sandra smith with more. ndra: i have no real pro with me, then, what do you make of this market action after two days of heavy selling in the market looking for direction? >> it was beaten up pretty well two days in a row. if you look in terms of that it is taking a rest between rounds. i think we're at the low end lorraine and investors should have had their shopping list out buying the downturn because we are close to the bottom. nicole: you are recommending investors buy into this market now. >> absolutely. i always believe investors should buy when things are for sale, not when they are going to. traders have different mentality. and you start to bite and watch some come down. the orders are all bids across the floor on the low end of the trading range. nicole: when president obama of took the microphone and went to the podium to talk about the future and address the fiscal cliff, markets sold off hard. what was it that led to sell? >> the market has always hated the president stepped into the microphone.

sandra smith is tracking swing states for us. sandra, pick out the key county that tells me which way pennsylvania is going tonight. >> stuart, it is the suburbs surrounding the philadelphia area. i circled it in the lower right corner of the state. 20 electoral votes in the state of pennsylvania. polls close at 8:00. the reason why this is key, philadelphia and its suburbs are key is that a lot of the liberals in the city have moved out to the suburbs to find better schools and more greentrees and as they have done so many of them turned to undecided voters. stuart, i know you're a numbers guy. obama won pennsylvania by 620,000 votes in the last election. 600,000 of them, from the city of philadelphia itself which is very heavily democratic. so all of those swing, undecided votes across the state, very important tonight. stuart: we are watching that county. fascinating that liberals like green trees, san trachlt thank you for that fine piece of information. what about conservatives? america is choosing one of two very different p

sandra smith is following all the action at the pits of the cme. by far and away, oil is the biggest story down here on the floor. as i look at them, dan, we are up nearly three fox. isn't this all the middle east? >> it is a little bit of both. the talk of compromise is certainly helping. sandra: what does this mean for gasoline prices reflect it is funny how fast it will go off when you see a spike in how slow it goes down. it is about $3.53. if this keeps up, you will see it at the 375 level. sandra: if the middle east was such a severe concern, we would be way higher. is some of this the cliff playing out? >> most definitely. if you could take the middle east out of it right now, this would be followed $79 a barrel. the big thing is it is not so much the middle east, but the fear of contagion to the oil-producing areas. sandra: guys, that is really key to what i have heard from traders. it is that key from contagion. melissa: sandra smith, thank you so much. lori: that friday is almost here. retailers hoping to lure you to their website. adam s

sandra smith after new york stock exchange with a little bit of green today. sandra: a little bit of bounce back but not much of one after the selloff post election the last two days. the dow up about 17 points. green arrows across the board. gold is up, oil is up, getting a little bit of a bounce in the markets selling off after the election. this stock not getting a bounce back. jcpenney down in today's sessions. a 3% loss for the company after a narrower than expected loss for the quarter. sales missed estimates getting hit hard today, the number for r worst performer in the s&p 500. that turnaround not working, still looking at the results. connell: as the market has told him, this fiscal cliff is a big deal. rich edson with what we can expect from their later. >> we can expect the president to address economic growth and the deficit. we have the fiscal cliff negotiations beginning on capitol hill. the congressional budget office saying they will shave half a percentage point off of gdp next week if congress doesn't address the tax increases and spending cu

let's get to sandra smith. she is at the new york stock exchange for nicole petallides. jeff flock is at the cme. sandra you get to go first. sandra: if you look at the dow weekly winners, boeing tops the list and also 3m was one of the big winners for the week. hewlett-packard one of the shining technnlogy stocks. travellers and guess what? wal-mart finishing in the top five winners for the dow for the week. this is in a week it announcing opening its doors at 8:00 p.m. on thanksgiving day. wal-mart really setting the bar really high for the competitive shopping season over the holidays. s&p 500 weekly winners, computer science corp. that tops the list. first solar getting a nice bounce on the reelection of president obama and his big push for solar. first solar was one of the worst performers over the last four years. jds uniphase and tesoro and f5, your best performers on the week. let's go to jeff flock and see if you can impress us anymore, jeff? jeff: i think there's a lot of reason to be bullish commodities. take a look at the winners today, among them, oil back up

and we have sandra smith. but first, nicole, what is moving? nicole: we do what we can. you have an up arrow and an up week. and we are taking a look at a shoe company, sketchers in particular. look at the stock here today. positive comments thus far on upgrading sketchers, the kids love sketchers. boosting their price target for the fifth time this year. $22 from 19. up until recently the company said they felt the stock had moved ahead of the fundamentals, after the recent check they have found the risk/reward has become more favorable and that is why they upped the price target again. obviously talking about the retailers will be responding nicely to the company's new style, they're really loving sketchers. up 10.5%. back to you. cheryl: sandra smith, think you like it can issue here or there, what are you watching? sandra: running and biking. look at the big movers to the outside of the cme today because there were a lot of them. midday when we got the announcement of the cease-fire. plunging energy prices, they rallied back finishing near the highs of the session. h

what's your initial reaction to that, sandra smith? sandra: i think he's entitled to do this.s a really interesting reaction. stuart: why is it interesting to you? sandra: you would think -- i guess the logical conclusion is supposed to be that it would drive some people away. obviously a majority of americans voted for president obama. guess what? anybody who buys a gun is in favor of gun laws and our rights in this country, and they feel that president obama is not in defense on that. stuart: buy now to avoid cap on gun sales later? we've got the judge sitting here. i can't resist. can someone say on political grounds you can't come in my store? >> it depends on where you are. in our home state of new jersey, you cannot because there's a statute that prohibits, a store, a public accommodation, a hotel, any business from which the public is inviting from discriminating on the basis of political views for people coming on the premises. arizona doesn't have such a statute. you have a freedom to deal wither who you want. in -- you have the freedom to deal with whoever you want i

sandra smith has retail round up in her trade for today. sandra?a: apparently we won't be able to finish our thanksgiving dinner because everybody will be shopping. michael kors a stock that's gone up more than 80% so far in 2012. they topped estimates but there was still some concern from michael kors about the outlook especially as we face the fiscal cliff. also heard a conversation about the fiscal cliff coming from saks. they said their profits were hurt from a modest spike in promotions. they are having to put more things on sale just to get people to buy them. they specifically mentioned their high end customers and said that they will be more aware of the facing of that fiscal cliff at year's end. they are worried about spending at their stores over the holiday. so a little bit of word of caution keeping saks from really rallying after reporting those earnings. dick's sporting goods is up 5%. again, a major winner as far as retail so far this year, up 40%. profit surged more than 20%. stronger than expected sales growth. and their full year

sandra smith, let's get over to you. what are you seeing? sandra: to your point, most things are up today, but there are some things that we're following. we've found one for you, natural gas prices, your biggest loser as far as commodities are concerned on a day where commodities were soaring across the board. if you take a look at natural gas prices, the reason they are getting such a boost, liz, is because of all the warm weather out there. you're looking at warm weather across the -- on the east coast, the midwest, and that's lessening demand for natural gas, but again, the big gainers today, if you take a look in the energy market, it was crude oil, rbob gasoline, also heating oil prices skyrocketing today, if you look at crude oil prices, an intraday chart will show you sitting near their highs of the session as they closed at a one-week high. this would make a third straight week of gains if we were to close higher again this week. lots of bullish momentum behind that market. it is the middle east, avoidance of falling off the fiscal

sandra smith with the details in today's trade. that is what it is all about, isn't it, sandra?> that is what is was all about. you saw gold, back into positive territory. but we got huge surge in gold and precious metal prices overnight after the election was won by president obama and into this morning. intraday chart. we saw it actually fall below. gold is back up a little bit. seeing volatility. and originally, based on expectations that with president obama serving another term, that we could possibly see more quantitative easing easing by the fed. that would be bad for the u.s. dollar. good for gold prices. then all the investors saw the plunge in the stock market, had to shore up losses and cash somehow. selling gold. that is why we have volatility today. tax planning purposes i'm hearing. this is reason why a lot of folks were buying gold early this morning. they were worried about their taxes going up. they were trying to hedge their bets that way. gold, remember it hit a 11-month high after the third round of quantitative easing. it sold off some. may return back to th

we have sandra smith in for liz claman. good to see you.e petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. we have to emphasize no bond trading today, it is a slow day, not a lot of market activity but look at the vix. last time i looked at was down about 9%. all that volatility kind of being squeezed out of the system after the election, right? nicole: on the one hand the volatility concern has passed, but now there is fiscal cliff worry. the uncertainty still remains a certain extent. sandra: jcpenney continues to be a big story hitting a new low. investors are not running from their strategy, they are still sticking to it. nicole: jcpenney had this strategy, no sales, no coupons, they're actually going to do one on black friday. the big picture is this stock has been a big loser since 2008. david: an unusual case for apple, just can't seem to get a break, can it?

sandra smith, thank you very much.s in thailand, india, new zealand, luxury hotel chain now planning to open several new locations next year including in china. joining us now, so glad you are here because i'm intrigued especially with what is going on in china. why china? >> china is an emerging market and has large opportunity for spending. followed by the u.s., $70 billion by the end of 2012 china above the u.s. will go to $72 billion. tracy: you have luxury hotels, or their luxury visitors in china? >> luxury of a word that has several different issues. talk about luxury, people take it as expensive. if it is expensive, it is a price tag. if it is an experience, it is a luxury. something you can always afford it, and enjoy it. tracy: your hotels are an experience then. >> yes, it is an experience. our competition are generation x. so looking at the generation x before the world realized it. tracy: people staying in the hotel of the chinese because they like to entertain and do things like that. are you worried abou

sandra smith at the business network.searches have come up with a way to predict whether your baby will grow up to be obese. the formula takes into account several factors, the birth weight, mother's occupation and whether she smoked while pregnant. the u.s. senators for disease control and prevention estimates 17% of american kids owe r. obese, that's triple the rate from one generation ago. john roberts home live in atlanta. he had can't do this, can they? how do they do it? >> they claim they can do it with 80% accuracy. take a look at the calculator here. parents high normals bmi's 24. child weighed 9 pounds. the probability that child would become obese over time is 2% if mom is either professional or entrepreneur. social environment factors. if mom is unskilled worker and unemployed that rate jumps to 15%. race also plays a factor. in this calculator tailor into the u.s. market. if mom and dad are sort of a little bit overweight, mom gained 25% extra weight when pre of the baby is asian, 7% chance that baby will bec

among the only residents here today were frank and sandra smith. they rode out the storm. they're in day three without power and the utility may shut off gas in town tonight as a safety precaution. it's been several days. what has it been like living here on the island? >> cold. dreary. we have no water except drinking water. no electric. >> reporter: why did you decide to stay? >> we knew if we left we couldn't come back. they won't let -- if we leave now we can't come back. would you like to see inside? >> reporter: what does it look like in there? >> pretty awful. >> reporter: let's have a look real quick. you have water up to your knees at least. you were watching the ocean go by the front door. >> yeah. >> reporter: on the way to the bay. >> right down the street. >> reporter: what can d you think? >> you know what, i thought i'm really sad this happened. but i'm so glad we're here. >> reporter: you wanted to see it? >> i did. >> reporter: why? >> an experience. i have experienced something amazing. >> with just five days until americans vote the storm has clouded the

sandra smith has the details in today's trade. what's going on?well, the news has been pretty good for the housing market, and that's had a big rally in the home builders, particularly dr horton which is down big despite reporting profits that beat expectations, the stock tumbling 4%. this is one of the larger home builders by volume. it's up about 57% so far this year, but it's been trying to figure out if they beat profit expectations, revenues were in line with estimates, what the heck is the stock falling for? well, this quote very important coming from the conference call today, the ceo over at dhi saying this, quote: i still don't see a lot of jobs being created, and i also see the fact there are potential layoffs in a number of industries, especially the defense industry. so tomnitz really warning on the lack of jobs and what that's going to do going forward, so leading to a selloff there. home builders down across the board today, beazer homes, bad news there. a lot of red air eau -- arrows, but up big so far in 2012. tracy: everything, ri

liz: on this wild and crazy day, let's get to sandra smith. i want to point out the fact that we are back above some major levels. s&p above 1400. each of the major averages rising above their 200 day moving day averages. a couple stocks i wanted to point out. lowes hitting an all-time high. we got that better than expected news ut from the national association about pending home sales up about 5% better than expected. lowes all-time high. it has dipped negative on the session. sixty-four dollars a share. a huge run-up in the home improvement retailer stocks. the home-building sector not really getting a boost from not housing sector. the others are posing a slight gain. i want to point out that commodities have seen some volatile trading. speaker john boehner did lead to a selloff earlier in the session. oil rallied back. buying the dips and those commodities markets. definitely a bit in the commodity markets today. liz: looks like it. not a bad day at all. hank smith is back with me talking about why he thinks it is time to buy the blue box.

this leads us to sandra smith. big names like limited brands and williams-sonoma. big earnings. our people shopping? sandra: if they are going to keep buying the matter what. they are going to put all this into the high-end retailers. they are the ones worried about the fiscal cliff and the taxes going up. limited brands, victoria's secret, bath and body works, owner and operator. we have a significant jump with the victoria's secret fashion show airing in september. justin bieber is going to be involved. 16% so far this year, outperforming the broader market. analysts say that it is up there around 20 and hurricane sandy is estimated to put a dent into profits in the quarter. the williams-sonoma developing -- down 1% heading into the earnings. again, a specialty retailer, sometimes it's really tough and a hard retail environment. but the stock is up 18%. they have had a really good run of it. this one will be a good test of the overall consumer out there. tracy: i'm still thinking about justin bieber singing at a victoria's secret fashion show. he's too young. he needs a haircut

sandra smith looked into that. >> we went to allentown pennsylvania to a company called air products. is not unreasonable to say jobs are out there and felt. many you don't have to have a college education. most of them as you do not. most just had a high-school degree. >> we hear there is no jobs in america. in that building high-paying jobs sit and they can't up to one year. >> we are actively recruiting every day. starting at $20 per hour. john: most graduates to not have the skills. >> officials love to push higher education. >> but there is another path. >> vocational schools. they get jobs. >> i am paid more than my friends. >> i just bought a car with the money i made. john: they learned technical skills in high school. >> you add many job offers? you did not go to college? >> my brother got out with a master's and is having trouble in his field. john: he cannot find a job. >> it brings us mild two may face. they are proud. -- a smile to my face. john: but this is not to cool? it is not glamorous. obama once money for liberal collegesven he wants to cut support seven enticing i

sandra smith with "the trade" today. conflict causing a spike in commodity prices. in many dollars per barrel, gold prices up nearly $20. i want to bring in mike williams. this is something you have been watching for a while. gold i want to bring up first because you accurately called the big selloff in gold with seewas seenover $100 selloff. are you thinking they're bottoming out at these levels? >> it is probably a little bit of a bounce. gold is a little bit more fear index. we look at this is probably a bit of a bounce and playoff to be short. >sandra: you still think gold could dip below 70 non $700 per? >> we would argue yes. sandra: nobody's arguing, the situation in the middle east isn't bush for oil prices and gasoline prices for that matter. >> we're long-term investors, benefits if the united states is producing more oil, this will bounce with the issues related to war, concerned that that has passed, the market will come back down. sandra: you may very interesting point, if the conflict was taken that seriousl

and sandra smith and charles payne are here. the powerball discussion next. ♪ ♪ all right.a half billion dollars, yeah, that's a lot of money and that's what you could win in tonight's powerball lottery jackpot payout win. i say do not buy that ticket. you'll pay a tax upfront and if you win, you'll pay a tax and if you have the unfortunate to die, your estate is up a creek. sandra: i don't think that you'll talk anybody out of the lotto tickets and bet they're going to die. stuart: it's a $2 ticket. and you buy that ticket. immediately tax the 50%. $1 goes to the state. and if you win 300 billion dollars, you lose at least a third that goes straight to the feds and then for the estate, local taxes. sandra: you've still got 2 million bucks. stuart: well, do you think that's a good deal. sandra: i'm saying you're not goinn to talk anybody out of it. what i think is a scam, stuart, i'm going to tell you why. if you look where the highest population of lottery ticket buyers are, it's in the most poverty stricken areas in this country and so when you talk about the money that t

sandra smith, charles payne coming up next.ow can voters of a free market decide to elect a candidate who said this while running for office. listen to this again. >> there is no body in this country who got rich on his own. nobody. stuart: elizabeth warren beating scott brown in massachusetts. sheaths -- use the one who said this. >> nobody in this country got rich on his own. nobody. you build a factory out there -- a stuart: that wasn't her greatest hit. we are sure you remember the controversy over her native american heritage. she was elected. before you start, i am going to suggest liberalism won and is gaining ground. if you elected as the warrant to the senate, liberals are winning. >> if there's any point that marked that last night this would be one of them but remember what this does for business and banks and wall street. elizabeth warren has been a harsh critic of business in general and business does not see this as good. you wonder why the stock market is down? has been like this last night. elizabeth warren. thi

among the only residents here today were frank and sandra smith. they rode ow the storm. they're in day three without power, an and the utility may shut off the gas in town tonight as a safety precaution. it's been several days now since the storm. what has it been like living here on the island? >> cold. dreary. we have no water, except drinking water. no electric. >> pelley: why did you decide to stay? >> because we knew if we left, we couldn't come back. they won't let-- if we leave now, we can't come back. would you like to see inside? >> pelley: what does it look like in there? >> pretty awful. >> pelley: well, let's have a look real quick. you had water up to your knees at least in this room. >> yeah. >> pelley: you were watching the ocean go by the front door. >> yeah! >> pelley: on the way to the bay. >> yeah! right down the street. >> pelley: what did you think? >> you know what? i thought i'm really sad this happened, but i'm so glad we're here. >> pelley: you wanted to see it. >> i did. >> pelley: why? >> an experience. i have experienced something amazing, and

sandra smith has the trade today. work, go and see what people are buying. they do a lot of footwear including og ugg boots. don't leave retailers altogether, check out the online retailers. really interesting, the orange e line is the online retailer. names like amazon, ebay, overstock a few that make up the line. the blue line is the etf weeding out amazon. your brick-and-mortar stores. this is the 2012 performance. up 46% this year. a lot more people shopping online so keep that in mind taking your retail stocks. i will use best buy as an example. a lot are going online selling a lot more. best buy is one of them really ramping up. a stock taking more than half of the value. deftly going to be one to watch. hiring more employees. e-commerce site going very well. amazon.com is heads to match. keep in mind taking her stocks over the holidays. they also say this weekend not indicative. keep in mind. go to the stars and see what people are buying. cheryl: wal-mart, target, these guys were big winners in the online stock

sandra smith, what are you looking at? sandra: there was an immediate reaction in the trading pits. the session, but, of course, oil plunged on this news. we saw oil hit the low of the session. $86.37 a barrel. that fella did not last on that news. now, it is right around 86.60. it is not being sustained. traders say it will take a lot more than that for that risk premium to be pulled out of the oil and gasoline market. big selloff on the news, but did not hold. now, we are bordering on the unchanged mark. cheryl: we should also keep in mind we are going into a holiday. sandra smith, thank you very much. we appreciate it. once again, if you are just joining us now, the cease-fire has been struck between israel and hamas. this is over the gaza strip which hamas controls. we are looking at market reaction. we will be right back on "markets now." ♪ with dedicated support teams at over 500 branches nationwide. so when you call or visit, you can ask for a name you know. because personal service starts with a real person. [ rodger ] at scottrade, seven dollar trades are just the start. ou

dennis: sandra smith has today's trade. a showdown when it comes to these retailers. we already saw a negative tone by the retailers last week. walmart and target post reporting on thursday. these are the discount retailers that thrive even in difficult times. they are both in the battle of swing there there often as early as possible on thanksgiving day. stocks up about 22.5%. it is outperforming the broader market. something to certainly continue watching. they are expected to report a 10% profit. opening their doors at 10:00 p.m. this is how competitive things are getting right now. this shows that cautious buyers are out there and they are looking for the big bargains. target is expected to post sales that are expected to be overall sales for the entire quarter. this stock up by just as much, about 22%. it is off today by 1%. analysts that cover target are urging investors to buy target shares ahead of the holidays. profits are expected to be down. they are opening their doors at 9:00 p.m. an hour after walmart. there yo

sandra smith in the pits of the cme with more on today's trade. oil reacting to the news of the cease-fire between israel and hamas, first of all. sandra: it certainly is. not really sustaining the selloff. currently down $0.24, still a little bit of a selloff but nonetheless prices have been coming down into thanksgiving weekend. a lot of drivers hitting the road, 34 million of them writing. obviously the cease-fire has an immediate impact on prices going down, but a lot of you say oil and gas will be going higher the rest of the year. >> we have come off of the 100 level. obviously we have seen high volatility in that market up 3%, down 3%. the last four days of trading up 2%, down 2%, a lot of volatility. all regarding the uncertainty in the middle east as you mentioned definitely prices at the pump are a concern. as long as sales are below 10$100per barrel. it just came off of an extreme. 70s are the lower extreme. sandra: a lot of traders on the floor so they are preparing for higher prices. a lot of these folks are saying if we get a compromi

sandra smith has today's -- sandra: not liking this. tracy: just when i'm down.ing over each other] >> open the doors at 8:00 and i thought you might fancy this. here is walmart's website showing you one our stock in stock guarantee. they are opening their doors at 8:00 but from 10:00 to 11:00 the guaranteed three items, and ipad 2 for $3.99. for $148 a 32 inch lcd emerson tv and a $38 bluray player. there are reasons to get people through the door. they always do. [talking over each other] >> buy walmart stock, putting your portfolio ahead of this holiday and down a little bit today but of 22% year to date. they will go above $80 a share and if we had 2 seconds left, put this up against amazon.com for two seconds. amazon put out a note basically saying they do not see walmart announce next day shipping as a threat to amazon. no sweat and no problem by the both of them. they like a mall. will be a better holiday year. [talking over each other] tracy: better for my jeans the next day to buy the ipad or whatever it is. [talking over each other] tracy: 60% of techno

dagen: in today's trade, sandra smith is here. dra: we will take a look at those commodities now after speaker boehner's comments. as you can see, as he was speaking, along with the stock market, oil making new lows on the session. you are talking about a lot less demand for things like energy and metals and building materials etc. take a look at the reaction with gold. it bounced back considerably. it is now in positive territory. i want to show you the dow 30. more than half of the dow 30 in the green. we have now turned back into the positive. take a look at intraday chart for the dow. here is that selloff. it is below the positive line. we have bounced back just a little bit. up about six points. the tech stocks dipping to the local of their session. energy also taking a dip. it has been mostly higher on the session. most of those stocks did turn into the red. definitely quite a reaction in the commodity markets. a lot of them that they back off of the lows of the session. these commodity markets, dagen and connell, very close

sandra smith has a look at some of them. >> american express shopping with consumer confidence heptanef four year hiatus a big laggard. some of the stocks that were the best performers are going down in the final -- final trading days. of the biggest winner is until technologies. the buyers are flocking to the big names one stock that has been beaten up is down 17%. with an interesting trend those that are getting a boost. one of your favorites per radioshack. [laughter] only $2 per share and is up 7% was courting travel stocks, gaming stocks zale corporation headed been to the holidays up 5% we saw a big boost after the shopping weekend. best buy was a big winner on cyber monday they had on my deals. consumer confidence and shopping and a lot of the winners are there. intel and price to earnings is just eight. and the nasdaq is not on pace. >> radio shack. >> they have so much real-estate. >> could batteries and cables. >> likud the big board. down 73 points at 12,893 the point* is it is not a great days great day but there's always a way to make money but david oversees 1.7 billion d

cheryl: sandra smith has a look at the big moves ahead of tonight's election results. >> it is reallyers today including first solar, if i branch this out over five years, which i already did, this is one of the worst performers during president obama's term. there's a lot of criticism about the administration's role and solar companies. here you have a big decline, and today this huge gain up 7%. also if you look at hewlett-packard, one of the worst performers the s&p 500. here you have it today with a nice 3% boost. some of the biggest gainers in the session, united technologies, the big companies doing very well in this rally today. let me bring this one up, chipotle grill, one of the biggest winners in the s&p 500. an upgrade from a buy rating. one of the biggest oil firms down in texas, express scripts and also your freeport brands, all big winners on today's session. at&t and intel, leaving you with affect hewlett-packard is the best performer on the dow. cheryl: on election day, how do you prepare to invest under the new president-elect? john nyaradi is here to help joining us

sandra smith joins us with today's trade.is not all about earnings of the last quarter but what they are going to do in the fourth quarter which includes the holiday shoppers coming in to the store. walmart right now, your worst performer of the dow 30 component and this is because the company put out a fourth quarter profit outlook below analysts' forecasts. taking a big hit on this. if you take a look on a year-to-date basis we have been talking with a winner, a 22% so far this year. look at this big sell-off, down nearly 4%. not only were profit estimates low but pinning this on a weak economy and also saying the very competitive holiday shopping season coming up so they have been aggressively lowering prices and guess where this will send a lot of shoppers, the stocks getting a big boost from this, dollar tree. those dollars for a have been struggling as wal-mart prospering. the stock has been taking a big hit but up nearly 3% on this news, getting a big boost from wal-mart saying their outlook doesn't look very bright. a

sandra smith is here with today's winners and losers. what do you do?selves. we have an s&p year-to-date chart. ready? the stocks up 12% this year, not the dow, not the nasdaq, but general market. black rock asked 671 investors where they believe the stocks go based on the outcome of the election. here's what they had to say. they believe romney wins, 34% say that chart continues to go higher believing stocks continue higher if there's a romney victory. 22% believe stocks go up with an obama victory. hands down, more confident the stock market goes up if there is a romney victory. that's not based on how thaw vote, but where they think stocks go. a 10-year yield, throw that up there, guys. barclays, just got off the phone with this one. it's getting attention. they put out a note believing bonds will go with an obama or a romney victory. barclays says if obama wins the 10-year yield drops to 1.5% or lower, okay? the reason they stated was because of worries related to the fiscal cliff, and then they said if there's a romney win, the yield gofers above 2

sandra smith has details of trading for today.are looking at 4% jump in retail sales, that will be slower than the 5.6 sales growth we saw last holiday season. the national retail federation projecting a slowdown as far as overall spending for consumers. this is the bread and butter for major retailers to happen to be down to the. not walmart. walmart is up again. look at year-to-date gains the stock of 23%. loss of momentum sitting near 52 week highs. right now analysts say they like it, overweight rating. end $80 a share. one thing i want to show you guys is they are opening their doors at 8:00. they compete with one of the biggest, neck in neck tie. this is in direct competition with target and they an ounce the big layaway plans for the holiday season. seize the things they're trying to do to compete with other retailers that are out there. this is a dow component and as we look at retailers they will all be competing. look at best buy down 1%. walmart really promising they will have a lot of gadgets when you get through the d

i am here with fox news network reporter sandra smith. imus in the morning executive producer so he claims. i have never seen him do anything. bill schulz, do you think he just broke up with justin bieber? and sitting next to me is penn jaw let. he hosts a pod cast called penn sunday school that you can find at pep sunday school.com. and if that is thought enough, which i think it is not, his book came out to compete with greg. >> were the e-mails flirty or just friendly? our national security hangs in the balance. he is on hold as investigators pour over the 20,000 documents and hundreds of messages that equaled to an inappropriate communication with tampa socialite jill kelley. allen, the top nato commander in afghanistan, quote, used terms of endearment, but not in a flirtatious way. as one official notes, if you know allen, and who doesn't, he is the kind of guy who will respond to every e-mail he gets, rut best. you are a sweetheart. that kind of thing. it was the equivalent of phone sex over e-mail which would be e-mail sex. he inte

sandra smith acted out of the park. what about that? you know, you can always look at economic numbers. you can pick and choose the numbers this to you. announcing -- blaming you, but they are beginning to look worse. i am wondering now, what is all this pretending? the 700. sell-off in the market. >> no one is closer to the consumer than the stores in the companies themselves. it's one thing that we got a flat retail sales number. it's another that we heard from walmart today which was the worst performer in the dow, which lowered its fourth quarter forecast, pinning it on weak economic forecasts. they're looking at a consumer debt usually trades down. they are saying that they're shopper is trading down to the dollar stores. they are fearful about the amount of money that people are spending when they come through the doors. only looking for things on sale. this ceos city had to lower prices so much it is cutting into their profit. they are concerned, and walmart is close to the consumer. that counts right now in this environment, and

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here's fun we had recently with the sandra smith and david as asman.f >> watch this, you wil never believe, thieves on motorcycs inside a london mall, six men drove into the mall with axes and bats. w you can see one of them waving an ax around in a mew movie,m this is real.th robbed a jewelry store and got hundreds of thousands of dollars of watches.t rolexs, and police found the motorcycles in a nearby guck within the hour, but they are looking for tis stuff. can you believe this? they drove to a golf course ands left the motorcycles. good thing nobody was hurt here. david: no, no, a woman had a heart attack afterwards because she was stocked by this. it was the chain snatchers. snatchers. you were in chico, but there was this era back in the late 80's andarly 90's. before ready guliani came n. these changes would go lie on motorcycles and grab women's chains. sometimes they dragged into their deaths. i'm hopingthat what happens in london stays in london. melissa: why would you go inside the mall to rob a jewelry store. >> for the mney. >> but lots of jewelry stores all over the place, d

sandra smith on the breakdown of what happened. >> well, we have three states that have not been calleda couple a battleground states, virginia and florida. as we take a look at the state of florida, a key areas have already been declared by president obama. tampa orlando and miami. we still wait for an actual call. virginia, the other battleground state that has yet to be called. still waiting on the announcement. that being said, bit of a recap. we are watching the key philadelphia area and the surrounding suburbs. lots of blue. that is really what won it for president obama in that state. coaches to the west in the state of ohio where we told you cincinnati and columbus with a key spots, the key counties around those areas to watch. president obama early in the evening took those counties, very key to winning ohio. that state has now been declared . president obama's favre, but if you work your way up to wisconsin, michigan, the only surprise was going in north carolina. but if you look at his home state, michigan, president obama his father was a popular governor. right next door de

david: sandra smith, have a fabulous weekend. liz: s&p futures closing right now.et's go back to cme group on this friday, how does it look? >> it looks like everybody covered, we rallied a little bit into the close. healthy going into next week even with all the uncertainty. we don't see any negativity coming out next weekend with the fiscal cliff business. if we don't do the parties say we are off the table right now, say a small rally going into the weekend. david: that is good news, thank you very much, appreciate it. liz: today president obama and house speaker john boehner spoke out about the troubles facing the nation. saying they need to work together. david: they always say that but when push comes to shove, will we see compromise on the critical issues? rich edson from the white house with details. is it going to happen? >> it is a little too early to tell, but look, the democrats campaign in raising taxes on those earning more than $250,000 per year and the voters he said have spoken. the white house later said the president would veto any bill that does

and with more on predictions for what happens with this fiscal cliff, we have monica crowley and sandra smith. congressman cole says what do we care if we raise taxes on the 2%. seems like the movement is all in one direction. nobody is saying cut the size and scope of the government. >> that's right. president obama for at least two years now, maybe longer, has always been talking about a balanced approach to tackling the deficit. when he talks about balanced approach, he means tax revenue and cutting spending, however the only part of the conversation we're having is about tax revenue. no conversation whatsoever about the spending part of this equation. that's because he has no intention of cutting spending. >> sean: senator chambliss is clear, it's increasing revenue, getting more money from the american taxpayer. isn't that a tax? >> yes. what they fail to see or don't want to see or acknowledge this country doesn't have a revenue problem. there's plenty of revenue coming into the treasury. remember the "t" in tea party stands for tax enough already. we have a severe spending problem. bef

we're live on a farm we details on that possibility >> i'm sandra smith with your fox business brief.ocks spent the day drifting between gains and losses as investors focused their attention on washington and the fiscal cliff negotiations. amr looking for more time to submit a bankruptcy restructuring plan. the airline along with its creditors has filed a request in a manhattan bankruptcy court to extend its exclusive right deadline to march 11th. earlier this year amr said it would prefer to exit as a stand-alone company but is discussing merger options. >>> long island power authority chairman howard steinberg has reportedly resigned from his post effective immediately. that is according to news day. steinberg's resignation is a latest in string of departures following the criticism of the utility's company performance in the wake of superstorm sandy. that is the latest from the fox business network, giving you the power to prosper. having you ship my gifts couldn't be easier. well, having a ton of locations doesn't hurt. and a santa to boot! [ chuckles ] right, baby. oh, sir. that

they lost what should have been a given in the case of trinity losing out to a democratic upstart sandra smiths keeping options open. a lot of states have closed off. sanda: there is still an option left on the table. five battleground states that has not yet been called. this would involve the state of virginia, which is one of the first to close tonight. too close to call. north carolina, also one of the first to close tonight. ohio is obviously a key state for mitt romney to win this evening. eighteen electoral votes. we are still waiting on results from florida. too close to call. twenty-nine electoral votes in iowa in the picture. just six electoral votes, but this would bring governor romney to the 79 swing states electoral votes that he needs. so if you were to take these buy battleground state, he could certainly be on his way to the white house. one other thing i want to show you as i look at the results in the map right now, looking at ohio itself. i did just look as i entered into the results map here. something that i wanted to point out was that the two counties that we have been

the very own sandra smith and davi asman. thank you to all of you. all right. watch this.ve this video. thieves on motorcycles inside a london mall. six men drove into the mall with es and bats. you can see one of them waving an axe around. this is not a movie. this is real. they're robbing a jewelry store and made off with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of watches. plight -- pplice found the motorcycles at a nearby golf course within an hour but there are still looking to the suspects. i think that is one of the weakest parts. they drove to a golf course. the good thing, nobody was hrt here. >> there was a woman who actually had a heart attack afterwards because she was so shocked. it reminded me of the chain snatchers. you were in chicago, but there was this era back in the late 80's and early 90's. before ready guliani came in. these changes would go lie on motorcycles and grab women's chains. sometimes they dragged into their deaths. i'm hoping that wat happens in london stays in london. melissa: why would you go inside the mall toob a jewelry store. >> for the

time for retail winners and losers this season with our own sandra smith. >> if you want to we known outside walmart on thursday night but here's what they're doing but opening doors at 8:00. big competitors last year, target, they didn't open until midnight on the day after thanksgiving so we will see if they follow in walmart's footsteps. your the big deals being offered. walmart guaranteeing the ipad 2. opening their doors at 8:00 but guaranteeing between 10:00 and 11:00 at night. this is 1-hour for $399, the 16 gigabyte one plus $75 gift card. if they run out there giving you a guaranteed card that you will get one. best buy, the samsung galaxy s 3, the very fancy little device, $48 with the two your contract. [talking over each other] >> that is a good deal. [talking over each other] sandra: sam's club, everybody gets new tvs for christmas. this hdtv -- [talking over each other] sandra: it normally sells for $16.98. this is a deal. dave: i have to put it on my roof. sandra: who are the winners and losers going to be? walmart expected to put up a huge fight opening the doors at 8

thanks to sandra smith, penn gillette. that's it for me, andy levy. we will all see you tomorrow night.s >> bill: the o'reilly factor is on. tonight: >> on 9/11, as commander and chief, did you issue any orders to try to protect their lives? >> shepard: in his first presidential press conference since last march, mr. obama was finally asked about libya and he faced embarrassing questions about david petraeus. >> you can assure the american people that there have been no breaches of national security in the scandal involving generals petraeus and allen? >> bill: we'll analyze the presidential press conference today and what it means to you. >> i'm an honorary consul general so i have volumability. >> now it seems one of the women involved in the general petraeus sex candle may be a loon. we will have the latest on this story. >> miller will react to the press conference. and miller still have chick-fil-a on his mind. >> they say general tsou's chicken and i say i don't think so. >> bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begi