Days straight. Stuart. I have 57 people who work for me, about a third didnt show up for one reason or another, trying to get through the snow and the trains are delayed and more people are coming in and theyre going to be late so well get off to a slow start. You look behind me, the s p pits, hardly anybody there. A lot of traders trying to get in there. There will be a lack of participation. Stuart thats unusual because were used to Winter Weather and we know all about snowfall and yet, suddenly weve got people who cant get to work. Do you think it will affect pricing on the market at all . Well, i think you could see a little, maybe more volatility with less people involved. One thing i would say, stuart, were in a different age. Somebody cant make it into the trading pit they can jump on the smart phone and trade their futures or equity contracts. I dont think its going to slow them down as far as that per se. But if you get a big move or institutional volume that happens in the pits, that could add volatility, but it will be shortlived. Its a lack of people getting to work for sure. Stuart were waiting for it to get to us here in new york city, likely to arrive tonight, thursday night. Well keep you uptodate whats happening here in the big apple. Larry stay there, back in a second. Hackers exposing the user name and phone numbers of 4. 6 million users of snap chat messaging app. And then we have the Syrian Electronic Army a Hacking Group attached to the regime. And they say theyve claiming that microsoft a reading user emails and skype. Stay with us. The broadpoint is make is, your privacy doesnt exist online. I dont think it did. It certainly doesnt now. I agree theres a lot of things were putting out there publicly and a lot of things are exposed through hacks weve experienced with snap chat. I think the snap chat hack was deliberate and people say they want to raise awareness. And do you have any idea, raise awareness of what . I think that more and more folks out there are sharing their information want to see enhanced security and there with as a glitch in snap chat, a vulnerability that was exposed. Snap chat said they addressed it, making more obstacles and the group wanted to expose its still an issue and so they went ahead and unfortunately, they leaked about 4. 6 million users names and phone numbers. Stuart snap chat is still a private company. Told theyre valued at 3, 3 1 2 billion dollars. That was the talk a few weeks ago, if they ever go public. 3 1 2 billion. Do you think a hacking attack like this could reduce their value . So i dont its a great question and clearly, theres rumor they turned down multibillion dollar offers for their company. I think that one attack like this certainly puts pressure on them to increase their security. I think if it continues to happen it will certainly affect the valuation of the company and User Confidence of the company, but one time, if they respond transparently and quickly they can recover and thats the value of this app that is used primarily by the teen market. Stuart fast, i know youre not a politician, is there a young angle to this . You dont like the hacking, do you . I think were putting more and more information about ourselves out there. Younger people are willing to share their location and more about themselves. Were sensitive that it can be exploited in ways that we certainly would not like to have happen. Stuart we hear you. Thanks very much for joining us, well see you again soon. Thanks, stuart. Stuart a full show for you, 30 seconds for the other headlines. You dont recall this, walmart recalling the donkey meat in china. And traces of other meats, fox meat was found in some of the products. How about that. 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Well, i would agree, wont see 20, 25 gain in the stock index, but i think it will start off that way and first month or two off to a good start and then well wait and see what the tapering really does. And because if money is harder to get, then certainly the stocks are going to go down at least in the second part of the first half of the year. So i would really watch for that. We get Interest Rates to rally then ill totally agree we will not get the information. Larry, i can tell that a the snowstorm kept a lot of people from the exchange. Normally at 9 30 we get the roar when the trading session begins. Right now its quiet. All right, larry, good luck today. See you later. Take care. Now, we are down 34 points in the very 47 points in the very early going this first full trading session of the year 2014. Now, were down 47. But were at 16,528 as of right now. Move onto the netflix story. Netflix knows a lot of people share pass words and now its cracking down and introducing new plans that could bring in more subscribers. Lauren simonetti, is netflix up today . Its actually down by 1 2 of 1 . Dont forget, this stock gained about 300 percent last year. You know, its interesting, a lot of people share the netflix account. By cutting the price for a simple plan to 6. 99 a month as a test, maybe some of the share customers will get their own plans and the other plan three people can use it. It cuts you off and youre not allowed to share and stream for free. I think a lot of people will prepare to do the right thing to get their own streaming. Hopefully. And hopefully, and maybe this is the stock in the long run, we shall see. Thank you. And well call twitter the latest stock, its wild swings in recent sessions and this morning, its up to 65. 50. Is lauren still there. Have you got any comments on twitter . Were calling it the horse race stock of the day. Im surprised to see twitter up about 3 right now, but this stock has been momentous the past couple of days, from thursday on, stuart. So watch the volume. This has been tremendous and on sunday, 3 and 4 of total volume because its just been so active. And were on it. Thanks, lauren. Yeah. Apple downgraded, how about that . Apple downgraded today, wells fargo did it and the stock is down 4 bucks, apple, 5. 57 also of right now. Now ive covered it all. Walmart recalling donkey meat sold at some of its stores in china and government tests showed that meat contained the dna of other animals and it wasnt pure donkey meat. Lauren, if you pay for donkey meat should you get it, am i right . And if you pay for it you should get it, and a lot of people are saying, oh, donkey meat. But the problem was walmart was selling in one of the biggest Grocery Stores in the world, fox meat and other such animal meats. This is a huge brand, yum brands and k. F. C. Having issue. Stuart and walmart says theyre going to fill prescriptions in the next month, even if your obamacare coverage has not kicked in. So walmart is doing a nice thing there and saying were going to cover you anyway. The stock, check it again, please. Some kind of flat last checked. Actually up. I will take it and thanks, lauren. Everybody remember this video that we showed you earlier this week . It was a train carrying oil. It derailed and exploded. That forced the evacuation of an entire town in north dakota. Now, warren buffett, berkshire owns it. And buffett has been a proponent, oil safer way to move it. And no pipeline . Transport it. And appears hes changing his tune, hes getting involved in Pipeline Technology. Stuart should we all investor in Pipeline Technology . I think if you havent been in pipelines or in trains and manufacturing cars, any of those areas, i think its delayed. Those stocks are so if you willy priced right now. If theyre paying a decent dividend, maybe get in and average down. I think that prices what they are, especially the pipelines are fully priced and. Now we have been talking about the hacks on snap chat and skype. Snap chat recently turned down a buyout offer from facebook. Do you think that this hack devalues snap chat as a company . What do you think, shah . I dont think it does. I think this was a friendly hack in terms of folks that did this trying to prove to snap chat people that there are holes in their security and anytime you get a friendly essentially pointing this out, its not going to be negative asking they can watch and fix and move forward on. As a note of interest for the viewers, i got recently a couple of letters, one from adobe and one from american express, there are breaches of security. I dont have much position in those, but im getting the letters and they dont realize there may be marketing pieces not because the breaches are all over the place, theyre dangerous and disturbing. But not affected any stock price yet to my knowledge. Look out to 2014. Give us your best stock. Whats the stock that youre going to give our viewers right now thats going to do real well in 2014 . Well, my favorite singular stock would be tivo. We do own it, my subscribers own it. A Million Dollars in cash and 175 Million Dollars of longterm debt. We know what it does, you can manipulate your tv screen and save shows and slow them down and speed them up. And they have other areas, theres a research firm, also, do a lot of Research Online and from folks tivoing, watching what theyre buying through the Television Sets and providing everythings in to marketers, to advisors, conduits for advertisers, and opening up the businesses that are through the tivo boxes. You can buy a box at a retailer or essentially download online and you can get tivo through your smart phone and through your tablet. Its ubiquitous globally and i think its going to do well in 2014. Stuart shah, beneath you were running a banner that says that shah galani suggests looking at tivo and microsoft in 2014. Why dont you give us an indication why microsoft . I still own it. We own it, were bought at much lower level and we like it, paying a nice dividend. Tens of millions in cash. And we get to see the ultimate change in who the ceo is going to be. I think its going to be exciting. Microsoft is spending a lot of money with the peripheral businesses and theyre going to have a expansive view of the globe and i think the product lines are going to increas spread and its a growth stock again and i see 2014 being a robust year for microsoft. Hold on, shah. Going to get a weather report. Weve got a massive winter storm bearing down on the east coast, bringing snow and freezing temperatures and then tell you about this, all 52 passengers aboard the Research Vessel stranded in the arctic have been rescued. The ship sent to the ant and the and they used a helicopter on the thin ice, theyre out and it looks we are like were looking at global cooling, forget the Global Warming. Thats just my opinion. Do you ever play the market by the weather . Do you go out and buy Generator Companies . No, we dont. And its already gone up when the weather happens, most of those prices are built if in. If i wanted to, i would buy home depot or Something Like that. When we play for our portfolio, were looking at longterm effects on Commodity Prices about you not shortterm in terms of generators and that kind of stuff. Stuart fair enough, shah. A totally separate subject. Now legal to buy marijuana in colorado. 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Snowden deserves better than a life of permanent exile, fear and flight. He may have committed a crime to do so, but he has done his country a great service. Thats the New York Times. Lets bring in the former state department, christian, what do you make of that editorial . Well, stuart, its full of m mendacity. And claims that he didnt do harm to security. And thats not an espionage act. It could be proven in snowdens case. Key allies in germany and france. The difficulty the United States is going to have to reaching new intelligence sharing and collecting agreements with foreign governments or getting foreign assets to trust us, to give us information about our enemies or about terrorist networks. All of thats made more difficult by what snowden did. The times is wrong on this. Stuart and where does the president stand . Nsa spying is highly unpopular with young voters and thats his core constituency. Where does he stand on this usual of spying . You think the administration might be skeptical, especially being close as it is to silicon vaaley. But also, theyre not happy that this has made the president look bad and ought to be more of a black eye for obama than its been because this administration failed to react on an earlier mass disclosure of information with wikileaks. They did prosecute the army private who was most directly involved and no actions against wikileaks and no actions to compartmentize information. And snowden was able to collect the information. And thats a nono and something that the u. S. Government doesnt appear to have reacted to adequately. Stuart do you think the administration would