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vera is not a luxury play like michael kors or coach. it sells for $30, and not $300. as a compelling growth story. it buildings out new stores like a small base, like kors, and it's expanding from the east coast to the rest of the country, making it the regional and national retail wholesale business that would normally make me salivate. plus, unlike the other accessory plays, this about 14 points off its high. it's not living on that new high list. it means that you might think, hey, a lot of room to play catch-up. why am i telling you i'm unsure here that i don't want you to play? because vera bradley is an absolute classic -- you google it you see it -- example of what i call a battleground stock. and in battle grounds people get killed. in fact, this has to be one of the hardest fought battle grounds i have ever seen. buying this stock is like volunteering to slog through the trenches in some horrific world war i style slaughter. neither a path to profit, nor glory. that's right. vera bradley, the maker some of the cutest, most colorful bags and wristlets you've se

both fashion company michael kors and online gaming firm zynga. both went public in december. kors shares fell 3.5% with more supply coming to market, but the stock has more than doubled from its initial price. zynga also fell, down about 2.5% as more shares will be sold. this stock came out at $10 per share and is about $13 tonight. another mobile gaming company, glu mobile was on the receiving end of a strong analyst endorsement. investment firm needham called the stock a strong buy and investors were buying sending shares up more than 21% on a surge of volume. the analyst points to games for smartphones as fueling glu's growth. no doubt the job market is slowing improving according to the official government statistics. online job service monster worldwide may be selling itself into that environment. shares jumped almost % on strong volume after the c.e.o. said the firm is open to the idea of selling all or part of itself. on march 1, the firm said it was considering strategic alternatives, which is usually wall-street speak for "it's for sale." shares were below seven at t

we also some after the close optimism from fashion designer michael kors. this company just came public late last year. shares were down 2% during the regular session, but were 4% stronger after the bell. that came after the company raised its quarterly earnings guidance even though it cautioned its revenue may be disappointing. it blames that on problems with a new distribution center delaying deliveries. the company also is taking advantage of its share price more than doubling since its initial offering. it is looking to sell more stock according to the "wall street journal." meantime, retailer kohl's fell 3% on heavy volume. in its annual report it says it will be less aggressive passing along higher costs to shoppers, hurting its profit margins. while the stock indices are running higher, so are bond interest rates, meaning bond prices have been moving lower. bond interest rates and prices move in opposite directions. the yield on the ten-year treasury note jumped to almost 2.4%. that's the highest yield, lowest price of the year. rates have pushed sig

>> michael kors. >> this little trinket. that's a very good answer. >> you wear things and because you wear it everybody thinks it is expensive. i make my jewelry. my jewelry doesn't make me. >> i like this thing. a second question. >> thanks for taking my question. i wonder what kind of advice you give 20 to 30 year olds today on making the decision between buying a home or renting. you think given the depressed housing prices the large inventory of homes that are available and the unprecedented low interest rates now would be buy, buy, buy. a lot of young people in their 20s and early 30s are real nervous about that kind of commitment. what kind of advice do you give them? >> they are nervous because they don't have the 20% down. they don't have the security of knowing that if they get a job they are going to get to keep their job. they don't have the security of knowing that a how will appreciate in value so if they need to sell it they can get their closing costs and moving costs and everything like that. there is good r

it's, what, michael kors. this is like -- >> this little trinke blimey! >> that's the trick.you wear it and make people think it's expensive. i make my jewelry, my jewelry doesn't make me. >> i like this. let's go to a second question from bill loftus. >> suze, i wonder what kind of advice you would give on 30 to 40-year-olds today on the decision between buying a home and renting. you would think given the depressed housing prices, the large inventory of homes that are available and the unprecedented low interest rates, now would be buy, buy, buy, but a lot of young people in their 20s and early 30s are real nervous about that kind of commitment. what kind of advice would you give them? >> they're nervous about that kind of commitment, because they don't have the 20% down, they don't have the security of knowing that if they get a job, they're going to get to keep their job. and they don't have the security of knowing that a house will appreciate in value. so if they need to sell it, they'll be able to at least get back their closing costs and moving costs and everything lik

. >> caller: i need to know about michael kors' secondary stock offering and what its effective on stock price and i was wondering, are these new shares or shares from the original ipo? >> these are insider shares. now, let me just explain. when you get a stock that is as red hot as kors, this is genuinely sizzling. it's got the highest growth of any of the majors that i follow. the growth hounds don't care who is selling. they just -- they don't care where the stock has been. they think, look, this stock is going higher because the company is growing fast, and they want to own it. i'm going to tell you, if that stock -- if they give you a chance to buy kors at a lower price than where it is right now, and they will take a little risk, do so. how about richard in new york, please. richard. >> caller: yes, boo-yah, jim. dsw reported eight consecutive quarterly, double digit growth, profits 24 up, rev 24 up, and same-store sales. cash is good. inventory is good. they're opening 35 to 40 stores of which they cherry picked 17 borders, including 34th street. have they developed in your mind w

those are the type of companies, tiffany's, michael kors, they don't have to start selling things off to control the long term. lulu, i know it's a favorite of yours since you got those spon decks shorts you run around in on the weekend. you're not going to see them on sale. you never see diamonds on sale. >> the thing about the retail space, at least today, do we have this board of the stocks, the retailers that are at all-time highs? it's across the spectrum. it can be from as low as sort of on the lower end as the dollar tree. you can go mid range, limited brands, whole foods or apple we can put in that space certainly. you can look at nike, as well. >> yeah, and nike's going to report thursday after the close. i think that's still a great story. for me you have to go with the operators, as well as the high-end assignments. macy's not particularly high end as bloomingdale's. mostly it's middle america. still take sears, i can't believe the rally it has. i am short penny basically on valuation, of course -- i like the high end. >> next up, nat gas falls to a decade low. are we anywh

and lastly, don't forget michael kors, get close to 50, pulling back a little, i would buy it. >> ralphauren, it's like you read my mind. ralph lauren, take a look at a five-year chart, just as courtney laid out for us in coach. this is double that. 2 x what coach has done, ralph lauren has done over the last five years. i still like that one better going forward. >>> next up on the halftime report, find out if the smart money is going long crude. plus, is there a market for nat gas-powered pickup trucks? that trade coming up. it's getting crowded at toyota's #1 for everyone sales event. why? 'cause people know toyota's the best. toyota has the most fuel-efficient and longest lasting vehicles of any full-line automaker. plus, every new toyota comes with the peace-of-mind of toyota care, a complimentary maintenance plan with roadside assistance. so from camry to tundra, this is your chance to save big on our most popular models. with the incredible deals you'll find... ...you're gonna want to hurry in for this one. ♪ [ male announcer ] the great savings won't last long. don't miss out. >

if it goes the underarmour mobile, the michael kors multiple. >> explain the action around anadarko.own yesterday. this is the most, after yesterday, this may be the most undervalued major oil company in the world. the prospects, gulf of mexico off africa, really, if you think oil is going higher, anadarko is right. that's the one. >> reports of a zinca secondary yesterday confirmed today. >> this is remarkable. this is one of the few of this internet era where the lowest price, where you had a chance to make a lot of money here, and this is, by the way, if they can differentiate themselves from facebook, i go on zinga every day. i play words with friends every day. i'm addicted to it. >> you don't pay for it. >> no. i skip the ads. it's very good. i look at the ad in a sense i try to get it off. the ad is in my head. yesterday there were travel ads. it's not are totally wasted experience for the travel ads. >> opening belfour minutes away. back in a second. ic shift in what passes for common sense. used to be we socked money away and expected it to grow. then the world changed... an

>> the market deals with secondaries all the time and you saw within last week for michael kors. suggest that there was huge overhang there. in fact the market probably anticipated it quite well. we're in a spot where the ipo market overall has been very hard to call this year. if you told anybody who does my job in the second half of last year that we would have the best first quarter on record since 1998, that volatility would be consistently below 20, and that the first six or seven weeks of the year for the ipo market would be anemic at best, we wouldn't have agreed with that. we have a great secondary market conditions and it's taken the first two months of the quarter for the i about po market to realize that. so for the last four weeks, the ipo market has been extraordinary. for the average investor, if they bought every ipo this quarter, they would be up 29.7%. >> to what sent is that the effect of a lot of these ipos pricing at a discount to the the range especially in the first month of the range? a lot of those came below the range so that's where sewyou're seeing a lo

and michael kors prices 25 million shares at a secondary offering at $47 a share.ou view the markets here? given all these concerns that are still in the market about china's growth and what's happening over in europe, how could you mesh that with what we think about here in the unction and where we're going? >> well, what's funny to me is the stock market is clearly due for a correction and the long end of of the bond market is due for a correction as well. that's beginning to happen. i'm not saying there's not a real life story in europe in china but the story in europe has been there for quite a while. i am short the aussie dollar because i think things are slowing down in china. >> the reason being because it's a commodity based currency and there's concern about consumption in china. >> exactly. concern about the consumption in china and it's a neighborhood trade as well. they're a key trader with china because are where they're located. >> what about rates? how long can these rising rates co-exist with the stock market? >> well, what's interesting to me is th

mi michael kors $47 each and that has pushed the market price of the rest of the shares down to moregovernment has reportedly begun to make it easier for foreign investors to put capital into china but is doing so quietly through a series of phone calls to top fund managers outside its borders. what could this all mean for investors here? jim observer wise is president of oberweis asset management. did you get a phone call from the chinese government? >> we are a little small i think. really the top largest funds only. >> i want to make that clear. in terms of this invitation i would imagine there would be plenty of strings attached. the last thing china wants to do is invite capital to come in only to find that it's hot money and that it quickly floods out of the system when times are tough. >> yeah. there's always been a lot of strings attached. that doesn't mean it's not a good deal for investors and doesn't mean they shouldn't take it but it definitely comes with strings attached. i think what this really means though is it's a sign. i think it's a sign that the government is int

michael coors holding stock today. korsy's decline. >>> volkswagen earned 21.1 billion last year, outdistancing their competitors what are they doing right? imhave that story in a bit. >>> yeah, his favorite part of the day brian shactman stands by with all of the afterhours action and the round up of all the action. >> urban outfitters, the stock is up and up more than you would think. we have only maybe one reason why. i will explain that to you. plus we talk a little bit about a movie theater that's more customers but less revenue per customer and they beat as well. strange things going on. ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] you're the boss of your life. in charge of long weekends and longer retirements. ♪ ask your financial professional how lincoln financial can help you take charge of your future. ♪ >>> the important thing, folks, here is that we have had four straight days of advancing on the dow jones industrial average and the s & p 500 so why doesn't it feel that way? that is because we are very defensive. we have been defen