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earnings season starts on monday with alcoa followed later on by chevron and jpmorgan and wells fargo. wednesday the president is expected to send his 2014 budget proposal to congress two months late. and the minutes from the fed's last open market committee meeting are out on wednesday as well. on friday we're checking in on inflation at the wholesale level with the monthly producer price index report. and retailers report last month's sales also coming out on friday. that will do it for us today. thank you so much for being with me. my guests next week, the harvard law professor. each week keep it >> this weekend on "extra." >> jimmy fallin for now. >> fallin officially in. leno out. was jay blind-sided? his first interview about getting pushed out. >> had an awkward day today. >> jay's top secret next move. is jay getting ready to walk? then the battle in the ballroom as the cast ready to revolt over judge lynn? >> i was shocked. >> why his feud with "d.l." rippled out of control. >> "extra's" got tori and dean firing back at the $300 million divorce rumors and the backlash over sh

when you take chevron and add it to visa and wells fargo and tg&e and other bay area companies, profits grew more there than in tech. profits ultimately, the point of company, the point of business. so that's a pretty important conclusion he came up with. one footnote is chevron. really helps the nontech team over the finish line. take out the chevron numbers and the overall numbers will be different. >> the japanese nikkei hit a five-year high. it proofs a point lots of people forget. the stock market, regardless of whose it is, and the economy, are totally different things. japan has a stagnant economy. its government recently announced it would inject huge amounts of money. this forces money out of bonds and into the stock market. up goes the nikkei. the hope is that the economy will also turn around in japan. dumping money into the system means the yen is cheaper. that makes a sony tv cheaper, a toyota corolla cheaper. hopefully, the japanese will sell more of both. if it doesn't work, we could see the mother of all sovereign debt crises. caterpillar says it didn't makes amuch money

at&t, exxon, ge, microsoft, chevron, j&j, pfizer, p&g, wells fargo and philip morris. those names are not that surprising, but the top ten companies by dividend yield on a trailing 12-month basis were. ell brands, pitny bows, wynn resortses, garmin, entergy, altria and is abbot labs. this show opportunities exist in a range of sectors. some are likely to continue paying actidividends. interesting the fact set notes that since the dotcom bubble, the highest yielding stocks have outperformed the s&p 500. but the lowest yielding stocks have exhibited negative returns. and even more interesting is that low dividend yielding equities perform worse than those that don't pay a dividend at all. so when you're picking your dividend players, really important to be careful here, guys. >> yeah. it's interesting stuff, jackie. thanks for that. and the other thing is, what we need to do is compare that, kelly, with dividend payers versus those companies in the league of buying back their stocks. >> because that's another option. and we know buybacks have been so strong and at what p