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. >> ingersoll rand seeing buying action today. >> nelson pelts, a very well-known buyout guy used to's and others, came in and took a big stake in ingersoll rand and said it's an undervalued company. again, one of these guys you kind of follow -- >> right. >> goes in, tweaks management, puts his imprint on it, been very successful, he owns 7.1% of ingersoll rand. >> as opposed to the bully that follows you around. and blue nile showing a big sign of hopium today. >> not a big stock but we throw it in there bse of hopium. it's a jeweler. they sell stuff like that. i know that's solid faux gold. >> solid plastic with gold -- >> they sell real stuff like that. their sales forecast was at the high end of what analysts were expecting, so apparently spain's problems and greece's problems are not preventing all these people from buying bubbles from their moms. isn't mother's day coming up? >> it's sunday. reminding everybody. >> i love you mom. >> from stocks to oil breaking beyond 96 earlier today. back at 9670 down 8% on the week. let's get straight to sharon epperson at the nymex. >> hey

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ingersoll rand. some of the raw materials play, vale. how about a dupont, a ppg. that's the old pittsburgh plate glass. these companies, even though they're well run, all of them, are all hostages to the vicissitudes of the economy. when it heats up, oh, man, when it heats up, i got to tell you, there is no stopping them. you know what they do? they earn a ton of money. and we're willing to pay more for those earnings. but when it slows down -- >> sell, sell, sell! sell, sell, sell! >> they earn less money and investors pay less for the shares. a secular growth company is one where the earnings keep coming regardless of the economy's overall health. you can eat, drink, smoke, brush your teeth. you've got consumer staples like proctor and colgate, the foods like general mill drugs like pfizer or merck. these are the classic recession-resistant stocks that you want to buy when the economy slows down and investors flock to stocks that can generate safe, consistent earnings. you don't stop eating food or brushing your teeth just because of a recession. but you know wh

macy's, dollars tree, ingersoll, all up about 30% or more. but when will the music stop? and when will the brakes come on? nobody knows for sure, but there are some signs of a potential slowdown. we're seeing lots of earnings misses or forecast misses. we're calling it today the scareeconony. jeff has been reporting on this for the website and wrote a book about it "debt, deficits and demise." what's got you worried the most? >> i've got three concerns. number one, this mess in europe might have gotten swept under the carpet or kicked down the road a little bit, but it's still a mess. number two, these jobs numbers are looking very soft. the claims number better than expected today. still very concerned about it. number three, here's what's going on in washington right now. we have this fiscal cliff coming up. it's becoming -- it's a phrase investors are really going to have to get used to. scary things happening in washington. if they can't get this resolved, at the end of the year we could have a big problem on our hands. >> i want to drill back a little bit. michelle c

profitability has lagged and a nice pop to ingersol rand up almost 3%.hat's when we saw some of the biggest turn arounds in the market yesterday as we did see the market struggle to pair its losses towards the end of the session. art, do you think that that is meaningful in terms of where we saw the turns and where we didn't see the bounce? we did not see the bounce with the fbl knell financials. we saw the bounce in multinationals. >> i think it was twofold. it was on people eegs list to buy. and i think it was a normal shopping list coming to bear in the final hour and a half. >> 10-year, below 1.80 at one buoyant this morning. ic impact on what's happening? >> yeah, i think so. equally concerning was on "squawk box" they had the guy from ecri on. and he said i'm still with it and i think that there's going to be a recession. that will be of great concern. if the attention shifts from europe back over here to the u.s., that could be a problem for us. >> so i think worth mentioning at the top here, blow out guidance raising for 201. >> and we should als