potash is incredibly low. all that said, i like yield, i don't like the economic sensitivity, people think potash has both. not enough yield and more economic sensitivity than we thought because a lot of people can put up fertilizer plants quickly. i'm not going to bless potash. i'll go to bill in new york. bill? >> caller: hey, jim, boo-yah from bill from long island, new york. >> long island, i'll be there this weekend. >> caller: listen, jim, i bought nike stock about a month ago and my understanding is they sold two of their brands today. my question, jim, should i invest in a few more stocks? >> look, we know -- we know from finish line, we know from footlocker, the sneaker business is strong. we know that nike's got a ton of new products available. we know that nike, unfortunately, is up 30% year-over-year, but that said i like nike on a pullback. and i like the new device that reveals how many calories, how many points when you walk around. it syncs with your ipod or ipad. if you haven't seen this thing

until you formed a rock crystal, like a big rock candy and those crystals, those rock crystals of potash could then be sold for cash to the english who needed it at the start of the industrial revolution for fix tiffs in the textile industry. the formula i have found is one large elm tree produced enough cash to buy two acres of land. so the frontier people would cut down enough timber to buy a little more land and then cut down more timber to buy a little more land. you get the picture. they used the trunks of the trees for fencing, to build houses, and eventually to build shifts and graphs, et cetera. so this was the pattern. so people with almost no money could have a down payment and expand and expand as their families expanded because many of the families had eight to ten children and their problem was they all survived. so ethan allen grew up learning from his father how to start a community and learning how to hunt, as well. there were mohawk indians still in the area so he learned to live indian style, how to hunt indian style and he turned into a robust and very outgoing young m

>> the del monday rose cause on agrium, cf, potash. >> cf industries, that's the direct tie, nitrogenertilizer, it remains the winner, and i like the fact that the greens futures have held a significant gains from early this morning. >> potash as well, very unusual option activity form seema, thanks so much. more final trades, next. ♪ here we are, me and you ♪ on the road ♪ and we know that it goes on and on ♪ [ female announcer ] you're the boss of your life. in charge of making memories and keeping promises. ask your financial professional how lincoln financial can help you take charge of your future. ♪ ♪ oh, oh, all the way ♪ oh, oh this is new york state. we built the first railway, the first trade route to the west, the greatest empires. then, some said, we lost our edge. well today, there's a new new york state. one that's working to attract businesses and create jobs. a place where innovation meets determination... and businesses lead the world. the new new york works for business. find out how it can work for yours at thenewny.com. sven's home security gets the most rewards of

mosaic jumped more than 4%, potash gained 3.6%, and c.f. industries rallied almost 3%. all three saw heavier than usual trading volumes on today's buying. all of the five most actively traded exchange traded funds were higher, led by a nine- tenths of a percent increase in the emerging markets fund. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> susie: from restaurants to buying groceries and making lunches, americans spend over $1 trillion a year on food. before the great recession hit, a lot of that money went to eating out, but that's changed. celebrity chefs like emeril lagasse and paula dean are helping make chefs out of lawyers, teachers, and everyday americans. as we continue our look at the foodie craze, diane eastabrook says that's turning the housewares industry into a multi-billion dollar business. >> okay, so push up and pull back in same motion. >> reporter: chef carrie bradler demonstrates the proper way to separate an egg and whip the whites for a perfect strawberry almond cake. the chopping block in chicago is one part school, one part store, a place where you

that's fine. >> down 1%. >> that's also the potash.theme in 2008-2009, the day of the market, where we finally had leadership and it was mosaic and potash. is that a top? and xstrata glencore. >> how about apple? >> how about apple? >> you were saying it should be moving much more. >> yes! i mean -- >> prevent it to be sold in california. >> i remember when it came out. >> ipad killer. >> yes. ipad is looking a lot like -- dare i say it -- the ipod. game, set, match. i don't care what google does. the apple ipad is -- >> earlier you were saying it's not a zero sum game. >> no. no, kindle, on the kindle book reading it is not a zero sum game. >> oh. okay. there's room for kindle and room for google is what i'm saying but with the ipad, they did get an injunction. i mean, it is like out west, nobody seems to care. i'm focused on it. >> yeah. markets across the board higher. it is worth noting, too, oil once again 80 bucks a barrel and wti and the energy stocks are trading higher. we have much more straight ahead. >>> up next, we have six

we have potash, cnf and rnf. >> pcg is down today but you can trade it against 4309. nice dividend.d steady. >> let's get to the moment. everybody has been waiting for it all night long. time to reveal the trade of the day. what is behind this curtain? >> my trade of the day, my trade into the evening, i said i was b buying melli. ebay owns about 18% of these guys. most importantly, this is a company that is a dynamo from a trading perspective. the stock has gone from 105 down to 65 in the last six weeks. more importantly, this stock is a fantastic company that you buy when the valuation is right. and for this company's relative value at 32 times earnings, a trough valuation that you have not seen when i think a lot of these guys were overdone. this is a very real company. your risks are coming from argentina. to me, any time could let the currency go. i do believe that there are currency risks there. their papal is something that is going very well. stop yourself at 63. just above the 50 there is a great trade here. [ male announcer ] trophies and awards lift you up. but they can a

look at potash and mosaic near 22-month lows. cf industries also feeling the heat today. brian. >> jackie, thank you very much. well, friday's jobs report was nothing short of awful. and more and more people and pun dants are blaming d.c. for the lack of jobs. with more than $1 trillion in cash on corporate balance sheets, why can't corporate america put d.c. in the rearview mirror and take back the economic dialogue? in other words, like we said going into the break, shut up, step up, get down to business without washington. well, let us ask bill george as well as john allison, former chairman and ceo of bbnt. john, you know, after the jobs report came out and then you saw romney take advantage of it, the president came out, the pund ents, twitter, everything started to blow up. when are we going to ignore washington and people can do what they want and d.c. becomes less and less relevant to our economic life. is that possible? >> i wish it were. i think that public policy in washington has done a tremendous damage to our economy. but if you're a business leader, you hav

and he ended up hauling potash of chemicals or something to small ships.when he became the toys all over again and mounted a huge campaign to restore his reputation, and his son tried to do so after his death. i think he died about 6162. today there's a whole band of titanic buffs who defend captain lord. entities any but the californian you will get nasty letters because i didn't go into the californian controversy too much in the book because i didn't want to do with all the crazy lord -ites wanting. that wasn't what i was about. countless books written about both sides of the californian controversy. people really defend, field has been made a scapegoat. i don't think you can get around the fact that he never woke up, even woke up the radio operator to find out what was going on. he didn't want to move. so i'm not a lower died. -- lordite. any other questions? [inaudible] there were venues on the titanic and so forth. [inaudible] are there ways to tell how you prepare the? >> that book that i did, and have no financial it is immoral, but lasted on the t