By 0. 5 . As for the tenyear here until the United States, the yield had dipped to a twoweek low, falling below 2. 7 . Right now, its picked up a little bit, 2. 695 . Take a look at gold prices. Prices fell below 1300. Up about 2. 50. But, again, below 1,300. Walmart filing ads 5 billion lawsuit against visa, accusing the Credit Card Company of passing along unreasonable swipe fees when shoppers use credit or debit cards at its store. The wall street journal says the suit alleges that visa swipe fees went against antitrust regulations and in turn turns up more than 350 billion over the course of nine years. This has been an ongoing battle between the retailers and credit card companies. There was legislation passed in the senate to change the balance of this. They say 5 billion this is over the course of five years. I guess they figure lets start with this. But more important than the 5 billion theyre looking for, theyre looking to change the course of how payments are made in the future. Walmart does, what, 100 billion a yeah, but the American Consumer spends Something Like 3 trillion a year. The kitchen sink is in here. Basically. All right. Shares of walmart, we can see where they closed yesterday, at 76 or so. Has been flat for about a year. And well take a quick look at visa, which its a great business they have. They dont even have any liabilities, usually, right . Yes and no. Somebody has tofr koit if something gets stolen. This is all the more interesting because of what happens at target over the holiday season. You saw massive fraud pulled off. Because of the credit card companies, the banks will tell you they are providing a Significant Services for these retailers. Its expensive, its not easy to do. If it is, you would think the retailers would do it themselves. But if people dont pay their bills, visa doesnt get stuck with it, do they . I guess it depends on the banks. The banks visa is raking it in. Its a good business. Dow component . Might be. No, maybe not. I dont know. It changed so many times in the last couple of years, im not up to date on it. This is not, but maybe it will be some day. Amazon says it has no plans to offer free streaming Video Service as it gears up for a new event on april 2nd. April 2nd is also awareness day and were going to have a story in executive edge thats really interesting. But thats why that date is significant. Well be wearing our puzzle pins that day. Wall street reported the Internet Retailer is considering an ad supported tv and music streaming Video Service which could include a set top to rival apple tv, our chrome cast or roku. Sorkin is somewhere where he could tell us about these things. Hes in the big easy. Hes in new orleans. He flew straight there from chicago. It is. He has no teams i dont think in the in the ncaa. Amazon was down at the close yesterday. Tonight is a i moved ahead. You didnt want to bring it up. I didnt even realize i was ahead of you until you told me. Yeah, you were. I was afraid to come back on monday because you moved ahead last week. But nobody had stanford and dayton. I had the other three. I dont think anyone had stanford and dayton. Condoleezza rise probably had stanford. They had a shot of her last night. Richard sherman what the was right in front of her. She went to stanford. Stanford was great, but these dayton flyers, theyre on the mend. My perfect bracket. I dont count them who knows. You never know. But tonight is going to be theres some big ones tonight. Everybody has michigan state. So well see how they do. I think i do, too. Uconn always gets better towards the end of the year, but i think i have my fingers crossed for iowa state. Still playing without the guy that broke his foot. Anyway but we digress. And i can stay up tonight. Like last night. Lets tell you about another high profile ipo which is about to make its debut on wall street. This is interesting after what weve seen this week. Cbs outdoor america is pricing at 28 a share. The ipo plans to raise about 560 million valuing that company at more than 3 billion. And cbs outdoors is pau part of a Cbs Corporation and will trade as cbso. Also, facebook wants to deliver the internet to your underdeveloped parts of the world via satellite and drone. The social networking giant says it has hired aerospace specialistes from nasas lab for a new connectivity project. The connectively lab is working on connecting drones, satellites and lasers to deliver Internet Access to everyone. Not entirely sure how this would work, if you would use drones or lasers. But its interesting stuff. Facebook is out there with oculus this week. That purchase of oculus for 2 billion is now getting into the space business. Its interesting, though. Google is doing all kinds of different things. That stock is up about 1. 2 . They talked about the drones. Like a 15pound drone would hurt more than a 2 pound drone. Yeah. Theres already a guy who was killed earlier this year flying drones around. But theyre little mosquitoes. But there may come a day where theyre Walking Around and theyre crashing and stuff and falling. The faa has something to say about that. Falling crashes would be bad. That would be very bad. Plus, you dont know what idiots are using these things. And we know theres a lot of idiots in the world, too, right . In general. Whats that gang that does stupid stuff . Oh, yeah, the guy from the i cant even say the name. Johnny knoxville, is that what it is . Yeah, it is johnny knoxville. You dont want him with drones, right . No. Flying above peoples butt. Okay. He was. That Bottle Rocket video, have you ever seen that . No. You never saw the Bottle Rocket video where they got no, no, no, i know where youre going with it because dont try it. Dont try it. The video i saw last night was i love that. Youre making money off like i wouldnt know i didnt know if that was an urban legend or not. He was 70 when he hit the guy. Youre a liar and youre going to have to go before god and atone for your sins. I dont know whether i was on the moon . Really . I dont know . The stuff that people will tell you. And thats why this plane thing is just reiff with conspiracy theories. If they dont find some of these pieces, there will be people that believe its still parked somewhere. It will be a mystery for sometime to come. Talk about another mystery that we are still trying to unravel from 2008, the liquidation of Lehman Brothers is reportedly still delivering. This has helped drive up recoveries for every major investments. With some getting as much as 6 cents on the dollar, more than lehman initially investmented. For some of the hedge funds that spent the months and years at deep discounts, just a few pennies on the dollar can add up to millions of dollars in the process. Lehman says it would repay competitors an additional 9. 7 million next week. After that money is returned, lehmans critters will have been paid more than 80 billion. That represents a 15 billion increase from the banks initial estimates of how much would be returned to competitors. The collapse was the largest bankruptcy in history. I dont know what that is im guessing there still might be a hole. It was important that they you know, they said we have to do this in an orderly fashion. People are mad that some of the same employees that have been there before are going to be compensated to unwind everything the body and exactly. Lets get a check on the currency markets. Managing director at pk asset management, boris, whats interesting to you today when you look around at currencies . Well, i think the big stories this week and next week will be will the euro finally crack . What were seeing in the market right now is basically all the major Central Banks towards a more normalized policy while the ecb is clearly mired in a deep inflationary cycle. Overnight from germany to spain suggests european deflation is getting worse. So theres an enormous amount of pressure on them which starts to be easing in the exact opposite direction as the bank of england. I feel like this is a story this is a waiting for the story that weve been waiting for the euro to finally crack. It is definitely waiting. Yesterday i tweeted out will smoggie get draghi to finally do qe . Even some of the ecb members are starting to realize what theyre doing right now is clearly not working. The eurozone economy is mired in a nearly recessionary state and they have to act. But they are so constrained by this german and i typically say accommodative. But its really an open question whether next week theyre going to do something really unique. Now, one interesting idea that came out a couple of weeks ago is on this, but what they should do is buying european bonds, they should buy u. S. Bonds. And i thought that was very interesting. The reason why is because first of all, it removes the whole political issue. You ignore all of that issue. Secondly, if you buy u. S. Bonds, it naturally drives the Euro Currency rate lower. That helps the germans. It helps the emerging market nations. There are all these reasons for why they would want to do it. Its such an outlandish idea. It raises the idea t buying german versus italian bonds or french bonds or somebody else down the line, buying american bonds where it benefits potentially none of them. From a political perspective, the reasons you laid out makes no accepts. But from a political football, is that a tough one . That is the quintessential problem. How does russia and everything that putin has done in recent months change this scenario or complicate it . Yeah. Great question. I think for a while, we sort of calmed down, right . They took crimea and everybody relaxed and everybody thinks the crisis is passed. But now there is chatter that they may move into Eastern Ukraine. I think if they move into Eastern Ukraine, its going to be damaging to europe because that escalates the tension. Well see if that happens. Clearly, its going to hurt germany because the economic ties between germany and russia start to receiver a little bit. So its not helpful. Your name is boris, so i defer to you on this stuff. Supposedly now hes hiding with camouflage, a bunch of equipment and troops all along the yeah. And theres a lot more going in there. I mean, you probably just take a little of Eastern Ukraine. Hes not going to take all of ukraine, is he . Ready to hand i think any encouragement is im, like, working for him. I know how hes thinking. Whats in eastern crimea has some great stuff. It has some ports and stuff. What else would he like without taking the whole country . Theres a lot of russians, i know that. But theres some good stuff there, some nice malls or something. What does he want in Eastern Ukraine . I dont think theres anything extraordinarily attractive. No, i dont you know, honestly, i think its more of a political issue. Its sort of, again, the idea that its a greater russia. His primary interest, i think, is to make sure ukraine does not turn west. He want to do Everything Possible to sabotage that. The europeans are going to have to act. I mean, at this point, that becomes everybody would accept the idea that he needed his warm weather ports. But now it becomes almost a replay of world war ii. I just dont i think thats a greater geopolitical issue that people are giving credence to right now. Its just, boris, that a military option for the west, i think he could almost rebuild the entire soviet union before he would ever have the political will to stop them. Yes. But i think theres probably quite a lot of stuff that we can do much more seriously or economically that could hurt them. In any case, none of this is good, right . Were talking about punishing each other, not i just dont foresee its not good for us, good for him. Those are resource rich prices. His economy is awful. Its good for him only in the very near term. Russia is going to turn into a basket case if he continues on this path. Ultimately, all they have is oil and nobody is going to want it any more. Right. But they get more and more of it. We need to frack like crazy. Thats what we need to do, right . I agree with you. So even though youre a big you think we should build that pipeline . Absolutely, 1 million percent. Good for you. You knew you people were coming around. You people . Democrats, yes. The Economic Impact is much more important. Theres no posturing, theyre not going to do that . Its stupid. Yeah. Who was that that said that yesterday . I dont know. They that he said well no on in a he didnt say it was going to be good in a couple of boris, thank you. Coming up, how some employers are viewing autism as an asset and not as efficiency in the workplace. That story is next. As we head to break, check out the price of crude this morning. More squawk coming up in just a minute. Minute. Announcer where can an investor be a name and not a number . Scottrade. Ron im never alone with scottrade. I can always call or stop by my local office. Theyre nearby and ready to help. So when i have questions, i can talk to someone who knows exactly how i trade. Because i dont trade like everybody. I trade like me. Thats why im with scottrade. Announcer ranked highest in Investor Satisfaction with selfdirected services by j. D. Power and associates. Welcome back, everybody. Right now its time for the executive edge. Some employers are viewing autism as an asset and not a deficiency in the workplace. A story in the wall street journal talks about Software Company s. A. P. Which has been actively seeking people with autism for jobs because it believes features of autism may make some individuals better at certain jobs than those without autism. It comprised a program launched in germany and s. A. P. Ames to have up to 1 of its workforce, which is about 650 people, be employees with autism by the year 2020. Jose velasqo is the head of Autism Initiative in the u. S. He says the people with autism are characterized with repetitive behavior, but they tend to pay great attention to detail and that may make them very well suited as Software Testers or debuggers. He has two children with autism. One of the things they talk about is writing manuals for installing software. When you know people like that, theres anxiety, unfortunately, associated with a lot of things which makes, in certain cases, makes them very detail oriented. Really, its hard for them to do anything about it. And for parents, the biggest worry that you have is that theres not going to be a way where they can earn a productive living. Here is someone that you care about so much. And its a huge, wide spectrum that you have and it covers a wide range. Lester was in for brian last night. But i think its now one out of 68 children. And five times as likely that a little boy will have it, but i think its one out of around 40 or 42 little boys. So, obviously, we need funding. We need more funding for it. Its apparent that this is not something you can just put your head in the sand about. But initiatives like this are really important, but also Early Detection and diagnosis and early intervention. You know, at this point, the current thinking research wise, people from Autism Speaks, its a combination of genetic factors and maybe some environmental factors that we dont know about. Coming up on is that tuesday or wednesday . April 2nd is i think its wednesday. Well all have our on wednesday. Well all have our pins on. Its a huge issue because 85 of American Adults with autism arent employed. Right. So this is something where you work to finding the assets. And we know a lot about it. Bob and suzanne with their work with autism. In ten years, Autism Speaks has become one of the premier research and charity organizations. So, you know well talk more about it next week, but theres a great story in the journal today and some related stories, too, about other companies doing some more things. And its hard to tell whether its an epidemic. A lot of it is better recognition. Better detection, but it doesnt seem to add up with the increasing incidents. Thats the same thing i thought yesterday. I thought maybe were just better at the testing. Father res getting older, there seems to be some correlation with age and, you know, who knows whats happening. But theyre making great stradz. But it needs more funding. I think its compared to a lot of other diseases, its still a fraction of what we spend on other things. And its important because in society, its becoming a its going become a huge deal when all these kids grow up. One out of 42, one out of 68, whatever it is. A much larger portion, right. Lets talk about what a robust its been for mergers and buyouts. Facebook buys whats app. The mega deal has gotten a ton of exposure for its big price tag and the even bigger questions it raised about how much the Text Message Service is really worth. If you want to buy a company, but what price should you pay . You can look at multiples as of how many times profit or tax flow youre going to want to pay or comparable sales like in other companies. You can look at synergy, how much would a combined Company Benefit shareholders . Those are a handful of factors. But you have to settle on a price. Bankers advising sellers want to get the highest price possible. So in the end, the deal price paid is as much about numbers as it is about people and negotiating prowess. Maybe thats what got whats app a 16 billion price tag. The comcast time warner merger. The deal raises issues about content provider deals for Companies Like netflix. And the hotly debated net neutrality. When that peep line offers all websites the same speed and access, thats call net neutrality. But some providers want to set up a special lane where data moves faster and only companies that pay extra are allowed to use it. The American Us Airways deals. The mega merger creates the Worlds Largest airli