned motorola mobility until early last year. they also bought the google wallet service. google wallet will come preinstalled on new android phones. shares of the online rental company up the big in after-hours trading for chegg. digital revenue includes advertising and learning services up 71%, making up a third of revenues. and more importantly chegg can exit warehouse operations. twitter says it supports the net neutrality proposal ahead of thursday's fcc proposal. twitter called the open internet "the heart of twitter." two republican commissioners on the fcc are calling for the meeting to be delayed. they are calling for the entire 322-page proposal to be made public before the vote. and subscribers are leaving satellite-tv as companies like dis

steeple financial is in talks to buy stern ag. person familiar with the matter says the deal may be announced within days. since 2012, staple has bought firms including dpw and thomas weisel partners. paul macauley is stepping down from pimco. he left to work with bill gross. -- he joined to work with bill gross, but gross was forced out last year. the parent company of ann taylor is looking to sell. people with knowledge of the matter say that they're working with j.p. morgan and have reached out to potential buyers. they also own the loft. an anonymous bidder has agreed to pay hundred $22,000 for warren buffett's 2006 cadillac. he will turn over the keys in person. proceeds go to charity that advocates for girls. that is a look at the top stories we are following. the tale of a washed up actor who once played a superhero has thrown open the race for best picture. we are joined now from los angeles with more on this award ceremony. thank you for your time. before we get into the films diversity it has been the elephant in the roo

analysts at stern ag says cvi isn't as sensitive as some previously thought.hank you. very nice. >>> well target beating fourth quarter estimates today. shares are up more than 36% over the past year. courtney reagan is here. courtney got an exclusive interview with the cfo. >> i sure do. john, thank you so much for joining us. you know the first question i have to ask you, of course is that on the media k5u8 you said you were surprised by the strength that you saw the back end of swran. first of all, why were you surprised, and second of all, where did the strength come from? >> yeah. i think, you know in the middle of january we said we thought a 3% comp for the fourth quarter ended up today reporting a 3.8% comp, which was a pleasant surprise for us. we have way great discount on discounts of black friday holiday, and all of those gift cards come back into the store in january. really bringing all that sales back in january. we think the stores did a phenomenal job bouncing back from a busy fourth quarter or holiday season and then bouncing back getting rea

let's get reaction from jeff cleveland from payton and reigel lindsay from stern ag and cnbc contributor chief economics commentator greg -- >> that's right. >> back where he belongs. >> greg we'll start with you in this case. what do you think the fed does here? >> you got two cross cutting trends i think in this report. one is the obvious strength of the economy with the very large headline number of jobs created which suggests that we're not only at a strong pace of growth but it might be actually accelerating. that argues in favor of the fed moving as soon as june. against that you have two other things. the fact this inflation is well below target expectations are well below target and less point out the fact that the unemployment rate has really not done anything for four or five months, and one of the reasons is that labor force participation has stopped dropping. that's a positive supply side indicator that the fed will take as an indication that there's still a fair bit of slack in the economy. so those two factors, the fact that you still have a fair bit of slack in the economy