el pollo loco they were buying the june 29th puts in j.w. nordstrom selling the 75 puts which were in money basically at the end of the day and buying 75s and 77.50 calls. in other words, nordstrom, after a dismal first half of the year or first, you know year to date numbers down about 6% on the stock, they were looking for upside breakout looks like they're getting it back a little bit right here. >> good point. mike, what do you make of this? >> you know, i really have to know exactly where they're missing along in the income statements to see exactly whether this is something you want to extrapolate. 4.4 comps mature higher-end department store seems like you can't sneeze at it. 79% top line for the year. >> and the market seems to agree, by the way, much better after-hours reaction, some of the other big names of course are down. so where does this leave us now? we were just talking act where do we look for leadership. sounds like it's not the consumer. probably shouldn't rely on the energy space. do we look to the financials? >> i was

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take a look at el pollo loco. it's one of the big losers today. it beat earnings when it announced but fell sharply after the bell. after its guidance disappointed investors. >> for more on this drop and what's in store for the second quarter, including how the company plans to handle the bird flu outbreak, we're joined in a cnbc exclusive el pollo loco ceo steve sather. >> welcome, liz. sorry. welcome, kelly. >> let's clarify. you say the guidance was out there in the market last night. perhaps it was the sales growth coming in light that spooked people. >> yes. i think first of all i think we had a good quarter. as you mentioned we exceeded on revenue. we exceeded on earnings per share and we had sales of 5.1%. we feel very good about our business. we did, again, re-affirm our full-year eps guidance and full-year same-store sales that being said i think as we discussed in the call a little bit of softness we saw in q2 as we were testing multiple proteins. and that concludes next week as we head into what we think will be very popular, our new ch

el pollo loco has dropped 14% in shares. we got a couple of earnings reports as well. dillard saying comparable sales fell by 1%. shares were down sharply. nordstrom on the other hand, not much changed, up less than 1% after it had a mixed report. olivia: thank you. now with a look at some of the top stories crossing the bloomberg terminal at this hour. in a rock, what appears to be a significant change in the fight over these the upper money. islamic forces capture the had headquarters there. state began a new offensive last night. ramadi is a key city in western iraq, where the militants already control a lot of territory. and barclays will probably be fine for violating a three year agreement on interest. prosecutors will not seek a guilty plea, barclays finally be around $60 million, this all has to do with manipulating the benchmark interest rate. prices are down for a third day in a row, u.s. output remains close to a record high and shale l explorers are set to expand output later this year. pimm: carl icahn has chosen sides between hoover and left -- lyft.nd ly

. >> among some stocks to watch, el pollo loco posted better return in revenues. they'll fall short of estimates. is there any cool way to say that? >> el pollo loco. the crazy chicken is what it means. >> i could have come up with that. a mixed quarter at nordstroms. >> earnings and revenue topped estimates and they were driven by demand from memory chips. >> party city reporting quarterly results for the first time as a publicly traded company. earnings topping estimates and bigger demand for licensed birthday products and balloons. >> shares of king digital getting crushed. beating the street on the top an bottom line but warning of seasonally softer growth in the mid year period. >> green mountain under pressure. the fourth coming keurig kold will be betweenat too high a price. >> is it iced coffee. >> gold? >> cold with a k. >> oh i read it wrong. >> the idea is they wanted to displace soda stream. >> it is cold. >> it's colded stuff but not necessarily iced coffee. >> at least you're here. >> thank goodness. >> coca-cola has a little investment in them and t

they have this history and this lineage a lot of newer players, el pollo loco or ew 3 don't have. melissa: we're looking at chart. it looks good. jonathan, do you own the stock i want to ask you. >> i don't own the stock but i'm eating a lot of breasts. >> shake shack at new high. that is healthy side of it. yum! brands less healthy. melissa: shake shack is not healthy nicole. have you been there? delicious, don't get me wrong. >> antibiotic free, isn't that sort of healthy? melissa: it is friday. has lots of calories. it is delicious. anyway, guys, thank you so much. >>> to solve a big problem sometimes you have to think small. crews are stacking what look like giant legs leg goes as they put together micro apartments. each one is only 300 square feet. only in new york. fox news's laura engle gives us the very first look. i have got to see that. >> hey melissa. you know there are actually two sizes. one is 250 square feet. the other, 350 square feet. developers say, hey, you know what? that is plenty of room to lounge sleep bathe, even enjoy a view off of a small balcony. they ha

. >> shares of el pollo loco reported weaker than expected comp store sales. the chain sees earnings per share of 67 and 71 cents this year. and also expects to open 16 company-owned and 11 franchise-owned restaurants in the year to come. >> thank you so much kate rog s rogers. they kick off the earnings playbook. this is one name you had been recommending -- >> just yesterday. >> just yesterday, in fact. >> loco bk on this one. i'll tell you what. looking at this, initially the stock sold off because their same-store sales were up 5.1% versus 5.7%. down 11% i don't think is justified here. and around the $25.50 level, it looks fairly interesting technically. while this is definitely disappointing and it's a full fast fire on bk, i would not panic out of this stock at all. >> you saw unusual activity here? >> we did. somebody bought a bunch of june 29 puts. these were puts that they purchased just today. obviously they're looking for downside beyond just what the may puts would have provided. in other words, they think that this thing could test, i guess, down

earnings aftermath on this friday morning lot of these consumer companies, el pollo loco not a lot to like in their earnings report. you touched on king digital, lack of new releases to hurt its current quarter. keurig shares getting hit. also some strong sales guidance for the third quarter, got reports of netflix is in talks to enter china, like you said topping $600 a shares 601 right now for netflix and nordstrom, reporting a beat on revenue. better top-line growth than bottom line what was interesting to me in those nordstrom numbers, the rack comps were less strong than what we saw out of those full-line stocks. back to you guys. >> all right, courtney thank you very much. >>> let's go back now to chi-town. rick santelli. >> brian, it's no secret that many that are trading the fixed income no matter what country, realized we're superglued at the hip at the most recent set of moves probably because we're bolted together when rates are moving down in an unbelievable fashion. let's look a variety of two-day charts understanding that all of the fundamentals and the dynamics of these

no love for el pollo loco. customer traffic grew at the slowest pace in a year. and are you addicted to your smartphone? if so you're certainly not alone. it always seems to be around me and i feel uncomfortable when it's not. maybe i have this condition, it's called nomophobia. it's friday may 15th 2015 and squawk box begins right now. ♪ >> live from new york where business never sleeps this is squawk box. >> sad, right, b.b. king. good morning and welcome to squawk box on cnbc. becky and andrew will be back on monday. our guest host today is mike santolli. senior columnist at yahoo! finance. sad news from the music world. the king of blues has died. b.b. king passing away in his sleep at his home in las vegas. he was 89 years old. he made his name playing in small clubs becoming a cutlt hero. he has 18 grammys to his name and in 2006 president george w. bush presented him with the medal of freedom. >> 330 concerts a year for like 30 years and he was playing just

. >> this one, el pollo loco again, a very decent move. after the first few days it's come off quite a bit. you could have waited a while and gotten better results. here's the interesting one. this is what a lot of the experts will point to as the reason why maybe you want to get on the ipo. this is shake shack. a recent one for sure. it went public at 21 bucks a share, doubled, more than doubled in its first day of traying. it's been off to the races. we've seen a lot of weakness as some traders take profits. still, this is one of those stocks where people will say if i didn't get in on it, look at where it's gone. shake shack may be one of the reasons why people are bullish on what's happening with bojangles. two sides to the story. a lot of the hot ipos, you could have waited a bit. >> preponderance of the evidence suggests. >> we let the market play it out. >> we have 14 minutes before the "closing bell." the dow jones industrial average still holding on to the big gaines of the session as is the s&p 500. >> so are the bulls back for a

solo fríe el pollo... ...agrega knorr rice sides, tomates frescos y albahaca... ...¡y disfruta de unas sabrosas bruschettas de pollo knorr! knorr rice sides como tu platillo principal. este violeta es para la vla soñadora. féria power violet, de l'oréal. un color multidimensional, vibrante. el violeta de féria tiene una dosis extra de colorante puros. vive en color. vive el féria power violet, de l'oréal paris. alan: vemos las imÁgenes de un clÁsico de terrorque regresa la pantalla grande, hablamos de poltergeist, una familia con tres hijos que se muda a una casa residencial, pero estÁ poseÍdo y se llevan a la niÑa mÁs pequeÑa, para hablarnos de la producciÓn que regresa aÑos despuÉs, se estrena maÑana viernes, nos acompaÑan sus actores, rosamarie, y sam rockwell. ¿quÉ tal el espaÑol? >> terrible. alan: antes que nada se tomaron su cafecito cubano,estÁn listos. dos cortaditos, y quiere el tercero. (hablan inglÉs) alan baila por dentro despuÉs de cada cafecito. el clÁsico poltergeist, ustedes eran unos bebÉs en la primera versiÓn, ¿quÉ di

vamos a poner el arrocito. te dejÉ caldo de pollo, de res... le vamos a poner un sobre de sazÓn completo, para que se ponga amarillito, y como es natural pimienta. yuri: chile campana. chef: el que me pica hoy, y rÉplica maÑana. johnny: se ha comentado. (risas) yuri: te han dicho, verdad. chef: estamos poniendo comino para marinar el pollo, y tengo salsita de pimiento verde. johnny: carla se pasa con todas las salsas atrÁs. chef: y yo se las traigo, me han traÍdo unos picantes espectaculares. utilizando una bolsa reciclable, una bolsa que se cierra, que la usamos y ya no anda por aquÍ... johnny: tÚ sabes que aquÍ se recoge todo. chef: fÍjate, esos pedacitos no tiene hueso, es carne pura. estÁ vivo. johnny: a mi me gusta retarte. chef: lo cocinas 10 minutos por un lado, 10 minutos por el otro, y ya, sÁcalo. johnny: hermano, siempre me quemo. chef: estÁ caliente, esos de verdad. johnny: ¿quÉ haces aquÍ william? (canta) quÉ maravilla cÓmo ha quedado esto. chef: william se ha jugado el dinero, el dinero de las clases de canto. yuri