Champion and i want to be that champion. Matt marco rubio is holding a rally later in miami. President obama says he believes the u. S. And cuba can have a relationship. He held a meeting the first in half a century. He says it is time to turn the page. President obama i am cautiously optimistic that over the coming months and coming years, that the process we have initiated an first announced in december, reaffirmed here at the summit of americas, will lead to a different future and a different relationship between the United States and cuba. Matt castro gave a short hourlong speech listing cubas complaint by the u. S. But later apologized, saying his emotions got the best of him. The Obama Administration service to sell the Iran Nuclear Deal on capitol hill today. They will brief lawmakers behind closed doors. Tomorrow, the senate Panel Discusses a bill involving stopping iran from nuclear weapons. 60 days before any final agreement before sanctions on iran are lifted. Oil asked what may not increase anytime soon. Sales fell by 15 , the sharpest decline in the year. The country passes imports should hands of an economic slowdown and they held nearly 13 . Golf fans think they have another tiger by the tail. They are buzzing about a 21yearolds easy victory in the masters. He gets the green jacket, one . 8 million, and the prospect of 10 million more dollars in endorsements per year. Sundayss announcement was a longawaited step for Hillary Clinton. Plotting a pass to the presidency aimed at avoiding missteps of her 2008 bit. She enters the race as her partys front runner, and king leading all hopefuls in pulling. Polling. What is hillaryss key message this Second Time Around . You saw it reflected many times over. It was showing Everyday Americans who she wants to represent. Policy wise, the message is not clear yet. We did hear her say the deck is stacked. Toward those on the top away from Everyday Americans and against people. We hear her with a populist message that Elizabeth Warren has been forcefully pushing out for many months. You hear republicans talking about income inequality this time around is a. It is not all that surprising. People are still waiting to hear her rationale for her campaign exactly why she is running, why should ask she is the one to do this. And we all want to hear more policy meets on the bones, exactly what she wants to do as president. Matt i almost forgot not how she was a woman, but how important that could be. Is gender and advantage for clinton . Are we still at that point where it would be a huge plus to have a first woman president . Melinda i do think it is a plus, but i am not sure in terms of winning the white house it is as egg of an advantage as many would assume. Polling shows 12 say they would be more inclined to vote for her because of her gender. 4 say they would be less inclined to vote for her for that reason. Those numbers are probably low but i do think it is less than death less of an advantage than it is assumed. It is certainly not automatic even for women voters, to say, she is a woman and i am a woman and that is an automatic vote for me. And she does not want to come out, either, with the message that im a woman, and that is the sole reason you should cast your vet a ballot for me. That is the thing, too. Rand paul has the opposite pulling. His 22 of men say they would give him a very serious look at only 11 of republican and independent women say they would give him a serious look. Numbers tell us rand paul has something of a woman problem at this early stage. That is something 80s to keep in mind as he is taking her on. Matt a lot more competition as well. Hillary is the only known name in the democratic nomination but republicans are looking at another one tonight, marco rubio. Melinda that is right, as you said earlier, he will have a rally in miami where he is at acted to announce his candidacy. I think he has been underestimated looking at the field. He is a very good communicator. He has the potential to bring in the hispanic vote lacking for recent gop nominees. And i think he will stir a lot of interest. Matt thank you so much for joining us, melinda. The news of the day, who will announce for president. Obviously, we know marco rubio. Thank you so much melinda. Moving and shaking this morning, and business, a billionaire investors moneymanagement firm announced plans to split into two separate companies that would be both publicly traded and expect companies to be listed on the new york stock exchange. He is known for his value investing. He created the firm in 1977 and took it public in 1999. He earned 85 nine dollars in 2013. He can intends to continue serving in the Traditional Asset Management business. Spotify got a new valuation this week. New financing will evaluate at 8 billion. It raise money back in november. Alex sherman as well. They have got 60 million active listeners. If you look back even until may or so of 2014, the numbers were 10 million subscribers and 40 million active users. It should be no surprise now theyre coming out and trying to raise more money in their quite on their way to do so. They were previously valued at 5 billion. It is now 8. 5 billion. Matt they are facing a lot more potential competition. Apple and google getting into the game. Jayz has his own title service, one he is working on with other artists. Alex you throw in other competitors. But also, what other people assume these days come at a half billion valuation, does it make more sense for them to sell to a Large Tech Company if google cannot get into the business of stream music, does it make sense for google to shell out 10 to 14 million for spotify . We have learned for years that google and spotify have had preliminary conversations at the highest levels. Those seem to have fallen off the table, similar to many other Tech Companies going through the same path interests, etc. Matt that leaves a lot of talk about bubbles and i guess it is a discussion for another time. As far as spotify is concerned, they still have issues and the competition has them as well, with labels. The labels are not happy with the amount of revenue theyre getting with streaming services. Alex taylor swift is the most notable and i mention that will be a continuing problem, one of several problems with labels being and another one being how much you have to pay for that music or similar problem with netflix, where they have to have a continued increase in subscriber growth in order to pay for the increased to put con content on there. Netflix has the advantage of developing original content. That would be a lot more difficult in theory for spotify to do. They could, i suppose, start their own label, but that would be an iteration we cannot see down the road. A lot of questions for spotify. That may push them more toward the m a direction longterm, to be a robust public company, that is probably not what they would say if you asked. Matt thank you so much, Alex Sherman Bloomberg news on spotify. In interesting thought. Coming up, the jewelry industry rings in the wedding season p or we will talk about the ceo of online shuler blue nile and a celebrity wedding planner. Plus, im on demand has pushed delivery dates for some styles back for months. Stay with us to find out which ones. Matt there is a wait list and the actual watch goes on preorder in april. It is possible that apple manufactures these kinds of issues. Spring is going to start making house calls. The Wireless Company is doling out personal services in miami and chicago where subscribers could update their phones. Hbo trying to figure out how four new episodes of game of thrones league hours before last nights premier. They were reportedly illegally downloaded more than 100 times. Game of thrones is one of the worlds most pirated shows. It has got to be a badge of honor in some ways. Cbs has named a new host for its sunday talkshow face the nation. A former reporter for Time Magazine who has been there since 2001. His mother was the first female correspondent in the cbs News Washington bureau. Replacing bob, who is retiring. Those are top headlines on this monday morning. Coming up, we will speak with a Top Executive on how highend retailers are dealing with the strong dollar. Us, senator angus king in maine on the latest Nuclear Talks with iran. Here is one sign few americans will rejoice over. The costs of a wedding is at a five year high. Spending reached an average of 31,000 dollars and the most expensive since 2009. The return of the bigbudget wedding shows the American Consumer is finding her economic footing again and that is good news for our next guest ceo of an online jeweler also with a celebrity event wedding planner who Just Launched an exclusive jewelry line with blue nile. Thank you for joining us gentlemen. Interesting and for some people troubling news. Maybe it is good people are selling more. Collected is all about the experience and we will see great growth with the experience. Matt tell me about this spirit you are traditionally a wedding and event planner. We are in the business of making dreams come true and it is all about the experience. It is not just about online shopping. I see it as the jewelry industry, to be able to come in grade the sixth that incredible decks incredible it is all about Customer Service representatives speaking several languages 24 7. It really helps to make that transaction. Matt i am online looking to build a three stone ring looking to do customization, and you tell me to go online with a live chat here you are really focus on Customer Service. We love when a customer calls us. We have call centers throughout the world 24 7. We speak 12 languages on a website. Between the call center and online opportunity, we can help you build anything you want. Matt can you design a ring for me . How do i get your designs in this project . We have collections. Romance, passion collection. Go online. Matt can i save money by going online . What is the advantage of using blue nile as opposed to walking into tiffanys. Quite sad blue nile come you do 20 to 40 below. We were 18 to 72 of comparable retailers. Phenomenal value without the overhead structure and without the salespeople. We continue to bring incredible value and we sourced 250,000 tones and over 200,000 dollars of interest it is incredible. Matt i do not have a lot of experience in this area but it seems a lot easier to customize or choose your stones as well. I noticed i can pick from over 1000 stones. Classic you go into a Traditional Jewelry store, maybe 200 stones, if you get on our website, we will have 8001 caret stones. Our ability to help you navigate, the quality and the value in all the brilliance you want is at your fingertips we will deliver it overnight to your home. Matt that sounds a gay good deal, i suppose. I will look deeper into it. How does this help with your Event Planning business . Classic love never goes out of style. It gets us to engage her. What is unique is youre not buying a ring over the counter. You select a stone and select the settings. You get a great experience. Matt i was surprised the Engagement Ring is not the most expensive part of the average wedding. Renting the place is. Flowers, transportation, it is not just one thing. Altogether, it becomes a hefty number. Matt a real pleasure meeting you and we will talk a little bit during the break. Thanks to harvey from the nile, celebrity event and whether wedding planner. Still to come, the big number a lot smaller than usual but it could have a big impact when it comes to deliveries. Stay with us here. Just because im away from my desk doesnt mean im not working. Comcast business understands that. Their wifi isnt just fast near the router. Its fast in the break room. Fast in the conference room. Fast in toms office. Fast in other toms office. Fast in the foyer [pronounced foyyer] or is it foyer [pronounced foyyay] . Fast in the hallway. I feel like ive been here before. Switch now and get the fastest wifi everywhere. Comcast business. Built for business. Matt i delivery fell to as low as amazon has been lobbying the government for permission to test jones here in the u. S. And was granted a waiver finally. Bloomberg televisions on the market and scarlet fu is at the news desk with more. Scarlet time now for futures and focus. The euro taking aim at matching the 12 year low reached in midmarch. Pritikin European CentralBank Stimulus will weaken the euro further. Lets see if my next guest agrees. So this strong dollar and weaken euro trade is crowded. You do not necessarily see a Straight Line down for the euro. Cause i never see a Straight Line to the euro. Especially in the futures and commodities space, we have a lot of excitement pushing the markets. We are trading somewhere around a dollar and a half. I believe we are going much lower overtime because of the worldwide demise of the world economy. Every society finds a level where you find support. I am looking for a pretty good short covering. I believe it is way too crowded now. It is too easy to be short and we have got a lot of week players. Scarlet the threeweek reversals not definitely over. I do not think so. We are due for a little bit of a bounce. They will probably bounce 2108 or 109. I do think we will go below par and before it all is done. The u. S. Dollar is way too strong and the overall intervention of the global and centralbank putting too much pressure on their own currencies. Scarlet overnight, there was a big data point, the unexpected drop in chinese exports, which hurt the aussie dollar. What is a linkage of a slowdown in china with the euro value . I do not think there is a tremendous linkage there. What is really happening is we continue to see bad numbers reported. For now, bad news is still good news. It does not count the damage it does to currencies. We are seeing the natural way of the Euro Currency falling down here. I believe we will see a bouncer because we do not see Straight Lines in one direction or another. Scarlet we are at the start of earnings season. Tomorrow, a flood begins. One thing we will watch loosely is what Companies Say about the current exposure. The word of the weeks currency risk. How do you explain this to someone not familiar with it . Classify him in american and im going to london today, my dollar gets me a lot more spending power today than it got me a year ago. We were at a dollar 39 a year ago. My same dollar them i can get more spending. Companies, when they start manufacturing and doing work in other countries, they are at risk with that currency and how the forms backandforth. Most companies, what they should be doing is using cme futures because it is very easy to deal and you can avoid the currency risk by hedging currencies and the parts of the world you are doing business in. A lot of these Companies Make a mistake there. Scarlet a shameless plug lair. Thank you. Matt thank you very much, scarlet and todd. In her first trip on her new president ial campaign, Hillary Clinton is going back to where 2008 went wrong for her. After posting a video online to announce she is running, mrs. Clinton headed to iowa. President obama says he thinks mrs. Clinton is more than qualified. President obama she was a formidable candidate in 2008 and a great supporter of mine in the general election. She was an outstanding secretary of state. She is my friend. I think she would be an excellent president. And i am not on the ballot. So, i will not step on her lines. Matt mrs. Clinton finished third several years ago. The first democrat in the race this time around. Another republican senator is expected to join the white house race today. Marco rubio in florida is holding a rally in miami. Ted cruz in texas, rand paul in kentucky. Rand paul seems more concerned about mrs. Clinton already then his republican rivals. An advertisement airs tomorrow that calls the former secretary of state the worst of the washington machine. Coke will be the official nonalcoholic beverage of the league here text he been the beverage sponsor since the league was formed in 1996. New financing could push spotify two 8 billion, double what it was worth when it raised money nearly two years ago. People familiar say the new round will raise 400 Million Dollars pair the Service Claims more than 60 million users and about a quarter of them pay nine dollars and . 99 per month for the ad free version of spotify. Golf fans think they have another tiger by the tail and we are buzzing about the 21yearolds easy victory. There are hungry for a new start to replace tiger woods. The record set by woods in 1997. He dons a green jacket and gets 1. 8 million for winning and the prospect of 10 main dollars more in endorsements per year. We remember a veteran newsman who died at the age of 68. His was was a fixture for years on bloomberg read bloomberg radio. He left the air two years ago after he was diagnosed with brain cancer. Matt welcome back. We are a little less than an hour before the start of trading. Scarlet fu is taking a look at some of the action. Scarlet the activist investor calling for qualcomm to break itself up revealing a chip spinoff it had proposed years ago, and completing that from the patent licensing business. The company should introduce earnings per share on capital targets and should speed up its stock buyback. They say they have over 2 billion invested in the chipmaker. It mustve been a recent move because i was checking on the terminal as recently as the end of last year. This was built up over the last couple of months, calling for a strategic view at qualcomm. 42 point 8 million in shares changing hands. Actively traded Company Stock with the activist investor urg