that's not a good story. >> peter keith, you disagree. why? that this is a big important company and it's been mismanaged for quite a number of years. so we do give credit to the management team. but they've really only been in place for one year. we think they're driving sustainable improvement across the enterprise when you look at sales, gross margin and taking out costs. a lot of the initiatives they put in place, whether it's optimizing some of the space in the store or trying to ship online purchases from the store, some of those things are just starting now. they have not gone through a quarter. we think those initiatives build as we go through 2014 you'll see accelerated earnings growth in the coming year. >> michael, what's wrong with that thesis? >> the metric to pay attention to is gross margin percentage. it's declined 11 consecutive quarters. it's going to decline, i think, for the next four consecutive quarters. if the impact of cutting prices that you get higher sales and higher gross profit dollars, then that's a good thing. th

wood realm and sales of hardwood and the like and that actually you do have piper jaffray analyst peter keitht defending the retailer and actually continues to hold an outperform overweight rating on this company. price target of $135. now year-to-date this year, lumber liquidators is up about 70% but you can see, it came under pressure today. back to you. david: nicole petallides, thank you very much. good to see you, nicole. cheryl: you know the name, toll brothers, the largest u.s. luxury homebuilder, has announced 2013 fourth quarter earnings that beat expectations. what trends are the company seeing in the high-end housing market? david: joining us toll brothers ceo, doug early. thanks for coming in. appreciate it. >> thank you. nice to be here. david: as we mentioned you guys deal with the high-end market particularly here in the northeast. i'm wondering as we're very aware of ticks in interest rates either up or down last couple months, mainly up, is your market immune to the moves in interest rates and how they affect mortgages? >> it is immune. our buy remembers able to put 4 quite a

nicole petallides at the new york stock exchange, washington correspondent peter barnes and all of our floor show traders including keith blitz, bob at the cme and from the nymex, alan harry. nicole, you first. you saw traders behave right after that number. >> reporter: right. it's pretty amazing, never looked back only to set new highs here in this afternoon trading up 183 points. watching the vixx, the fear index, guess what? after days of having up arrows, it moved to a four-day low, it's down 9%, and they're buying from every sector from energy to technology and industrials. liz: foresting to see that concern interesting to see that on the vixx there. it had touched 15 two days ago. now to peter barnes. peter? >> reporter: well, hey, liz. these numbers today are adding fuel to the taper talk with the fed potentially moving as soon as its next policy meeting on december 17th and 18th, just two weeks from now. i'll tell you what a couple of fed officials are saying about the numbers and tapering in just a couple of moments. liz: okay. let's get to our traders at the new york stock exchange, cme and nymex. for once th

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keith answering that. country superstar craig morgan is here to perform live. >> peter johnson, jr., thank you very much.ed up through obamacare may think they have insurance and they actually do not. good morning, we'll explaining this now. i'm bill hemmer in america's newsroom. martha: that's a little scary. i'm martha maccallum. the president set out for an allout p.r. blitz. they are going to try to dominate the waves and stop the pleading from the rollout. this comes from the "washington post" saying errors generated

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