it's the house that pulte built. you voted at jim raymer on twitter, and now it's time for him to decide. stick around to find out which one could be your winning team in 2013. >>> welcome to the annual "mad money" stock super bowl. at the beginning of every year, we look back at the previous year's best performers and have our playoffs, take the two top ranked stocks and pitting them against each other to see which is the best in the new year. 2012 season, bank of america faced off against home depot and bac went to the finals. if in the s & p division, pulte came out. now it's time for the main event. the stock super bowl. where bank of america up 109% last year, squares off against pulte, up 188%. that's got to be the favorite, right? the bank versus the home builder. i asked you the viewer to chime in against the outcome @jimcramer. we are pooling your votes. the viewers' choice, believe it or not, bank of america is heavily favored. 75% of you picked bank of america, despite the fact that it lost people bajillio

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sorry, viewers, pulte won. the strength that housing is at the beginning of a massive multiyear move. bank of america, hey, good, just not the right kind of bank for this moment. that said, i know even after all this heart break, bank of america still has a fan base, a proverbial 12th man on twitter, so i wouldn't be surprised if on every dip it garners new support and works its way higher over time. in the super bowl two winners, but pulte is the champ you want to bet on. rochelle in illinois. rochelle. >> caller: hi, jim. rochelle from chicago. love your show. >> i love loving it. i want lovie to coach the eagles. >> we love lovie too. i am bummed about him being gone. >> well, you know -- different show. >> we don't want to go into the whole cutler thing. >> caller: a big thank you to all of the people behind the scenes that make your show happen. >> and it's kay's birthday, one of our people, and it's a remarkable, remarkable place that i work at. i work with the best people in the world. they make me look

and to be clear, again, pulte overpaid for centex.a darn good company and while there was some bad land, there was some fantastic land to build terrific developments in growing portions of the country. here's the bottom line, in 2012, sprint and pulte homes were the top two performers in the s&p 500. in 2013, i think pulte will be the winner, as the housing rebound is strong enough to propel the stock to much higher levels. now we have our winner for the s&p playoff. and tomorrow, pulte will face off against the dow jones champion bank of america and our "mad money" stock super bowl. and one more thing, you, my friends and followers are the 12th man in this contest, the 12th man. here's what you do, you go on to twitter @jimcramer, cramer, and tell me who you think should be the winner. stick with cramer. >>> coming up -- joy stuck? the rise of social and mobile gaming has given another life to entertainment earnings. but it's not all fun and games. cramer's sounding the alarm on one stock that could threaten to hit the reset button o

pulte coming in was up 15%.in, like facebook, some of the stocks had big moves, taking little profits. shift to bond and the dollar, rick santelli, the cm help. group in chicago. go ahead, rick. >> good morning, jim. we are look ac the how the fixed income markets are moving, seems to be bigger, pervasive conventional wisdom rate goes up, worked certainly for the month of january. you look at a two-day chart, you can see yesterday we spent a little more time above 2%, not true today. but a year-to-date chart will reveal we were at 176 the end of last year, up at 198, 21 basis points. third year, two-day chart, yes down a bit, yes, 320 seems to be their big level, 295 where they closed last year, up about 22 ba basis points. a curve in january, a bear market, higher yields, between the 10s and 30s, affectionately called the knob spread down here. foreign exchange quickly. look at the euro/yen, continues to forge higher and higher, you see on this chart, we are just a couple months away from three-year highs. if y

i expect they will pult up chain controls shortly here. a good two to 10 degrees cooler than yesterday, it's breezy out there now. winds picking up. showers and snow levels 1500 to 2000 feet and freezing nights. you're going to feel the chill. the system coming out of the gulf of alaska it's a cold storm. speck yeld clouds is the coldest air of the season so far. heading into friday morning so we'll go with cold light showers. you'll see k67 p.m. showers here or there. showers may be more wide spread at 10:00 p.m. low snow levels up to the north. 5:00 a.m. thursday, we'll see showers along the coast goinging to be the best possibility. look at 8:00 a.m. some sun breaking through. rainfall totals from nothing to about 1500 of an inch into thursday evening. this is going to translate into the south. a winter weather advisory, thursday, 4:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. two to three inches of snow expected up to an inch as well as 1500 feet. so true winter weather there. gusty winds, travel delays chain controls likely. five to seven inches of snow expe

pulte group, a home-builder stock, surged 195%. apple also makes the cut despite struggling at the end of the year. the stock was up roughly 27%. traders are already setting up for the jobs numbers due out this friday. it's expected 135,000 jobs were added and the unemployment rate will remain unchanged at 7.7%. there is the sound of the opening bell on our show for a new trading year. gary kozlowski of united futures trading joins us, and happy new year to you gary. > > happy new year to you. > what do you anticipate the january effect will look like this year? > > we had so many people sitting on the sideline at the end of december this past year. what we are looking at, everybody is antsing, they want to get themselves into this market as soon as possible. they want to see what they can get involved in to try and recoup some of the losses, 'cause a lot of people did get hurt at the end of last year with all that was going on. > what is going on with the wintry weather and natural gas? > > well in last week's report we saw that t

pulte group rallied 5.3% closing over $20 per share for the first time since the summer of 2007. news of more homes being built helped home improvement retailers home depot and lowe's. home depot is less than a dollar away from a new multi-year high. lowe's close at $37 is an all time high. in addition to the less than impressive earnings from citi and bank of america we reported on earlier, capital one turned in disappointing results after the closing bell. credit card company capital one pledged to "return to a meaningful dividend" this year. but that did not quell concerns after earnings came up well short of estimates. the company reversed higher finance charges and fees for more customers, leading to lower revenues. the stock was down a fraction before the earnings report. it was at a 52 week high last week, but shares fell more than 5% in after hours trading falling below $59 per share. but two regional bank stocks rallied. the cincinnati-based fifth third rose 4.8% to a new 52 week high. earnings were better than forecast. same story at pittsburgh-based p.n.c. financial, w

as you see, pulte homes, rising 3%, toll brothers and lennar rose about 2% on average. even that disappointing news on the housing front couldn't keep buyers away. so far, stocks have been up every week this year. much of the gains today were thanks to better than expected earnings news. looking at today's volume levels about 700 million shares traded here at the big board. over at nasdaq, roughly two billion shares. for the week, the dow climbed nearly 2%. more modest gains at the nasdaq, due to heavy selling in apple. and the s&p 500 advanced just over 1%. let's get right to the big name stocks reporting earnings today that drove up the markets. no surprise that procter and gamble was the biggest gainer in the dow and s&p, as suzanne mentioned earlier, the company reported a big jump in earnings and raised its outlook for future quarters. shares surged more than 4% to $75. rival kimberly-clark also announced better than expected earnings. the kleenex tissue maker cut costs and stepped up its marketing efforts. the company expects business in emerging markets to drive

pulte-group fell 3.3%. lennar shed 2.7%. k.b. home was down 2.4%. your favorite barnes and noble bookstore could disappear. the company said in the next decade it will close as many as one out of three of its current outlets. it plans to close about 20 stores per year for the next 10 years. today, there are 689 barnes and noble retail bookstores. as part of the company's long range planning, it will reduce that to as low as 450 over the next 10 years. barnes and noble has seen its market-share drop thanks to competition from amazon and e- books. shares were down 1.1%. the company had a disappointing holiday season with sales down 11%. three of the five most actively traded exchange traded product were down. the nasdaq one hundred tracking fund put in the best performance, up 0.2%. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> tom: we continue our monday series with some of the nation's top universities to bring you the best research on business, the economy and investing. we call it "n.b.r.-u." our partners combine over 400 years of business knowledge-- h

pulte group rallied 5.3% closing over $20 per share for the first time since the summer of 2007. news of more homes being built helped home improvement retailers home depot and lowe's. home depot is less than a dollar away from a new multi-year high. lowe's close at $37 is an all time high. in addition to the less than impressive earnings from citi and bank of america we reported on earlier, capital one turned in disappointing results after the closing bell. credit card company capital one pledged to "return to a meaningful dividend" this year. but that did not quell concerns after earnings came up well short of estimates. the company reversed higher finance charges and fees for more customers, leading to lower revenues. the stock was down a fraction before the earnings report. it was at a 52 week high last week, but shares fell more than 5% in after hours trading, falling below $59 per share. but two regional bank stocks rallied. the cincinnati-based fifth third rose 4.8% to a new 52 week high. earnings were better than forecast. same story at pittsburgh-based p.n.c. financial,

as you see, pulte homes, rising 3%, toll brothers and lennar rose about 2% on average. even that disappointing news on the housing front couldn't keep buyers away. so far, stocks have been up every week this year. much of the gains today were thanks to better than expected earnings news. looking at today's volume levels about 700 million shares traded here at the big board. over at nasdaq, roughly two billion shares. for the week, the dow climbed nearly 2%. more modest gains at the nasdaq, due to heavy selling in apple. and the s&p 500 advanced just over 1%. let's get right to the big name stocks reporting earnings today that drove up the markets. no surprise that procter and gamble was the biggest gainer in the dow and s&p, as suzanne mentioned earlier, the company reported a big jump in earnings and raised its outlook for future quarters. shares surged more than 4% to $75. rival kimberly-clark also announced better than expected earnings. the kleenex tissue maker cut costs and stepped up its marketing efforts. the company expects business in emerging markets to drive

pulte-group fell 3.3%. lennar shed 2.7%. k.b. home was down 2.4%. your favorite barnes and noble bookstore could disappear. the company said in the next decade it will close as many as one out of three of its current outlets. it plans to close about 20 stores per year for the next 10 years. today, there are 689 barnes and noble retail bookstores. as part of the company's long range planning, it will reduce that to as low as 450 over the next 10 years. barnes and noble has seen its market-share drop thanks to competition from amazon and e- books. shares were down 1.1%. the company had a disappointing holiday season with sales down 11%. three of the five most actively traded exchange traded product were down. the nasdaq one hundred tracking fund put in the best performance, up 0.2%. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> tom: we continue our monday series with some of the nation's top universities to bring you the best research on business, the economy and investing. we call it "n.b.r.-u." our partners combine over 400 years of business knowledge-- h

in the christmas eve address, they called for pulte -- for freedom of speech to be protected. 2012 was a turbulent year in russia. many are hoping 2013 will bring peace and reconciliation. >> the french actor gerard depardieu has been offered an apartment by the russian government. he was showing off his new russian passport. he has threatened to give up his french citizenship over plans to raise taxes on the rich. there is a short list of three players showing off their skills in spain on sunday. >> how the use that -- had you decide who the best player in the world is? is it rinaldo? the crown will be handed to one of those in zurich. sunday saw all three of them in action in the matches. it should really be a no- brainer. he led spain to their second european title in a row. he is also named the best player in the chevy in, but it is hard to mention when he played in the league. messi broke the record by six. he got his first goal of 2013. they could win a record on monday. rinaldo needed to be the keeper. back on the pitch again after being dropped for the first time in 10 years la

they're pulting their parcel tax. >> if they're not informing us how can we find out?d under found information isn't easy to get. >> we made calls like that. and were given incorrect information. >> grand jury recommended they post on the web site. marin county department of finance says it's just the tax collector. responsibility for informing people is with each of the 1553 special taxing districts. none theless the department of finance suspects to have the list on its web site next month. >> that would be great if i'm eligible f i can find out, it would be very g excellent. >> we have the granted jury report about tax exemptions. go to abc 7 news.com and click on 7 on your side. >> just ahead cooking for a cause. >> coming up teenagers working in the kitchen to help >>> san jose may tryout more park lifts to help boost outdoor dining seen. -- scene, there are a few already in san jose. however city can't afford to pay for more. the city council is now considering a plan to allow wiss to pay for the parklets themselves. some businesses are eager to try it. others sa

pulte home won the stock super bowl. the second tweet from andy. please comment on that.ican tanker and what to do after the dividend slash. i don't like nordic american tanker. liked it for a while and the tanker business got really bad. we walked away from it, and i think it's probably with the dividend slash, seems like it's a bottom, i think the worldwide economy doing better. but we said that dividend would have to be slashed one day. what a terrible business. i think the business -- that might mark a bottom that dividend cut. wow. here is a tweet from @shab 27 who writes what do you think about prudential? strong earnings per share growth this year. i think it's good. i have decided the bigger bet should be on aig. a much less expensive stock than pru. i would buy aig at 35. another tweet. darden restaurants. worthy of more homework, dividend portfolio or don't waste time? darden not well run right now, and i believe buying it and not worrying about the dividend would be too risky. you should stay away from darden. we need to see a couple quarters of turn. and what

when you look at the results from toll brothers, you look at what people are expecting from pulte, the economic data, maybe it is a safe bet, but that's something that's already gone up quite a bit. we are still seeing inflows. >> matt, great to see you. >> glad to be here. >> matt hougan. let's move on here. one of the major names we are watching for next week is verizon. it preannounced an increase in subscribers, the wireless carrier, that is. but will the weakness in demand for the iphone 5 and subsidy costs hurt the bottom line? we have a good old fashioned street fight here. jon is our bull tonight, in other corner, tim, the bear. you have 30 seconds apiece, so, doc, kick it off. >> all right. they added 2 million net subscribers, tim, brings it up to 96 million. they also have a deal with red box or coin star for the streaming service, which will include four dvds delivered to you every week. i love both of those and let's not forget the 5% yield. those are all reasons i think to own this one. >> and that's my reason to sell it. in their best quarter ever, this stock's been dead

you've got cbs, big lots, kla-tencor, pulte, blackrock, no trend except they are all going on. >> theng from the new money coming into stocks. asset managers showing momentum. economically sensitive names doing very well. media companies on the heels of some expectations that advertising picks up as well as we're all expecting that we see better economic numbers later on in the year, second half of the year for sure. >> here at the big board leaning towards the financials once again and the home builders are showing up in the -- in the dow leaders here today. >> and ge. >> ge as well. >> ge reports earnings tomorrow. disney's been the best performing stock among dow components today. it's up almost 2% and home depot is up 2% as well, and it is -- they are bringing it in on the close here at this point. we've got about five minutes left. come back with the closing countdown with the dow up 90 points. >> after the bell, wells fargo ceo and chairman john stumpf is here with me for a rare and exclusive interview to talk about the mortgages and the evolving landscape in banking. where pay

the fallout of a doping controversy that pult him in the center of the controversy.pected to have admitted to doping and lied about it after years of flat-out deniade. he apologized to the staff of live strong. betsy and her husband think they deserve apologies as well. they said they told the truth and they felt armstrong's wrath. i spoke to the author of "the secret race." is there anything lance armstrong can say tonight that will make you forgive him? >> well, this is the thing, forgiveness isn't a switch. it really is a process. there has been so much damage done to us personally. we do remember the good times we had with lance, but when somebody tries to destroy your livelihood, tries to destroy your reputation for a decade, it's really difficult. and if lance will come right out and admit to the hospital room, that's a first step. >> admit to the hospital room, what do you mean? >> the hospital incident. my husband and were visiting him when he was recovering from cancer in october 1996. he had a scheduled visit with doctors and a couple of the doctors, two of

shares of hole builder pulte hitting new highs.al options activity, mike. >> yeah, a lot of activity in the april 18 puts, over 10,000 of these things traded if a little more than $1.50. the buyers would hope that the stock might be below 16 1/2 by april expiration, which is just over 100 days away. but the seller, it's interesting, doesn't really see the stock going sharply higher. over the last 100 days, this stock rose about 70%. but you're only collecting about 12% premium there. if you are selling those things, so, it's kind of hard to see why you would sell those if you thought the stock was going to rip. two market participants not seeing a whole lot more upside between know and april expiration. >> let's hit twitter now. seema mody has what is trending and the big question is, what is a trade for 2013? >> now that we have this fiscal cliff deal, what's the best trade? so, we posed that question to our audience on twitter. here are a up canal of responses. starting with michelle, he said, i would pay the fiscal cliff by purc

i like pulte home.est the housing company's mettle when lennar reports and the stock could pull back. you want to be ready with a buy in the housing business. there is a bull market somewhere. promise to find it just >>> good evening. everyone. i'm larry kudlow. this is "the kudlow report." a developing story tonight. four democratic senators send a letter to president obama urging him to do whatever he can to sidestep congress and increase the debt ceiling. but he cannot legally or constitutionally do that. john boehner reacts by saying washington must stop spending money it doesn't have. >>> speaking of sequester spending cuts, defense department is gearing up, so is homeland security. and the tsa. did you get your paycheck today? notice something missing? the payroll tax holiday is over. will this middle class tax hike really damage the economy? "the kudlow report" begins right now. >>> first up tonight, a developing story. four democratic senators sent a letter to president obama late this afternoon

pulte group and meritage have up arrows. kb home, lennar and hovnanian are pulling back.'ll focus on here. they came out with their numbers. the stock is down 2%. don't be fooled. the shares surged over 85% in the last 12 months. they came out with a quarterly report that beat the street on revenue and earnings and a nice outlook. the ceo is looking for strong profitability in fiscal 2013. back to you. melissa: nicole, thanks so much. lori: herbalife short seller bill ackman is plotting his next move to the company. some investors say he is manipulating shares. fox business's charlie gasparino has the latest on that and dell's plan to go private. joins us on the telephone. dell shares are up huge today. what is going on? >> right. listen what we were able to figure out last night there are clearly talks going on. one of the impediments i guess, there is lot of doubters that this deal will get done i say that because one of the impediments was lining up bank financing. they will have to get banks involved. there are new dodd-frank provisions to do a leveraged buyout which

pulte group and lennar all doing very well.h for the month ever decent december we saw a whole pullback for the month. we've seen the stocks soaring. a name like hovnanian which is down 12 cents today over the last six months alone is up 150%. let's talk about the median price of the average home. that has been gained over 13% in the year 2012 and it went from 218,000 and change up to 248,000 and change. so we've certainly seen the homebuilders and obviously sales on the rise and helping the lackluster economy and turning this around. while december wasn't that great, year-over-year we're seeing stellar improvement. back to you. melissa: nicole, thanks so much. lori: federated investors, you heard of them, one of the country's largest asset managers. the company posting better than expected fourth quarter results. looming over fed rate and the mutual fund industry are looming regulations that my next gift says could kill parts of his business. in fox exclusive is federated invests ceo, chris donahue. >> thanks very much, lori.

we're looking at companies like pulte group and lennar expecting triple digit year on year growth basesing sector. >> christine, good to see you. thanks for joining us. i know it's early. >> it's extraordinary to me that consumer discretionary is still so well liked among investors. daniel made a good point. doesn't it do well at the beginning of the cycle and strength rotates? but he said it never did that well. you never got the burst of consumer spending in the recovery. >> and is if people feel a little bit better about housing -- that so, it's such a spotty thing. >> and it comes with the payroll tax hike hitting. we'll see if sentiment changes. >> that's one of the things that people don't know until they see it in the paycheck. >> granted, fuel price res offsetting that. but so many mixed signals, nevertheless supporting signals. >>> meanwhile, twitter is in the news this morning in the uk. its company, tweetdeck is facing closure after repeatingly failing to fine closure. they face being dissolved by the government. >> and just to be clear, that's tweetdeck in the uk, not anywh

a store in pulte rio, texas, depends on traffic from across the way. -- a store in del rio, texas depends on traffic from across the way. but you also understand that -- we all watched the towers fall and understand the importance of national security, so you have to find a balance. i'm not offended by the idea that you would put more border patrol people on the border to make sure we're doing the right thing, but our immigration policy needs to focus -- before i got elected to the legislature, i was a prosecutor. it seems to me that makes common sense that you would chase the drug dealers before you chase the maids. he would chase the drug dealers before you chase people who are doing lawns and those kinds of things. our system is a supply and demand system. it is pretty basic. there are jobs and opportunities here. there will be supplied at comes in to meet that demand. you have to design a system that can meet that demand and add and subtract depending on the season. there are not that many people who want to work in the fields picking onions with 120 degrees. in the agriculture commun

gainers, putting a price tag of 388 on the price expecting catering and home builders, low inventory and pultellion dollar company more than many thought. how dade they come up with that. and will yahoo!'s streaming p e pages pay off with revenue. is apple losing its cool? samsung galaxy is taking over as the best selling phone in the country. and the ban torah of the art world accessible to a plugged in generation and the ceo tells us what he has planned for the future. more for twitter and multi-billion valuation and allowing its company to sell stock to blackrock. >> good morning, carl. twitter's stock sale gives the company a whole nuvew valuation north of $9 billion up from 2011. it's based on investment from blackrock buying $80 million worth of shares from twitter employees giving it a percentage of the company. it's not raising funds, allowing employees who have not been able to sell shares on the secondary market to option it and generate cash. why is twitter worth so much? it's projected to hit $11 billion in 2014 and in september 200 million active users, up 14% in march. and it red

pulte up, and lennar up. and the biggest gainers in the s&p 500 so far to date in 2013.ll it counts. if you look at the dow jones u.s. home consumption, this has already gained more than 71% in a year. carl? >> yep, a lot of people are already aware. >>> the push to get consumers to bank online and with their mobile devices. one financial institution is doing away with the physical bank all together. will security fears turn these consumers away? we'll find out when the ceo of green dot joins us next. i've always kept my eye on her... but with so much health care noise, i didn't always watch out for myself. with unitedhealthcare, i get personalized information and rewards for addressing my health risks. but she's still going to give me a heart attack. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. i have a cold, and i took nyquil, but i'm still "stubbed" up. [ male announcer ] truth is, nyquil doesn't unstuff your nose. what? [ male announcer ] it doesn't have a decongestant. no way. [ male announcer ] sorry. alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms plus has a fast

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