time for our call to action on the stocks you need to watch in afternoon trading. cnbc matt nesto is here with a look. thanks, guys, very much. fourth gain in a row, 6 out of 7 in terms of the big benchmark indexes. look at a couple of the trends i m tracking. come fly with me, i have three stocks that are flying today, all on takeover rumors. glg is up a very strong today and bloomberg reporting that man group out of the uk might be interested in a piece or all of it. radioshack also in play here today and rti international being said to be eyed by bea systems. doubling down on the casinos, all five higher here today and best percentage gainers in the russell 1,000. that s about 10% growth and also power stocks are replace strange buying binge going on here. three of the top ten volume actives in the s&p 500 are utilities. back to you. all right, matt nesto, thanks so much. that is going to do it for us here on the call. i m trish regan. i am larry kudlow. i was
senate. i will say this, here s the difference that makes me optimistic. when we were doing this bill last year, health care was the number one issue on the agenda. there were other important issues on the agenda. whether or not to send the troops to afghanistan. when we come back from recess, the number one issue before the u.s. congress will be this bill in the united states senate. senate dodd s leadership and i know i look at the bill that he, himself did. i know what he wants to do. obviously, there will be some opposition and a lot of people lobbying against it and some of the republicans are promising the financial community they ll kill this thing. i believe we will get a very good bill out of here, especially, i think this is important, this is now the number one issue that the american public is going to be focusing on and in every single issue in contention i think we benefit from that. senator dodd, do you expect to get this will passed on memorial day? the le
hi, everybody. welcome to the closing bell. that s a live picture of the floor of the new york stock exchange. i m maria bartiromo along with scott whopner. we had a rally underway, but, scott, we were positive on the dow industrials. with this fractional move it is iffy. that evaporated in the last 15 to 20 minutes. we saw weakness in consumer discretionary names. the dow pulled back, walmart is weak, at&t out of the telecom space is weak. big technology companies, microsoft, intel, hewlett packard have weakened as well. this is the group that has been leading things for some time. no surprise we are seeing some profit taking. we definitely see strength in caller pillar, 3m, economically sensitive names. you have strength in commodity space. that is where the leadership story is. take a look at the materials and energy stocks. that s what i want to focus on as you get a check of the boards here. iron ore prices will rise 70% in 2010 in part because of demand by chi
all right. we are back with major winter storms this season, cold weather, ice, heavy snow, are you questioning what you ve heard about climate change? 25% said they believe in global warming more than they have ever before. 13% said they now believe in it less. 63% said that they never believed in global warming anyway. the whole thing is an illusion. the arctic ice sheet is still there, we just can t see it. just so you know. everyone is worried about the luxembourg thing floating around. it s enough to supply a third of the world s population for a year. they re no longer worried about the one twice the size of hong kong which is 87 square miles. got to go. see you monday. welcome to the call. i am trish regan and we re 90 minutes into trading on this friday morning. here at the new york stock exchange, the market really struggling here. we ve got the market trying to rally, boosted by a weak there are, but at the same time some conflicting economic news out there.
so, is the toyota risk worth the recall? lots of e-mails. here s a couple. carmen wrote i do think that the recall is appropriate for these vehicles. where the floor mat or accelerator could cause a stuck accelerator. and then jim wrote this you guys are missing the point. of course the risk is low of dieing from a toyota defect. in fact, there should not be any risk at all. this is a disgraceful problem for toyota. it should not be lessened by the obvious fact that the risk isn t all that great. well, thanks very much for your e-mails. we appreciate it. have a safe weekend in wherever you are and whatever weather you are facing. it is time for the final hour with the closing bell. a major winter blast putting the freeze on wall street. but that s not putting the chill on what s been a hot month for equities. here is the february upswing pointing to more gains for stocks down the road? live from the new york stock exchange, this is the final and most important hour of