They that weren t going to get into sales figures. but you got to believe if they had blockbuster numbers to report, they would report it. tim cook, the ceo, did say there s 97% customer satisfaction with the apple watch, but we don t know what that customer base is. and really all that they unveiled with the apple watch today was cosmetic things. new high-fashion watch bands by hermes, for example, just in time for the holidays. so they re trying to invigorate that, but we ll see how it does. one of the things that was interesting about that was, they spent a great deal of time talking about the use of the apple watch for health care. right. so a doctor can monitor a patient in realtime. so, yet again, apple, which is so well known for all of its consumer products, trying to more to the enterprise market where it sees growth potential. it sees a lot of dollars when we talk about health care.
Or more on car insurance. whoo! forty-four ladies, that s me! whoo.gonna get some cold cuts today! it s honestly it s one of the best places to live. don t believe all the negative stuff you see on tv. beautiful architecture. detroit is a hidden gem. warm and solid community. we know each other by name. it s a very delightful place to live. we have our problems but we re working through them. that was a clip from the reid report s visit to detroit this year. the city s fight back from bankruptcy with just one of the many important stories covered on 2014 on the domestic front. there s also the naugs wide movement that followed mike brown and eric garner s death at the hands of police. the economy s blockbuster numbers and, let s not forget
the three stooges may have worked better with originally names like sean penn and benicio deltoro, but it should earn 10 million to $15 million. the space thriller lock out will only earn six to eight million. the hunger games will remain number one with 18 to 20 million. just go see it already. i know. i know. i ll report back one day. this weekend s biggest winner will actually be overseas. battleship, which opens here next month, is expected to post blockbuster numbers. remember president obama called kanye west a jacsass in 2009 after his on-stage ambush of taylor swift at the mtv music awards? bill, you remember that? i called him worse. when reminded in that in an interview in the atlantic he replied, he is a jackass but he s talented. i agree with you, there, too.
Why they bought the company for $12.5 billion back in august last year. bought regulators in europe and u.s. just warn that google shouldn t abuse the patents and they could relook at this one if they do. big news for google in that marketplace. apple yesterday, the stock closing over $500 a share. steve, what s the significance there? it s quite extraordinary. people are already talking about $600 a share. this is the first time ever the shares have closed over 500 bucks. they got as high as $504 in session. this means this is the biggest company, not just in the u.s. but in the world by around about $65 billion margin. it s worth $465 billion. the second biggest is exxon-mobil, worth around about $400 billion. it comes after the fact that two weeks ago they had blockbuster numbers with revenues up over 70%. people are expecting more of the same. back to you. steve sedgwick, thank you very much. we appreciate it. the fbi is helping local
18 percent. 17 percent. and 13 percent. the bricks and mortar people have to be salivating. shepard: brick and mortar were up 16 percent? gear 16 percent. shepard: and today they expect blockbuster numbers and the dow is now up 238. a god day. gerri: and it has to do where your favorite stories, but this is not going to continue. expectations for the holiday season seems up 2.8 percent, very different than the last couple of days. and what you know about holiday sales, we start off with a big bang and the next week we are like, well, maybe it is not as good as we thought and right after christmas we are thinking, that was a stinky holiday. shepard: now the starting point is not as bad, wall street is hopeful with europe and holiday sales. gerri: glass the half full. shepard: it is monday and