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Wars as demand heats up with the temperatures. All right, so how bad is it . 9 of the 456 u. S. Counties measured by realty track are now considered not affordable by historical standards. Thats up from just 2 last year. Median home price growth outpaced wage growth in more than 60 of counties. And where is it the worst . Counties in denver, dallas, austin, new york city, san francisco, omaha, and st. Louis, would you believe . Affordability is best in baltimore, birmingham, providence and chicago. Weakening affordability in midsize cities, many of which are undergrowing a great rebirth is pushing people out. Red fin, a real estate brokerage, says the typical home sold in 2015 was about 4 farther from a city center than in 2011. They also say their agents are reported back that would be sellers are not listing because theyre afraid they wont be able to find or afford their next home. And one last note, we reported this morning that the Palo Alto City Council is considering subsidizing Affordable Housing for people who make up to a quarter of a Million Dollars a year. Thats how bad affordability has gotten in palo alto. That one is heating up on the twitter feed. Back to you. Diana, thank you very much. Well, this is an important conversation because millions of people think about buying a home every year. So lets dive more into it with neleh richardson, chief economist for red fin. You heard dianas report, citing you in part. What is your take . To me, i get the palo alto stuff. Thats so far out of the norm. 9 still doesnt seem like that high of a number. Well, what were seeing is that theyre starting to be a growing disconnect between where the high paying jobs are, like in palo alto and where it is affordable for people to live. And that disconnect is actually having implications on economic growth. Look, recently we have seen a new listing surge of 12 year over year in february. But a lot of those new listings come at the higher levels of affordable of home prices. For the low income or middle class buyer, still not a lot out there for sale. There is two things that jam item, right . Somebody who may move from atlanta to Silicon Valley, new entrants into the market. And then somebody who is living in Silicon Valley and looks around and says we would like a bigger home but we cant afford anything. How do we block those out . How do we fix those problems . Well, it not just home prices, it is rental prices, so you have two problems to fix. And it is really about connecting people, whether it is transit, zoning, density, some of those are bad words in some sectors of the american economy, but all of these things need to be considered because the new housing policy issue of this century, of this year, is how do you connect the jobs and people and make housing affordable where the growth is. Were seeing too often that cities are not able to keep up with the demands of the people who live there. Hold off for one second, neleh. Ill come back to housing. It is the rig count, i wont ask you to comment on oil, dont worry about this. Normally friday we get the Baker Hughes Rig count. Tomorrow is good friday. Markets are clez osed. Down 15 rigs in the United States from last week. We were down 12 weeks in a row. Last week we gained one rig. That descent continuing, folks, down 15 rigs. Basically at an all time low for the number of drilling rigs out there. Well do more on this, more on oil, oil down now 1 . Well watch it. We have something coming up later on in the show. Lets get back to our housing conversation. Rejoining neleh richardson of red fin. Neleh, in manhattan anyway, probably along with Silicon Valley a place where it is stupidly expensive in certain parts, they are building more huge apartment buildings. Do you see any opening up of regulation of being able to have more density so that we can have more units and thus maybe prices will come down a little bit. Were seeing some cities experiment with density. And new york in seattle, there are some moves under foot to make sure that some of those units are targeted for affordable. But it is a shortterm fix. What is going to be needed is prolonged new construction of starter homes and affordable rentals. And thats going to take some really strategic rethinking at the local level on how we zone land in this country. So it is a big picture, there is still a lot of work to be done both in local governments and across the country. In your area too, neleh. My hometown of winchester, virginia, is a suburb of washington, d. C. Neleh richardson of red fin. Thank you very much. So lets move on. Continue this conversation. But maybe more from an opportunity perspective because even if youre not thinking of buying a home, you might be thinking about buying stock in some of the Home Builders. By the way you wish you would have bought kb home yesterday, those shares up 5 now. 12 on the year. Some pretty good numbers last night. Rbcs Bob Wettenhall covers the Home Builders and joins us. You disagree with diana olicks thesis on pricing and affordability. How come . Yes. Hey, brian, good afternoon. I actually think it is the best time to buy a house because if you look today, you got a couple of things going on. Number one, principle and Interest Payments on an inflation adjusted basis are now 15 of disposable income. Down from 25 before the bubble. So affordability is very high right now. Second point, inventory in the system of existing homes is down to four months of supply. Usually sits at six when things are working correctly. What does this mean . Tight supply, a lot of demand, prices are going up. If you want to think about it differently, you probably want to buy a house now before the prices move higher. Youre on the radio, but im going to show our viewers and explain to our own radio listeners what were looking at. If you have only been tracking Housing Starts for five years, you may say what are you talking about, were building more homes. Were going to show a 20 year start of Housing Starts now and you know what it looks like by heart, bob. We may have built more than four years ago, but were building about half the number of new homes that we were just ten years ago. Do you see a meaningful uptick in that and what does that mean for the Home Building stocks you cover . Slow, steady, upward progression, we like the trajectory of the housing recovery. Very healthy labor market. Low Interest Rates. Things progressing in the right direction. It is a terrific setup for the large public Home Builders that are well managed. Names like lennar, dr horton. We see a ton of upside in the stocks as theyre leveraged to the recovery. Trends are in tact and theyre going to continue. We have to leave there. Another idea, your best idea still door, masonite . Masonite, we love the story, great manage , terrific execution, we think the stock is going to rip to 80 bucks. Wow. Big call on masonite. Ticker is door. Bob, thank you. Neleh, diana, if youre still out there, thank you. Market volatility sitting around the lowest levels of the year. Is the market becoming too complacent . Is this a bad sign for stocks . Lets bring in ron insana and tim seymour with us on our with us is our own bob pisani. Good to have you with us. Ron, ill start with off with you. Isnt this a bad thing, investors sitting around, happy where they are . Im not sure how happy they are. We had two big move and retracements in the space of five months. Volatility is reduced now, but it has been elevated twice since november. So, you know, to me this is a choppy difficult market. Im not sure how complacent people are. I think it is just that we had such a snapback that the vix just fell. And, tim, you know, were talking last night on fast money about how we have what seems to be a quiet equities market. We have extreme volatility in a lot of the other Asset Classes, whether it be gold or the bond market or other commodities like oil. And how when you see volatility to those extremes and those classes, usually that filters into the equity market at some point. It created opportunities. As ron is referring to, we had a place where we had extreme pessimi pessimism, created volatility. Volatility should be high, it will go higher. The vix compressed down to 14, 14 to 16 is where it is bottoming. I think well see the vix north of 30, but you referenced gold, referenced oil. The ovx we talk about, Oil Volatility is down. Is oil leading markets . If you think about the contagion into credit or they the extrapolation people are making to credit markets, what it means for banks, lets file the ovx around 34, 35. It is very difficult, you referenced the rig counts just now. The data series remains very, very choppy. It is probably kind of a saw toothed recovery. I think you have to follow oil, gold is also going to be a major kind of read on where volatility is. But it has been opportunities and created major opportunities. I want to see more volume and more fed equals more vol and more fed in our future. How is this being reflected in the volumes that were seeing in terms of trading . Volumes have been very light for the last couple of weeks. If you think about what is going on, the three things that matter to the market have calmed down. China has calmed down. Oil has calmed down. And the concerns about big spikes in Interest Rates have also calmed down. Thats why were seeing the vix wn at 14 or 15. But i agree with tim, the risks are are on the upside regardless. The vix has been the vix has been 12 to 15 for four or five years now. It doesnt go lower than that. But it spiked dramatically higher. If any of those three components, china, oil, Interest Rates, the issues surround them change. The vix is going to spike very, very quickly. 52 week low on the vix is about 11. We want to get to a rapid update on the economy and Steve Liesman with that. Thanks very much. That disappointing durables report this morning causing the street to do a strong markdown of the First Quarter tracking number of gross domestic product. It has been marked down by. 3 in our rapid update to 1. 5 . You can see the Fourth Quarter is 1 , so the bounceback from the Fourth Quarter is not nearly as strong as originally forecast. We had been well above 2. 3. Here is where various economists are from our survey of tracking, which takes the incoming data and calculates the quarters gdp. Hfe at 2. 3. Goldman sachs at 2. Atlanta fed to 1. 4 with action economics, 1. 4. And morgan stanley, the low on the street at 1 . We have a stronger more in depth report about gdp in the next hour. This is the latest indication of where the street thinks growth is for the First Quarter. Steve, thanks so much. Steve liesman with the rapid update. Marking down in terms of growth expectations. Were going to get a jobs report next week. These are the sorts of things markets will hang on, right . Great time for the fed to raise rates in april now that thats being discussed when First Quarter gdp is marked down to 1. 5 , makes no sense. Ive been baffled by this whole conference that we have to after having the discussion in mark, the fed needed to wait. You have five fed officials coming out and saying they may need to go in april. I dont know what changed except for the markdown in gdp in the last couple of weeks, couple of days. You would think that would increase the volatility in the markets and mixed messages were getting. Yeah. It will push up the dollar. People think the fed is actually more divergent in terms of other central banks. I feel as if the fed is playing a game. If they couldnt raise back in september because Global Markets were uneasy, what are they saying about Global Markets now. I think thats really where theyre taking their cue. And i think we have to listen to the fact that a lot of fed governors believe that the core inflation, lets face it, core inflation is at above a 20year average. Cant tell me there arent reasons why the fed shouldnt be saying what theyre saying. There is entire mosaic of where markets are. Thats why every month i think the guys are in play. I could tell you why the fed shouldnt raise rates and cor s inflation may be an indicator. We had a rebound in oil which dominates thats not core. I understand thats not core. But even still, the economy is not running at the pace that you would normally associate with Interest Rate increases, no matter what youre looking at. Inflation, even core inflation could be lagging indicator this late in the cycle. Im still not sure ron, i think the story is that these guys feel like this group of people who have been out there talking about an april hike are concerned about getting behind the curve. There had been this idea that if they hiked earlier, they wouldnt have to hike quite so sharply or so steeply later on when inflation does show up and they also feel like theyre well below the equilibrium, still very accommodative. Those are reasons why they might want to hike now, but it is curious as you suggest that less than 5 days after the meeting, where they so convincingly convinced the market that they wouldnt be hiking that they come out the market changed. Clearly a lot of complacency out there. And the fact that the market reacted the way it does is a lot of people now believe there is not even going to be a june rate hike and the fed does not want that kind of attitude to prevail . And this may be why volumes have been light lately. Guys, thanks so much. Ron, tim, bob, Steve Liesman. Tyler, over to you. Thank you very much. The activist investor Starboard Value sending a strong message to yahoo s board today. Everybody out. Off the board. Latest on that brewing battle ahead. As we look out, a look at some of the stocks that might be in your portfolio. Power lunch will be right back. [alarm beeps] the intelligent, allnew audi a4 is here. Aint got time to make no apologies. In new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. All across the state, the economy is growing, with creative new business incentives, the lowest taxes in decades, and new infrastructure for a new generation attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. 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The activist hedge fund Starboard Value says it wants to remove yahoo s entire nine person board including one of the founders, david filo, 7 of the stock. Starboard has 1. 7 of the stock. It says that yahoo has tried and failed and they have tried and failed to work with the current board and the board has not lived up to its promises. Lets bring in cnbc contributor steve oddland, former ceo of office depot and currently a member of the board of directors of general mills. And Jennifer Saba is a tech columnist with reuters breaking views. She just put out a column on this topic. Jennifer, let me begin with you. What is your view . Well, basically starboard is using the Nuclear Option and by trying to replace the entire board. And as you noted, they only hold about 1. 7 of the shares. And so thats going to be a really difficult thing to actually try and get the entire slate nominated and actually voted upon. Would it ever be good governance, steve, to give a single shareholder and especially one that owns less than 2 of the stock the power to nominate and effectively name all nine directors of a company . Well, look, i think that activists play an important role, particularly in companies that are underperforming or where their boards are unresponsive. I know there has been frustration here with yahoo but, you know, in this case you have a 1. 7 shareholder who not only wants to throw out the ceo, but also wants to replace all of the board including one of whom is a cofounder who owns 7. 5 of the company. So i think it raises two issues. One is that they are essentially enacting a nonpremium takeover of the company. Theyll control everything. And then second if i as a sitting ceo said im going to bring in an entire board and theyre going to line up with what i want to do and my plan and they vote with me, that would be considered terrible governance. Those two issues raise questions about this approach. Jennifer, what do you think should happen here and what do you think will happen with yahoo . I mean, probably starboard and yahoo will probably Start Talking and if starboard wants to be more effective, they should probably begin with nominating just a few directors, versus the entire slate. That happened when daniel lowe got into the stock and installed Maurice Mayer as t ceo. That is, steve, the more traditional route that activists like carl icahn tend to take. They want a couple of seats on the board, not call for the full replacement of the board. And most proxy access bylaws are now being put in place to give a couple of positions. And, you know, from my experience, a couple of positions on the board can have enormous impact. These people are very smart people who know what theyre talking about, the board has listened to them. I think thats great. But i think youve got a shortterm versus longterm pressures involved here. I think the longterm shareholders need to speak up here and make their opinions known because, you know, you cant just have the shortterm activists and im not just talking about this situation, but all of these, you cant just have shortterm wagging the tail. You got to have the longterm shareholders weigh in as well. Steve, you guys are being very polite about this. Ill be less polite. If youre calling for basically the board to be washed out, youre saying the entire Corporate Board and leadership of yahoo is incompetent. There must be an incredible frustration here, thats something we dont know about. Maybe they had a lot of discussions that have been ignored. On the other hand, you know, we dont know that. This is a case where, you know, you would hope that these companies, as jennifer said, the company, the board, and the shareholders are talking and thats the right way to do things. And so but in order to get to this point, you would assume there has been incredible frustration for them to go with what jennifer calls the Nuclear Option. Jennifer, i think that steve made an interesting point and that is that this amounts to a nonpremium takeover by starboard. This was done with darden, where they took over all 12 board seats. This happened in 2012 and the stock is up ever since. Well, they had a much bigger share with darden. And, you know, it was a smaller company. But the issue with the yahoo is that it is going to be very, very difficult to turn it around. And even, you know, marisas five predecessors had a difficult time doing this. Shes been handed a really difficult task and it remains to be seen even if starboard gets the entire slate if they can instill a ceo who can do the job. Jennifer, thank you very much. Steve oddland, see you later, im told. Look forward to that. Brian . We talked about efforts to track terrorists across borders. 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President obama and the first family wrapping up their visit to buenos aires, headed to the patagonia region in southern argentina where they will enjoy some downtime. Thats the news update this hour. Melissa, i think back to you. You are, thank you so much, sue. Gold prices now, they are closing. And, of course, big driver of the trade is the dollar. Today were seeing strength in the dollar index and so were seeing a slight pullback in the price of gold at the close. 1221. 70 an ounce. This is on top of the loss yesterday of almost 2 . Were seeing losses pretty much across the board here in the metals complex, biggest decline in palladium down by 1. 4 . Brian, over to you. We are not even 90 days in. And already this has been a crazy year for your money. Stocks tanking in january. The worst start to our year ever. And then a rally for the record books in february and early march. But the last two weeks, gone like kyzer sosa. Time to reset and get sound advice. Danning us on set, dan skelli, and bill stone, chief investment strategist with pnc investment manageme management. January was unbelievable as i just noted here. Why have we suddenly gone into this sort of dead calm for the markets . I actually the calm makes me a little more nervous than the nervousness. Sure. Two points. The first is we actually saw u. S. Data improve markedly. Over the last couple of weeks, retail sales, or the new orders component of ism manufacturing, which had been in the doghouse for a long time. We have seen some fundamental improvement on the u. S. Data front. The market predicted that. Thats why stocks rose in february and early march. What is the driver from here . It is about fundamental earnings from here on out and being selective underneath that market rally. I like what i like what dan is saying that earnings might matter again. We have this i feel like we have got this awning filled with snow, hanging over our head. And youre wondering if it is going to come down on you. That is the federal reserve. What role are they playing in the market right now . You know, i think they were certainly part of come up with a few reasons why we have probably taken a step back this week in terms of the market. One was after a nice run, over 13 off the february lows, but unfortunately, ill call it an unforced error in tennis terms, anyway. The statement from the fomc came out and i think it made the market and we know from Market Action it felt good. Unfortunately we had the fed speakers out this week that frankly seemed to, you know, bring back up the worry with the markets that we might make a bigger policy error. We might tighten up too soon. Im not sure why they necessarily decided to make that communication. But i think you point to thats one of the risks that certainly came home to roost a little bit this week. We pointed this out last week. I dont know if you saw the show yesterday. Steve liesman and i did this semifun game, talking about the different fed speak. Your clients may have investments for the retirement. Cant follow the day to days of the fed. What should they be doing with their money right now . For us, i think it is we still believe it makes sense to stay invested. We would say, probably at least in terms of not changing the equity versus bond versus alternative investment mix, but we are at least in the equity side probably a bit more defensive than we typically are. So, you know, overweight staples, overweight utilities, we have gone so long, you know, had a really nice rally and we do feel, you know, youre in you said that overhang of the snowbank, but my thought is youre a little in nomansland at the moment, because you have to wait for real data to catch up with the expectations. I think eventually we think the u. S. Economy will continue to power through as an overstatement. But make its way through so we still think you have a positive year in stocks. But not without some volatility. Dan, listen, if your timeline is five, ten years, you may not even care, you want to buy a couple of go on to schwab or etrade account and buy a couple of stocks, which ones should they be buying . For the foreseeable future, we see a low growth world. Dont see things taking off like crazy. And in that environment, you want to own growth stocks. You want to own some of the quality names that are not just pure momentum, that got crushed frankly in january, but own quality growth, names with Pricing Power, cash flow generation and great management team. What do we like . We like nike. Danaher and black rock. Not pounding the table, youre tapping it. Were tapping it. You like those names. There are specific opportunities for specific stocks, particularly those well managed, taking share and that can generate positive returns in a low growth world. Thank you, both, very much. Have a good easter. Thank you. Go to powerlunch. Cnbc. Com to see why it is time to see stocks shine. To market flash now with dom chu. Watching sturm ruger and smith wesson. The moves could be due to some more cautious commentary out of a smaller cap Sporting Goods retailer calls sportsmans warehouse. They said a surge in firearm sales at the end of last year and early this year may have drawn forward some demand for firearms and the current sales trends are returning to more normal levels. For context, the shares have seen 50 plus percent gains since their lows in midjanuary. So the down moves today means smith wesson tracking for the first negative week in seven, rug rugers first down week in ten. Well be back after the break. T. Sup jj, working hard . Working 24 7 on mobile trader, rated 1 trading app on the app store. It lets you trade stocks, options, futures. Even advanced orders. And it offers more charts than a lot of other competitors do on desktop. You work so late. 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The Prime Minister told them not to resign, but the mistakes include they admitted not having very good security in the wake of the terrorist attacks and admitting they didnt handle the warning from turkey properly. Turkey told the world yesterday that they deported one of the bombers last year and knew that he had been involved and had trained in syria. The other big event today is the interior ministers and Justice Ministers across europe have all gathered here in brussels. This is the capital of the european union. This is a city full of european bureaucrats on any given day. This was an emergency meeting to discuss what happened on tuesday. What should be done that can increase the level of security . And something also being discussed beyond trying to increase cooperation between intelligence services, how do they have such powerful weaponry and firearms on a continent where there are incredibly strict gun laws . How come in one some people can carry all this type of weapon and material to explode . This is we live in an open society. And we dont live in a police state. So it can happen that people indeed do horrible things. We live in an open society, we dont live in a police state. It can happen. It is a very parallel discussion to what often happens in the United States when we talk about guns and arms and the tradeoff between security and also freedom. Back to you. Michelle, thank you very much. You, im told, will stick around as we continue our conversation. Turning to one of the most daunting issues in the fight against terrorism, related, of course, to what michelle was just talking about, the ability to procure and get weaponry and chemicals and bombmaking supplies. And how do they do that . It is related to money and the flow of money. Representative steven lynch of massachusetts is the ranking democrat on the task force to investigate terrorism financing. Joins us from boston. Also with us is david philips, Columbia University institute. Welcome to both of you. Lets start with one of the sources of isis money and that is the oil trade. How do they do it . How do they get the oil, transport the oil, get it sold and get money back for it . Well, most of the oil that theyre selling, it is an ongoing problem, they have got mobile units that actually will extract the oil, and refine it. They have portable refineries. They did have control of taji, the major oil refinery, northwest of baghdad. And they have had a history and we have got, you know, strong intelligence on this that shows the tanker trucks going over the border into turkey. Now, since turkey has become more serious about interdicting the traffic across the border, beginning about eight months ago, they have done a much better job. But for a long time, theyre very slow to act. Once the attacks happen in istanbul, in ankara, i say the turkey is all in now. Theyre trying to do a very good job. But still, the Syrian Border with lebanon, Syrian Border with iraq, Syrian Border with turkey are still fairly porous. Let me turn to david before i come back to you, congressman. So the congressman just described apparatus to extract oil, to refine it. Trucks to transport it. How did that fall into isis hands . How did they get the money to buy those things or did they just take them . Turkey is an accomplice in the transport and sale of oil. Isis has been generating 500 million a year from oil sales. They do that in plain sight. They move the oil across the border from syria to turkey. It goes into the pipeline. It then is boarded on to turkish tankers including some that may be owned by the son of the president. The congressman says in the past eight months turkey has done a better job, theyre all in, prior to that they were all invested in isis oil. So there is a lot of room for improvement. Michelle . I was going to follow up on exactly that. When we hear the leader of turkey say yesterday, comes out very blustering and says we warned europe about one of these jihadists, we deported them and they should have known. I cant figure out erdogan and turkey. Friend or faoe at this point . How should we think of them being an ally in the fight against terrorism . Turkey improved the perfo performance in the past few months, but we have to recall that beginning 2012, turkey ran the jihadi highway. Across the border from turkey to raqqah. There was systematic transport of fighters, weapons, equipment, Wounded Warriors ended up in turkish hospitals. Erdogan has not proved himself to be a reliable ally. It took a year to negotiate. Lets give them credit for improving their performance of late. But their performance from the beginning of the counterterrorism effort has been seriously lacking. Why dont you pick up on that point and either agree or disagree. Thats exactly right. They were very, very slow to the fight. And they were complicit in many regards. Ive been at the turkey probably half a dozen times in the last two years dealing with interior minister, dealing with their security officers, and that border they were complicit in helping isis in many respects. They saw anyone who was going against assad as being an ally including al nusra, isil. Also, their main enemy has been the syrian kurds. Thats the folks they see as most dangerous to erdogan and his regime. So who is striking back then, congressman, at turkey . There have been multiple attacks in ankara. Are these kurdish fighters or is this isis who is annoyed that turkey is no making it harder for them to transport oil and get money flowing or what . Well, i think isil has been responsible and taken a credit for a number of the attacks inside turkey, but also you do have the most recent attack in ankara where the pkk or somebody affiliated with the kurdish syrians has taken credit. It has been a mix of both. But what these attacks, it is forced it is forced erdogans hand and hes had to become more decisive and more active against isis in recent months. We have to leave it there to get to a market check. Congressman steven lynch of massachusetts. Good to see you. Appreciate your time. To dominic chu for a quick market flash. What were watching now, shares of red box, outer wall, if you will. The company that owns red box dvd kiosks shares spiking up by nearly 4 at their highs now. They were as high as 4 , up by 1. 5 . The story could involve headlines out of variety magazine that say the company is preparing to possibly test an onlie video streaming service. This could be red boxs second high profile entry into streaming. They had a joint venture with verizon called red box instant. They scuttled that two years later. The stock up by 1. 5 . More on power lunch coming up. Our cosmetics line was a hit. The orders were rushing in. I could feel our deadlines racing towards us. 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An ad by starbucks ceo Harold Schulz calling for more civility in the current election cycle. That is words against words followed here on the next page by a letter about how he and starbucks sees america today. He says concludes by saying this is not about the choice we make every four years. It is about the choices we make every single day. He basically is decrying the vitriol of the election cycle and cheering the decisions that individuals make in their lives in america every day, which he sees as you see it in the volunteer who mentors youth and those helping americas veterans, et cetera. Steve oddland is with us. Joined by cnbc contributor jared bernstein. Gentlemen, welcome back, both of you. Jared, let me just start with you, the election cycle has taken on the some of the shades of a Jerry Springer show. Unfortunately true. If we heed his words, this would be a much Better Campaign season and better country. Unfortunately im afraid hes whistling past a campaign that is, im afraid going to be unreceptive to the kinds of things hes asking for. Our story, the american story is not bound by Party Affiliations or religious beliefs, in fact, part affiliations and religious beliefs are hugely dominant in politics now, more than ive ever seen it, in terms of partisanship. Great sentiment but not sure much traction. We would we be better off if our corporate leaders, and there are many of them, if they got more public spirited and left their jobs and went into politics, would we be better off if that was the case. We had an opportunity to elect one four years ago in mitt romney. I wish we had more interaction between the private secretator the Public Sector. I think there are real skill sets and experience that is necessary to be president. Thats why fu if you talk to mo ceos, there are people that have shown the ability to work across party lines, to work with the legislature to get budgets passed and to make things happen at that level. Just like you wouldnt take a politician and drop them into a ceo position. But having said that, i completely applaud Howard Schulz for stepping up and saying civility needs to come into this debate. All the ceos i talked to both in the u. S. And abroad are very concerned about the tirades on both sides. Both parties. And the antibusiness sentiment, the antitrade sentiment, the tax sentiment. Theyre not going to run. The cool thing about this job, you meet the great women and men who build industries and companies. Ski the i ask them, please run for president. They say no way in hell. They want to get stuff done. I thought steve was about to announce his candidacy there. He turned you down. I think that i worked with people from both the business sector and political sector. And theyre very, very different creatures. I completely agree and in terms of applauding where howard is coming from here, hes exactly right. The problem is that the difference between politics and business right now is a huge gulf as youll hear if you listen to the candidates. And in fact one of the problems you have is a guy like donald trump who claims to be a great dealmaker, even if he were, and i dont know if he is, you dont come to washington and make deals the same way. It is just a very different beast. Very different thing. Folks, thank you very much. Steve and jared, steve, well see you in the next hour. Jared have a great weekend. Tesla, dyson, two fine pieces of machinery. I own one, not the other. Guess which. They may be in direct competition. Thats next on power lunch. So what else is new . Hows your mother . Umm. Shes doing good. She needs more care though. She wants to stay in her house. I dont know even where to start with that. 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Dyson, the company most famous for that vacuum on the right, is reportedly close to securing or already secured nearly 1. 5 billion to develop advanced batteries to potentially either compete with or get into the market for batteries or cars against tesla. Could have this great battle of entrepreneurs. Elon musk versus chris dyson, well known to tv viewers for the dyson. Getting backing from the uk government as well to develop this eb. Vacuums v. Cars this is the third war between the uk and america. Tesla does have a leg up on we won the previous two. On the competition. Thank you very much. It is 2 00 p. M. In new york city. 10 30 p. M. In tehran and 7 iranian hackers indicted. The u. S. Government says the hackers were very sophisticated and working for the iranian government. Eamon javers has more on the story. That press conference happened earlier today. And the officials said iranians hacked into 46 American Financial institutions and the fbi director explained how dangerous all of this can be. Here is what he had to say earlier today. People like to travel for vacation or education. And we want them looking over their shoulder both when they travel and sit at a keyboard. Thats the message of the case. There is no place safe on this increasingly small world. One of the issues that was so concerning to Law Enforcement officials was that hack attack on the dam in new york state. U. S. Attorney explained why officials are so concerned. The penetration of the dam which represents a frightening new frontier for cybercrime. Though no actual harm resulted from that, the potential havoc that such a hack of american infrastructure could wreak is scary to think about. Im sitting here at the department of justice with assistant attorney general john carlen. Thank you for being here on cnbc. You indicted five chinese hackers. Members of the Chinese Military who participated in similar attacks. What have you learned from that indictment and are you trying to apply those lessons sneer. As we said at the time that indictment was a sign of a new approach. That approach to do unleash the prosecutors around the country, to make sure we hold accountable those who steal or commit attacks against american companies, and people. And what we said then was we can investigate and figure out who did these types of theft or attacks. When we do, well be public. Number three, well impose consequences and this week youve seen that. In the past, though, intelligence officials told me you dont want to reveal too much about what you know, how you can figure out, how much you can understand about the attack that happened to you and the danger of going puck like this is are you worried about that at all . Cant let the status quo stand. We cant let people hiding behind the flag of a nation staid think that they can get away scott free with their activity, this he can hide behind the keyboard. We can tear away that anonymity. You can figure out who you are by name, by face, and bring charges. You saw that today against seven iranian hackers who caused millions of dollars worth of damages and affected hundreds of thousands of consumers but youve seen it all week when we charged members of the syrian army for their activity, both to cause stock market scare here on the United States by saying the white house had been attacked to their own criminal activity and you saw it on colorado this week when individual california business men who had hacked into boeing pled guilty and will be facing prison time for his offenses. Youve indicted chinese officials, you indicted iranian figures, who is more dangerous for American Business . The chinese hacker or iranian hacker . This is a new world for American Business. We need to Work Together with you in government because unfortunately regardless of your industry, whether it is entertainment, as we saw with sony, and north koreans, finance as we have seen today with the iranians, or the Defense Sector and traditional sectors, every business is now in the front lines of National Security threats from terrorists and nation states and just not a world they had to deal with before. You see so much of the stuff in private at the Us Government that we cant see publicly. Tell me what your take is now. Is this problem Getting Better or worse . The cyberworld is the wild west. We need to bring a sheriff into town. We have to figure out how they took what they took and hold them accountable like we do in every other area. What were showing is whether youre in malaysia, germany, canada, iran, china, we can still figure out exactly who you are, and what you did. And thats vital if were going to reach a world where people know there are consequences and stop routinely conducting these attacks. Right now, though, it is a risky world. Thats probably a good place to leave it. John carlen, thank you for being here. Thank you very much. The Treasury Department has also sanctioned two Iranian Companies it believes are supporting irans Ballistic Missile program. Iran stepped up its testing in the last few months. New developments now in the planned multibillion dollar merger between office depot and staples. The federal trade commission has been firmly opposed to the takeover on antitrust grounds even going so far as to file a lawsuit against staples last december. This week, though, a federal judge said he was disturbed by allegations that the government was trying to alter testimony in that case. Office depots former ceo is with us, steve oddland, still holds stock in the company. Julie bril with the federal trade commission, heading for private practice next week ending her time there and congratulations on that. Were happy to have you with us. I realize you may be somewhat constrained in what you can say about the matter that is before us. The Staples Office depot merger. Where are you on it and where do you see the judges concern about altering testimony in the case. So thanks so much for having me on. Look, this is going to be adjudicated. Were in front of a judge. The judge will assess all of the evidence, not just this one piece of evidence, but all of the evidence. Im sure it will be a fair and full hearing and were looking forward to seeing what the judges determination is. I cant comment on any particular piece of evidence, any particular part of the trial. We all need to sort of take a step back and give the judge a chance to assess the evidence in its fullness. Your position on whether the deal should go through or not is my i and my fellow commissioners voted to challenge this merger because we felt it would be it would lead to too much concentration in certain business markets. Lets hear from mr. Oddland who knows about that sector. Thank you for all your years of service in the government. I think the ftc has done a marvelous job over the years of protecting the consumer making markets fair and so forth. I have to admit i am a little confused on this one. In this case, if i understand the arguments, it is not related to the consumer. It is related to the b to b and the argument is by putting together staples and office depot, that in fact they will have Pricing Power for their largest customers and in fact it sounds like were trying to protect the Largest Companies in the world so the jpmorgan and b of as will not have negotiating enough negotiating strength over what will be a relatively small company, with hundreds of competitors. Thats where im confused in this. Were trying to protect the Largest Companies who are arguably some of the best negotiators in the world. Well, lets be i dont think we should be litigating this right here. We have a Court Hearing going on down the road. The judge will be able to assess this. Just to take a step back. The federal trade commission is for protecting consumers. Were also for protecting Small Businesses. While some of our cases certainly are focused primarily on consumers like individuals, there are a lot of issues that Small Businesses have and they skb scammed and harmed and subject to anticompetitive practices. Thats a big part of our job too. That would have been my rejoineder if i might say so, that big businesses are customers too and dont they deserve the arguments havent been about small business, they have been about the largest business, the contract customers and thats what i understand the inability to discuss certain points in the case. I respect that. But thats where the arguments have been. The largest 100 Largest Companies in the world, hundreds of billions of dollars that theyre not in negotiating power which is just false. There are hundreds and hundreds of internet based companies, fedex and u. P. S. Deliver overnight. I worry more about staples and Office Depots ability to exist in the face of this internet competiti competition. I say this with all due respect to you and your former company, i feel like this is microsoft netscape browser antitrust all over again. The government adjudicated it for years. And by the time the thing was done, microsofts browser was basically irrelevant anyway. Amazon is pretty much eating the world, steve. Maybe commissioner bril this is better for you. Why is the government taking on this case. A preliminary injunction hearing. Lets see what the judge does. Lets see how all the evidence comes in and we commissioners, well, it probably wont be me, ill be gone at that point, but the commissioners, my colleagues will take a step back and analyze the evidence in its fullness. I want to make one thing clear, not talking about this case in particular, but talking about why we focus on these transactions that affect sort of upstream markets, the reason we do is because the costs get passed on to consumers. So if youre talking about fedex or some other Large Company and their costs go up, they only have one place to go, again, not talking about this case, but any case, what do they do with those costs . They pass them along to consumers. And thats the problem. Thats what we have to do, we have to protect competition in the marketplace. I really cant talk about the specifics of this case. I want to follow on ryans point, though, and that is, you know, whether or not Staples Office depot combination will actually create any sort of monopoly in the marketplace given the online competition out there. When the ftc commissioners take a look at this, they decide to temporarily block this merger, what sorts of evidence are they looking at in terms of pricing. Are they finding there is less competition on price out there these days and that if these two entities merge, there would be less competition on price. What are we looking at . The case is focused on business customers, the business community, that enters into longterm supply contracts with respect to office supplies. So we looked at a great deal of evidence before we ever decided to vote out this case. And i assure you that the amount of work that our staff did, the amount of work that the commissioners did, what is happening in court now is the tip of the iceberg of the amount of evidence we have looked at in order to decide whether or not to bring this case. Thats the last word on office depot and staples for now. Im sure well return to it as this case proceeds. Steve, thank you. But commissioner, stay with us if you wouldnt mind for a moment to talk about something that happened to you personally. And that is that something you talked about, a phishing scam you fell victim of. Tell us what happened. Absolutely. So, you know, one thing i want to the reason i talk about this is because i think it presents some really important lessons for consumers. Im not a technologist, but im tech savvy. I have to be tech savvy, much of what we do at the federal trade commission is were dealing with rapidly changing technology, whether it is privacy, data security, or frankly in many of our competition cases. So im pretty tech savvy. I received an email from a friend, that had an attachment. I was very busy. I had, like, my three or four screens open, looking at that email, a bunch of other things. I cant get to it on my Office System so i transferred it over to my personal system, it wasnt opening on my Office System and that happens a lot. I get to my personal system, im able to open the document and it is a document that then starts asking me for information. Now, it appeared it was a very, very sophisticated attack. And it wasnt just spear fishing me, it was phishing for all the individuals who received this email from my friend, his account was attacked and these emails went out. So im looking at this page, it looks very official, i put in my email, my password, and then i realize something was funny about this. And it was at that moment i realized i had given my email and password to an inappropriate person and probably a hacker. But luckily, and this is the important lesson, you know, the Human Element will always come into data security. It is a very, very important aspect of ensuring we do what we to protect our own information. I had triggered to authentic, so i knew that hacker would not be able to get into my account. I went ahead and changed some critical passwords but i felt much more comforted knowing that even though i gave out my email and password, the hacker would not be able to get in. And thats the critical lesson. We have to leave it here. Do we know who the hackers were and have they been apprehended . No, we dont know yet. All right, julie, thank you very much. And congratulations on your term at the ftc. You have a question . No, no, no. I was just picturing the judge in this case, sitting down to review the case as he orders highlighting pens. From his amazon account on google chrome. Tomorrow, the monthly gdp number. Guess what, that number is quite often wrong. By a lot. Can you trust the gdp number . In new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. All across the state, the economy is growing, with creative new business incentives, the lowest taxes in decades, and new infrastructure for a new generation attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. Like in rochester, with worldclass botox. And in buffalo, where medicine meets the future. Let us help grow your companys tomorrow today at business. Ny. Gov tomorrow, were going to get the final read on Fourth Quarter gdp. Even though it is the third revision it may be horrifically wrong. Steve liesman has done the analysis here. If i told my parents im going to get a c in math, and i come home with either an a or an f, i wasnt even close. Pretty much. Debend pends how you gauge it. Here is the way to think about it. Instead of calling it gross domestic product, lets call it gross domestic problems. Large and persistent errors should give everyone from investors to Business Executives to policymakers pause and relying on this data for key decisions. We went back to 1990. Found an average error rate of 1. 3 Percentage Points in the initial gdp report compared to where it was advised to with more complete data. Initial report of 2 , it could be 3. 3. Or 0. 7. A or an f. The research does not show any systematic understatement or overstatement of growth. We found 30 of the time the government gets the direction of growth wrong. If it is initially shown to be higher than the previous quar r quarter. He says the Government Agency that produces the gdp report says were working to try to get more accurate data in time to improve the advanced gdp estimate. They represent improvements to the gdp estimate as more information becomes available and they have gotten more information sooner in the past several years. The error rates dont improve over the decade. Despite big improvements in Computing Power and communication, the size of revisions, it is the same as those from 1990 to 1995 and the error rates in the second and third estimates you think those would be better . No, theyre the same as the first. Despite more data, more time, just as large three months after the end of the quarter as they are one month after. A lot of economists we talked to didnt know if this was the case. We said do you know what the gdp error rates are, they sai said. 2,. 5,. 8 . 1. 3. One way to do better is if you average the four quarters, closer picture to where it will be revised to. In subsequent years. 100 error rate. It is an 18 trillion economy. It has become much more xlecomp and esoteric. Were more services than manufacturing. So gauging the value of a service is harder than gauging the value of the technology is not improving the accuracy is shocking. The more shocking thing is the revisions they have to do to government. Right. Government, big part of gdp. Have to go back and revise that too. You would think government can account government. Lets bring in another voice to this conversation because i need to make sense of it all. My head wants to spin off. Nairman, we have been speaking since gdp was created, a measure of the government. We Pay Attention to gdp. Should we start ignoring it . We cant tally ignore it. Everybody else is paying attention to it. But there are three different kinds of problems. I think steve alluded to some of them. The first is seasonality. Huge swings in seasonality. For example, the First Quarter is always underestimated. They really dont know how to deal with it, the bad weather, you go back in history and look at the First Quarter, it is way off. Especially the First Quarter. So they got seasonal adjustment problems. Secondly. They allow basically allow but what happens is the inventory cycle which were in the middle of now swings the top line up in all over the place. Got a lot of volatility in that number. If you look at gdp, bounces around, you look at employment, fairly steady. Strong steady. How to reconcile these two, i look at a different measure that Commerce Department puts out called final sales to domestic purchasers. Takes out exports, takes out inventories, much more stable. But nobody pays attention. The third problem is this is a framework designed for the industrial age. Were in the information age. We do not know how to measure the output of information companies. So this is ill not sure what were measuring anymore because that sector has grown so much. You started off this whole list of, you know, short falls in the gdp by saying we dont we shouldnt pay atenstentioatt. You say you hardly ever look at gdp. It is true. I look past gdp. There is gdp. You look at it, just to know what it is. But then you firmly ignore it. Basically. I want to tell melissa and brian, a lot of the fed guys i talked to say when the data the jobs and the gdp data conflict, they go with jobs. They feel like thats more accurate. I want to ask you the question, what does it mean to be dependent in an era where you cant depend on the data. Right question to ask. Im not sure what it means. Thats one of the things that the fed is wrestling with. I think clearly as you just said, they are paying much more attention to the employment data, even though thats got some issues as well. I think in a sense it is a more reliable guide to what is going on in the underlying economy. Nairman joining us. Good luck. Thank you very much. Steve liesman, appreciate it. Gold is on track for its worst week in four months. But still up 15 so far this year. Were going to tell you the one metal that could outshine even gold coming up. 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Dont fall for directv. Xfinity lets you download your shows from anywhere. I used to like that song. Hi, everyone. Im sue herera. Here is your cnbc news update at this hour. Russian president Vladimir Putin and secretary of state john kerry meeting in moscow, crediting cooperation between the two countries for some successes in the syrian conflict. Secretary carrey saying the u. S. Looks forward to makie ining prs in peace talks in geneva. Observances continuing today. Dozens of people gathering outside the Belgian Parliament building to observe a minute of silence for those killed and injured. Greek volunteers holding a protest. More than 2,000 have been arrested since sunday. They are being detained at Registration Centers on greek islands near the turkish coast. And the Cleveland Browns have signed free agent quarterback Robert Griffin iii. He didnt play a down in 2015 and was released by the washington redskins. He led the redskins to the nfc east title in his rookie season in 2012. Thats the news update this hour. Brian, i think im sending it back to you. Thats good. I was worried if the browns didnt have a different starting quarterback every year for the last 20 something might be wrong with the universe im glad to know everything is still wrong with the browns. It is consistent, exactly. Consistently inconsistent. Thank you very much. The oil markets set to close for the day. To jackie d. At the nymex. Looks like well close under 40 for the second day in a row. More selling pressure on oil. We did rebound toward the close off of those session lows. I will say this, well be down 2 for the week. Still, up 20 for the month. The dollar is a large piece of the story. This week straight of dollar index gains pushing the commodity down a little bit. The other part was the inventory number, greater than 9 million barrel build was huge and surprised the market. People are cautious had it comes to the trade. In terms of gas prices, we crossed the 2 mark for the National Average according to aaa. You can expect these prices to rise as we head into the summer driving season. We were at 2. 42. Still a little bit of savings for consumers. Thank you, jackie. As jackie mentioned, down 2 this week, crude rallying 20 on the past month. Where do we go from here . John la forth says every day we cant break the 42 level, gets more bearish. Great to have you, john. You say a run to 50 is possible. Quite possible. The fundamentals are getting much better. If you look at the data, the global data, not just the u. S. Data, if you see supply and demand growth, theyre beginning to match up quickly. If we get over the 42, 43 level, you could easily see a five handle. Youre a believer in this notion of a selfdefeating rally. Oil prices will get high enough and theyll bring rigs back on. That will lower prices. Absolutely. Im a big believer in commodities running the long super cycles. If we use data back to the 1700s, were now in that 20year bear period, in five of possibly a 20year bear. When you get a rally out of commodities, it is time to start lightening up. Where do you expect oil to be and how important is the u. S. Dollar in this scenario with Interest Rates expected to rise. The dollar should follow suit. Does that necessarily mean Lower Oil Prices . Not necessarily. Ill answer both of those questions. The first one is where i do think we end up. I think were looking between 35 and 55, probably over the next decade. Were just going to bounce up and down as we work off that excess supply of the last bull market. As far as the dollar is concerned, the dollar always has an impact typically on commodities. What i found in my research is when commodities are in a bull market, the dollar has more of an impact. So now that were in a bear market with commodities, the dollars impact doesnt necessarily have that same translation to the negativity. You could have the dollar move up from here. And commodities dont necessarily have to go down. Probably sideways. What happens with gold. Thats what a lot of people want to know. That is one of the best performing Asset Classes this year. Gold is one of the trickier ones because it didnt float freely prior to 1971. But if you look at since 1971, gold acted very much like the commodity complex. So if you take that and apply it to history, gold is probably going to continue to go sideways to down for the next 10 to 15 years. I would use these type of opportunities to lighten up on gold. Sell gold. Great to have you with us. Thank you. Thank you very much. It is time now for trading nation because traders do trade better today. Lets talk about the financials. As an investment, the financials have been anything but bankable lately. The sector down 5 of the past 90 days. Nick colus. We know the fed will raise rates. Were not sure when. I thought the financials were supposed to benefit in a rising rate environment, but yet theyre being treated like somebody elses old dog. Thats absolutely right. The bottom line on financials is that rising yield curve, steepening yield curve gives a nice tailwind but does so more in the early part of the cycle versus the later part of the cycle. The bigger problem with financials is the roes are still substandard, not earning more than 6 or 7 on capital. Cost of capital is 8 . Thats what investors expect to receive. Even in the current environment, not bad, theyre not really creating value for shareholders. That limits the amount of interest shareholders and investors have. On our desk, were not see much interest in financials in the last couple of weeks, partly because they underperformed so badly and who wants to own them going into the quarter. They have rallied back with the overall market. Since everything has, im not putting too much weight in that. Do you believe that if we get rate hikes this year, that ultimately people realize that the net interest margins will go up and therefore maybe banks can actually make money as banks by lending money . Yeah, i think, you know if rates do go up 50 basis points, it will wash away a lot of sins and probably bank stocks are going to react to it much more positive than they have now. Nick talked on another interesting point. It is not just the fact you have a flattening yield curve now. Also a big secular impact of technology. Banks are just too inefficient and getting attacked from fintech, all sorts of other areas. The whole issue may be going through a wrenching period of adjustment. There are two factors that could be impacting it. In the near term, i think if the fed does raise rates twice, it is going to help bank stocks for the near term. Little bit of endorsement for the group here. We appreciate it. Nick and boris, thank you. For more trading nation, go to our website, tradingnation. Cnbc. Com. Authorities in brussels say three of the people who carried out the attacks are dead. Two others are still at large. Michelle carusocabrera is live in brussels with the latest on the manhunt and news we just saw. I dont know whether youve seen it. Reuters reporting that belgium has lowered its terror alert status by one notch. At the maximum level and now one notch below that. In addition to that the state Department Just said in the last few minutes that two u. S. Government officials or their family members are still unaccounted for in the wake of the bombings and in addition to that, they know of about 12 americans who were injured in the bombings. We get more details about those two americans that are missing, well, well bring them to you. Also new, nbc news learned that the two suicide bomber brothers were attempting to spy on a scientific researcher here in belgium, a nuclear researcher, because they wanted to create a dirty bomb. They planted a hidden camera outside his house and recorded ten hours worth of footage of his comings and goings. They believe what they wanted to do was blackmail him or kidnap him in order to get information or obtain isotopes he worked with at a Research Facility here, some of the largest numbers of radio isotopes in the world are here in belgium and they can be used for health reasons, research reasons, but also used for dirty bomb. The existence of the ten hours of footage, the world knew about those back in november, because they were seized in a raid. What we learned today, nbc news has spoken with a former french intelligence official who is now in the private sector and says the two men who planted that hidden camera were two of the suicide bombers, the two brothers who died, one in the airport and one in the train station. Just mentioned tyler they lowered the alert level by one step. Still the city feels like it is on high alert. Look at the lines going into the subway stations here. They are searching everyone before they go in. It is really led to a very, very tough commute and when you speak to people here, they take it with resignation. They see it as almost necessary in the wake of what happened tuesday. Safe all the time. Everything is fine. But now is i want everyone arrested so i can live a normal life like before. What do you think about the long line. I think it is just necessary, but can also be unnecessary because terrorists can also come here and get kill more people than in not just the Public Sector area like trains where you see increased security. Supermarkets, we have seen them searching people going in and out of supermarkets, the hotels have now set up machines to search for bombs. It is very, very tense here still. Any word on when the airport will reopen. Well, now it is closed at least until sunday and a lot of the International Airlines are saying, you know, we have gotten word that even theyre not waiting for the airport to reopen. They said already theyre going to cancel flights through monday at least at this point. Brussels airlines are two smaller Regional Airports where they started to put flights out there. International airlines are still canceling flights. Thank you very much. Michelle carusocabrera in belgium. Trading around 16 bucks a share. And one analyst says the stock could be worth 7 or 70. 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Two day cloud conference going on now, james liked what he heard yesterday. It was the first appearance of googles cloud and while google is just third in cloud behind amazon and microsoft, he quote came away impressed and says google apps are underappreciated. And executive chairman eric schmidt said Machine Learning should become the next category of startup innovation. What is important on day one of the cloud conference is that google announced a new customer and that would be home depot. That was seen as a major win. Seeing the Cloud Business gaining a lot of momentum under diane green who they hired, used to be the cofounder of bm ware. High profile hire. I argued two years ago and will say it again, can we get rid of the word cloud computing. It is just computing. Thats why there is hard disk drive makers. Theyre doing great. Thats not a name. There are still some native programs. There are. Raymond james making moves on two airlines. Upgragd american to an outperform from market perform, downgrading american, so swapping ratings. Raymond james saying americans greater potential for upward earnings revisions and the recent recovery and the introduction of the second half of what is being called basic economy which is something worse than economy, if you can imagine that. Raymond james saying it likes the pass by oscar munoz, but thinks the activism will be a distraction here. The europe thing too, diab d get a lot of attention, a pretty major travel advisory warning dont go to europe. If we see a slowdown of 10 , goes to height dollar customer too, the front of the bus. Next stock, range resources. If you own this stock, Pay Attention. Barclays cutting it to an underweight from an equal weight, cut theirarget to 24. Stocks up 30. 5 bucks, 20 drop seen by barclays. Again, 20 drop. They say the financial challenge may be overlooked, they note that cash flow before hedges is negative. With the hedges, their cash flow positive. The hedges roll off at the end of the year, this is something we talked about a lot. Barclays is worried about going in a negative cash flow. Growing faster. So that higher multiple puts it more at risk according to barclays. This is the one year chart which doesnt look so hot. Year to date, month to date, the stock has done well. Interestingly, even with the price target being lower, theyre saying we are accounting for its continuing to trade at a are premium multiple. Thats how worried they are about next up, twitter. This is an interesting call from mkm, saying it could be a 65 to 70 stock by 2019 or a 6 to 7 stock. Can you imagine . To get to 70. In other words, zero visibility. No clue. To get to 70, twitter has to turn user growth and engagement around. The downside is in the valuation. And take a look at yahoo this is an interesting comparison, an audience two times the size of twitter, core valued at 3 billion, twitter at 9. And the stock has quietly resumed its decline. Ive been critical. Medium is actually gaining. A lot of competition out there. If you dont know 65 or 6 bucks, dont cover the stock. I dont understand. They have a mutual theyre saying there is a path, you know. Match. Com, mtch, a well known company. The sort of the dating site, whatever. Tinder. They own a lot of stuff. Under the radar name, sun trust robinson, buy rating, 15 target on match. They call the company on leader in the heavily fragmented market, worth 4 billion annually. About 45 Online Dating brands, match. Com owns a ton of them. They like also the potential for incremental montiization, i did not know this, match. Com also owns the Princeton Review College Study courses. 15 target on match, 30 upside. That is an interesting one. You got to wonder if synergies, study group, meet somebody. Thats so 1993, melissa. Lets meet in the study hall. 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This comes as the storied magazine publisher ditched nude photos and launched a revamp of the digital age. Thats the latest for now. This would be a sale of the intear company, not just potentially the whole company, or specific pieces of playboy. Seema, thank you. New data has been released from the salary Pay Transparency website, called glass door, thats quite a title for a company. Confirming in country after country, there is still a major pay gap between genders and that gap is greater in certain select occupations. I guess it should come as no surprise but as we look from country to country, the United States still women earn about 76 cents for every dollar men earn. Australia the pay gab is narrower, 82 cents, in france, 85 cents for every dollar. Amazon said they pretty much eliminated it. One of the things the story showed that the study sthoeed, it was different greater or lesser in certain professions and and geographgeographies, if in the same title, in the same company, at the same location, the pay gap basically disappears. Distinctions between how companies and Similar Industries theres the full screen showing the greatest disparities and they point out that typically these are areas where theres a disproportionate area of men in those and the data is not as robust there as well. So ceo was at the one of the top five. Interesting i guess, what amazon did, they looked at total compensation, staalary and stoc and said for them, women make 99. 9 cents per dollar. And kudos for amazon for that. So they say. Women and amazon. Amazonian women. You dont have to be tall to work there. Ive been there. There are some nontall people. Not all amazons. There are people shorter than you. Thats most people. 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They started buying it in 2010 when it was below its current price. So maybe they got greedy because there are some sequoia investors who may be in the money on valeant but i dont know how much more they bought. They did buy it they were buying as recently as last fall and thats when two independent board directors, two of five stepped down after contentious meeting where it was revealed that the Fund Managers were continuing to add to their positions in valeant. And weve known problems about valeant for at least quickly, separate note, wmb williams, no news but supposed to be bought by energy transfer. Theres been filings going back and forth. Williams committed to the deal. The stock is the biggest declining in the s p 500 today. They are supposed to get bought. I dont know anything, not suggesting anything. The market is trading williams with some concern over this deal, something to Pay Attention to. Tonight on fast money, the brand spanking new iphone, were going to check it out. Weve got the new ipad pro. Tonight on fast money. How do you know its the new one . We know. It looks like the old one. Seema . I want to point your attention to shares of game stop it is reporting earnings after the bell. Revenue of 3. 57 billion. It is up 10 year to date. Well see what happens when it reports tonight. Thanks for watching guys. Happy easter, everybody. See you monday. Hi, everybody, welcome to closing bell. Im kelly evans. And im bill griffeth, stocks on track to break the fiveweek winning streak. Were down for the week and this is the last trading day of the week and last trading hour. Well look at whats causing the five week rally to fizzle out. New rules to curb wall street bonuses are expected next month. Well tell you what they are and which firms could be impacted the most. Now, would you pay 10 cents to read an article online . How about 50 cents . Were going tont