thanks ge aside, it's rally on, garth the dow and s&p up again today what correction? because at session hides, the nasdaq wiping the 7 a 5-point loss from the february 1st close to the february 9th low? off the books. stocks may be being -- po receding a bit today as many of you listen on this sirius/xm, this is for you, shares up after more than a decades. the barron's article, this is cooler than the lithium channel. >> bobbi sani is on on the floor of the new york stock exchange hey, bob. >> hello, contessa we are seeing some nice moves up, near the highs of the day. i just want to point out this is the second day in a row we moved up. this is opposite of earlier last week when we went down in the middle of the day. so s&p is sitting near the highs second day in a row. there's three things that are happening. first, we are healing fast we moved down 10%. that second circle there is the bottom on the ninth we haven't seen this in a while about amazon, netflix, adobe, and jpmorgan with a 52-week high list third important thing, the cyclical groups are the ones moving again technologies, industrials, and consumer staples, defensive stocks are lagging in fact, you pug it all together, and it's starting to look like january again. the cyclicals have been performing since the bottom. tech's up almost 8% since the bottom financials have been doing better, these are the cyclical names, and still up, but lagging. remember, this is since the bottom, the bottom line here is the market seems to be telling you that the global growth story is still very much intact. guys, back to you. >> thanks, bob to the big interview on cnbc with berkshire's warren buffett. becky quick tacking with the oracle of omaha. becky? >> one of the cake takeaways from his annual letter to shareholders this year is that warren buffett and berkshire hathaway are sitting on $116 billion in cash. that's cash he would rather by using to buy businesses, but he says it's tough finding prices that he thinking are the right price. that's because berkshire hathaway is looking to buy an entire business. that doesn't mean that he thinking the stock market is overvalued. >> if you had to choose between buying long-term bonds or equities, i would choose equities in a minute now that doesn't mean i think the stock market is going to go up or anything us if i was going to own equity for 30 years, i think equities will considerably outperform that 30-year bond in fact they've been net buyers of stocks, buying in additional stocks, but that's the same thing he's telling investors however, there is one situation he would warrant you should never be doing if you are buying stocks that would be buying stocks on margin, borrowing money to buy stocks that's a huge problem he thinking there's a story on the lead talking about how margin bets in part fueled part of the set jolt we saw earlier this year that story points to the idea that there's $642 billion that's been leveraged against investors portfolios buffett says as far as he's concerned, he and charlotte munger have said that's the wrong think to do. >> my partner charlie says there's only way a person -- and when somebody says how they came back and made a second fortune, i'm not impressed, because why did they lose the first fortune? there's no reason -- there's just no reason to borrow money except you're in a hurry to get rich and ear risking going broke. they find that 1.31 has been bought on leverage, the highest since goldman sachs has been keeping track. guys, i'll send it back to you >> so here's the question, is warren buffett right as usual? shaun o'hara, and kevin here's a softball, because you're a stock guy. >> that had suggest that stocks ten to do better over the long run i would tend to bet along with them. >> that stocks would fall 25%. that's a big number. it gets your attention do you agree with that that bonds in many ways control stocks >> yes, but you just played a trick on me. you changed the time horizon from -- >> that's what i'm known for, playing tricks he's trying to say over the long run stocks are the play to put your money for that kind of duration, but longer term when he's finding things hard to find, he's reflecting a shorter-term outlook. he's saying given the prices today, it's difficult to find something attractive to buy, and he would prefer to buy cheaper. >> shorter term, though, sean, we're seeing that they both -- and that seems to be driven by this -- this -- the yield in the ten-year, which has actually gone lower. >> so to brian's point, if they're being held hostage, we sell off that's the pattern. >>ite not -- it's how high rates may go, that's the real issue. you're buying the current cash flow and that value of future earnings is affected by in large bauer borrowing cost, debts, and whether that cost will go up or down wage and wage growth, which were the two big culprits now we're able to digest the fed will not be as accommodative, so we have to get back to more normalized level on the market. the overall fundamentals and under pinnings are solid we look at free cash flow, and we see lots and lots of companies generates huge amounts of cash, but earnings continue to come in above what the estimates are, and we've had another solid quarter of earnings all of that i think so long as we don't go crazy and have rates spike up or inflation somehow come around or a huge wage growth i think we're okay to move forward from here. is is it time to accept the new -- >> our conflaying issues, right? the volatility in part was created by certain markets that were pegged to volatility. and that's a fairly complicated thin there has not been any normal e normalized volatility, so we got used to it being around 10 and sitting. that's not normal. it moving around do i expect to go back to 50 on volatility in the next 30 days highly doubtful. i think we'll settle down a bit, but we'll see a more normalize the pattern, as an event that drives it like a blowup from the two inverse and short vix products >> are you -- tomorrow with the jay possibly testimony at the house? >> not really. what's more likely is you'll get a transition here that is going to try to be consistent. >> so if anything it's probably more likely you'll get some sense of calm one of the things we learned is the rate expectations are moving with the storm, as it ran up through january into february, so too did the rate expectations. as the stock market ran into turbulence, the rate expectations backed right off. it's interesting to see the relationship between the new fed chair and rates and the storm. i would expect to see a local of attempts to show continuity between what janelle yellen was say and the incoming fed chair. >> kevin, sean, thank you very much see you soon. >> thank you. >> thank you very much the dow is up now, but ge getting slammed against, the stock hitting its lower level since 2010, the company restating earnings and could be facing legal act just how much more bad news could be out there we head out, check out this rally. 3 leading the dow right now. at holiday inn express, we can't guarantee that you'll be able to contain yourself at our breakfast bar. morning, egg white omelet. sup lady bacon! fruit, there it is! but we can guarantee that you'll get the best price when you book with us. holiday inn express. be the readiest. welcome back to "power lunch. the dow transports participating in this rebound we are seeing, no doubt helped by warren buffett's upbeat comments about the airlines he also has stakes in the railroad industry, of course with berkshire's ownership service burlington northern santa fe the dow transports still about 6% from the all-time high which was said back in january. >> thank you, seema mody the dow is rallying, but ge getting hit once again, the stock hitting its lowest level restating two years of earnings and may also face legal action by the justice market. let's bring in rob cox, global editor at reuters, and james gray from -- dean, i'll kick it off with you do you feel you have a handle on what ge? >> that's the question that everyone is asking with ge, we said this at the beginning of year, because news has been coming in in installments we got another install after the close on friday, as you pointed out. the latest bad news was a potential doj action, on a legacy business so we're still not seeing a bottom. >> rob, that's bad news. you think it's dead money. is there a possibly a case that can be made for an investor who's looking for a deep, deep, you know, bargain? >> i think it's a classic value trap general electric is untangling what is almost 40 years of financial engineering. so it was the creation of ge capital, the financialization of the industrial -- one of the greatest industrial businesses in the world that took place, you know, from jack welch's tenure, to jeff immelt in 2001, and really john is coming in trying to disentangle a giant conglomerate right down to the level of these liabilities still on the books it may not take the 40 years to create this mess, but it will take a couple years to wind it all down so i mean, if you really want to even some of these -- have exposure to the aircraft engine bess, power, whatever it is, there are a million places to go rob, you mentioned financial engineering with the undertone there's something wrong with it. companies every day engage in financial engineering, even if you're calling it a stock buyback program. >> you're not suggesting something illegal but something -- >> ftc coming out on friday night, but it's for the s.e.c. and regulate aror to figure on the there was something untoward i'm just saying they make unfortunate greatest products in the world. they are the leader with jet engines. they make incredible lock motives. the problem is you have this overlay of finance, which is -- again, it's not necessarily illegal or wrong -- well, i should say it's created so many problems that built up over 40 years that john flannery is spending all his time just fixing it, just so you can get a pure view and insight into these businesses. >> dean, what have we learned about jeff immelt's tenure >> i think one of the biggest stigmas against that tenure has been capital allocation decisions that have not worked out for the company. i agree with rob that there's a lot of repair that needs to happen at ge we did get good news, this has been almost a year coming before we saw a positive catalyst, but i think the announcements today about three new board nominees can be a game changer, both in investor sentiment, but actually making real change. >> deane, i'm saying this was supposed to be one of the most well-run, and after the crisis we learned that ge capital wasn't all that. they're talking about restating two years of earnings. how much of it has been a facade fooling investors and analysts alike. >> let's be clear, on the restatement of earnings, this is new, the suggestion that smun you toward, that's not the case. >> the stock is down 50% in a year, deane. >> i agree we're neutral on the stock here. there's still a lot of repair that needs to go on, but i think your focus needs to be more forward-looking than backwa backward-looking at this stage and i point the to the news of the three new board nominees. >> thank you both. many folks are mad about the state of college basketball. the money scandal is plaguing ncaa as we head out, you have a big rally on wall street take a look at some of the names eye ring the dow th'rall up nicely. th'rall up nicely. 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>> he he reportedly had a deal, because jerry richardson got in trouble because of the harassment accusation, franken lorenzo fertitta, the cousin of tillman fertitta, have reportedly hired a company to talk about selling casinos so you're not allowed to have casinos if you own team. you get into the club, the league and the other owners get family with you, with your 5% stake and you use that reputation to buy a bigger stake later on. >> when you're talking about selling casinos, make the whole supreme court case that's up against sports gambling will change the whole culture which the changed the whole world. >> a year from now, would they have to sell their casinos leagues could still say we don't want you to have both. that's a good point to watch, if it becomes legal, could an owner own a team and a casino? >> a lot of that depends on whether the nfl decides to succumb to the pressures that go along with this yen for sports gambling nationwide. >> have there been cousins who own sports teams >> eric, thank you. >> thanks. rebuilding america's energy infrastructure, a ceo weighs in and more back december lash against the nra. delta and unedit, the latest we'll talk to a ceo who is standing his ground. match guarantee too. and if that's not enough... we should move. our home team will help you every step of the way. still not enough? 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>> the world that we would prefer to see is a national price on carbon. >> do you need to raise rates? >> this is not an issue of survival for the utility what we have said to the state of new jersey, absent federal action, new jersey could consider life with our without the nuclear plants we have seen several constitutionsies that without those plants, rates will go up even higher. it's literally cheaper to make them economic. >> if they're the will of the people to keep those nuclear plants up and running safely -- >> first of all safety is number one, far and away. except for our competitors, no one wants to see the plants go away in my town there's beautiful trees, but a deer farts, and they fall over and everybody loses power for days if there is an infrastructure plan, what can pseg do to prevent these ridiculous power losses -- >> trimming the trees is much cheaper. >> but power lines are like 100 years old. >> number two, the energy they use is cleaner, and number three, they don't suffer interruptions. >> with $100 million what would you do >> we spent 3.1 billion last year number one was the transmission system, but basically what you're worried about is the stability of the overall grid. >> does tax reform enable you to spend and upgrade your system and immediately deduct -- >> it's a second-order benefit every penney we reduce in terms of taxes goes right to the customer, so the expression we use is because the bill came down we created some headroom that we're referring to. >> president trump has outspoken about his support for big coal new jersey has been one of the leading states on solar. how does the administration support for coal affect how you operate. >> we have two remaining coal plants one will be retired in about 18 months the other we own a slice of. we're not investing in coal going forward. we don't think it has a strong environmental future roth, thank you. roth izzo, ckreismceo of pseg. how is the bond market going? >> it's not acting very volatile today. that is considered the pivot today. we've had a downward drift since last wednesday ease cycle close. >> let's look at some charts that start out in july of last year there's our ten-year we've led the charge globally. let's look at france july and october, left and middle, whatever is higher is what traders are paying attention to, so we're at 83, they're looking at 88 basis points from july the guilty in the uk, it's currently at 151 finally the bund, definitely july 60 basis points currently trading 65 we're leading the charts for other central banks and others -- they have turned a bit, but make looking at other -- >> contessa, back to you. >> thank you very much. the list of companies distancing themselves with the nra getting longer and longer. mp'll talk to the head of one coany standing by the nra, when business and politics collide, next. big thinking in the finger lakes is pushing the new new york forward. we're the number one dairy and apple producers in the eastern united states supported by innovative packaging that extends the shelf life of foods and infrastructure upgrades that help us share our produce with the world. all across new york state, we're building the new new york. to grow your business with us in new york state, visit esd.ny.gov welcome back let's talk about guns in corporate america, shall we? the list of companies severing ties with the national rifle association continues to grow. over the weekend companies -- united airlines, enterprise, allied, north american van lines, just to name a few. saying they're going to edge their partnerships some of these are basically a couple percent off to the flight to the nra convention in dallas. you name it. pay the $40 annual fee, get some discounts, it will pay for itself in other words, first national bank of omaha was really the first company on to do it. that was on thursday, but note every company is following suit. so star there are some companies who either have a partnership deal or some kind of business relationship with the nra that are sticking with it fedex probably being the biggest among them hole planner, they have either not ended or haven't said anything so far about this by the way, amazon, apple, roku and youtube, that's kind of different. in fact there's a lot of talk -- they're not in partnership deals. it's mostly the nra's online tv network being broadcast or streamed through these platforms that people have an issue saying they should prevent that as well those aren't partnership deals, more streaming content deals the nra is not taking this lying down in fact they fired back in a statement say, in part -- in time these brands will be replaced by others who recognize that patriotism and determined commitment to constitutional fremont doms are characteristics of a marketplace they very much want to serve. there you go that's the nra coming out. let's talk with soming who is sticking with it the ceo of hotel planner you're one of the companies that's stuck by the nra. why? >> well, you know, we are just a classic hospitality company. you know, we came from roots of hospitality where hotels welcome all guests it's not political you know, if anybody comes to your drawer, regardless of what they're wearing or whether they're from, you welcome them that's classic hospitality that's where we come from. my grandfather was a hotel developer and owner. my father is a hotel developer and owner, a longtime executive with hyatt my mother was the founder of a major tour operation company that brings millions of people into the u.s. from all countries, and we just believe in classic hospitality if you ask us to be part of your boycott war, that's not what we are about. we're about welcoming all guests. >> so, tim, let's get down to the numbers. how much of your business relies on the nra or its members for revenue? >> nothing i mean, the numbers are insignificant. it's not about money it's not about any of that it's about bringing people together, which has been about our core business, you know, that's what we started the company 15 years ago for that's why we'll do 900,000 groups worldwide everybody knows that we care about people >> you make it clear that you want your company to be aglobal force for good i read that you personally support more gun control so how do you maintain those stances and still maintain your relationship with the nra and what it supports >> abu we're pretty intelligence over at hotel planner. we're always innovating, and i see where one side is digging in heels and where the other side is digging in heels. it's time to bring those parties together i would love to be the facilitator to bring them together the amount of hateful rhetoric that's got back and forth is just wrong if they would reach out, we radio happily make this come together if you look at history -- >> you're leaden an employee-owned businesses, your employees have a vested interest in your company doing well if you face a massive boycott and you see your revenues declining it would hurt your employees. what's the role of a ceo in staking outintersection between politics and business. there's that intersection every day. businesses have to take a stand where politics are concerned >> you know, our employees are like family. going back to how i was raised, if you treat your employees well, if you treat your customers well, people will come to you, and all my employees, and i have spoken with them about this when this first came out, sent out a statement. we have all come together, because we all want to help. we want to make this world a better place so they're on board with my mission, and our mission as a company to bring people together it's not a new slogan. we had the slogan before anyone else adopted our facebook is up to 1 million followers of bringing people together that's all our mission when we bring people together, powerful work gets down. that's in our commercial for a reason we don't put it out as a statement. we truly believe in it that's why after all the heat that i've taken over the weekend, i will stand by the statement that we bring people together for good. and we will do great things together >> we appreciate you so much sharing your conviction with us. thanks, tim. thank you. is amazon a threat to u.p.s. one analyst's take on that stock. we'll hear from washing buffett on the topic and a reminder, "fast money" is back -- no more curling, sorry, guys more "power lunch" in the meantime is straight ahead energy is changing fast and we're changing with it. building a smarter grid, investing in new technologies, that's aep's road to the future. and the international brotherhood of electrical workers helped make that happen. the ibew's outstanding union professionals have the skills and training to get the job done right. that's good for our customers and for our bottom line. ibew members are our power professionals. they should be yours as well. you know what's not awesome? 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roller skates? they're going to be big for guess because they're hot in this, and the company's channel check shows improving trends in north american retail. google search trends shows consumers are responding well to new guess looks and they added the recent stock buyback is a great entry point. >> i feel like you have retro tees >> well, for me, they're not retro. i'm old so they're just old. they're actually real. i mean, just you know. >> they're vintage >> my mom went to hawaii and all i got was a t-shirt thing. >> the never big trend, no lie, dad jeans. so you're right in there with the retro tees just saying. >> this is how it's going to go? >> pretty much >> this is how it's going to be. dad jeans? >> great to have you with us here i really enjoy myself here >> a big rally on wall street right now. the dow up travelers, 3b, and boeing leading it higher. much more in the second hour of "power," and more from warren buffett on stocks, first, on where he likes to eat lunch. >> have you been to taco bell or chipotle >> neither one >> neither >> no, i go to kentucky fried, i go to mcdonald's, burger king. >> skirting the question skirting the question. taco bell -- >> no, i'm forhiev o wcherne serves coca-cola each day our planet awakens with signs of opportunity. but with opportunity comes risk. and to manage this risk, the world turns to cme group. we help farmers lock in future prices, banks manage interest rate changes and airlines hedge fuel costs. all so they can manage their risks and move forward. it's simply a matter of following the signs. they all lead here. cme group - how the world advances. i'm contessa brewer. here's what's on the menu. finding value. warren buffett says stocks aren't overvalued. we debate. >> taking flight airline stocks moving higher. warrant buffet says he wouldn't rule out owning an entire airline. should you follow him into the sector >> and cost of school security the idea of hardening schools to protect against shooters is gaining a lot of attention, following the florida massacre, but is it realistic? "power lunch" starts right now >> we would have to call it air hp maha. your money is looking good this monday the dow soaring. it's gained back nearly 80% of the losses from the recent drop. right now, the dow is up 1.3%. that's 340 points in today's parlance if you have invested in technology, telecom, or financials, you're probably making money today netflix and amazon continue to print money for their investors. those stocks, yeah, all-time highs yet again. netflix up 52% this year we dig a little deeper in tech semi-conductor stocks on the move micron, intel, qualcomm your highs. jpmorgan, mastercard, and the chicago mercantile exchange. if you don't like losing money, look away. ge falling yet again it's actually up .4% overall earlier, the stock hitting its lowest level since 2011 ouch >> $13 and change earlier today. for more on this market rally, let's bring in bob pisani and mike santoli mike, i'll start off with you because today is kind of an interesting anniversary. it marks the one-month anniversary since the markets melt-up peak but surprisingly, even though the markets went through this bout of volatility, not a lot has changed in terms of the fundamental characteristics of the rally we have seen >> one of the things that's pretty striking about the recovery is the leadership profile in the market has been roughly what it was going into the peak it's not been as broad a rally but definitely been very solid and led by things like financials, technology, industrials. those sectors that in fact were more cyclical oriented and basically say good things about what's happening in the economy. down 3.5% from that all-time high, but up 3% for the s&p 500 for the year to date it seems like the market has found its footing. a little narrower. it's a little more of a selective recovery >> two points. first, we're healing fast. brian mentioned we are almost 80% of the losses have been regained number two, starting to see a lot of old friends show up on the high list. amazon, netflix, jpmorgan is there. this looks a lot like january. number three, to your point, the cyclicals are leading the rally, from the bottom that we saw. tech and industrials are leading the way. that tells me that investors believe the underlying growth story, the global growth story, is still fairly intact right now. >> 80% recovery, is that actually believable? do you feel confident in the stunt of this? it seems like whenever we get rate shocks, we had the fomc minutes last week. they're perceived as more hawkish. perceptions that the rates, the ten-year yield was going higher. it seems like whenever we're go above 2.9%, that causes problems for the markets. here we are, 2.8% and change and things are fine. >> you asked the right question, which is this a reprieve from the rate story or a pardon i don't know that that's clear at that point. i also don't think people should say, well, up 80%. we go back to the highs and up and away from there. you never know how these processes are going to play out. it's probably key to look to the year to date up 3.5% year to date, two months into the year, it's not too bad. it's really just a matter of the contrast with where we were sitting a month ago. >> these are stutter steps if we suddenly went over 3%, we all know that the market is going to have problems with that if it happens suddenly if mr. powell comes on this week and says these gradual moves up, and he calls them gradual or downplays it, i think the market will get more acustoms to sitting at 2.8 than it has been in the past. >> thank you the oracle of omaha, warren buffett, appeared on squawk box and made the case for stocks over bonds >> if you had to choose between buying long-term bonds and equities, i would choose equities in a minute now that doesn't mean i think the stock market is going to go or anything else, but if i were going to own a 30-year government bond or equity for 30 years, i think equity is considerably outperforming the bond over the 30 years >> let's bring in laura, head of equities with rpc capital markets, and steve wood. but you think, steven, that equities are too expensive >> i do. the 30-year time raise changes one's calculus in the near term, u.s. equities are expensive. the cycle looks good a little better after the tax stimulus we think in the near term, fundamentals look good earnings are also going to look good, but you need to substract off the fed reaction function. i thinkthese valuations in the u.s. given where we are in the cycle is just providing predominantly u.s.-dollar based investor to ability to trim the u.s. and rebalance globally. >> so in a shorter term timeline, not 30 years, but maybe in two years, what do you like better than american equities >> i think right now, we like european opportunities in equity space. core european fixed income looks expensive, but relative valuations are there much earlier earning cycle i'll be in japan in two weeks. there's some opportunities in japan as well. i would say global multiasset, and also active strategy is something, this has exposed some of the value add that active strategy can provide >> he is a packers fan but clearly hates america. do you feel like europe and japan offer better investing values >> we have heard a lot of our european clients make the case that europe has a little better valuations and i'm not going to argue with that, but the u.s. still looks great from a valuation perspective. we're still sitting at a rage where you're up about 10%, and typically up about 82% of the time from the levels we're at. >> why aren't you concerned about valuitions >> we had this massive improvement, and a lot has been tax driven, but we have see a lift to revenue expectations the economy is very, very strong we don't see any kind of imminent signs of recession or crisis coming up and the valuations are giving you room i mean, i think we really got some breathing room from this tax reform >> i think the information we're looking at as well, when the stock market and bond market disagree, you go with the bond market you have a two-year note right now that is 2.22, on its way to 2.25 if we get a little drift back in the ten-year, you have a spread right now that's getting closer to 55 basis points probably closer to 50, so that flattening yield curve, even though the fundamentals are strong, but because the fundamentals are strong, that curve could be an amber light. at these valuations, a global rebalance gives you more opportunity. >> how closely will you be watching what powell has to say tomorrow >> we're definitely keeping an eye on it. at the end of the day, we have new leadership at the fed. it's coming at a time where rates are starting to move more quickly than people would like i don't expect any nasty surprises, but i do think it's important. >> it will be interesting to see how he addresses the recent market turmoil in response to rising rates that's what happened since the last fomc meeting. we don't know how the fed as a body interprets what we saw in the stock market in february >> absolutely. if you look at the fed's path coming into the current chairmanship under powell, the fed was very comfortable normalizing rates into mediocrity now that we are seeing an improvement in the economy, an improvement on inflation, a two-handle is more likely than a 1.5, it may be more likely 3 is a more comfortable policy path for the fed than two in the next year and a half, up front, i think you get a lot of short-term good news, but then the delayed function of the fed, when you look at a year and a half, two years out, is just a good opportunity to diversify. >> what could powell say tomorrow that would scare you? >> i think he's probably not going to say anything that's would be unexpected. steady as she goes, but there are more hawkish members, so maybe of the vocabulary, if it's more in that camp, i think the market would notice that, but i think right now, the paint drying in the background, the balance sheet issue. if he says something that changes that, that would be something we notice. >> it's interesting a lot of the consensus is we're seeing him sticking to the rivers and lakes the fed is used to, just to quote an old song. >> a little tlc on a monday. >> thank you very much appreciate that. >> the latest data on new home sales coming in much worse than expected are higher interest rates hurting the housing market diana olick is live in washington diana. >> and the short answer is yes the new home sales number is based on signed contracts during the month. so people out shopping and inking a deal with a home builder, it's the most current read really on demand, and here's what happened mortgage rates, first take a look at where mortgage rates went from january 1 to 31. up about a quarter percentage point. in addition, the new tax bill was signed into law. it takes away nice breaks for homeowners, especially in higher cost markets so new home sales took a tumble. down over 7% for the month after falling even more in december. new home sales are now down 1% compared to a year ago that's the first negative annual read we have seen in a long time we also saw the supply of newly built homes for sale rise to the highest in over four years just over a six-month supply that's usually considered a healthy supply indicating a balance with demand, but when you have the supply of existing homes for sale at half of that, a record low, you can see that there's going to be a problem there. that problem is affordability. people may want to buy new homes, but they are being priced out. back to you guys >> all right, diana, thank you very much. >> on deck, america needs infrastructure ideas we also need money australia wants to help. with both. what can we learn from our friends down under australia's ambassador to the united states will join us next. plus, new fed chair jerome powell headed to capitol hill for his first testimony as head 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of experience in infrastructure investment currently, sydney has the second highest number of operating cranes of any city in the world. equally important, it's got 48 tunnel boring machines operating under the city building new pipelines, building new railways and roads and the fact is that in partnership with the private sector, you can get a lot of infrastructure built and america has a $4.5 trillion infrastructure shortfall by 2025 so in saeven years, it needs to find an additional $4.5 trillion for infrastructure and even president trump's initiative is a long way short of that. >> i'm sure you met with the prime minister following the meetings with president trump. probably a lot you cannot talk about, ambassador, but did the prime minister come away optimistic that the united states would be able to indeed get some kind of infrastructure plan passed? >> well, brian, i was in all those meetings with the president. i can sayto you that the president is very aware of the infrastructure needs of america. and so, too, are all the administration officials the fact is, if you do not get new infrastructure in the united states, your economic growth will slow down and if your economic growth slows down, that costs jobs. so what webring to the table i our experience in public/private partnerships that's one of the reasons why our prime minister spoke with the national governors' association here in a landmark contribution last weekend. and it was focused on what we can do in partnership levels importantly, at a state level in australia and a state level in the united states, because let's face it. washington doesn't build a lot of infrastructure, nor does camber in australia. it really is localized where the development process is in the control of the local counsels, the local governments, and also importantly, where they know where the demand is. >> this is where your model is a litt little controversial here, which is called asset recycling, which i think we can agree needs a new name, which is basically you sort of outsource the infrastructure to not the government, to groups, and they decide, airports or roads or bridges are going to be leased out. >> hold on no, no, look, you have counties and cities and states in america that have probably around $2 trillion of state-owned enterprises. often people talk about it in the context of china, but america has a lot of state-owned enterprises. mainly, all its airports almost all of the major airports in america are owned by a state, a county, or a city. and quite frankly, they're not great shareholders small cities that own enormous airports, and those airports, they pay no tax, they pay no profit, and a lot of them need additional capital so what the british have done, what europeans have done, what australia has done is leased out the airports and in our case, that's just the airports could be ports, could be a range of different pieces of state-owned assets and you lease them out to the private sector it could be workers pension funds that buy them, buy the lease, and what we set out is a plan where if a county or city leased out its airport to the private sector, the proceeds that it received for the lease out of that asset are then redeployed into new infrastructure that was what asset recycling is it's a massive windfall for the county and city. it gets more efficiency in the assets, but importantly, you have $2 trillion of companies out there for the first time would start paying tax >> i was suggesting in some corners of american discourse, privatization is a dirty word. >> same in australia same in australia. >> on a different note here, you were a member of australian parliament when they passed the laws in the late '90s basically restricting gun ownership in australia. one of the safest countries, one of the least amounts of gun violence of first nations in the world. you're an outsider looking in to the american political process do you think anything can or will be done about gun laws in the united states, ambassador. >> it's a very tough issue it's a very tough issue here in the united states. the entire culture around guns, the history of the second amendment, a range of different things it's it's very different to australia's experience we don't want to lecture our great mates about gun laws our own experience is quite clear. we have banned semiautomatic and automatic weapons back in 1996, and thank god, and you know, for a range of different reasons, we put in a whole lot of other initiatives such as mental health checks, delay between the time you purchase a gun and when you actually can receive the gun, a whole lot of different things that came into play but i want to emphasize that it's a very different environment here than the united states and a very different history and really, you know, your safety is in your hands, appropriately, and we're not going to give you a lecture from the other side of the world. >> australian 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up a full percentage point today. >> the mass shooting in parkland, florida, is once again focusing attention on school security the president has proposed arming teachers. others are pushing for more security and protective technology all of it comes at a cost. even if the benefits are debatable. scott cohen has been crunching numbers. he's at a high school in california with more on this story. scott. >> hi, contessa. we're in newark, california, in the bay area, but it could just as easily be newark, new jersey, or newark, delaware, or any american school district, all now re-evaluating their security after yet another masdz shooting in fact, the superintendent here says that has become the top priority >> school safety is always our biggest concern. if i had to pick one question that we get from anyone is really how safe are schools? that's kind of the question that people ask before they even get to academic questions. >> this is pretty typical suburban high school, and the security here is already very visible. perimeter fencing, security guards, cameras, and a cutting edge monitoring system that can detect the sound and pinpoint the location of gunshots anywhere on campus but sanchez says there's still room for more, bringing this district with 13 schools and 6,000 students up to speed would take about $3 million to $6 million, that's as much as 5% of the total budget now, the partner alliance for safer schools is a nonprofit funded in part by the security industry it says at the very least, schools should look at lighting and signage, better doors and windows, surveillance, communication. all of the training that goes with that. and all of that can be had, the organization says, for about $100,000 for a typical elementary school or $170,000 for a high school. now, of course, every school is different. just as rekeying the locks here at this high school, they say, would cost about $100,000. and a lot of experts we have talked to says there's always an overemphasis on physical security when the real key is better communication between staff, students, and mental health personnel >> so i'm a mom here, and i send my kids off to school every day, so when i look at school shootings, it affects me personally there are those who propose that instead of hardening the school up, what they should do is invest more money, as you said, in mental health that means in guidance counselors who are really paying attention in early intervention programs that deal with kids with problem behaviors, that deal more effectively with bullying at a young level. at that school, where you are, is there any talk about those kinds of more social programs? >> absolutely. and that's what they say is one of the keys here they have a lot of that in place. and the superintendent, who actually comes from colorado and was working in aurora at the time of the theater shootingering has kind of a unique perspective on this and he says that the key throughout his career has been better communication between staff and students, and it's not necessarily about violence, about mental health, about bullying it's just developing those relationships and also beefing up the educational programs. funding is tight, though, and that's part of the issue when these kinds of incidents fade from the public view, non-academic programs become on the chopping block first including school security. >> scott, thank you. you know, one of the things here is that if you're talking about better communications with staff, with the teachers, as you add more students to any class, it becomes harder and harder for teachers to make that one-on-one connection and to really try to intervene, and again, what we saw in florida is that there were adults who were trying to intervene with the alleged shooter. and he just still kept falling through the cracks >> yeah. good point there all right, tomorrow, an important day for the markets. jurole powell's big debut. the fed chair set to make his first appearance before congress what could he say about rate hikes, inflation, and rising deficits plus, warren buffett is standing by wells fargo saying the new ceo is, quote, working like crazy to clean things up. should you consider buying we'll debate that. hello, everyone. i'm sue herera here's your cnbc news update a gun control rally held in tallahassee. hundreds of people braving the rainy weather, marching from florida state university to the state capitol building protesters carrying signs and chanting slogans, calling for stricter gun control measures. an incredible crash on a canadian highway between a semi truck and a greyhound bus, shutting down the highway. the moment of impact was caught on camera. dozens of people were reported injured. some critically. 29 people were transported to local hospitals. severe storms across arkansas spawning tornadoes over the weekend. security camera video shows the exact moment thetornado hit in oseola winds up to 90 miles per hour ripping off a motel roof and actress heather locklear arresting sunday night at her california home on suspicion of domestic violence and battery on a police officer the incident involving her boyfriend. she was checked out at the hospital before then being booked into the ventura county jail >> you're up to date that's the news update this hour back to you. >> thank you, sue. sue herera >> stocks in full rally mode, hitting session highs. nasdaq erasing the losses in the recent selloff, now turning positive for the month of february dow and s&p have recovered about 85% of their losses. technology and financials are your winners utilities the only sector in the redd and the oil market is closing for the day. let's get over to jackie deangelis at the commodities desk >> good afternoon. crude logging another positive session, alongside the movement, we're seeing in stocks today the closing price, just under $64 a barrel session high, $64.24 interesting, the session low was $63.06 so holding over $63 to the downside now, prices continue this steady march higher as we head into the spring the feeling is demand is strong, supplies will tighten, but expectations are it may be stronger this year with trump tax policies taking effect look for a cross of $65.50 to get back to the highs we saw earlier in the year. >> thank you jerome powell testifying before congress tomorrow on monetary policy. his first appearance on the hill since taking over from janet yellen given the interest rate concern on wall street, this is shaping up to be a hugely important testimony. could there be surprises joining us, the former deputy white house secretary to george w. bush. jared bernstein, economic adviser to joe biden, and steve, what does everybody want to hear do they want jay powell to say the most bland thing possible? >> i don't think he can. i think he has to answer some salient questions out there, including what he thinks about these tax cuts and the impact they're deg to have on monetary policy i think that's the key we want to hear about his inflation dynamic and what he thinks, does he think inflation is going back to 2%? is he okay, cool with the idea it may float a little above 2%, 2.5% what we're doing here is resetting, rediscovering, finding anew the reaction function of a new fed chairman to the economy glow know him. what can we expect from him? will he be -- what's he like what's he going to do? >> i think he's a very studious person but he's not an economist. he's going to be sort of learning a little bit on the job. he's had five years to learn some of the economic stuff, but he's not an economist by training i think the key is whether or not he's more of a supply-side guy. do we hear him say that the tax cuts are going to lead to productivity growth, which should keep inflation down, or is he more concerned on the other side, which would have been more of what yellen said, the tax cuts are a keynesian stimulus and create inflationary threat >> what i want to know from jay powell is how he interpreted the mark market's tumult in the month of february and how that might influence the course of monetary policy in the past, the fed led by janet yellen has indicated the markets are an input in total of what they look at. where does he stand, right >> exactly, that's what we're all listening for. the way you teed it up is exactly right. it's very common for fed chairs and fed governors to signal the following to the market. we're watching you we care about you. we certainly don't want to surprise you we would like to give you forward guidance to tell you what we're up to, but we're not going to be driven by you. there's a certain independence there that's really important. while i agree with everything steve said, i think he's right on point, it's not just the tax cuts it's also $300 billion in spending that we haven't heard from a fed governor, since that's been implemented. remember, on the tax cut alone, they kicked things up in terms of their forecast a bit, very much on a keynesian, not a supply-side thing. i think we're going to hear a steady as she goes presentation. i think he's looking over his shoulder more at janet yellen than the financial markets don't surprise anybody >> tony, at this point, how much emphasis are you putting on what he says about the pace of rate hikes? >> look, i think that's what everyone is looking for, right are we going to get some clue that the fed is thinking about an additional rate increase in the year to 18 months ahead. and i think it's a difference between new york and washington. this testimony markets in new york will be paying attention to his clues on potential rate hikes and his views on inflation and whether there's some evidence of overheating. the politics in washington, though, are going to be where republicans and democrats on the committee are going to be trying to use jay powell to make their points about either the deficit in tax cuts or, you know, the republicans will be asking what do you have against growth we haven't seen enough growth and wage increases in a long time >> how thin is that ice? >> how thin is that ice? >> yeah, when you're trying to delicately balance - >> it's tough. yeah, it's a thin -- it's thin ice or a thin spit of land for him to occupy. but he's not the first fed chairman to have to play that role and you know, we have seen greenspan was masterful at it, and bernanke learned to do it really well. and janet yellen even did it well i have confidence jay powell will do it well also he's got good staff helping him anticipate those questions but that's -- it's almost irrelevant because democrats and republicans will be making their own points >> just a quick point on that. jay powell may well get asked, especially since the economic board of the president has just come out, do you really think the economy can grow at 3%, which is the ten year projection of the trump administration? most economists, the vast majority, think that's a way optimistic estimate. and i think he'll dance around that much like tony suggested, but look for that question, probably from democrats. >> what do you think, steve? what are the land mines you see potentially for jay powell tomorrow >> you know, i think what powell has to do is, as tony said, balance what washington wants to hear versus what new york wants to hear. i think also that he's in between a rock and a hard place on some of this economic growth stuff. as jared said, 3% is not the consensus of most economists i think the inflation question, whether or not he sides with the idea that if markets get too tight, we'll have an inflation reaction, if labor markets get too tight, we have an inflation reaction i think that creates a problem for him in that it starts to ratchet up the expectations for markets, for greater interest. at the same time, i don't see the downside as that great because at this point, i still think we're talking about, is it three or four rate hikes this year i don't think, at least i hope not, that we're looking at a 350-point rally on the dow, that people think is no good if the fed does 100 basis points versus 75 basis points. i look at the market, and i hope it's more rational than that >> i agree with that, by the way. i think we put much too much emphasis on the 25-basis-point hikes, at least in terms of their economic impact. >> the place where the rubber will meet the road, i think, is 2019 i don't think he's quite ready to talk about that yet because i think the market is comfortable with three or four this year but if you start getting into a 2019 forecast, which the market will come around to discounting, say, halfway through the year here, maybe june or july, and we start looking at a steeper rate hike, in that year, that's when it could really trouble the market >> we talked about the impact of tax reform hitting full stride potentially later this year in terms of cap-x spending and the impact on 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>> we're very biased here at barclays, we have our top pick on american airlines but we like the management team and structure of returns at delta airlines we could argue maybe delta has the better international network with their joint structures globally, but out of the four carriers, it's hard to pick one. southwest has had the tried and proven business model, but arguably, all four offer such tremendous value and we saw the railroads trade at five times ebitda going back ten or fifteen years ago that's where the airlines are today, and the sectors are similar in that regard >> we're looking at american, southwest, united, delta, all having a good day today. what moves them back, you know, you're talking about weeks if not months since buffett first said he was hot on airlines. >> yeah, it's funny. we just had a big investor lunch here today the last time airlines were really in the news was this time last year when buffett announced the fourbug positions in the u.s. carriers. honestly, the stocks haven't done much since then when the stocks went up airline investors are really hurting here we had some things like fuel costs go up, which are pressuring core margins and earnings this year united is growing capacity the next three years to the tune of 5%, but an unnamed airline executive said we love to dream bigly as humans and dread specifically, and there's such a lineage of bankruptcies and negatively equity returns in the sector that a lot of people don't want to believe these can actually durable business models >> that's probably why we saw the market reaction across the board when united said it was expanding capacity this whole fear once again that the airlines will be in this expansion mode and that's going to threaten pricing for the airlines and margins. can you put to bed, can you put to rest, brandon, these fears that there's going to be overcapacity because so much capacity is going to be added? have we heard enough from the various airlines to say this is a united issue >> well, of course, it's hard for american, delta, and southwest to comment on what their big competitor is doing publicly, but i can tell you, united's strategy, specifically, has a lat of merit inside that company. they lost a lot of domestic share in the past decade if you look at what delta and american are doing, they haven't reacted at all to united's announcements. it's all internally focused. it's not like they're adding a hub in atlanta on top of delta you can add flights here and there, but the core route network is developed what's really important here is that we have had cost convergence. every single airline now, major airline, has a pilot union that was not the case even a decade ago when we saw numerous start-ups all the time we have not seen a start-up in this country, i think, in almost ten years now. >> we're going to leave it there, appreciate your thoughts. >> moving to banking all the issues at wells fargo finally in the past? 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>> yeah. we're optimistic on the u.s. economy. in is a measurirror of the u.s. economy with a tremendous amount of assets. the wind is at your back from the economic impulse to what's going to happen and monetary policy within the ecb. this should provide some support for all financials in general. the valuation gap, we believe, will close over the next three to five years as they get through this short-term issue that they're facing. and they are facing a real substantial issue, but we will get through it the franchise is in good shape. >> but ari technically says it's not a stock you want to own. we appreciate it for more trading nation, go to our website, tradingnation.cnbc.com check please is neck and now the latest from tradingnation.cnbc.com and a word from our sponsor. >> daily price fluctuations of individual stocks can offer trading opportunities. however, if you're unhappy with your returns while trading actively, consider taking smaller positions over a greater investment time frame. evaluating trends over multiple weeks rather than hours can help nstrader locate more coistently tradeable trends while possibly trading less frequently ein the 2018 lexus es,y system plus, standard... and the es hybrid. take advantage of special president's day offers now through the 28th, on the 2018 es 350. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. oh good, you're awake! finally. you're still here? 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>> it's fossil. >> wow >> it's up like 92% this year. fossil. >> what did it do last year? >> well, it went from 138 to 10. >> oh, that's why. >> but this year -- anyway, my check please is this is interesting for the car world, volvo, saying it's officially done developing internal combustion gasoline powered engines. beginning after 2019, volvo, which said it's going majority electric and maybe diesel, is done with gas engines. i think they're the first major car maker to say gas is out. >> times are changing. >> yeah. >> here's some news i found. steve wozniak stole bitcoins from him on a stolen credit card he'll never get the money back but -- >> wait, wait, wait. i'm sorry. >> somebody stole his credit card - >> no. somebody bought seven bitcoins from the woz. >> which means he was a seller. >> and then canceled the credit card. >> so he never got paid and the bitcoin got transferred. >> and it was probably canceled because it was a stolen credit card. >> oh, interesting. >> remember when i gave you 20 bucks for lunch but it was pink, monopoly money like that deal. >> i don't give you money for lunch, brian. >> and yet the woz is still a believer, by the way. >> but he was a seller clearly he was a seller of seven bitcoin. >> he bought them at $700 each. >> is it bit koip orbit coins? is it like deer, myself, plural? >> i'm not sure of the terminology. speaking of cryptocurrencies your central location for crypto news is back, "fast money. on the stocks you should fade on this bounce in the markets we've seen from the lows big show tonight thanks for watching "power lunch. thank you for being with us today. >> thank you "closing bell" starts right now. >> hi, everybody welcome to the "closing bell" on this monday. i'm kelly evans from the new york stock exchange. >> welcome back. i'm bill griffeth. are buybacks about to give stocks a new lift? a new note says we should see aggressive share repurchases, 23% higher from a year ago. >> warren buffett speaking exclusively to cnbc. find out the stock he likes more than others and his warning. that's coming up. we have a rally.

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