. >> i'm sam, i have a question about michael kors. >> where are you from?> new york. >> michael kors. >> the stock jumped up on a higher earnings report but has seen a pullback. i was wondering what your thoughts are for the short term? >> two things are going on. one, a rumor all day. a rumor that the quarter -- this quarter is weak. they just reported so i don't know how they can possibly know that. but second there's this kind of like tiffany's going down. the high end -- i like michael kors. i'm sticking with it. it's family affair night. we want to make sure you get a clean bill of health. at these levels, i think cvs is the better drugstore to own. much more family matters coming up later in the show. >>> coming up on a special edition of "mad money," it's a family affair. it's the final match-up between companies from san antonio and miami. and tonight, a showdown between two stocks that have been riding rough seas. carnival cruise lines and cloud play rackspace. which least valuable player should you bench from your portfolio? vo: traveling you defi

michael kors, neiman marcus, cartier all included. >> we heard a lot of glass going. they were going into several of the cases. the only worked on this one. >> they got away with $15,000 of rolex and citizen watches. at least eight cases, they still luxury hand cam -- handbags. , totaling at least $700,000. guns.ase god, no >> no guns were used any of the crimes. using store surveillance videos, some -- cell phone records, and tracking down the waiting vehicles in the robberies, fbi agents arrested two men, walter douglas and for davis, marking the day -- beginning of the end. >> i was hoping this would not happen to anybody else again. >> according to the "washington post." at least 14 smashing grab robberies prayed these represent just two arrests. 4-5 men were involved in the robbery. a number of people still at large. the fbi not commenting at this point, saying this is an ongoing investigation. reporting live, jennifer donelan. >> thank you. bob mcdonnell signs a school security bill today in an effort to keep students a safer. jeff goldberg is live with a look a

they are excited about michael kors.tock down 2%, but they are overall the big performer. bears take to twitter too. the stock with the bearish tweets go to google, investors pay attention to the twitter time lines because they are down more than a percent this week. the bad news keeps coming for apple, back to samsung here. the company with the most negative tweets, stock down 1% after losing a patent lawsuit to samsung. big pressure on the stock, and question marks about what the next big thing is going to be from apple. begging for a television apple, come on; rights? all right. years after the dodd-frank act was signed into law, several pieces of the regulatory act yet to be implemented. what happened to the bill and the rule? who else but the guy next to me. >> years after this thing was passed we'd be talking about this? this thing is still up in the air. i mean, we talked to dan, the commissioner, said it could take years to implement. they are less than halfway through figuring it out, and the rule is nowhere to

. >> reporter: high-end designers, michael kors, calvin klein and vince camuto are creating stylish piecess-sized blogger, gabby greg, collaborated with swimsuits for all, to create a suit that sold out within an hour. >> the fashion industry is a business and a lot of the fashion designers we are seeing that was untapped market. 20% of our revenue is from women who are over a size 12. and finally like, ding. let's get going. >> reporter: we made our way to bloomingdale's with plus sized fashion blogger, alyssa wilson. >> if you make it we'll buy it up. >> reporter: to check out the growing selection of fashion for fuller, fabulous figures. >> no more moo-moos, basic black. we want the same thing we see on the runway. >> reporter: she found them. giving us her own fashion show. proving that when it comes to beauty, size doesn't matter. paula faris, abc news, new york. >> not only the right thing to do, it's profitable. not surprising. >> you know, i just think this is proof, sad to say, how closed minded the designer world its. designers used to think plus sized women didn't like to spend

we're going to hear the likes of michael kors. good numbers. stock didn't to that much. urban outfitters. reported good numbers, but the stock didn't do that much. gap record a good number, and the stock didn't go up. these are all doing well. on the other hand, we're also going to hear from vera bradley, which reported terrible numbers. maybe we can find out the real story from these conference presentations. here's also something to keep an eye on that we normally don't care about. the federal budget deficit. i will expect a blow-out number. the blow-out has to do with earnings. this is a number that's going to show less spending and much more being taken in in taxes. that in itself could cause interest rates to go lower, and stocks to go higher because of the relationship between bonds and stocks. where stocks go down as yields go higher and vice versa. thursday began initial jobless claims. i often found that the weekly jobless number, the following week after the nonfarm pay roles is a big deal because it either verifies or undercuts the big bad event that you thoug

michael kors has been a great performer, down today, 1 1/3 percent.n 1 1/3 percent. handful of retailers participating on this day with the market very strong. let's get to bob in the middle of all the action. bob? >> a turn around in the groups most beaten up economically stocks. take a look. transports particularly strong. cyclical index, cyc leading over the index. sure sign of risk on. housing stocks turning around a little bit. itv moving to the upside. defensive interest rate sensitive names are still up. but they are sort of lagging today. utilities are lagging on the upside but lagging. pharmaceutical stocks in the same situation. one sector doing great on very specific news, all of the big publishers on the deal. meredith media, journal and ew scripps. look at ew scripps up better than 11%. finally, guys, one group that never really had a big sell-off was the banking stocks. they've held up very, very well despite the fact that bonds and interest rates move to the down side, they the bank index i know this sounds shocking. not far from a new

designers like michael kors. more people driving mercedes and bmw. looks to me like the elites are doing fine in this new normal obama land. >> they probably are, doing better than working class people are, for sure. but, i am ooh-- mean, you'll always have a bottom and a rise and this is a rise coming in and i think a lot of this rise, stuart, because people see the end of obamanomics, if you will. i don't think he has much more to put through an agenda in the next three years. stuart: what do you think of the state of the economy. >> it's terrible. stuart: terrible? >> it really is. when you're this far along in the recovery, it's the single worst in u.s. history. it's the next worse, it's an awful new normal. very low employment. very low growth. i mean, very few jobs, people just aren't living well. it's a terrible situation in this country. and i don't know if you remember right after reagan, i mean, goodness gracious, we had the roaring 80's and then bill clinton was a great president and kept that boom going until 2000 and hit a wall. stuart:

. >> reporter: high-end designers like michael kors, calvin klein, and vince caputo, are creating piecesmen. abbey greg collaborated with women suits for all, to create a fattini. which sold out within an hour. >> a lot of fashion designers are seeing that was an untapped market. 20% of our revenue is from women who over a size 12. it's finally, like, ding, let's get going. >> reporter: so, we made our way to bloomingdale's with plus-sized fashion blogger, alissa wilson. >> we're going to buy it up. >> reporter: to check out the growing selection of fashions for fuller figures. >> no more mumus, no more basic black. we want the same things we see on the runway. >> reporter: and she found them. giving us her own fashion show. proving that when it comes to beauty, size doesn't matter. she does look amazing. and to show how far this particular market has come. at the full-figure fashion week in new york just last week, there were 100 brands represented. that is a stark difference from the 12 brands they started with in 2009. >> such a jump in four years. >> it really is. >> thanks, paula. >

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i think when you add vera bradley which is handbag company, the opposite of michael kors, and you putfrancesca's, you have all these mid-tier retailers. >> what's the message being sent here? sl peop >> people are cautious again. >> which people? >> the middle. this middle -- the other day we saw target go up because dollar general went down. oh, they're gravitating to target. no! the middle is being squeezed here. some of it could be may weather. but ascena has a huge number of stores. they bought this charming shop. it's not management screwing up. this is what i have a little trepidation about. >> may weather. and we're not talking floyd. >> no. >>> all right. can the dow avoid its first three-day losing streak of the year? that's right. opening bell just minutes away. get ready, we got another big day of trading ahead and a lot more "squawk on the street." s intuitive and customizable, just like a tablet. so easy to use, it won a best of ces award from cnet. and it comes inside this beautifully crafted carrying case. introducing the all-new 2014 chevrolet impala with the available

when is the last time we saw a designer, and make michael kors is the last time that a designer made look at the performance and the core stock has done, and looking at the ipo doing well here, and this is a big test as well, and first consumer discretionary here, and the third biggest year-to-date for the u.s. so it is important to see when it finally opens where it actually does. >> and of course, david, we remember the run at avon, and how that ended. you might say that this is just desserts here for certain parties, right? >> yeah. yes. you might. you know, it is funny, because i am looking at avon as well which has had a decent run of things as we pointed out and when they came after it, it was at the lows, and brazil was a real problem for the company which it does seem to have at least been resolvi resolving, and you don't have the leadership there, and the board composition has changed at avon which is a key competitor for coty and the multiples include estee lauder as perhaps one of the best operator. >> well, looking at a it yesterday in a flat tape down almost a full point