possible collusion when it comes to companies and funds going long. herbal life, herbal life stock moving higher by 2% right now, but there's a lot of bad blood now between the soros fund and akman fund. watch it closely. more on this in a moment. hedge fund heavy weight bill akman turning up here on jcpenney frustrated with the retailer's performance, and he wants a new ceo installed in 30-45 days. now, former ceo has been receiverring the interim ceo after the company fired ron johnson for providing over dismal store sales and a reset of the stores that did not work. now we have another former jcpenney ceo, allen, who says he might consider returning as penny's chairman. he apparently has been asked, according to the "wall street journal," by akman, and the stake has been a mess. there's an intra-day high today, but at 1371, it's a far cry, certainly, from hitting the 12-year low of yesterday, which was $121.50. he has to do something. there's a couple positions going the wrong way, and herbal life, as well, which he's shorted the company, and it's moved more than a hundred percent since the start of the year. electric car maker, tesla, enjoying a ride today after better than expected earnings of 20% a share rather than a loss of 19 cents. look at this stock. 24 is just the intra-day picture. 154.02, at the moment, up 14%. look at it year to date. the stock is up some 300% year to date, and, of course, the big announcement that had come yesterday, is that they are purchasing, possibly, the land -- can we see a year to date or a year? that would be nice. important to note that they have apparently bought the property next to their freemont assembly line. there you are. one of the few operations who has an inside look at this. it's fascinating, they wear red, all the equipment and robots are red, very chic. here we go. there's the one-year chart. it was languishing, up $50 the beginning of the year, and now at $154.11. let's get to the power mover of the hour, groupon. you know, yesterday, they had earnings. this movings shares of the online company soaring today after meeting expectations. that's all it took in its earnings report after the bell, up 20,-year-old 21%, but maybe it's this announcement helping it. we told you this yesterday after the bell. the company also named interim co-ceo as chairman to ceo of the company, and they were sharing the role over the last few months, but the management clarity has been influx since the ceo of fired. he founded groupon, and the stock is not flattering at all. look at the move, since ousting, the stock is up more than 140%, yeah, don't feel that good when you, as the founder, moved down, but today, shares hitting the highest level since june of 2012, and, by the way, playing music, what's that in the background? it's from andrew mason's album that dropped a month or two ago, hardly working, and we hope his music career goes better than the ceo stint, but he founded a great company, worth a lot. great stock stories translating to green on all major screens. to the floor show, traders at the new york exchange, and john, we were down earlier today by, what, about 52 points. why the turn around? >> i think what we're seeing here is a correlation between the last three trading sessions and today. there's pressure on the market, not heavy pressure, but quiet pressure, anticipation of coming in september or october, and taking short term profits off the table, but we're not going to have consecutive sessions like we've seen in the last few sessions, so we'll get the bounce. the bounce lasts for a while, i don't, there's no catalyst to give us a bounce here. economic data is so-so, earnings reports coming in where everyone thought, and so people are just stretching now. tomorrow, six ipos at the new york stock exchange, tomorrow. oil services company, reits, and technologies. that spurs interest back in the markets. there could be a follow through tomorrow, but maybe more profit taking coming off after the weekend. >> six ipos, and, of course, showing the first time jobless claims numbers rising slightly, but the trend, the four-month moving -- four-week average is better, certainly. jeff at the imex, i don't want to bring up copper and go too deeply into commodities here, but copper, a two-month high, gold above the $1300 level, and i'm sure people are talking about that as well as energy. >> oh, absolutely, but today was pretty much an oil centric kind of day. we really came off here. we finally broke down technically in the last hours of yesterday's session, and we came down, and went through some of the first, and there's big numbers. market rally a dollar a year, a market that's in a down trend, and it is a sale until further notice. now, keep in mind this is a market that, as i said, in the last time i was on your show, that had no business become where it was, and it needed some real technical geopolitical news to maintain that, and it's timely succumb to about the third or fourth straight api numbers that just were not strong enough to support the numbers. >> yeah, it follows 97 cents, not huge, but, hey, nearly a dollar, people take notice. allen, i'm looking at an interesting ten-year yield movement. it's just strait -- straddling the fence between 2.8%. can you read that as bill grossman, came out with a letter today saying stick with me, i know my fund has been done, certainly, but we will figure out a way to deal with this? >> there's a huge resistance at 2.8, the halfway mark in the last five year, and we bounced off that or close to it recently. we are inching up, as far as yield goes, but look at bonds, they had a little of a bounce on the 30-year, and i think the focus needs to be on the dollar. the dollar at six-week lows, below 8 is #, pushing the euroowe above 134. that could be a catalyst. not too long ago, the dollar at two and a half year highs which is positive. it's put in the bottom, in gold, in my opinion, and 1300 an important point on a weekly basis. looking at the gold market, another way to play it is with gdx, the gold miner's index, hammered, twice the losses, and that's a long term play, call options in the money, look for the market to rebound as a gold play when it stabilizes and comes back. liz: good to see you, thank you so much for joining us, and dow is holding on to gains ever 37 points. team mobile's -- t-mobile's no contract strategy. guess what, it's bringing in a boat load of new customers. nicole, we have the ceo in a fox business exclusive in the next hourment can't wait to talk to him about this. >> right. this is really a big deal. we'll continue to follow t-mobile. look what it did today, up 3.5%. you noted they just continue to add customer, and the ceo will be happy to bring that news to the shareholders and viewers, and they say their customer ratios, that they've seen versus names like at&t and sprint have improved in july from the second quarter ratios that we've seen. there's a look at t-mobile, shares over the last year, really have been impressive. year to date for the year 2013, it's up 25%. they added 688,000 customers, and these subscribers, the wireless subscribers, very valuable, and this was in the latest quarter, so, of course, a great move here for t-mobile. liz: we love the competition in the space. coming up at 4 p.m. eastern hour, david asman and i are talking to john ledger, the t-mobile u.s. ceo, the first time they are breaking out the numbers because, of course, one of the big holder is deutsche telecom. watch out sprint, verizon, at&t. it's an exciting story. closing bell rings in 50 minutes. america's biggest banks under siege from government investigators. this is not regulation, but investigation. chs it mean for the stature of ceos like jpmorgan's jamie dimo, n, and how concerned should you be if you own the stocks? 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why is the government, department of justice, the fcc now going after banks? dick, capital bank analyst joining me in a fox business exclusive from tampa, florida. i'm holding your note that ame out today, reading it, fascinating stuff. get to why now? it took several year, and now, suddenly, it's almost like the sting of the first wound of the financial crisis is gone, and suddenly, they are going after these guys. >> you know, well, i think the reason is that the banks are doing so incredibly well that, basically, the government's goals for the banking industry are not being met, and as we can argue, the reason it's done now is because it took years to get the information together to sue the banks. all we could argue that's being done because we have this department division in the justice department that basically is -- if they don't sue people, the guys are going to lose their jobs, but i think, if we go another step further, we might argue that basically american banks are making huge amounts of money right now, and they are getting bigger, and as a result of that, they are doing things that the united states' government policy concerns banks doesn't want. the american government, whether it's the president, the congress, the federal reserve, the fdic have all indicatedded they want smaller banks. they want too big to fail to go away, and it's just not happening. liz: well, dick, so do we, we don't want to bailout banks again, that i get, certainly, but as the banks tonight, my imosh, you say i'm making too much money, sue me. they are suing them. that doesn't seem to have a lot of intelligence behind it, but, again, do you think that some of these banks, i mean, look at jpmorgan's balance shoot, it is human, a lot of people own the stock, and, therefore, in a way, i found in the note you argue as the department of justice sues jpmorgan, they sue the american people who hold shares in this, but i see are they worried that jpmorgan could be too big, something might happen, and then we're stuck again with the bill? >> well, but the fact is the last time around, the government made a fortune on the collapse, and in other words, you know, under t.a.r.p., the government made a profit of $20 billion. under the extensions of, you know, credit -- not credit, but the guarantees of debt, the fdic made 12-15nd the federal reserve, last year, made 8 $90 billion, before the crisis, $30 bill, that goes to the u.s. trash reits, to the taxpayers. the fed gives that money to the treasury. they made $90 billion last year, and that's up from $78 billion the year before that, and $60 billion the year before that. the fed is making a huge amount of money, and that money is being begin to the taxpayer. the fact of the matter -- liz: does that then make these companies, these stocks less attractive going forward? hate that term, but going forward, do they become less attractive if we feel they are getting the fcc swirling around, the department of justice filing all kinds of both civil and criminal suits? >> well, i think the government's thrown as many atomic bombs at the industry as it could. you have the dodd-frank act, the basal3 agreements, a series of regulations in place by every agency that we have. the occ and the fdic, the frb, and the banks continue to make more and more and more money, so this -- this bond that they are throwing is not a very big one, and in other words, they have not yet sued jpmorgan for criminal activities. they may be thinking about it, but they have not done it. liz: right, okay. as we finish, does this hurt the statue of the bank leaders like jpmorgan and jamie dimon? >> put it this way, take the five companies in the united states that made the most money, jpmorgan is number three, and wells fargo is number five, so of the -- and that's in any industry -- doesn't matter what industry you are talking about. there's only two companies in the united states that make more money than jpmorgan, apple and exxon. the net effect is why should investors get upset with the guy who led the company from a very troubledded company five or six years ago to the company that makes the third most amount of money of any company in the united states, makes more money than any bank in the world other than the chinese banks that dwarf this one. liz: dick, you got -- what is your rating on jpmorgan? by the way? >> we got to buy in just about everything. liz: okay. he likes the stock nonetheless. great to see you, thank you so much for joining us exclusively, dick. >> thank you, liz. liz: 40 minutes before the closing bell rings, and inveesers have so much to chew on this season. it's exciting. results just out, frontier communications, this is a rural telecom, telling us what is driving the company's growth and why you, the investor, should pay close attention to both the stocks. that's coming up, and apple ceo, tim cook, facing mounting pressure in the company, but are they shooting at him under his own tent? 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it is getting higher, certainly, from a low of $4 #, but what is the number one thing you do now that you feel is getting you on that path? >> as you know, liz, we tripled the size of the company, just three years ago in july, and during that three-year window -- liz: with the veer ryeson purchase? >> with the verizon purchase and rural properties not invested in. we put over $2.3 billion of capital into the properties to bring them up to spheed. we're now at about 85% reach for broadband in all markets so we brought broadband to rural america that did not have it before. liz: great numbers. >> absolutely. liz: we're not denying there's issues at front tour. >> sure. liz: cues mothers and losses, but you float them, and it's the broad jpmorgan band business and growth there, better in the recent quarter than all of last year. >> absolutely, and we knew that once we had consolidation done with this acquisition, once we finishedded all the conversions at the end of 2012, that 2013 gave us the opportunity to really push our go to market in a very different way. liz: the business is changing, and you know that as well as i, you have the genx, y and z, no land lines, not interested, wireless all the way. how do you keep frontier communications exciting to that customer? >> well, you know, a lot of people think about us as just a wire line company, but we're a wireless broadband company. look at the households and businesses, we provide wireless capability in the locations, and if you think about this huge demand with all of these smart devices that have come out, there's a huge demand for broadband, so when you walk in your home with a smart device, you automatically switch wireless to my network, and my network has more speed and capacity than you can have in a regular wireless network, especially in rural america and suburban locations. we're very relevant. >> finds rural business very relevant. they've made all kinds of noises about going into your backyard, doing exactly what you do and more. do you look at them as a real competitive threat? what are you doing in advance of that? >> well, our heads are down ensuring we do the right thing there's always competitors out there. we compete with very, very large companies, larger than we are. liz: comcast. >> time warner a good example of that, and we compete by differentiating our product and services, where we do business, and stay connect to the customers. liz: give me an example. compare broadband and time warner. >> time warner's second quarter results for broadband, they put on in the residential section 8,000 broadband customers. i did 30,000. i have 3 million customers. they have, like, 30 million customers, so very different. we're very laser focus on broadband, and we do know that if you decide to live in a small community in this country, you should have the same services as if you live in new york city. liz: as we finish, there's a lot of changes at the fcc, a new fcc chair, do you think he's going to listen to the issue of rural versus the big boys in the business? >> i think tom wheeler is a good choice for that position. you know, he's been in the wireless business from an association perspective, been in the cable business, and so he understands both wired and wire line. he's fair. i think he will look to do what's right, and i also think he will focus on america in totality, not just the big cities is. liz: maggie, thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks, liz. liz: we have breaking news right now, sandra, president and chief executive officer of the federal reserve bank of cleveland has just announced that she will retire from the bank early next year. she joined the cleveland fed in 1983, head of the bank since 2003, and recently made news saying that if the economy continues on its trajectory of growth we've seen, we should, quote, start tapering soon. no time exactly put on that, just soon. closing bell ringing in 30 minutes. in a moment, charlie has some behind the scenes board room intrigue at apple. what it means for ceo tim cook, a fox business exclusive, stay tuned, he's coming right down. ♪ if you've got it, you know how hard it can be to breathe and man, you know how that feels. copd includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. spiriva is a once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment thayou know, spiriva helpsted airwme breathe easier.hours. spiriva handihaler tiotropium bromide inhalation powr does not replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms. tell your doctor if you have kidney problems, glaucoma, trouble urinating, or an enlarged prostate. these may worsen with spiriva. discuss all medicines you take, even eye drops. stop taking spiriva and seek immediate medical help if your breathing suddenly worsens, your throat or tongue swells, you get hives, vision changes or eye pain, or problems passing urine. other side effects include dry mouth and constipation. nothing can reverse copd. does breathing with copd weigh you down? 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>> the first ever made. but i know how to report. there is now on the board level of recognition that something needs to be done of of the future in terms of what's in the pipeline, what it will do, are they innovating enough? is he innovating in fs c. l. another telling you they're worried by him being the right hon. for one eye and a stand there 100 percent behind him. there clearly just concerned with the company aware is going in the future. we should point out the steve jobs, his successor, the legendary, and the book isaacson hidden have the straight meteoric career. this was along the way. liz: steve jobs. >> they're is a growing fan is stepping in determine the issues. that said this is a company that investors, and particularly here quarterly and earnings results co-star price this is one of the great things about a system. i console you, at least from the boardroom, what does that mean? liz: you know what is next, they start floating names of film might do better. >> i'm not trying to tell you too far from what i understand there 100 percent behind the stone. i'm going to give the logic know. every time i hear that the board is concerned that's always been the starting point for is this the right guy for this up. my sources tell mm they're not the point where they're questioning whether his the rate cut. it always starts with this. board room pressure. and then, do you perform. interesting, al gore is on the board. liz: i'm sorry, he said j. crew. william campbell, and reagin. avon. arthur levinson. >> is the chairman. this is not a light wood board. outdoor is a smart guy. but this is a high pressure -- hi power board. this is apple. apple is the big stock 30 years ago was gm. low was in everyone's portfolio? liz: analysis. a lead tech analyst. you just heard the breaking news that not necessarily of a floating in names for someone to fill the position or at least help them, but they're wondering what is coming in the pipeline. does this surprise you? >> he's probably right that those are the questions a being asked. ultimately be, a basket of what comes out in 2015. my suspicion is given away them may be thinking about the longer and bigger picture. this doesn't change. what he's reporting does not change our belief it will come out with a watch in the fall next year we continue to get confirmation the bofa, ms 114. at the antithesis assigned been, a healthy board, as you have been reporting, this does not mean his job is that risks, but also think that this board reads the news, just like everyone else and probably wonders of love mom, all of these reports about lack of innovation and the reality by that bomb. >> it's hard to step in and she's a legend. he has the shoes to fill when. let me ask you your opinion. is this debt up to this job? in some ways will inherit a company and stock like this some people might say it's hard bin. mom that's kind of an impossible position. in the position he's in. >> i think in terms of the measure about what it means the, if it means replacing majority of his hands up some commanders nolan noted ahead. if the jobless to get it to a point where it grows in has enough new products that can work and grow and stocks can go up, if that's the goals that he is absolutely the right track. could four years when he ran the company. a lot of it was driven by jobs but he is the guy. there is nobody else's. it has to be somebody that no one has ever heard of. in the name will be a distant second to. liz: any board members? we have some very smart people. big names. his expertise would not be in that field hands. >> what are we talking about? can be. liz: i don't know. but if they don't come up with the product and that assistant clumsy and large and uncouth he. if the board is talking about this in then must not be excited >> i believe this conversation is happening. i believe what turley is saying. the question comes down to a, it's maybe more about have the will keep competing with these predictive services. that is where the battlefield will be. a don't think there is any risk his job or that this changes will be a very exciting year in 2014, and the products will be clumsy. the question is will people wanted to know whether it will be the quality. liz: one more question. >> is obviously a very giving operational manager. does he need a number two? >> he does. >> move bits whether going. >> the restructuring, nine months ago i'm when he took over product design dalai essentials it would you give him is the closest thing. takes two people to fill the shoes the. liz: thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. and the stuck now is at least at last check them. and we come back much more when. eagle materials is a company people have been piling into the. the stock is up double digit percentages him. plus another dramatic twist now. might this be the final chapter in. the look who is backing down and apologizing. we will tell you next. ♪ the boys used double miles from their capital one venture card to fly home for the big family reunion. you must be garth's father? hello. mother. mother! traveling is easy with the venture card because you can fly any airline anytime. two words. double miles! this guy can act. wanna play dodge rock? oh, you guys! and with double miles you can actuay use, you never miss the fun. beard gwing contest and go! ♪ win! what's in your wallet? 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is that where you see a lot of opportunity? 50% of your business, we should clarify, comes from the housing industry. fracking, and this product to put in there, which is hydraulic fracking sand used in hydraulic fracturing, something that is, i guess, and bigger demand. to you think that is will be at your bottom line? >> that is where we are continuing to focus and grow the company. we also produce the special cement casing the oil wells. so we are able to take advantage of the energy play in multiple ways. in addition, there is just a lot of construction activity in that area. we can also supply the wallboard which includes the paper that comes from a papal -- paper mill. we -- by having just a fantastic group of employees who have significantly outperformed the competition, we are able to take advantage of the growth opportunity and significantly expand our cement business, expanding into oklahoma, kansas, missouri, nebraska by buying a couple of two or three little operations. liz: well, cement and aggregates are a big part of your business. here is what worries me. they are heavy and cost a lot to transport. all you have to do is look at an oil chart and see the year-over-year we are now about 106, $105 per barrel for crude. are you worried about that? how will that affect your company? >> we continue to produce more products to meet demand. the price for it oilfield work isreater than general construction and will continue to focus on producing more products to service the oil service company. liz: your stock is up 68% year-over-year. you made it through tough times in the early stages of the recession, so congratulations. great to have you on the show. >> thank-you. liz: president and ceo of the military else. breaking news. adam has it. >> reporter: this is in response to your interview. sending out a letter to all of the employees worldwide saying that in this letter talking about the takeover, talking about taking the company private. i believe that the offer, $13.75 per share, just to remind you, offers full and fair value for stockholders and is best for the future of our company. he goes on to say that the change in the voting rolls with special committee is giving dell, this will enable us to enact the will of the majority. there is disagreement. he said previously that special committee and the board are at least using self granted imperial status to boost the chances of michael dell taking the company private. but the keas a wrapup is that he wants to take the company private and says it in a letter to his employees because unease to accelerate the transformations for long-term competitiveness. what he is talking about is giving away from the prying eyes of wall street's early in turn this into a software company and taken away from what it has been doing for years and years, making computers. liz: the day before yesterday, the billionaire on the other side of this battle was on with fox business, and i am hearing from sources that people at silver lake took notice of the interview. clearly this letter might be in response to that. the invitation is extended to come on the program and talk about it, as always. closing bell ringing in five minutes.ol ww will be right back. liz: and yeah, we can make room. yeah. 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