bring you over to tj maxx's parent which is tj maxx. tj maxx is at an all-time high.tailers come out with a mixed bag, right? we've had cold weather, lingering concerns about the economy. the labor market which seemed to be picking up. they lost some momentum. a mixed bag. they expect april sales to be better as weather improves as well. many back to you. lori: thank you, nicole. kfc says the latest outbreak of bird flu is hurting business. the avian flu outbreak is having negative impact on restaurant sales in china, its more lucrative market. the company reported a 13% drop in same-store sales in the country, worst tan analyst expectations. the parent is trading slightly higher today but they're down six 1/2% in the last two weeks. melissa: after four incidents in 2003 alone carnival cruise is trying to say i'm sorry, dropping prices on its carnival imagination cruise to $38 a night. less than one night at a motel 6. ticket prices on -- there you go. ticket prices on carnival's infamous cruise vessel the try all dropped to $58 a night. it remember the triumph was st

that's when you started seeing them at marshalls and tj maxx. >> that made him better. >> oh well then it was cool. >> i wasn't going to pay designer prices for one of those things. i get the max for the minimum. >> why would you? >> first story, guns, buying guns for poor people. kennedy, you said -- you said that this was a bizarre racist experiment where poor people would kill each other. now clarify. would it be a crazed right wing loonetic who wants poor people to die or a crazed left wing racist who wants the experiment to go badly so that guns look bad? >> i think they are in cahoots with one another. >> really? it goes full circle? >> sure. >> can we just make it clear that there was absolutely no evidence that this guy is racist? >> kennedy seems to be favoring this as a conspiracy theory. >> from where the conspiracy would come. i think it would be a brilliant conspiracy if it were a crazy person who wanted the experiment to go badly, of course. it would be sinister, but brilliant. >> that's why i said it smacks you of cynicism. >> matt, you mentioned something about -- i don

>> tj maxx. >> hologic. >>> "power lunch" starts now. have a great rest of the day. >>> we have a dale full of breaking news. many of the biggest names on wall street, and cnbc is covering it for you, including those names, bill ackman as ron johnson exits at j.c. penney, ackman on the board there, the largest shareholder at j.c. penney right now. skechers was halted earlier today. it was halted for a good time, because kpmg -- out in l.a. is suspected in eighting in an insider trading scheme. that stock is down right now by about 10%. have investors lost confidence? you can say that again. we asked it about presidents, we're going to ask and answer today about j.c. penney. it begins right now with simon. >> thank you, tyler. the stock is down big today after the resignation, probably the sacking of ron johnson more accurate. scott wapner wrote the story last night. then plummeted when the company announced that the former ceo mike ullman would return to the hot seat. during that time the stock dropped 15%, but don't forget that almost e

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recent news, tj maxx.raising the dividend is 26% for the stock dividend setting quarterly dividend 1.45. sorry, 0.145 per share. that is obviously worth noting. big news sending the dividend 26% increase. i have united health care, that will be one, also johnson & johnson. united health care up about 6%. johnson & johnson up about half a percent. other names in the dow jones industrial hitting multiyear highs. a lot of the health insurers have healt helped lift the markt overall with the government and others. one of the reasons you're seeing united health. pfizer, coca-cola, other 52-week highs, multiyear highs, and we have been watching that. the s&p 500 set an intraday high. has not broken the all-time high we set back in october of 2007, but certainly getting closer and closer. of course already surpassed the closing high it set back in 2010. dennis: thank you, nicole. the sky is the limit. our next guest says the next big frontier for the jobs is clouds. joining us from indianapolis. thank you for bei