but saks blew out earnings, 6.18%.nted, saks beat estimates that have come down, but like i tell you all the time, a beat is a beat. the street was looking for them to lose 9 cents, meanwhile, revenues came in a bit light. saks same-store sales for the quarter, management forecast, mid single digit sales growth for the rest of the year. were these sales flawless? i pumped up numbers with this tie and this shirt. earnings were certainly enough to send the stock soaring higher. this quarter also tells you an all domestic player like saks may not have to worry about the same things as an international operator like coach. a juicy 22.2% gain since we talked to the ceo last year. i think there's more roo to run. let's talk to the chairman and ceo of saks and find out more about the quarter and get a read on the luxury side of retail. welcome back to "mad money." 4. >> good to be back, jim. >> i happen to love your outlet that shows me you're in an acceleration mode for a portion of saks. >> we saw a 4.7% growth overall. tha

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high end department store saks reports a smaller than expected loss. tjs up 30% year-over-year, tjx. and home depot says consumers and areas hardest hit by the housing sector are now beginning to spend on home improvement projects against and helped lift the income by 12%. the retailer to watch is the world's largest, waiting to see if walmart can continue to improve its u.s. sales trend. >>> let's look at big names in retail and how far they've comstock-wise. see the gap? believe it up 87% year-to-date. limited and walmart, 23% year-to-date. >> sue. jeff kilberg is with us. i know i've done my fair share to boost retail. if you want to invest in it, how would you do it? >> the first time in four months since february with this retail sales number. right now, i want to coattail home depot. ma masco feeds the products to home depot. i like target. i've been adverse to get into high end retail. we saw kors produce and people going back to school, will run to target to get what they need. >> yes indeed. i was there this weekend. do you think it's safe to

during his 15-season career he had 150 and a half saks. his last juan coming against the niners coach jim harbaugh, and also going the hall, at the bridge stone invitational. jim furyk is 18 holes away from a wire-to-wire victory. let's go out to firestone country can club in akron, ohio. tiger woods broke par for the firs time this week this. birdie wars part of a 68. still 11 shots back. louis oosthuizen also shot a 68 today. great putt here on the par-3 12th. followed furyk by a stroke. check out this chip. hits the flagstick. furyk did tap in for par. 11-under for the tournament. >>> spoiler alert. time to announce the olympic results. so turn away from the screen and come back when the music stops if you do not want to know what happened. ♪ >> a week ago the u.s. held a narrow lead over china in the medal count. team u.s.a. has 54 total, 26 golds, greet britain is in third plate with 29 total, 14 gold, and tonight we larry the oakland raiders camp, the post-al davis era continues. >> what do you feel about that? >> i think it's a good

he played for san francisco from 1996 to 1998 and hat 150-1/2 saks.he last one against 49ers head coach jim harbaugh, and also going into the hall are jack butler, cortez kennedy, kurtis martin and willy roker. >> to golf. the bridgestone invitational. jim furyk is 18 holes away from a wire-to-wire victory. tiger woods broke par for the first time this week. this birdie on four was part of a 68 but still 11 back. louis oosthuizen shot a 68. he trails furyk by just a stroke. the leader shot an even par 70. check out the chip on 9. hits the flagstick. he taps in for par. 11-under for the tournament. >>> spoiler alert. it's time to announce the olympic results so if you do not want to know what happens, turn aim and come back when the music stops. ♪ >> the giants playing in colorado. posey hit a two-rub homer in the fir. the giants lead 2-0 in the first. began the day with a half game lead of the dodge centers the west. so far so good. >> ama: ahead, the record skydive. >> alan: 138 people jumping atÑq >> alan: coming up at 6:00. the southwest sale that

the airwaves: saks is not willing to budge on a contract saying that's that is not how the financial system works. did waste hundreds of people to not tonight to raise wages in san jose. supporters of a november ballot soon kick off a rally just a few hours ago and made a city council opted to let voters decide in november whether to jump from $8 an hour to send reporter kiddo says opponents preparing to go to war. did waves the powerful south bay labor council kicked off with endorsements from local vips like assemblyman from the united silicon valley carol the end of list of churches nonprofits and charities it showed up ready to walk the precincts. duckweed is current in nonjudicial coalition of people who really believe that when people play by the rules and work hard that they can make a decent wage deal then, an additional $70 million back into the local economy. they're not putting that extra $2 an hour and is not sure count in the cayman islands the money is granted by the the more food and clothing to make sure that they can survive for their families but the chamber of comm

they are not a threat until the captain hears a bump, then he sees the ice, i'm telling you, same ice, sak same icebergo ship. if you are massively overweight, it is like cutting yourself to a half gallon of chunky monkey ice cream is going to make you any less chunky. simpson said we're all getting creamed, senator, we're going nowhere fast? >> that was a rare monologue there, sharp as a tact, delightful, i was thrilled listening to it here in cody, wyoming, dazzling. neil: thank you, but, it's sad, i said what you said many times, i had the coming ma congressmanw york saying that debt conditions and recommendations were all over the map, not every agrees, better to leave them out of the debates because if is just folly -- i am paraphrasing. i say this is everything that senator simpson warned me about. >> the other thing is, the warning is come true, everything that president is doing now has not one thing to do with policy or reality, it is all to do with politics, i suspect now we have 30 million a day, something emotional, get people all juiced up that he did this stroke of generous,

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they've got their own niche in the store and saks has 40%. that's going to add to the story. >> i had din were a college student who said, i love the gap. i haven't heard in in so long. stephanie, you're the only other female. i walked by the store and thought, wow, more khakis and t-shirts. they look hipper. >> a lot of companies are getting very right we have been playing coach which didn't get it right. but i think they're going to. they have a new legacy line. you've got to take a look at it and they're focusing on the men'ses by and they're going to grow that business. if you can get the merchandise right the consumer wants to buy it. >> michelle, let me clarify. no one believes the story. i told you the other day to buy gap. i was going to buy gap. i looked at the stock and thought, huh-uh, i aem not buying gap here. >> why not? >> i fold into the herd of disbelievers that don't want to own gap. >> after a 100% move you have to believe the store or you're going to get burned. >>> thanks. still ahead we're going to call on a top analyst

can't have target, wal-mart, costco, saks home depot, kbap, tjx, ross and macy's all doing well at theme amazon is doing it unless the consumer is spending money. i hear it's all zero sum because there is not employment growth. these arguments boil down to the idea that the winners in retail are simply taking share from the losers and that's it. i say, what losers? in order for retail to be zero sum, the winners would have to be balanced out by massive losses of businesses at their faltering competitors. who's really faltering? jc penney? sure, there is spillover. macy's is close enough to jc penney stores to pick up sales but they have only $17 billion in sales left. that could be taken and probably will be. that's not enough to move the needle for anybody. home depot's strength is coming out of true value and lowe's. home depot has always been brutally honest on the conference calls about when it is taking market share from others as an explanation for why it is doing better. this call this time, frank blake said it wasn't about share taking. it was about a growing pie when it comes

street protesters are targeting businesses in new york city that slim bones portions of, including saksthe avenue and the new york times. and activists said it is part of occupy wall street solidarity with movements around the world. >> occupy wall street has been working with a lot of community groups around the world. i think the action today is just part of a larger solidarity building between different action groups, unions. finding ways to target wealthy individuals, institutions, and other practices that need serious modification or real radical change. >> those are some of the headlines. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. >> welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. we begin today with a look of a new policy that could stop the deportation of as many as 1.3 million undocumented immigrants who were brought to the united states as children. people can start to apply for the new status starting next wednesday, august 15. president obama first announced the so-called d

coming up next hour, alex wagner will talk to jeffrey saks, so stay tuned for that. >>> the least productivefamily and chelsea's name comes up first. it's not completely out of the question. the former first daughter tells "vogue" magazine she just might decide to run for office one of these days. the hopeful says before my mom's campaign i would have said no, and now i don't know. >>> president obama seems to be working his way through iowa one beer at a time preferably. bud lite, and honey ail are brewed at the white house. the campaign has gone to the dogs. the president made a joke about mitt romney's infamous story about his dog riding on the roof of his >> you can't drive a car with a windmill on it. that's what he said about wind power. you can't drive a car with a windmill on it. now, i don't know if he's actually tried that. i know he's had other things on his car. >> so there's been a lot of talk recently about the training program, p-90x. >> you know, i have never tried that. i might have him show me how to do it some day. i get on the elliptical or the treadmill or stationary bik

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. >> when i read your note this morning, you still sounded a little worried and the goldman saks call. >> it is interesting they're looking for 10% retrenchment in the market. that's realistic. it's very aggressive and i tend to be more conservative, a little more of bear. i think that's a very aggressive policy. i think europe would have to implode for that call to come true. i would not be surprised to see the market pull back 8 to 10% if in fact you don't get any action out of europe. if you get action out of europe and they pull the bazooka out of the closet, i think the markets around the world take off because that's really what investors want to see. they're trying to feel it, challenging the highs, they want to look forward and want there to be some optism. >> is the situation in the u.s. starting to perhaps overtake worries about europe with the fiscal cliff argument jpmorgan just put out or not? >> i think europe is still the issue. that vote in germany is coming september 12th. after that, it will focus on the fiscal cliff and what's going on in this country. i think the fi

. >> saks, nordstrom, tiffany. >> nordstroms, i would even put macy's in that category. that's top 10% of the customers, top 10% of the population. that customer has been very little effected by the economy. if you look at the broad base of consumers, if you have a college education or better, you're probably -- we're probably adding jobs there. if you have high school or less, that's where the big, big problem is. so that's -- and i really worry about how we get those people back into the workforce. but thersan enormous -- you see kids getting out of college now even, they can't get a job like we used to get them in the past. if you're 29 under, i think that segment of the population is hard hit. if you're middle income, $50,000, which is around the penneys average family income, you have to work very hard to get value to that customer or new product that entices her in to shop. she's shopping -- she's shopping more for need, not for want. >> put your ceo hat on again, if you would, for me. would you be hiring today, and if not, why? >> well, i think you would be hiring

if you get a company like saks -- >> you don't think so?yone is trying to pin it on bernanke, pin it on corporate profits, they have been unbelievable. the money that these companies are making and returning sho sha -- to shareholders has been incredible. >> i don't think we want to overstate. current america is very strong for a variety of reasons. again rated a lot of cash, incredibly low balancing costs, whether you're an a credit, a b, or down the road. it's not as if growth is off the charts. >> but cash is? balance sheets are? david, you were talking that yesterday, rates are so low they can buy back stock against the dividend. this is stuff that we're not trading economies here or jobless claiming or the new york empire number or the philly fed index. we're trading stocks. we're investing in companies, and google is not constrained by the four walls of the financial canvas. he said like this. >> yeah. >> bob pisani is on the floor, finally done flirting with the u.s. rowing team. >> come on, they're just lovely and they're big unlike

sak, the security issues, please. >> thank you. good morning. i want to add my thanks to csis for being a big part of this, but also to secretary armitage and joe nye for having me be a part of this panel. the security section of the report addresses six sections, interoperability, research and development technology, cybersecurity, extended deterrence, prohibition of self-defense, and finally peacekeeping, of which isabella will address following me. i think as my colleagues have made clear, the security environment that japan and the alliance which deal with a significant change. you know, at one time the alliance is focused on the defense of japan. that was a rules review in the '80s, the early '80s that change that, that expanded the thinking for the area of interest for japan in the alliance. and it expanded it north, south, and strengthen or added rules to what operationally the alliance could do. that was followed up by a review of rules and emissions specifically the guidelines review in the late 90s which added the other roles and missi

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sak sakoda will talk about security issues and do some real meat in those recommendation. isabella mroczkowski is going to speak about the pko. there is discussion in tokyo about pko. we have some views on it, and isabella will let you know those. and mike and i will wrap it up. and we will turn it over to you and there will be three microphones spread around, interns running around with microphones and you will be up to stand up, please identify yourself and ask her questions. and i will ask mike green who knows most of you to sort of him see that particular aspect of the presentation. so if i might let me start the introduction as follows. for our point of view, this report comes at a time of some drift in our relationship. we are not assigning blame to the. in fact, we do know that kurt campbell who is our excellent assistant secretary for east asian pacific and his colleagues at the department of state and colleagues have done their best to keep this relationship stable in a very difficult time. but because of this read/write in china, because of the difficulties emana

ralph lauren, saks, et cetera. little tidbit.doing better than others. >> we're learning a lot every day about paul ryan, vp pick for the republican party. one of the things i'm hearing, he's good at the stock market thing. >> he's very good. what we got is this disclosure. every congressman has to put it out. 2011 disclosure. we know what he held in 2011. a lot of blue chips. very interesting investments he's done very well at. home depot up 30%. didn't buy lowe's. apple up 56%. amazon up 35%. wells fargo, priceline.com. i think some of the most interesting things are he owns nike. he woe heknow he's a workout ph. he owns mcdonald's. he owns some berkshire hathaway stock, the company founded by warren buffett. he doesn't like the buffett rule. he doesn't like buffett telling people to pay more in taxes. just from tidbits, he's done really well. in the story it's pointed out there's not a paul ryan ticker in there, the ticker is available. if the vp thing doesn't work out. >> a lot of people would be following him. >>> 26 minutes

the idea it's entitlement is like a thing of going to saks fifth avenue instead of the promise acrosshe idea we value, that we don't want seniors to be living in poverty. by saving, preserving, my mom, all that language, which was in the presentation that says this is how you mitigate the issue for republicans, this is also the difference between nerdland and political land in terms of the facts and the spin. >> and the thing i love about the story is my mom is retired and she gets to play tennis and comes down to florida, i'm thinking, who doesn't want that for their parents? sblu the reality before medicare and social security is that the elderly lived in abjact poverty and the notion we had high poverty rates is going to be dissolved under the ryan plan. >> all that's true but this is effective from the republican side. it humanizes ryan as somebody who cares about seniors, the alzheimer's grandmother who lived with him while younger, using your mom as a political shield is dubious maybe, but the thing -- one of the things that shows up is they are making the most, the cleverest mo

gold man saks estimate iing a l. in this drug, is also moving lower, down better than 6%. eli lilly shares also under pressure. its drug also targets brain plaque, that sticky sub stabs stance that is said to be the underlying cause of the decide. >> at 10:45, we'll have an analyst's angle on this story. >> over to brian sullivan, get a market flash on this tuesday morning. >> good morning. take a look at fossil. maker of watches and other acce accessories. this stock is absolutely on fire. it's up 32%. they beat across the board guys. they beat on earnings, beat on sales. their guidance was good and gross margins were solid. fossil shares soaring today and in in fact, year to date, they're now 30% in the past month. they had been hit, so fossil shares far from extinct. >> so witty. that just fell on -- >> you've got to be careful. we will not come back to you again. >> i couldn't match your porky pig comment. you blew me out of the water. >> just don't try. >> yeah. try to compete. >> when we come back, it was a big

sak sakoda will speak, and isabella is going to talk about the pko. we have some views on it and isabella will let you know those, and then mike and i will wrap it up and then we'll turn it over to you and there will be three microphones spread around or interns running around with microphones and you can stand up, please identify yourself, and ask your questions i'll asked mike gray, who knows most of you, to sort of emcee that particular aspect of the presentation. so if i might, let me start the introduction as follows. for our point of view this report comes at a time with some drift in our relationship. we're not assigning blame to that. in fact we do note that curt campbell, our excellent assistant secretary for east asian pacific and his colleagues at the department of state have done their best to keep this relationship stable in a very difficult time. but because of this rerise of children's because of the difficulties emfating from north korea, because of the dynamism of asia and because of broader security concerns -- yes, mean iran and oth

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. >> thank you, sak. thanks csis for hosting us and thank you secretary armitage hosting this report. dr. green mentioned that the self-defense forces are one of the most trusted institutions in all japan. however japan is the only country in the world that regards weapons use during peace-keeping operations as a exercise of military force. currently there is a bill to possibly revise this, the peacekeeping operation law. the current law doesn't allow sdf to use weapons for, doesn't allow weapons use, only for the case of self-defense or when danger is imminent. the new bill would revise this to include, to allow the self-defense forces during a peacekeeping operation to defend civilians outside of the peace-keeping operations or peace-keeping operations area. this essentially would supplement the security of the host nation and it's likely that this bill might not make it to the current session and likely that might get watered down. our study group, and participants of this report recommend that a more