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penny pritzker, long-time friend will be named as commerce chair david asman is with me. popping in both directions. liz: go to nicole right now. it has been amazing last hour here but jcpenney in particular popping as it gets a nod from billionaire george soros. >> that's right. there are a couple headlines from jcpenney we're watching going into the close. it is up 11 1/2%. george soros, 7.9% stake revealed in regula filing. coupled with chatter there may be financing being prepared for goldman sachs for jcpenney that is help being to move this market. david: on the other hand which had am none. -- amazon. we had an idea it going up and down after reporting earning yesterday but done nothing but going down today. >> when you talk about the growth concerns and outlook that hit amazon. as a result that is under pressure much like starbucks. liz: after a run-up of 15%. 15% move. cliff natural resources is falling. a struggle bell for this company. >> cliff natural resourceeen sue stock. they had a big jump yesterday pulling back 4%. we'll keep an eye also on apple as we go

. ♪ david: hi, everybody, i'm david asman.rom the raymond james trading floor in just a moment. look what happened here. we had the awful jobs report. the market futures were way down. we were down 171 points. we have worked our way back to a minus 35. it is still in negative territory but it is one hell of a lot better than it was. let's go to nicole petallides at the new york stock exchange. what about this market comeback? what is the cause? >> it is pretty amazing, pretty amazing. even doreen who we walked with earlier today the trend remains to the upside. we got hit by the jobs report yet they're buying them back. david: even when the market looked gloomiest today. jcpenney was on a comeback as well. 5% gain in jcpenney. it has trimmed its gains by the way as the market has come back, jcpenney has come down but still a big day for jcpenney. >> one analyst is speculating there may be more traffic and sales in the current quarter. we'll see if some of the changes that ron johnson has been making will finally be lucrative f

david asman here are lori rothman in for liz we have a recovery but it was a lot worse earlier in theoints it recovered, lori, just about the time that those rumors came out about an arrest in the boston bombing case. lori: it is an interesting chart to look at, the intraday on the dow. i would say, dave, we're still still seeing a flight to safety. the dow is off more than 115 points right now. straight to nicole petallides joining us from the new york stock exchange. 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

david asman here with liz claman.as front by the way which is north korea apparently given a green light to its army for a nuclear attack against the united states. again take with a huge grain of salt. we hear these bellicose threats coming all the time from north korea. it hasn't gotten to this stage yet. there will be a some response from our government. liz: chuck hagel, secretary of defense, did deploy a system that will be able to intercept any kind of ballistics missiles. heading to guam. not there yet. clearly they had advance notice that north korea would make this dramatic statement. david: whether or not all this has to do with this triple-digit loss on the dow. we saw it in triple digits most of the day but it is trending down. let's go to nicole petallides. she is on the floor of the nyse. there had been a mood all day whether profit-taking. certainly wasn't panic but is the foreign news playing into the downward trend as we head into the closing of the trading day? >> north korea has been a threat all da

this is david asman from fox business headquarters here in new york.riple digit gain to a high double-digit gain. it is trading a little bit higher now. let's go straight to nicole petallides at the new york stock exchange. i want to talk about technology here, first of all. apple having a great day but not just apple. microsoft, ibm, all the rest of them. what is going on with tech? >> techs really led the way. apple went back and set new highs we haven't seen in many years, since 2000. apple broke through the moving average. [closing bell rings] whether this is false conviction or a breakout. david: bells are ringing on wall street. disney is up 27% this year. all the indices are in the green. the dow managed to fight its way back to triple-digit gains. the dow with 102 points. looks like settling a little bit on the high side. i think we'll stick with the triple digit gains on the dow. s&p edging closers. a lot of folks said we wouldn't reach 1600 for the year. looks like we might be getting it in april. nasdaq coming up big-time. technology stocks

we're not even done, not even close because david asman walked onto the set. him to find out what is coming up. david: more important than me, zynga and qualcomm are about to report earnings. we're expecting interesting things aft hours. the market is trading down toward the end. day. liz: the s&p flipped over the flat line, nicole as we await numbers from zynga and qualcomm. >> we're watching names to the upside. obviously an exciting time during earnings season. the dow is snapping a three-day winning streak. zynga is certainly a winner. watch qualcomm. david: what happened to apple, nicole. after they reported, we saw it up to 425. looked like it was closing 450 level today. it came way down. >> there is so much going on with apple. this is 415, 419, 392. it was all over the place. that is the pattern for apple an virtually unchanged. they surpassed, iphone, ipad sales. raised dividend. good bad news they're out of favor with wall street and they don't have anything new on the pipeline. >> at&t happens to be the worst performer on the dow jones industrials a

esh ashley is in for david asman liz: you have to look at some dow names like mcdonald's. >> this isice target increase to $108 from goldman sachs. it hit 100 earlier. all-time high for mcdonald's. one. top performers in the dow along with at&t and hewlett-packard. ashley: lauren, panera getting a nice boost from goldman sachs. >> goldman was hungry today. they're saying stocks like panera bread and yum brand and darden will be okay because despite higher gas prices and higher social security payroll taxes this year we're still ating out. consumer sentiment is okay. the job market is doing wetter. panera bread up 3% at last check also, lifetime high. liz: lauren, isn't interesting when big name investors get into a stock and talk about it. that happened to crocs. legendary investor leon cooperman mentioned it. >> the stock is up 5%, really nice boost. also news out of crocs that they have new chief marketing officer. so that stock was a big winner today. ashley: just before the bell starts ringing. it wasn't a phone or operating system but investors liked facebook's new announcement

seconds left, think we know where this one is headed but let me go over to adam shapiro in for david asmanstors are worried they may miss out on something. we were negative for so much of the day and then we went positive. adam: let's get to nicole, watching the new york stock exchange. we started in the red, round 2:00 p.m. the indices popped into positive territory, but to see a triple digit gain, a tripling of the gains we saw, where does the bullishness come from? nicole: is really the action we have seen since march 19, back-and-forth, back-and-forth. one day lower, the next day higher. friday lower, today we are closing higher. the fix has pulled back. gains on names like disney, others hitting 52-week highs today. adam: alcoa reporting earnings, how is that stock looking? will they outperform? nicole: it was flat for a lot of the day, gained momentum now it is up 1.5%. liz: don't you love wall street? now it is best buy. a 52-week high. the bump comes from bernstein. nicole: we have seen several analysts are talking about best buy. most recent quarter was a good one. you even have t

maybe david asman can fix the story. david: we may be able to fix the dow.the nasdaq. that is one about one stock. we know how heavily apple weighs on the nasdaq. today unfortunately it is pulling it down. the you can see the dow is not doing too bad. let's go to nicole petallides at new york stock exchange. one thing not moving either markets because it is pretty small, but tesla. elon musk has been tweeting profitability and car sales. boy the stock is booming. >> exciting day for tesla motors and shareholders. you see the stock is jumping, the demand for model s surpassed expectations and sales numbers were better than they thought. liz: we have someone who calls it the david beckham stock. what does that mean? we'll tell you in a minute. ebay is bucking the trend. >> absolutely. we've seen ebay. they said their growth rate, they're seeing 15 to 19% growth into the years ahead. they gave a very bullish call. several analysts upped their price target. a lot of people loved ebay while the techs sold off. david: not a lot of love for apple particularly the w

david asman from new york.t ibm up on the news uping their dividend buying back stocks. all that is good for the stock today? >> exactly. uping the dividend. 12%. they have raised their dividend 18 years in a row. so over 600% since 2000. that has been a real winner. buyback is always good news for shareholders. david: what goes up must come downtick larly talking about jcpenney. it came back down-to-earth, about 4% down. >> news, jcpenney can continue to sell martha stewart products under jcpenney everyday name. it seems like it would be good news. you're right. stocks hold back on good news. david: europe, a lot of folks are worried about europe, about exposure some companies might have. apparently news got to best buy. they will pull out of europe and how did the stock respond? >> they're pretty much done with europe. they will try to stay focused at home with intense competition from wal-mart and amazon. best buy has been a great performer this year. nobody really expected that, but year-to-date it is up 11

. >> want to finish with this because david asman is listening you do hard real estate assets.wn 1500 condo units in palm beach. you bought disstressed. you bought a comfort inn that foreclosed. there in lies real value still distressed property? >> there are no more fractured condos left. only fractured ones are left and people bought and are now flipping that game is over. what i see left in south florida and, again i'm predominantly in palm beach county, west palm beach, boca raton, those areas, and we have not had the recovery that we've had in miami. what is left is development lands. really some retail properties. there is really not much left in fractured condos. liz: guys like jeff green bought them up when they were super cheap. you run in when everybody else is scared. jeff greene, billionaire investor and philanthropist. send it back to you in new york. david: brave investor. electric carmaker fisker lost hits charge as it fails to pay back a $200 million taxpayer loan. one of the chief witnesses of its failure joining us coming next. after having spent a day testify

ashley: david asman. just kidding. liz: right now. what does that mean? ashley: you know what?me for the irs. they got this big shiny new yacht and reporting 25,000 a year income, maybe it doesn't add up. shibani joshi here with this. >> you can't blame them. the irs is trying to get as creative as the tax cheats are and in not filing taxes. we have six days ahead of us before the irs deadline. the irs is coming up with resourceful ways for trying to get money that they deserve. new reports out about how the irs is going on to social networking sites, there are some out there, google plus, linkedin, facebook and twitter and the list goes on and on and we were able to get a response out of the irs in regards to this practice and here is what the irs told fox business today, saying, quote, suggestion that is the irs is using social mode yaw to target taxpayers for audit are wrong. audits are based on the information contained on a person's tax return, not a posting on a social media site. well the natural question is what if you're under investigation or if your file is so-called

melissa: i want to bring david asman in as well. what do you think of these images of the clarity of them. >> well, i just went to the fbi website and i disagree a little bit with the fbi guy saying they're superclear. they're not superclear. but again i don't know these guys. there is according to the fbi there are people, they seem pretty sure that there are people in the boston area who know these people which indicates they had other support groups either individuals who doesn't realize they were helping somebody who might have set off these bombs or not but they're pretty sure. i agree with dennis's sentiment 100%. i just can't wait until they get these guys. i do have to say one thing. it seems like there was confusion. i'm sensing some kind of a turf battles. there was so much misinformation that came out yesterday from law enforcement about whether they had the suspects. whether they didn't. whether they were incarcerated. it seems to me there is a little bit of a problem in turn of chain of command. now it looks like the fb

keep it here on fox business for full coverage of earnings from ebay and i will join david asman on "bell" with breaking developments and news out of boston. that starts 4:00 p.m. eastern. melissa: tonight on "money," congressman lee perry joins me to discuss the keystone pipeline and that cleared a major hurdle. how to protect infrastructure like this in light of the attack from the boston bombing that is tonight here on fox business. lori: the federal reserve releases the latest beige book. we're chock-full of news. stocks are selling off. the fear index is soaring. the report could have a big impact on the remainder of today's trading. you want to keep it here for tracy byrnes and ashley webster making their way in. they will be here at the top of the hour. you can't afford to miss it this is america. we don't let frequent heartburn come between us and what we love. so if you're one of them people who gets heartburn and thenreats day afr day... block the acid with prilosec otc and don't get heartburn in the first place! [ male announcer ] e pill eachmorning. 24 hours. zero heartbur

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dived asman is with me to get ready for "after the bell.". david: the vix is down dramaticly.own double digits on the vix. the it down 12%. apparently the market discounted the concern in boston, what is happening in europe and china. but, lauren simonetti down at new york stock exchange. you didn't help ibm. they had bad earnings. that is a real drag on the dow which is actually in the in the plus. despite the drag the down of dow, ibm, the dow is in the plus. >> it was their first profit miss since 2005 for ibm. not to mention it was their worst pest arge loss -- percentage loss since the flash crash for ibm. now ibm is negative for 2013. liz: dell shares in the last 20 minutes, a "wall street journal" is telling them that sources that carl icahn doesn't want to buy the company or blackstone. dell shares sliding. >> two