so it is a multiyear high at that for d.r. horton. many homebuilders continue to do well. d.r. as profit and jump in profit. up arrows for all the homebuilders. you see them there. 173% jump in quarterly profit. not only that, but also the outlook here for sales and they're seeing a 34% of jump for orders for futures sales. this is the springtime. hot selling season for this ggoup in particular, many which actually doubled in percentage terms over the last 52 weeks. back to you. ashley: nicole, thank you so much. we'll be back with you at the bottom of the hour. tracy: on that, protecting your portfolio from volatility ahead. ashley: yeah. tracy: one money manager, good luck with that, tells us where he sees the safest investments next. ashley: firsts, take a look how the dollar is moving right now as we finish out the trading week. the dollar down against all of these currencies. all these currencies are up. as you can see the euro at 1.3026. british pound was down to 1.51. now up to 1.5483. we'll be right back. thank you orville and wilbur... ...amelia... neil and buzz: for te

i think d.r. hortone reason i like them is we have a low rate environment, which means people can get big mortgages, one of the issues is they've had a high cancellation rate. i think with a lower average buying price than the average in the united states, they're going to have an easier time having buyers get into their homes. that's going to lower the cancellation rate, increase their backlog and essentially drive sales in the future. >> i think it's a great story. the way i have been approaching these things is let them come in and buy. housing renaissance right now, well done. thank you. >> thank you. >> hi, jim. i'm nick. i'm from new york. i want to give you a big, big, apple boo-yah. >> i'll take it. >> i'm going to shout out to mom, dad, jess and my good friend george. >> you left out half a dozen. >> today i want to talk about gnc. they really established themselves with a best of breed. they have explosive growth. same store sales have increased 22% per quarter in the past two years, which is p

you like d.r. horton as your home play there and toll brothers, correct? >> d.r. horton i like a lot. in addition to being a homebuilders they're also in the real estate development business. they also have land. i like that a lot. capitaa one, that is a stock, actually, vikings have them taken over and beating the, out of other credit card companies. i like capital ooe a lot. goldman, what can you say, that is the gold standard of financial stocks. these are my picks. david: viking a reference to the commercial. we were talking about housing, let's talk about multifamily housing. we hear a lot of about rentals and new generation is coming out of college, not able and wanting to buy a home. they're more interested in rentals. there is pick for that, eqr. which is sort of a fund of multifamily housing stocks, right? >> that's right. equity residential and they will play into the demographic that you're talking about this echo boomer population of 80 million americans right now who are going into college. renting their first apartment like the good ol' days. you rent

pulte and d.r. horton out with their reports thursday and friday. >>> schwab hit by a second cyber attack in as many days. we'll ask a security expert how businesses and individuals can protect themselves. >>> first, let's take a look at how the international markets closed today. >>> investors were busy all day analyzing a new batch of earnings. we begin with qualcomm, the chipmaker reported after the bell profits in line with estimates, and revenues ahead of expectations. it's a big supplier of chips that are used in apple devices and galaxy phones, but with concerns about a slowdown in smart phones, qualcomm expects profits in the current quarter to come in lower than analysts recommendations. shares tumbled more than 4% after hours. >>> zynga reported a penny a share. that's the good news. the social gamemaker issued a very sharp warning about revenue for the current quarter. shares were up more than 5% before the close. they dropped more than 10%. right after that earnings release. >>> first solar led

d.r. horton hitting a new 52-week high. more homes we're talking about at this hour with higher prices. the company forecasting a better second half of the year. on the flipside goodyear tire and rubber falling. it posted better-than-expected profit, tire sales volumes fell 8% and the company warned that industry demand would remain weak throughout the year. liz: they pointed

kbr homes, kb homes, d.r. horton, lennar, among the worst performers. a bad day for homebuilders. liz: did you see airline stocks? they weren't flying so high today. the group fell following a downgrade of united continental from evercore partners because of macroeconomic concerns. united, spirit, saw the biggest drop along with jetblue and republic. "after the bell" starts right now. david: don't want to be so negative. there is some positive news, including, get this, the yield's final frontier. a new market has emerged offering income-hungry investor payouts of 8%. even 11 or 12%. we'll tell you about this new market, what it is and specifics about how to play i. you want to stay tuned. liz: plus a brother battle royale. two twin investment managers duke it out on the economy, markets and europe. both have been very successful in their businesses. is it time to hunker down or go all-in? this is one street fight you don't want to miss. david: first we'll tell you what drove the markets today with today's data download. stocks falling from all-time highs to start the second quart

d.r. horton hitting a new 52-week high. quarterly profit tripled as it sold more homes we're talking about at this hour with higher prices. the company forecasting a better second half of the year. on the flipside goodyear tire and rubber falling. it posted better-than-expected profit, tire sales volumes fell 8% and the company warned that industry demand would remain weak throughout the year. liz: they pointed out europe for a lot of those problems. we had commodities posting pretty big gains this week. look at oil today. ending the session down about 75 cents. it settled at 93 in the regular session, $93 a barrel despite a move lower. the crude jumped 4% for the week. gold settling with a loss of a .6 of a percent today ending the session around $1453 a troy ounce. for the week though gold fought back gaining 4.2% on the back of strength in the physical market for gold demand. "after the bell" starts right now david: let us get right to the action. we have brian sose he is here from bayless capital advisors, chief investm

d.r. horton, another big gainer.early tripling its quarterly profits, selling more homes at higher prices. the ceo says he expects the second half of the year to be even better than the first. and check out coach, the luxury handbag maker reporting higher than expected quarterly sales. north america same-store sales rising 1%, reversing a 2% drop in the priority holiday quarter. as for those in the red, how about safeway, the supermarket operator. earnings met expectations, but sales, volumes, trends disappointed. identical store sales, x fuel, 1.5%, slipping below its previous forecast. clovidian, the surgical sales maker sales grew. but that was moreau what the street wanted to see. procter & gamble also taking a tumble this week. the consumer products company, investors not happy with its organic sales growth and earnings guidance. and looking ahead to next week, some big names we'll be watching out for on monday democrat newmont mining, buffalo wild wings, and herbalife. >> you know what's going on, we've seen a

d.r. horton trading at a new 52-week high after it nearly tripled.o a strong start and it's selling more homes at higher prices and korea's samsung reported its sixth straight quarter profit growth ahead of the debut of the latest galaxy smartphone and that's the s4. it launches in the u.s. tomorrow, of course, taking aim at its rival apple here in apple's own market. >> our own carl quintanilla sitting down with don thompson for a global interview inside the fast food giant's innovation center. it's the first time live dam ras have been allowed in. carl is a very lucky boy. thompson did talk about taking the fits and starts of the u.s. economy with a grain of salt. he also related how europe has a long road ahead of it. >> the uk, for us, russia have been fairly strong markets,ç b across europe you have a mixed bag and we don't see that changing economically any time soon. austerity measures are still in place. there's still deficit issues, so we think europe will be a much longer recovery. >> and at home, of course, the talk is mcdonald's sales tr

expecting d.r. horton. pulte homes also doing very good.extiles and apparel retailers are getting it. they're expecting to up double-digits in the first quarter. expecting industries projections to be driving. adam: going forward tax returns coming in. refunds come in. people might spend money. what sectors will live up to the underperformance? who will be a dog? >> looking at energy. they're down about 2 into 7%. energy costs are very high it is year-over-year comparison. difficult comparisons for last year. for instance a barrel of oil on average was $95 in the first quarter of this year, versus 103 last year. that is why the decline. adam: christine short, thank you very much for joining us on fbn. we'll be watching. >> thanks very much for having me. lori: we had a lot of fun on april fool's edition of markets now. believe it or not this is the real list of weirdest state taxes you may never have heard of. get this, new york charges 8 cents on altered bagels. adam: i smear. >> kansas has a sales tax of 6.3% on all hot-air ballon amuseme

d.r. horton reporting 32 cents a share for the second quarter. revenue exceeded consensus.backlogs higher by 54%. >> and back to ralph, president and ceo of evercore. and zac efron, partner and co-founder of centerview partners. >> and actor. >> i believe you were in high school musical? >> three of them. >> he was the tree. >> you've darkened your hair since then. >> we got it. we ordered that. >> we're god you didn't wear that shirt today. we have seen lackluster volumes. net income falling 40%. and a big part of their business is on advisory revenues and advisory fees. and completing a lot of deals. their stock is getting hit right now. do you think that's a sign of further weakness or specific? >> i think also the problem of many of these public firms, it's lumpy by nature. if you don't look at it over a 12-month basis you don't get a good sense of what's going on. knowing where sit in active conversation i'm surprised it would be anything but square. i think the tone is better today than it was most of the first quarter. first quarter dominated by a few large situation

. >> lennar, d.r. horton, pulte and people look at these starts. >> look at lennar. this is what i'm talking about. lennar is not coca-cola. toll brothers got down to 30 and change yesterday. these stocks are still down. toll is still down gigantically. i don't trust this market. i don't trust it. >> follow through on citigroup and by far the best performer. >> that was a big -- >> that was dynamite whereas goldman sachs is actually down. not much, down about a half of a percent and part of this, we said roe, tangible book goes up by 3% and the quality of the earnings is not there -- shally i get to that in the last page. >> and the key is always the last quarter where they can fully adjust for what the year is going to be. city was just a very, very exciting quarter even though they used a macro comment that was weak. citi is going to become a very lean, international company. >> can he have that kind of an influence and that short? >> is that a short amount of time? >> i think pandit gave him a good hand and he's improved a hand. if it's poker you have a couple of

. >> i think the best quarter of last week was d.r. horton shows the housing market was still alive and the first quarter was at&t, and if you're the fed and says small business is back yet and we're not done because small businesses are the ones that hire people. big businesses don't hire anybody, they fire people. >> small business do most of their business with big business. so it's the big business deciding to spend money that puts the small business. >> you buy the car and it's the people going to the new ford motor plant -- >> the new ge plant in alabama. >> yes. yes. >> we'll take that. >> something else that we've talked a great deal about here. jim mentioned cheap money. that is still what's driving so much in this market. point in case, case in point is how you want to say that, jc penney. we told you goldman sachs was testing the waters or signing up potential buyers of a bond, $1.75 billion bond issue that it wanted to put together for jc penney and goldman wasn't alone in pursuing that and this morning, jc penney has said that th