in january and gain more steam as the year progressed. second, getting your finances and investments in order. take a look at shares of morgan stanley. it posted strange gains over the last three januarys but that's about it. shares were relatively flat for the rest of the year. different story for personal finance software company that posted more modest gains for the month but got stronger to finish out each year and third, for education stocks like devry, it's mixed. some understand the thinking behind consumer hands to make investing decisions but caution against relying on them solely. >> forget the fact we doubt those making the resolution, but what would it do for the earnings potential throughout the remainder of the year and for the stock to deappreciate. it's not going to be in the analysis and strategy. >> the bottom line is, take a moment before buying the stock because the company plays a role in your new years resolution. >>> now to the flip side of the resolution-related companies to so-called sin stocks, companies behind t

we saw an almost 12% gain in terms of sales for the fourth quarter. they keep on gaining.lso you would have thought they were stealing market share. mns is on the higher side as well. by thatthing was hit profit warning and the markets are trying to work out the winners and losers. i got a vintage number. >> you collect vintage. carolyn, thank you. "the pulse" is up next. ♪ >> next cashes in on christmas. holiday sales beat expectations. >> remedy in the hunt for another new ceo. >> 100 million people that and down the hatches. a severe winter strong -- storm strikes america's northeast. good morning. we are live from bloomberg's european headquarters in london. i am guy johnson. >> i am an

if gains occur they put you in the position to have to fund the gains. we're not recommending pursuing that further but we would like your approval when we bring you the quotes bring you analysis about what we think is available under flex funded and self funded. yes? >> i'm sorry neil you're not at the recommendation page. >> i'm sorry. it's coming up. this is what we're saying is coming up. sorry about that. all right. any questions about item one, goal one? >> i wonder if the hit tax, how much is that? administrative 4% and 5% that you have to pay, but not the hit tax. >> hit tax for most non kaiser people is 2%. under kaiser it's less than 1% -- it's around 1%, one and a quarter% of premium. >> so administrative costs -- >> bigger. >> add 4% and minus the h it and only 1%. >> you don't pay premium tax. >> any other comments on this? >> okay. >> thank you. >> all right. let's move on to goal two. as you know and brought up in the discussion icm was a discussion in the spring per the renewal for 2014. here are six items that are considered to writing c

once i gain of 45% by october alone. this man saw the gains in equity markets.e had the conviction to go hard. it was in health care. he benefited from big bet on hospitals. >> tell me more about the man. there are some wonderful quotes in here about what it takes to get on in hedge funds. >> i think any hedge fund manager has to be two words, over smart. this man is over smart. he said he did not want anybody to "talk over my head pico a working-class -- over my head ad." -- over my he he doesn't subscribe to the investor activism. he cause it suggested his him. a little bit more classy. a man's performance last year. >> he doesn't hold any energy or any mining stocks and once to stick to those stocks that have cyclical growth. that is the americans. good for them. how are we doing in europe? >> not bad. i will give you two words again, royal mail. two funds that had some stakes in the company did pretty darn well. lansdownek at the developed markets fund, use i gain of 44.5%. tci, just under 40%. the gains here in london. when you see games like 25%, that mean

we do see some gains in hong into the trading day. trading in japan, -- no trading in japan because of a public holiday. the next big industry for takeovers may be gold miners. >> 2013 wasn't exactly the best year for gold. if you want to do the math, it was the worst year since 1981. 27%. rices died .uch. big declines over that one-year time frame. nine it is almost a mirror image acp what that may likely mean is that those mining deals could rebound this year from the record lows in 2013.. most players in the industry were focused on scaling down rather than scaling up. downs and cost reductions, the biggest in the industry are expected to do better as always. the 10 biggest producers in terms of sales that may generate free cash flow coming in at $4.17 billion, the highest in at least eight years. you have a lot of these expiration companies which aren't making money or some losing money, who may also have more of an incentive to sell themselves rather than to continue to sit around and wait and try to get that money onto their boo

13, 14 in great gains. doesn't mean we have a down stock market. it will be more muted. little bumpier. call it a normal year. last year was abnormal for two reasons. the pace of gain. the way we got there. hardly any anxious moments at all when you look at a chart. this will be a bumpier year. we'll amy do okay. stocks will outperform financial assets. an important point. don't expect 30% auchlt o. >> we should gain 7%, 8% a year. >> maybe better than that. >> think bumpier. decline of 10% or something at this point? up aawe corre awe off corrections are normal. having a 10% correction. surprise me if we don't have one. >> should you jump in if you see a decline of 5%. 8%. >> if i have money, i am dollar cost averaging starting to day. if i have extra powder and we do get a pull back, assuming the fundamentals are okay, yes use it as a buying opportunity. >> mark, one thing i am concerned about, what the fed thinks of the unemployment numbers. heard from them they're ready to start tapering. are they think

teacher, they are gaining a little bit and gaining. so for in a row your again, if by chance you got four in row of the 60% of teachers, you are gaining. but the damage done, it's like you're losing a great, losing an entire grade with that one teacher. that's what i'm referring to. i do want to clarify one thing, because when you look at all the data into look at all the things that the book says, these are the things that you find that will close the gap, everyone goes to this thing. fire the teacher, fire the teacher. that's not what the research is when i look at it impartially. if you said to me you can only do one thing, that's not the thing i would do. if you don't do two things, not -- that's still not the thing you should do. it's, everybody's attention is always on that. that's not what the research says is the thing that's pulling everything down. you brought it up because your provocative. >> is one of the keys the roadblock issues? >> yes. that's the one. i want to make sure -- >> but it is one of the five? >> it is one of

high note stocks rally ending at record highs on the dow and s&p putting a capper on 2013 and huge gains for investors. the nasdaq up nearly 40%. the s&p's best year since 1997. the dow, best since 1995. the january effect. old man winter may be rough on us, but the first month of the year tends to be kind to investors. will the same hold true in 2014? >>> and big payoffs. our market monitor says he has three stocks that could get you at least 20% in the year ahead. all that and more for this final day of 2013, december 31st. >>> good evening, and happy new year, everyone. tyler's off tonight. well, champagne on wall street was flowing today as the dow and s&p 500 ended the year with another round of new record highs. 2013 will be remembered as the longest bull market winning streak since the 1990's. the dow posted 52 record closes, and the s&p taxed on 45 new highs -- tacked on 45 new highs. here the scorecard for this last day of 2014 and for the year. -- of 2013 and for the year. the blue chips reached 16,576, a new milestone. the nasdaq added 22, closing at a fresh 13-year high. and

year today gain?y at history, the s&p 500, in the year following gain, the average year to date peak in the market is 15 .8%. >> so if history is any guide, for next year, -- >> you could see a 15% gain throughout the year. that would take us to 2140 in the s&p 500. that is above what anything -- anyone is expecting now. is 5.5%.ge target the maximum is 13% they are looking for. more important like, you now do the same analysis for the nasdaq. you see the average gain is about 26.3%. all but two years, you have seen a gain of at least 10% at some point in the year following the return. >> that is significant. if i start to see -- i think this through. up 26% on the nasdaq takes us veryto something important. >> yes. it takes you back to the above all-time highs of the nasdaq, which we thought we would never see those levels again. not to say we would necessarily definitely finish the year out there, but they history, based solely on history, that would take us to about 5200. >> we are up more than 20%

and this is the path that i took when i went to meet shawn gaines. >> 29-year-old shawn gaines had spent most of the last six years in the special management unit, awaiting trial on a first-degree murder charge that could land him on death row. >> i've lived here longer than i ever lived in one spot in my entire life even growing up as a kid so it's just, you know -- i have yet to call it home, but it is what it is. >> gaines may not have wanted to call it home, but his security threat ranking dictated it. he was segregated because he was once a major player in a violent arizona skinhead movement. >> i was the notorious leader of that skinhead group. my lifestyle was full of hate and violence. >> so with all of that hype, i was expecting shawn gaines to be a very intimidating character, but when i first met him, he wasn't. he looked a little bit more like a benign, pudgy teddy bear, and he was nice. >> i've taken up drawing. i can't quite say i'm an artist but i like to draw a lot and three times a year i draw a large stack of cards, and i donate them to the children's hospital. >> but g

most analysts see more gains ahead. cnn money surveyed 29 analysts asking what they expect the s&p 500 to do in 2014. 10% predicted gain of 10% or more. half expect a 5% to 10% gain. 28% say they expect a 0% to 5% and 7% think they'll see a drop this year. it's time for the classic bulls and bears. bulls think it's headed up higher like horns facing upward but bears think the market is due for a plunge like a paw swatting downwards. michael o'rourke is the chief strategist. he's bearish. you think you could have another 15 or 20% on stocks, why? >> there's a lot of people on the sidelines. there's still $2 trillion sitting on the market. they want to be involved in this market, right? so where do you go? do you go in stocks potentially with big games? >> no. do you sit in a money market making money? no. there's so many individual investors that missed out on this big rally. >> they certainly have reacted well to a so-called taper which was supposed to be the end of the big bull run. michael, let me bring you in. you th

gain of had december sales up 11%. but it also missed its estimates.have a look at the carmakers we have just been talking about. nissan is the clear victor. of bitcoin, one exchange says at the virtual currency is back above $1000. it got a based when genghis said it would start accepting it -- when zynga said it would start excepting it for "farmville" 2. just download the bloomberg app that is available on android and on ios. the hong kong market is, what have we got? just 47 minutes. less than 37 minutes of training. declines continue to come off of declines on friday. if we look at them, there is optimism. there is 9% to an percent growth on the hang seng? >> that is what is being penciled in. every new year, we are always -- this year could be the one. let's get back to hong kong. further 10% gain this year. 25,500, that is about the little we are seeing. if you penciled in the losses we have seen so for our in the last two or three sessions, a three percent gain from where things stand at this point. and it is still about the reforms in china an

you've seen strong sector employment gains.ublic sector highlighting the public sector employment didn't continue declining into the first quarter of last year. what the abr was expecting. so the labor market tight nts in terms of the employment data has helped the consumer. obviously, wages remain pretty weak, indeed. so we're coming off a very low base. but recovery in the uk -- >> can you see any point where wages will start to rise? at the end of the day, that's the one thing the bank would respond to. >> they want to see wage inflation picking up and wage inflation at this point is incredibly weak. we're going into this crucial dynamic pay round on. but one would expect this year wage inflation to rise and for the battle to be placed from employment gains to -- >> and is the squeeze therefore household incomes going to ease this year? >> absolutely. absolutely. >> the sterling/pound, is that going to help? >> and inflation data in the uk, as across the european piece is coming below expectations. this is from a very low ba

you don't pay a penny of capital gains taxes, so take advantage by racking up capital gains.ber, you've got your whole life ahead of you to make your money back if you buy something that's too risky and often what looks risky, a facebook, a google, isn't at all down the road. your retirement funds should have zero bond exposure until you turn 30. in your 40s, 20 to 30% and in your 50s, 30 to 40% bonds and only in your 60s can you take that up to 40, 50%. after you retire, you can up it to 64, 70%. so you should put less of it at risk, but even when retired, i still think 30 to 40% stocks is still a good idea because you're going to need to live off this money for the rest of your life, which means some part of your portfolio should always be trying to create wealth. unless you want to bet against your own longevity. and that, to me, is a sucker's bet. stick with cramer. hmm, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that parker. well, did you know auctioneers make bad grocery store clerks? that'll be $23.50. now .75, 23.75, hold

he's now got a 560% gain in 15 months we know from judge wapner's show.f the park when others missed it? he simply realized the opportunity was bigger than the market cap and might still be, given great growth prospects like tesla, solar city, netflix is a concept stock and carl icahn got the concept. the analysts didn't. when will netflix stop roaring? probably when analysts capitulate. he took $60 a go in hain celestial, recognizing the trend in healthier eating. he left it after taking a hefty gain. which leaves apple and herbalife. i wish apple bought netflix when icahn did. carl wants value to be brought out via a buy back. i want growth to accelerate from products and acquisitions. i'm agnostic when it comes to how they get the stock higher. herbalife is a stock people are in precisely because they believe in icahn. tomorrow is the anniversary of the epic showdown with wapner. people know carl icahn is in it so they dump it when a politician calls for an investigation though i don't believe that will go very far. the easy money has been made there.

today's gains with investors, they just experienced their first loss in a year. it was something of a baseball statistic, and here's the big reason for today's turn around. we learned that the u.s. economy grew at a steady pace in the final days of 2014. and you see that on the right of the screen. it would have been 3.5% if not for the government shut down in october. that latest report follows the 4% increase in the prior 3-month period of september. if you prefer to look at it in 6 month chunks, that is the strongest second half since 2003. all of these measures are part of the gross domestic product. all of these, we hope grow more than the year before. as i told you before, consumer spending is responsible for it/3 of the spending, and that's what has driven the growth in the final months of 2013. that is the fastest pace in three years, it's a sign that the job market's slow but steady recovery has given americans the chance to buy cars and appliances. exports are another reason for last year. they rose is 1.4%, driven by energy and natural gas. by the way,

>> most have gains.axable clients if you want to not give them a tax bill in december, you wait until january. some of that could be going on influencing the first week or two. cheryl: it is more so some technical trading, smart selling basically. >> exactly be at cheryl: 2014, what do you think the key drivers will be for the market this year? washington has been an issue for all of us, now we're going to earnings. >> for me, it is earnings, earnings, earnings. if you look in 2013, the market was up 30. 25% expansion, can that happen again in 2014? we don't think so. it needs to be earnings driven, so i want to see great earnings growth stories. cheryl: also sectors, technology. >> technology really underperformed. we think there is some catch up, but in specific names. the true growth companies rather than the beaten-down laggards that had a real balanced plan. cheryl: industrials, names like boeing. we will be getting the jobs report tomorrow, and we have seen a lot of jobs creation, but lower paying

a $21 gain. mining stocks are up. newmont is up over 4%. >> absolutely.e s&p 500 the group was up between 3 and 4% a solid and needed day for gold stocks. cheryl: lauren, shares of twitter climbing into the green. there was a report from evercore partners on the stock. was it a good thing. >> it was a good thing. up a couple seconds before the bell. every core says they're in a strong position to capture video advertising dollars. [closing bell ringing] david: the closing bells ringing on wall street. it is the first day of trading of 2014. it is not an up day. it's a down day. it could have been works t was worse during various times of the day though close to the day time high. the dow jones down 133 points. all the intoday sees were down at least. david: .8%. look what happened to the russell 2000, small and mid-size caps were hit. cheryl: nothing says january like a snowstorm in the northeast and pot in colorado. number of americans filingirst time jobless claims fell by 2,000, to 339,000. that is the second consecutive drop for jobless claims. david:

the afx 200 is starting the day off with a gain. 5350 three is your gain. it is less than a 10th of 1% up. following, is also no. it is unchanged. 4768. the new zealand dollar spot is weakening right now. we're counting down to the open in japan and korea. let's head right over to japan. in an hour we will open for the first time this year today. last year a gained seven cents of 1%. 1%.7/10 of on it starts its first full trading day of the year in japan. the dollar yen strengthening. to our top story. posting a profit but just barely. htc earnings missed estimates for a fourth consecutive quarter. we have a look at the sales them down.gging >> you can really blame it on sales. this is the largest phone launch to date. it halt this a slowdown we have seen for nine consecutive quarters. downeye sizing up robert junior to help promote the brand and bring awareness in greater china. ticket look at the fourth- quarter figures. income rising to $10 million, misting estimates by 55%. this is the second consecutive operating loss. the revenue falling to 1.4 billio

for in a row if by chance you got foreigner wrote the 60 percentile teachers you are gaining but the damage done by the two-thirds as you are losing in and higher grade with that one teacher so that is what i'm referring to. i do want to clarify one thing. when you look at all the data and you look at the things the book says these are the things that you find that will close the gap. everyone goes through this thing. fire the teachers, fire the teachers. if you said to me you can only do one thing, that's not the thing i would do. if you said you can only do two things that's two things that up at the reacher says to do. you can do three things that still not the thing you should do. everybody's attention is always on that and that's not what the research says is the thing that is pulling everything down. you brought it up so you are provocative, you are provocative. .. hispanic resurgence in the united states. the program is about an hour. >> of >> host: the felipe, thank you for being with us. >> guest: thank you for taking an interest in my book. >> host: we can start by talking

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street yesterday with the dow closing up 106 points, the nasdaq, up 39.and the s&p marked its first gain of the year, closing up 11 points.gold fell 7 dollars.oil also had its first gain of 20-14, up 40 cents.the president of the san francisco fed predicts quantitative easing will come to a close this year. however he notes the decision will hinge on improving economic conditions above all else. in after hours last night.... micron technology shares went wild, jumping six percent, as the company beat wall street expectations in its latest round of earnings. while the container store dropped after earnings , due to high costs linked to its recent ipo. and... sony scores big. in the heated battle between sony's playstation four and microsoft's xbox... sony says its sold 4.2 million game consoles by the end of december...far ahead of microsoft's 3 million. larry shover of sfg alternatives joins us now...hi larry! >>good morning. >>what are you doing to position yourself ahead of the friday jobs number? >>i'm just keeping myself very flat knowing that naything could happen. consensus is abou

he's now gaining popular support. nhk world's here roche she i'm zach ki spoke with activists who took part to see how they view. >> reporter: thousands of egyptians celebrated the third anniversary of the revolt on saturday. they held a lottery for the military general who ousted the president's first democratically elected president, mohamed morsi. things were drastically different three years ago. antigovernment protests continued for days in tahrir square and brought down president mubarak. the anti mubarak movement was started by young people who yearned for democracy. mohammed was one of the movement leaders back then. now he feels support for the movement has dwichbd ld with time. >> after just three years i'm disappointed the situation has become like this. >> reporter: after mubarak was ousted, the muslim group was legalized and realized as the most powerful political force in the country. their supporters elected morsi in the 2012 presidential election, but soon there were mass protests against him. the army

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i was the little bit of profit taking from the strong gains we saw it was in the last year. we just remind viewers that the nikkei rose from a low of ten thousand four hundred and eighty six in january last year to a high of sixteen thousand two hundred and ninety one on the last trading day of two thousand so it is a quiet weekend at a house large on the back of the prime minister seems odd as economic policies will be designed to pull japan items legislation to boost exports and domestic production. so we had cloudy year deal with this effect continues on and i mean the weakening of the yen helped drive stocks higher. can you tell us where things are standing now. yes actually does have a look at the summit currency pairs that the weaker yen as he said was a big driver behind the nikkei entitled caresses i have been a hat had a big say in how the nikkei has been trading session that saw him right now hundred and forty points and one in four of twenty seven to ninety one it actually touched off hundred and seven points thirteen of one point last week and done this week is p

. >> text shares are gaining after the u.k. retailer posted numbers well ahead of analyst estimates. here with more is caroline hyde. >> you have got 12%, close to 12% increase in total sales. but with three times ahead of analyst estimates. on the back of that, they are raising their profit guidance once again. we are just seeing the winner of what ubs termed a promotional fight. they stayed away. online they are winning as well. 21% increase in next directory sales. that click and collect is working for them. exceptional, their online domination. they are handing money back to the investor base, some 300 million pounds. this year they're going to have an excess cash. they are also giving a special dividend for this year. >> how much did this policy of not discounting help? you might wonder if they don't discount ahead of christmas, are they left with a lot of stock to discount afterwards? that doesn't seem to be the case. >> you look into the statement and they go, we have got 11% less than usual. they are struggling to find

that is more than a 10 bank percent gain -- 10% gain. barry thinks it will decline about 5%. to be around 6%. we will continue to see gains but they will be much smaller than we had this year. we heard from hillary cramer earlier on in "street smart." she is predicting correction in the year. she says we're overdue and she is not alone. it has been quite some time since we had a pullback of any kind of magnitude in the u.s. stock market. if you look around the globe at some of the other stock market winner and losers on the year, the best developed market was the japanese market. helped in large part by the stimulus of the tank of japan. the decline of yen versus the dollar which proved to be a boon for the japanese market. if you look at the worst market in the emerging market world, you saw a lot of rain in the inrging markets, especially areas like brazil. we saw them drop. brazil is a very commodity- dependent economy. hope everyone has a wonderful new year and i will see you in 2014. " i amn the markets, julie hyman. ♪

point, 10% gains. we have dropped three percent. you could say they are thinking a 20 or 30% rally for 2014. the index is down five percent this year. forecasts,oss these i gets -- i guess it is a common message that it will be better. and it is likely to rear its ugly head, which could put more pressure on the supply of cash. relating to following house prices, rising bond yields. stress, anygns of pain that is unexpected. something actually could happen. >> there is a lot of optimism about these reforms. is driving part of this bullish story. another is the valuation. how kong is very cheap. does that compare to the rest of the world? >> third cheap. -- dirt cheap. valuations in hong kong are the cheapest in the world among all national markets. other sectors are getting a boost from the reforms in china. if you compare that to southeast asia, clearly much cheaper. this is recently looking away from southeast asia. kong toompare hong northeast asia it is apples to apples. to looking at europe, how does this compare with hong kong?

frankfurt's dax gaining 0.8%. the cac 40 in paris seeing gains of just over 0.6%. france's upbeat industrial production numbers are supporting overall sentiment. >>> here in asia, shares closed mixed. tokyo's nikkei rose 0.2%. that did trim losses for the week to 2.3%. shanghai's -- china's shanghai composite sank to a five-month low while hong kong's hang seng index eked out a weekly advance. >>> u.s. lawmakers have introduced a bill with far-reaching implications for american trade. negotiates are trying to finalize a couple of trade deals. the transpacific partnership, and another with the european union. congressional leaders wans to give president barack obama greater powers in getting those agreements passed. lawmakers from both parties admitted the trade authority bill, it would grant the president what's known as fast track authority. the bill would allow negotiators to reach agreements that congress could approve or reject without making changes. >> that's right, madam president, the trade authority clearly we're going to get transpacific partnership agree

no gains in emerging markets overall. valuations are cheaper in europe. i particularly like europe because even though the economies there have gone through a huge amount of trouble in recent decades, it's a hard to find a time when europe was doing well. they have begun to recover. with an unemployment rate of 12%, they have a long way to go before they get to full employment. there's a lot of economic growth. a lot of earnings growth. >> we just heard from allen kruger who said his biggest concern with the global economy is what could come from other markets. he said europe has been looking better, but we don't know what's around the corner. >> that's right. we need to distinguish between the economy and the markets. i agree with his view on the economy. when i look at europe, i feel reasonably comfortable their on the right path. my bigger concern is asia. i don't like the rhetoric of asia and japan. that could slow the global economy. >> this is the time of year when a lot of people think about what their plan is going to be. your advise would be keep

australia gained 1% after bargain hunting. shares of advantest fell 4.4% after the company slashed its guidance. >>> an lenovo revealed the plan to buy ibm, this chinese business giant has decided to restructure its operations. creating an enterprise product and one for software and cloud services division been shares jumped almost 5% nearing a 14-year high. >>> mulberry, heavy discounting have led to a deteriorating environment. now, antofagasta reported a surprise jump in full year copper production, which includes a 4.3% jump in the fourth quarter. the firm confirmed the record performance of banks with strong shoers across its operations. novart novartis, up 0.6%. it expects competition for its blood pressure pill diavan to kick in in the second quarter. reporting a 2% jump in sales in the fourth. he said the firm would not change its emerging market strategy, despite currently fluctuati fluctuations. >> there are definite currency headwinds. and you can see from our fourth quarter results in terms of the constant currency

so we can gain market share, start to grow the business, that's pretty exciting. so there's no one area that, that we're out of opportunities there. a lot of runway ahead of us, people tend to think when the company has a run like we've had, it's over. that's what we thought with each turn-around. what do they do next? i've never been in a situation where one of these turn-around stories, where we say it's over. there's nothing else to do let's sit back and rest on our laurels, that's not the case. >> congratulations on a job well done and as a reward to your ceo of the year. >> to find out who morningstar chose its ceo of the year, go to our website, nbr.com. >>> coming up, as hackers attack, companies are spending big money to protect themselves. so which firms are positioned to cash in on the strong demand for security that's next. >>> the impact of the target security breach is growing. the 110 million debit and credit card customer who is had their data and personal information stolen at target may not be the only victims of the retailer's data breach. accord

those who don't take pain will, of course, never get any gain. "mad money" will be right back. >>> coming up -- the best medicine, biotech nursed a healthy 60% return last year, but the sector's now getting slammed in this market wide selloff. don't miss cramer's two bargain buys that could soon have a swift recovery. >>> and later -- meal deal, food giant sysco soared in december after announcing a proposal to merge with its biggest competitor. but should you take a bite before regulators give their seal of approval? cramer's chewing it over. >>> plus -- no place like home? the housing market showing new signs of life. but is it enough to help ethan allen decorate your portfolio? or is the consumer too strained to splurge on new furniture? cramer's pulling up a chair with the ceo. all coming up on "mad money." >>> don't miss a second of "mad money." follow @jimcramer on twitter. have a question? tweet cramer, #madtweets. send jim an e-mail to madmoney@cnbc.com. or give us a call at 1-800-743-cnbc. miss something? head to madmoney.cnbc.com. [ sne

it's reaching levels that we haven't seen since the late 1990s and given the kinds of stock market gains that we saw, our best performance since 1997 and 1996 in the s &p and dow respectively. the technology sector, if we actually do get a capital replacement cycle off the back of this 5 year run, could be in a very good place to pick up some gains. > >guys like you love data like other guys might like a chocolate cake. let me ask you sort of a macro data based kind of question. give me some sense about the divergence between the broad asset market class and what's happening with commodities and whether or not those two lines are coming closer together. > >when we look at the broad base of commodities we see that they have fallen over the course of the last 3 almost 4 years on a year over year basis. at the same time, we've had very significant rises in asset prices. that's fueled by central bank policy. we do know that the divergence of those 2 things can't go on forever and while we appreciate the 30% plus returns in the s &p, when you have that trail by real demand in the underlying e

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