one big winner of the day, radio shack. yes, radio shack. after dumping a partnership with t-mobile and right now amazon.com share, hot after better than expected sales and profits were delivered after the closing bell and a little bit of signs of stabilization in the housing market. new home sales fell in june, but overall prices are rising some as supplies dwindle. that's it from cnbc. first in business worldwide. now, back to "hardball." >>> i will not vote to increase the debt ceiling. it goes completely contrary to common sense, and how i grew up in iowa. we have to deal with the economic reality. and i have the will and i have the courage to see this through. i'm michele bachmann, and i approve this message i. love this, the take on the background. welcome back to "hardball." when it comes to the debt crisis we know where the tea parties stand. michele bachmann, leader of 9 tea party of the house. you saw in her campaign ad. what about other republicans running in 2012? why haven't we heard from them? a great question. michael shear wr

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we'll be watching today for, let's see glaxo, ford, radio shack, some 41 different companies. here. we'll be hearing from those different kinds. different pulse on different parts of the economy later on today. >> going back to your distinction about markets, stock markets seem to be doing okay. dollar and treasury, however, are sinking. >> that's right. i think that's where you're going see the whole reaction. a ten-year note yield hovering around 3%. 3% for ten-year money. can you imagine -- you would have thought in all of these months of concerns about our fiscal problems those yields would have moved higher. one of the reason, this is a fascinating discussion going on for the past couple days, what happens with yields if there's not a deal? do you see yield spike higher and bond prices tank? that's kind of an interesting thing that's playing out. >> which leaves it -- makes it clear that we don't know what's going to happen. christine, good to see you. >>> now back to today's businessman special. the rubber duck, it helped a colorado couple bring in million in sales. $2 d

it sounds oppressive, you realize, radio shack has more cash on hand. >> you know what?e. according to a report from the bbc, the latest figures show that apple has cash reserves of $76.4 billion. but the u.s. only has $73.7 billion in cash on hand. that's nearly $3 billion less. so i want to bring in our tech expert daniel sieberg to talk about this. he is the author of "the digital diet." daniel, is this what we have come to? >> well, kind of. and by the way, if apple spent money the way the u.s. government does, about $10 billion a day, they wouldn't last two weeks. but apple has clearly made a lot of smart decisions. the ipad and the iphone very popular, as we know. also they've got the latest operating system lion that's just released out. the mu mac book air. all is not necessarily great in apple's world. the ipod which came out back in 2001. the sales with that has started to drop off a little bit these days. of course, everybody is concerned about the future of steve jobs with his health. but obviously apple doing very well with a lot of their business decisions.

. >> lightning round, radio shack. >> radio shack, they've had their struggles, i am not going to liebs in texas, maryland right now. they offer all kinds of mobile phones and different types of plans that come with it and they really are one of the nation's still largest consumer electronics retailers. again, they've had their issues. last one, i got to -- i love this one. this is stryker, they make medical devices used in arthroscopic surgeries. cameras, knee replacement. this is the one that i'll end up with, the triathalon total knee. they make that. they need folks that can do sales and they need engineers, they need managers and they're one of the top 100 companies according to forbes and remember, forbes uses an index based on employee evaluations of the company. and it's great if you want to telecommute range of $67,000 to $98,000. i'm going to tweet all these, too. you can find them on twitter. check out cheryl at 12:00 p.m. today eastern time. >> thanks, guys. >> meanwhile, her little boy was killed by a drunk driver but she's the one facing harsher jail time. why? because s

ford, eastman kodak and radio shack will report before the opening bell, amazon, glaxo smith kline andport their earnings later in the day. >>> dunkin' donuts leads the list of companies expected to file for an initial public offering. 11 companies are expected to file for ipos this week, that is the most in one week since 2007. >>> a healthy happy meal, what mcdonald's is going for. the giant will announce later today it's adding vegetables and fruits to its happy meals, also cutting back on the amount of fries in the kids meals. "american morning" back right after the break. turn left. you have arrived. sweet belt. e-reader for textbooks. gps. hd video cam for lectures. game pad. have you ever considered this ? it's got all that and more than 200,000 apps. technology to learn and play on-the-go. only at verizon. buy one droid 3 by motorola, the thinnest full qwerty smartphone ever for $199.99, and get another one free. setting that goal to become a principal. but, i have to support my family, so how do i go back to school? university of phoenix made it doable. a lot of my instructors