the holidays, a big downgrade for the 3 top publicly traded toymakers, which sent shares of mattel, hasbro and jakks down. the worry: toy sales. they've been dropping all year, down more than what analyst sean mcgown thinks can be corrected by holiday sales. an influential blog says zynga is losing another top executive - this time the chief security officer, who follows out the door the coo, cmo and cco - that's the chief creative officer. let's talk with our trader today. it's larry shover. he is chief investment officer at sfg alternatives. larry, a lot of talk about housing. a lot of good numbers, including several that came out yesterday. this is starting to look like a real play opportunity. > > you know, it might be. i think a lot of people are recommending housing stocks. let's keep in mind, we've fallen down a seven-year flight of steps in terms of housing, and so right now it seems like the housing market is stabilized. we're underestimating the tailwind that that could be for the market. > > i want to ask you about manufacturing. a lot of analysts have been looking at a lot of d

hasbro has been stalling and sloan.to watch this very closely now until the end of the year. back to you. ashley: cannot wait to see the prom picture, nicole. nicole: no way. tracy: the camera was not big enough for my hair. ashley: thank you. tracy: disney in its 20th year and has long had help from outside investors, but all the debt is being bought out in a new cheap matter will emerge. dennis joining us now. >> mickey mouse is riding to the rescue. disneyland paris has had a quarter alien visitors since it has developed. the debt, some $1.7 billion held by outsiders. income, walt disney company pulling off a slick debt deal underscorunderscoring financialf mickey mouse. it shows an upside for huge companies refinancing their debts. 5% insiders. no walt disney will buy out all the insider debt at 3.45%. it will free up almost $600 million in extra liquidity. instead of paying back outsiders, euro disney, the parent, isn't paying walt disney in the u.s. another income flow for disney. disney is the mouse that roared l

. >> reporter: hasbro is bringing back furby with a personality that changes over time. >> if you shake it a lot, if you... if you handle it in a fun way, it can be very mischievous. if you are very sweet, if you pet it, it can develop a very sweet personality. >> reporter: there are always hot toys that sell out every year. but overall, toy sales are expected to be lackluster this holiday season and not just because of the weak economy. >> the macroenvironment has typically not been that big a deal. even if you look at the worst years of the economy over the past 40 years, the toy industry holds up pretty well. and some of the weakest years for the toy industry have actually been in a good economy. >> reporter: mcgowan says the biggest headwind for the toy industry is the growing popularity of video games and tablets. as a result, many manufacturers have developed toys that interact with ipad apps. but leapfrog says the success of the ipad is actually boosting sales of its leap pad tablets for kids. >> kids love to copy what their parents are doing. so, when their parent pulls out thei

that includes toys from mattel, walt disney and hasbro.count starts saturday and runs through december 24th. that's the latest from the fox business, giving you the power to prosper david: there's a new movie out shaking things up because of its direct attack on one of liberal hollywood's most sacred cows labor boar unions. kind of mirror of erin brockovich where unions and lawyers are good guys. this time the parents are fighting against goliath of entrenched teacher's unions and public school bureaucracy with a phalanx of lawyers. it is, won't back down. it has well-known actors like maggie gyllenhaal and viola davis and holly hunter. what does peter guber of mapped today lay entertainment make of all this? peter this, is fox film. fox is owned by news corp which owns fox business. you're totally independent guy guy. what do you think of the film? >> i think, that is david and goliath. simply nice very, very complex issues. same group made waiting for superman in 2010. where they were really anti-charter, relatively for charter schools.

we've got a lot of negative writing this week about hasbro and mattel. it just seemed like the back to school toy play isn't working. i would be a little more concerned if i were you. i need to go to harold right now in illinois. harold? hey, harold! >> caller: hello, boo-yah, jim. two points. i saw your article on howdy frontier. bought some, thought it's a good idea. i also saw a moody possible downgrade of u.s. bancorp, rode it down since '07 and back again. i still think it's a good one. what do you think? >> i saw that story about that moody's downgrade. and i said one more came to my mind immediately, fatuous. that's a fatuous downgrade. i think that usb is every bit as good as hollyfrontier, and that sure did work out. the refining trade remains one of the best in show. where are we? we are in a good market. so next week let's focus on earnings. let's hope it all gets kicked off with a bang when red hat reports. "mad money" will be right back. >> coming up, home sweet home. pier 1 has soared over 20,000 percent since the market's bottom. as it ram

>> hasbro. new product cycle story. >>> catch more "fast money" at 5:00 p.m. tonight. follow me on twitter. "power lunch" starts right now. >>> scott, thank you. teachers in this country's third largest school district taking a hike. walking off the job. it is a local story with national implications as president obama's former right-hand man takes on the union in his, president obama's, hometown. >>> second, there will be war with iran? only a few people know the answer. only a few have a hand in the decision. one of them is with us today. >>> and one of the biggest names in the business of hip-hop sends a message to occupy wall street. leave the 1% alone, says jay-z. that's all coming up but we start with sue at the nyse. >>> indeed, if you're a parent in chicago watching us while you watch your kid today, welcome to "power lunch." a major teachers strike is on in the nation's third largest school district. that is chicago. take a look at this. a picture of one of those kids on his way to work today with his parent at the goldman sachs office in chicago. indeed, some

there are the retro toys like fer byes by hasbro, basically from the interactive toy robot.e mutant anyone gentleman turtles. remember i talked to you about this one a couple weeks ago, a new tablet made by toys "r" us for kids. it's $149. >> and it's a parent's way of saying leave my ipad alone. >> it is exactly that. do not touch my ipad again. do not keep on buying all those games. also the other great thing about it is i believe it's gotten hansed safety features which is obviously something that parents are very concerned about when their kids are going online and surfing the net and stuff like that. >> cnbc's mandy drury, thank you. >>> it looks like america's taste in burgers changed. number five, smashburger. number four, a &w, number three, fuddruckers, number two in-n-out, number one is five guys burgers. mcdonald's and burger king at the bottom of the list. i didn't think it was anything. i had pain in my abdomen... it just wouldn't go away. i was spotting, but i had already gone through menopause. these symptoms may be nothing... but they could be early warning s

. >> need am downgrades hasbro.o school. >> hasbro was inexpensive and i was surprised with this call. >> bob iger, the stock seems to be stalled right here. it's a breakout and the charitable trust owns it. >> it hasn't dampened the name. >> new ride. new rides. >> what's coming up tonight? >> mark bennyoff. this guy is a showman. he's the heir to steve jobs when it comes to showmanship. no one is heir to steve jobs when it comes to brilliance and he was good friends with steve jobs and i think this is 80,000 strong and it gets people going about the cloud. people don't want to own the pcs. they want to own the cloud. sales force is the cloud. >> we'll see you tonight. >> oh, man, all fired up. great show, man. >> great show. 6:00 and 11:00 p.m. eastern time. don't go away. [ engine revving ] ♪ [ male announcer ] every car we build must make adrenaline pump and pulses quicken. ♪ to help you not just to stay alive... but feel alive. the new c class is no exception. it's a mercedes-benz through and through. see your

number two, furby by hasbro. update on the 1998 interactive toy robot. that will set you back 59.95. according to toys "r" us, the number one hot toy, doc mcmuffin doll. based on disney, jr. show character. the rose vision system at toys "r" us stores only. you can't do it online. you have to do it by october 31st to reserve your doc mcstuffins doll. i never herd of it. jenna: me neither. calling one direction, new direction. >> they're on the list. figurines for all the band members,. jenna: talk about foreign policy, you get to the boy bands we're lost. we're lost. >> reporter: sorry. jenna: rick, thank you very much. see anything on the list? jon: i didn't know about the doc mcstuffins either but glad my kids aged out of that zone. our national debt is spiraling out of control. we'll take a look at the roll the economy is playing in the race for the white house. that's next >> reporter: rick folbaum the happening now trol control room. governor mitt romney's piece in usa today, what he has written about jobs and the economy and how it could shakeup th