of course, vodafone has a large nighter stoke in verizon -- minority stake in verizon. whether they should buy verizon out or what should go on, investors clearly decided to review this every year. there's more -- >> to it this time. they are leading the stock 600 with the gain of 6.2%. >> yeah. used to be a few years ago every time we had a vodafone, it was whether they were going to increase it. now what is verizon going to do. >> is it coming to fruition. >>> and media mergers the hot trend on the table. the most notable deal is liberty global entering the u.k. market with the $23 billion purchase of virgin media. joining us exclusively is ceo of liberty global. mike, thanks for joining us. look, how tough is a market is the u.k. going to be in terms of competition, competition with sky, you have a competition -- compete in some ways with b.t., and in broadcasting, of course, with the bbc and the other independent channels. >> there's no question that this is a competitive market. one of the most competitive in europe, one of the most dynamic. as we've been watching

a deal under which verizon would purchase the 45% of verizon wireless that it doesn't already own fromin what would be one of the largest transactions from all time. there were discussions about a potential purchase by verizon of all of vodafone. given the respective market caps and the stock price that you just saw over time, there's the look of course at the ownership position of verizon wireless. it is possible that verizon could actually effectuate the deal in a more efficient way by buying all of vodafone. although that remains unclear. what is clear, and the talks that have been occurring are simply the ones that have been going on for a very long time, namely by verizon's management, reminding everybody out there, it's happy to buy. it's a willing buyer. it wants to buy. it wants to sit down. let's not forget as well that they're partners and they talk all the time. but nothing seems to be occurring right now with respect to a potential transaction. while verizon has been saying for years that it would be willing to do this, wants to figure out a way to do this, it hasn't had a

verizon stock closed at $50 per share, 3 billion shares, 150, they own 55% of verizon wireless and theyt to buy this balance. liz: i don't hear you sounding worried about cyprus at all. >> there is recovery is fragile, there will be some potholes for the market within the framework there are three things from thing about short term. they are just pumping money into the system which makes this an exciting time to pick stocks. liz: and you're picking two brand-new ones. mario does some of the other networks but you were here first to name two brand-new names. the first one involves frito-lay because it is one of their customers. >> what you have to look at is the notion of health and wellness. how do we take sodium salt out of the diet, how do we take sugar out of the diet and yet provide those products that need the same taste. iff. there are 80 million shares, the stock is up. they will earn $7.05 years if they do nothing but cash flow to bump back to stock. liz: they have a nice run. more to go there? >> it is a tough act to follow, maybe it will push tough. liz: we will put these all

verizon as well as caterpillar also heading higher.ted technologies hitting a historic high today. laggar laggards, boeing as well as banks like citigroup and jpmorgan. in the s&p 500, leaders today include jc penney where analysts at isi say the retailer could transform top locations into a reit like entity. other names in the green, best buy as well as consol energy. laggards, helmeritch & paine. and finally. in the nasdaq. intuitive surgical. analysts saying upside potential outweighs downside risk over the next month months. back to you. >> thanks, josh. >>> we're heading toward the close. about 50 minutes left here. let's see if the markets will turn positive and finish that way for the day. right now the dow is down 23 points zblrjts coming up, we talk with former treasury secretary larry summers. he'll tell us what's worrying him about the bailout in cyprus. >>> the dogs of the dow strategy worked again, so far. last year's worst performer is its best now. hewlett-packard helping the dow weather the storm from europe. get this.

verizon got an exclusive, and i think verizon has a lot more muscle than at&t. the at&t launch was a bit disappointing, so tomorrow verizon is going to back it pretty strong. a million units, as if their argument in particular. my mixture bitters are putting off. i think the eyes are bigger than the stomach here. they are ordering too much. this means the february numbers will be okay. it sounds pretty good tomorrow, but the time we get to the august quarter and beyond, that is when all of these revenues have to be back out. liz: we know one thing about the markets, there is a very large short position here. 60 million positions were short, today 136 million. you look today at the blackberry up about one and change% here today. i look at that and i say this could be a good day. >> expectations on his company are so low, even if they come in with a little bit of bad news, there's going to be a bit of a short squeeze. liz: we put together the market share last year. library does not rank on it anymore considering last i saw they had 70 million customers some of th

in verizon wireless.one owns 44% of verizon wireless. they wanted that back forever. citi group says that might actually happen. >> jcpenney is having a monster day after oppenheimer said the retailer's big bet on joe fresh appears to be paying off. let's bring in retail adviser and cnbc contributor and general all around fashionista, stacey, cramer says that it's not the place to be right now. i guess it depends on whose apparel it is. >> yes. that's very true. i mean, if you just line it up, we just got through with q4 earnings. and input costs for very easy this year. you had this natural growth margin lift there. and also now that we're going into q-1 we're facing really difficult comparisons from an early spring last year. so, you know, most of the apparel guys that have given to guidance recently is pretty disappointi disappointing. that includes the teen space and on up the chain here. i would certainly be cautious in g1. >> you know what, stacey, also isi group came up a note that jcpenney could i

verizon goes back to 45.ht, the bears are overplayed at least for today. tomorrow say new bad day, right? cyprus couldn't stir up the panic that some people really needed and it doesn't mean i'm sounding the all clear. just the opposite, stick around. there's something else you need to keep an eye on. "mad money" is coming right back. >>> the market may have ignored the shot from cyprus, but krarm could have found a bank sign that could be more dire than a mediterranean isle. find out how youio should prepare. later, cramer has a new take on an old family past time. new this week, he's taking a look at companies with the stranglehold on their industries that may give their stocks a boost. tonight jim's checking out the friendly skies to find out if it's time to take off. plus food fight. your local supermarket has turned into a battleground for organic food producers, but their struggle for shelf space could be your chance to cash in. cramer place checks two top names to find which could satisfy your portfoli

angelus. >> at verizon wireless we try to do it day in and day out to avoid interruption in services. we try to put all this in place but in the event they do happen, we have those redundant systems i discussed earlier. weak route traffic from one side to another or from one switch to another and we test regularly to make sure they occur. and this is transparent to our customers. calls are being routed to another switch during these cross over tests. we have actually fleet of portable cell sites, these are cells that are on trucks or in trailers that are deployed, that actually are available within a market so we can deploy them in the cases of emergency so if the cet site actually goes out of service, we can deploy a september temporary cell site. we have these systems available for our emergency departments so if they need coverage in certain areas that are not covered very well, they can actually use those systems as well. so i did talk about the failure overcasts. i think this is the key portion of our industry, for our company. we want to make sure that we can take into account w

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i also just described at&t ask comcast and verizon. so from an engineering perspective, some of these companies will look just like telecom companies which means they're this close to being regulated globally as a monopoly phone service. if we do that in the united states under title ii, if we crassfy internet broadband -- classify internet broadband service as a monopoly service, it will be catastrophic for the internet economy. >> host: commissioner mcdowell, as always, appreciate you being op "the communicators." todd shields with bloomberg, you as well. >> thank you, enjoyed it. >> guest: thanks for having us. >> c-span, created by america's cable companies in

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verizon is telco, oil, food, drug and utility.an i say that is a perfect combination -- this portfolio it's got great companies. i'm not that concerned about bp's trial at this point. this is a model portfolio if bp wins. it's not a model portfolio if bp loses, but i like it very much. richard in a place we visited for one of our college shows, richard in iowa. >> caller: boo-yah to you, jimmy. >> nice. >> caller: from the hawkeye state overlooking the mississippi. how are you doing today? >> i'm having a real good day. how about you? >> caller: i am, too. i wanted to give a that a girl to one of your people that works for you, heather. she is a swell gal. >> you like heather? yeah, she's long tall sally. she went to the u of which i think you ought to watch that 30 for 30. get a little intel about the u. i'm sorry. >> caller: okay. dendreon, dndn, ford, zynga, financial select xll and zeotis. >> let me go to work. i know heather is smiling back there. toiling in the phone room. we like this spdr. it's not just one bag. dendreon i

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verizon 4g lte. 700 megahertz spectrum, end-to-end, pure lte build. st consistent speedsindoors. and, obviously, astonishing throughput. obviously... you know how fast our home wifi is? yeah. this is basically just asast. oh. and verizon's got more fast lte coverage than all other networks combined. it's better. yes. oh, why didn't you just say that? huh-- what is he doing? ♪ lou: president obama making a left turn on energy, playing back to his environmental base of delaying decisions on the keystone xl pipeline. the american petroleum institute joins us with industry reaction in just a moment. consumer confidence slipping unexpectedly in march. the dow record-setting run in the at eight sessions. the market putting to rest a tense session when streak as well today. the dow down a modest 25 points, as an pylos two and a half, still within five points of its all-time high. there is always next week. the nasdaq down ten points. 5 billion shares traded on the big board the heaviest trading day of the year so far for the week. the major market indexes ar

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