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That. they intimidate you so you don't think you no so you send them your money. and people just simply don't connect the dots. >> you have three stocks you know about and that you like. >> underarmor is one. this is this year. by the way. up 24%. your man, jordan spieth. he wears their hat. i he wins that could be a big winner. apple. people see $200 stock. that has nothing too with value. finally, i got to give my mom a shotout. burlington coat factory. get kids' clothes cheap. 22% this year alone, but my mother? she -- if she was portfolio manager she would outperform everyone on wall stree...

The bodegga for cigarettes. and nobody worried about it. it's a joke. don't kill me. but he didn't really worry. i think my parents trusted me. i have a two year old. a lotf opeople think i'm nuts because i let him run weend and if he falls he falls. you have a son. he is 16. what does he think of this? >> i love the idea of parents having the right to parent the way they want. when eric was 6 years old. he was in tj max and got into the clothes racks. there is protocol. i was never so scared in my life. he was five feet away from me. from that moment forward there was never a moment that we d...

T.j.max and on and on. they're not immune to this. dare i say none of them are. so, what is a shopper to do? what are retailers worried that they do? >> the real issue, neil, is the fact that these retailers have spent a lot of their capital expenditure on making sure that online sales were up as opposed to making sure security is up. i've been saying this a lot and the systems are antiquated. i looked at a pay pal. they said mobile payment systems were up 121% on black friday. if you're having that kind of transactions happening online and in your stores you need to make sure your security is...

There's a long history of payment card breaches we can look at and help to understand what may have occurred. if you may remember to the tj max, the attackers were able to obtain access to the wireless network, the individual tj maxx, in the back-end systems, able to control the data. and fast-food stores and grocery chains that suffered a breach. it was malicious software crafted to target the point of sale systems at the retailers. so we've seen a trend of the cyber criminals adopting the malware that is targeting the point of sale systems. it's also available for sale, and some of the cases...

Down to something they did wrong or just very smart computer hackers. but the bottom line is 40 million bits of information, names, data on credit cards has been taken. they think that this is quite serious. and i think anybody who shopped in target over that period you mentioned needs to be having a good look through their credit card statements to make sure there isn't any inappropriate activity here. it's not the first time. you remember tj max. we have seen these issues before and stores are going to have to take this seriously. we have a bit of news here in europe. s&p, the ratings agency...