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look at shares of volkswagen. keep in mind all of the automakers if they aren't already develop something type of an electric vehicle, whether a hybrid or pure electric, they are all working on it and those models are coming. audi's in 015. >> thank you very much. phil lebeau reporting from l.a. >>> now to dominic chu for a market flash. hi. >> hey tyler. shares of jacobs engineering taking a hit near session lows after the technical professional construction and mining services company reported earnings that fell short of analyst estimates, but jacobs order backlog did grow by over 8% to 17 be there. the company also said it sees full year fiscal year earnings in 2014 between 3.35 and 3.90 in line with expectations. it does see weakness, sue, in the current quarter. back to you. >> thank you very much. >>> so, we focus on microsoft. who will replace steve ballmer at the company? word has it the decision would come within days. we're live at the company's annual shareholders meeting where they're down to a short l

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they trail both gm and volkswagen by a wide margin in the number one auto market in the world. if this thing continues to escalate, watch for their sales to again take another hit. >> we need to take a look the at those stocks. thank you very much for bringing us the latest on the developing terror. >> shares of pepsico are up 23% versus coke only up about 11%. is pepsi the best bang for your buck? bring in rbc's capital nick mody who initiated coverage on the beverage sector and bill sh mitd from deutsch. what do you reckon, pepsi or coke? >> we just initiated yesterday and we prefer coke over pepsi. couple points here. one, we think coke will improve in 2014. they had a bunch of issues in the u.s., brazil and china which we think a lot of these head winds will moderate as we move into 2014. second thing is just from a valuation standpoint. coke has a dividend yield higher than pepsi for the first time since 2010. we think there's value to be had as pepsi has run pretty significantly over the last 18 months. >> bill, how much of this really has to do with the drinks and how mu

jonathan browning from volkswagen said there's a socket everywhere but not a hydrogen fuel pump everywhere. let's not get ahead of ourselves when it comes to fuel cells. >> the difference is in the case of a fuel cell our fuel cell as an example can refuel in three to four minutes as opposed to hours for a plug-in. in the range on our cell somewhere around 300 miles. so there's a big difference in the need for multiple infrastructure stations relative to electric. >> one of the stories getting a lot of attention out here and you're familiar with it is what's happening between tesla and the national highway traffic safety administration. not going to ask you to comment on it tesla's situation but you are in this position with nhtsa just a few years ago. when you're in that spot, and you're under the gun and in the spotlights, what is the pressure like to not only come up with a fix, but to say we know that this is where the problem is, here's the fix? >> i think the most important thing is, number one, you're listening to your customers, you're understanding what going on in the marketplace

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deliver a product or as service that's hard to compete with, whether it's amazon or apple or volkswag volkswagen, companies competing with them is tough work. beat the competition, erect a moat around their business and create their on luck. the winds of the economies will blow hot and cold, but if the economy blows cold, the company is still delivering something people really want to have and that's the key to succeeding in the years ahead. >> it's good you've raised theithe i theish -- the issue of apple. looking through your wish list what you like to tinds in your stocking this christmas you like apple. not quite as glamorous but also like microsoft. talking a lot about this week. >> you know, one of the things i think dominic led into this well with the fact we're turning over some sectors. microsoft, apple, a lot of our customers buying these stocks as they pay a dividend. you said microsoft isn't that sexy but it's slowly but surely, fors those people who are more longer term investors and not traders, tend to find that as a nice stock as well as apple. the other area i think is financial

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bmw now is having 9% while volkswagen's audi is the best in class carmaker here with 9.4 had%. so all in all, revenues were coming in slightly less than expected. overall ibid was better than expected, you about there, as well, there might be some currency effects because they have a lot of things, a lot 06 sales in the united states. with that, back over to you. >> annette, thank you. also joining us, an automotive and transportation consultant at sullivan. a rare slip for bmw today. do you read much into it? well, i think what we feed to consider is the fact that bmw has had big investments into the car market. they had almost increased 60% investments into r&d. obviously, this is on the back of the launch. >> yet the bmw, the battery powered or electric power -- is it fully electric? >> yeah. so unlike the other carmakers like audi or daimler, they've invested a lot of money into this new platform. this is obviously because they have a long-term future, a long-term vision for the future and they're quite open about that, you know? >> is this vision based on the fact that the

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as volkswagen shows off its new cars, the porsche, the audi brands, so the ceo has announced an investment of $113 billion over the next five years as it seeks to overtake gm and toyota, in fact, as well as the biggest carmaker around the world. new plans and new environmental technology. finally, the personal level. paul flowers, the chairman of the cooperative bank in united kingdom, has been arrested by police in wake of a video that appeared to show him buying both crystal meth and crack cocaine, actually filmed by national newspaper. this is actually a big deal in the united kingdom. he's not any longer the chairman of the co-op bank, but it has thrown that institution into huge turmoil, and questions are being asked at the highest level, notably with prime minister david cameron, saying he will talk to regulators -- forgive me -- about where to go from here. really i mentioned it to make the canadians happier. >> there's rob ford, trey radel. >> a trend. crack cocaine. >> the confluence of the stories, it's amazing. >> tells you something. >> simon, thank you. >> thank you. >>> mary

as a result, mainly of the siat brand, within the vw group, volkswagen, and gm is doing well, with the chevrolet. there are the five top brands in europe in terms of market share, volume rather than anything else. guys, back to you. >> spain, interesting. >> yes. who knew? >> i had no idea. >> that's why they have clash for clunkers. $1,300 to trade your car in, to try and generate jobs locally. >> yes. but it was a lemon to some extent here in the u.s. i'm not sure that's the best way to spend spain's money. but it's working for the auto industry. >> yeah, it's their money. actually, that's not strictly true. >> exactly. >>> let's get to bob pisani to see what's moving, in another moderate range. >> housing-related stuff, thanks to home depot's great numbers overall doing terrific. looking at the housing-related stocks. home depot at a historic high. volka materials, lowe's reporting tomorrow. home depot had an outstanding report. let me give you the highlights. same-store sales up 7%. way above expectations. recovery in big-ticket spending so customer transactions were up. the averag

but volkswagen has been our preference. >> tesla is beating bmw. >> do you take into account the currency? do you have a view on the currency? do you hedge it or let it go? >> we don't do any hedging. but it's something in the back of our mind in the sense, you know, where do we want to invest? the auto theme has been japan automakers. because their currency's coming down. the u.s. earnings are worth more. their exports are better. >> who missed yesterday? nissan? >> nissan missed yesterday. yeah. >> fuji? >> fuji heavy in japan. and one of the interesting areas doing well here and in europe is auto parts. we've got auto parts out of canada and continental out of germany that has -- they're just continuing to roll along. and you were talking about tesla. and the auto parts people are in the middle of this automated car process of making cars, you know, stop before you run down the little kid and stuff like that. >> did you see that bmw that gets 98 miles to the gallon? >> yeah. >> amazing. >> it's amazing. >> how about health care? doesn't look like you're embracing it. aflac is a special

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