joining us now is tim horton ceo don schroeder. good to have you with us. the morning mark haines no doubt is a huge fan of all of your products. but plett just ask you, when you look at your growth profile, how much of it was just driven by people buying more stuff at a higher price as opposed to just adding new stores? >> well, in the quarter we had very little residual pricing from any price increases last year. so we hadn't taken any pricing during that in the quarter. so we just had some good solid same-store sales growth across all 11 states that we're operating in in the u.s. and then coupled with the co-branding opportunity that we have with cold stone creamery, which has helped the same-store sales growth in the quarter. >> during the recession have you seen a slowdown in people buying things because they're trying to save money or make coffee at home, or have you seen an increase as people sort of go for a relatively inexpensive comfort food like doan snuts. >> well, there's a combination of two things. like our core customers come to us, 40% of t

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. >> canada, tim hortons is the undisputed king, they outnumber mcdonald's and account for a quarterarly all fast food sales, now 13 have arrived in the big apple hoping to kreme and dunk the competition. >>y. >> reporter: after extensive and filling research of my own, i turned to the internet and learned americans have been going gaga for glazed and fanatical over their it frommers for generations. then, i found the man who wrote the book on glazed america. i have to tell you, as soon as i saw i, i thought he'd been fatter. >> maybe a trick that the camera is playing. >> reporter: anthropology professor studies do nut and their role in american culture. in tough economic times the one treat we're not willing to give up. >> easy to give into temptation with a do nut because it will cost us less than a buck. >> reporter: across the u.s., some 500 tim hortons versus about 9,000 dunkin do nuts. the battle for the newcomer won't be easy but already, many new yorkers are sweet on the change. >> can i have another one? >> you got to go back for seconds. ♪ pour a little sugar on me

dr horton's shares higher today by 4.5%. marvel entertainment second quarter profits tumbling to $29 million compared to a $47 million profit a year ago. when it release d the block bus sper iron man." that will number still beat wall street's estimates because of strong dvd and pay tv sales. the. shares sitting at an all-time high before investors started taking profits, lower by 36 cents. walgreen reports same store else is rose last month driven by a nearly 4% increase in pharmacy sales. total sales jumping to $5.25 billion. shares of walgreens today lower by a little more than 2%. second quarter earnings season going to be remembered for many things but when it comes to growth, the fourth quarter could take your breath away. cnbc's matt nesto explains. >> i got a new thing for gdp. it's growth domestic profits. it's hard to say. it's easy to spell. the reality is we are in for some humdinger of a quarter in the fourth quarter. it is what it is in the second quarter, but take a look where we've come. if you look at the fi

horton, thanks for your time tonight. >> hi, keith. >> i realize legalities don't often overlap withe. but can anybody seriously try to differentiate between excessive waterboarding and regular type waterboarding? >> no, not at all. in fact, if you've been following this story, you know that these memoranda were not written to give legal advice. they were written as get out of jail free passes. and what holder seems to be doing here is recognizing exactly that function. >> is it -- could we have in the works an archibald cox in the sense that special prosecutors have well been known to go beyond their original mandate, sometimes bizarrely so and in cox' case evened a mirly below? is it possible once unleashed this could lead somewhere worthwhile and maybe even a back door form of prosecution of this is worthwhile? >> that's what we have to hope for here. in fact, the regulations here say that the attorney general will appoint a special prosecutor and will describe the essential facts of an underlying crime. the special prosecutor's supposed to investigate that crime, not specific peo

horton says the digging us continue until all chemical weapons are removed. we are hearing from the 14-year- old girl who was shot by stray bullets inside her southeast home. she was shot in the back with twa zero of the six bullets fired from a gun early yesterday morning. they pierced the walls of her room at frederick douglass place. >> i thought i heard a firecracker, and that is when my mother called 911. >> tia now insists on sleeping on the floor of her mother's wrote. it has been a violent summer. patrols had been stepped up. >>> d.c. police say the victim found inside a pizza shop is the co-owner. the body of shahabuddin braha was discovered inside a pizza market on fourth street yesterday. police are treating this as a homicide. the virginia tech counselor who took home the medical records of a gunman had been fired following a 2005 independent review of the campus medical center. robert miller said he mistakenly put students' records with personal papers as he was cleaning out his office. in 2007, the gunman killed 32 people. miller discovered the

horton added to goldman sachs conviction buy list. the home builders have been on fire of late. so there's some belief that perhaps a bottom is in for the housing stock. >> other even resource space like vulcan materials. 6 i think there's been a big run-up. you don't have to go straight for the builders. these guys that are related to building materials and building blocks literally are the guys you want to own. >> cement, copper, you go all the way down. you start to see that momentum pick up even more, right now copper is moving off china. it has nothing to do with us here. when you see copper move in a different manner affecting the housing here -- >> the problem is in the marketplace right now, everything is trending higher, so even though i'm still bullish, you have to be careful in a lot of these spaces. >> and the next shoe to drop is that first-time home buyers credit drops in the fall. >> and why just first-time home buyers? >> i notice. i can't use a tax credit. >> just like the cash for clunkers, these guys would be in buying houses anyway. this maybe draws you out a

you'll see 48 chris horton in action, but not everyone will be playing. to avoid injury, the team is holding out nine players, including albert haynesworth, clinton portis and santana moss. jim zorn said, hey, it will still be worth it. >> we'll have a pretty good show, but it's going to be fast. you may not see the stars in, in really, albert, i'm not going to practice albert tomorrow. so he's not going to play. so if you're coming to see albert haynesworth, you'll see him on the sideline, you can see him warm up. but that's probably going to be it. but you'll see a lot of great veterans and a lot of good rookies trying to make this football tea it will be spirited. >> talking tennis, thursday night, andy rotdic experienced a huge achievement in his career, winning his 500th match. last night he faced a giant, 6'10" ilo carlovich. he's 2-0 all-time against that opponent. roddick serving in the near-court, a slicing backhand, he pushes the volley wide, carlovich breaks serve and roddick is not happy. crushes an extra ball out on to 16th street. carlovich

the willie horton ad making republican pr activist xi is the same buy thhas the obama/hitler website.we have been tracking the false flagging really for the entire month of august now. mainly because this sort of thing still isn't being widely reported which amazes me. this is a perfect system for the republican party. it is a constant feedback. the republican party activists stir up fear and anger on the internet. fearful, angry people go to town hall events and then republican party officials say they are just responding to that anger and have no idea where it came from. perfect cycle. rile them up with made-up stuff and then sympathize with them that are so riled. joining us now is senator bernie sanders, independent of vermont and a member of the senate health education labor and pension committee, senator sanders, thank you for coming on the show tonight. >> my pleasure. >> i know that you have two town hall events scheduled for this weekend. in watching some of the events that have unfolded, some -- way events unfolded around the country over the last couple of weeks with your s

the fans going to the park you'll see guys like safety chris horton. to avoid injury they're holding out nine player. jim zorn says, hey, it will still be worth it. >> we're going to have a pretty good show but i think it's e going to be fast. you may not see the stars in i'm not going to practice albert tomorrow. if you're coming to watch him, he'll be on the sidelines. you're going to see a lot of great veterans and a lot of good rookies trying to make this football team and it will be spirited. >> talking tennis now, in last night andy roddick experience add huge achoovment in his career, winning his 500th match. andy roddick is 2-0 all-time against car let vich, the leg mason. he hits a slice backhand. roddick not happy. he crushes an extra ball out to 16th street. carlevich. >> somehow he returnses solve. watch this. roddick with a lob. match point, the tie breaker, roddick in the far court. pounces on the short ball. comes to the net and right here putting the lob away. oh, yeah, roddick wins in straight sets, 7-6, 7-6. the mystics beat the detro

chris horton out of ucla has been impressive. >> chris, five days of camp now in the history books, how do you feel? >> i feel great. this camp hasn't been as physical yet, but those first couple days, they're a little rough and then we had recovery, we got to sleep in today. i'm feeling great. >> your rookie year was sensational. can you grow on that? >> that was just a start. i got a lot more to prove. i'm just trying to come out here every day and just grind. >> i talked to you earlier in the season. you say i'm just trying to figure out what wre doing out here. you were making plays because of your instincts. now that you know the defensive scheme, is it easier? >> it's a lot easier than last year. last year i was running around, hey, what do i do? what do i do? now slow it down and i'm still out here having fun. >> the game becomes a lot easier when you know what you're doing. let's talk about virginia tech and alabama, the kickoff classic on september 5. that game is sold out. the other day i talked to ralph and i asked him about maryland having maybe a kickoff game against penn s

daily beast gerald posenor joins us and scott horton, defense attorney rebecca rose-wood land and richard engel in afghanistan and ron allen is with the president in martha's vineyard. we want to start by fast forwarding through the top headlines. in afghanistan four u.s. troops killed in a bomb blast. that brings the death toll to 41 americans killed there this month making it the second deadliest month in afghanistan since the 2001 invasion. >>> canadian police say they have identified the woman who brought ryan jenkins to a british columbia hotel where he eventually committed suicide. police aren't releasing her name. only saying that she is a person of interest in the case. >>> president obama has renominated ben bernanke as the chairman of the federal reserve. now, the president interrupted his week-long vacation on martha's vineyard to make the announcement. >> the financial system on verge of collapse with calm and wisdom and bold action and out of the box thinking that has helped put the brakes on our economic free-fall. >> ben bernanke then praised the president for his waivering

horton, some of the big builders, even though their backlogs have shrunk 50% they still have a billion dollars worth of building in the books ready to go soon as they can start digging it. there are some of the builders moving today. note the bottom, e house china, ej is the ticker, a billion 7 market cap for this company. it's a real estate agency based in china. they are out with much better than expected earnings here today. i kind of lumped them into my call. but ej is the ticker on e house china. back to you. >> fascinating, matt, you've got to keep an eye on china and their middle class there. >> oh, yes. >> coming up next, we are right back with the closing countdown. >> we're going to talk to the man whose company is behind today's home builder rally. toll brothers ceo bob toll gives us his outlook for the house market in an exclusive interview. that's just minutes away at 4:00 p.m. eastern. can't even tell me anything about this wine. ah, it tastes like sonoma valley... no, my friend, these grapes are very... sierra foothills... - foothills, ha. - idaho. with fields of the fin

rookie chris horton, 48, stepped in and played so well doughty never got his starting job back. shortly after that, doughty went down with a serious back yuri that ended his season. now doughty is trying to carve out a niche as a backup safety and according to his coaches he has never looked better. >> one of the great thing in my focus where it was last year. all of training camp, all of offseason last year, and it was just almost on getting by, my back was bothering me so much. this year has been focused on getting better. not just making the team but where am i going to fit in. i know i won't be the starter. impressing for time on the field. i'm trying tow prove that every time i'm out there and special teams i'm excited. 100% healthy and feel like i'm the leader on the special teams and got a couple of guys that aren't there anymore. i feel like i can really pick up that slack. >> reed has been the best since he has been here. his back is better than when he came out as a rookie. he has always been a solid player and always been a guy you count on. he's done really well. >>

on the earnings front, we'll get numbers from cvs caremark, dr horton and marvell entertainment, the guys that put together spider-man and x-men. after the bell we'll hear from kraft foods and electronic arts. coming up, the s&p closing above 1,000 for the first time since last november. >>> it's about half past the hour. here are the top business stories from around the world. in the u.s., tim geithner loses his cool. reports say the treasury secretary blasts fellow regulators for not getting behind president oh bam in's fm reform. >> and i'm steve sedgwick in europe. ubs is hurt by wealthy clients taking money elsewhere. >> here in asia, the world's number one automaker, toyota, rolls out a smaller than expected quarterry loss. >> hello and welcome to "worldwide exchange" with. futures are pointing to a little bit of a breather, perhaps, at the open after the breathless run up that we've seen that has led the indices all to year highs since last november. the s&p having closed above 1,000 for the first time since before the electric. dow futures right now, down interest 48 points o

starter, only to lose his job in week two, thanks to a game day flu, subsubsequent performance of ben horton an injured back. >> who knows what would have happened? i would have looked forward to being healthy. i would rather be healthy and help this team win than sit on the side line. >> reporter: the two push each other to improve because much like dowdy's dilemma last september-- >> he is one play away from being a starter. he turns an ankle, gets the flu. you have to be ready to run out there and play. >> reporter: the season, he has been the picture of resilient. last year, he even lost his uniform, number 37 to shawn alexander following season ending back surgery, but he feels all of of his trials have made him stronger. >> that's just life. hi to put my faith in god. no matter what happened, i had to hold my head up high. whether it was my son's illness, or my back surgery, i'm not going to let it stop me many. >> reporter: thus the picture of a 6th round pick lasts in the nfl. >> coming up at 11:00. as camp draws to a close, who is injured and who is in and out for this weekend's gam

. >> reporter: although he sits behind horton on the depth chart, they push each other to improve. >>hat guy in front of you turns, plays an ankle, gets the flu, you have to be ready to play. >> reporter: douty is the picture of resilience, overcome a hearing impediment, the kidney transplant of his son and lost his number to shaun alexander after back sure surgery. >> i had to put my faith in god that i would hold my head up high, whether it's my son's illness, back surgery. i won't let it stop me. >> reporter: thusthe story of how a sixth round pick lasts in the nfl football league. >> thanks, anthony. >> second preseason game is saturday when the pittsburgh steelers come to fedex field. thousands will come waving those annoying towels. >> what do you mean annoying towels. >> you are in washington. >> you are getting her on record which i like. >> we got her cornered. >> at 6:00 a key red skin missed practice. he is injured. i won't tell you who he is but his name rhymes with louie.  cash for clunkers is available at your chevy dealer. with more eligible models to choose from th

horton wasn't terrific. we did have stronger existing home sales, pending home sales contracts helping with the upward ward momentum. some of these percentage moves, many of them are sitting near multimonth highs here today. financials, important t

horton and that's giving a lift to its stock sales. also the data on personal income and spending.lining by 1.3%. and keep in mind that's a worry when you have high unemployment and personal income declining, that raises questions about what consumer spending will be like in the future and that accounts for 2/3 of economic growth. a very positive long-term forecast being issued by cater bill par today. anywhere between $1.15 to $2.25. in the next 10 years they could have earning power of $8 to $10 per share. >> here's an interesting way to keep the numbers of lawyers down at least temporarily. the university of miami law school is actually paying students not to show up. they're offering $5,000 for students if they agree not to attend next year. the school reportedly accepted too many students. don't you think they should keep track of that when they're sending out acceptance letters? one woman who graduated in april, who has been brutal, graduating and then looking for a job, trina thompson still unemployed. she's decided it's her alma mater's fault she can't get a job and she's s

second year safety chris horton really relied on veteran reed doughty when he came in for his rookie season last year. it is ironic because doughty became sick with the flu the second game of the regular season. chris tore hon went in for him and played lights out. ended up basically earning that starting position. well, both players had been to adversity. doughty continued t play through severe hearing loss. the dynamic these two have on the field really played dich dend for the redskins. the duo agreed to meet me for lunch. since i couldn't get access into the team's facilities where they normally eat, both of them made a plate for me. >> what it looks like, you know, you have judgment our food. i have to see what it looks like. fit looks beautiful i eat it. >> i got a different philosophy. if it is healthy i eat it. >> i will go with the fish. >> freshest fruit. it is really good. >> gatorade. >> are you for real? >> yes. orzo, spinach, feta. red snapper, my choice. >> i thought it was going to be like subway sandwiches. have you an interesting dynamic because of how -- you got yo

today on fox 5 news, horton called her an inspiration for millions of people. >> this is a woman who had a global of facts. special olympics is a monument to a life worth lived. >> holmes-norton says special olympics has done more than anything else to free the public from stereotypes about people with mental disabilities. read more about eunice kennedy shriver's life and work with special olympics at myfoxdc.com. you can see our photo gallery, plus tributes and condolences there. >>> we are learning more about a deadly pit bull attack in leesburg. 21-year-old carter delaney was found dead in his family's home on plaza street northeast yesterday. police saa preliminary autopsy confirms he was killed by two pit bulls. a small dog was also found dead. friends believed delaney was trying to break up a fight between the dogs when he was attacked. a cocker spaniel was inside the house, but safe. >>> new clues tonight in a fairfax county murder mystery. police have released this surveillance video. take a look, it's near e anondale home of chung auh. she was found in her home-based busines

. >> reporter: on the field, he says he has had mentors and in terms of dealing with his past, horton gives him this advice. >> now you are here. that stuff is in the past and you move on and look forward to the next step in your life. >> reporter: at redskins park, dave owens 9 news now and wusa9.com. >>> dave, thank you very much. just a one-hour practice for the redskins today. special teams only as they get ready for tomorrow's first scrimmage. at 6:00. we will tell you who is not taking part in that scrimmage tomorrow and let's just say it is a long list. for now live at redskins park in ashburn, back to you. there will be a lot of people out there in the smoking heat taking it all in. >> fans want to see these guys scrimmage, don't they, bret? >> they do. after nine days of fake hitting it will be nice to see actual hitting tomorrow. >> the real deal. >> thank you. >>> upnext, we are talking about living well on the links, helping golfers avoid injuries and advice to all of us about a key exercise we often skip. we'll be right back. capturing the beauty of nature. sharing what i

horton.again, bulls are successfully arguing the information in the next two to four quarters is going dob drastically better. you saw that with caterpillar with jim owens talking about earnings in 2012 multitudes of orders better than right now in 2009. there's the closing bell. there it is. well, i was close. trader talk.cnbc.com. michelle is next. >> it's 4:00 p.m. on wall street. welcome to the "closing bell." i'm michelle ca rur so carrara in for maria bartiromo. a choppy trade on wall street. strength in the financial sector was offset by weakness in commodity related stocks. also weighing on the minds of investors, mixed economic data. pending home sales better than expected. personal income fell by the largest amount in four years. the sec working to create a rule that would ban a controversial practice known as flash tradinging. here's a look how we finished the day on wall street. went into porve right toward the end. the dow jones industrial average sitting close to the highs of th

. >> scott horton, lawyer and contributing editor to harper's magazine. again, thanks for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> i don't know what this next gentleman is doing, but my intuition is he's doing it incorrectly. >>> speaking of which, there's the gang at cluster fox and friends who have decided it's okay to say the speaker of the house called people un-american when she did not. the lies and distortions that make the worst persons in the world possible each and every night ahead. yeah, keep looking at me, i'm talking about you guys. taking its rightful place in a long line of amazing performance machines. this is the new e-coupe. this is mercedes-benz. tylenol doesn't interfere with certain high blood pressure medicines the way aleve metimes can. that's one reason why doctors recommend tylenol more than any other brand of pain reliever. i have to climb stairs 20-30 times a day. now joint comfort is easier with new triple flex liquid softgels. the first liquid softgel joint supplement formulated to work in as little as 7 days. learn more at triple

horton going lower, they think they're going to jam in some last-minute write downs before they hit the bottom in coming quarters. and is then i said something uplifting. i like to keep my promises. i've got not one, not two, but three stocks hitting, beating on the trailing quarter, and also promising better days ahead. harris, the hottest stock last time i checked in the s&p 500 today, very strong. dr. pepper, snap he will, also strong. and lastly, w.w. watson worldwide for the big move of its own. >> matt, are we not watching retailers? >> we're watching retailers, no question. and that's an interesting group, the haves and the have nots, the group is going to be walmart, home depot with the upgrade. and also carmax and oppose enho, but the majority of the group is struggling. >> it's a bigger story so to melissa's point, if the rlx has had a phenomenal run, which it has had, over 60%, as i recall from the march lows, and you're getting this continued softness in consumer spending and i acknowledge that consumer spending is soft, what do you do about that, matt? this is an case of an

horton reports tomorrow as does kraft foods and cvs, so there are earnings stories tomorrow that could also propel the market for yet another day. >> all right, brian, thank you ever so much. now let me get an overview of this whole summer rally, and in fact, going back to last march, the full new bull market recovery story. cnbc ace reporter bob pisani is here with the details. bob, my take has been this summer rally is yes, totally fabulous, but it is only a piece of the long march from last march. and that's where i come in with the new bull market i've tried to change the agenda. that's my take. >> that's right.t. but more importantly, the blast off really occurred specifically in the last month, but it did start back in march. this rally sometimes summer rallies, folks, they're based on fluff, but today better economic news and also positive comments from the autos and financials. larry's right, take a look at the march low for the s&p 500. folks it was 666, guess what? 50%, above that is is exactly 1,000, that's where we went. sometimes these numbers, these round numbers are psyc

. >> well, but on the other hand a company like dr horton, one of the nation's largest home bl builders-s forecasting an 18% increase in bottom line, which equates to a stock value increase. again-f we look at all the dale data coming in i agree it's going to be a long recovery but do i think the word recovery is now what we're seeing. >> given your kind of -- i mean, basically differing but guys agree on some points, what are you each telling people to do? chris, what would you tell people to do? >> well, for example, it depends on what you're working at. how about the stock market? >> i want to make money. that's all i care about. tell me how to make money. >> well, i it will people to sit on the sidelines right now because there's going to be lots of volatility, lots of up and down. you have to pick your bets very, very carefully. for example, if you're going to look for a hour, wait, give it a year, year and a half. there's no rush. keep your powder dry. >> tim, what do you think? >> i think everything's local. i think now's a great time to be looking for a home, depending upon where

the willie horton ad-making republican pr activist guy is the same guy that reps the anti-health care reform obama equals hitler website. no wonder people are afraid. we have been tracking this sort of astroturfing and false flagging, really, for the entire month of august now. mainly because this sort of thing still isn't being widely reported, which amazes me. this is a perfect system for the republican party. it's a constant feedback loop. the republican party activists stir up fear and anger on the internets, fearful, angry people go to town hall events, and then republican party officials say they're just responding to that anger and they have no idea where it came from. it's a perfect cycle. rile them up with madeup stuff and then sympathize with them that are so riled. joining us now is senator bernie sanders, independent of vermont. he's a member of the senate health, education, labor, and pensions committee. senator sanders, thanks very much for coming back on the show tonight. >> my pleasure. >> i know that you have two town hall events scheduled for this weekend. in watchin

horton. >> tomorrow we're watching for the personal income and spending numbers for june. economists expect a rise of 0.3% for spending the same as last month. >> at the ime x with natural gas prices on a tear above $4 rising 9% in the session we'll look at the hurricane forecast in the day ahead. >>> i can't let you go without showing you those pretty round numbers that ended the day on wall street the s&p 500 closing above 1,000 for the first time since november, 1,002 to be precise the nasdaq closing above 2 thz for t 2,000 since november. crude oil at a five-week high. one of the reasons the dollar index is at the lowest level since september 29th, 2008. "fast money" is up next picking up the debate on where the market goes from here. thanks for watching. i will see you tomorrow morning at 11:00 a.m. eastern on "the call." have a great night. >>> july auto sales hit a seasonally adjusted annual rate of about 11.2 million vehicles the highest rate since last september. the average retail price of gasoline increased more than five cents a gallon last week to $2.56 more t

horton and toll brothers both cut today to a sell from a neutral. basically, that's worse. by stifel nicolaus because of the home building stocks recently. both companies have seen their shares soar 40% since july. >> while a real rebound in the economy is still uncertain, the best investments may be in stocks that pay investors to wait. dividend plays are back in demand, and both of my next guests say they should remain the core of any portfolio. mike rothen, ceo of the philadelphia trust company, and tim o'brien is senior portfolio manager of the evergreen global dividend opportunity fund. gentlemen, welcome to the program. thanks for making some time for us today. >> great to be here. >> tim, let me ask you first, why should dividends be a part of any portfolio? >> because historically dividend income has accounted for about half of the equity investor's total return. and the compounding of income over time is a powerful builder of wealth. it's not generally recognized, but it's actually true. you can look it up. that since the founding of nasdaq, the tech-heavy, growthy

yesterday before today ee skrim miami and the fans who are going to the park, you'll see safety chris horton in action but not everyone will be playing. to avoid injury he's holding out nine veterans includes haynesworth, portis, and santana moss. he says, hey, it's still going to be worth it. >> it will be worth it but it may be fast. you may not see the stars in -- i'm not going to practice albert tomorrow. if you're going to see albert haynesworth you can see him on the sidelines but that's probably going to be it. but you're going to see a lot of great veterans and a lot of good rookies trying to make this football team. and it will be -- it will be spirited. >> a lot of fun out at the park today. talking tennis. and thursday night andy roddick experienced a good achievement. last night he facet a giant 6'ten karlovic. roddick serving in the near court. hits a slice backhand. he pushes the volley wide. karlovic breaks serve and roddick is not happy. crushes the ball on to 16th street. somehow roddick returns serve. roddick then hits the forehand. karlovic with the volley. a lob over the

dr horton getting added to the conviction buy list. better than expected job numbers.ian kelly, do you go into the stocks that had been a trading vehicle not to go ago? >> i like the idea, but they are up so much right now. i just can't bring myself to get into them. on pull backs i am a buyer. if you look at the rail car loadings and you look at the stone loading, those are big numbers starting to turn up. i prefer to go into cement. you look at kht or something like that. the basic raw materials. i think the home builders got ahead of themselves. >> time for fast and furious heading into the close. does buffett still have it? brian kelly? >> i think he does. you have to set it and forget it. have warren buffett manage your money and reap the profits. not many pe get the calls he gets. >> session highs practically and you buy here? i take advantage of the strength and i think it's a little bit more downside to go on the dollar index. i talked about it going to the 2008 lows. i'm a seller into the dollar. >> cash for clunker, liz? do you buy or sell? >> i am not a fan

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peter horton. melanie mayron. and polly draper. there we are.haven't seen each other for years. you had dinner last night. what did you talk about? >> about the show. >> really? >> life. what our kids are doing. >> does it feel a long time? does it feel an eternity away when you were pouring over these pictures? >> i think the weird thing is it doesn't seem that different. i mean, we're all obviously -- it's 20 years. that's a long time. but instantly, we're talking about the same things. and there's just a chemistry with the seven of us. it's just easy. >> i think time went by quickly, veryslowly. >>hat's very accurate. >> the interesting things about remembering is that you don't remember. >> i can't remember all that. >> that's right. >> it's hard to remember specifics. but it's easy to remember feelings. and i think that what we loved was the feelings between scenes when we could talk to each other about different things. and the feeling of being able to work with such good actors. >> that's one of the most amazing things about last night, i

citigroup is downgrading dr horton to a sell. are granted they missed a big run up here, but they rated it and think a lot of these builders will be jamming in last minute write downs for the land. notice lennar in green. upgraded by raymond james to outperform from market perform today. >> thank you. a sign of the times. rupert murdoch is renting his yacht out and college students are selling anything and everything. we mean anything and everything to raise money right now. >> a full serving of empty calories coming up.ng [ engine powers down ] gentlemen, you booked your hotels on orbitz. well, the price went down, so you're all getting a check thanks. for the difference. except for you -- you didn't book with orbitz, so you're not getting a check. well, i think we've all learned a valuable lesson today. good day, gentlemen. thanks a lot. thank you. introducing hotel price assurance, where if another orbitz customer books the same hotel for less, we send you a check for the difference, automatically. right now 1.2 million people

horton, three-month high upgraded to the conviction buy list at goldman sachs. i think it's headed to 16 in 6 months. all 13 builders are higher here today. that stock is up 50% in a month. in the dow, hewlett-packard, one of 21 rising stocks. only bank of america can't get it down here today. hewlett-packard initiated a buy. $52 price tag, gives you 25% upside from these levels. nesto's favorite, aes, higher again today. 3.of%. blowout quarter, 28 cents versus 22 cents on the estimate. revenues beating. and the full-year forecast, doing what investors like the most, pumping it up. erin, back to you. >> thank you very much. by the way, mark, it appears that president obama has time to cash for clunkers incentive. i know you were worried he might veto it. >>> nordic america out with second quarter results this morning. basically break even. very small. but the quote from the company's statement may say the most. they did have to cut their dividend and the ceo herbjorn hansson said presently the world economy has significant retraction of demand. nordic american s

he was famous for the willie horton ads that demolished the caucus'-- dukakis'chances. am glad you read that article about how president seed. we all know newt gingrich was part of the republican revolution. he played a minor role. now to karl rove. of course, he was george bush's brain. he is the one that sen that the republicans would have a minority. here is my strategy on my health care could fail. i will tell you what they wanted to fail. let me be quick. the republicans are going to play hardball. as you have already heard, even with kent conrad, who i believe is kowtowing to the insurance companies, he said he had a plan for universal coverage. his plan changed. max baucus had a plan for public option. that changed. this will all came in. i hope it does not, but this is a reality. the democrats are not going to sign on for a co-op, unless it does what it is supposed to do. to me, a co-op just provides more money for insurance companies and not doing what obama is presenting to regulate the insurance companies, not takeover. republicans do not want this. truck gra

we've got cvs and dr horton reporting before the bell and tonight, kraft and electronic arts but for the meantime, we are negative by about 50 points or so. european markets, down a little bit. the ftse is off about 32. take a look at what asian stocks have done. i think they've put together 13 straight wins, at least on the nikkei, adding another 22 overnight. >> this story i read with great interest this morning. treasury secretary tim geithner, issuing, i think it says, a stern warning to regulators using more than one sxla active during a meeting friday. geithner told the group to end the battle and back the approximated's reform plan. the wall street journal reports that geithner -- wow, i can't read that. vented frus ragzs about the slow progress and told regulators words, enough is enough and demanding that they stop publicly airing concerns over the potential loss of authority and what i liked about the story was that it was xepletive choice words. >> they didn't say what they were. >> it was a closed door meeting and he's getting animated about the slow pace of what's happen