lennar shares rocketed higher, rallying to a new 52-week high.he builder says rising rental rates, low home prices and low mortgage rates are driving home buyers. that was enough to get the sector jumping. pulte and d.r. horton were up almost 5% each. ryland group added 3.5%. energy stocks were the drag on the market, with natural gas, oil and heating oil futures falling. chevron was down more than 1%. shares dropped another 2% after the closing bell. the company warned of fourth quarter results "significantly" below third quarter numbers. among the issues: lower margins. the biggest losers in the energy sector today was this trio: cabot, southwestern and range resources. investment firm baird equity cut price targets and ratings on several oil and natural gas explorers, pointing to uncertainty over energy prices. speaking of energy, some renewable energy stocks were shining bright. an analyst at deustche bank found strong fourth-quarter demand has dwindled inventories to record low levels. jinko-solar, trina solar and suntech all trade below $10

lennar is here today. thank you for being here. jackson. pacific. hei capital. bank of america.nion. coming together to join all of us to make this effort genuinely open for dialogue and for hopefully reaching an agreement again so that we can house our middle-class families and make sure that we represent everybody can have housing for everyone in the city. with that, i would like to ask members of our board of supervisors to join with me on this. president chiu. [applause] supervisor chiu: thank you, mayor lee. i am really happy that we have represented to a really a wonderful spectrum of folks that care about a topic of folks that i think we all have been talking about for quite some time. mayor lee referred to the proposals he put out last year on the campaign trail. i can tell you that every candidate last year was talking about the importance of affordable housing. it is time to move beyond talk, though, to figure out what the solutions are, but something on the ballot, and get it done. i want to thank all my colleagues who are here. i know supervisor wiener has been leadi

home builder lennar shares up 7%. crocks pushed shares of the the popular footwear maker up 16%.upervalu dropped 12% after missing its earnings estimates. urban outfitters plunged on the unexpected gat tour of its coo. hostess is filing for bankruptcy protection the second time in a decade as they try to find its footing in a increasingly health conscious market. >>> a survey shows surprisingly robust american spending and factory production at the end of 2011. japan's finance minister told timothy geithner his country will take steps to create dependency on iranian oil imports. after trace amounts of a potentially harmful fungicide was found in orange juice. >>> buffett tells "time" magazine he will match you will republican members of congress dollar-for-dollar. he'll even go 3 for 1 with mcconnell himself. >>> the mavs and the shamrocks down to the wire in a big decision to go pro. blake griffin and the clippers challenge the rich guys from miami. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> very goo

home builder lennar's third straight quarter of growth sent shares up 7%.trong holiday sales of crocs put shares for the popular footwear maker up 16%. supervalu dropped 12% after missing its earnings estimates. shares of urban outfitters plunged nearly 20% on the unexpected departure of its ceo. hostess is filing for bankruptcy protection the second time in a decade as the iconic snack brand tries to find its footing in the increasingly health-conscious market. >>> a survey shows surprisingly robust american spending and factory production at the end of 2011. japan's finance minister told timothy geithner his country will take concrete tens steps to cut dependency on iranian oil imports. >>> and the u.s. is stopping shipments of orange juice after potential trace elements of fungicide were found in orange juice. >>> buffett tells "time" mag dean he will match all republican members of congress dollar-for-dollar. he'll even go 3 for 1 with mcconnell himself. >>> the nafs and the shamrocks go down to the wire and a big decision to go pro. blake griffin and t

we project that if we are to build a new school out where lennar is, we would have a and very little new school state eligibility in. those fees would have a direct relation to building that school. potentially, the same thing could be true at mission bay. president mendoza: any other questions? commissioner fewer: 10 these funds be used to building a new and willie brown -- a new will ie brown? >> this would be one of the available funding sources that we could bridge with. president mendoza: if there are no other questions, did you read the recommendation into the record? and then roll call. >> the subject is reviewing an adoption of the annual five-year report relating to the collection and expenditure of developer fees and the requested action is that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district review and adopt the developer impact fee annual and five-year reports for the fiscal year ending june 30, 2011. the attached report, dated november 28, a 2011, relates to the collection and expenditure of developer fees. it was prepared for the district by the doli

regional economies as e federal reserve issues its beige book, and we'll see earnings from homebuilder lennar. also tomorrow, michael farr is our "street critique" guest. you can email your questions to streetcritique@nbr.com. o.j. prices soared today on word o.j. prices soared today on word the food and drug administration is stepping up testing of orange juice imports. o.j. futures rose 11% to close at just over $2 a pound. the monitoring comes after a juice maker reported finding increased levels of fungicide in oranges from brazil. brazil is the world's largest orange producer. >> susie: the n.f.l. playoffs continue this weekend. among the teams taking to the field? the world champion green bay packers. green bay is the league's smallest market, but the team has won 13 league championships. in tonight's "beyond the scoreboard," rick horrow talks with packers c.e.o. mark murphy. he began by asking about the team's recent sale of shares to the public. it's really been humbling the response we've gotten from our fans. we sold 185,000 in the first two days. we're now over to,000 shares, and i

home building lennar's shares were up 7%.s of crocs put shares of the popular foot ware maker up 16%. on the down side, super value dropped 12% after missing its earnings estimates. shares of urban outfitters plunged nearly 20% on the unexpected departure of the ceo. hostesses is filing for bankruptcy protection for the second time in a decade as the iconic snack brand tries to find the footing in an increasingly health conscious market. the beige book survey showed robust american spending and factory production at the end of 2011. and japan's finance minister told tim geithner his country will take concrete steps to cut the dependcy on imports. >>> the u.s. stopped shipments of imported orange juice. finally, billionaire investor warn buffet wants mitch mcconnell to put his money where his mouth is. after he said he would take buffet up on his offer to pay more taxes, buffet tells "time" magazine he'll match all republican members of congress dollar for dollar. he'll even go three for one with mitch mcconnell himself. >>> i

years, attending some of our town hall meetings, but she did not support us against glenarden -- lennaro has been instrumental in killing our children slowly and instrumental in killing our elders. so if somebody wants to put in the center, and somebody wants to do something like this, there are the areas. not one meeting was held in the public. and when i spoke here on monday and some people jump on me, that igo

years, attending some of our town hall meetings, but she did not support us against glenarden -- lennar, who has been instrumental in killing our children slowly and instrumental in killing our elders. so if somebody wants to put in the center, and somebody wants to do something like this, there are the areas. not one meeting was held in the public. and when i spoke here on monday and some people jump on me, that i got calls from various people saying, how come they do this? we have people sitting here in this room, not in the audience but on the other side, who always say they want to be transparent, but they are not transparent. so, chair person eric mar, i have known you for a long time, and i have always admired you when you stood for the rights, and you did support our community. [bell rings] ahmadinejad in this case, we cannot take our children to this area. there are millions of vehicles spots. millions of vehicles next to the tracks. single mothers cannot get easy access to this space. we can find another place, but not this place. and you should do the right thing. thank you ve

shares of lennar were up 7% and that helped boost other housing stocks, as well.romney is becoming under assault for his big business background, but its eye not liberals, it's newt gingrich and fellow republicans like rick perry. so why is the gop taking a page from the democratic playbook and could they be permanently damaging the most credible candidate they have to take on president obama? chris is a former republican congressman from indiana who runs the club for growth and andrew ross sorkin is the co-anchor of "squawk box" on cnbc and author of too big to fail. this phenomenon here, i wouldn't have expected it. i think it's a perfect storm. i think newt gingrich is an on that don that due nis. i think saw the documentary and he has money to pay for asd. he aboput it together and said here's the way to stop romney. what do you make of it? >> i think he is helping obama. i don't think it is an unexpected attack. i think it is an up expected source and i disagree with the substance of the attack greatly source and i disagree with the substance of the attack gr