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mfs. there is no expertise without collaboration. >> wow, you cats hit the jackpot. there is enough food here to feed a lion. try to get it. try to get it. try to get the burger. >> what goes up, must come down. liz: that was pets.com sock puppet. bring in the panel. our own adam shapiro. jason, if we apple. >> sure. you don't need 1000 good ideas to be successful. you need a few. >> sure. >> i will reiterate my belief facebook will see triple digits this year. facebook is hovering back and forth around$0 level. i do believe it's a pretty safe idea to sea that, we're in a long-term uptrend. it is incredibly powerful company. okay? it is growing mobile revenues. it is buying out, oculus, it is incorporating so many different facets of the technology world. it is behemoth and only growing. i say facebook is going to 100. whether nasdaq goes to six thousand, i'm not sure. -- six thousand. liz: annual high of solarcity, the company is 88 bucks. it is at 50 right now. >> i love solarcity. there is huge amount much interest in solarcity. t

mfs. there is no expertise without collaboration. . >>> a tell of two teen retailers, abercrombie & fitch getting hit today falling more than 15% hitting a near six-year low after a huge drop in sales in the fourth quarter. on the other side, american eagle soaring as it reportedly had a solid holiday quarter, up more than 7%. karen? >> yeah. american eagle, that was nice, but let's focus for a men on am crombie which i think is actually more interesting. you look at a name like this. look at a stock this cheap and you think, wow, something's really got to happen here, it's so cheap, but if you want to think about an activist coming in, don't expect it here. it's very vulnerable that could happen, but there already is an activist in there and in fact there was a very significant board change last year. half the board about is new, and looking closely at their bios it seems like a very good slate of candidates went on the board last year. they have -- so they already have a good board. i th

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mfs. there is no expertise without collaboration. >>> welcome back to "squawk box," everyone. let's take a look at some of the headlines this morning. dow chemical is spinning off part of its chlorine business and merging it with olin corporation. it will generate $7 billion a year. andrew liveris will join "squawk on the street" to talk about this deal coming up at the 10:00 hour. right now it looks like it's going to open at around $49. blackberry earned 4 cents a share in profit in the latest quarter. that was compared to an expected loss of 4 cents a share. revenue, though was well below what wall street was expecting because of hard-hit hardware sales. and we are just an hour away from the final estimate of fourth quarter gdp which is expected to show an annual growth rate of 2.4%. later this morning we'll get the latest michigan consumer sentiment index as well. >> the battle -- locked in a battle royale with apple, i don't know. i said it's 144 times -- apple is worth 144 times as m

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mfs. there is no expertise without collaboration. neil: as soon as i heard the word make it easier for students to file for bankruptcy, that is all i needed to reach into my medicine cab let, white house awaying bankruptcy options for students deep in college debt. we're not told what second treatment. kids with 20 grand in debt, 30 grand, 50 grand. philosophy majors who will never get a job, medical students under obamacare not getting paid as much as they thought. what? who? where? all i know, that everyone watching college student bill of rights you are the one who will pay that bill. and political insider is right he always is, plan on a big bill. that is what worries me. like old twilight zone episode we're here to serve man and you realize it is a cookbook, and we're all on the plate. >> i am a numbers guy if you look at numbers could fewer than 1,000 people annually apply for student loans this is a small group of people, i am sorry apply for bankruptcy for student loans, a small group that are applying for bankruptcy,. neil:

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