bob doll, teddy weisberg, larry shover. david: have a great weekends, guys. >>> china's lenovo is number one in the global personal computer market. it wants to dominate the wireless phone business. they're into fablets. giving us a exclusive a sneak-peek at a phone not yet available. you will see it here. liz: they are hot in smartphones. the chinese love them. also, what's the best way to get publicity for a brand new product like that superhot rainbow before it was superhot? well getting baned in schools might help. rainbow's coast owner and creator. the man who came up with the wildly successful toy is here to talk exclusively to talk about the phenomenal success. he has a new products to show this. david: your kids must be into it. liz: love it. i'm wearing one. david: oh, my goodness. also our facebook question, we want to know what would make you switch from your current tablet to a competitor? one, style, second, substance or three, price? log on to facebook.com/afterthebell. let us know your answers coming right up

[laughter] we love our teddy weisberg. good to see all of you. we've got the closing bell ringing -- see, teddy liked that. you've got to pay special attention to teddy, he's the giant of the industry. 52 minutes before the closing bell rings. we've been talking a lot about activist investors who can be with annoying or upsetting to companies, or they can help companies and shareholders. fannie mae and freddie mac now have an activist investor of sorts and, no, it's not cal icahn or daniel loeb. this is a guy who ran for president several times. only charlie gasparino, our superstar chief correspondent be, has the story. charlie breaking it once again. >>> and she was the integral part of launching one of the most transformational companies on the planet. what mark a zuckerberg's sister thinks of the frenzy she helped create, and now are we all addicted to our tablets? is it ruining our lives this a certain way? she has some surprising advice she's going to give you on what to do, should you be grabbing that phone, that tablet or putting it away?

liz: great and spirited discussion, steve holland, teddy weisberg. david: for the record i love scott's coat. don't everrchange that, scott. >> david i want one of those coats. david: see. i knee it was jealousy, teddy. that is what motivated you. liz: nyse won't allow it. we know the rules. thanks a lot. liz: success of small business, listen, a lot of people know th% key to our economic recovery. so how are they doing? our next guest helps small businesses get off the ground. she's talking about how all of you should patronize small businesses leading up to the holidays becauss they will actually help your local economy. we're talking to amex next. david: also, should college football players get paid? all the athletes? it is an age-old debate. there is one lawsuit now against the ncaa that could change the face of college sports. liz: we want to hear from you. do you think the ncaa players should be paid? we're talking college kids. and in what form? stay tuned. ♪ [ male announcer ] what if a small company became big business overnight? ♪ like, re

tracy: teddy weisberg, the voice of reason. dow right beneath that 16,000 mark.the nfl may pass showing its games on broadcast tv. dennis kneale has the lay by play straight ahead. tracy: and tomorrow's news today, why making internet gambling legal will be in the headlines in the coming days. the dow hovering around 16,000. we'll be right back. don't go anywhere. ♪ ♪ tracy: the area smartphone service knows how to make itself some energies. air owe just got a fearsome new foe. dennis kneale has the story. >> that's right, tracy. the national football league and major league baseball say that if the barry diller-backed service wins at the u.s. supreme court, the leagues will remove their games from free over-the-air broadcast networks and will air only on cable. aereo resells signals to smartphone users for $8 a month without paying the networks a cut, and each time they enter a new market, the networks file a local lawsuit, but the nets lost a few earlier rounds. now the networks have asked the supremes to intervene. and now two premier sports leagues have filed

tracy: teddy weisberg, thank you so much. >> my pleasure.there's no bubble. tracy: she also didn't notice that yields were moving either. ashley: that's true. most guys hate going to the mall, especially during christmas time. amen. straight ahead, gerri willis has some apps that may help you avoid that dreaded trip and maybe let you shop in your underwear, if you so wish. tracy: okay. [laughter] and try, try again. we're going to tell you about yet another airline with yet another plan to improve airline food. why can't they get this right? because it's shrink ashley: end of story. [laughter] tracy: we'll tell you when we get back. dow's up 50 points. don't go anywhere. ashley: all right. 'tis the season to be shopping, and for many that can mean ditching the brick and mortars for online convenience, but when you do that, how can you keep your money safe? joining us now with more from her user's guide to shopping, gerri willis. what are the best apps out there? >> well, there are a lot of great, and one of the old toest and best known is ca

robert weisberg, a longtime civil rights attorney here in our community. mr. weisberg. [applause] [applause] >> good morning. it's a real honor to be here today and to be able to introduce george packer jeremy scahill and dan balz. [applause] i am going to sort of do a quick little introduction of each of them right up front and then we can get started. george who is at the end of the table is a longtime staff writer for "the new yorker" magazine. his 2005 book the assassins gate america and iraq which focus on events which led up to the 2003 invasion of iraq and what happened afterwards was recognized by "the new york times" book review is one of the 10 best books of 2005 trade george is also the author of novels, two other works of nonfiction and the played the trail which ran on broadway for five months in 2008 and one delusive beutel award for outstanding play. this year george book called "the unwinding" an inner history of the new america. this book in large part details narratives from various people in describing how institutions of the country have changed sinc

seeing mergers and acquisitions happening even today, and the momentum for the most part, even teddy weisberg standing behind me -- liz: i see him. >> he really continues to believe this momentum remains. it's hard to be sure. liz: well, don't be surprised if twitter throws a little bit of froth and bubble activity into this market getting people excited. everybody, thank you so much for joining us on the floor show. we appreciate it. so with the s&p 500 hovering within a tiny whisker of its all-time closing high, it's very important to note and that a lot of you are paying good money to money managers who can't even outperform the basic indices. here's one who has. our next guest's fund with the help of names like priceline which is up more than 70% year to date, outperforming the 24% -- see, now, i like that, right? here he comes, he's howard moore, chief investment officer and gamco growth fund portfolio manager. nice performance, and everybody just wants to know if you agree with what some of the traders were saying and nicole. the minute they start talking about tapering, will this shake

teddy weisberg, 122-point swing just in the fist half of the day -- first half of the day. >> yeah.hink, but i think that the real story, liz, is the fact that they had 'em pinned down pretty good, and here we are basically even. now, we have an hour to go, but i think it just reinforces what we've been talking about, that the underlying bias for the market, the lines of least resistance continue to be up. and that -- when we get these selloffs and, of course, 100-point swing isn't really a selloff, but every real dip has proven to be some sort of buying opportunity. the real question for all of us is where are we going when we exit earnings season which is really not too far away? liz: i agree. again, you say that the bulls were pinned down by the bears earlier today. this was like buster douglas coming back from tyson. i know there are viewers who remember that fight. phil, you may or may not be one of them, but what is in the market psychology at the moment? i mean, this was a tiny dip. i'm with teddy on this. every dip no matter how small seems to be a buying opportunity even wi

jason weisberg joins us on the floor of the new york stock exchange.ell above 16,000. where do we go from here? >> from this very moment? i would like to see the market go a little sideways from here and finish at the year on the highs. i imagine we'll go up between another two and 3% when it is all said and down between now and the end of the year and that's where we'll wind up. we had such a great move to the upside, the market is due for a pause. if we want to see market stay at these higher levels on sustained basis, we do need to see some form of a pullback, not a correction, just a healthy pullback, that way things can normalize. lori: there is growing chorus for consolidation these days. jason, see you. adam: waiting on the judge. still no ruling on detroit's bankruptcy eligibility. ahead the six options left for the struggling city. lori: taking be like mike to the extreme. michael jordan's chicago area mansion is up for auction. you can't take part unless you put down a cool 250 grand. we'll show you around the place next. yep. got all the coz

let's send it back down to the new york stock exchange where twitter did make its debut, teddy weisbergat to see you, sir. it seems twitter is pretty much stabilizing around $46 a share. what do you make of that? where do you see the shares trending from here? >> it's really hard to tell. they're, obviously, trading at a big premium over the ipo price. i don't think that's a big surprise. i think the good news is that the i be po went -- ipo went, from all perspectives, flawlessly. the trading, trading has been smooth, and, you know, obviously, there is a lot of interest in twitter. i mean, it's been anticipated like facebook was anticipated, and the investors clearly are continuing to pay the premium. lori: sure. >> who knows what tomorrow brings, you know? only time will tell. lori: after all, tomorrow is a new day. all right, teddy, the broader market is lower. do you think that's a see up ahead of the jjbs report even though it was instructed by the government shutdown, is it still desperate for or concerned we won't get a goldilocks number? >> well, you know, the numbers are import

teddy weisberg, you're so great. thank you, sir. >> my pleasure.rtgage a.r.m., congratulations. peter barnes on why a.r.m. holders are about to catch a break. tracy: why an olympic athlete credits, wait for it, mcnuggets, absolutely. tracy: at least part of the reason why he won three medals in beijing in 2008. what's the other part? ashley: fries. >> milk shake. we'll be right back. [laughter] when we made our commitment to the gulf, bp had two big goals: help the gulf recover and learn from what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. i can tell you - safety is at the heart of everything we do. we've added cutting-edge technology, like a new deepwater well cap and a state-of-the-art monitoring center, whe experts watch over all drilling activity twenty-four-seven. and we're sharing what we've learned, so we can all produce energy more safely. our commitment has never been stronger. ashley: a new report find that many homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages are unlikely to see an increase on interest rates they pay on their mortg

robert weisberg, a longtime civil rights attorney here in our community. mr. weisberg?plause] been a good morning. it's a real honor to be here today is to be able to introduce george packer, jeremy scahill and dan balz. [applause] going to server does do a quick little introduction of each of them right up front and then we can get charity. george is on the end of the table is a longtime staff writer for "the new yorker" magazine. his 2005 book, decide date on american iraq based on event that led up to 2003 invasion of iraq and what happened afterwards was recognized for "the new york times" book review of hong kong bucks were cloaked about your church is also the author of novels in the play betrayal powertrain off-broadway for five months in 2008 and will tell an award for outstanding play. this year, church of the faithful book is published: this book in large part details narratives from various people in describing how institutions of the country of change in the late 1970s to the president and how that is impacted americans. in preparing for this, i looked at wh