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And the numbers at the center of that debate. And really surprising numbers, at that. Yeah. Bigtime downward revision to the tracking forecast for gdp. We call it the cnbc rapid update. We have the street come in, create a median. It is down 0. 5 . Were now down below 1 . This is a number above 2 . The story we have been looking for a bounce back after that weak Fourth Quarter number, which, by the way revised up. Still looking of north of 2 . Now down to 0. 9. Bigtime revisions. Atlanta fed dow...

We will discuss the markets in full detail in just a moment. Also want to let you know we are waiting on the president to make those comments from the white house on those new regulations regarding tax inversions, ones that have seemingly put that pfizer and allergan transaction, 160 billion transaction, in jeopardy at this hour. We will follow that story. We will take you live to the white house and we will discuss the broader ramifications of it as well. But lets begin with the markets. Stepha...

But i was short because what this is normally going to do is the fan boys, and take the fang stocks, and take the favorite stocks on wall street, and you will see is speculation on the cal side over the puts 2 1 on mo most days, and apple who has a more exaggerated call speculation of earnings didnt have it. Instead, it was active put speculation, and massive put speculation down to the 95 stripe on the put side. So i put on a simple put spread. I tweeted it out yesterday, and put on the put spr...

Good friday morning. John forte is out today but kayla and myself are holding down the fort so to speak. Joining us from washington re codes executive editor kara swisher. Does she have politics in her future . But first up the spt calling on the sec to open up the market for cable boxes. Heres his explanation in an interview with yahoo finance. Its been tied to the provider and you rent it and consumers spend billions of dollars on this every single year and there hasnt been much innovation. It...

Air . Because the market is marching back to the alltime highs . Well, i thought that, and a fum ber of the investors that i spoke to noticed that the link between correlation of crude and the markets is starting to dissipate somewhat, and apparently that not the case today, and the reason that it is dissipating is that as crude consolidates and the big volatile moves go away that the algo guys are saying, i have to find Something Else to wreak havoc with. But i am surprised that it is trading p...

School. We should see 19,000, maybe even 20,000 on the dow by the end of the year. Jack admiral is executive vp of a bank. He thinks the markets are overvalued. Thats the collision. Thats what makes a market. Professor siegel, what causes you to feel that we can move, not just a little bit higher, but rather more significantly higher between now and year end . Do you see the economy as that strong . Well, what i see, i mean, i will admit, i mean, we have moved up in price ahead of the earnings i...

Footwear sales and incredible numbers out of china, and our question is, is under armour still underappreciated, and pete najarian, you are told us ten days ago not the buy it. I told you that they needed to execute on what they do, and you have to continue to have the growth with the stock that trades with this multiple. The multiple is scary, and in the nosebleed e territory, and you go back to look, and say, that the name i prefer over under armour which is lululemon which is going the trade ...

Started a little bit earlier, and we have josh brown, steve wei weiss, jon najarian, and josh of the macro group gianelli. Well, it is cautious any time, and not just this moment, and anybody who is invested you have to understand that without warning a 10 correction could happen, and that knocks you down 15 or 20 depending upon the portfolio, and the bigger picture, it is shocking that we went into the earning season expecting a not so great earning season, but we all felt, and you know, we all...

Going to do what is right and just to this guy. If they dont overturn this, there is something wrong with this system. There is something wrong. And should be a public outrage that people like him are out there, doing their thing, and racing around on the streets, drinking, whatever they are doing, and it is wrong. Reporter and once again, those family members of those five teens very upset today. The judge at the arraignment did say it is likely that glow will lose his youthful offender status....

Son to grow up and run a company in the manner that valeant was run. How do you respond . We made a lot of changes in the last few weeks. I have been on the board for about five weeks. We have a new ceo, joe papa, who is starting today. Today is his First Official day. Appropriate i should be on your show. The companys made some mistakes but i think where charlie is wrong, hes wrong to indict an entire company on the basis of a few mistakes and a leader that is no longer with the business now. A...