shares of harley davidson. on the upside, u.s. steel rose 4% on the sale of pittsburgh's tallest building. the 841-foot u.s. steel tower. seagate technology will pay nearly $1.4 billion for samsung's hard disk drive business. toyota is extending production cuts at its north american plants and says it may lower its 2011 sales target due to parts shortages in japan. the government is expected to unveil new passenger protection rules today forcing airlines to be more up front about their fees. finally, some members of the happy days cast are reportedly not so happy with cbs. the group filed suit for unfail royalties after their names and faces popped up on everything from lunch boxes to slot machines. >>> orlando shows off some playoff magic, the sharks win in o.t. and the black hawks live to skate another day. plus, carmelo anthony does everything the knicks would have hoped for against the celtics, but was it enough? your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> i'm continuing to track severe weather heading to the e

shifting gears, we turn to harley davidson, the weakest performer today among s&p 500 stocks. shares downshifted into the red after the motorcycle maker confirmed it's losing market share to cheaper used bikes. they were down 5.3%, or a loss of more than $2. it's also struggling with some component shortages from a supplier out of japan. and finally, we saw some life in home builders, thanks to that surprise jump in housing starts we told you about earlier. take a look at pultegroup, ryland and k.b. home-- their shares rose more than 3%. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> susie: oil prices notched higher today, closing above $108 a barrel. that brings us to tonight's "word on the street"-- "oil." dan dicker, senior contributor to thestreet.com, says the big beneficiaries of those higher prices are oil refiners. when i spoke to him a short while ago, he explained why. >> well, they're the only sector that benefit franchise a higher oil price because they're the only ones who can take a high oil price and translate it into an even higher gas price they can collect from cons

key chain full of the little things i scan when i go to the first restorers or when i go to my harley davidson make sure i get the bucks for what i'm doing but to make sure that we receive the benefit we have from advertising and marketing to customize things we want to do, not to short circuit but to actually enhance that. when we look at the things we are starting to do we place an secure password first and foremost. but while we are developing the ecosystem we are also looking to improve privacy. and i think every one of us in this room that's ever interact at some point is where there's a financial transaction that needs to take place particularly something on the recurring basis and not because of the work i've done over the years but i oftentimes say why do you need that in order to sell me this? why do you need all the information? what are you going to do with it, how long are you going to keep it, how was it going to be stored and protected? and oftentimes as you might imagine the answer is we don't know, it's a policy. developing the ecosystem now that builds on the basic information

let's take harley-davidson, a great milwaukee company. we export them all over the world. they're made in milwaukee. we make a hog that will topple line in milwaukee. if we sell it into chicago, it pays the u.s. tax rates. if it goes to germany and it is competing against a honda motorcycle and we sell it, we pay the german tax and the u.s. tax. the japanese who make the honda only pay the german tax. what does that do? that means we get double-taxed on our products and competitors get single-tax. we lose and they win. you have to remember, with 95% of the world's consumers outside of this country, if we want to have a prosperous and growing economy, we have to have a robust and effective sector. we ought to make them here and sell them there to have prosperity. high living standards. this is set up to make sure that, when we sell that harley- davidson in germany to compete against that the cycle from honda, it can be taxed only once to be able to compete against it. but then, when harley brings the money back, then we tax it again. yet, we have these different kinds of ru

let's take harley-davidson. a great milwaukee company. we make proud hogs. we export them all over the world. they are made in milwaukee. we make it on the line in milwaukee and if it is sold in chicago, it is taxed at the u.s. tax rates. if it goes to germany and it is competing against a honda motorcycle, and we sell it, we pay the german tax and are the u.s. tax. the japanese, who make the honda, only pay the german tax. what does that do? that means we get double taxed on our exports and our competitors get single taxed. we lose, they win. so we have this deferal system. that wasn't working. remember with 945% of the world's consumers outside -- 95% of the world's consumers outside of this country, we make things here, sell them there, to have prosperity. high living standards. so this deferal thing is set up to make sure that when we sell that harley in germany, it is only taxed once to be able to compete against it but then when harley brings that money back eventually then we tax it again. yet we have these different kinds of rules that mr. dogget is

medicaid because you are in a nursing home, it doesn't matter if you are a huge corporation, harley davidson or xerox corporation and doesn't matter if you are a small business operator or someone who is on the individual market looking for insurance. nobody, nobody can afford to fuel these profits for pharmaceutical companies. $20 million annual salaries for insurance executives and all of the other giveaways to wealthy insurance companies. medicare was overpaying insurance companies by 14% until we enacted the affordable health care act. we can't afford part d, the prescription drug program, we simply cannot afford to have a program where medicare pays pharmaceutical companies, for a large group mike medicare recipients and negotiate the drug prices as they would with any group. i mean there are companies, large corporations, with a much smaller pool of employees that benefit from negotiating for the group. and the law that the republicans passed, the medicare part d, doesn't allow those negotiations. these are easy fixes. these are easy fixes that could reap us billions of dollars in savi