and tim armstrong. but he's -- and he is also buying! don't move.lightning round" is next. >>> it is time! it's time for the "lightning round." are you ready, skedaddy? time for the "lightning round." start with john in florida. john. >> caller: hi, jim. it's john k. in florida. jim, based on a the news yesterday, do you feel it was warranted that amd taking a 10% hit? >> well, john, i went over the quarter, and you know, i thought it was going to be a gaming quarter. and it turned out to be very much a personal computer quarter. i think it was overdone. but i think a lot of people expected a breakdown quarter and didn't get one. richard in illinois, please. richard. >> caller: yeah, jim. in september you said southwest was at 12.50 and you said it could hit 16. it hit 16 yesterday. is it a buy or sell? or what? >> i still like it. i do like usairways a little better but i have been steadfast with the airlines. i would have gotten much more aggressive had usair been able to merge with amr. i hope the justice department let's that go through. that wo

and tim armstrong. but he's -- and he is also buying! don't move.tning round" is next. >>> it is time! it's time for the "lightning round." are you ready, skedaddy? time for the "lightning round." start with john in florida. john. >> caller: hi, jim. it's john k. in florida. jim, based on a the news yesterday, do you feel it was warranted that amd taking a 10% hit? >> well, john, i went over the quarter, and you know, i thought it was going to be a gaming quarter. and it turned out to be very much a personal computer quarter. i think it was overdone. but i think a lot of people expected a breakdown quarter and didn't get one. richard in illinois, please. richard. >> caller: yeah, jim. in september you said southwest was at 12.50 and you said it could hit 16. it hit 16 yesterday. is it a buy or sell? or what? >> i still like it. i do like usairways a little better but i have been steadfast with the airlines. i would have gotten much more aggressive had usair been able to merge with amr. i hope the justice department let's that go through. that would

at the end of 2009, right about when tim armstrong took over, aol had 106 million shares.of this past june, that number is down to 77 million. 27% reduction. that is really quick. i think aol is a bargain right now, trading at 18.3 times next years earnings estimates and if no one else agrees with me and i feel alone on this one, you know the company itself is right in there buying with you. here's the bottom line. it doesn't happen often. but companies can bring themselves back beyond the grave. and i don't mean walking dead style. but did you see the numbers people watching that thing? aol is a dot-com era survivor that totally changed its stripes but nobody seems to care. it is now an online house of beloved brands, people. and even if no one else believes, management is putting their money where their mouth is, buying back a tremendous amount of stock. you know what? i think you should be in there buying it with them. let's go to jordan in maryland, please. jordan. >> caller: boo-yah from the university of maryland. >> i'm going to give you an under armour boo-yah! >>

price goes down for a moment and you see what tim cook gets, i think if you go back to 2011 when tim armstrongaol and its stock went down to $11 a share and people went after her and now the credit he's getting. i think these high-profile executives, male or female, they get it rough all the time from people like me and you. >> this is from the form filed by s.e.c., to withhold tax obligations with investing of restricted stock units to marissa mayer in july. >> she got compensation, she has to pay taxes, that's why she's selling taxes. no biggy. >> we have to tlooef there. thank you for joining us. i should say cnbc and yahoo! have a business alliance to share and co-produce editorial content. there we go. done my job. >>> poor little rich girl. a 20-year-old manhattan girl wrote an article about how she's sick and tired of being wealthy. spoiled brat or tirtd of america's views about the rich. >> i'm down the middle and her name is rachel saks. she wrote an article entitled "i'm not going to pretend i'm poor to be accepted by you" about how a grocery store cashier gave her a dirty look becau

. >>> remember in august when aol's ceo tim armstrong fired patch creative director abel lens on the spot for having his camera out? it was captured. >> i'm going to be very specific about this is patch from an experience -- abel, put that camera down right now. abel, you're fired. out. >> hmm. sounded like donald trump. a week later he apologized with an internal e-mail. kayla? >>> tyler, hindsight is always 20/20. some executives find that out the hard way. time warner might be looking back at its fight with cbs. you see the stock, twc, up about 3%. that's trading at a 52-week high bolstered by merger speculation. the company is now getting a clearer picture of how many subscribers left during that torturous fight with cbs earlier this year. julia boorstin's in l.a. with that story. over for you, julia. >> well, kayla, time warner cable lost over 300,000 tv subscribers last quarter, almost double the losses wall street expected. it also cut its revenue forecast. now, largely to blame is its 32-day blackout of cbs channels in major markets which not only drove subscriber losses but

. >> so the nike, by the way, we should -- the fuel band is the one that tim armstrong from apple actuallyimself. >> okay. >> and just hired someone from nike to go to apple. i wonder whatever we see is going to be the game changer. >> i didn't like the nike fuel band because, again, it wasn't wireless. the fitbit was wireless and also has a scale i like. but this one is wireless, i understand, the new one and measures your heartbeat. >> supposedly. but no sleep. >> coming up, we've got cooperman and his best ideas. opportunities aren't always obvious. sometimes they just drop in. cme group can help you navigate risks and capture opportunities. we enable you to reach global markets and drive forward with broader possibilities. cme group: how the world advances. at bny mellon, our business is investments. managing them, moving them, making them work. we oversee 20% of the world's financial assets. and that gives us scale and insight no one else has. investment management combined with investment servicing. bringing the power of investments to people's lives. invested in the world. bny mello