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fidel >>> welcome back. social media stocks continue to take hits. groupon getting a downgrade and facebook is still trading near its low though it's up today as generation y's bubble popped or should you buy these stocks? maybe? joe? maybe? >> first of all i don't want to hear that song anymore in my house. but we talked about -- please, don't. ♪ we talked about linkedin as being the ultimate gold standard. >> yeah. >> the social media and it's because of steve grasso and i have talked about. something that you actually need. it's purposeful, if you're trying to get an edge on the job market itself. i will say this. technically over the last couple of days, since reporting, the price action in linkedin has been kind of squishy. if you're long that name i think it's a name that you potentially look to take some profits on. looking at all these social media names, and regard of rolling out these ipos the last couple of years, there's a name out there 36p-a-n-w, pal owe al networks. you buy it slowly. network

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i'm howard spielberg of fidelity investments. the equity summary score is one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. get 200 free trades today and explore your next investing idea. >>> welcome back. shares of staples getting slaughtered today. it's a stock that's been on herb greenberg's radar for quite a while and he joins us with traders now. this has gone from the hen house to the outhouse. >> that's one way of looking at it. i can argue i got it wrong. what i mean by that is i tweeted out today. i said this is the stock i thought would be the last man standing in this entire space. now when i look at office depot, office max and staples it's going to be no man standing if this trend continues. one of my good sources was saying this is going from cyclically challenged. they are down 41 basis points. if every basis points count, we're talking half a percentage point. that's huge. you go down what they talked about. steep decline in computer sales. contract business down. keeping customers but at a price

i'm stephen hett of fidelity investments.he etf market tracker is one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. get 200 free trades today and explore your next investing idea. >>> safe to say this is probably the worst loan ever inside the san diego school district of poway, california. it borrowed $105 million to rebuild schools. that is not unusual except the loan they took will end up costing taxpayer nearly $1 billion to pay back. a $100 million loan costing nearly $1 billion over its life. in just a few moments we will hear from a reporter who broke the story and major investor and about the possible ripple effects. herb, you helped find this story yesterday. good work as always, set the stage. snow this is what happens. this municipality doesn't want to raise taxes but needs to spend a bunch of money. in the case of the poway school district, it was to float a new bond issue. not just any bond, a capital appreciation bond, which means a free ride today others will pay for tomorrow. it's the ultimat

i'm howard spielberg of fidelity investments. the equity summary score is one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. get 200 free trades today and explore your next investing idea. . >>> go. got it, right? okay. here's the update. we've updated now the screen here. it is now hurricane isaac. national hurricane center coming out upgrading isaac to a hurricane center a tropical storm. it is category one. 75-mile-per-hour winds as we see it approach new orleans. the coast of louisiana there. let's show you the intraday chart to the price of oil. we saw crude rally intoen anticipation of a speech from president obama at the white house when he came out and did not announce that there would be a release from the spr right about 10:00, 9:45. bam. that's where you saw the price of oil shoot lower. it has since recovered from that, come off the lows and now moving higher perhaps as a result of the national hurricane center. now upgrading isaac to a cassgory one hurricane. there you can see the aeptive path as exc

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i'm stephen hett of fidelity investments.tf market tracker is one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. get 200 free trades today and explore your next investing idea. >>> welcome back to "fast money." we're live at the nasdaq market site. today marked the strongest market rally in two weeks. the dow and s&p on pace for the sixth straight week of gains. so what are the charts telling us about the markets next move? jeff kilburg from killer kapital joins us. what do you think? >> we're really seeing the chart provides some strength. going back four months, four handles away on the s&p from testing that. the hfts, high frequency training want to go to that point. in the short term we'll see it. next chart here, very interesting. we saw draghi when he came out july 26, right here, as soon as he started talking the talk saying they will do whatever it takes, really saw this real and right now despite the fact that bears can argue, gdp is work and growth is slowing, right now the bulls are in charge. >> w

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i'm howard spielberg of fidelity investments. the equity summary score is one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. get 200 free trades today and explore your next investing idea. >>> welcome back to "fast money halftime report." i'm courtney reagan. look at shares of toll brothers. pulling back a little bit from the highs but still trading around five-year highs after the homebuilder reported strong earnings. 46% boost there in the top lines and orders were up by almost 60%. the ceo saying they are seeing the best sustained demand that they have seen in five years. year to date, up 62%. scott, back to you. >> lpx which i talked about and screwed the trade up. that's a name you continue to stay long. on strong world equity, against 40, you want to be long. i'll be long this afternoon. >> courtney, thank you very much. for that one, steve weiss, what about the homebuilder? >> it's about myself because i've missed the entire trade in the home builds. i only x'd ahb for a nanosecond. i still think they're o

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