i'll do the exact same thing i did in home depot. i'm looking to buy a put calendar specifically the december march 135 put calendar. i'm buying the 135 in march for 7.50 and selling december against it a net debit of 5.50. this is trading twice as expensive for the same rate of growth as home depot. we were talking valuation before, this is a stock i can't understand at these levels. >> any way you can buy puts in buffalo wild wings, these stocks make me ill. i don't know who is buying them? i don't know where people think they're going either. buyer beware. >> the stocks are expensive. the options are not particularly expensive. and mike, by doing a calendar makes it even less expensive. so given the way that carter lays this out, carter who i bet eats chicken wings with a knife and fork. >> i don't think he eats chicken wings, period. anyway. >> the way carter lays this out, you have to be bearish. >> maybe chicken liver patee. coming up next final call from the options pits. [ indistinct shouting ] ♪ [ indistinct shouting ] [ m

i'll do the exact same thing i did in home depot. i'm looking to buy a put calendar specifically the december march 135 put calendar. i'm buying the 135 in march for 7.50 and selling december against it a net debit of 5.50. this is trading twice as expensive for the same rate of growth as home depot. we were talking valuation before, this is a stock i can't understand at these levels. >> any way you can buy puts in buffalo wild wings, these stocks make me ill. i don't know who is buying them? i don't know where people think they're going either. buyer beware. >> the stocks are expensive. the options are not particularly expensive. and mike, by doing a calendar makes it even less expensive. so given the way that carter lays this out, carter who i bet eats chicken wings with a knife and fork. >> i don't think he eats chicken wings, period. anyway. >> the way carter lays this out, you have to be bearish. >> maybe chicken liver patee. coming up next final call from the options pits. [ male announcer ] once, there was a man who found a ma

home depot is a better company. at current levels rather own home depot. in the quarter, it illustrates. >> tough day for whirlpool. there's a lot of chatter about the client space in the holiday season which also hits home depot and lowes which of course sells appliances. >> they might send it through the ringer. >> you've been waiting all show. wow. >>> the winning trade in the market buying and renting single family homes appears to be winding down. it's a boom many have been capitalizing on. we're following the trend with tom. always good to see you. >> glad to be here. >> what's going on with multifamily? rent still going up? >> rents have held firmly. they're benefits from strength in the single family housing market as the median prices of housing to own is going up. it makes the rent alternative increasingly interesting to certain people. >> you think there's alternative to multifamily? >> they sold off this summer with the rest of the rate market on the heels. there's real value. i like the multifamily rates. >> do you think there's a shift in the

home depot. best buy did okay, but they talk about a highly promotional time and those box stores, no matter what you say, best buy has had a good run over 30% this year. it's still a tough environment. imagine selling on amazon you can change the price instantaneously on amazon and those guys they don't have the luxury. >> they will match. thanks. >> they have done great this year. >> let's go uptown. sheila dharmarajan following the movers for us at the nasdaq. >> we spent the morning wavering between the gains and losses but we are at session lows, the nasdaq 100 and composite down by .3%. taking a look at the biggest loser, altera, a chip company, after goldman sachs issuing a wait on the semiconductor segment as well. adp the winner today, after evercorp its price target on the stock. josh was talking about microsoft and as this investor day is under way we are seeing the stock at flat levels. jamie capital markets out with a note saying it expects the stock will be languishing at the curren

home depot up by 3%. up by 3.33%. campbell soup shares, they've been getting slammed after the company missed estimates by 20 cents with a quarterly profit of 66 cents a share. campbell's also cut the full-year forecast. but does say that the quarter is off to a better start. still, that stock down by about 5.5%. >> couple of other headlines this morning. senate banking committee, thaer going to have a vote on thursday on the nomination of janet yellen to be the next chair of the fed. the committee will meet at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. she, of course, expected to win that confirmation. and nokia shareholders voted earlier this morning to sell the company's handset business to microsoft. the company says about 90% of shareholders voted by proxy to approve the sale. microsoft buying the business for about $7.4 billion. let's get a quick check on the markets. look over at u.s. equity futures. we'll call it a red arrow, but it's marginal. and the s&p 500 off close to three points, as well. joseph? >> yes? >> how you doing

what is selling in home depot? pretty much everything which is also very good news because in times past there were entire aisles that weren't moving as well as others. you have positives comps in kitchen, lighting, decor, lumber, electrical, indoor garden, which were all above the company's average sale. millwork, flooring, plumbing, outdoor garden, building materials, hardware and tools were positive, but below the company average, and of course, was there not anything contradictory even as the other guy disappointed. that was because they didn't have much money for a sale. my take away is that the home security is doing well, although i wouldn't be jumping up and down for stanley because the tools made me puzzle if actually lumber liquidators are taking share from home depot given that the numbers aren't comping as high as i would like. the company's new showroom, when coupled with the online presence they have appliances any check of their website which i urge you to do and the store would tell you that whirlpo

home depot and lowe's. home depot like tjx put up terrific numbers and lowe's didn't. fortunately because my trust owns lowe's, the numbers and outlook weren't as disappointing as that of ross. best of breed is way to go and home depot is best of breed. why didn't i own home depot than lowe's? because home depot is consistently great, but lowe's was going for not so hot to good. sometimes those are better. but the expectations got ahead of lowe's. and good is no longer good enough. serves me right for deviating from my best of breed mantra. next up, any apparel connected to sports and where you can buy it. both dick's and foot locker reported excellent numbers but only foot locker bounced like it should have and hit a 52-week high today. dick's is lagging but it shouldn't be. further we can extrapolate to nike, dividend boost and underarmour called out positively by dick's management. underarmour been sluggish lately. it doesn't deter me. home goods did well this quarter. williams sonoma a 22% comp from west elm. i always throw that thing out. i get a catalog like seve

home depot and lowe's. home depot like tjx put up terrific numbers and lowe's didn't. fortunately because my trust owns lowe's, the numbers and outlook weren't as dis appoiappg out of ross. best of breed is way to go and home depot is best of breed. why didn't i own home depot than lowe's? because home depot is consistently great, but lowe's was going for not so hot to good. sometimes those are better. but the expectations got ahead of lowe's. and good is no longer good enough. serves me right for deviating from my best of breed mantra. next up, any apparel connected to sports and where you can buy it. both dick's and foot locker reported excellent numbers but only foot locker bounced like it should have and hit a 52-week high today. dick's lagging but it shontd be. further we can extrapolate to nike, dividend boost and underarmour called out positively by dick's management. underarmour been sluggish lately. home goods did well this quarter. williams sonoma a 22% comp from west elm. i always throw that thing out. i get a catalog like seven or eight times a day. i toss

home depot and lowe's. home depot like tjx put up terrific numbers and lowe's didn't. fortunately because my trust owns lowe's, the numbers and outlook weren't as disappointing out of ross. best of breed is way to go and home depot is best of breed. why didn't i own home depot than lowe's? because home depot is consistently great, but lowe's was going for not so hot to good. sometimes those are better. but the expectations got ahead of lowe's. and good is no longer good enough. serves me right for deviating from my best of breed mantra. next up, any apparel connected to sports and where you can buy it. both dick's and foot locker reported excellent numbers but only foot locker bounced like it should have and hit a 52-week high today. dick's lagging but it shontd be. further we can extrapolate to nike, dividend boost and underarmour called out positively by dick's management. underarmour been sluggish lately. home goods did well this quarter. williams sonoma a 22% comp from west elm. i always throw that thing out. i get a catalog like seven or eight times a day. i toss

bud, home depot, a great quarter, comps were great. there is discuss as to what degree lowe's is on their tail. what do you think? >> they have outcomped lowe's for 17 quarters in a row. we thought the comps at lowe would catch up with ho depot but home depot is setting a blazing trail. >> unbelievable. everybody remembers that 11% comp, now 8.2. how do they get to 7? >> they get there by a couple of ways. they've got a housing help, about 250 basis points, there's their own -- there are several items in merchandising that equate for about 250 basis points and then 250 basis points from the economy itself. so they have -- they've actually laid out their plan pretty carefully on the call just ended of how they get to that 700 basis points of comp for the fourth quarter. >> i read somewhere their gross product margin up 30 basis points, the biggest in 12 quarters. is that expense control? what's going on there? is that pricing? >> they had very good expense control. obviously with the -- obviously their gross margins, also accounted for

home depot is raising the roof. the housing recovery has the chain raising its outlook for the third time this year. its stock is trading higher after it reported earnings results that beat the street. the holiday season is forcing best buy to step up its game. it says it faces a lot of competition this holiday due to christmas promotions from rivals. still, best buy reported profits that topped expectations. however, shares still slid over 10% yesterday. and a soup snafoo. campbells says sales plunged 30% last quarter, as americans steered away from canned goods. shares fell 6% yesterday. jp morgan is re-assuring shareholders the bank can handle the $13 billion dollar government settlement. it's believed to be the largest amount ever paid by a financial firm in a settlement case with the justice department.it includes $4 billion to help 100,000 homeowners who were hurt by banks lending and securities trading practices.jp morgan and officials will not admit violating the law.an estimated 7 billion of the deal is tax

home depot getting a pop today. we'll trade that, plus we're going to talk to the analyst who says forget home depot and the builders if you want to playhousing. he's got a different take. >>> and tesla is making its way up, but still down from yesterday. what do you do here? do you short it? what is the trade? the street is coming at this trade from all angles, and we'll help you decide. that and much more is ahead on "the half." in today's markets, a lot can happen in a second. with fidelity's guaranteed one-second trade execution, we route your order to up to 75 market centers to look for the best possible price -- maybe even better than you expected. it's all part of our goal to execute your trade in one second. i'm derrick chan of fidelity investments. our one-second trade execution is one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. now get 200 free trades when open an account. >>> you probably noticed home depot shares sharply higher after beating earnings expectations and raising guidance.

there was a big beat in home depot, thanks to home remodeling. home depot hit $1.4 billion, up 7.4% on the back of remodeling. what's interesting here is that people are now spending more on their average projects. take a look. projects under $10,000 surged first back in 2009. even before home sales and prices began recovering. now they're dropping. higher priced renovations are surging. that may be because investors who had to do cosmetic fixes on distressed homes are moving out of the market and real owner/occupants are moving back in. you're seeing the surge on online as design websites are seeing a gain. you can see which contractors are working in your neighborhood and peek inside the projects as well. >> we know who your neighbors have specifically used and we can search the projects that have happened near you. you're not viewing projects that happened across the country or projects that are millions of dollars completely out of your price range. >> reporter: now, home remodeling has also gotten a boost, of course, from the return of home

what is selling in home depot? pretty much everything which is also very good news because in times of past there were entire aisles that weren't moving as well as others. you have positives comps in kitchen, lighting, decor, lumber, electrical, indoor garden which were all above the company's average sale. no work, flooring, plumbing, outdoor garden building materials and tools were positive, but below the company average, and of course, was theren't anything contradictory even as the other guy disappointed and that was because we didn't have much money for a sale. my take away is that the home security is doing well, although i wouldn't be jumping up and down for stanley because the tools would puzzle if actually lumber liquidators are taking share from home depot given that the numbers aren't comping as high as i would like. when couplesed with the online presence they have appliances any check of their website which i urge you to do and the store would it witell you that whirlp may be a good place to be as the

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. >>> home depot doing serious repairs to its reputation. >> a firestorm of outrage on social media. >>> a startup that lets you share your car for free airport parking. how a bay area city says it's taking them for a ride. >>> now barbie is getting a reboot for dyinger moms. ,, [uncle]this is hopscotch,okay? uncle go one,two,one,two,one two,one. [niece]okay! [uncle]okay? [niece]one,two three,four,five,six,seven,eight! [uncle laughing] okay,we go the other way,okay? [niece]one,two,three,four,five, six,seven! [uncle laughs]there's ten spaces,you want to try again? [uncle]yeah? its reputation after posting what many are calling a ract kp >>> home depot is trying to rebuild its reputation after posting what many are calling a racist tweet. >> pretty upset customers. >>reporter: the tweet read, which of these are not like the others, while showing someone in a monkey seat in between two african-american drummers, the tweet backfiring triggering outrage and complaints of racism. >> so that's a white guy inside of a monkey suit. >> the point is that it's all about the disposition. >> my kn

we have seen the retailers particularly related to home improvement doing so well, home depot hitting a new high, low is doing well, jpmorgan representation from financial and chevron winner in the energy rum. we have seen a run-up of record highs and now the question is what do you take off of the table going into the holiday season and there is a little cautionary tale on wall street. phil flynn, what we see in? phil: a lot of oil and so much news and so little time. we have relatively quiet move, frankfort going down because of iranian talks everything good and an explosion in belgium at everything to change. we saw a big spike in the products and big spike up in brent crude and that caused our products to rally as well. reports that two people were killed in a refinery explosion? shutdown accord which slowed things down as far as exports go but the market is coming down. the other thing that gave as a pop is in china, they will that their currency float a little bit. that caused the dollar to go down providing support but we're coming down after the initial reaction so back to you

that means you want to be buying tjx, costco and home depot when you can and best buy and game stop on monday morning. let's go to danielle in kansas. danielle. >> caller: hey, jim. happy friday. >> same. >> caller: hey, i have a question about limited brands. they had an impressive third quarter, great profits. however, they issued a more conservative forecast for the fourth quarter. given that it's a holiday season, even valentine's day, should i expect the limited brands to continue to rise? or do you think this is a good long-term buy and hold for my ira? >> i want you to actually -- you know, i saw that.

lowe's did not match the performance of competitor home depot. lowes earning 47 cents per share for the third quarter, a penny below estimates. the company boosted the year outlook but still below street consensus. home depot had a beating quarter and raised the yearly guidance. this is short of good news. americans are keeping credit card debt in check. credit card debt per borrower fell during the third quarter. late payment rate did rise and remains near the lowest level in six years. >> in a speech delivered last night, ben bernanke sited the feds efforts to revamp the economy. we have the wrap up of the speech. do you have something prepared to read. i can't talk to you? >> talk to me. >> we said we were going to bring you his thoughts. >> my producer didn't think i'd get to the second sign. that's her. >> we promised viewers we'd have his thoughts. do you have his thoughts or just comments? >> i try to do the best with both. >> he has his interpretation. >> he could have been thinking about i'll paint the ceiling pink. he could have been th

looking at home depot, or lowe's. seems to be a grower, not just now, but throughout next year. the reality is, if you bought a new home, if you are looking to maybe upgrade your home to sell it in the spring selling season next year, or just moved into an apartment, chances are you're going to be going to home depot. >> any disclosers about these three stocks that you mentioned? >> well, they are certainly some of the mutual funds we own for our clients and adviser investments, and so far i'm thankful that they are. >> jim lowell, thank you very much, chief investment officer at adviser investments. >>> well, like retailers for shopping, tiz the make or break season and campaigns are moving online to win support. a look at how charities are using crowdfunding to raise money. >> reporter: the nonprofit warrior canine connection had an idea, breed and train service dogs to be paired with veterans, but like any start-up, not a lot of money, then the cofounder had a brainstorm. why not a puppy cam on the internet? >> i l

one trader told me, lowe's and home depot. we like home depot, not lowe's. david: jcpenney may have a future after all. [closing bell ringing] jcpenney was up about 7%. wells are ringing on wall street. jcpenney is happy of other people are but we say it has been worse than it was. dow is trading not at the session lows but it may settle there. dow jones is down about 65 points. again all of the really negative action happened after we got the minutes from the october meeting of the fed and the market didn't like what they saw there, liz. liz: let's get to the front page headlines which of course include all of that. despite the government shutdown people continue to shop. well before the fed minutes came out we got the retail sales numbers of for october. they showed a gain of .4 of a percent. that came higher than the .1 of a percent gain most economists were expecting. david: it is good if you shop. priceline.com got a boost after the company was added to the

both home depot and lowe's putting up some monster profit numbers and home depot's case not only beating the street but beating the robust estimates on the street. a clearer sign yet that folks are more interested in fixing the homes folks are already in than buying anything new at all. well, there is something to that normally that is a logic that you get with uys doing so well that people have given up buying new homes so they are sprucing up the one they have. >> well, exactly that neil. let me start by saying existing home sales have actually cooled off just a little bit. about 3% from september and, remember, these are october numbers i'm going somewhere so stay with me. our prices have actually increased nationwide by 13% from october 2012 to october of 2013. so, with that all said and done, we have all of this positive information. sellers are looking at the paper and thinking, wow, you know, home prices are going up. phenomenal. maybe i should sell. but then when they keep reading they see no inventory. so, they look around and they are thinking well, if i'm going to sell my home

sale still a little below home depot, 7.4% for home depot. it's been consistently below. it's been at least a couple years where home depot sales have consistently been higher. i think the main reason that's happening is home depot has a much better, much bigger professional business where professional home contractors tend to go to home depot over lowe's. that's the 1% difference you're seeing in some of the sales overall. for jcpenney, i called three or four guys who trade this stock and they said there's only one story here, the main takeaway, the company is going to survive and everything else is sort of a side show. the loss a little greater than expected, same-store sales and gross outlook margins improving. this is all just good enough. i think we're at a six-month high. they're going to stay in business. men's apparel, women's apparel, which was areas they were just getting destroyed in have shown notable improvement and i think that's the key takeaway right now. so we're basically flat on the dow s&p. also flat, though, home builders on the up side. >> i want to

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in a half hour home depot will be opening. home depot actually opened last night on thanksgiving. so a lot of different scene here. we are not seeing the chaos that is typical for black friday. most of the shoppers we talked to this morning say they ate turkey yesterday, rested, hung out with family and then hit the stores. a lot of businesses open last night and offered door busters. one shopper told us a lot of the good deals hit online already tuesday and wednesday. he took advantage of that. one guy we spoke to says shopping this year is a lot easier compared to last year. >> last year was crazy. i mean you got to wait in line for up to two or three hours. even in the later hours. when it was past 1:00 the stills were -- the lines were still long. >> and people were cranky. >> the stores are a mess now. >> reporter: so still some deals but most of the good door buster deals happened yesterday. many folks complained about those opening on thanksgiving since they believe the holidays are meant to be spent with family. we'll tell you which states put the breaks on doors wanting t

they financed it themselves by selling stocks, tapping into savings and using home depot credit cards. >> i played with numbers and different types of loans that were daunting but in the end it will work out better financial financially. >> reporter: barns said many of her clients are turning to retailers like home depot and lowes to finance their renovations. >> you can go into many of the big box retailers and open a line of credit, and have 24 months to pay, and these big box retailers give us is a warranty and financing, so they're really being the bank when h when the s not being the bank. >> and she has evolved her business to ey to accommodate ts wave of financiers. >> one of the ways we have evolved to serve our clients and keep ourselves in the game when people can't get a loan from a bank is we start using the bank forms. so we have turned our paperwork in a similar form rather than saying your job is $40,000, pay us 10%. we're saying for the footing, framing, roofing. clients can under when it's completed. >> reporter: she said it's more work for her but it's better than no

they financed it themselves by selling stocks, tapping into savings and using home depot credit cards. >> i played with numbers and different types of loans that were daunting but in the end it will work out better financial financially. >> reporter: barns said many of her clients are turning to retailers like home depot and lowes to finance their renovations. >> you can go into many of the big box retailers and open a line of credit, and have 24 months to pay, and these big box retailers give us is a warranty and financing, so they're really being the bank when h when the s not being the bank. >> and she has evolved her business to ey to accommodate this wave of financiers. >> one of the ways we have evolved to serve our clients and keep ourselves in the game when people can't get a loan from a bank is we start using the bank forms. so we have turned our paperwork in a similar form rather than saying your job is $40,000, pay us 10%. we're saying for the footing, framing, roofing. clients can under when it's completed. >> reporter: she said it's more work for her but it's better than

more people are and home depot is reaping rewards raising the outlook for the third time this year. it's not the only company profiting by the trends. >> pinched by pensions. tonight we head to chicago to see just how deep the problems run. all that and more tonight on "nightly business report" for tuesday, november 19th. >>> good evening everyone. topping our news, three corporate giants, jp morgue chase, home depot, microsoft members of the dow index and making news today for different reasons. we begin with microsoft and shareholders meeting today but it wasn't a typical shareholders meeting. this was the final one for steve balmer who steps down as ceo next year and marks the beginning of a historic management changeover at the company. as microsoft's bored narrows the search for a new leader, the company will end a 38-year stretch where balmer and dates led. who might be next in charge. >> reporter: it was a historic day at microsoft's annual shareholder meeting, the last meeting with steve bauper as ceo. >> i'm confident we have the right strategy in place. >> reporter: it's u

home depot was in hot water o r over, oy, a tweet and a half. what do you think about this? >> it's terrible. and i can only say i'm glad home depot fired the ad agency, i guess, that designed it and got rid of the person that did the tweet. i respect they did that. i couldn't help think about the academy awards last year when that sweet little girl who was on -- who was in beast of the southern wild had a horrible tweet against her by the onion. and the onion barely apologized and didn't fire the person who sent the tweet. i respect home depot did that. >> i wonder if you'll see more of this as companies try to be cool in social media and they're trying to be edgy. >> but what's cool and edgy? >> nothing. but the problem is that it's going to be some probably 24-year-old social media director, no offense that it's 24-year-old social media director, who have control over a corporate -- >> that's my point. >> -- hundreds of thousands of employees and one person who decides to send out a tweet. that's really dangerous. >> is it? because they made it past all of those people to

home depot over lowe's would be your choice? >> we prefer home depot over lowe's. if i'm right about the macro setup, they're both going to be good stocks, but from a competitive standpoint, home depot has better locations, a management team that's executing incredibly well, and still a nice runway of growth in margins. so we think it's a 15% grower for the foreseeable future. >> how about v.f. corp.? >> yeah, we like v.f. corp. we like to define areas where there's nice tailwinds and clearly a tailwind in the area of performance and athletic apparel. we see a huge spike in participation in athletic and health and fitness. we think that's a trend that's secular. one of our favorite ways so play that is v.f. corp. they have a nice, diversified portfolio of brands, with global appeal, and that's really important. a nice runway of growth internationally for some of the companies, and we think they'll benefit from that. management team here, executes very well. and they have a model that importantly we think is repeatable. they buy companies and brands that are underpe

where is home depot today? what's going on with home depot today? a reaction to lowe's? >> it could be a reaction to janet yellen, good news fed, money printing, low mortgage rates because we saw lowe's winning a new high yesterday and today. home depot is the number one performer in the dow and the home builders, and they'll report next week. stuart: you've got it dead right. we're about to see the nomination process for janet yellen. the hearings start in about 20 minutes. we know what she's going to say. she is likely to imply that she'll keep on supporting the economy by printing money. i think you're dead right. i think that's why lowe's went up yesterday, home depot today. the home builders are up because mortgage rates will stay low and cheap money continues to flow. you've got it dead right. you're so good. nicole: you're sweet, that's great, i appreciate it. stuart:sweet, i'm not. john stossel, he calls it the rise of the libertarians, but in the case of the virginia governor's election, i say it only helped the liberal left. i've got a bone to pick with liberta

home depot's been a leader. housing's coming back but at the market at these levels any miss will be heavily punished. > >let's take a closer look at that. the stock is up about 20 dollars over the past year or so. so if it takes a hit, how much would you think is baked in here? > >well, you never know. if things are really hitting the numbers, it's gonna stay here or if it's a mild miss it could drop a little bit. but often times we've seen over the last earnings season, that's the time to buy the stock because the economy as a whole is doing better. with the bears talking about whether we're in a bubble or not, there is sort of this healthy skepticism. so they gotta make the numbers and that's sort of a good thing-- part of the yin and yang in the market. > >matt, i have to bring this up. you called the market on our show. you did a terrific job. you were talking about 16 thousand in the dow, 18 hundred in the s &p 500. both happened yesterday. what was going through your mind? > >i'm really pleased and my mes

home depot a big winner ty towards the housing market recovery. they said that trend should ultimately continue going forward. yesterday of going competition airbus. i like what i see. >>: j.p. morgan did that $13 billion accord. supposed to help consumers a little bit more. a watchdog per say make sure consumers get their money back from the past. pat >>mark: year seen all these companies that absorb the other companies during the financial crisis and turn out on the hook for countries they absorbent. all with j.p. morgan. you think they should be held responsible even though they take these companies on at the request of the government? >>: the government says mark you ago by a damaged a bank and we are going to see you later because of some of the assets. it's a damnation game. they certainly benefited on some levels. but on the other hand, it's tough to fight the government especially when it's free election season for it >>mark: so if the government comes for real, you settle. thanks a lot wroth we'll check back and i 15 for the winners and l

home depot was one of the few stores that wasn't open yesterday for thanksgiving. a lot of the stores around here in this shopping center were open on thanksgiving. a little -- sol far we have seen people trickling into toys r us but no big lines. a lot of businesses offered door busters. one thing you will miss from shop the chaos, long lines, and cranky sleep deproved dust -- deprived customers. did you find a lot of good deals? >> yeah. all the good deals are still here. >> reporter: now one shopper told us that a lot of the good deals were already offering online tuesday and wednesday so many folks to do advantage of that. some stores -- some states even put the breaks on stores wanting to open on thanksgiving. obviously not in california. live from emeryville i'm tara moriarty. >>> time is 5:07. new information from illinois about gunfire among holiday shoppers. it happened last night near chicago at a kohls department store. as one officer struggled with the suspect, his arm got tangled in the car and he was dragged by the car briefly while other officers fir

you take the high quality home-related stocks, like home depot up 24%, lowe's up 40%. and you compare them with the home builders like pulte, toll brothers up 1%, d.r. horton off 5%. you might as well be thinking we're talking about two totally different, unrelated industries. >> buy, buy, buy -- >> sell, sell, sell -- >> that's because, as a matter of fact, they are two different industries. one's related to confidence, credit, interest rates, the cost of building homes. the other's about the pent up demand to spend on a house you already own. knowing that your home is at last done with going down in value. i think the confusion over these two parts of the housing stories kept people out of the whirlpools. investors just don't believe that they aren't in tandem, that they aren't handcuffed. they're not handcuffed, okay. it's still one more example of how this market's changed in a way people that don't understand yet. it's driving me crazy. the housing stocks haven't done much at all this year. they didn't do much ahead of the interest rate spike and they haven't done

blake, please, i know you watch the show at home depot, don't take this the wrong way. lowe's is catching up to you in terms of greatness, and that's why my charitable trust sold home depot to buy lowe's. lowe's reports in a couple of weeks. i think it's going to be a good quarter. stay long lowe's. let's go to mark in ohio, please. mark? >> caller: hello, jim. i bought aeropostale for a turnaround today. >> it's interchangeable versus american eagle and abercrombie. i don't like that. i like companies that distinguish themselves like terry lundgren's macy's. that's what i buy. that's the conclusion of the fbi-crazed lightning round. >> announcer: the lightning round is sponsored by td round is sponsored by td ameritrade. like, really big... >>> it's kind of like we have a big problem with the health care system that you aren't hearing about while everybody is focused on the latest problems with the obama care rollout. did you know we have a serious labor shortage in the health care industry, one that's only getting worse over time? and that means there's an enormous op

both home depot and loews this year. -- lowe's. home depot came in with profit, comp sales on the rise and overall the volume and traffic in the stores are doing great. so great news there for those three names in particular, dave. david: nicky p., thank you very much. >> signing out. david: i love it. let's head back to liz claman at global financial leadership conference in naples, florida. she spoke with exclusively with sal academy founder, sal khan. liz? >> when you look at some of the most well-paid jobs in america they are for engineers and yet go unfilled year after year here in the states because our educational system is ill-equipped to teach proper math, physics and science in the early stages of education which is what mike milkin was telling our viewers the last hour. no one has been doing anything about this on a large-scale except the son of a single mom raised in louisiana, a kid by the same of sal khan, who ended up being a very high paid hedge fund manager, mit educated. he was loving his job until he started doin

so lowe's, home depot, expected to benefit more from more. >> thank you. let's go straight to the investors. michael, a qwiki uick one on th what is the outlook out -- improved outlook, what does that tell you about the economy and the market? >> well, it tells you that housing or the home improvement sector is doing really well and rates are low enough that people are engaging. it looks good, by it could change on a dime like last summer. positive news. >> and steve liesman reported that bernanke's speech, maybe a valedictory speech, maybe not. it was dovish. it didn't talking about raising the fed funds rate. now, that has to be a bullish thing for tomorrow's open because janet yellen will be in the same camp. he gives yellen a shout-out. what's your comments on this? >> they were comments on yellen that were wildly dovish also. they seem to be having less of a positive impact as they had in the past. the market's becoming used to it. which sets up a situation, when and if they do disappoint which i don't think is happening any time soon, the market can

you take the high quality home-related stocks. home depot up 24%, lowe's up 40%. and you compare them with the home builders like polte, toll brothers up 2%, d.r. horton off 5%. you might as well be thinking we're talking about two totally different unrelated industries. >> buy, buy, buy -- >> sell, sell, sell -- >> that's because, as a matter of fact, they are two different industriesment one's related to confidence, credit, interest rates, the cost of building homes. the other's about the pent up demand to spend on a house you already own. knowing your home is -- at last, done with going down in value. i think the confusion over these two parts of the housing stories kept people out of the whirlpools. investors just don't believe that they aren't in tandem, that they aren't handcuffed. they're not handcuffed, okay. it's still one more example of how this market's changed in a way people don't understand yet. it's driving me crazy. the housing stocks haven't done much at all this year. they didn't do much ahead of the interest rate spike and haven't done much sin

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i would imagine everybody in the brother sells tile like a home depot and lows. >> here's the key. i love frank blake. last time i told you to buy the stock and he did great. those kind of basic tiles. they sell apparatus that the kid go near. they are sourced directly at the quarry in china. they actually undersell home depot and lows. >> let's switch gears and talk a little bit about black friday. and also in the west. it's all over the place. is this going to dampen sales for the holiday season? does it matter? >> one of the real ironies here is black friday got its name because that's when retailers broke into the black for the year. now with every retailer on thanksgiving and black friday selling below cost it's now become red friday. certainly lose a lot of ego and sales. i do think it's going to be a difficult holiday season. >> thanks so much. good to see you. >> thank you for having me. >> tomorrow on fast money, hear from the founder of bitcoin. bit coin is moving closer to the 1,000 dollar mark. >> he is 20? >> he is lying. i think he's like 16. >> he looks 16. obviously

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blake, please, i know you watch the show at home depot, don't take this the wrong way. lowe's catching up to you in terms of greatness, and that's why my terrible trust sold home depot to buy lowe's. lowe's reports in a couple of weeks. i think it will be a good quarter. stay long. let's go to mark in ohio, please. mark? >> caller: hello, jim. i bought raarrow paust elle. >> it's interchangeable between american eagle and abercrombie. i don't like that. i like companies that distinguish themselves like terry lundgren's macy's. that's the conclusion of the fbi lightning round. >> announcer: the lightning round is sponsored by td ameritrade. ♪ the shell brought him great fame. ♪ but then, one day, he noticed that everybody could have a magic seashell. [ indistinct talking ] [ male announcer ] right there in their trading platform. ♪ [ indistinct talking continues ] [ male announcer ] so the magic shell went back to being a...shell. get live squawks right in your trading platform with think or swim from td ameritrade. losing thrusters. i need more power. give me more