nicole: absolutely. all green across the board, upgrading american eagle outfitters whereas thei their al was downgraded. nicole: classic case of my enemy of my enemy is my friend. nicole: talk about them teaming up in any way shape or form together everything is stronger, so we will continue to watch them. they have completely missed these records, containing to be frustrated. ashley: one of the stocks i saw not really anticipating today, best buy, nicole. nicole: that is

nicole: that is right. the dow and the s&p each gained 10% in the first three months of 2013 pulling back a little bit on this first trading day of a new month and a new quarter. certainly coming off of the losses earlier today the dow and the s&p set some new highs intraday. a record all-time intraday highs. so we did see some green on the screen. a little disappointing, we got in some construction numbers. china playing into this as well. intel and cisco couple of names to keep an eye on. securities downgraded intel. down 2.2% right now, some concerns of a delay in the profits bringing concern along with it. shares up one quarter of 1% as they raised their dividends and chief financial officers talking about strong position financially. back to you. lori: thank you. adam: david stockman issuing a dire warning in sunday's "new york times." a market crash is looming when the fed bubble burst. there will be nothing, he says, to cushion the collapse. he sat down with stuart varney earlier this morning, here's

let's go back to nicole petallides. nicole: it is a week therefore all the stocks. i wanted to take a book in the technology sector.. they said they are revenue would be below estimates. take a look at the components. some of these names that are in the same group. these results are below analyst estimates. as a result, you are seeing them to the downside. of the three that we saw, the nasdaq is down 1.1%. it is the worst of the three. connell: thank you. nicole petallides at the exchange. another big story today is the president's budget. president obama's proposal which will be out next week officially will target retirement accounts of upper income earners and savvy investors as well. rich edson is live at the white house. rich: the official release is next wednesday. democrats in the white house describe it as a concession, moving to the middle, compromise, republicans say it is not quite that. republicans charge it does so in a way that flows increases in income tax brackets meaning lower incomes and higher brackets then they would over time. it limits our reti

nicole petallides. nicole: we will get to some of the home builders in a second. right now you have a mixed market. the dow jones pulling back a bit. that 2.2%. last week was a rough week for the dow jones industrials. there is the tech heavy nasdaq. there is a look right now at how we have done so far. obviously, you can see that we have had a nice run this year. i wanted to also take a look at some of the homebuilders. we got in some existing home sales. pound .6% month over month. that is not good news there. the home prices that you saw word. back to you. lori: seasonally strong time of year for home sales. overall, the u.s. economy is running below its historical trend. this is a study done by the index. my next guest says the economy sluggish growth may be the most ideal condition for investors. joining us is now jack. welcome to you. >> thank you, lori. lori: you see this as a prime opportunity. some new investment dollars could go into the stock market. >> yes, potentially. fair value in the market is probably about 1520. we are slightly ahead of that. we

nicole petallides standing by. nicole: we are selling off. any move to the upside would be a record day on wall street. we are seeing down arrows today. adp private jobs report which really is not a great prelude to what we may expect on friday. let's take a look. the dow is down about 71 points. it is led by many of the financials. a lot of it has to do with the mortgages and the like. the nasdaq composite down nearly a full percentage point each. i want to take a look at zynga. zynga shares are jumping today. they are rolling out to gambling type casino games. that is over in the uk. insiders are all speculating when they will be able to do that right here in the united states. back to you. melissa: thank you. lori: stocks are drifting lower today. it was after that disappointing employment note. after both the dow and s&p each sol new record closing highs yesterday. with the rally being led by defensive sectors, these less economically sensitive stocks, if you will, how long will that lag? we have a chief market strategist with us now. ple

let's go to nicole at the stock exchange. looking at apple. nicole: everyone is talking about apple. it is maybe owned in the s&p, for example. it is still under $400. this was a $700 stock last september. you have two that are hot on it today. we are looking at avondale. there is good news. they are liking what they are seeing with apple. so far, apple shareholders are disappointed. back to you. connell: if we see you at a party, we will not ask about apple. dagen: i am not talking about apple at a party. connell: i do not want to see at a party anyway. dagen: you are not invited. connell: investors who have bet on it. the feeding frenzy in the pet care industry. that is a cute dog. this one on the other hand, i am not so sure. we will transition smoothly from dogs on television two currencies. we will be right. ♪ thank you orville and wilbur... ...amelia... neil and buzz: for teaching us that you can't create the future... by clinging to the past. and with that: you're history. instead of looking behind... delta is looking beyond. 80 thous

let's go to nicole petallides. nicole: i am certainly watching the s&p. today, they take a 7.9% stake in the company. obviously, showing some confidence in this company that has really been beaten down in the last two weeks. he took away something that the customers used to like. promotions and coupons. they try to then reinstate them. the one thing that people didn't like was trying the store within a store. cheryl: also, we talk about money moving out. the big sale of jcpenney shares earlier this week. we have to wonder if that was for other reasons. that is a big vote of confidence from him. >> it sure is. indeed. cheryl: nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. dennis: he just bought shares on the market. that does not help the company at all. it is time to make some money with charles payne. he is here to talk pros and cons of all that corporate pricing power and whether all that money printing by the fed is causing inflation problems. charles: earlier this week we spoke about marathon oil and they're raising prices. the ability

take your pick on what stocks you want to speak about, nicole. nicole: i want to talk about zynga. you think of "farmville," "words with friends." down 7% right now. not good numbers. deeper than expected loss, lowering the outlook. looking at 3m, under pressure and weighing on the dow about 19 points to the downside. that is the latest here, back to you. cheryl: nicole petallides. dennis: this hour he is drilling with profits. charles: i like your just a moment ago. this is a blocking oil play. recently they have pulled back. i know crude has pulled back a little bit. this is a company, harold hamm is the guy who runs the company, he has been a maverick in this space. one year he drilled 27, these are the kind of guy to follow, they are pioneers in drilling. he says 24 william barrels of oil in nevada. the government will not allow them to go that far because of certain parameters but he has no doubt about it. they are equivalent to up 83%. they are sitting beautifully. i think the stock will turn around, go back up toward the 93 area. cheryl: i think what is so interesting about

connell: let's go to nicole pack nicole: let's start off with zynga. the potential for online gaming. we are seeing it jumped 14% right now. with this move that they may launch online gaming in the next few weeks, they have a buy rating and a four dollar price target. jcpenney. they certainly are one to watch. there is a five-year chart. this was an $85 stock back in 2007. shareholders are beside themselves watching what ron johnson has done with the company. they will cut his pay almost 97% to $1.9 million. they cut his pay 97% to $1.9 million. back to you. connell: thank you. dagen: microsoft chief in new york city to help push the big-money move of an nba team. connell: isn't this what got us into trouble in the first place? the president wants easier lending standards for home mortgages. let's take a look at currencies today. ♪ but we can still help you see your big picture. with the fidelity guided portfolio summary, you choose which accounts to track and use fidelity's analytics to spot trends, gain insights, and figure out what you want to do

nicole, what is going on? nicole: it was less than what the analysts had predicted. 23%, big is big. moving the stock here to a new all-time high. if so then was coming out and upgrading the stock as well, and also posted the guidance for the current quarter revenue will be above analyst estimates. so better revenue, better stock move. stuart: nicole, thank you very much, indeed. i want y'all to take a look at this video of president george w. bush library being dedicated today completed in two years. all by private funding. please compare that to the world trade center 12 years on, still a ton of public money. this speaks volumes about private enterprise. charles? charles: it sure does peter speaks a lot about bureaucracy and a lot of cheese and very few indians. we have seen this over and over. stuart: a big deal. now this, president obama missing in action from the sequester cuts. the biggest headline we get from the mainstream media from the president, no tattoos for his daughters. who i say, look, the pre

lori: thank you, nicole. there is talk the federal reserve would be ending its easy money policy sooner rather than later. mark vitner. wells fargo. nice to have you on the program. dow is climbing off much lower levels here is. is this a signal in any way shape and form that investors will discontinue this wealth effect we've been feeling for years? >> that is optimistic spin on that. i think it is encouraging that the market is rallying into the afternoon going into the weekend. usually there is a lot of dread going into the weekend. something bad could happen in korea or somewhere else in the world but, i think that today's weaker number really puts to rest some of the talk that we heard this week that the fed was preparing to come up with some plan to taper their asset purchases. they're going it keep buying bonds well into the latter part of this year. we suspect that maybe they will go from $85 billion a month to 80 and possibly in december, but not any sooner than that. lori: let's talk about this jobs

what is going on, nicole? nicole: it certainly is a nice winter. up over a book. they certainly continue face litigation charges. the company's numbers back came in their top expectations. that is some good news for the company. the ceo saying that customers are ramping up spending in north america. that is what we are looking at. the headwinds are behind them. we are seeing halliburton as a nice winter. stuart: thank you. let's ring in our real estate guru. we have some pretty bad numbers at the top of the hour on housing. we are selling 4.92 dillion units a year. not good. >> we would love to see it at that 5.5 million mark. however, we have to realize that we are still in recovery. this is not a boom. people need to realize that. fannie mae just came out and said that existing home sales are expected to rise 5.1% this year. prices are going up. there is some good news and housing. we will be bouncing through these numbers, i, for the next couple of months. stuart: you always bring us great pictures of homes that you have for sale. we will start this morning wit

cheryl: it is the bottom of the hour, stocks now every 15 minutes, nicol nicole petallideh a new intraday record set for the dow. this is a good day for stocks. nicole: there is a lot going on, cheryl, indeed. recent news, tj maxx. announcing they're raising the dividend is 26% for the stock dividend setting quarterly dividend 1.45. sorry, 0.145 per share. that is obviously worth noting. big news sending the dividend 26% increase. i have united health care, that will be one, also johnson & johnson. united health care up about 6%. johnson & johnson up about half a percent. other names in the dow jones industrial hitting multiyear highs. a lot of the health insurers have healt helped lift the markt overall with the government and others. one of the reasons you're seeing united health. pfizer, coca-cola, other 52-week highs, multiyear highs, and we have been watching that. the s&p 500 set an intraday high. has not broken the all-time high we set back in october of 2007, but certainly getting closer and closer. of course already surpassed the closing high it set back in 2010. dennis: thank yo

okay, nicole, you're packing your bags? >> i mean, that's pretty unbelievable, two $20 bills and go on a four day cruise? are you kidding me? and the stock is up at 34.11, been a losing down 7% and that's after we saw one disaster after another. the triumph, the dream, the cruise of a lifetime, right? they've had so many issues and yet managed to hold on and now they' they're obviously trying to woo those customers in asap. stuart: and now check the share price of yum! brands. it reported a 35% drop in sales at k.f.c. unit in china because of bird flu. not affecting the stock much, but affecting the sales in china and by the way, we've upped the death toll in china, now ten people died there and by the way, there are reports of a gene mutation that makes the virus resistent to tamiflu. >> and we're bringing in dr. mark cycle. marc siegel. and everybody is worried about, like sars, and shut the country down. is this like a sars kind of event? we're coming for you for technical information, number one, is this transmitted fro

that's a pretty good picture, nicole, that's a rally. nicole: a big rally. "house of cards" brilliant programming is helping netflix along and they're surprising to the upside. so we're seeing netflix jumping. 216, and it opened yesterday at a huge, huge move. and adding subscribers is a key and they're surprising everybody. stuart: streaming is clearly winning at the moment and netflix is emerging as the leader of the streaming business, that's the way i see it. >> absolutely, people worried about netflix probably aren't worried, at least not today. >> well, said. the dow is open with a 100 point gain and we're exactly 100 points higher. apple reports the profit late today, four o'clock eastern after the bell. there's a report from a forbes contributor that tim cook's days as ceo may be numbered and i've had many shipments down big and iphone sales expected to be down and apple losing the cool factor and the stock is down in the past 12 months and this year, calendar year alone, but it's opening this morning above 400. just 404.99. i've got another big name

thanks nicole. to hoyer, the to littization of the boston bombing linking them to the sequester cuts. here's a question a fox news producer asked mr. hoyer. i'm quoting directly. do you think this can help to make an argument to turn off the sequester? here's the congressman's response, well, i think there are compelling arguments to not have turned on the sequester and multiple reasons for investing in our security and don't pursue across the board irrational cutting priorities and buy the same percentage. i think this is another proof of that. if proof is needed, which i don't think, frankly, it is. that was tuesday. following those statements, here was our coverage yesterday. >> the average boston -- honestly, we're so focused on finding out what the heck happened. >> linking them to the sequester cuts saying it's proof the across the board cuts were irrational. >> not helping support the family and justice to get at the people who perpetrated this crime, not about political opportunities. >> the

bringing on nicole. we may interrupt you, nicole, apologies, but how are the markets looking, noted dpoo, absolutely. >> absolutely. this is breaking news, covering it for you on the dow jones industrials, 145 points, worth one percentage point and the s&p 5 # 00 down 1.5%. nasdaq down 2% today. of course, worries here at home with suspicious packages and envelopes and terror in boston, and so all of that, obviously, weighs on the markets and sentiments. we have what we see in europe, a different picture, but an economy under pressure there. imf cut forecasts. there's a broad based selloff, 147 names of the s&p 500 with down arrows. the defensive names trying to squeeze out up arrow, but i wanted to look here at apple, a new low, new 52-week low. last september, $705. and now it's $403. selling off significantly, more than 40% from the september highs. latest report is from digi times about the report that ipad minis are not getting the orders or shipping the way they hoped origin thally. obviously, unde

nicole petallides. nicole: all under pressure this year. today is no different. shipments have been falling. prices have been falling. it is down 6.5%. it certainly has been under pressure. today it is down 1.7%. at least a good part of that comes from the numbers we have seen from newmont mining. when you talk about the gd ask, you are seeing it to the downside there. you can see 1.6%. lori: losing our games on the dow. melissa: budweiser making friends. they have released a new pint glass called the buddy cop. it uses a built in microchip that collects users via facebook when they link their cups together. some consumers feel the concept is just a little bit creepy. it makes connecting with complete strangers in a bar a little bit too easy. lori: if you are just trying to be nice to someone and you have had a few too many, you have heard of the term "beer goggles" ; right? melissa: you can look back and be like wow. i have to go to a different bar. so many problems with this. lori: a terrible idea. president obama with some stern words for congress. lou dobbs i

stuart: thanks, nicole. now check the price of gold, please, up just a little after the crash yesterday. $22 higher yesterday's decline more than in decades. and joining us the coin week.com president. i should say, everybody, this man does not buy or sell gold, he reports on it. he's not grinding any ax. david, welcome back, good to see you. >> good to see you, stuart. stuart: i'm putting myself in the the position of someone who is a small investor and they own a gold coin. i put it to you, if i go back to my local coin dealer in a down market where the price is plunging, i'm not going to get a good price for my ounce of gold. if the spot price is $1300 an ounce i'm going to be lucky to get 1150 for that thing, aren't i? >> not at all. gold trades very regularly at or near the spot price, worse case scenario, you can get 95% for virtually any gold coin it ends up going back to a smelter. gold continues to maintain its value, as it goes up in value. >> our studios are on 6th avenue here in new york, literal

tracy: thank you, nicole. disappointing retail sales numbers out this morning for march showing the biggest fall since last june. joining us from chicago to break down the numbers. oh, my god. jeff: hear that? the sound of the economy in march in terms of retail sales. take a look at the specifics, the main street tape, what was down. gas station spending doejçr that was kind of a good thing because gas prices were lower. electronic spending down. department store spending down, sporting goods, music, books, that kind of a thing. for a new startup, giftbar. what do you do? >> learn online gift card marketplace. on-demand gift cards. jeff: you have been seeing an uptick. a shop in the north side of chicago if you look on the floor you see a lot of dogs. you have been seeing an uptick, do you have reason to be worried about this economy? >> not at all. we talk a lot of them, they see sales go up. a unique product they have to offer makes it an experience as well. jeff: take a look at some of those retail sales.

lori: thank youings nicole. melissa: time to make money with charles payne looking at technology with stock price pick ibm. >> ibm. back off what phil said thursday. it's almost a fore gone conclusion they cut, but the street's lacking for 50 basis points or hoping for it, why goal is moving. it's a fore gone conclusion. there are four companies i call "never sell," in other words, if you do a portfolio, never sell, ibm, mcdonald's, nike, and boeing. there's global competition, and never sell. if it's not in the portfolio, particularly, looking at a conservative portfolio, two times sale, 3.40 diff dividend, it's sloomly, brake nations, but if you take back what's holding them back is hardware, and selling the service division, also going to get rid of people, unfortunately, but that's going to save them money. this is one of the stocks that took a hit, and i think now is the time for people who want something conservative and want to sleep at night, this is one of those names. lori: ibm making a chunk of the do

nicole: all the insurers got a huat

liz: nicole, thank you very much. if the market gave a thumbs down to ron johnson's pretty short tenure running jcpenney, it's giving another thumbs down to his replacement. look at this chop here of losing 11.75%, shares of jcpenney sinking today. we're bringing in the retail turn around expert of all experts to break down new/old ceo mike ullman's run. what his next move should be and what it means for jcpenney. jay mar -- margolis has more than 30 years of retail, he's joining me now in a fox business exclusive. jay, you're still in the game. you've been brought in to now turn around cache which is a mall store, high-end clothing. looking at all your past background and seeing what jc penny tried to do, shake things up, that didn't work. what do they need to do, and is mike ullman the guy to do it? >> i'm so disappointed this chapter in american retailing is coming to a close. i think ron johnson did a lot of right things that mike ullman started. he started american living, he started the concept of having exclusi

nicole? >> watching -- as we watched the dow, the nasdaq, the s&p with up arrows hitting new highs, the transports sold back, and we're watching dow and the rest of the airlines down arrows, and dell fallon, cutting the first forecast below what people expected. now you are seeing stocks down dramatically. of course, the airlines are a volatile group, you they are exciting. a couple things, lower close in booking, driven by spending cuts known as the sequester. that's a reason, obviously, they try to keep a tight cut in the cost, but not as good as they hoped. you see the down arrow for all of them, back to you. >> losing altitude. all right, nicole, thanks very much. >> we have seven stocks with new multiyear highs. mcdonald's on the list now. all right. coming up, pension crisis, huh? are you going to have to pay for it tho your tax bill? probably. manhattan institute is going to weigh in next. >> oh, but first, today's winners, the dow losing a little steam, up 73 points, but look at the n

nicole petallides. nicole: take a look at two names. one that is a real winner and another one that is under some pressure. right aid. they will post a full year of profit here. the fact that they have just been selling more prescriptions. particularly, generic drugs. there is the 52 week high. it is up 18.5%. we will turn this hour around. a name that certainly has been under some pressure. that is blackberry. they have their new product out. everyone waited about a year and a half for this one. reports say there are more returned than people actually buying it. not good. everything went into this phone. that is not good if it is not being received as well as they had hoped. back to you. melissa: thank you so much. the irs says it can dig through your e-mail and text messages. lori: it really is unbelievable. let's check the dollar today. the dollar is down. 1.31 against the euro. we are back after this. ♪ ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. ♪ >

nicole petallides still standing by. nicole: starbucks. we talk about marketing, pulling back a little to the dow and the nasdaq and the s&p. starbucks, it will now be cheaper. don't go out and try it now. from the makers of craft, so they in february cut their prices for bagged coffee in the grocery stores by 6%. norwich remained competitive, doing the same thing. getting coffee at the grocery store, it is a little bit more affordable. getting the starbucks you are used to, that'll be the case, right? back to you. tracy: it is not going down in price, is it? nicole: unfortunately not. ashley: another market mover, banks, jpmorgan, wells fargo reporting big profits. adam shapiro with more on this story. adam: earnings quality a big concern for a lot of investors. the stock both trading down. you may say this earnings report from big banks is a story about mortgages and slowing mortgage profits. jpmorgan chase, reporting adjusted earnings per share of $1.41 expecting $1.39 on revenue of 25.85, expecting 25.86. look inside the numbers. falli

nicole, go. nicole: that doesn't come as a surprise to our fox business viewers, they know that health care has been a favorable sector overall, and certainly the most recent moves out of the administration have been favorable to health care, we saw that recently. this week, with obviously payment fees for 2014 going forward, for medicare and medicaid and that group and they've gotten recent upgrades. so this is the one that's bucking the trend and we've trade 14, 454. stuart: i think we put a banner on the screen there, rutgers fired the athletic director. getting completely away from the financial sector. and following the basketball coach, he's gone and so now is also rutgers athletic director overall we'll have more later on. and we'll get back to the health care, another day, another negative report on obamacare. these numbers coming from the aarp. they're expecting a shortage of 45,000 doctors seven years from now, that's what happens when an extra 30 million uninsured get health coverage.

nicole at the new york stock exchange with the latest. nicole? >> an interesting story, ashley, whirlpool, two stories combined into one. look at the stock. it's hid pretty hard today, down 2%, was down more than that. it has recovered some of the losses. this stock, though, is not too far off the all-time high of 122.39. there were numbers that beat the street, maytag, cut costs, price increases, all good news for whirlpool, but durable goods numbers came in weak taking them down along with this. as far as the major market averages, down arrow for the dow, and nasdaq down. mixed market at the moment. ashley: a see if there's a lot of action in the last hour. thank you. >> more now on the battle over faa furloughs and flight delays. house committee drilling the chief accusing the agency of using the sequester as a scapegoat for the delays. republican congressman of pennsylvania is on the panel and joins us now. congressman, so glad you are with us. i have to mention up front that we have a lot in common here. the furloughs, flight delays, i've be

melissa: nicole, thanks so much. chaos in venezuela one day before contested president-elect nicholas maduro is set to be sworn into office. so what does the instability mean for global oil prices and u.s. interests? joining me now the director of macroeconomic research for voltec capital markets which is focused on latin america. thanks for joining me. there is this sense of course this election or these elections somewhat rigged. at the same time, the candidate that won the, chavez candidate, only one by half a percentage point or a few 100,000 votes. what does at that tell you how much control they really have? >> it tellses you that economic and political policy of hugo chavez is really severely debilitated without him. that is very important. he beat the opposition candidate by 11 percentage points. six months later his successor barely closed in by a razor thin hair which is hotly-contested. i think it shows chavez-mo is severely debilitated in the future. that positive outlook for venezuela's economy in the lo

nicole. pc makers not performing as well. nicole: that is right. this is a day where we have a record-breaking day on wall street, the dow and the likes. microsoft and hewlett-packard, two dow components are weighing on the dow. 20 negative down points. story behind the pc makers is the latest findings is pc quarterly sales are plummeting. a sharp drop we are seeing the sharpest drop on record for that. plunging 14%, favoring tablet computers over that. that is something we continue to watch. microsoft's new windows 8 has not been a big one, so that is one of the things we're watching. cheryl: thank you very much. dennis: time to make money with charles payne. he is looking to add fashion to your portfolio. if anybody knows fashion, look at the suit you're wearing. charles: this is a whole different type of fashion. i discovered this company a few years ago, my son and i got some loved it, they would go there a lot. five cash registers and one was open. the stock a very good for a long time, hit a bump in the road. i think it is worth chasing. they

david: nicole, let me ask you about that arrest question. because that is the question, whether or not the terror and bombing terror and the reports of ricin in mails down in washington are having an effect on the market. what say you? >> obviously that is not good stuff to have it hit the markets. that is worry. that is terror, a wildcard for this market, coupled with what we're seeing over in europe. you have the imf cutting their numbers abroad, a very strong dollar. all these things are factoring into a very weak market. lori: nicole, minutes away. 30 second as way from the closing bell. ebay earnings released after the bell. how is that stock looking ahead of the results? the street is looking for a firm report? >> ebay is to the downside. we saw applebee low 400.

nicole: good. stuart: thanks, nicole, see you later. we want to hear from you always, send your e-mails now, varney@foxbusiness.com. and it's time for those 7 early movers. what's moving in a market that shows the dow up 16? we'll start with toyota. it's still the world's number one in global vehicle sales, that was january through march. that quarter, toyota still number one, moving up again. $113 per share for toyota and life sciences makes heart valves and the company lowered the sales outlook. i wonder if it's got anything to do with a medical device tax. i don't know, i'm speculating here and the stock is down big time. more money coming in and higher profit at procter & gamble. and it's down 4 pergs, something is going on i don't know about. 78 on p&g. and smaller than expected loss at sprint nextel. virtually flat and ford on track to meet the price target this year pretty flat. better than expected profits at eli lilly. and it's better than expected profits, but it's down, not much. 1% though. disappointing profit in the furnitu

all right, nicole. a tactic that helps them blend in with plants, which of these ocean-dwellers commonly swims in a vertical position? >> you know, i didn't want to do this, but i think that i'm gonna ask the audience. >> no problem. audience, nicole needs your help. on your keypads, vote now. [percussive music] ♪ 94% believe it is seahorse. big number. >> i was pretty sure that that's what it was, but i didn't want to say so in case i influenced them. so yeah, i'm gonna go with "c," seahorse, final answer. >> played it very smartly. it is seahorse. you are right. all right, nicole, we're gonna start building your bank. let's see how much money is behind this question. we're gonna start you with $500. >> $500. >> o

one of the nicest people on fox business, nicole, at the new york stock exchange, and, nicole, listen, great day for hertz and avis, but not groupon. >> right, because of ubs that calls the internet stocks beginning coverage on many of them, some have buy readings, some neutral. only sell rating is groupon. look at how the stock is fairing. it's down on the 6%. they say that groupon has an unproven business model, and wide mix in transformation, undergoing management change, according to ubs. what they did is they said they gave them a sell rating in the coverage of internet stocks. other ones, they had buy ratings on the other ones like google, ebay, yahoo, yelp, interactive corp.. they had neutral on the other ones, amazon, facebook, linked in, zinga, and only sell rating was groupon, as a result, a big loser, down nearly 6%, that price target is wrong, but the sell rating for groupon is a big, big hit, than that's the problem today. liz: yeah, and, yelp, i feel like it's all games, you know? rivals get on there and put a bad review in. mean. nicole, see you later. thank you. >> tha

let's go to nicole petallides. nicole: good morning. we are kicking off a new quarter. we kicked it off in a stellar fashion. today is the first trading day of the new month. the dow is down a quarter of a 1%. as far as what we are seeing on the big board, we are seeing the dollar pulled back. down arrows after we got solid economic news. connell: thank you. let's talk more about the comments from david stockman. the idea of a market crash that could be coming. michael thompson is here with the in studio. thank you for coming in. good to see you. this is not some great man, this is a guy with a long history. an advisor to ronald reagan. on and on. >> i think they are great. first of all, it gets a good conversation going. we are living in the greatest fixed income bubble in history has ever known. connell: a bubble in the bond market. >> we do not know the end of this story. how did they let the air out and be able to reuse that? connell: is there any way to manage this in a reasonable fashion? now that we are in this deep, yields have stayed low for so long, is there a

nicole petallides at the nyse. nicole: that is right. not far off from dow 15,000. we have gotten record highs come about 126 points, about 0.9%. the s&p 500 gaining over 1%, and the tech heavy nasdaq the best of the bunch. all three have hit intraday record highs. the nasdaq multiyear high. take a look at family dollar. family dollar down. they came up with their quarterly numbers, higher revenue. although same-store sales missed analyst estimates. the company cut the full year view, that is not good news for family dollar. it certainly is a sea of green. ashley: nicole, thank you very much. some breaking news for you. oil closing up at $0.44, $94.64 per barrel. today marks the third straight day of gains for oil. back up again. tracy: sure is. president obama's budget includes proposals drawn fire from both sides of the aisle. rich edson on capitol hill with reaction to the president's spending plan. rich: the most amount of disagreements we have seen it on the proposal dealing with what is called change cpi. changing growth in social security over time. the react

our own nicole petallides is standing by. nicole, stocks are in rally mode. we're up about 140. >> pretty impressive on a day after what we saw yesterday late in the day particular as we had the terror attack in boston. we saw the stock market drop precipitously at end of the day, 265 points at the end of the day going int different . we're getting some of that back, paring the losses. we're up 140 points a majority of stocks are doing well. we've seen names coming out with earnings such as johnson & johnson and coca-cola helping the dow along. one name came out with their report, goldman sachs down 1.8% because of their first quarter numbers. one thing they did say the revenue they're seeing from client trading that actually fell about 10%. that raises obviously concerns going forward. we've seen some of the financials mixed. other names are doing quite well but you are seeing goldman sachs to the downside after what we saw there. year-to-date it is still a winner. it is up 1% this year. back to you. lori: nicole, thank you as always. we want to keep up to d

thank you very much, nicole. we have had a lot of guest on our program that tell us what will happen to their company when obamacare comes along. our next guest is part of a chocolate and candy making company. we want to know, sir, welcome to the program, what is the first thing you will do as you see obamacare coming at you? >> the first thing we have done is studied the laws and done our best to stay on top of it. the most difficult aspect of it is the uncertainty that it brings. stuart: will you put more people as part-time workers, less than 30 hours a week? how will you cope? you now have to provide medical care coverage insurance. what will you do in that regard? >> well, we have been providing healthcare for our employees for 30 years. even in the early years will be could not afford it. i do not see that changing. the only thing changing is perhaps the law may take some of the freedoms away. stuart: will the costs go up? >> health care typically up any given year. it is just a difference of a single or do

nicole petallides has some good news for anheuser-busch. nicole: that is right. you can see right now, take a look, that may make you thirsty, everybody. it is up 1.5%. this is very good news as we watched constellation brands. anheuser-busch, they are trying to make their deal. the department of justice has been trying to block that. it is okay. we will sell some of the assets over to constellation brands. as the deal seems like it is going through, constellation does as well. constellation brands has moved to the outside. it is hitting a new 52 week high. back to you. dennis: thank you very much, nicole. we are joined by one of the conferences keynote speakers. we have david goldhill here now. thank you for being with us. sorry for your loss. regarding your book, though, we have a big problem with healthcare spending in this country. we have a big problem with people dying in hospitals every year because of errors at the hospital. are those two issues actually linked and related somehow? >> i think a lot of the issues in healthcare are related. healthcare has t

nicole petallides down at the nyse. nicole, one homebuilder stock hitting a multiyear high. we were just talking about with charles. >> it is exciting to take a look at this group on a day where you have a mixed market and stocks not moving too much we make sure to find real stories and today d.r. horton is up over 7%. that is a high. this chart goes back to 2007. so it is a multiyear high at that for d.r. horton. many homebuilders continue to do well. d.r. horton story was profit and jump in profit. up arrows for all the homebuilders. you see them there. 173% jump in quarterly profit. not only that, but also the outlook here for sales and they're seeing a 34% of jump for orders for futures sales. this is the springtime. hot selling season for this ggoup in particular, many which actually doubled in percentage terms over the last 52 weeks. back to you. ashley: nicole, thank you so much. we'll be back with you at the bottom of the hour. tracy: on that, protecting your portfolio from volatility ahead. ashley: yeah. tracy: one money manager, good luck with that, tells us where

nicole is watching shares of yum. what's up, nicole? >> yum brands, a top performer in the s&p 500, which has gone back and forth, itself, the major average. look at yum brands, up 7.25% surprising wall street with the quarterly report. they were plaged with bad publicity, shortage in chicken, and, also, bird flu over in china, a big revenue generator for kentucky fried chicken in china, but they managed to surpass and beat the street with the estimates. with their numbers, they beat the estimates. look at ford. they surpassed estimates art north america, a bright spot, but you see the stock down 1.1%, back to you. connell: thank you. dagen: she was just talking about it, fords' north american division had the best quarter in a decade. what's it look like? the finance chief from ford comes up next hour. connell: breaking up pepsi, soda and snacks could be going another way. the driving force behind that split. dagen: more deaths due to the bird flu in china, concerns about the latest strain running high, and we take you around the world

thank you, indeed, nicole. we'll go to the other markets, and check oil and gas and they affect your wallet every day. look at this, oil holding around $94 a barrel, that's a relatively high level, strongest level in a few weeks now. now to gas, gained almost a penny evernight, closer to 3.51 actually. here is the question, could this be the start of an upswing that takes us to $4 a gallon gas by this summer? we'll watch this very, very closely and could be that we'll have $4 gas this summer and we were almost there in illinois and california right now and that will affect the economy and maybe the pipeline as well. the dow is down 16 right at 14-8, but remember, pfizer, a dow stock, is down 3%. let's bring in keith fitz-gerald now. let's go back to the stock market. you know, i saw a barons' magazine headline two weeks ago, 16,000 on the dow. what do you say? >> you know, that is a very interesting headline. i saw that, too. one of the big problems we have is by the time something hits the front page, as oppos

joining us for the interview tonight is nicole hockley. nicole hockley's son dylan was killed at sandy hook elementary. nicole, thank you very much for being here tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> i know that you have just come from d.c. as of this afternoon. i have heard you say in talking to other people you've never done anything like this before, the meeting with senators that you have done. what was it like this week? >> it was certainly a very interesting experience. never, to be honest, this is the first time i've been in d.c. i've learnt a great deal. had no idea what to expect, and went in with very few expectations. just wanting to meet with senators and talk to them person to person along with all of the other families first to tell our stories and see what could be done. >> do you feel like you are being listened to? that people are -- obviously people have a lot of emotion about what happened and meeting you is an emotional experience for a lot of people. a number of the different family's members i have talked to have t

nicole petallides joins us now. nicole: we have a very busy morning. the down right now is up close ten points. we have had the back-and-forth action since march 20. we continue to see, obviously, not too far off the unchanged line. the s&p and nasdaq are both squeezing out gains as well. we will show you herbal life and sketchers. they have both been altered this morning. the auditor of herbalife resigned. sketchers, some of the analysts have talked positively about a great first half of the year. it looks like it is open. i am not really 100% sure. i don't even want to miss speed. those are the two names in gaming interest wall street. connell: thank you. confidence among small business owners weakening last week. we will talk about that. >> there is just too much regulation of small businesses today. that is gripping the ability to expand. connell: we talked about the jobs report being a huge disappointment in a lot of ways. should people be more confident than they are? >> there is a legitimate reason to be less confident. this remains the limpness

nicole? >> it is pretty unbelievable when you watch how the markets move so dramaticall dramaticallyally. show the intraday chart. look what happened here intraday. we were up over 130 points over the highs of the day. the then rumors began. so what did we see. we saw a complete selloff and back to where we are. i will get away from peter tuck man and he make as lot of orders and he is very loud. what do we see? first rumors something happened to president obama. we saw the market move to the downside. then we heard about an explosion in the white house and president obama was hurt. only to find out later that the ap, associated press, their tweets were hacked. so now even jay carney came out in the white house briefing says the president was fine. i was just with him. ap came out that their account was indeed hacked. we saw dramatic moves within the market. we saw the dow move into negative territory. it is pretty unbelievable. frankly a, the president is fine and b the markets are back to w

nicole's son was killed at sandy hook elementary. nicole, thank you very much for being here tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> i know that you have just come from d.c. as of this afternoon. i have heard you say in talking to other people you've never done anything like this before, the meeting with senators that you have done. what was it like this week? >> it was certainly a very interesting experience. never, to be honest, this is the first time i've been in d.c. i learned a great deal, had no idea what to expect and went in is with very few expectations. just wanting to meet with senators and talk to them person to person along with all of the other families first to tell our stories and see what could be done. do you feel you are being listened to? people have a lot of emotion about what happened and meeting you is an emotional experience for a lot of people. members of the families, members i talked to talk about how hard it is that people burst into tears when they meet you and that puts you in the position to comfort peo

every day, gentlemen and nicole, we have breaking news. apparently, though boston bombers were planning some type of attack here in times square. >> we are always on high alert. we are programmed to always be paying attention to stuff like this as you are walking down the street. it will affect our psyche. it will affect our markets. you started to see some selling pressure on the market. i think investors are just looking for an opportunity to take things off the table. what is a catalyst at this point right now? earlier, you were talking about exxon mobil. we get chevron tomorrow morning. maybe, right now, i do not think we are holding on because investors are looking for two things. amazon after the bell and chevron tomorrow. it may highlight what we will see tomorrow morning. liz: can i just make a point about this apparent attempt who apparently had this plan to attempt times square. it is literally behind me at fox studios. we are very close. mayor bloomberg said there really was not a formed idea of what to do, but somehow through t

let's get to nicole petallides on the floor of the stock exchange. people do not learn when a good company has a few bad headlines that may be the time to buy it. >> the pull back might have been the time to buy but we are watching bowling moving to a new annual high. look, it is a 2.7%, $90, $0.51 a share, best performer on the dow jones industrial, batting 19 dow positive points, for what is it with the dreamliner? what we are seeing here is going doing so well today, earnings jumped 21%, they stood by their numbers going forward for sales and cash and earnings and the plans for the dreamliner, ceo saying they expected deliver 787s again in early may with the batteries redesigned, after a a approval and ethiopian airlines plans to fly it sooner than that so based on their modification, giving the outlook for plans, we are seeing stock in a new 52 week high helping the dow long. liz: developing story involving general electric. according to the wall street journal, ge capital which lends money to many more types of businesses is cutting off lending

nicole petallides on the floor of nyse. guess how often we go there in every 15 minutes, nicole. >> one to take a look at is first solar. shares are jumping 40%. you can see it is up over 32%. it has hit volatility pauses throughout the day here as they have given guidance going forward, better than expected. better than expected full-year revenue and also earnings that we're seeing that would be better than expected. so with that, one of the things we should note with the big jump we're seeing that there's big short squeeze. on dow jones they talked about, called this the mother of all short squeezes. 60 million float. 18 million is actually short. what is happening a lot of people who did not think first solar would give guidance that was good news are running to quickly cover. first solar benefited from stronger than expected demand over the projects unexpectedly. over the last year we're up over 30% on the stock. back to you. ashley: very interesting. thank you very much, nicole. we'll be back with you of course in abou

stuart: thanks so much, nicole, quickly to herbal life. the battle between billionaires to take control. what is-- it's halted, why is that? >> right, we saw halted for news pending so we'll continue to follow that one, but obviously a busy one we've been following. whether it's a ponzi scheme or on it, not on it. we'll follow herbalife, a key name we've been following. stuart: thanks, nicole. dow is up 14 in the early going. and less money coming in at alcoa, and not a bad start to the earnings season. stock's unchanged. bar clays, that's the latest to lower the forecast for caterpillar and goldman did it, and vma, but caterpillar is up ten cents. and going after retirement accounts, he wants to cap them. this sends a rotten message to young savers, i know you'll agree with me. >> well, i do. this administration has not focused on reining in spendingment all they do is come up with new ideas to raise taxes so they don't have to reform government. that's why what we focus on is saying no, no, no, to any tax increase and the ideas get more