Now spread to northern italy. This as travel freezes up and global case numbers approach the 77,000 mark. Coming up, weve got right here on the claman countdown the Luxury Travel company on the front line, high end destination site embark beyond is here on which countries they are now redirecting travelers to so that 100 gut punch to its China Business doesnt spell a tko to its bottom line. China has other problems than just the coronavirus. The white house has just hurled a new jab at top Telecom Giant and 5g powerhouse huawei. Huawei chief Security Officer andy purdy used to work at Homeland Security. Hes now with huawei. He is here and ready to push back against the administrations latest snub. And from the white house to sin city, the president trolling his democratic rivals in las vegas on the eve of the nevada caucuses. We are live on the ground as the oval office incumbent looks to trump any blue wave from trying to break out in this key purple state. Plus, we have brand new breaking major drama in the Harvey Weinstein trial. The jury deadlocked and charlie breaks it on the next big megamerger that could be in the works. Less than an hour to the closing bell, lets start the claman countdown. Liz folks, we have breaking news here in manhattan. The jury deliberating in Harvey Weinsteins rape trial has just indicated that it is deadlocked on the most serious charges. The judge has told the jury to keep working toward a unanimous verdict on all charges. Now, the jury initially, this is what we know because its just broken in the last 18 minutes, has initially asked if it were permissible for them to be a hung jury on two counts of predatory Sexual Assault while reaching a unanimous verdict on other charges. Predatory Sexual Assault is the most serious charge. It could net the disgraced hollywood mogul life in prison. Deliberations are supposed to have ended a short while ago, 3 00 p. M. Eastern but now at 3 03 p. M. Eastern, still going on. Perhaps they are so close, we are watching this for you. What we will do is bring you the latest as we have it. We have a producer, we have a reporter there. Stay tuned on the Harvey Weinstein case. Lets get to tesla. After an unbelievable two weeks, tesla is the best performing stock on the nasdaq this week, up 12 . Consumer reports is calling the tesla model 3 its top electric vehicle pick for 2020. Stocks down slightly today but ceo elon musk is closer as well to building his german gigafactory after getting clearance to move what does that mean . To move trees in a parcel of land in the country despite environmentalists objections. Lets go to deere. Deere shares are hitting a record as the Farm Equipment maker reports better than expected First Quarter results. The company says waning trade tensions with china boosting farmer optimism, but they also admitted, heres why a 7. 6 gain is pretty interesting, deere also said that it expects to have its Road Construction Equipment Sales dinged in asia due to the coronavirus and also, they will be taking a 40 million expedited freight cost, again due to the coronavirus, but the stock and investors dont seem to care. It is hitting an alltime high. Lets go to sprint. Sprint shares rallying under the revised terms of the companys 41 billion merger with tmobile. Controlling shareholder softbank took on the Higher Exchange ratio while sprint shareholders remain unaffected. Lets hope the marriage of tmobile and sprint is a happier union than the remarriage of viacom and cbs. Avert the childrens eyes. Take a look at the stock, down 3. 33 today but shareholders are infuriated a day after the media giant swung to a shocking 258 million loss in the fourth quarter, its First Quarter since viacom and cbs remarried. A year ago, viacom had posted profits of 887 million. So from profits to losses, boom, yesterday in shareholders saw a selloff of 18 . As you see, the stock is losing another 3. 33 to 28. 32. On top of all of this, shareholders are now questioning Ceo Bob Bakish and his leadership, just as viacom cbs announces a new streaming service. People arent hearing that. They are only hearing the bad news today on this friday. To stock markets overall. We may be off session lows at the moment, but we should just tell you earlier today, the Dow Jones Industrials were down 327 points. The major averages are on pace to close lower for the first time in three weeks, and again, i know i sound like a little bit of a broken record, but i love this on growing coronavirus fears. And on a couple days this week, we saw waning coronavirus fears and the stock market up. Folks, it is still a very serious situation. All of it dragging down oil prices which were down just under 1 today. We do have them down. 8 at the moment in the aftermarket. Oil, though, did pull out a gain of 2 for the week. Let me flip to lululemon, issuing an update on its china operations. Want to give you some numbers here. The majority of lululemon, the yoga outfit company, no longer seethrough yoga pants but very tight, 38 stores in the region, all of them have been closed since february 3rd but they are saying that some are now operating on a reduced schedule. Heres the problem that the claman countdown has with that. Lulu didnt say how many, they didnt give any specific numbers on how many of these stores had been closed and are now operating. Stock, they are seeing it too, down 3 . Investors dont like the opacity there. And chinas Public Health officials have altered yet again the criteria they are using for counting how many people are truly infected with the coronavirus. As of right now, there are a believed 76,700 confirmed cases and at least 2,249 deaths. But do you really believe the numbers . You guys know i do not. It appears that certainly by the World Health Organization that they were bending over backwards to compliment the chinese when it was the chinese who underreported the numbers of people who had been sickened and five Million People rushed out of wuhan before they could close the borders. I do not believe the numbers. I think the chinese are very much underreporting the numbers. If you believe chinas official numbers which you know if you watch this program, i personally dont, just 20 days ago, 8,000 were sickened. Today, 75,286. Some of those were from more than two weeks ago. So what will break us out of this fearful market cycle and what is the best trade in this breakout event . Lets get to our traders on this friday. Matt cheslock, i think it is extremely dangerous to trade this market. If you are in, you should just stay in, correct . Equities here are almost at alltime highs but you are seeing some of the contraplays. Gold is near sevenyear highs, even higher than that. We are seeing bond yields at historic lows. Someone is going to be right on this trade. But we are seeing some profittaking across some of the chip sector, that was the highest flying sector we have seen over the last couple months. So its not a surprise to see them take a little bit out of that and then find another home for it. Liz can i just interrupt . Look at gold, up 27. It has had an unbelievable couple of weeks, even as the u. S. Greenback also hits threeyear highs on the u. S. Dollar index. Its at 1,647 per troy ounce, yet we are looking also, and again, dont want to get too wonky but we are looking at a yield curve inversion. This is when, folks, the treasury market starts flashing a warning signal between the twoyear and the fiveyear. Normally the fiveyear would return more but right now, its the twoyear that has a higher yield. What do you make of that, matt . I will tell you right now that everyone is kind of speculating on how much damage the coronavirus is going to do to the economic side of this. We know how impactful it is to the health side. We need to cure that first. But everyones guessing how much impact its going to have on gdp in the First Quarter. Most people think it will have a back end effect positively on the second half of this year, once we get this under control. So we have to find out if this is a oneoff. We saw the Service Number today come out below 50, showing, you know, contraction. But now theyre saying that could just be a oneoff. We have to wait and see what the ism number comes out at the end of the month. Theres a lot to look at. You are just guessing right now. Liz chris robinson, what do you think . I think you have seen the fear trade, right. Thats why youve got the dollar at threeyear highs. Youve got gold, what, 200 or 300 away from its alltime high. 1921 was the high in 2011. We are closing in on that. You have people buying safe havens. I think once the numbers are real, once we find out, you know, who is telling the truth, then you will see the market correct. So its a situation where theres going to be opportunity and risk. The good thing is, if you are long stocks like most of our viewers are, we are within 1 or 2 and this market has held so strong despite all the fear. So the markets giving you a chance to again reevaluate, the market is giving you a chance to take a second look. If you need to raise cash, you know, i like raising cash when we are 1 or 2 off the highs as opposed to after we have 5 , 10 , 15 correction if thats where were heading. Everybody is in a good situation. I would say its a good time to take a second look at what your risk is. Liz again, phil, a lot of these countries, we are going to talk about italy in a minute because a brand new hot spot of this virus has just popped up in northern italy, but you do have to look at the fact that central banks, they will run in and put a pillow down underneath to make sure nothing gets too bruised. Phil . Oh, im sorry. No phil flynn. Never mind. Our thanks to matt and chris. We want to issue this update. The judge in the Harvey Weinstein rape trial has now in the last minute officially released the jurors for the weekend. The deliberations in this trial of the disgraced mogul will resume on monday. We also have this. President trump is about to take the stage in las vegas for another keep America Great rally, trying to capture the spotlight on the eve of the Nevada Democratic president ial caucuses. Hillary vaughn has been following everything from both sides of the aisle right there on the ground in vegas. Hillary, who is getting all the attention . Reporter liz, whats interesting, this is the front page of the local paper, the Las Vegas Review journal and trump is dominating the entire front page with two front page stories on the front page of the local paper here. Hes also here in the state. He made it a tradition to hold a rally in the voting state the night before polls or the day before polls open. Hes doing it again today, putting 2020 democrats on defense, but we do have those democrats running for president , scurrying around the state today, trying to really focus on getting voters to turn out, early voting has been under way here in nevada for at least four days. So the final pitch that these candidates are making or trying to convince people who have not already voted and maybe on the fence about voting to actually turn out and support them. They also are in a tight race when it comes to fundraising numbers. The focus has been on money. Mayor Pete Buttigieg really giving an appeal to his supporters that he needs 13 million in fundraising to be competitive in super tuesday states, because he and all the other candidates are up against a billionaire, former new york city mayor mike bloomberg, who spent 156 million just in the 14 states that vote on super tuesday on ads that will air in those states, and Bernie Sanders spent 11 million in super tuesday states, but then you have candidates like former Vice President joe biden and mayor Pete Buttigieg that have spent zero dollars so far on super tuesday states. Liz hillary, thank you very much. Up next, huaweis top u. S. Executive is here. Andy purdy ready to punch back against the white houses latest snub. What is it about huawei that has the u. S. So concerned . The claman countdown will be right back. 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Im shower ture the president wn us for part. That will include samsung. That will include all of our guys. Liz all of our guys except one. Chinese Telecom Giant huawei. Todays snub comes as the u. S. Rushes to build out its own 5g network as cheaply as possible without the help of the leader in the race to 5g and a top target on the administrations suspected spy list. If youre wondering what huawei must think about all of this, wonder no more. Joining us live, huaweis chief Security Officer, andy purdy. Welcome to the show. Thanks for coming on. My pleasure. Liz you surprised you didnt get an invite . Theres one invitation we would like to receive. That would be an invitation for a Transparency Initiative in the United States. Liz meaning . Lets have open competition so we can see the facts of which equipments better and lets have closed door sessions where each Telecom Equipment provider comes in and answers tough questions from government and private sector experts about what were doing for assurance and transparency. That kind of Transparency Initiative would help make America Greater. Liz well, i like that. Thats a great speech that you just opened up with, but President Trump has deemed you guys, huawei, a security threat. How do you vow thiew this 5g me when your company is excluded and you know why, because the president feels there are all kinds of back doors within the huawei equipment and National Security people do, too . I think the position of the United States has been theyre afraid that in the future huawei would be forced by the china government to implant back doors. This is all part of the geopolitical competition between the u. S. And china and unfortunately, the u. S. Resident emphasizing the need for Technology Industrial policy is instead trying to hurt china by hurting huawei and were not thinking about the negative consequences to tens of thousands of american jobs. Liz let me ask you pointblank, has huawei ever gathered secret or proprietary information on the u. S. Government or u. S. Companies that it obtained or derived from electronic surveillance or socalled back doors built into huawei equipment . No. We have not. And in fact, one part of the Transparency Initiative this country needs is to have greater visibility on everybody who has access to telecom and mobile operator networks. We have special provisions to make sure that only after written permission and only with every keystroke of the computer login recorded so theres complete visibility of what we access, when, and whats done with it. That kind of transparency, that kind of assurance is what all Companies Need to provide so we can prove were not subject to undue influence of the china government to turn over data. We cant turn over data we dont have. Liz well, one thing is that the United States has said it has evidence that huawei has been using its equipment to do secret surveillance. Now, there has been no evidence that has been put out there, is that correct . We are still waiting on that. They would say it is top secret and we cant put it out at the moment. Actually, i have never really heard that allegation, but recently, they have said that we created some capability that is actually controlled by the telecom and mobile operators to be able to get access. Theres no evidence of that. They allegedly declassified the information. They have allegedly given it to the uk and other countries in europe. And basically, the question is wheres the beef . If its unclassified, turn it over. Liz would you say this is all just political then, from where you sit . I think theres a geopolitical issue between the u. S. And china. For years the u. S. Has been unhappy with what china has been doing, so because of this, theres a bipartisan effort to say enough, china, we have had enough, so i think the u. S. Is bending over backwards and taking the chance of hurting americans more than huawei in their effort to fight against china. So thats the context thats affecting everything. Liz earlier this week, the federal judge was looking at this one lawsuit that huawei had filed, basically you guys were challenging the federal ban of the company. The judge threw it out saying you know what, congress has the right to ban any outside contractor that it doesnt want doing the work. So maybe this just comes down to yeah, were not picking you guys even though, of course, you have huge Smartphone Market share, youre top globally when it comes to china. Youre only beaten out by samsung who has 22 . You guys have 18 . Followed by apple with 14 . Im reminded of President Trumps criticism of Speaker Pelosi and senator adam schiff in trying to give mere allegations that he has committed wrongdoing, basically saying the end is justifying the means and no evidence is necessary. Thats what we believe the federal Communications Commission has done. Thats what the u. S. Government is doing. They assume that we are bad because we are headquartered in china. In fact, thats our biggest problem. And they will not look at objective evidence to make sure that there are limitations that protect the benefits of Technology Without hurting americans and i hope we can have more sensible conversations and some statements by the department of defense to indicate that maybe we can start thinking about the impact, for example, on tens of thousands of american jobs, if American Companies cannot sell to huawei. In fact, President Trump tweeted today that america is open for business. Hopefully thats going to be true. Liz andy purdy of huawei and worked at the Homeland Security department, its a pleasure to have you on the show. We afford everybody opportunities to give their side. Thanks for being here. We hope to see you again. Youre welcome. Liz a major name in pet food feeling the puppy love in this final hour of trade. With the closing bell ringing in 36 minutes, the dow still down 269, rbc seeing real bark in chewy. Coms bite, upgrading shares of the online pet retailer to outperform, predicting improving profitability for the company. The stock is improving in profitability for shareholders, up 3. 5 . From green to red, up next, the new hurdles that could trip up alphabets 2 billion bid for wearable giant fitbit. And the coronavirus outbreak spreading to the 300 billion Global Wedding industry . 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Oh, and i will show you something that i have regarding team usa and the miracle on ice team. First, wuhan and now italy. Italian news website anze is reporting that 250 people near lombardi in northern italy have now been placed in isolation after 17 italians tested positive, one in just the last half hour, for the deadly coronavirus. Italys Health Minister has now suspended all public activities including sporting events and have closed schools and offices in the areas affected by the outbreak. Northern rome is a huge wedding destination. Luxury travel company embark beyond helps create once in a lifetime experiences, including weddings all over the world, with business in china basically dead on arrival, now 100 stopped. Now this hotbed of the virus flaring up in the ancient castle of lombardi, a favorite of weddings. Lets bring in jack eason here in a fox business exclusive. Now italy . What does this make you think . Italy is our number one destination in the summer but travel is a crucible to everything. Our job is to really think ahead, look for alternatives. Thats what we have been doing now. Our message has been swap your bucket list. For people that have plans to Southeast Asia or china, we are trying to redirect them to australia, which is a great time to go because the fires have subsided, the rains have come and theres so much opportunity to explore. Africa has been a huge destination. In fact, our friends in africa say the last two weeks have been the busiest on record. Liz safaris . Safaris, capetown, so many things to do and explore. Theres opportunity to move but our job is to always try to stay ahead. Its not easy in a fluid situation but we have to improvise. Liz especially not easy considering in the last 24 hours we are suddenly hearing about lombardi, italy. All i did was google it, and all these castles where people have planned weddings. We all know that weddings are planned a year in advance unless its a shotgun wedding. Putting that aside, you have to tell me what are people doing at this point . Because lauren garrett, a frequent guest on this show, a Pulitzer Prize winning author of the coming plague tweeted this out today. She said it is way beyond wuhan now. The coronavirus is, as she put it, about the world, not just china. Clusters are going to pop up all over, governments are fighting fire with the tools and politics only at hand, some can put it out quickly but others wont. We are in uncharted territory. So true. We saw this with sars ten years ago but this is so much more of a globally connected world than ten years ago and things are spreading much faster and having so much more impact. Its really challenging. When it comes to weddings, we have a wedding this week that went forward in thailand. Liz wait a minute. Its in thailand . It was always in thailand and its now Going Forward in thailand . They have done it. It will probably be over tomorrow. It was a oneweek celebration. Liz they couldnt change it . They braved it out and thailand is still okay. The challenge for people is not going to thailand, am i going to be able to get home, where is my connecting flight. So many things are being canceled, or am i going to get quarantined. Liz u. S. Airlines have stopped flying there. We know American Airlines pilots had sued to say we dont want to travel to china. So american had to shut all of that down. They are not the only ones. Can you give us other examples of what you have had to do, trains, planes, automobiles, to quickly shift and be fleet of foot for your customers . A lot of it has to do with negotiation and relationships. Luckily we have so many across the globe. Negotiating cancellation policies so people can get their money back because insurance policies wont cover Something Like this, at least not now. Working with airlines to get refunds even though some flights may be going within a whole itinerary liz they would say about weather, we cant help it. Questionable. If this is really going to be in a force majeur. There are bigger groups that are set to go to Southeast Asia that are dealing with that conflict right now. I know some hotel companies, i was with waldorf this morning, they are dealing with their lawyers, whether this falls under force majuere or not. Liz really. Its impactful when a 5,000 or 10,000 person show is being canceled in a place like singapore. We saw in barcelona the big mobile com show was canceled, one of the biggest shows in europe. Liz help our viewers who may be traveling to mitigate the risks. What should they, what can they do . Number one, buy travel insurance, buy any time cancel insurance. That allows you to cancel for no reason like a bad hair day. You usually get 70 , 80 p back. Liz dont tempt me. I didnt say that. Your hair looks great. Really, pay with a credit card. We dont know who will be going bankrupt in certain regions based on whats happening. A credit card can usually help you. Make sure you have medical evacuation. Again, theres 14 cases here in america. We dont know where its going to be next. You dont want to stop your life but you want to be protected. And really work with a very wellconnected, i like to say virtual travel professional that can guide you and be fluid and if need be, can negotiate and advocate for you wherever you are. Liz great to see you, jack. Thank you very much. Thank you. Liz the company is embark beyond. Good luck to you and he is quick on moving your trips around if you need to. Toyland heading to a galaxy far, far away. With 20 minutes before the closing bell rings, dow is still down 284. Up next, the first look at the latest baby yoda merch that has star wars fans feeling the force. And hes a familiar face to our viewers. Stock and Gold Investors alike. 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The Company Announced the customers can sign up for email updates to get further details on when the creature officially known as the child will be released. Okay. Its got palmprints. Cute. Flip over, want to see something more lifelike . How about this animatronic version from hasbro . This robotic baby yoda can move its head and ears and tiny hands and even make baby yodalike noises. While fans cant get their hands on the new toy just yet, it is available for preorder for 60 bucks. Dont forget, just yesterday right here on the claman countdown we sat down exclusively with mattel ceo ynon kreiz who said mattels 11 inch plush baby yoda due out on april 1st was the highest and fastest presold product they have ever unveiled. So connell, i know you are a big star wars fan. You plan on getting a baby yoda toy for yourself . I mean your kids . Connell those numbers are crazy. I got to be honest with you liz hes adorable. Connell really . You think so . He scares me a little. If i woke up in the middle of the night to have that little guy scaring at me. Liz the real yoda is more scary. Connell thats true. Im not the guy to ask about this. Anyway, turned out to be a busy friday newswise. We have a lot coming up after the bell when we see you at the top of the hour. In addition to all the days top stories, we have, i like to combine sports and money a little bit. We have a story that does that today in a really interesting way involving the u. S. Womens soccer team. They have been involved in this pay dispute with the federation over what they claim is unequal pay with the men, but anyway, they essentially want back pay of 60 million plus. They want 66 million in damages and we will see how this all plays out. A lot of legal questions. Its not like an apples to oranges comparison. Pay structures are different between men and women and obviously, the success rate is much different. The women are much more successful on the field than the men. We will get into it, the money and the future of it and what it might mean for other athletes. Liz we know it all comes down to ratings. They rated better than the men. So listen, im big on meritocracy. Whoever runs fastest should win. Connell im a huge womens soccer fan. Maybe thats one of the reasons i would be much, much more likely to watch a Womens National team game than a mens National Team game. Liz i like them both. But pay for success. Thats all im saying. All right. Connell going to be interesting to see how this turns out. Liz connell, thank you very much. Mcdonalds lighting a flame under its biggest fans. With about 12 minutes before the closing bell rings and the nasdaq is still getting crushed, down 183 points, up next, why our countdown closer says the fast food giants new quarter pounder Scented Candle set, candle, yes, is not the only reason to give mcdonalds mcloving in your portfolio. Thats coming up on the claman countdown. About being a scientist at 3m. 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Today, the jet remains grounded in the wake of two crashes which killed 346 people. Boeing is down 1. 5 to 330. 98. All right. Now that its marriage is complete, tmobile and sprint are tossing their merger bouquet over to directv and dish. Charlie gasparino here on the latest details. Charlie we should point out that yesterday, our reporting on the repricing of the tmobile sprint deal came out. They did reprice it yesterday so if you were following us for the last i would say six to eight months, we have been saying the repricing is on the table. They actually did it yesterday. If you were a tmobile shareholder, you had to give up a few less shares to make this thing work. It was beneficial to tmobile because sprint shares went down. Thats the first thing. The second thing is in the aftermath of all this, there is now Charlie Ergen looking to do hes going to do another wireless carrier but hes got to do something with his dish network which is not making a lot of money. From what we understand, back on the table is both a merger possibly with directv that ergen is still contemplating that, but also, from what we understand, sources are telling us hes approaching tech to invest in dish. So clearly, theres a play here on dish, something is going on. Look at that stock chart. That does not look very pretty. In any event, hes trying to save this Company Either by a merger with directv, what sources are telling us, or somehow convincing tech, facebook, amazon, you name it, to put Strategic Investments in this thing. That looks more likely. What did we just show two minutes before that . Okay. Just confused me there a little bit. Anyway, one of your producers just told me to get it together. Liz for once, its not just me. Charlie i took one day off. Im a little bit liz who was that . Charlie im a little bit under the cloud, under the weather. Liz thats my girl. Charlie little bit under the weather here. Im not feeling that great. Im told to get it together by some producer. Liz thats my girl. Charlie anyway, thats where we are right now. It looks like there could be a marriage of this at some point. I love you, too, melanie. And clearly, Charlie Ergen, who is in my ear . Multiple people are attacking me. Liz thats called insanity. Charlie you think so . Liz early signs. Charlie you hear voices of different people . Liz yeah. Just saying. Charlie i thought insanity was being on your segment once a day. Liz funny. I know you are but what am i . Charlie in any event, at t would have to want to sell directv. Liz doesnt it . Charlie its unclear. Its unclear. If you know something, something we reported on at the super bowl which was great, directv still has to maintain its relationship not because it wants to, with the nfl. It couldnt get rid of that sort of service that they give, the sunday ticket service, it couldnt sell it for the billions that its paying for it. So this is an issue here. It needs to make money, its losing subscribers. Clearly the one thing that could bail it out and bail out dish is a merger of the two. Remember, we were first to report that apollo approached at t about merging, both directv and dish, into some sort of separate company. Liz i wonder why they would do that. Fees. Charlie fees. And get rid of the albatross on both sides. Kind of like you getting rid of me. Right . Liz all right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you very much. Charlie celebrating the weekend early. I had to listen to liz. Liz speaking of celebrations, charlie, the 1980s miracle on ice celebrated moments ago by President Trump and of course, can i just show you what i have here . Charlie i was watching that. I remember it. Liz this is mine, all mine. This is a very rare signed by all the players eruzione is up here. Get it together. Charlie who was the goalie . Liz jim craig, down here. Jim craig. I love these guys. Anyway, listen, the olympics 40 years ago, do you believe in miracles when they beat the ussr and beat everybody else charlie who was the coach . Liz that was charlie youre having an Amy Klobuchar moment. Liz hold on. Charlie herb brooks. Liz jordan kimmel knows. Hey, jordan. Give us some miracle stocks that can help us get through what has been a very tough time. I will do that. It hasnt been all that tough lately here. We have a down day here and there, but we have some records, but you know, liz, one of the things is the miracle of the market itself, time to compound, if you can pick the right names. What im urging everyone to do, stay away from the eighth and tenth best idea in every sector. Go for quality. You know i have always loved the market but im very very disciplined. I have so many different screens that i use from the magnet screen of value growth momentum, bringing on the Corporate Governance screens, then the Dividend Increase screens. So you mentioned just before mcdonalds and most important thing a company can do is scale their business, and my god, i remember seeing a picture of the moon and someone superimposed the golden arches on it and said wait until that happens. So i said you cant have a mcdonalds everywhere. Well, you can. So the whole point i really urge is dont look for beatenup stocks that may get off the couch. Look for value growth and momentum, increasing revenue, increasing margins. Liz your magnet charts spit out a whole bunch of names, solaredge, salesforce, generac, the big generator company. Pretty Interesting Group here. Right. Right. The whole idea is im not tied to one sector, health care or, you know, the interesting thing about generac, i knew they had a big Global Business but they are doing business in 150 countries right now. So they are the highest quality name. Each one i showed you today is the highest quality name in each sector. Thats what i believe in. Liz jordan, i want you to take one more look at my, its mine im jealous. Liz isnt it fabulous . I was in college at the time. What a great game it was. Liz the name of the coach was kurt russell. Just kidding. Kurt russell played herb brooks. There you go. Liz have a great day. Thanks so much. Jordan kimmel, our good friend of the show. Its red across the board on this friday. Major averages are set to close lower for the first time in three weeks but mondays a brand new week. It better be with the claman countdown. Wall street closing out the week all three averages and even the date and negative territory as the number of coronavirus cases outside of china rises, the dow ended 225 points, off session most, melissa francis, good to have you in me and everybody here. I am, mixing, welcome back to after the bow. The s p and nasdaq also in the red, second in the row, s p 35 more than 1 , the nasdaq more than 2 . We will talk about the big market