gun-maker sturm, ruger and company will pay shareholders a special dividend of $4.50 per share before year's end. that news late yesterday pushed the stock up 3% today to its highest price since may. the one-time payout will go to investors holding the stock as of december 7. there are new safety questions tonight involving leads made by st. jude medical for implantable heart defibrillators. leads are what connects the machine to the heart. shares fell 12.1%, dropping to a new 52 week low. an earlier version of the same leads were recalled last year. three of the five most actively traded exchange traded products were up. the financial e.t.f. was unchanged and the emerging markets fund slipped 0.2%. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> susie: by now the turkey should be thawing and maybe even the table is set. but it's not just family that americans will be spending thanksgiving with. one in five of us will spend the holiday with co-workers according to a survey by job search website career-builder. it's not just because they will be working though, some will spend time with their

we're following shares of the gun maker sturm ruger.to pay a special dividend $4.50 a share before the end of the year, by the way citing confidence in the future of the gun making company. and sturm ruger doesn't usually pay a dividend. why now? higher gains taxes that probably will be coming in next year. look at the stock price, this thing is straight up. 5%. very, very strong sales of guns and charles and david weigh in in the next hour. first our new at 10 stories. california rolls out the cap and trade plan. already exasperated. permits for $10.09 each and allows them to release one ton of carbon, a carbon tax, a moneymaker and i would say that the feds are going to follow suit. it anyone want to disagree? >> yeah, absolutely, the president is trying-- he couldn't put it through congress even when he had democrats controlling the house of congress he couldn't put it through and now state by state and the president of course going to use the epa to try to do it nationwide. it's not just companies. everybody is a polluter. you are a

people were saying why don't you recommend smith & wesson, sturm ruger. are fine companies and done quite well. cabella's had a short fall, it wasn't from guns but cold weather. i felt we have a stock down on its block, well run where they said on the conference call if we got cold weather we are going to make our next numbers and then some. hey, it's cold. >> are these kind of stocks you talk about here, i assume some of the hospitals companies might do better should obama be the victor, are these trades or are these long-term investment plays? >> i cannot recommend a hospital chaining on a long-term investment because it's a poorly -- it's a difficult business to maybe make a lot of money in. i like kabela's because it's down so much. the one i would recommend people to think about, take an oil surface company, you know romney said listen, we're going to open up the federal lands, you know, you need a -- core labs to do the test to see if there's oil down there. you have to call in a halliburton. we don't know if that's going to go to shell. but it is g

i would say between the two, sturm ruger would be the cheaper one and it's got a 2.5% yield.h & wesson, technically speaking looks a little bit better. i mentioned yesterday, above 11 is where the magic happens. >> let's take a quick check of where the marks are. we had the quick sell-off and the plunge and fears escalated about the looming fiscal cliff. the aftermath of the presidential election and some weaker economic data over in europe as well. it looks like we're selling off more today. the dow industrials are down 41 points and 1/3 of 1% and we'll continue to watch the developing story in the markets today and the once in a decade transition of power has begun in china. beijing prepares to unveil its new leadership amid a slowing economy and growing demands for a more accountable and transparent government. our chief international correspondent michelle caruso-cabrera joins us with more on this historic moment. >> it is historic for a number of reasons and we hold an election for president every four years and over in china, every ten years there's a change in the lead