Big day for soccer. Its also a regular working day here in the u. S. Sony the interview opened up as planned. It was released online and at 331 theaters in the u. S. , mostly independent theaters. Sony has said it will release ticket sales later today, but there have been no reports of problems at any of the theaters or with online distribution. North korea is accused of launching a massive hack attack against sony to stop distribution of the movie that features the killing of their leader kim jungun. We thought this might not happen at all. Welcome to our neighborhood. We live around here. Weve been here before. Well, the movie seemed to go off okay. No problems have popped up for sony as of yet. Elsewhere, sonys online play station store and microsofts site suffered disruptions on thursday in a possible cyber attack. Both Companies Say theyre aware some users were having trouble signing on. An obscure group called lizard square posted online that it was responsible for the trouble wi
Coming off the joint news conference. That inches up toward the top of the page. And the president is likely to address greece when he was asked a question about it. Well get into this with bill miller. Find out why he remains bullish on the u. S. Stock market even though he thinks the fed will raise rates as early as june. Hell name the stocks hes looking at right now. Dont miss that exclusive interview coming up. All right. This man was named ronald lee. He recently died at the age of 92 after decades working as a janitor andq gas station attendant. So how did he amass an 8 million fortune in the stock market that no one knew about . Youll hear this mans entire amazing story. Find out how he did it. I love this story. I cannot wait for that. Here is where we stand. In the markets the dow having a tough session. Just above 17,700. The nasdaq off by 19. Joining our the Closing Bell Exchange is aaron gibbs bill from jpmorgan asset management. Jason pride from glen meade and our own rick
Territory record territory. The nasdaq worth keeping an eye on inching closer to 5,000. Its been the outperformer. We may be talking nasdaq 5,000 by next week sometime. Lets get to the Closing Bell Exchange exchange. Kim forrest is here, so is Peter Andersen from Congress Wealth management. Kevin carrone, ben willis from princeton securities joining us on the floor and Rick Santelli is in chicago. Lets start with Michelle Carusocabrera. Is she there . Im here yeah. So we have an agreement of sorts. Its just an extension, but do you sense were making some Real Progress this time around . Well the headline is that the greeks have caved on nearly everything it appears. They were never going to be subject to more reviews by the eu, the im f, and the ecb. Now theyre going to be subject to reviews by the eu the imf, and the ecb. They were never going to agree to commit to the current program. They have agreed to commit to an extension what happened to all the saber rattling when the new regi
Disastrous headline on obamacare, 50 to 100 million cancellation letters will go out next year to people with health plans from their employer. That is the shocking projection from the American Enterprise institute. The economy a mess, obamacare a rolling collapse, this presidency in disarray. Varney company is about to begin. [ res screech ] chewleys finds itself in a sticky situation today after recalling its new gum. [ male announcer ] stick it to the market before you get stuck. Get the most extensive charting wherever you are wi the mobile trader app from tameritrade. Its a story we cant avoid. The obamacare train wreck, every day we get a new disaster headline from the president s signature law. Here is the first one out today. According to the American Enterprise institute a second wave of Health Insurance cancellations on its way. This time, 50 to 100 Million People who get their plan from their employer, thats you, could lose their plan before the elections next year and then
Oil, not military. Right. Which is a good thing, for sure. The debate over executive pay takes a new turn today. Maybe youve heard this. Coke reportedly backing away from that controversial plan after comments made by Warren Buffett on this program recently indicating that he was not a fan of that proposal, even though he abstained and didnt vote against it. But would buffett have ever spoken out if not for activist investor David Winters . He was the first to sound the alarm bells about cokes lucrative pay plan for top executives. Dare we call an activist investor a hero . Warren buffett does a lot of homework but not on this company. It was David Winters who brought it up. Thats when buffett went and looked at the proxy and decided he didnt like what he saw. Exactly. Well talk about that a little bit later. Also, he is widely recognized as the best boxer alive today. He is of course, Floyd Mayweather jr. Hell sit down ahead of his big fight saturday night. Well get into that. Bill mi