i don't understand the business model with radioshack here. one, i know some people that buy the little switches but they tend to be the rocket scientists of the world. otherwise, you have a company that hitched the wagon to sprint that has had a tough time competing, as well. there's no catalyst to make the shares go higher. >> raymond james downgrading the stock and cite or many analysts on the street this mother-in-lawimother-in-law i morning talking about merchandising and you have problems. >> i think the biggest concern for radioshack is the contraction you saw in gross margins down 14% year on year and makes the likelihood of a shack-izition far less likely. >> make a pit stop. oil losing steam below 99 bucks a barrel. what is the trade from here? let's bring in dan dicker. dan, you know, if you look at the price of crude, as long as iran remains in the conversation, do you have a floor under crude at this point that it's just going to sit around this $100 range? >> yeah. i think you're right, scott. part of that is not just iran. part

. >> and radioshack, if you look at a chart in radioshack it's been telegraphing something like this happening for awhile. it's been a slow and steady decline for months now. is now indicating down about 18%. so what does it all mean? it's going to make a new 52 week low if all this hangs out where we are right now. we're going to have a monster volume day. will take this as an opportunity to cover. tomorrow might be the day anywhere in the last hour or so where you finally get the capitulation selloff where this might be an interesting name. again for a trade to jump into. i think tomorrow might provide -- just like we talked about in idcc last week. interdigital. you recall that? we said if the stock held 35 on this washout, get in. last wednesday it was spot on 35, traded north of 38. you're going to have a similar trade shaping out in radioshack. >> i'm not saying that -- these are the same companies carrying goods that people don't necessarily want or want at a low price. and it hurts the stock themselves. what do you think in terms of radioshack. at what point koul this be a ta

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radioshack, disappointing fourth quarter forecast.ael lassetr at ubs. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> they said aside from the sprint problem, business is good. is that the way you see it, as well? >> i don't think that's the whole part of the story. i think the issue with what they're seeing is the margins hit from having more apple products, which they don't make a lot of money on. more of the volume through target, a lower profit channel for them and intensely promotional factor. they can't change their cost structure fast enough. >> so if they can't change fast enough, what's the end game for a stock like radioshack? does it get taken out in a fashion? it was talking when the stock was in the 20s and didn't happen. >> good point but we're in a very different time. the margin structure of the business changed dramatically since then. when's the end game? >> i think they need to make bold moves and the challenge is that they're having fewer resources, whether it's from their margin or from their cash flow to allow them to

midday movers, radioshack getting buried. avery dennison down as well. archer daniels midland with a big drop. edwards lifesciences, positive results for its new heart device. that stock up 6%. mckesson up and mattel up 5%. let's go to the trading floor of the nyse with bob pisani. >> we have a little bit of a problem. remember economic data has been improving for months now. that's been a real underpinning to our stock market, why we've been outperforming europe. but today chicago pmi, below expectations. consumer sentiment, below expectations. and the case-shiller home price index also disappointing, down three straight months. that's a problem. take a look at the homebuilders. great month for the homebuilders. but they've stalled out in the last few days. this is the first seriously negative day we've seen all month. same situation with energy stocks. not a lot of problems. a little bit of disappointment still on the news with exxon. that's 15 points there to the downside on the dow jones industrial average. but not dramatic effects on the rest of the

how about the shareholders of radioshack and exxon mobil.obody has a bad word about exxon, nobody except for me. the oil companies are making so much money they're tracking the wrath of governments everywhere. somehow exxon mobil the acknowledged dean all oil companies managed to take the tiger out of your tank and delivered a terrible quarter! >> boo! >> reminding me of president nixon's admonition about america. exxon has become a pitiful, helpless giant. how did they blow it? >> how about oil and natural gas production upon droing 40%? how about refining and marketing profits plummeting 63%? did you pay that much less at the pump? remember a discount? i don't remember. and let's not forget that exxon made the single worst purchase, worst purchase of the millennium, buying xto. >> the house of pain! >> a gigantic natural gas concern at the absolute high for natural gas which has plummeted to 20-year lows. $31 million for xtl. guess what? i think they could have got it for half, maybe less, and that's a deal that was done less than three ye

radioshack could be a stock to watch tomorrow. after the close tonight, the retailer warned of disappointing fourth-quarter results, and it blames sprint. shares gained 1% during the regular session but fell 20% after the warning, down below $8.5 per share. the store said sprint's changes to its customers and credit models led to fewer new and upgraded subscribers. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> susie: this coming sunday, the two best teams in football will be battling for dominance on the field. off the field, however, another competition has been brewing: sales of beer versus liquor. and you might be surprised to learn which vice has been victorious. suzanne pratt has the story. >> all choices lead you somewhere. bold choices take you where you're supposed to be. >> reporter: thanks to a hip and cool new image, liquor, not beer, has become the choice of many alcohol drinkers. so much so that spirits sales continue to gain ground on their fizzy rival. >> what i've seen lately, actually, the trend is as far as buying spir