you know, you quoted that we did over a billion in the Super Bowl. Uh, you know, our culture markets were huge this weekend. Uh, you know, who's what Bad Bunny was going to perform was over $und00 million in trading.The second thing is it's a market where people are trading against each other. There's no house. And you know, the reason why people are flocking to prediction markets, especially Kalshi, is that, you know, our incentive as a company, we win when the customers win.We don't win when the customers ...

If if Bitcoin falls 90% for the next four years, we'll refinance the debt. >> You refinance where, Michael. >> We'll just roll it forward.I mean, again, >> but you you you think banks would lend to you at that point. >> Yeah. Because because the volatility of Bitcoin is such that it's always going to be value.Look, you're at 68,000 right now. Literally has to fall to 8,000. Then we just refinance the debt.If you think it's going to zero, then we'll deal with that. But I don't think it's going to zero. And I ...

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Retail sales. These are December numbers. Headline expected up 4/10 comes in light.Only zero goose egg unchanged. That would equal uh where we were. Well, actually to find a lower number, you're going all the way back to May of last year when it was down 8/10.That's the last negative number we had. So, that's unchanged. If you strip out autos, it remains unchanged. And if you strip out autos and gas, it also remains unchanged.The control group or the core retail sales comes in at down onetenth of a percent. ...

All right, let's talk a little bit more about kind of where the money is being spent in the economy right now. The market, of course, this week is awaiting key data on payrolls and inflation. Based on what you're seeing in terms of your 68 million consumer customers and 3 million businesses that you serve, do you think we're at an inflection point in either of those key data points.>> Look, I I see that there's a lot of talk about the retail sales number for December. It's midFebruary. Let me tell you that ...

Joining us on set with a look at real estate, New York City politics, and so much more. Scott Reckler is the chairman and CEO of RXR. He's also a director of the board of the New York Fed.And there's a whole lot to get to. I want to get to the politics in New York and everything else, but let's just start on the housing issue because everyone's talking about affordability, affordability, affordability. President's been quite public about his ideas that, you know, he doesn't say it, but folks like Blackstone ...

Marriott, speaking of shares spiking after the hotel giant beat on Revpar, which is revenue per available room for the industry metric, and issued solid 2026 guidance, though it did miss on earnings expectations. Joining us now first on CNBC is Marriott CEO Tony Capayano. Tony, good morning.Welcome. >> Hi Sarah, good to see you. Thanks for having me.>> So, so I guess that you know the street is sort of celebrating a lot in here. The the revpar numbers, I think the pipeline, the loyalty. How do you describe ...

Uh, meantime, we're going to talk a little crypto because the crypto market seeing its fair share of volatility over the past month. Our Mackenzie uh, Sagalas is here. She joins us with a look at the trading action.Where's our Bitcoin this morning. I mean, >> 68 lower. >> 68.We're still under 70. >> Yeah. >> What do you think's happening.>> So, Ethereum dropping below 2,000 as well in early European trading. Bitcoin has now roundted all the way back to where it was the day before Donald Trump was reelected. ...

I want to bring in Kamal Sri Kumar who is president of Sri Kumar Global Strategies and covering the equity angle for us this morning is Sylvia Jablonsky. She's chief investment officer of Defiance ETFs. Uh very quickly, Sylvia, just looking at the futures, they paired their losses modestly.I mean, we were down 25, now we're down about four or five. So, not not a big move. Uh but this is pretty important data and it's just the kickoff of what we're getting this week.>> Yeah, absolutely. I think it is a very ...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik testifying on Capitol Hill this morning and Lutnik uh telling lawmakers up on the hill that in fact he did visit uh Epstein's island. Now this coming after uh Lutnik had earlier suggested he broke off all contact with Jeffrey Epstein around 2005. Documents revealed in the Epstein files indicated that in fact he had a much more extensive relationship with Jeffrey Epstein after that point in time.And today he's admitting on Capitol Hill that he did go with his family uh to Jef ...