nicole: oh, no., i was sort of thinking that with the market improving the environment improving that it would be a great place for ipos to now reemerge and start over again. we saw pinnacle foods this week which did very well at the ipo yesterday. this is a new jersey based company. on the other hand you had something like facebook which was a complete debacle. you know, there are a lot of advantages for ipos. why aren't we just seeing a boom? >> he will well, there are definitely some companies going public. facebook was backed by venture-capitalists. pinnacle foods was backed by a buyout firm both of which sought exits. and indeed some companies are best as independent companies. but, a trend that has been going on for 20 years or more, it that, getting big fast is more important than it used to be. consequently not so much a public company versus private company issue. it's a small company versus big company issue. a lot of small companies can get big fast by being acquired. nicole: that's very g

nicole petallides. nicole: let's take a look.o in particular. in this case, navistar finally gets its real deal ceo. they took somebody else out of retirement to replace the ceo that they fired back in august. you have their new chief operating officer to become the ceo. the stock has jumped over 21%. stuart: thank you, nicole. when you replace the ceo, the stock goes up 21%. that says horrible things about the old guy. charles: that maybe the only thing. stuart: our next guest has rushed for 1000 yards or more in each of the past eight nfl seasons. let's bring in steven jackson. welcome to the program. back again, by the way. >> i like it. stuart: the game is getting very dangerous. we know that. you may become a free agent next monday. is it worth it? >> i believe so. when you are able to do something that you love, you do not think about what you are bringing in off the field or what your pay check will look like. it is something i have been doing my whole life. stuart: have you ever gotten a concussion? >> i have given a few.

nicole: i love you.ional to talk with irene, i wish you were right here next to me. in her notes to me, of all the immediate worries she has not been here in the states for years, don't know whether or not she will be here this summer. obviously she talks about the uncertainty and the fear. you heard there may be chaos, a run on the banks in cyprus is a business matter, they have developed themselves over many years as a place for business, and we will see what happens. she used the phrase guinea pigs because we have heard other ministers say this may be a nice way to do structure for business on other banks under pressure. so we will see. ashley: very interesting stuff, really getting a first-hand accounts like that really brings home the chaos and the uncertainty beingqú felt across cyprus. rich edson on the other side in nicosia where there has been protest at the banks. what are you hearing and seeing? rich: very much the same thing, ashley. what you hear to describe the situation is a mess. the bank

nicole petallides at the new york stock exchange. nicole: i enjoyed that analogy.hey are both very entertaining. we are down, the dow is down about 14 points. six record closes for the dow jones industrial. a green arrow would mean a record close for the dow today. names like verizon, procter & gamble, alcoa are pressuring the dow. the s&p is going nowhere fast. boeing hit a new 52 week high. you have many retailers hitting new 52 week highs. we are seeing american spending on gasoline, auto sales, grocery stores. talk to you. dagen: where is the disposable income after that payroll tax disappeared? continue negotiating. 82% is a proof of the way congress does its job. joining us now from washington, d.c. is steve moore. senior economics writer at the "wall street journal." will compromise and improve their standing in the eyes of the american people? i highly dow it. >> let me bring you up to date. there is still black smoke coming out of the capital. we still have not seen a senate budget. by 4:00 o'clock or 5:00 o'clock tonight, maybe. hold onto your hats, we ma

nicole: up one third of 1%. all three major averages have hit, record highs for a certain extent, nasdaq and s&p multiyear highs, all-time record intraday highs. they felt their lowest level in more than a month in the week, so that is some good news. productivity and labor cost basically shows americans are working long hours, but extremely productive. take a look at names of the dow jones industrials actually hitting multiyear highs, names including pfizer, johnson & johnson, boeing, jpmorgan. the highest levels since before the recession hit, so jpmorgan getting a nice one bounce back. back to you. dennis: thank you, nicole. oil prices back above $91 at the highest levels in a month. phil flynn with the price futures group at the pits of the cme, a big day for natural gas? phil: it is. i was lucky enough to hit the number right on the head. 146. that doesn't happen very often, so i was very lucky. but that was a much smaller withdrawal than expected. causing a jump in the natural gas prices. basically because

melissa: thank you, nicole.oday's report is just one more example of the climb of the middle class in this country. she joins ashley and tracy in the next hour. lori: in the meantime, how much is your college degree worth? here is peter barnes from washington, d.c. with details on this report. peter: this study suggests that the best investment for college kids today cannot be the traditional four year degree, but a two-year degree in a technical or specialized field. in colorado, and associates degree in applied sciences. more in the first year than most other types of degrees. that is because the report says it up with students with skills that are in demand. a four year bachelors degree earned about $39,000. a two-year associates of applied science degree earned nearly $46,000 in the first year. good to know. especially for kids to have to borrow a lot of money to pay for school through federal student loan programs. >> students are paying much more for college than they ever had and taxpayers are paying much

nicole?aiting for the all-time record highs, spoken of it so many times, dating back to 2007, and we went through a very tough financial crisis, and that's an understatement, but now we're here to celebrate the bulls out there for the iras and 401(k)s hitting record highs, obviously, now on this day in 20 # 13. among the names in the dow jones industrials, i know you were just talking about the best and worst of years prior. i want to talk about the names hitting some two week highs. you are seeing up arrows across the board, twentity seven of the 30 names positive for the year, but some hit 52-week highs including american express, boeing, disney, home depot, johnson & johnson, left out a few, but that shows not only is the dow jones industrial average pushing to the record highs testing upper levels as well, but, you know, people who own apple miss the run when google is at new all-time highs as well. >> thank you very much. ♪ the cyberthreat hacking is mobile. how smart is it paying bills

nicole, stocks are down, but off of the lows of the day. nicole: absolutely.ay. improving some. the dollar still remains very strong, the euro hit four-month lows, the dow, nasdaq and the s&p still in the red. the retail index, the bank index, transport all to the downside. oil services looking a little bit better. but the big picture as we continue to watch a market that is somewhat tepid and nervous.

nicole. nicole: good luck, hope you feel better throughout this hour. we noted the dow hit record highs today, the highest ever. we took out the 2007 levels, went beyond that yesterday, today even further moving up 14,320, and we're still holding onto gains. we haven't given it all back just yet. the nasdaq and the s&p a different picture, slightly lower. the dow up one quarter of 1%. there is some very heavily weighted names in this index. some tech names among the best winners come you can see hewlett-packard and cisco in there. intel pretty high up on the list but american express goes into the top spot. financials are top gainers. overall big picture, we are seeing a great market helped the economic news we have gotten in and you can see a lot of winners here as well. melissa: thank you so much. when you have six kids, it is inevitable. i look at the jobs section this weekend strong numbers driving the dow even higher. ap says the private sector added 198,000 jobs last month, well above the estimate of 175,000. coming ahead of the report on jobless

nicole? nicole: that was a great interview. high, traded as high as 838 and change. up to 2%, google all-time high. google won't quit while apple fizzles out. it is unbelievable to watch this name. last july of 2010 it was 430 bucks. unbelievable how it won't quit. stuart: you're right. i'm sorry, we were discussing further with daryl hannah. nicole: she did a good job and very good points and very succinctly without screaming or yelling. she stayed on topic. stuart: i thought you were talking about me staying on topic. nicole: we know you are great at this. stuart: thank you very much nicole. what a day, new high, never been this before and daryl hannah. okay. it is a theme we hit often on varney & company, the rich fleeing high tax states like california, but it is not just the wealthy that's leaving. we will deal with that next. stuart: weather to start with, so much for spring being around the corner, must be behind the big weather system that is slamming the midwest. spring is coming after this. people in north dakota digg

nicole. nicole: how much time is it really going to take to fix jcpenney?ion shareholders, investors, wall street communities want to know. here's what we're looking at right now, jcpenney down 4% right now. jcpenney said fixing their performance could take more time than they initially thought. of course they have worked on their strategy. ron johnson from apple came over to save jcpenney, didn't do so, on the contrary the kuwaiti promotions, didn't get that going for them so they say now any turnaround plan that he will be more expensive than they originally thought. so it will take longer and be more expensive after the stock is down 56% in the last year. back to you. cheryl: nicole, thank you. "tax pain," our series continues. california's losing residents and businesses because of the state's high taxes. but how will other states like texas able to keep taxes so low? speaker we had a balanced budget amendment, we cannot spend more than we take in. we're also very fiscally conservative state. we simply don't spend beyond our means. cheryl: so what does

stuart: just charge them for the advertising, nicole. nicole: i know.you remember the ticker symbol for next time. stuart: probably won't. nicole, thank you very much indeed. last night on abc, the president told george stephanopoulos that balancing the budget was not his priority. let's remind, everybody, please, we're still sitting on a 16 1/2 trillion dollars worth of debt. it is going to be 17 trillion dollars by september. the president wants more tax increases. he doesn't want any spending cuts. i think, that's why we're at a turning point in public opinion. go. charles: well, the president is at a turning point for sure. because they promoted his healthcare law initially as saving people money and fixing the healthcare system. now, in retrospect, everyone says well it was never designed as an economic policy, and the same thing is happening again. the president has some real issues here. liz: credibility issues. stuart: paul krugman is telling him that big deficits don't matter. he's telling the president that deficits are under control. don't wo

nicole, we'll go down to you first.elt this a little more yesterday than today, didn't it? >> it was interesting. this morning we had green on the screen. we got in good housing numbers, tracy and adam. as we god more headlines from cyprus and the vote which is underway now, shows you worry and contagion fears that exist not only in cyprus and eurozone. that trends over here to the united states of america. you can see the dow is down one-third of 1%, a short time ago we had on dennis, a former cyprus trade representative to the united states, heavily involved. he deals with people who have big deposits there. people who do business there. and he talked about the fact that yesterday, we saw global markets losing $500 billion yesterday was lost. that was just one day. cyprus is so tiny and look how that contagion can so easily spread and how people in europe begin to really doubt and not trust the bankers and the government. back to you. tracy: thanks, nicole. we'll see you in 15 minutes. adam: what is happening in cypru

nicole: wait, it's in the gre green-- no, just kidding. stuart: thanks indeed. nicole.s to blame for 250,000 american deaths. is this just another scare? dr. siegel answers that question. he'll be with us at 10:25. all right. two headlines suggest that obamacare is unravelling. thee years after it became law. number one, the senate overwhelmingly votes to repeal the medical device tax that helps fund obamacare. and number two say that premiums could double next year. and the book "beating obamacare", and are we stuck with obamacare? >> no, but we're going to feel the pain before voters go to the polls and stop this. stuart: full implementation january 1st, 2014. >> it's already happening. obamacare is rolling out with a vengeance and you see it in the hospitals, cuts to medicare paid for over half this law including big cuts to what hospitals are paid. 247 billion dollars less money over the decade and they're laying off nurses and brace yourselves for the declining care, people are already seeing fewer nurses on the floor, longer waits when you press that button for hi

nicole: all right.always love when you come on with us and give us some insight and so energetic about it. we appreciate that. it is exciting time in these markets obviously as we hit record all-time highs on the dow. liz: by the way, if you subscribe to kenny's note every morning, he gives an italian recipe at the bottom of it, every single time. nicole: he's given some greek ones too. >> i try to take the theme of the day. some of them are greek. some of them are french. some of them are italian. liz: okay, all right. do not take any advice from me about cooking. okay? not happening. thank you kenny and nicole. closing bell ringing in about 5 minutes, just under 6 minutes. are the markets on fire or what? the dow is on track for its fifth straight day of gains. third record. and you guys it's on track for that third straight record. we're counting down to countdown to the closing bell. it is coming in a few minutes. you have to see this, history once again. i'm a conservative investor. but that doesn'

nicole: let's talk about what we are seeing.e, most of the banks are lower. one showing a significant gain. national bank of greece. last week it a low of $0.87, so that was obviously on the worries of the euro zone. a different picture gaining 8. 8.5%. the lowest level since novembe november 22, the national bank of greece having their own celebration today. red hat was caught over at raymond james downgraded to market perform from an outperform. down 4.5%. some rising worries that the ubiquitous. down $2.35. back to you. ashley: thank you so much. tracy: let the battle begin. a key weapon in the escalating war with google. ashley: let's take a look at some of the winners and losers on the nasdaq. we will be right back. it's monday. a brand new start. your chance to rise and shine. with centurylink as your trusted technology partner, you can do just that. with our visionary cloud infrastructure, global broadband network and custom communications solutions, your biness is more reliable - sece - agile. and with responsive, dedica

nicole petallides standing by. nicole: and exciting day on wall street.laman with us today to celebrate record days. liz: you can only imagine. we were both talking to traders five seconds ago. one trader just said to me, we do not want to talk you down, but really you would look for a moment where you would pause and refresh. huge records today. smashing. nicole: i know you will have a great 3:00 p.m. show. liz: yes. very busy. "countdown to the closing bell." tanner fitzgerald will talk about the overall picture about what really happens next. will the banks continue to be the leaders? should you get in right now? he has three picks. that is something you really want to hear. we also have a contrarian. what is he buying? what is he selling? wait until you hear what he says you should be doing today. it was just a couple days ago that that they got out of china really spooked the markets. we will have all of that and much more as a lookup here here at the board. the dow jones still up 120. back to you guys. tracy: we will see you at 3:00 o'clock. thank y

nicole, stocks are down, but off of the lows of the day. nicole: absolutely. we have come off of our lows of the earlier day. improving some. the dollar still remains very strong, the euro hit four-month lows, the dow, nasdaq and the s&p still in the red. the retail index, the bank index, transport all to the downside. oil services looking a little bit better. but the big picture as we continue to watch a market that is somewhat tepid and nervous. we gained over 100 points, gaining some of the defensive sectors leading the way. in pending home sales index up 8.4% since february 2012. keeping an eye on target, last year noted to fox business about the fashion. they like what they are seeing, being received well in canada. the $74 price target, and shares for target are up 1.6%. back to you. adam: thank you very much. the market following europe lower. but if cyprus has taught us anything, it is hard to keep a good market down. that combined with recently priced stocks means if you're keeping the money on your sidelines, you are missing out. joining us now, seni

nicole petallides. i'm sure nicole goes camping once in a while?: yeah, right. >> let's do a show, camping with tracy. that could be the show. tracy: reality, tv. that would be so bad. you could not pay me enough, nicole. you could not pay me enough. >> oh, my god, i would love it. talks about stocks here. drug index looking to the upside. we have dow components, pfizer and merck making news. we see divergence. merck is gaining 3% and pfizer pulling back. talking about pfizer. you may be more familiar with the z pack. now findings from the fda that it can be potentially fatal with irregular heart rid rythyms in with some patients and irregular activity in your heart and that could eventually lead to fatalities. obviously not a good report. we've been seeing pfizer selling off throughout the day. on the other hand you have merck with vytorin with cholesterol. when we talk about cholesterol, many americans ears perk up because obviously something people in america deal with. an independent monitoring board allowed it to continue the trial assessing v

nicole, thank you very much.nt to mention that reuters is reporting that tempur-pedic won ruling to go ahead buy seeley. the mattresses i love. tracy: but which are freezing. ashley: total value, 1.3 billion in stock purchases and acquired debt. seeley taken over by tempur-pedic. tracy: a small group like the tempur-pedic mattresses. ashley: a bit of a cult. tracy: a bit of cult, exactly right. one big money managers shares his picks and he claims there are some odd balls there. ashley: first how is the dollar moving? let's take a look. still getting cheaper to go to europe? sure is. look at euro under 1.30. not by much the pound under 1.50. start packing your bags. tracy: i am. ashley: we'll be right back. [ woman ] if you have the audacity to believe your financial advisor should focus on your long-term goals, not their short-term agenda. [ male announcer ] join the nearly 7 million investors who think like you do. face time d think time make a difference. at edward jones, it's how we make sense of investing. >

nicole?ne for carnival cruise lines, they're, obviously, doing the best they can in a tough situation once again. take a look at the stock. it's down one-and-a-half percent, and this is a month after the carnival vessel that was stuck in the gulf of mexico. well, today another story. overnight they had some issues, some technical issues where the elevators weren't working, also toilet issues. the coast guard was notified, and now it's stuck in st. martin. they're going to have to fly home the passengers b instead of taking them home on the ship and, of course, some refunds now are getting ready to be paid back as well. back to you. cheryl: oh, my goodness, it never stops. nicole, thank you very much. all right, $50,000, call it the new five million. as the carlyle group becomes the latest firm to lower the threshold for investing in their funds. jim frischling is here. and you say this move by carlyle and the pe community overall, this is a game changer for how we invest our money. >> well, i

nicole wallace, former advisor to president bush.nd, gary bauer of american values. >>> plus, reengaging in the middle east. we'll ask our sunday panel what the president's trip means for israel, iran and syria. and, our power player of the week. a changing of the guard for the marine mascot. all, right now, on fox news sunday. ♪ >> chris: and, hello again from fox news in washington. well, there is no doubt about it. rand paul is on a ll. his 13-hour senate filibuster on the president's drone policy spurred new interest in who he is and what he stands for. so where does he see all of this going? senator paul joins us now from bowling green, kentucky and, senator, welcome back to fox news sunday. >> good morning, chris. >> chris: ever since your filibuster earlier this month, you are standing -- your standing in the republican party shot up, you won the straw poll and made a major speech on immigration reform this week and will headline an ios state republican dinner inm may. why do you think you are such a hot topic then republican

nicole petallides. nicole: what a day on wall street. another day and another intraday record highs for the dow jones industrials. you would think the market is overbought. a little too nervous to short the market. celebration for the polls out there with record highs for the dow. i wanted to also take a look at the vix, the fear index. 1176. obviously, this fear gauge is a barometer of what people think will be likely over the next 30 days. i wanted to take a look at dow component general electric. now we are hearing about the nominations for a board member. that would be mary schapiro. she has obviously a lot of know-how in regulation and corporate governance and the like. that will happen on april 24. back to you. lori: thank you, nicole. melissa: fox business contributor phil flynn of price futures group is in the pits of the cme. >> i think you have to look at asia, really. numbers were very disappointing. later in the day, we got a number out of india that shows auto sales fell 25% from a year earlier. when you look at growth, you

nicole: i'm sorry. you know i was just kidding. stuart: yeah, you are all right. thanks nicole.stuart: president obama can't seem to get things done with republicans running the house, but your dad, ronald reagan, he had a democrat dominated house, and he got is a lot of things done. -- and he got a lot of things done. take me through it. i know you were there. how did your dad get things done? how did he do it >> first of all, he wasn't on a constant campaign trail against the democrat party. he was out there talking about the things he wanted to accomplish and asking the public for support. but when he did that, he didn't name names. he didn't blame democrats. he blamed government as a whole. but one of the things he did with the democrat congress was, when he went and he talked to them, he said to them very simply, if you join me, and you vote for me, for example, for the largest tax cut in american history, brought to us august 13 of 1981, he said i will tell you what, i will not go to your district and campaign against you in the next election. well, ronald reagan was so lo

nicole petallides. the s&p 500 right now sitting above its record closing level. >> it absolutely is. we have broken through that level. new intraday highs for the s&p 500. the dow jones industrial average doing something very similar. however, the dow has broken through its all-time intraday record. it has set new innards today. we have had data that has been somewhat tepid. higher jobless claims that we got in this martyred there are a couple of things. i wanted to take a look at a comparison chart. both are headed in the right direction, as you can see. both are winning this year. they are pulling back. back to you. melissa: thank you. adam: what may fall to its lowest level since may 2011. fox business contributor phil flynn is in the pits of the cme. what are traders saying about this? >> mainly because of seasonal reasons. what is even more amazing about this story, this is the most compliant opec has probably ever been. maybe they found a little bit of religion into the marketplace. maybe they wi

nicole petallides. good morning. nicole: we have a market that is higher today across the board.ot focusing too much on europe today at the moment. taking off and going back to what it has been used to which is plenty of up aeros. sitting at 14,000, almost 14,500. we are also seeing a majority of the dow component in the green. hewlett-packard and disney are the best of the bunch. on the downside, united healthcare is the loser of the day. we are watching names that came out with their quarterly numbers. we will continue to watch what happens in cyprus. dagen: thank you, nicole. tomorrow marks the third anniversary of the affordable care act. it may be anything but affordable for some. health insurers are telling insurance brokers that prevailed for many individuals could increase sharply next year. more than doubling for some consumers who are buying their own insurance plans. that news making way to the nation's capital. joining us from there is democratic political strategist and former press secretary to al gore. christie, to you first. this flies in the face of what the obam

nicole petallides has more of your top movers this week. nicole: that is right.a look here at -- dagen: i do not know it was on or not, but you look fantastic. we will just put you up on screen and look at you. thank you so much. we will get back to you soon as soon as we get that audio issue fixed. the crop report about to be released. what are analysts predicting? jeff flock has more details for us from the cme. hey jeff. jeff: you have to actually hear me or i am useless. nicole petallides is a completely different story. world agriculture supply and demand. you can see the traders right now. take a look. we will see a real dichotomy in this market. still trading almost seven dollars. that is a tremendous price for corn. take a look at the december corn. it reflects the coming harvest. a huge spread right there. take a look at the december corn chart. use the kind of where those numbers started falling off. this report will be focused on what is around right now. listen to this, and order just came into the market. this is soybeans, by the way. we will get a l

stuart: thanks, nicole.me high for the dow, we're up 28 points, 14,475, who would have thought? a week ago we were closing in on 14,000 and now we're close to 14-5, not bad. the ryan budget will once again be demagogued to death and it starts with the updated granny off a cliff ad. my take on that is next. dad, i'd put that down. ah. 4g, huh? verizon 4g lte. 700 megahertz spectrum, end-to-end, pure lte build. the most consistent speeds indoors or out. and, obviously, astonishing throughput. obviously... you know how fast our home wifi is? yeah. this is basically just asast. oh. and verizon's got more fast lte coverage than all other networks combined. it's better. yes. oh, why didn't you just say that? huh-- what is he doing? >> now we've got another one of those cases where bad news is actually good news. case in point, yum! brands. it owns taco bell, k.f.c. sales down 20% in china, but expected a worse number so we have yum! brands up 2 1/2%. jeffries cut apple's price target on the delayed launch for the

nicole: nicole petallides here.a quick question, when you talk about whether people need it or don't want it. ultimately can you just blame the economy and make this similar to ira's and retirement plans, people are character out. not that they don't need it or want it, they don't have a choice, right. it's almost like pawning your jewelry, dipping into your retirement fund. and selling your life insurance policy. >> well, actually the demographic of selling policies are leaning toward the wealthy, healthy individuals. people and estate planners, financial planners who are finally recognizing life settlements as an option or looking at the total package and we have a trust here and it's being diminished by life insurance premiums by a life policy that we no longer need. some the characteristics of our clients are people who have been working for a company for years and leave the company and given the life insurance policy. okay, what do i do with it? >> scott, essentially, it sounds like what you're saying is a lot

connell: let's go to nicole petallides. nicole: we talk about teenage retailers. these retailers have given forecast soft numbers. aeropostale is one of the ones we are featuring today. they are under pressure. they had to slash prices. they are blaming the weak economy. their sales are down by double digits. a quarterly loss going forward. they have been losing out to their rivals, american eagle and abercrombie. aeropostale was outpacing abercrombie year to date. back to you. connell: thank you, nicole. we are going to update our coverage now on the cyber threat. the chinese government wants to open cyber security talks with the united states. this just came out today. china resolutely opposes hacking in any form. they would like to communicate with the united states about cyber security. this all coming on the heels of a phone call made between president obama and china's new president. the two leaders agreed to maintain frequent and direct communication. moments ago, white house officials told our old peter barnes that jack lew will press china on the issue. h

lori: nicole, you're watching the energy sector. nicole: i am, indeed. certainly jumping on an oil discovery so let's break it down a little bit. let's first focus on petroleum hating a new high of 3.5% right now, looking like an all-time high, but there could have been a pop somewhere. looks like it could have been an all-time high. the company is jumping on the news there was a discovery made in the gulf of mexico, one of the largest in the gulf, and it encountered more than 1000 feet of oil containing rocks, this is a big deal, and there are other partners in this well. a 30% stake in the well, conoco phillips. marathon oil has a 10% stake. all of these names are up year-to-date and are all winners today. back to you. lori: thanks. melissa: the cyber threat putting down banks in south korea. lori: at closer to today's decision from the federal reserve, a fed watcher wants to know if ben bernanke's plan is to get out of all of the stimulus. let's check the dollar ahead of the fed, see how it is faring today. approaching yet another record, back after t

nicole petallides. nicole: let first take a look at apple. apple right now is up 1%.is up over four dollars. some positive comments from one of the analysts. they raise it from a buy to a neutral. they talked about earnings-per-share growth in 2014. many revenue opportunities. they still think that apple can bring it. apple can bring those revolutionary products. how about amazon. different picture here. it is pulling back. it has a downgrade. sitting at 267.82. jpmorgan is considered about amazon's profit. you are seeing them coming to the downside. back to you. dennis: thank you, nicole. melissa: the market for hot wings and hotpants is going well and global. we will follow the business all day tomorrow on fox business showing you how you can make money on other people's sense. i went to hooters once in coaster rica. dennis: were you wearing hotpants? i haven't heard that in 20 years. melissa: i was wearing regular pants. i was just dressed for a cheeseburger. anyway. the iphone maker playing defense ahead of samsung's revealing of their new phone. dennis: facebook

nicole with the stock now. nicole: the tao intraday highs.lackberry formerly known as research in motion doing very well. this is on a morgan stanley upgraded. $15.75, up 4.82%, now overweight from an underweight. at $15.77, search by some upside potential on this one. some people have written off blackberry but don't forget they recently got 1 million units order. that is a big deal for the blackberry 10. the stock has jumped. i continue to stick with the oldest library of all time, but obviously it is still a hot commodity and people are buying up the new blackberries. the major market averages today, plenty of green on the screen. 29 of the 30 dow components in the green hitting all new record highs of a trading as high as 15,545. back to you. dagen: make the american people worry about the deficit, worry about how much the government is spending because if you look at interest rates and what it cost uncle sam to borrow right now, there is no worry, 1.94% at how much it cost every year to borrow over 10 years. where do interest rates go? k

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thank you, nicole.ny could on the floor, and let's bring in somebody to talk about the s&p. s&p capital iq chief equity strategist is here, and s&p just raising their s&p target for the next 12 month, and you went from 1550 up to 1670, a big boost. 7% boost. what's the thinking here? >> hey, cheryl, our feeling is that, well, first off, we establishedded the earlier target back in november, passage of time, but, also, i think the trajectory of the low flying recovery has been improving, and at the same time, the market has been willing to pay a little bit higher future earnings right now, at a multiple of 15, a pe ratio of 15, interestingly enough still trading at a discount of 15% on a trailing basis over the past quarter century, and is also trading at a discount to the average since the secular bear market started. really, it's just looking towards earnings over the coming 12-month period, applying what we field to be a fair, multiple number and we have 1670. cheryl: s&p is predicting volatility, but

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nicole?t just now turned negative a short time ago as we've seen the dollar gaining a little momentum here. a short time ago the dow was in the green but we are seeing some accelerated selling right now. nasdaq down a half percent, much like the s&p 500 and dow one quarter of 1%. housing starts was actually some good news there for housing starts. it rose -- i'm sorry. construction on new homes. 0.8% in february. so that was actually the highest level that we saw in december for housing starts and quickly, must take a look at these financials which yesterday were getting hit, 2% roughly. yesterday we saw the foreign banks down 3%, 4%. back and forth action. bank of america seems to be the one that will hold on at a 52-week high. morgan stanley down. back to you. cheryl: more action to the down soyed like yesterday. thank you very much. we'll see you 14 minutes from now. well, so close but hopefully for the bulls not too far away. s&p 500 almost hitting its all-time high friday. we came within

tracy: thank you, nicole. you in 15 minutes. >>> how should you invest in this volatile market? big money strategist bill griner tells us what he likes and what he didn't like next. adam: first, here is how the dollar was moving. it was gaining strength and looks to be continuing. >> 20 minutes past the hour right now. hi, everybody, i'm jamie colby. this is your fox news minute. iran's clerical leader is warning the islamic republic will destroy the cities of tel aviv and haifa if attacked by israel. israel threatened military action against iran if it continues its nuclear development activities. ayatollah khomeni says iran has a natural right to enrich uranium. in a fox news exclusive, israeli president shimon peres says he believes president obama will order an attack on iran if necessary to prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons. peres says shoot something aa3 last option but it is an option if diplomasy doesn't work. he is hosting president obama for a state dinner at this hour. those are the headline

nicole petallides. nicole: looking at something in the retail sector and are right now.as been under pressure. you can see the stock is down a half percent. finish line also getting downgraded. down nearly 5% on the day. finish line known for sneakers and such. dollar general beat the street by more than half a percent. lowe's is a window. best buy up over 2%. you have the sound of richard shultz now joining the board. they are working to take this company private. back to you. cheryl: nicole petallides, thank you very much. dennis: today's media minute. how is your bracket doing? the sweet 16 in college basketball. this year may be the last time the final four will be the exclusive product of cbs. cbs and time warner 16 year contract is now in its third year. the final four could move to tnt . the weekend box office getting crude. taking the top spot "the croods." "oz" is now approaching $400 million. owner of the other half is lions gate. that raises a possibility of a merger someday. cheryl: the not so painful gas pump. just how low the price of your gasoline has been

nicole's cousin. irene, right? nicole: yes. our fathers are brothers.be checking in estimates of banking issue gets resolved or if it doesn't, we're watching it closely. cher is like a real state magnet flipping homes before it was cool. is she moonstruck for thinking she can flip her venice california pad? here's a real estate reality check. prices increased in january by the most since june of 2006 and new home sales better than expected but still down 4.6% month over month. so how are the homebuilders feeling? let's bring in one of them. chairman and ceo joining us in a fox business exclusive from scottsdale, arizona. cher make it only a gain of 300,000, i am sure you are crying for her. inventory is going up and sales came down slightly for new home sales. does that worry you at all? the nationwide number can sometimes be a little off. >> it does not worry me at all, is the perfect storm for housing. supply is low, prices are rising in the south and west west, business is picking up. liz: looking at new home sales, lagging just a little bit but look

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nicole petallides standing by.hat cannot make its mind that. >> reporter: and look at that. back in the green once again erasing all those symptoms from china, end squeezing of some green. you will keep an eye going into the closing bell. that's take a look also in the beverage world. a big deal under way. some antitrust regulation concern. now you have anheuser-busch asking the court to delay. as they try and halt settlement talks. they are embroiled in battle. the consolation, which is an all-time high today, the distributor. so they are all intertwined. the fact that it is still on the table listed news. tracy: will see you at the top of the art. adam: the money grab to market it perished? ended above thomas says yes. tracy: next. tracy: first was a delegate some of the winners and losers. up over 4%. your dow down 6%. we will be at six points. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ [ cowmoo ] [ sizzling ] more rain... [ thunder rumbles ] ♪ [ male announcer ] when the world moves... futures move first. learn futures from ex

let's head back to nicole on the floor of nyse. what is going on, nicole?ld have asked for a 10-year chart for directv looks like all-time high. was going to say an annual high. as i chart it, directv showing how shareholder friendly. the stock is jumping as you can see 4 1/2%. this is because the company won't be buying vivendi's brazilian unit that is sign, another sign they're quite shareholder friendly. you see directv, despite the fact markets were selling off they got a pretty nice pop. back to you. david: nicole's got a little irish going with her greek background there. i think there is little irish in all of us. >> i celebrate everybody. david: thank you, nicole. sandra: a day after releasing a scathing report, a senate subcommittee holding a hearing today on jpmorgan's trading disaster. we know it as the london whale. david: cost at least $6 billion. current and former top executives from the firm testified, but, noticeably absent was jamie dimon ceo. where is he? we know he was in d.c. earlier in the week. rich edson is live in d.c. why wasn't he

nicole: a great move, right?nd today, a positive comment one of the analyst today comes from morgan stanley, upgrading it to an overweight from an underweight, from an underweight. that's a good jump to $22, a new price target up from 10 and surpassed 10. maybe they're late to the game with a call, but think there's upside potential and we talked about the big million dollar-- million units order that we talked about last we are. so far so good. year to date up. charles: and they've been fighting to claw themselves back into prominence and the stock has been on fire. thanks a lot, nicole. speaking of someone on fire, or something on fire, dr. ben carson, president obama's new outspoken critic. he's going to join us in the next hour to talk about this. >> it's almost laughable some of the things i hear people say to criticize you, they say he's a neuro surgeon, he couldn't know anything about economics. it's not brain surgery. charles: now, does dr. carson have plans to run for public office? we're going to ask hi

nicole: bank of america, jpmorgan. look at citigroup, obviously we watch it throughout the financial crisis and a sword to the new annual highs. anybody who wanted to take a risk and actually bought into that is probably cheering now. liz: american eagle outfitters. we have been watching it all day, but just a few moments ago we were watching it get smacked down 10% on research that showed people aren't rushing into the stars in the malls, but some like abercrombie not getting hit as hard. nicole: that is true. teenagers are fickle. american eagle outfitters seems to be on the outs today. getting a cautious outlook, not seeing the traffic that they had hoped. david: looks like we have done it again. new all-time highs. liz: it is a little bit more muted. another headline input as the dow jones industrial closes at all-time highs, 14,295. the s&p up one and three quarters. the nasdaq could not hold the games they were able to find, and the russell 2000 up about a quarter of a percent. david: we're looking at oil in part

and then. >> chris: i have to go to nicolle.ortant do you think same-sex marriage is as a gateway issue for republicans maintaining credibility with new younger voters? >> i think what is most important is that the debate remains civilized and that it remains intellectual and remains the debate about the role of marriage in our life and we have to have room in our party for both mr. bauer and me. >> chris: on that note of unusual agreement, thank you both. thanks for talking with us and we will hear what the justices have to say when they consider these two cases this week. thank you both for coming in. >> thank you. >> chris: up next we will continue the discussion with the sunday group. will the supreme court make a sweeping decision or decide these cases on narrow grounds? >>> my opinion is born out of my childhood and my faith and my beliefs that marriage is between one man and one woman. >> here is what i think about it. doma is definitely unconstitutional. >> chris: house speaker boehner and democratic leader pelosi on on

nicole petallides.he dow is trying almost desperately to reach the all-time high. >> it really is. it really is. get excited. we're 83 points away from the all-time highs we set back in 2007. i'm talking about the closing highs. that is the first milestone we want to get to if you're a bull out there. want to look at a name on the move on wall street. certainly one grabbed a lot of headlines, that is best buy. it is down one-third of 1%. there are two stories surrounding best buy, the founder richard schulze who worked with private equity investors to try to take the company private. he is out. that deal is not happening at least for now. the second thing they're doing better at sales of after two years of dwindling sales at the holidays, they're doing better. that is good news. back to you. lori: nicole, thanks as always. ashley: february a good month for automakers with february posting gains. the real hot market is used cars. that is if you get hands on inventory if you're a seller. we have a co-owne

thanks, nicole. dow industrials, down 13, that's not a selloff by any means. of course we'll get retail steals numbers this week and could tell us if the positive jobs report from friday is for real or not. nicole, you're looking at dick's sporting goods. i'm not sure that's a big indicator, but it's way down. why? >> it's way down and they missed the numbers and did not estimate the demands properly. just moments ago this particular area was very crowded this is where dick's trades and it was packed and you can see it's down, 7, 8%, not a good quarter for them and they state that they misjudged the demand for cold weather merchandise due to mild temperatures in the season. big picture, you didn't sell enough stuff. stuart: how about that? all right, nicole. now we've been talking a lot about the president and whether he is sincere about his outreach to republicans. is he really going to shift his position to get a grand deal? joining us now is senator john hoven republican from north dakota. senator

good morning, nicole. nicole: good morning. what a day on wall street. obviously, another exciting day for the bulls out there. you are seeing so many stocks in the green. the bank stocks doing very well. the tech heavy nasdaq is pulling back as well. the nasdaq had been down for four days. when i think of hess, i think of names like google. obviously, not a bad day for the bulls. packing onto yesterdays gains. dagen: thank you. connell: the question after the record close for the dow is how long will this rally last. dagen: we are joined by charles payne and elizabeth macdonald. charles is on every day, you, elizabeth, are not. elizabeth, what do you say? liz: this market is retracing the exact same pattern it did in 2011, 2012. he is saying, you know, watch the members of the dow. the fact that aig, citigroup, gm are no longer in the dow really matter to him. private margins will not hit the peak levels they sell in 2011 and 2012. that means they do see a moderate kind of pull back this year with revenue, top-level erosion. if the economy improves, tha