whirlpool did beautifully up 57%. >> with a low price to sales ratio, about .5, and you look at whirlpool deferred maintenance. people will spend $800 to $900, a thousand dollars on a new washer or drier or refrigerator after putting the purchases off the last five years. liz: the corner stone mid cap fund. here's your top picks in the little house. we lover it. they have done beautifully for you m congratlation. >> thank you. liz: neil, great to see you. >> thank you. liz: we'll be right back with for closing bells ringing in sixth minutes. daniel tish ups his stake in one company. which one? which stock is enjoying the rise next. dow jones industrials not quite at 14,000 yet. ♪ my mother made the best toffee in the world. it's delicious. so now we've turned her toffee into a business. my goal was to take an idea and make it happen. i'm janet long and i formed my toffee company through legalzoom. never really thought i would make money doing what i love. [ robert ] we created legalzoom to help people start their business and launch their dreams. go to legalzoom.com today and make your bu

home builders, look at whirlpool up 2%. a big move for whirlpool. doesn't usually have that move.lding material names. usg and massco. one thing, managed care groups, stocks around medicare. that's understandable all these related to medicare. the sequester being debated right now, and that likely will happen, will involve medicare cuts. that will affect these kinds of stocks. this is really the only large sector to the downside came. mandy. >> bob, thank you so much for that. rick santelli, how are you reacting to what ben had to say? >> ben bernanke is defending his policies. there was a bit of a negation as bob pointed out on the upside as to what the minutes opened up. maybe early cancellation for some buyback programs. nobody on the floor i talked to really is jumping into that mode. the big news today is really new home sales. if you look at the chart, it was the best level since july '08. i wish ben bernanke would have addressed that. some markets are hailing rather well. ten-year no yields paying attention to many other things. just consider this, spanish ten-year up 20 ba

whirlpool says it's not been able to verify a single report of a self starting microwave fire.. >> thank you. >> golden state warriors forward david lee is proving he's an all star. the team announced lee will donate $250 to the charity us again cancer. the friend since high school and co-founder of the charity. he saved the day fr local seniors donating $25,000 so oakland could continue its thanksgiving food drive of the week. last week lee selected to play at nba all star game. so this is a big deal. >> yes. 49ers fans soaking up every minute of the super bowlvkw experience leading up to the big game. >> today, many basked in the glow wÑÑñ the event just for fans. >> the we're leaving on thursday, hopefully on monday. >> likely mike zimmerman will return to south san francisco without setting foot inside of the super dome but now there is a splash of red. >> fans may outnumber 49ers fans but consider how far work >> this family is here from chico. nothing was going to block her from seeing 49ers in the super bowl. her husband can't believe they made it. >> i don't think it'

here we go with whirlpool up 2% there, ahead of the earnings.er the bell, gas, gps up one and three quarters percent, and amgen on the screen that disappeared quickly. sorry about that. dow closing in on all time highs, can investors buy stock with both fists? grab it or take the money they have and run, especially with yields on ten-year bonds well below 2%. take a crack at this. why are we up 34 points when we were up 60? is it let's take the profits and run? >> yeah, there's still time left in the day. obviously, we talk about how the market is moving higher and where to close. don't forget a few things so we have seen window dressing yesterday, today, and yesterday coming into today. a russell rebounce, not a big one, but plays in the tape here. there's a couple factors oving higher and higher. >> there's the window dressing, fund managers have to tweak their funds; right? they want to make it look like they made a lot of money here. >> right. they want to boost it up as much as they can because at the end of the day, these statements get pr

let's not forget whirlpool. home depot, but when you have flooring and millwork being called out, excuse me, i have to push you in the direction of lumber liquidators. someone actually put two and two together before this because the stock was up three smackers. still down 10% from the high. remember we had them on air? i like those guys. hope the stock comes in for a better chance to buy. just like home depot. not going to chase, but if they come in, you know what to do. i know how hard it is out there. you have all sorts of cross current going on and the sequester and the end of the payroll tax holiday and let's face it, we should be taking our cue from home depot, not any of these ethereal angst zeitgeist issues, and when in doubt go with numbers backed up with cold hard cash like the number from home depot. the italians may be throwing 100 billion euros into a fountain and over in the united states home depot is cleaning money. nobody is saying wait a second, can't have it, that is being made because bernank

market's coming back and responsible for a tremendous amount of january's advance, whether it be whirlpoolanother 52-week high for the spin cycle, or sherwin williams. watching paint dry has never been better. or stock super bowl winner pulte homes. >> buy, buy, buy! >> and let's throw in tripoint, a red hot ipo of a home builder that went to an immediate premium. what else is glittering in this grimy industrial portion of the u.s. geography? how about industrial equipment. industrials gain strength as the month went on. i suspect they will continue to do so as europe stabilizes, america advances, and asia starts to roar. >> buy, buy, buy! >> just like the metaphorical baltimore. california, home of the niners, is coming back strong too. tech, particularly the semiconductors and everything related to the cloud and the internet are roaring here. it's almost as if the incredible slide in apple is fueling dozens of tech stocks to new highs. google's become the new tech leader, but who can ignore the run in none other than facebook? which is up an astounding 16% this year and will be addressed

at that point the water inside the culvert was swirling around like a whirlpool and we could see the had very, very little space. i'm going to say anywhere from 8 to 12 inches to the top of the >> you got that? this is your line. tie it to your jacket. tie the knot right in there. untie that knot. pull that out of the jacket. it's a loop knot. i want you out of here jay. >> jay and suelina wrap themselves in the rope and prepare to escape from the dark confines of the tunnel. >> let's do it right once. >> but fear overwhelms suelina when she learns she must make the journey to the opening alone. >> everything happens very quickly and jay says i cannot come with you. i can't. they can't pull both of us out. >> there's a high level of anxiety there. you know we've got a vick still who is not responding to us verbally. she didn't want to move. she was afraid she was going to die. she was in a very dark place. >> you've got to talk to me. please, stop talking. you're going to come to me, all right? i won't let you go. >> and chris is screaming, stop listening to him. listen to me! and it

. >> whr, whirlpool. >> it's up almost 3% on the day and this is a followthrough on the housing themegreat numbers and there's a lot of replacement costs from the hurricane. i think you can stick with it as long as it stays above its 50-day moving average. >> what about tenet? >> the numbers were light on the bottom line, however, given how strong the stock has been for it to be holding basically flat to me ratifies the story here i think it goes higher and recovers. that's where you want to be. >> tyson, dr. "j"? >> come preparation of pork and beef prices, they're saying the margins are basically shrinking like this. i think you wait for this one. does it break 20 here? i think it could on this move and i think that's a buy. >> all right. a pop for mountain climbing. for many scaling everest is a tall order but a woman achieved that feat twice in one week. the double assecent has now bee officially recognized by the "guinness book of world records," but she's got a long way to climb if she wants the record for most ascents, that belongs to a man from nepal, who scaled the peak 21 ti

look at whirlpool, up 2.5%. usg and mascor, all up 4%.to you. >> apple shares spike ahead of tomorrow's share holding meeting. josh lipton with the details back at hq. josh? >> reporter: apple reversing earlier losses, now in the green. an impressive intraday spike ahead of its shareholder meeting tomorrow. a lot of speculation about how or if apple will return some of its $137 billion cash hoard to investors. still worth noting, today marks the 9 5th consecutive trading sessi session. >> gold has had a stellar day, best day of the year so far. sharon epperson is at the nymex for us. >> gold jumped $28 today to close above 1,650 an ounce and gold prices and gold traders certainly reacted to fed chairman ben bernanke's testimony. the fact that he's looking at the positive outcome of accommodative policy far outweighing the risk and that's part of the reason why traders say we're looking at this rally in gold. also keep in mind there's a lot of shorts in the gold market so we're seeing short kofrlg. noencht is cold on the fact that gold is

whoever does that steps into the whirlpool and they will get whatever the media wants to say about them. god bless them all and i wish them all very well. thank you. host: 1 of historians participating in this series, here's what he had to say on the first lady's role as confidante. [video clip] >> she becomes the chief confidante. she's the only one in the world he can trust, in a way, so he unloads to her and talked to her. they have all done that. they are all strong women. they usually accompany a strong man to where he is. i would say that is their main role, confidante to the president. but then they do have these other consistent goals of appearing to be the hostess of the white house. -- consistent roles. other times their hands on first ladies that approve all menus and everything, such as mrs. eisenhower and mrs. kennedy. that sort of detail. but there are other people who really carry that low. but it's the two of them together that's the head of the whole business. it's a pretty lonely house without a first lady. host: to help kick off our series about first ladies, their im

we keep watching the usgs, the whirlpools, someone mentioned la-z-boy today.akness will bleed out into the ancillary sectors? >> i think 2013 will be a story of who has the most pricing power. if the ancillary ones still get the volume and they can also get the pricing and the margins up, they can do better than the home builders who are feeling the head winds of those cost increases that they didn't feel last year. >> thanks so much. have a great one. >>> our friends across the pond about to pack it up for the day. we'll get the european close in just a moment. [ male announcer ] at his current pace, bob will retire when he's 153, which would be fine if bob were a vampire. but he's not. ♪ he's an architect with two kids and a mortgage. luckily, he found someone ve him a fresh perspective on his portfolio. and with some planning and effort, hopefully bob can retire at a more appropriate age. it's not rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. >>> european markets are closing now. >> they'll still keep one eye on the fed this evening. very impo

so honeywell and whirlpool will be big buyers in there as well. >> i think that now consumers would still themselves what they really want because they're less squared. they really feel like they need to invest in their house to be competitive. >> now here's what we don't want. we don't want a home on a golf course. my biggest surprise, we don't want wine coolers so much. one other thing -- do not say laminate counter tops. that's a good thing for companies like caesar stone which do the stone ones. lowe's, unfortunately, does a lot of laminates. number one on the list of things we don't want, sorry to say -- the in-home elevator. because this one is incredibly cool. it operates like one of those suction think at the bank where you put the deposit in and it shoots back up to the teller, then to your car. the top of the list, people said we don't want these. but we do want greener homes. we're not willing to pay for the really high-end stuff like solar yet but green amenities will make us buy. there is a lot more on the block, realtycheck.cnbc. >> in-house elevators. i could understand tha