From a previous post: "It seems that a good percentage of the posters here just watch CNBC due to the good female aesthetics..." Couldn't agree more.
I'm getting a call from Jim Cramer tonight and will be heard on his show tonight! I'll be asking the drug pipeline question. Booyah!
CNBC TOTALLY SUCKS! I HAVE IT ON ALL DAY AND HATE IT. IT GOT REAL BAD EVER SINCE THE NEW FORMAT WAS INTRODUCED. THESE YOUNGER CHICKS WHO GOT KEY ROLES ARE ANNOYING AS HELL , -YOU KNOW WHICH ONES I AM TALKING ABOUT- MARIA SHOULD HAVE RETIRED IN 2000 TO GO WORK FOR VANITY FAIR SWITCH TO BLOOMBERG IF YOU CAN
Maybe they reformatted the show or who knows what but check this out: Ri----, Ben (NBC Universal) to me More options 8:15 am (5 hours ago) A----, Booyah! Thank you for contacting MAD MONEY w/ Jim Cramer! Booyah! I received an email from you not too long ago and I am contacting you because we will be discussing a related topic on today's show. Are you available to call and talk to Jim at 4pm Eastern time today? It would take about 10 minutes. I'd love to hear from you. If you would be available, just fill out the information requested below, and call me ASAP to discuss your question toll free at 866 391 ----. You can also email me with your phone number and I will call you directly. Thanks again and I hope to hear from you. Booyah. NAME: PHONE NUMBER: Are you a financial professional (e.g. investment banker, analyst)? (YES/NO) Benjamin S. Ri---- CNBC Global Headquarters 900 Sylvan Ave. Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 Direct Dial - 201 735 ---- Ben.Ri----@nbcuni.com
Unfortunately they have it on all day at work and can't escape it. Always disliked it, now with the new format, I despise it. Pet Peeves: The sound effects - the "whoosh" when they change a chart. So much noise, so little value. The "you are here" pulsating dot and arrows on charts. Put that up there with Fox's glowing hockey puck. The clock ticking at 1/100 of a second. Like I need nanosecond accuracy to read time and sales. The obsession with Dow 12000. Only people who know nothing about stocks care what the Dow does. The fact that CNBC is becoming less about stocks and more about politics, human interest stories, etc. If I want to watch Good Morning America, I'll turn that on. The way they swing from the NYSE's jock. If you have traded any international markets for any length of time, you know how a market should work. If there are 5000 shares on the bid, and you put in an order to sell 5000 shares on the bid, you actually get to sell 5000 shares on the bid. Immediately. You don't have a specialist with a free option holding up your order and deciding whether to fill you or not. The NYSE may give you a better fill from time to time. That does not make up for all the times you go to lift an offer or hit a bid and get a "nothing done". Pisani, try and think critically for once. The women. Maybe CNBC didn't have enough women in the past, but now it is all women. And most of them are utter morons. Liz Klaman is a ditz (I can only imagine the pictures she must have of Immelt - nothing else explains why she has a job in financial journalism), Michelle Caruso Cabrera is under the delusion that anyone gives a damn what her personal opinions are. Sharon Epperson makes George W Bush seem articulate. Sylvia Vadva has never, ever, had anything valuable to say regarding Europe (except maybe the best weinerschnitzel place in Munich). The Money Honey and the Money Moose get good marks for effort, but Cs for insight. If you must stack the program with women to keep the PC police off your back, at least put your hot rookies on (Bianca et al) and send Klaman, Caruso Cabrera, Epperson, Cooms, Vadva back down to the Single A team in Podunk where they belong. Lets face it, CNBC during trading hours is what I would imagine Lifetime / Oxygen Finance to be. Cramer. If its at its 52-week high, you like it. Fine. Got it. Nice sound effects. Sell! Sell! Sell! Steve Liesman. You're not an economist - you just play one on TV. So shut up and let the real economists speak, please. Hampton Pearson. um... why are you here? Art Cashin. Art, I loved your "Cashin Comments" back in the day, but you've been mailing it in for a long time. Whats on your pad anyway? John Harwood. If I wanted the DNC's talking points read to me, I'd spend time on Koz. At least try and hide your partisanship. The new ticker with company names on it. Anyone who understands how to read a ticker tape knows the symbol for 3M.
You guys must have come to the realization that this channel is not catering to traders. This is not their intended audience. Like every TV channel, CNBC is about ratings (hence, the sound-effects, graphics, the 1/100 of a second clock even though there is at least a 7 second delay from realtime, etc). BloombergTV is the better choice for true information. Bloomberg relies more on sales of its data where the cash cow is. They don't need loud anchors, guests that couldn't trade themselves out of a wet paperbag, etc. I see a lot of arrogance on CNBC. I think if they are going to be so opinionated about the data they provide, they should run everybody in the organization thru a clerking job and have them trade for a while or something. I was hoping that the girls on CNBC would get drunk and start dancing on their desks when the Dow got close to 12,000. They didn't cover anything else BUT that with tickers, alerts, etc for a whole week. I guess it doesn't matter that the index point representing the dow are worth much less than they did the last time they reached 12,000 when indexed to the US Dollar. Amazing ignorance. The question is: What do we hype now? If I were able to get BTV after 7 am CT on the cable service we have on the CBOT, I would have it on all day. At least BTV flashes news as it happens instead of waiting for the guests and commercial spots to stop running before announcing some news. Pretty sad really. The only good thing about CNBC is that it is muted all day.