the nation's largest home builder d.r. horton said solid market conditions helped it beat sales the market growth was the slowest in three quarters. they fell to 36.29. northrup grumman's quarterly report came in ger than expect citing strong performance in all three areas. northrup grumman off a fraction at 263.86. after the bell, giliad sciences top expectations. the company had warned earlier this year, sales of the high priced drugs would fall, because fewer people were eligible for treatment as well as more competition from rival drug makers. giliad shares initially rose following that news. >> etf's have become very popular with investors. 15 years ago today, the first bond etf was offered. how far have they come and how far will they still go? >> a new division of bonds called i shares, they called it an exchange traded fund. even though only 4 funds were launched that day, it changed the way bonds are traded. the assets oefrn $700 billion, and most of it in the united states. that's a success by any measure. and the busin

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d.r. horton had a nice week yesterday. i think there's reasons to still be in these names. could totally understand if somebody said, you know what, they've had a great run, let's take some off the table or all off the table because of the fact they've had this incredible move to the upside, so fast. >> and on toll, they went to underweight. that's a straight up sell. >> right, absolutely and that's the higher end when you're talking about toll. >> sue herrera has the latest headlines for us >> scott, thank you so much. here's what's happening at this hour, everyone the u.s. and qatar have signed an agreement samed at shoring up the shoring up the gulf terrorism efforts. it was signed this morning by secretary of state rex tillerson. >> the memorandum lays out a series of steps the two countries will take over the coming months and years to interrupt and disable terror-financing flows and intensify counterterrorism activities globally. >> former mt. gox ceo marcus pellas pleading not guilty in tokyo. he was charged with allegedly inflating his account by operating it comput

and home builder d.r. hortoneat estimates by a penny with profit of 76 cents per share new orders up 11% from a year earlier. >>> guess who's here the queen of the nasdaq. nasdaq earnings beat this morning beating estimates on both the top and bottom lines. joining us is nasdaq's ceo adina friedman >> good morning. >> you get to just walk downstairs >> it really is very convenient. >> you beat on the top and the bottom line. what does that say about where we are >> i certainly can toy from nasdaq's perspective, we're doing quite well in terms of the growth of our business from our data business, our index business, and even though volatility is at almost all-time lows we continue to have very strong performance across all of the things that we do as an exchange, and as a technology company. we're feeling pretty good about how the economy is helping us drive our business forward >> so that's real economy? >> not just the market >> that's true i think that basically if you look at the overall feeling around the fin