drastically reduce its 11% stake in mazda to 3% or less. new luxury sales show not everyone is strapped for cash these days. u.s. sales shot up 12%. but the biggest spenders were in china where top dollar purchases soared 30%. millions of customers of new york-based cablevision spent the weekend not watching fox, including the nfl, and baseball playoffs. as a payment dispute between fox parent newscorp and cablevision enters its third day. keep an eye on shares of apple today. the tech titan is out with its quarterly results today after the bell. and finally 71-year-old gene epstein is hoping to tackle unemployment one job at a time. through his web site hire just one he s offering to donate $1,000 in charity for the first 250 businesses to put an unemployed person back to work. great idea. the phillies fight back. everything is okay for oklahoma. but there is big trouble in the big d. plus peyton manning and the colts look good in our nation s
who s doing something that might inspire you, just sounds like a good idea. i want to introduce you to gene epstein. this guy is amazing, joining me from philadelphia. he s a retired real estate investor and he has decided while it s got nothing to do with him, he s going to do something to try and help the jobless situation in this country. gene, welcome to our show. i read about what you did and i thought that was an interesting stunt but you re trying to get people employed. tell us your plan. ali, there s 5.7 million unemployed people pardon me, 5.7 small businesses in the united states. most of those business owners have i ve lost the words. i can t believe this. most of these businesspeople
i hope people like you who are out of the workforce and who have made some money catch on to this idea. because if everybody gives everybody a little bit of an incentive, you re absolutely right, the reward is much better. money will go toward good causes because you re donating it and people will find the economy improving. gene, thanks very much for what you re doing. my pleasure. i appreciate your time. gene is going to put $1,000 into his foundation which funds many of the causes that we speak about on this show for the first 250 small businesses who hire one person full time and keep them employed for at least six months. wouldn t president obama like solutions like that? he holds his first full-scale news conference in months. he covers everything from the economy to osama bin laden. ed henry s on the stakeout. but then autoblog.com calls your interior lexus quiet.