penney and lows well hopefully help lowe's as far as j.c. penny goes i don't think him leaving is can hurt the stock anymore i don't think anything in our at the stock anymore that this stock gap down on the earnings this past week and it was trading at around two dollars and some change this stock is it looks like it's going to zero i don't know what if anything or anyone can help j.c. penney they've really got to make some serious serious changes they haven't been able to compete with all the online sales they haven't been able to bring people in the stores for a long long time that stock has been in a downturn for so long i was hanging on around that four five six dollar area for a for a good man of time but now that it's down around to something that i mean it looks like it's going to nothing it's sad actually. is it sort of begs the question when i talk about pennies because you know when when i was a kid the stores at the mall one end was pennies on the other was sears is sears the same and in the same boat melissa same boat i mean same boat

j.c. penny's and they're just not that exciting people are excited to go to sears and j.c. penney it's like they used to have. well we didn't practice this but that is a perfect segue to what i want to talk about and that is the retail apocalypse melissa and a supposedly i read that mr ellison actually did work at home depot for a number of years fourteen years or something as i recall and the question is a lot of these retail stores that are going down because of amazon are just going to be you know fodder for the trash and and maybe that sears and penney's as you're describing but what about stores like home depot and lowe's you're not going to order a bunch of two by fours or dry wall from amazon or have u.p.s. deliver it so is the retail apocalypse actually something that is not going to impact sort of these big bad big box home improvement stores. well there are all trying to keep it compete against one another i'll definitely say that but the home depot stock looks great compared to a lot of other ones even lowe's home depot is is in a strong strong uptrend i really l

children's place they missed on the earnings and comps and look at that down 9% j.c. penny as well we're not done with earnings on the retailers and two things leap out at me and the first is bad weather cited by a lot of people children's place and jcpenney and home depot, dillard's didn't, it's hard to figure out, but they also, helping consumers was around a lot and dillard's said something about it and look at the ceo with william t. dillard and we continue into the first quarter and we believe it will indicate our customer is more comfortable spending in this overallen vie environment that's a trend the stock market's not reacting to positive earnings news. it is reacting we have shown this chart many times, but the stock market ran up 15% in the fourth quarter anticipation of the earnings would be great this is the one-year chart and the bottom line, you know what that is? that's europe and the s&p 500 for europe european earnings have not been anywhere as good as the united states earnings and as a result europe has dramatically underperformed the united states for a

j.c. penny's quarterly loss is 1 cent smaller than expected. revenue and koch sales stores are short.ling on shareholders to withhold support from five facebook directors, the includes ceo mark zuckerberg they seem to remove the response to problems, including election interference, harassment and privacy issues ford will restart production with f-150 pickup trucks tomorrow at the dearborn, michigan plant ford's president on "squawk box" earlier this morning >> we're ready to go tomorrow as you said in dearborn we roughly build about 15,000 f-150s a week. can you do the math there. we're looking forward to picking up over the next six months. in washington news the trump administration will host a trade delegation from china today. secretary steven mnuchin will lead the commerce secretary and the trade representative yesterday china's vice premier and 14 officials visited capitol hill for listening sessions with congressional trade counterparts in another news out of washington, former secretary of state rex tillerson is warning of the growing crisis in ethics and integrity in the u.s

j.c. men penny reporting last hour a tale of two giants.at but you do see a slight gain on walmart, important to giving dow a little bit of ball today apple eyeing east coast home giant cede scouting cities, for new campus, where the company is looking, plus lava ash spewing from kilauea volcano forcing people from homes, did not stop some folks from hitting the golf course, the about about unbelievable images this hour, all that so much more coming up this morning, fox business network christina, manage he go partner mike murphy, editor in chief welcome, one and all we've got a lot of news to cover. >> good morning, lots to cover. dagen: good morning. we are going to move to d.c. the world revolves around washington. >> the swamp? [laughter] >> cleaning up the swamp, round two, trump administration officials meet with chinese officials today learning national trade director peter navarro will attend talks blake burman police at white house, blake? is he going to be there? . reporter: he will be there, it has been much speculation whether o