kohl's -- costco up to 114 plus and anne inc. the big winner was up 4 plus percent. >>> and sony was out with its earnings today but the news was not good. josh lipton takes a look at the missteps that have left this once popular electronics giant trailing its rivals. some of the bold moves it's now making to transform itself. >> reporter: it was once the shining symbol of japan's technological night. sony was a tech titan that achieved fame and fortune by wowing consumers with gadgets like the walk man. sony is bleeding red ink. it says it will lose $1.1 billion in its current fiscal year. it's selling its pc business, spinning off its tv operations and cutting 5,000 jobs. sony had attempted overhauls before, but this time feels different. >> sony's been a core company in the pc market for almost 20 years. and the fact that they don't feel like they can be successful there anymore is clearly an indication of them really needing to find ways to cut and find ways to get back to profitability. >> reporter: sony's fall from grace, a

kohl's, the gap, all making gains.igher after so many sessions of recent losses. meanwhile general motors is reporting lower than expected fourth quarter earnings and that pushed gm's stock lower. phil lebeau is live in chicago with more on that particular play, hi, phil. >> hi, simon, the gm earnings call has just begun, mary barra just jumped on and she's going over the numbers and we haven't had any questions from analysts and that's what we're focusing in terms of what she has to say about the earnings miss for the fourth quarter. the gm shares have come back from where they indicated premarket but still down more than 1% on the day. here's the earnings miss gm bringing in 67 cents per share in fourth quarter well below what the street was expecting, it was expecting 88 cents. on the revenue side also lighter than expected $40.5 billion, below the $41.1 billion forecasted on wall street. story here, strong in north america. weak overseas. north america the profit surged to $1.9 billion. a big part of this is strong

this is near kohl. one man had gone to a yoga class and returned to find his car damaged. >> i came out and i saw this. i am 'm not sure what happened. >> luckily he has insurance. >>> banks and legal marijuana sellers can now do business. included is a list of regular flags, determining whether they're violating federal law. handling money from marijuana sales would put banks at risk ever racketeering charges. only colorado and washington state have legalized recreational marijuana. >>> questions tonight about whether a private security guard hired by an oakland neighborhood crossed the line when he shot a burglary suspect. the neighbors shelled out money for the guard but the fact he was carrying that gun wasn't in the deal. the contract said no guns. some called the security guard a hero; others say he went too far. >> i don't believe that anybody needs to lose their life over a burglary. >> good job by the guard because that's the only deterrent that criminals are going to understand. >> now police

some think that kohl's will sort of be giving back some share to jc penney.nk both of them are in a tough position and would avoid both of them. >> yeah, and abercrombie you're saying has made shareholder friendly management tweaks. >> they have. over the last few weeks, there was a lot of controversy. should the ceo/chairman leave the company altogether because of all the publicity problems that have plagued the company. so they've separated the chairman and ceo role. so they're doing shareholder friendly things. >> they need to because the shares down 60%. >> yes, and if you look at the european business, about 30%, that's been sort of the biggest disaster, comps are still down double digits. you know, you look at those stores. i travel all around europe looking at stores, traffic. they're still under immense pressure and they're incredibly expensive real estate as you know. >> who's winning then, stacy? >> who's winning is macy's. offers the best value and also they offer the best omni channel experience. the retailers that can do everything in terms of on

as a result a number of retailers are slashing earnings forecasts including kohls and walmart. costco however, posted a 5% increase. in new york... the police department is said to have double vision. venture beat dot com says officers are trying out google glass to "see" if it leads to better law enforcement. google officials say they have no knowledge of the beta testing. the report says police could use the computerized spectacles on the beat. still to come: one trader is bracing for good news from today's unemployment numbers... plus...don't sweat the "short" stuff. the guys reveal the heavily shorted stocks they would play... and... if this market has you concerned...you will definitely want to stay tuned for the "glass half full" commentary, coming up next with bill moller. the high net worth investor-- outside of institutional investors, they are the ones who drive the markets. what they think matters. morgan stanley just conducted a poll of more than a thousand of these more affluent investors to gauge their mood. steven esposito is a morgan stanley advisor. steven, are

replaced by edward record who has 25 years of experience in finance at various retailers including kohl's. jcp plans to close 33 stores and eliminate 2 thousand jobs this year in a turnaround effort. avon is close to settling an overseas bribery probe. the cosmetics company is under suspicion of paying bribes to expand into china and other countries as u.s. sales slowed. settlement fees could cost up to $132 million. thursday, avon earnings beat estimates, but revenue fell in the fourth quarter. the stock closed down 3 percent to $14.61. tapping into other earnings... pepsi reported $20.1 billion in revenue up 1% from a year go... but just shy of analsyts estimates. the ceo is confident about the year ahead. good year tire reported a strong 4th quarter... as car sales increased sales of tires. and profits are up a burger king with growth coming from asia and north america. the chain says it's new menu items such as the big king burger and satisfries are hits with consumers. this year's ipo surge is bringing back memories of the dot-com era. already this year-- 31 companies began selling s

movement and to make matters worse we now know the two of the most important opposition leaders mrs kohl and mystic political have ruled themselves out ok i'd like to turn to our against amanda in brussels how do you see things playing out in kiev right now because we've seen is that the opposition is having a very hard time finding some kind of unity how in the world if they can't find unity during a crisis situation that we have right now how can they reach out to the east that is watching this with a very wary eye well i would agree that historically. the opposition parties in ukraine have found it quite difficult to cooperate with each other but i still believe this time around we've seen a much greater degree of readiness to work together of course you could say the fact that they didn't agree this interim government it is would indicate divisions but i would also say that we need to be extremely careful in choosing the personalities who are going to be representative in this government because if we don't want a government that's filled with personalities from the past we need a ne

a collision kohls. welcome back to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle we're discussing the recent developments in ukraine. ok thompson look like you in new york you brought up the word bribery bride. earlier in the program i mean isn't this what the e.u. is doing right now they're saying you know we'll have a package for you but you have to do x. y. and z. and pull in the i.m.f. again which unico which dropped in two thousand and ten because it was very unpopular right here i mean it's about deal making at least the european union seems to be a little bit more transparent in what it's doing miss nuland seems to be very opaque and in listening to that telephone conversation she sounds like a mafia boss ordering ahead well first of all going back to the question of democracy. the two previous calls in london and washington failed to understand there is no democracy in ukraine black thursday sixteenth of january in the space of twenty one minutes the party region common is destroy

penney named former kohl's executive ed record as its new chief financial officer. the struggling retailer didn't say why its current cfo, kevin hannah is leaving. but the change which will go in effect in march is the latest in a series of turn around efforts by the troubled department store operator. shares ofz2q-÷ jcp are higher t by a little bit to $5.99 whole foods lowered its 2014 sales and profit forecast. the natural foods grocer reported an earnings miss after last night's closing bell. it blamed it on growing competition from traditional grocers who are offering more organic foods. the co-ceo walter raab says quality is what makes his chain successful. >> obviously this quarter was disappointing for us as well, too. but i think look we're not just about price and competing, we're also about quality and the highest quality standards in the supermarket industry. it's balance between value and quality. i think we make our way forward based on both of those, not just on price. >> still, shares did fall more than 7% today to $51.46. >>> another train derailment

kohl still again. six above at the lakefront.'hare bottoming out at around four below. >> high-temperature 25. a dusting is what we are expecting. perhaps a half an inch for inch. lindy and milder. we could for the first time in two weeks even get close to or even get above freezing. >> it is a great combination. time for today's trivia. >> ceise atel ng t resanhyo,anthymeaicis-8 your lead to a winning lottery numbers for tuesday february 11th. that number is 6, second number now moving on to the fireball. here rico. make sure you join us tonight for mike and millions. that jackpot is $122 million. >> the number is 4. the second number >> >> the number is 9. the fifth and final number >> $122 million. [ male announcer ] this is jim. a man who doesn't stand still. but jim has afib atrial fibrillation an irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. that puts jim at a greater risk of stroke. for years jim's medicine tied him to a monthly trip to the clinic to get his blood tested. but now, with once-a-day xarelto jim's o

sears is in the and jcpenney's is in the and kohl's is in the. >> jcpenney is out tomorrow, and it ought be under previous comments? >> you cannot go from $19 billion-$13 billion and have the same number of stores and be in business. hello? i said to sell jcpenney stock a long time ago. i don't know why people were buying it. they set -- they had a ceo that went completely nuts and completely destroyed the company and everything he did was insane. he was supported by bill ackman. that's what happened, goodbye company. >> he is not the only guest who comes on bloomberg talking like that. >> they compete with us and they said it is a little overlapping. we just bought braintree. who is he fully when they write these letters? it is not just a little bit of overlap. >> he spoke with trish regan yesterday. he wants ebay to spin off paypal. he was referring to scott cook. he's got it in for him and mark andreessen. he called them out in a letter to the ebay board saying they are not working in the companies test interest. >> i have never seen one as blatant as this. we have seen a lot of them.

have to tell you, analystels are very concerned about jc penny if there is a big economic shock and kohl's are better than expected. seers posted a lot bash sears posted a lot but not as bad aspected. >>> thursday, february 2 th, i am dave clark . i guess your son works for plaque rock? >> prepping the bell. >> that was him if. >> not him, works for him. >>> they said it is coming down here and the marina looks good and the system is coming in and we are looking even stronger in the wind department and they are going to be very strong gusts and heavy rain down the santa cruz mountains. you can see right over the richmond district right over the bay bridge and marin county going over san pablo bay, around vacaville, up north, they are little bit further north and light rain around highway 4, oakland, a little shout out, you have that breeze and it feels a lot cooler, so this next one feels impressive and it's going to be because it is going to ramp up the way, partly cloudy after breezily and rain, here is sal. >>> it is still a little rain out there, i just got a tweet from brandy who said

kohl today and all week. typically we should be rising up. our day gets longer and the sun angle is higher but we are seeing our temperatures cooled down for the next few days because we have canadian air coming our way. it's 13 in o'hare. only 12 in bartlett. typical low is much warmer than that. satellite and radar composite shows we are dry. there is no out to the west. it will drop just south of our region into tonight. slight chance of snow showers may be a light accumulation. nothing to write home about maybe a dusting or less than an inch. the big deal is the temperature. increasing clouds today. well below our average. high temperature today is 38. snow showers with accumulation tonight down to 10 degrees on tuesday. tomorrow we make 20. breezy during the day. wednesday we are back below zero. this winter just wants to be the coldest on record and we will get close. wednesday we will only be at 10. thursday just as cold. sitting safely on the side for now. >> for now. we'll be quick update on an issue north and tri-state at 83. a new

. $16.80 from kohl's.is a splurge item from american apparel, $150. they have less expensive versions, but we want to show you whatever your budget is -- >> it is all possible. >> i like it. thank you, jill. excellent, girl. >> we're getting our mardi gras party started early with the king of king cakes. >> king. >> but first this is "today" on nbc. i'm sinora and this is my son, chris. i'm a messy person. i don't like cleaning. i love my son, but he never cleans up. always leaves a trail of crumbs behind. you're going to have a problem with getting a wife. uh, yeah, i guess. [ laughs ] this is ridiculous. christopher glenn! [ doorbell rings ] what is that? swiffer sweep & trap. i think i can use this. it picks up everything. i like this. that's a lot of dirt. it's that easy! good job chris! i think a woman will probably come your way. [ both laugh ] i think a woman will probably come your way. save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.ould yep, everybody knows that. well, did you know the ancient

what was so hard about buying the stock of kohl's, whereof course i bought these excellent socks. they're excellent, trust me. it's a much better story than most of the other retailers who rallied out there. another name could you have captur captured, a bunch upgraded because of a turn in the fundamentals. how about sempra energy? you know i like these good conservative companies. shocker? i don't think so. seventh, ebay! what can i say? we have been red hot on this country ever since carl eicahn got involved. when we've seen the corporate breakups in the past, they've made us a ton of money. whitewave broke off of dean foods. a national food company is going to be able to be on a stand-alone basis more effective than a combined company that has just gotten milk and focused natural foods. i think acahn is right. ebay should split up, too. we know value and breakups work. this is the gift that keeps on giving. thank you carl icahn. and verizon. now that the deal allowing verizon to buy the rest of verizon wireless closed, all the brokers are piling in, praising it and both jpmorga

. ♪ hello, from al jazeera's headquarters in doha this is the news hour and i'm steven kohl and comingp, in 60 minutes in the capitol of kiev, they say it's an invasion of forces and asked the u.n. to intervene. protesters are back on the streets of vent what la as nicholas maduro orders arrest of an opposition leader, the president is live in gongi where thousands are too frightens to go back to their homes. the toy company with profits and we look at the rising fortunes of lego. >> i love this song. ♪ but first let's go to ukraine and the growing signs there that the semi autonomus ukraine says russian military forces blocked the airport in crimea. armed men have taken control of the international airport in the capitol and they are wearing unmarked uniforms, no insinnias and the airport is functioning normally and it's in the hands of armed men and took control of the building on thursday and they are standing their ground. in kiev, ukraine temporary parliament asked the council to call a session and is summoning security chiefs over the crisis. as for the president, viktor yanukovy

for example, the recent epa regulations announced that will deal with kohl-fired power plants a estimated prices every american by 70% to 80% so whatever additional money you get in your paycheck, if the minimum wage goes up, will be eaten alive by the government anyway. >> you believe there should be a minimum wage i take it though. >> can i piggyback on greg's point. >> no. >> you know what the left has done here. they heard walmart, walmart may be interested in raising the minimum wage. they were completely wrong. they ran the story. bloomberg ran with the story and checked the facts and walmart said unequivocally not have we said we're doing it. we'll look at it and take both sides and then make a decision. they are neutral on it. everybody is so anxious, so anxious to see if they can get walmart to steer clear of conservative values and go with -- >> conservative values, toys in china that are hurting kids. >> what about all the kids that can afford products at walmart. >> you just conflated every liberal dream, chinese toys hurting black kids, news at 11:00. >> there's lead, the chi

rachael, you partner with kohl's. >> they buy my products. first thing i designed was a spaghetti pot. spaghetti is long, i did not like getting a spaghetti facial while you are waiting for the spaghetti to bend to your will. you look all sweaty. before you had even done anything. >> grandma's beauty secret. >> and all the stoneware and the pots and pans. i work with meyer corporation to produce them for me. it is not like i am a spokesperson. >> you put your name behind them. >> i want them to serve a function. spoons that don't need a spoonrest -- and they're all practical. it goes back to what mario said -- value. is it the largest value in that category? >> a lot of chefs will have a producer go get what is called market goods somewhere in china, and they will bring them back and put their name on them and that is all right. that does not make it a bad business practice. >> who are you talking about when you say that? >> there's a lot of people out there that you can see on qvc. if they are selling $110 collections of pots, they are doing

kohl rabbi, 2% salt.ondue with brown butter. >> what we have here, ice cream with some barley. >> mushroom ice cream and fermented barley sauce. >> yes. >> i think the lamb's tongue is a great ingredient. >> personally i'm not getting what the kolrabi brought to the party. >> it's a little sweet. with this broth, it's quite sweet. so it becomes very one-dimensional. >> why can't you do that for your next project? dry salt versus brine salt. >> she uses things i would never use in a dessert, and it tastes good. i like it. >> given a choice of a traditional dessert and this, i'm very happy with this. i thought it was delicious. really delicious. [ applause ] >> thank you. who's next? oh! >> so here we have a dish of strawberries and cream. i just decided to go on my bike and see what i could get. all the flowers that are here, the lady let me pick them in her garden. so strawberries that are pickled in rose vinegar. and a creme fraiche at the base and that has been infused with burnt roses and rose pollen.

a kohl's is a little better. but kohl's trades much higher.'m just saying the investable case for jcpenney is still they are not going under. do you know what, they've reinvented the store because all they did was bring the store back to where it was when no one was happy with it anyway. >> he did spend a lot on cap-x so they may not have that to worry about quite as much. the stores don't look bad. >> no, they don't. i remember when he was being ousted so to speak, sephora was his interest, because sephora, there it is again, the sephora is back. all those different joes, you know, joe fresh, the stuff that made it sound like it was wholed tos, all gone. >> sephora did drive a lot of traffic in the quarter. >> yes. >> the home they were in total clearance mode. they see a billion in liquidity throughout the course of the year, david, it's unclear whether it includes asset sales coming down the road. but to what degree do they address vendor concerns going forward? >> well, this helps. >> yes. >> certainly when you talk positive free cash flow

stocks have been a total bear because of worries about retail sales but today we got numbers from kohl'snd ann taylor that weren't very attractive at all. yet, the stocks roared. so perhaps people are too negative about both. i think all companies with stagnant share prices should be thinking along the self-help lines and in order to create more value and give the market what it wants -- growth. for example, i reiterate that if apple wants to give its stock a growth injection don't buy back stock. make a synergistic acquisition to the itunes business and that's to buy netflix. microsoft's new ceo needs to do something to advance social mobile cloud and connectivity. that means buying a company like aol. neither acquisition would be a strain for apple or microsoft. here's the bottom line this market wants growth. whether it comes from dividing a company into two pieces to bring out more focused businesses that can grow faster that under one roof or from reinvention with new products or from acquisitions that take out competitors and increase pricing power. when we get that growth, the sto

surprising out of limited brands, costco, even kohl's reporting slightly positive holiday sales numberomething that we did not exactly anticipate. strength in building product materials. earnings pushing that a little higher. so all in all, a strong day across the board. mandy and brian, back to you. >> all right. cordny reagan, thank you very much. >>> just a reminder folks. waiting on the insider trading verdict from the jury trial of matthew martoma, former trader at sac capital. the jury reach add verdict in their second day of deliberations. martoma's primary defense, the information was already public. this is a big ruling, folks. the moment it comes down we'll bring it to you and give you analysis as well. >>> for now, try to make money, the legal way. shall we? raymond james, jeff and with us portfolio funds michael. great to see you on set, by the way. >> thanks for having me. always fun. >> fantastic. talk about these tips public, a national program and online sirius. give us your take. interest be about this year, triple digits gains and losses. volatility was up. volume up.

kohl's, the left anti-vulture that marxism, the current developments such as for example the civitas rate economics of policies of michael albert robert hamill and others along with important work in theory and practice by the late seymour mehlman, his associates and many others and notably a very recent contribution on worker owned enterprise and cooperatives, not just talk but actual taking place. going back to dewey, he was as american as apple pie to borrow the old clichÉ, right in the mainstream of american history and culture. in fact all of these ideas and developments are very deeply-rooted in the american tradition and in american history. in fact which is kind of suppressed but actually very obvious when you look into it and when you pursue these questions to enter into an important terrain of inspiring often bitter struggles. ever since the dawn of the industrial revolution which was right around here, lawrence and eastern massachusetts mid-19th century. the first serious scholarly work study of the industrial worker in those years was 90 years ago still very much worth re

. >> pop for kohl's. up 3%. karen? >> it was disappointing. but not that bad. i think we're talking about it midday. not that bad is the new flat to up. it was up. >> pop for vodafone. up 3%. tim? >> it's difficult for to get vodafone. the company is saying the revenues are improving. they have full ownership of their subsidiary. the stock is oversold. but don't jump right back into this thing. 35's your limit. >> and a pop for triplet hubs. this week, a zoo in poland welcomed the arrival of three white lion cubs. this is not only rare, it's a medical marvel. female white lions usually reject their cubs. these lions are one, happy family. >> they reject their cubs? >> a tough love sort of thing. >> that's not nice. what would orca say? >> i'm not dressed like the animals tonight, thank goodness. >> sort of. karen is. a little bit of a lion top. it's beautiful. >> sprint and t-mobile down 7% after hopes faded. some traders see more pain to come. dan nathan made his way to the smartboard. >> these two stocks, like you said, down 7% in a very up market here today.

. ♪ hello, from al jazeera's headquarters in doha this is the news hour and i'm steven kohl and coming minutes in the capitol of kiev, they say it's an invasion of forces and asked the u.n. to intervene. protesters are back on the streets of vent what la as nicholas maduro orders arrest of an opposition leader, the president is live in

to be here with us in the studio working bee to me she was the national security advisor to helmut kohl and ambassador to nato thank you for being a snake as well to the room i dun activists on the marsh the former georgian minister for european affairs. thorny can go around saying who's with the institute of advanced national defence studies here in paris thank you for being honest and from moscow to me to suck off the council on foreign and defense policy. before we go to goa for him to have. i'm just wanna get it the authority to your reaction. upbeat was appointed by the body but to me to see islam therefore the break which was that in fact russia is a calming influence for crimea on i will only agree with. far too full from susan's post comments and most people are a russian speakers sitting and russian speaking population of that creamy entire weekend. for russia to do something this is through nights at the same time pressure could mean more constructive mop moments for this year's months before the scene of violence and pogroms and unwrapped it. all the time we know that russian

just like when we saw best buy, kohl's, sears, jcpenney, even target rallied. yes, they were bad numbers. don't think they're good, but they weren't awful enough. i think that will be ascena's story. and that reports after the bell. now, also after the bell is solar city. what do we know about solar city? first, it's an elon musk company, and he's now viewed as being able to do no wrong. that's because of tesla, of course. and second, heavily shorted, it's been a real bad bet so far. third is part and parcel with this revolutionary new battery musk has up his sleeve for tesla. fourth, he already mentioned this week that things are good. so i figured with all of that, solar city goes higher, especially after the rare dip that it took today, as the shorts pressed it down. they failed. tuesday we hear from auto zone. and i say in "get rich carefully," auto zone's deep within the important theme of the new frugality in this country. the average car's been on the road for 12 years and car owners like going to auto zone to service their vehicles. i like the way that

believe it or not, discretionary, which has been raked over the kohl's lately because of the weather's impact on retail and some other areas that fall under discretionary spending. you still have leadership there. >> discretionary spending is a lot like the market. what gives you an opportunity you've got to take advantage of it. we can talk about low volume. we've been talking about low volume for five years. it doesn't matter. this is like golf, it's like football, it's like baseball. at the end of the day, did you win or did you lose. did you have more money in the bank or did you have less? you can go through all of these match nations about 50-day moving. >>>s. the at the end of the day it's about fundmenting as, are there companies do you think will be more valuable a year, two years, three years. >> the very reason you're looking at what the markets have done since that february 3rd low when we're in the midst of the correction wondering how deep it's going to be. are you willing to give this move the benefit of the doubt or are you still kepticle about why we got back where we

kohl's hasn't fard so well recently not doing so bad po posting a slightly positive holiday season.t looks like their inventory is cleaner than we have seen in a while. costco actually fairing pretty well despite a 4x headwind. lower gas prices, so much of their sales comes as a result of directly from gas. i think it's a stock picker's market. so far today we've seen actually a couple of companies performed a little bit better than average. >> jerry, you've been in the chair before running big businesses that are impacted by weather. is this real, a fact, or fiction that the weather is playing a big role on retail? >> well, i have got an exciting new investment hypothesis. sell every company that mentions the weather and buy every company that doesn't use that as an excuse. you can't do anything about the weather. two major factors impacting the retailing. you can call it the internet typhoon and economy. it's not only drawing traffic from the traditional shopping venues where you're seeing draconian drops in footsteps in traditional bricks and mortar stores but also the ultimate p

up twober six kohl's, percent.continues recommend the shares and notes that the company management indicating on the inter--- earnings call it sees early success from a new loyalty program. >> number five, amc networks. jumped that income thanks to the walking dead. h a new show.t better the challenge is "breaking bad" is over and "mad men" is ending. >> walking dead has jumped -- >> a lot of people still watch it. >> no. show and gotmbie insane. that is weird. >> it was more believable the first year. the hotelfour, reporting 13%. helton is considering selling its stake in the waldorf astoria in manhattan or the entire hotel. that place is legendary. obviously >> >> a pretty amazing franchise. -- pretty amazing franchise. tesla.ber three says they are raising $1.6 billion in convertible debt. this to fund the project. >> this sounds like a fake thing. >> sound like something quagmire would do. bond.t of james like a villain in james bond. >> i cannot get family guy out of my head. two sears rising six percent afte

in kohl's mind we are living a delusional dream. >> all your life, you love, all your memory, your painame thing. >> always a same dream, the dream you had inside a locker room. that dream about me abeing a pe. >> before you know it you're immersed in his totally bizarre world. the episode ends and you struggle to reenter yours. as you slowly recover it makes you think about who you are and what your purpose in life is. this is the thought-provoking brilliance. "true detectives" takes us on a journey of our own. we are the detectives trying to figure out what happened to cole and hart avenue that 1995 investigation. 17 years later hart is divorced and while cole spends his days bar tending with a ponytail and a menacing look. who are these men and how did this murder change their lives? that is the real story and it's up to us to figure that out for their sake and ours. speaking of amazing shows, alex wagner, all yours. >> very kind, thank you, abby. "legends of the fall." chris christie is caught in a spiral of suspicion, but how does it tell the man from the myth? it is thursday, febr

kohl's falling as well.ur gas guzzling truck a little more cost effective by making it electric. key is, will it catch on? joining us now is john weaver, chief executive officer of via motors. take the chevy product and convert it to electric. bob, you were also on the website. you are involved. >> i'm a board member. >> there you go. john, i have a chevy silverado. i want to convert. i buy it at a chevy dealership, i bring it to you, say make it electric. what do you do? why are you doing it and how much does it cost. >> we fundamentally remove the transmission, gas tank and exhaust system, put up a motor generator set, a battery pack, exhaust system and inject magic software and make it all work and drives like the vehicle you have today. except you get about 100 miles per gallon. >> how long is the range then? >> you get about 40 miles on batteries. >> it sort of has the volt model. >> exactly. it's the volt model of 40 to 50 miles preelectricty and then the small general motors sourced v6 engine acts as

you saw names like kohl's and j.c.ng they have shorter amounts of time during the holiday season, but dick's sporting goods shows from golfing gear, and same-store sales have been on the rise and they're rising the forecast and move to stay to the upside. a high would be 58.87. >> and i'm glad you would pick out at least one winner on a day like this. it's not just a huge decline, we've got a modest celloff. it's a modest decline and thanks for the winners there, nicole, good stuff. to be precise, we're down 33 points, 15,760 is where we are. and obamacare, letting people keep their canceled plans for up to three years? the insurance industry, how are they going to respond to that? it's a mess. what happens to the insurers if they extend their old plans for three years? we have someone who knows the answer in a moment. ♪ get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged ♪ ♪ 24/7. i'm soy, i'm just really reluctant to try new things. really? what's wrong with trying new things? look! mommy's new vacuum! (cat scree

m kohl's bill gross says china's economic growth poses the largest risk for markets, calling china the baloney, for americans. let's get to neil mackinnon of vtb capital. we have had this correction, 3 trillion dollars wiped off. people saying it is because of china, said concerns, emerging markets. then you have economists saying they are more worried about the eurozone than china. some say they are more worried about china. what is your take? >> plenty to be worried about, a aree list of things that worrying investors. you mentioned china and bill gross's comments. is not issue for china the gdp numbers or the growth or slowing down of the economy. everyone understands long-term challenges involved in implementing the structural therms in the aftermath of said plan of last november, transitioning away from the investment led model that has created capital misallocation and a credit bubble. credit risk is the key issue. we saw that with all the worries about the possibility of a default and wealth management, worries about shadow banking. worries more generally about the lord abilitie

best buy, kohl's and gap. let's give you a look at the u.s. futures.s we head towards the u.s. open indicating around 70 points for the dow. nasdaq lower by 12 points. the s&p down by 8 points. unchanged session yesterday, but all the focus today on fed chair janet yellen set to testify before the senate banking committee at 10:00 a.m. eastern. hampton pearson is in washington, d.c. with more. very british tendency to talk about the weather here, but what can we expect from janet yellen today? >> weather is going to be a big theme in her second appearance on capitol hill as fed chair. this time before the senate banking committee in about four hours. and i say that because weather is an overriding theme in what everybody believes is going to skew the data that the fed will be looking at between now and its next meeting. weather was a factor in what she was asked repeatedly about ten days or so ago when she testified before the house. specifically as regards to the unemployment numbers, which have been weak over the past couple months and when we get th

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kohl's, the left anti-vulture that marxism, the current developments such as for example the civitas rate economics of policies of michael albert robert hamill and others along with important work in theory and practice by the late seymour mehlman, his associates and many others and notably a very recent contribution on worker owned enterprise and cooperatives, not just talk but actual taking place. going back to dewey, he was as american as apple pie to borrow the old clicÉ and, in fact, all these ideas and developments are very deeply rooted in the american tradition. and in american history. a fact which is kind of suppressed but is very obvious when you look into it. and when you pursue these questions you enter into an important terrain of inspiring, often bitter struggle, ever since the dawn of the industrial revolution which was right around here. mid-19th century. the first serious scholarly works, study of the industrial worker in those years was 90 years ago, still very much worth reading. he reviews the hideous working conditions that were imposed on formerly independent c

she works paid positions at kohl's on mondays and at the ymca on fridays. on tuesdays, wednesdays and thursdays, she volunteers for several organizations, including a hospital, a downs syndrome office in indiana and the alzheimer's unit of an assisted living facility. unfortunately, like so many disabled -- americans with disabilities, angie is unable to save enough to cover her future needs. the same problem i just highlighted if we don't change the law with the able act. under current law, she must have less than $2,000 in assets in order to be eligible for supplemental security income. that doesn't make a lot of sense, and that's one of the reasons we have to change the law. angie is therefore forced to limit the amount of money that she earns and work multiple paid and volunteer positions in order to benefit from the steady benefits that s.s.i. provides. angie would like to live independently and at the same time know that she has limitations in that regard, because without adequate savings and income, because of the current state of the law, she is for

kohl's also higher.expected fourth quarter profits and raised dividends by about 11.5%. a different story, though, for catamaran, which is sinking, if you'll forgive the pun, after they forecasted pull-year profit below street expectations. then mylan setting fourth quarter records. in a programming note, the ceo heather bresch will be live on "the closing bell," this show, 4:00 p.m. eastern. we'll all be paying attention to that interview. >> looking forward to that one, dom. thank you very much. here's a check of markets as we head into the final 15 minutes here. dow is up almost 60 points. 25 or so on the nasdaq. 7 on the s&p. >> before we go to this commercial break, we have this sad note. a familiar face to this program and to cnbc viewers, joe dear has died at the age of 62 of prostate cancers. since 2009, joe was the chief investment officer of calpers, the nation's largest public pension fund. now, despite the prestige and pressure of his job, there were never any errors about joe dear. he was a

. >> the stamp act is when the british decided to tax the tea coming into the kohl new -- colonies? >> they were taxing at that point paper and other very essential things. and that was one of the reasons that the americans started to rebel against the british, was the stamp act. and ben franklin was in england, and people in pennsylvania thought, well, he should be fighting harder against that stamp act. and so they were so angry that they came, and they were going to tear down his house. and everybody warned deborah to get out of the way, and she said i'm not going to do that. and she got a gun, ask she got some friends -- and she got some friends with guns -- [laughter] and she defended her house. and ben wrote to her and said well done, deborah. but he still wouldn't come home. [laughter] and their only daughter got married, and he wrote to her and said make sure the wedding doesn't cost very much money, but he still wouldn't come home. and finally she died. deborah died, and ben said, well, i have to come home now, go home now he wrote to a friend, because my wife, in whose han

support of the name and it was cowritten by both washington senator and oklahoma representative tom kohlthey do not comply they they may change the status and the letter stays the nfl can no longer ignore in and perpetuate for what it is, a racial slur. there are churches across the country where it's okay to wear your cowboy hat and boots and we went to a place of worship in greenville, texas that embraces its western heritage. ♪ the signs and pictures on the wall are misleading. sure, people are singing and having a good time, but the only spirit these folks indulge in is the holy spirit. >> this old place used to be a bar. >> reporter: now it's the home of top rail cowboy church located in greenville, texas and the christian congregation is outside the mold of what some may see as chufrn. >> as we take down barriers that prohibit people from coming to church and worshipping and go around the cowboy who may have to feed cows or attend horses and he can come to church with a little stuff on his boots. >> more boots than loafers and women decide on jeans instead of dresses. >> we do it i

on you are earnings calendar, we'll be hearing from retailer best buy, kohl's, amc networks and wendy's. all of them reporting before the bell. after the bell, we get gap, monster beverage, salesforce.com, splunk, and deckers. let's get over to andrew with more of today's top stories. and andrew, good morning. >> good morning, becky. we're watching shares of jcpenney. the stock spiking after-hours. the trouble retailer reported a loss of 68 cents per share for the fourth quarter. that was smaller than expected. revenue also missing, but here's the good news. the retailer is upping its same-store sales and gross profit margin forecast for the year and you'll want to keep your eyes on that. jcp shares are down more than 30% so far this year. we'll be talking more about jcpenney with dana telsey at 7:30 eastern time. tesla raising cash to expand into the future. the company will be rolling out plans to build a factory and develop what it's calling its gen-3 mass market vehicle. it plans to build its giga-factory in arizona or texas. the company expects the company to run at about full capa

that's something we're seeing across the board whether it's macy's, whether it's kohl's or nordstromplaying into the margin out for next year as well. >> matt, let me ask you really quick and see if we can pull up shares. i want to change the topic just for a moment. jcpenney is below five bucks i think for the first time ever. what do you make of what's happening there? how concerned should we be as this stock continues to tumble? >> look, it's a tough road ahead at jcpenney, it has been and will continue to be. the path that people are trying to figure out how do they get the share back and is any of it sustainable. i think what they're facing and we spoke to them yesterday, look, macy's has stolen the weekend from them and off price i think is something that i wouldn't say that they overlooked but i think it's proving to be a much more formidable competitor as they're trying to get the share back. i wouldn't want to be -- i wouldn't want to be jcpenney trying to go up against macy's with half the tools that i think macy's has in its toolbox. >> how is the balance sheet looking and