today is the day where a lot of us are heading back to the malls of the toys and bad gifts that you may have gotten, heading back to the store. last year on this day, december 26th, americans returning more than $260 billion in merchand e merchandise, that s not cheap for retailers either. shopping tres have been shipping a little bit. joining me now is our shop analyst. tast k it is a key day for the shopping industry. talk about what we see for sales this year. yeah, you are right, halie, sales is a bit gang buster this season. part of the season why is that most of everyone is going online and shopping. a lot of people have been going, you know, not just going to their laptops and desktop computers, mobile topping had been up. cell phones to be shopping for gifts as well as ipads.
the broader minority community. what happened there? i just don t know how many of those votes are republican candidate can really count on? i just don t think that perry could put together the pieces that would form any kind of reasonable percentage of republican voters that we re going to keep him in the race at all. harold cook, is he a kind of fred thompson like character that on the one hand you come out all gang buster and look good and sound good and then peter out, not only unexpected by lew in a way that is dramatically under scoring what lack of substance you might have had not only financially but even politically. i think politically he this is kind of iranic, michael. he actually came out this time a pretty learned candidate. he had boned up on the issues. he knew his material i hate to interrupt you but let s listen to rick perry. he s about to give a statement. conservatives think we need to protect the people from
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retail sales. it looked like there s a late surge. if that continues today, because remember, 8% of the holiday sales now october actually occur after christmas. that s a big driver of the retail stocks we follow frequently. especially significant because of the plummeting gas prices. also having a big impact as well. it can literally translate to millions of dollars. we ll wait to see if oil stays low. a lot of people are going to looking to the year ahead. what do forecasters say about 2015? we had a gang buster year this year. when you look at the average of what forecasters are thinking, to gain for the s&p 400, maybe around 6%, what they call high
survive without these, what we think are crucial characters. except for in the fact of family guy, like you said, because there was this whole public outcry about why did they kill brian the dog. we love him, the best, the best one-liners on the show. seth maccfarlane said it wasn t because of the 130,000 signatures on the change.org petition. crazy. change.org got involved with this. they put a time machine together, brought brian back. everybody is happy. anyone remember dallas. the 80s. it was a dream. we shall proceed. anyway, beyonce, you were talking to don who was in for me on friday. here s her album, the kind of thing where you can t buy the singles. album only. on itunes. gang buster. let me get the units correct. 828,773 albums sold in three