Internals that are breaking down . Well have that coming up. James paulsen is not surprised by todays red arrows but hes also not worried. Hes here to talk about how hes playing the volatility. Is this a buying opportunity for him . It could be for you as well so stay tuned for that exclusive interview. Also, the fight over tesla continues. On friday on this program we had the arizona lawmaker who is now fighting to overturn that states ban of direct sales to consumers. Today the president of the Arizona Auto Dealers Association will join us exclusively presumably to give us the other side of that trade. That should be very interesting. Thats coming up later on the closing bell. So many people following that story. Here is whats happening in the markets. The dow is off 21 points as you can see there. Thats well off the session lows. Were climbing back towards positive territory, but still about 0. 1 to go. The nasdaq, this is the one getting all the attention. Its off 1. 2 . 50 points
Rigging, there you go. Millions voted for a ghost with a whitened smile. They had no idea who this man was or what he might do if he got elected. At the urging of the media, they voted for him anyway. Now the rest of us get to find out what they voted for. Joe biden is assembling his cabinet. We will go by his choices to let us know what to expect. Whats emerging as of tonight looks a lot like the h. R. Department at a large leftwing multinational. Heaps of woke authoritarian social policy mixed with a corporatist economic agenda. The rest of us will get stern lectures about our moral failings. Those never end. A small group of highly connected people will get even richer. Indoes that sound familiar to yr if jeff bezos and the google guys took over the entire u. S. Government, and effectively they have, this is what it would look like. Steve is the archetype to theli new biden aid, one of joe bidens closest advisors. Hes spent years as a lobbyist representing Companies Like general mot
Military discussion around rounds and moving towards what the consumer and commercial prospects are. A lot of discussion this week at facebook attention week interested in buying into this area. First, i want to get to this lead, which is microsoft. So many different moving parts of the company. The incoming ceo starting to make changes to management. The out going ceo speaking at oxford union about many things, including describing microsoft as a two trick pony. Also suggesting it was a bad move to move into hardware late in the game to go along with the software business. Bloomberg news also reporting behind the scenes happenings at microsoft the past few months, including that Steve Ballmer struggle to get the board approval on the 7 billion plus purchase of the handset business. On the development, i want to bring in matt mcewan. Seattlebased Venture Capital firm. You are right there alongside microsoft. Quite know the new ceo well. Starting with what Bloomberg News is reporting. A
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. This evening, we continue ongoing coverage of the crisis in ukraine. Many of the world top diplomats met in paris. They focus was on ukraine. For the First Time Since the crisis began, secretary kerry engaged in face to face talks with his russian counterpart. Russia can now begin to guess what the situation and we are committed to working with russia. Together with our friends and allies in an effort to provide a way for this entire situation to find the road to deescalation. The United States is ready to work with all parties to make that happen. And to make it happen as soon as possible. We renew our goal for russians to speak directly with the government of ukraine and senate use back to their bases and Welcome International observers and human rights monitors. We saw today what happens with the special envoy just how important it is to ensure the safety of those monitors and those observers. Also, chuck hagel told the Senate
World of startups. We want to talk about developments at microsoft trade as the new ceo puts his new Management Team in place, the bestknown manager arguably steve balmer passed hast the baton in terms of the ceo title is speaking out about some of his regrets about microsoft cost microsofts shifts into hardware. We are also getting fresh details from Bloomberg News on what was happening in the board room as steve balmer push to get that nokia deal done. Bloomberg News Technology editor and joins me here in San Francisco with the latest on the story. Ari, lets start with what we are learning about that process of steve balmer pushing for this bigger move into hardware, trying to get a nokia deal done. It sounds like Board Members were not so sure about it. The surprise would be if there was not a lot of debate in the board room about this. A 7 billion deal for a handset maker, for a company that is trying to shift into the next generation of software and devices. They are buying one of