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ANNOUNCER: This is NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT with Tyler Mathisen and
Susie Gharib.
SUSIE GHARIB, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT ANCHOR: Markets around the
world sell off as investors worry whether a bank bailout plan for Cyprus
means for trouble in Europe`s financial system. We`ll get answers from
PIMCO`s Mohamed El-Erian.
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TYLER MATHISEN, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT ANCHOR: Nobel laureate Paul
Krugman diagnoses American`s biggest economic challenges.
GHARIB: And builders say demand for homes is up, but so are costs and
buildable land is scarce. Why home builders aren`t as confident as they
have been.
We have that and more starting right now.
Good evening, everyone.
Tyler, you know, it`s just amazing how one small country in the
Mediterranean can create such big problems for the rest of the world.
MATHISEN: This maybe a tiny black swan, but it can still bite. Stock
markets around the world wobbled today in response to a plan floated over
the weekend to bailout the troubled banks of Cyprus. Part of the proposal
now being reworked, would take money from the depositors to pay for the
rescue.
Cyprus, a tiny eurozone island nation, has an economy the size of
Vermont but a banking sector crippled by the Greek financial crisis with
assets eight times as great as the country s GDP. And therein lies the
rub.
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The reemergence of Europe`s financial woes comes as no surprise to
many analysts. Listen to what former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan told NBR
Friday.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ALAN GREENSPAN, FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE:Europe has
been hanging over the American markets now for quite a while. And the
removal of that risk, at least temporarily, and I think it is only
temporary, has enabled the underlying forces of the market to begin to come
into vision.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MATHISEN: And today, the clearer vision that Greenspan referred to
was clouded the Cyprus.
Sue Herera has our report on why Cyprus matters.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
SUE HERERA, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over):
Cyprus is a smaller island with an even smaller economy. But right now,
the world`s biggest markets are closely watching what happens in the tiny
Mediterranean nation.
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ANDREW BUSCH, THE BUSCH UPDATE AUTHOR: It`s a tiny nation and it`s a
tiny banking system to some extent. The reason we care about it isn`t, of
course, Cyprus -- just like it wasn`t Greece. It`s what it means for the
bigger nations in Europe if they follow and go down the same path.
HERERA: Banking is a huge part of Cyprus` economy. And it`s a mess.
If it fails the country will probably fail, too, and the European Union
will not let the country fail.
But here`s the rub: the biggest customers of banks in Cyprus are
wealth Russians.
BUSCH: German taxpayers don`t want to bail out the depositors in
Cyprus because they are mainly Russians. And I think that`s really what
the issue is.
HERERA: So European finance ministers say they will give Cyprus 10
billion euros, but the country is on the hook for the other 7 billion euros
its banks need. And they don t have it.
So, they`re going to charge bank depositors a fee. Even small
investors who thought their savings were insured will take a hit.
And prospect of any government taking money from the private savings
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of its citizens has investors everywhere nervous.
MICHALIS SARRIS, CYPRUS FINANCE MINISTER: This was a necessary, but
single shot at the problem. And that from now one they can be very
confident that nothing will happen to their savings.
HERERA (on camera): The government says that this is just a one-time
hit and depositors are going be compensated with bank shares. But with the
stock market down some 60 percent, those shares are essentially worthless.
(voice-over): The blanks are closed now and they won t open again
until after parliament votes on the bailout measure. But all across
Cyprus, people are waiting in lines at ATMs to withdraw money from their
accounts. And governments all over Europe worried that their citizens
might also take their savings out of local banks and cause a run on the
banks of Europe. A banking panic could plunge the world economy into
recession.
And that`s why even the most seasoned Wall Street veterans are closely
watching what happens on this tiny island in the Mediterranean.
For NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT, I`m Sue Herrera.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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GHARIB: So what does the crisis in Cyprus mean for the U.S. economy,
the markets and American investors?
For some answers, we turn to Mohamed El-Erian. He`s the CEO of PIMCO,
the world`s largest bond fund. When I talked with him a short while ago, I
asked him if the situation in Cypress is unique, isolated problem, or is it
a serious issue for the U.S.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
MOHAMED EL-ERIAN, PIMCO CEO & CO-CIO: It is mainly unique to Europe
and Cyprus in the sense that Cyprus has a very large bank system and
there`s no other way they can raise money.
The reason why it`s relevant to us, Susie, is because it`s disrupting
a certain conventional wisdom which is that deposits are sacred. Ensured
deposits are sacred. And what the Europeans decided this weekend is that
that`s no longer the case.
GHARIB: Absolutely, Mohamed. I mean, that`s what a lot of people
here were thinking about. It raised this question as whether your bank
deposits, can you trust bank insurance, even though this problem was all
the way in Cyprus? What can you tell people at home tonight?
EL-ERIAN: I would say there s no fear in the case of the United
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States. There`s no fear that the FDIC insurance is not going to apply. I
think that what`s happening in Cyprus is very special to Cyprus. However,
we may feel the spillover in different way.
What`s going to happen now is that unless they fix the blunder that
they call them, the mistakes -- these are the words that are being used
right now within Europe -- unless they fix that, there`s a chance there
will be outflow deposits in Cyprus when the banks reopen on Thursday.
GHARIB: So, what impact does that have on the U.S.? What impact does
all of this stuff that`s going on in Europe and in Cyprus have on the U.S.
economic recovery? Can it derail it?
EL-ERIAN: I don`t think it derails it. I think it`s an initial
headwind. So, Europe is after all the biggest economic zone. So the
thicker Europe gets, the more headwinds we get.
Now, the good news, and this is really important for us is that we
have, internally, some indigenous healing. We are getting better, the
economy. And secondly, the Federal Reserve is very committed right now to
buying time for our politicians to get their act together.
So, I think that this is a headwind, but I do not see some of it would
derail our recovery.
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GHARIB: What about the global economy? What about the global
financial system? What risk is there to that because of this Cyprus
situation?
This is a big worry for so many people.
EL-ERIAN: So, the risk scenario -- and I should stress it`s a risk
scenario, not a baseline -- is that the Cypriots are so upset that you get
both political disorder and social unrest, and that increases the chance of
Cyprus exiting the euro zone. If they exit the euro zone, you reopen all
these questions (ph) that were put aside and dry by the very aggressive
intervention of the European central banks.
So, that is the risk, that unless they find a solution and unless they
exempt the small savers from this levy, that you may get social disorder
and political disorder.
GHARIB: Let`s bring it here to the U.S. and U.S. stock market. We`ve
had a nice market rally. Could this situation disrupt the market rally
here? And for American investors, is this a time, an opportunity to get
in, or is there more turmoil ahead? What do you think?
EL-ERIAN: Well, so far, we`ve shrugged off this element for three
reasons. One is the Europeans have realized that they`ve made a mistake
and are trying to find a way out. It`s not going to be easy but they`re
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trying.
Second is the view that our market will become more attractive because
Europe once again has a question mark.
And, third, let`s not forget wheat going well here. So, the reason
why we, in the United States, have shrugged off the news today is because
of these things.
So, I would say that. But do not -- do not forget that we are in
over-board situation, so we have come a very long way, will be on the
fundamentals. So I wouldn`t say this is a buying opportunity. I`d say
this is a reminder that we are subject to the political shocks from
outside.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
MATHISEN: Mohamed El-Erian of PIMCO.
Well, the Cyprus news and worries about a broader spill throughout
Europe sent world markets down sharply. And U.S. stocks were not immune,
especially in early trading. But as Mr. El-Erian just pointed, they
recouped nearly half of their losses by the end of today`s session.
Being down as much as 110 points, the Dow finished the day 62 points
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lower, closing at 14,452. NASDAQ also under pressure, down 11 points. The
S&P down 8, now 13 points shy of its all-time closing high.
GHARIB: Looking at the U.S. economy -- home builder confidence fell
more than expected and for the third straight month. The National
Association of Homebuilders said its home confidence index fell two points
to 44. The rating below 50 suggests negative sentiment about the housing
market.
Builders say they are concerned about meeting increased demand for new
homes because of bottlenecks in the system, not enough workers and building
supplies.
With us now to talk about the outlook, Brian Wesbury. He`s chief
economist of First Trust (NYSE:FFA) Advisers.
So, Brian, is this a case of an abundance of issue? Is that what
builders are telling us?
BRIAN WESBURY, FIRST TRUST ADVISORS CHIEF ECONOMIST: Yes. Youknow,
excuse me, Susie, but, you know, when -- after a surgery, you know, we --
it takes some time before everything starts to work right again. And I
think that`s kind of what housing is going through.
We have massive layouts. We literally shut down the entire industry -
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- I mean, almost. And so, getting it started up again, I think builders
are surprised by the strength of sales. And what`s happening now is that
there are bottlenecks appearing and there`s a shortage of homes on the
market.
And this is creating, kind of good difficulties, if you will, for
builders and for the housing market. It`s a shortage of homes on the
market in many, many areas of the economy.
MATHISEN: So, Brian, builders are a little less confident than they
were a month before but maybe for technical reasons.
WESBURY: Right.
MATHISEN: Should homeowners be, or people who are out on the market
today be less confident about buying a house or do you see a pretty good
year ahead?
WESBURY: Oh, I see a great year ahead. Builders will catch up
eventually.
You know, last year, I think -- I think housing prices were up almost
30 percent. That`s a huge gain and they`re just having a hard time
catching up. We had lots of immigrant workers, many of them immigrated
back out of the United States, or they`ve moved to different areas of the
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economy. And, so, what`s happens here, we just have -- we just have a
little problem restarting.
You know, one of the other areas that we can see this happening in is
lumber. Lumber prices now, the price of lumber is back up to where it was
in 2005, at the height of the boom. And we`re building about a third of
the houses that we were building then. The reason lumber prices are up so
much is that we`re not producing as much lumber and yet demand is taking
off.
GHARIB: Let me ask you this, Brian. The other thing that`s going up
are the rates on mortgages. We`ve seen on 30-year --
WESBURY: Yes.
GHARIB: -- it`s up to like 3.6 plus percent. You know, not a lot
still.
WESBURY: Right.
GHARIB: But as mortgage rates go up, what is that going to do to the
housing recovery? Could it stall it out?
WESBURY: You know, yes, it could, Susie, if rates go up significantly
more. But we`ve had -- we had a boom in housing back in the early 2000s,
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back in the late 1990s, with mortgage rates of 6 percent or 7 percent or 8
percent. And, you know, as long as the economy is doing well, as long as
wages are rising -- and I know they`re not surging today -- as long as
we`re adding jobs, I don`t believe interest rates anywhere near current
levels are going to put a dent in the housing market.
GHARIB: Hey, a nice upbeat way to end our conversation. Thanks a
lot.
WESBURY: Yes.
GHARIB: Brian Wesbury, chief economist at First Trust (NYSE:FFA)
Advisers.
WESBURY: Thanks, Susie. Thanks, Tyler.
GHARIB: And we want to get a jump on the spring selling season. So,
for the rest of this week we`ll be taking an in-depth look at housing.
Diana Olick kicks things off at one of the hardest hit, the Miami
condo market, where things are starting to boom again.
MATHISEN: And coming up, we`re going to focus on Washington and the
stumbling blocks in the deal to curtail the so-called sequester, those
government spending cuts.
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But, first, the look at how the overseas markets fared today.
(MUSIC)
GHARIB: On Wall Street today, more red than green in the stock market
and some losses in the oil patch as well. And that`s where we begin our
"Market Focus" tonight.
Schlumberger (NYSE:SLB), the oil field services supplier, warned
investors that fewer rigs were going back online than expected. The
company`s CEO said he expects negative pricing pressure in several areas.
Looking at the stocks, Schlumberger (NYSE:SLB) down almost 4 percent.
Other drillers almost got hit. Helmerich & Payne (NYSE:HP) tumbling 5.5
percent. Nabors and Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) down as well.
Leading the S&P gainers today: JCPenney. The retailer got a positive
report from analyst Brian Nagel at Oppenheimer because of the new Joe Fresh
shop within the store concept. But he did say that Penney still needs to
work through its problems.
Investors on the positives, pushing JCPenney up more than 6 percent,
to $16.44.
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MATHISEN: And AstraZeneca cutting 1,200 jobs at its Wilmington,
Delaware, site, as it starts a research and development reorganization.
The cuts come weeks after the company reported a big drop in revenue for
2012, and forecast continuing difficulties with competition from generic
drugs.
Shares of AstraZeneca traded in New York were down slightly on the
day, at $46.18.
And after six year on the job, Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) CEO John
Riccitiello offered his resignation. During his tenure, the stock dropped
more than 60 percent. Riccitiello said in a memo that revenue and earnings
for the current quarter would be at the low end of its earlier guidance and
he was accountable for it. Shares were down at the close and then rose
after hours.
GHARIB: Moving now from Wall Street to Washington. This week,
lawmakers are working toward a measure that will keep the government up and
running past next Wednesday. That`s when current funding runs out.
But the real budget battle over long-term spending cuts continues.
John Harwood has more.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
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JOHN HARWOOD, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over):
Republicans and Democrats in Washington are still fighting over taxes and
spending but they`ve agreed to keep the fight under control. The House has
already passed a bill to keep the government running past the end of this
month. Now, the Senate is preparing to do the same thing and there, the
two parties aren`t far apart on the details.
SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV), MAJORITY LEADER: We`ve condensed the number
of amendments being talked about seriously. I commend them and their staff
through all of their efforts. I`ve spoken to both of them this morning.
They have yet, though, reached an agreement. I think we are getting close.
HARWOOD: But the gap remains huge for a long-term plan for bringing
government spending and revenue inline.
Democrats say they`re willing to reduce outlays for the massive Social
Security and Medicare entitlement programs, but only if Republicans agree
to additional tax hikes.
And just yesterday, Speaker John Boehner said the House`s answer to
that is no.
REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: The president got his
tax hikes on January 1st. The talk about raising revenue is over. It`s
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time to deal with the spending problem.
HARWOOD (on camera): Still, the two chambers at least have a way of
talking about their differences, not with President Obama but on each
other. Work on the contrasting House and Senate plans continue this week.
For NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT, I`m John Harwood on Capitol Hill.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
MATHISEN: Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has been
outspoken about what he thinks policymakers should do about the federal
debt and deficit. I asked when we spoke recently, but I began by getting
him to rate the U.S. economy on a scale of one to 10, with 10 being very
strong.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
PAUL KRUGMAN, NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING ECONOMIST: I think it`s trying to
be a six but the government -- the sequester and, generally, the government
doing the wrong thing might be pulling it back to a four. But we`re
definitely off the bottom and economy is trying to recover.
MATHISEN: Are you concerned? I spoke with former Fed Chairman Alan
Greenspan who said that with respect to the sequester, that rising asset
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prices both in stocks and housing may in part offset the otherwise
deleterious effects of the federal spending cuts. Are you in that camp at
all?
KRUGMAN: Not especially. I mean, there`s a little bit coming from
stocks but the main thing is housing is coming back because we`ve built
very few houses for a long time. Household debt has been coming down
relative to income. So, balance sheets are in better shape.
So, we have in a way, we`ve been down so long that there`s no place to
go but up. And so, the private sector is starting to recover.
MATHISEN: If the economy is, as you seem to characterize it,
lukewarm, but growing, why are stock prices as high as they are today? And
do you think they can move up from these levels?
KRUGMAN: Well, there`s two things, although the economy is only
lukewarm, profits have done very, very well. We`ve had, for whatever
reason, we`ve had a major shift of income away from labor to capital. So,
profits are very high.
And the other thing is interest rates are still very low, so money has
to go some place and it bids up symptom prices.
I don`t think -- I don`t think stock prices are obviously
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unreasonable. I don`t know, you know, whether it`s exactly right or not.
But it doesn`t look like a crazy number right now.
MATHISEN: As you look -- we`ve finished obviously two and a half
months of the year, as you look into the future for the rest of the year,
how do you think the U.S. economy is going to perform? And similarly for
stocks, how do you think they`ll do?
KRUGMAN: I have no idea whatsoever on stocks. That`s not my game.
I think the U.S. economy, as I said, it`s trying to grow. But a lot
depends on what is going happen in Washington. Does the sequester
continue? Do we have, you know, crazy -- do we another complication over
the debt ceiling?
So, at this point, it is dysfunctional politics getting in the way of
an economy that is gradually getting its act together.
MATHISEN: Does the economy in terms of federal finances need what`s
been characterized as a grand bargain? And do you think it`s possible?
I was listening to a political analyst earlier this week who said, you
know, if a grand bargain means somebody has to -- each side has to sign on
to raising taxes and cutting entitlements, he knew of no politician who
would buy that bargain.
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KRUGMAN: Well, yes, I don`t think it`s likely, but I wouldn`t put it
this way. I would have said the division between the parties is just too
large. That the -- that we`ve -- Republicans basically have not
acknowledged that they lost the election, and that`s the problem.
But, look, it is not urgent. The Congressional Budget Office debt
projections show pretty much stable U.S. indebtedness for the next 10
years. They do not show anything that looks like a crisis.
So, we are -- you know, we have long, long run problems but not
anything that has to be dealt with this year or five years from now or even
seven years from now.
MATHISEN: Are you worried about the level of consumer debt?
Consumers have pared their debt, but it`s still much, much higher than it
was a decade, decade and a half ago?
KRUGMAN: Yes. Well, but consumers are continuing to pare it back
some. I mean, the -- I think that`s one of the reasons we`ve had such a
slow recovery. But I think it is -- it`s on the right trajectory.
MATHISEN: If you look at the biggest challenges that you foresee
facing the U.S. economy over, let`s say, the next decade -- give me three
that come top of mind.
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KRUGMAN: Well, first of all, we`re part of a year. We`re not alone.
Europe is really a mess. I do worry about various kinds of blowback from
the European situation. So, that`s an economic political problem.
I worry about our own politics. We have, you know, it s one thing. I
don`t think we need a grand bargain but we need a functioning government.
I`m not sure we have that.
And, finally, I think the environmental issues, we`ve been ignoring
them, but they`re going to get more and more visible. And we really should
have been panicking about them long before now and I think by the time 10
years are up, we`re really -- it will become undeniable that we really,
really should be scared and acting on environmental issue.
MATHISEN: Professor Krugman, thank you very much for joining us
tonight.
KRUGMAN: Thank you.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
GHARIB: You can always count on Krugman for a fresh perspective on
the world economy.
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Well, let`s take a look now at treasuries, currencies and commodities
and how they did today.
(MUSIC)
MATHISEN: One upcoming movie that hopes to join that same list of box
office winners someday is the film based on the canceled TV series
"Veronica Mars". And the funding needed to produce the movie is being
raised in the most unusual way.
Julia Boorstin takes a look.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JULIA BOORSTIN, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT (voice-
over):
"Veronica Mars" had a cult following before the show was canceled in 2007.
Now die hard fans are rushing to spend money to turn the TV show into a
movie.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What are we going to do with this old "Veronica
Mars" movie, huh?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don`t know. You have million dollars laying
around?
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BOORSTIN: The show`s producer Rob Thomas and actress Kristen Bell are
leveraging the power of crowd funding, raising more than $3.6 million from
over 55,000 backers, setting a new record for Kickstarter, a 4-year-old
platform that helps people fund creative projects. It`s raised over half a
billion dollars for more than 3 million people.
MICHAEL WOLF, CHIEF ANALYST NEXTMARKET INSIGHTS: You can say toyour
friends that you`ve actually given money to help get this movie on the big
screen. Or you`ve given money to help get this concern or record off the
ground. And for a true fan, that`s a huge thing to be able to do.
BOORSTIN: In less than 24 hour, Thomas and Bell reached their goal of
$2 million, demonstrating the demand Warner Brothers wanted to see before
it would agree to make the film. They generated that massive demand from
passionate fans, not by offering a return on investment but with a variety
of rewards, everything from $10 for a copy of the script, to $10,000 for a
speaking role in the film.
Three people sent $1,000 for tickets to a premiere.
(on camera): This is a big win not just for fans but also for Warner
Brothers, proving the power of a devoted fan base. It could be a turning
point for how Hollywood thinks about financing and pricing a film.
(voice-over): This Kickstarter campaign demonstrates people will pay
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more than a $10 movie ticket to see a film and it also gauges audience
interest.
WOLF: A movie studio can combine with a filmmaker and say, hey, we
don`t know if there`s an audience for this movie. Let`s test that market.
Let`s test that hypothesis.
Now all of the studios are watching to see how "Veronica Mars"
performs. It`s expected to start shooting this summer and hit theaters
next year.
For NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT, I`m Julia Boorstin in Los Angeles.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
GHARIB: Well, just like Hollywood studios, colleges have become
pretty good at making money in different ways. And with the NCAA men`s
basketball tournament tipping off this week, the schools involved will all
get a piece of the pie.
But one school is catching in on its basketball program at a far
greater rate than the others.
Brian Shactman tells us which university is already a big winner.
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(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BRIAN SHACTMAN, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over):
It goes by many names, March Madness, the Big Dance, or more formally known
as the NCAA`s men`s basketball tournament.
Every year, schools from around the country compete for the national
title. This year`s top overall seed is the University of Louisville, and
they also happen to be the number one in another aspect of the game, money.
PATRICK RISHE, SPORTS MARKETING CONSULTANT: Louisville is the most
profitable team in college basketball.
SHACTMAN (on camera): From basketball alone, Louisville takes in more
than $40 million, with huge margins profiting anywhere from $24 million to
$28 million.
RISHE: That`s largely due to the new KFC Yum Center that`s a few
years old. They also get $20 million in donations from alumni, which is
larger than most school`s overall athletic budgets in basketball.
SHACTMAN: In the profit game, the Cardinals beat out some legendary
programs like Kansas, North Carolina, Kentucky and Indiana.
They make the bulk of profits from the fund-raising, but the team also
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draws 20,000 fans a game, at a premium that is more NBA-like than NCAA.
RISHE: The average ticket price for University of Louisville
basketball is $35, which doesn`t seem that expensive. But again, it`s more
expensive than average ticket price for about seven NBA teams.
SHACTMAN: Also like pro-basketball and unlike most NCAA programs,
they sell beer and concession at another half a million to the bottom line.
For NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT, I`m Brian Shactman.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
GHARIB: And coming up tomorrow, more information on housing when we
get February housing starts.
And the Federal Reserve meets for a two-day policy meeting on
interests rates.
And, Tyler, I`m going to be interviewing the CEO of Coca-Cola
(NYSE:KO) and talking to him about how his business is doing and how are
things going overseas for him.
MATHISEN: It would be very interesting to see what he says about
Europe, not specifically Cyprus, which might be one tenth of one tenth of 1
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percent of his business. But Europe overall is a pretty significant part
of Coca-Cola`s business.
That`s it for NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT. I`m Tyler Mathisen. Thanks so
much for watching.
GHARIB: And I`m Susie Gharib, have a great evening, everyone.
And Tyler and I will see you right back here tomorrow night.
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