the new optimis dave: shares of sen disk and micron getting a boost. to the floor of the stock exchange. a lot of semiconductor companies doing well. sandra: and interesting topic. all about supply and demand. there was a glut of ships. so many ships because the i can and iphone and so many ships but then they cut production and guess what? they need to make more chips because one of the company's says we are starting to see a shortage of some components. they dropped 20% and names like micron get a big jump on the ibm and chips are back in fashion so now they are going -- where we stand with the chipmaker. a great day for them. >> as in the futures closing in 20 seconds. >> everything looks great. we are seeing people closing off profits. holding up strong. and the next surge, next market stimulus can come -- all that saved the money will go back into the stock market. dave: that could change, thank you very much. liz: president obama making his case to the nation for his reelection tonight. dave: peter barnes is at the convention, he is with one busi

the nasdaq led by scan disk micron technology finished at its highest level in more than a decade. it now stands 20% up for the year. >>> today watch smith&s we son. after the bell the gun company skyrocketed. also keep an eye on mattress firm which warned on short-term profit and plunged after hours. >>> and finally ben & jerry's, the ice cream maker, has sued the maker of ben & cherries. x-rated dvds saying what else, the film has smeared its reputati reputation. >>> coming up the braves win on a bungle, the o's outbomb the bombers and how to embarrass yourself after scoring a goal. >>> plus, a big league brawl in the nation's capital. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> the weekend forecast is all about a taste of fall. your early morning forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." and in sports three eighth inning homer last night by the baltimore orioles shot them back into a first place tie with the new york yankees. here's nbc's fred roggin with an early look at all your spor

if you're averse to pay $700, you may try micron. they're the flash memory. right now consumers are going to continue to create faster speed on our portable machines right now micron, as well as at&t. >> a stock that certainly hasn't run as far and fast as apple has. >> at&t's been a dog in the big picture. they hooked me with the initial iphone but right now with the 4g coming out i think they are poised for better growth than verizon. verizon is already the leader here. at&t is going to play catch-up. >>> let's go to jackie with a market flash today. >> good afternoon. we're watching shares of vulcan materials today. there was no renewed bit for mln. there was optimism last week about a restart of the hostile deal but some analysts are saying just because we didn't hear anything today doesn't mean we aren't going to see another bid. for today, vulcan is down 7% and martin marietta is down by 3%. >>> ahead in the show, american carmakers have been adding extra shifts and pushing production lines on some automotive models to capacity. but is there a bump in t

the nasdaq, led by sandisk and micron technology, finished at its highest level in a decade. nasdaq now stands at 20% up for the year. >>> today, watch smith & wesson. after the bell, the gunmaker skyrocketed after raising its full-year sales forecast. also keep an eye on mattress firm, which warned on short-term profit and plunged after hours. >>> and finally, ice creek maker ben & jerry's has sued the maker of ben & cherry's. they make x-rated dvds. they say the films have smeared its reputation. >>> well, coming up, the braves win on a bungle, the o's out-bomb the bombers, and how to embarrass yourself after scoring a goal. >>> plus, a big league brawl in the nation's capital. your first look at sports is straight ahead. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. obviously. haha. there's more than that though, there's a kick to it. there's a pop. wahlalalalallala! pepper, but not pepper, i'm getting like, pep-pepper. it's kind of like drinking a food that's a drink, or a drink that's a food, zip zip zip zip zip! i'm literally getting zinged by the flavor. smooth, but crisp. ve

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so here's a look at sandisk and micron. they make chips. so this is great news for them.bout prices for chips being somewhat flat. this is a good move ultimately. but ecz talk about supply warning, that's tough. down 19%. back to you. melissa: nicole, thank you so much. president obama praised him for bringing furniture manufacturing jobs back to north carolina. even had him attend the state of the union address. is he supporting the president for re-election now? melissa: nope. lori: find out why, next. melissa: as we head out to break, look at some of today's winners and losers. sandisk corporation trading up 8%. good day for those stockholders. we'll be right back want to try to crack it? yeah, that's the way to do it! now we need a little bit more... a little bit more vanilla? this is great! [ male announcer ] at humana, we believe there's never been a better time to share your passions... because the results... are you having fun doing this? yeah. that's a very nice cake! [ male announcer ] well, you can't beat them. [ giggles ] ohh! you got something huh? whoa... [

numbers coming down, micron, fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice, how about fool me dozens of timestexas instruments, boosted a dividend, already, but it's also struggling to make the numbers. they sell them to communications, that market has become very spotty. despite the need for more chips for smaller and smaller cell phones which leads us to qualcomm. sirius, the sound chip company has just rallied like crazy, 170% for the year, hardly undiscovered. i actually think qualcomm can be bought. still, even if you kept with the apple trade, skyward solutions and apple supplier got hit hard today, because word has it that it doesn't have enough context in the iphone 5. apple doesn't use them? all you're doing is playing a moment supply demand in balances for those companies. now working stocks like cisco, i'm hearing price wars galore in that business. no thanks. that leaves a couple investable. emc subsidiary of bmw, the endless demand, people buy google, apple, amazon, net flicks, but those stocks at $5 they're not cheap. internet itself does present some opportunities, google isn't

micron technology out with its fourth quarter results after the bell.ory chipmaker reported a slightly wider-than-expected loss, 24 cents a share, marking its fifth straight quarterly loss. revenue fell short of estimates coming in at 1.96 billion. >>> dish network is getting in the broadband business. satellite tv company plans to launch a tv service under dish net. this service won't match the high speed connection sold by cable tv rivals. the satellite broadband is aimed at 14 million rural companies with little or no internet access. that's the latest from the fox business, giving you the power to prosper i've been a superintendent for 30 some years at many different park service units across the united states. the only time i've ever had a break is when i was on maternity leave. i have retired from doing this one thing that i loved. now, i'm going to be able to have the time to explore something different. it's like another chapter. david: china's economy is growing at its slowest pace in three years but frank lavin says china is growing at 3 1/2%.

micron. >> it's up a couple of cents.in the middle of the range we've had for the last year. if you want a stock that's been under pressure and you believe in the tape intel a much better play. >> dr. jay, what do you do? >> guidance was good, accenture. a lot of firms are upgrading guidance. it's been a great ride. i'm not getting off yet. >> a drop in yum brands of1%. weren't we talking about this related to china earlier? >> we were. 49% of the revenue coming directly from china. that's part of the drop in this case. right on a support level. if i think it's still too cheap. >> a drop of toll brothers. >> they haven't been trading well. they've back infilled here. it's that support you can buy toll here. one of the best names in the group. >> and a drop for drunk riding. a florida man is spending some time in the stable. look at your screen here. after leading police on a wild horse chase. charles coward galloped through a stop sign on his horse willy, prompting police to try to pull over the tipsy trotter. here's the

when you look at names such as skyworks solution, cirrus logic, micron tech.tually make components that go into the iphone 5. then what we did we put together a comp chart done by our master, charlie brady, who is so great at doing this, one of our senior editors, he put together a long-term chart comparing the two. apple is the one on top in yellow. underneath the blue is compilation of those four names i mentioned. they're underperforming apple because apple has so many products but you can see both have done well over time. back to you. tracy: look at you, nicole petallides. thank you very much. we're going to have more on apple from the and the new iphone from robert gray. he is at the big apple store in new york city. we'll have that in a few minutes. >> there you go. tracy: we have breaking news on gop presidential candidate mitt romney's tax returns. peter barnes has the latest on the developing story from washington. hey, peter. >> hey, tracy, ashley. more on this. let's go over the big numbers. the governor will be posting his tax returns to his websi

micron among those getting downgraded today. says she expects to see weak pc demand and veeco instruments, goldman sachs to a sell. looks like a valuation sell and $30 price target, covered to $27. david, back to you. and $250 million coming from verizon, of course, some of its cable operations under the vios division, if you will, $250 million over time, 150 million and also cooperation between the two companies as well, and verizon is going to pay monthly license fees, dvr subscriber, what are predetermined levels as you see it there. tivo has done it with a number of providers out there, intellectual property when it comes to the basic dvr device and a number of thanks it implemented, that it came up with and clearly it's winning on in terms of saying, it's ours, you've used it, you owe us money for the stock. >>> coming up, education nation. struggling schools and taking a look at challenges, the potential solutions, and innovations spinning the education landscape. >>> i'm at mountain home high school academy. high school a

take a look at sandisk, micron and inindividual aand sea gate taking a big dip today.ess across the sector saying the release of microsoft windows 8 unlikely to stimulate demand for pcs. amazon set to make a big announcement in california a couple hours away. is it a kindle? is it a phone? no matter what jeff says we'll tell you how to play the stock. day three of the dnc in charlotte and the president taking the stage tonight will formally accept the nomination. larry kudlow joins us with his take on everything going on in the political world and reacting to the ecb and how it is playing out during the european close in less than half an hour and talking to the mayor of charlotte about his city's continued success and how it stands to benefit from the convention. all of that and more is coming up in the next hour. have to start with the rally. joined by steve grasso, normally coming on as i am walking off. >> on at the same time today. >> how real is this and why is it happening? >> you know, the head lines you just read were basically 50% of what the market has been

wait until the micron comes. >> high. i have been working with the league of women voters in a project to help support tv stations when they do this. one of the things we are beginning to hear back from some of the television stations around the country is they do not have the resources to fact check. they have turned around and said, can you help us? we have obviously noted the work you have, but many of these television stations and to some degree newspapers are saying they do not have the resources to do the fact checking they would like to do or we would like them to do. particularly in this new economy. how you respond to those tv stations or to those newspapers to say, yes, we would like to do this, but we do not have the resources? >> let me first say we have partnered with primarily newspapers, but also with public radio in 11 states. we have found a very successful way to scale fact checking. we now have 11 state politifact sites where we have trained journalists at newspapers and new hampshire public radio how t