stage, just west of los angeles where the band was rehearsing for their tour, including pettedy s 196712-string ricker backer and his gibson. the band is offering a $7500 reward for returning the instruments, no questions asked. okay? heather: my favorite band of all time? gregg: really?! not the beatles, not the stones. heather: no. tom petty. happy music. home foreclosures happy newnews at their low elf lowest level in four years. so, is this a good time to be buying or selling a home? here s cassandra torian, author of don t buy the bull. thanks for joining us. thanks for having me. heather: does this mean that the housing market is turning around? well, i think there is a
gregg: all right. there are new concerns over banking on your phone. it s easy to do. it s catching on fast. google and other companies are even introducing a new product called digital wallets to bring mobile banking into the mainstream. you can bet on line hackers will be there to look at your wallets like a regular pickpocketer were. how can you keep it protected? author of the book don t buy the bull , good to see you again, cassandra. this is how it works. your smart phone, you go to the checkout counter at a store and you want to buy something. you just pass your smartphone in front of a sensor and boom, it s purchased for you. but there are hazards to this. what are they? it is amazing technology, that s for sure. there are hazards from a privacy perspective that everybody needs to be aware of. first and foremost, if it was me, i could not be using it.
what are you going to do? i hope he s in a better place. heather: springsteen calling him a great friend and described the loss as immeasurable. gregg: well, there are new concerns that credit card companies have found a new way to prey on american consumers an lawmakers want to crack down on predatory lenders who are now urging people to sign up for business credit cards. those cards not covered, believe it or not, under that land mark new law meant to protect consumers from credit card company tricks and lots to talk with kska president of bellroc capital. author of don t buy the bull. i can t believe it, 10 million business credit cards are offered to consumers every month
scream or yell when you pull up to the gas pump? gas prices pennies away from $4. it may be hard to notice that prices are dropping a little bit so far. thanks to a big sell-off in the oil market that sent crude prices down. analysts are predicting a 50 cent plunge by summer. sound good? what does all this mean. let s bring in cassandra the ceo of bell rock capital, author of the book, don t buy the bull. why would see wee see a drop of 50 cents? we are seeing a couple of things. the price of oil has dropped pretty substantially in the last two weeks in the market because of a stronger dollar. so little by little that is going to trickle through into the prices that we pay at the
officials say qaddafi himself is not targeted but had not been seen on television in two days, making his reports now, very yeah, the telephone, back to you. gregg: steve, live in tripoli, keep us posted. thanks. oil prices shot up more than $100 a barrel when the protests first broke out in libya and now are skyrocketing again as bombs rain down on the nation. are oil stocks a good investment? ceo of bell rock capital, author of the book don t buy the bull joins us, good to have you. thanks. thanks for having me. gregg: what about that? any time a market is driven in part by fear, speculators drive up the price. so, is that a concern if you are an investor or potential investor? yes. i think that whenever you get involved in any type of investment where there is a fear element and a fear premium built