from masco's point of view. >> from masco's point of view, i would say a major problem in europe mightue that we might be concerned about. i think your point about the consumer is certainly one that has not played out yet, but possibly could. just in terms of, you know, less disposable income. on the other side of that, though, i think that you've got to take into account home price appreciation and the wealth effect from the stock market in proving. so i think that things are more positive than negative at this point. >> very quickly. one-word answers, please. jim, tim, jim. one year from today, is the economy better, same, or worse? >> a little bit better. >> same. >> same. >> better, same. thank you, thank you for not wearing a tie. mandy, a little better, better, same. j, t, j. >> thanks very much, brian. >>> in the meantime, we're still waiting for the appearance on the st. peter's square balcony of the new pope. it's now been 49 minutes since we first saw the white smoking showing the pope has been elected. last time, by the way, it was 45 minutes. so 49 minutes and counting, hop

morgan, a building products company called masco. >> yes. and home improvement, it is set to pop off new residential construction. >> bill, you like it? >> this company was founded by a genius. he died in 1996. of since then, it's been downhill. >> you have another building products company. they make things that i can't even pronounce. simpson? >> i bought a couple dozen of their hurricane ties and my roof did not fly off during sandy. >> that's a good testimony. >> it is a good testimony. their operating margins for low historical margin, i would watch that part of the business. not so great there. >> you have a side stock in this, middleby corporation, which makes stuff for restaurants. >> yeah. people are now eating out more. they make energy efficient appliances for the kitchen, like stoves. they just bought viking, which is a really hot acquisition. >> morgan, we all love those vikings stoves. >> i actually really like this. it's pricey now. i would buy on the pull back. >> that's it for "forbes on fox." keep it right here. th eric bol

they are upgrading masco. they are raising their target to 25.posure to europe, those are fading a bit. and the company is cutting its exposure to 15% of sales. >> indeed. we have jazz farmers. jazz hands. >> exactly. starting coverage with a buy. here's the news. there is an $86 on the stock. a 45% upside. stock was ten bucks. it's going to 86. >> that is what i call jazz hands on steroids. >> that's a big band hand. >> here is something you don't hear every day. airline stocks are on a tear. many are up this year. phil lebeau is here with more. phil, this used to be a difficult business to be in and now the stocks go. what's behind it? >> the airlines are finally turning things around. look at what's happening with revenue per available seat mile this is the metric you want to look at. in the month of february, all positive. look at united. what's happening here? the airlines are benefitting because of tighter capacity. they have stripped out their larger planes. they have culled their schedule. so you have got a higher percentage of seats that

masco up because s&p upgraded them.pped down 18 of 20 here, i think it's a sell, use it as a gift. >> ebay, down 3%. mike? >> year-on-year sales growth disappointing at 8.2%, which was a little bit lower than it was last month. additionally, there's a little bit of a spread breaking out between them and other internet commerce providers like amazon where the growth didn't drop by as much. also neiman marcus. >> and we've got a pop for the iditarod, the world's most famous sled race ended on an historic note when seavey was named top dog. in nine days, seven hours and 39 minutes. the 53-year-old musher will take home $50,000 in prize money and trade in his sled for a 2013 dodge ram pickup. he was the oldest guy to win, 53 years old. ripe old age. >> the dogs won. it's like the jockey doesn't win, the horse wins, it's the same with this. you should have -- >> come on. >> yeah. >> we all know it's not how it works. >> redonkulous. >>> three broken stocks you may want to consider buying right now. plus, why a risk-on strate

masco, armstrong, texas industries, these are companies involved in the building industries.ome building stocks also strong today. finally, guys, the s&p 500 not quite there. 1560, about 25 points away here. 1564 or so and the s&p is the closing high, but i would note, bill and maria, the s&p 30% of the stocks in the s&p are trading above 2%. that's a real nice move up. a lot of good strong price action today. breadth 3-1 advancing to declyke stocks. guys, back to you >> thank you very much. when a market hits an all-time high. there's no shortage of opinions of where we go from here. we have plenty of them right now in our closing bell exchange. joining us andres garcia at the big board, carol ross, cnbc contributor in chicago and we've got joe greco from meridian equity partners and the team of santolli and santelli. joe greco, i'm going to start with you. the mood on the trading floor for an all-time high, this is is a pretty quiet day. what's going on here. >> looking around from dow 14,2 hat whatever we were supposed to have and reached across my desk and found a bear ha

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masco said something interesting that when someone sells a home and buys a home they get it on both endsway. they next up their home for selling to make it look better and then they buy new ones when they move into their house. every home transaction is really a double sale. >> and frank has often said that we still haven't seen more than gdp housing numbers. in other words, that people are still not spending more on their house versus the gdp growth and that could happen this year. i'm looking for a very strong spring selling. >> by the way. we will see the housing starts number and people are thinking it will be less than a million for a year and that is not something that people are getting more excited about, and there's interesting stuff going back. >> the number of people could forget cyprus very quickly. true or false? >> the stocks have already, they acted as if it's going to happen, it's a foregone conclusion, so will it be a sigh of relief? i don't know. it will be a confirmation of what people believe in the markets? probably. >> i do think to ignore cyprus is wrong because it

that's why masco would go up.ant to be behind the buyers and yet, i think a lot of the economists who come on are behind the current facts. >> speaking of the broad economy. jeff immelt's letter to shareholders is out to ge. it will make news later today and we have an advanced copy because we have that there. something he takes very seriously and works on a lot by himself. he talks about ge as a big sale gas play, guys. a big order trend in sub saharan africa which is becoming a very big part of the world. in terms of the macro, the major source of volatility and corporate planning in the u.s. is something i never thought i would see. it is hard to see that the u.s. would return to its full-growth potential. he says we're in unprecedented fiscal territory in this country which will keep a limit on growth in the short term and mentions the fiscal cliff, mentions sequestration and the number of regulations has exploded in the last few years, his words and the result has been an additional burden on business until w