after-market it jumped higher. $37 to the ounce. the commodity has risen 4.5% in four sessions. adam: can you say short covering? pc shipments fell 5.9% year-over-year. top three were lenovo, hewlett-packard and dell. liz: we're bringing a top exec from lenovo to talk about that. terry mack grawe stepping down as ceo and president of ma grawe hill financial. douglas peterson head of the s&p ratings services. he will succeed mr. ma grawe who will remain chairman. adam: nokia unveiled the newest lumia smartphone and the lumia will have a 41 mega pixel camera. it will launch with at&t july 26th t will be cost 300 bucks with a 2 year contract. liz: it is bright yellow. how about that? federal government had the biggest june surplus on record after receiving payouts from freddie mac and fannie mae. "after the bell" starts right now. adam: it is an historic day. we want to get right to the action. jason pride, glenmede director of investment strategy is cautiously optimistic about the market. he has three ways to make money. we want to hear those. scott bauer from the pits of cme. scott, we talked about gold. one saw a jump in gold because of short-covering. he is right or is he wrong? liz: okay. he doesn't have a microphone. i'm sure he would also be saying partly wrong because of the u.s. dollar showing some real weakness. when the federal reserve says we're still going to continue, jason pride, to pile it higher and deeper when it comes to bond buying purchases that is dollar negative. forget that. look at these records. we can not ignore we're seeing yet a new record for s&p and dow jones industrials. people continue to say an incredible rally from a year ago has to be over. is it eventually? >> we've been continuing to be constructive on the market but not aggressive. we don't think people should be stretching for returns buying only equities in think portfolios. we don't think they should buy riskiest, most levered up companies in their portfolios. the main reason there the economy is good but it's not great. we're chucking along at 2%. we're not chugging along at 3.5, 4% growth in the domestic economy and the numbers internationally are similar to those numbers. that means you have to stay with quality. you have to stay with dividend growth. you don't need a stretch on yield. you don't need a stretch on returns. you need to stay in the middle of the fairway and pay attention to valuations and company profitability. adam: hey, jason, we have scott back. scott, i want to bring you in. switch out of equities. let's get back to the discussion about gold. what are we seeing with what is going on there? then a discussion on equities and how i can still make money on all of this? >> you guys hit the nail on the head when you said it is somewhat of a short-covering rally there. we dropped so much, so fast all these shorts, as soon as they saw the first sight of gold popping back up, they had to run in and cover. now the trend, the general trend of gold still is very bearish. once we settle in here, probably, you know, maybe this level, another 20, $30 higher i wouldn't doubt if it consolidates and then trends back lower but i think the main going behind this is a really a short-covering rally. liz: scott, isn't gold really a sideshow now on a day were the equities hit all-time highs for the s&p and dow jones industrials? what are the guys and women in the pits talking about in chicago as it pertains, to let's say the next month or so? >> i think what we see tomorrow morning with jpmorgan and wells fargo which everyone is just beaten down, is really going to set the tone because, when you look at it, especially with wells fargo, with a massive rise we've seen over the last two, three weeks, over the last month, how will that affect the housing market going forward? knot right now. not the next month or two. how will it affect it forward to the end. year? the key tomorrow with both big banks is not so much numbers, revenue from this past quarter, what is their guidance? if we start to see decent guidance and no pullbacks whatsoever, that will help propel the market higher. one of the things -- adam: scott, let me hold it right there just quick. you brought up a key issue talking about revenue. jason, one thing analysts say, i think you believe it, be careful with second-quarter earnings results. revenue is what you should pay attention to. you're optimistic about the market. what would make you less optimistic? if we start miss on revenue? >> we're agreeing what you say on earnings and revenues. you look out the back half of the year earnings from analysts are still rather high. they're looking double-digit gains for the back half of the year. that is quite high in an environment where the past couple earnings reports seen revenues moving sluggish and barely coming in line with expectation for a majority of companies. whereas their bottom lines have been gaining due to cost cutting there is only so long that can last. we think this is still a, kind of a sluggish economic growth scenario. we like equities long term because the valuation is there relative to fixed income, we think you have to be really careful what you're buying. adam: what should you buy? real quick what should i be buying right now? >> it should be quality, thick-profit companies. if you're in low credit environment, leverage doesn't work. reinvesting money by buying stocks or expanding your business. companies like 3m, microsoft or microsoft or johnson & johnson. these are fairly different industry, all of which are still reasonable, valued stocks. all of which have reasonable dividend that they pay to, 2, 2.5, almost 3% in one. cases all of which are growing the dividend. they're reinvesting their proceeds. they're buying their own stock with buybacks and their profit margins are 15 to 20. in the case of microsoft's situation, over 20%. heavy return on assets across the board. that's how you make money in a slower growth environment is by having a lot of profit generation and reinvesting that in the company. liz: let's talk about the loan atmosphere right now. we know that the government has wanted banks to loan more and if you're looking for, some type of a reactionary trade to that, what jason, do you look at? >> one of the things you can look at, banks have this kind of falls outside of our bucket but banks, particularly mid-level, mid-cap banks have an interesting position here in the environment. liz: it almost seems, jason, it almost seems many of them picked up where the big banks left off. i know when i reified my house, i couldn't get one large bank that will go unnamedded, citigroup, even though i'm a client, to do it. but a smaller regional new jersey bank, lakeland, did it. >> you have to be selective there. there are some that are great banks and some not so good banks. some companies there are mismanaged. they're very different from the large banks. large banks have investment banking businesses and global franchises and all these other moving parts to them. the smaller banks are considerable more simple. they have lending practices primarily. they were not levered as much as big banks were. they are in a much different position. truthfully they're benefiting from what primary factors in the u.s. one is the improvement in the housing situation in the u.s., number one and number two is this onshoring of manufacturing that's coming from the shale gas development. the fact that energy prices are so low in the u.s. is driving manufacturing here. what happens when you build a plant? you have to finance it. and guess who is financing it? it is the midlevel banks. it is not the big guys. adam: jason, scott, i appreciate it. we're going to change liz's name because of citigroup to meredith whitney. jason pried thank you very much. scott, we'll see you in a few minutes when the s&p futures close. liz: oil was sent to a 15-month high yesterday. today however is a very different story. we'll tell you what happened and where the market in energy is headed. two top on lates -- analysts duke it out in our street fight. that's next. adam: china's economy may be starting to slow down but it is not just chinese companies that could actually suffer. we'll break down specific stocks and sectors at risk. we'll help you protect your invests. we want to hear from you, the smartphone war is heating up as nokia unvales its new phone and google preps for the launch of its new motorola x. who will win the smartphone wars? log on to facebook.com/afterthebell an we'll read some of your answers later on. ♪ [ male announcer] surprise -- you're having triplets. 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you went in there, you found toys, cords, things for your phones. now really almost like a cell phone service store. liz: i was just in there the other day get being my running watch battery and a gold tipped cable. not really. nobody else sells gold tipped cables. just saying. adam: you have an old tv. if you're getting one ever those you have an old tv with rca plug. liz: thank you, nicole, very much. adam: hey, s&p futures are closing. let's go back to scott bauer in the pits of the cme. i'm curious. we have to have a new support level on the s&p? >> you know, if we rally tomorrow, if we get good numbers tomorrow and rally 1700 is the next level these guys are telling me here. this is the second time we're up here and, it's sustainable we'll see 1100 probably within the next week. liz: okay. to adam's point, tomorrow what do we see? >> tomorrow it's all based on what we see with jpmorgan and wells fargo. if there is any -- liz: that is one point. forget it. watch fox business. we'll have the numbers for you. thank you, scott. adam: thanks, scott. liz: oil skyrocketed to a 15-month high yesterday following that report we always get on wednesdays that oil stockpiles fell by 9.9 million barrels last week. that was way more than expected. but oil then took a hit today. total opposite, on a prediction by the international energy agency that oil supply will increase next year. adam: so what does this mean for the oil market and where you want to invest? where are we going with all this? we have two top analysts ready to duke it out to help you make some money in our bull versus bear street fight. we have david greenberg. david, i will start with you, i know thaw don't think this price of oil is sustainable. you expect it to fall even further. why? i think demand is picking up worldwide so wouldn't the price go up? >> there is always the argument about demand picking up and that's real, however the production the united states is giving with shale and so many other things, the fact that cars in itself are more efficient now than ever before, an mostly that this spike was a short-covering rally. there were a lot of people short going into the egypt play, as it always has we see this movie before, we know the ending, it was going to come off, everybody got caught bit number. it is coming off already. nothing changed that much. liz: john, you are way more bullish. up until now you've been very right. i'm not saying not just because of today because we pulled back. all you look at the last three months you see how pretty dramatically we jumped from 95 to 107 the other day. now we moderated but what continues to drive this much higher beyond 110? >> liz, most of our comments have to do with longer term when it comes to oil. the u.s. is finding more oil so i agrere david. that is definitely the case but in the scheme of things when there are 90 million bears of oil used every year and the u.s. is producing an extra couple million barrels of oil it means something but i would say on the margin not as much as everyone believes. the reason we've been bullish on oil because frankly the fundamentals on the buying side are still there. if we go back to the last 10 years production in the world has grown by about 18% but you have gdp demand in the world has grown by nearly 55%. if demand is growing by 50 plus percent but yet your production growth or your supply is only around that mid-teens level, that is why you get 90 oil. that is why you get 110 oil. we're still bullish long term. adam: judd, i understand that. china is slowing down, europe is in recession. will demand keep at the pace you just quoted? will it sustain that? we haven't started to tap into what this country can start producing. >> yeah, i think the part of the equation i would pay attention to is the supply side. if the u.s. keeps producing at the level they're producing at then our estimates on oil would come down. so the demand level to us is still there. that hasn't really come down that much. it is really the supply side. if you get companies like the united states and canada maybe producing an extra two or three or four million barrels a day i think that would bring the price of oil down but we're not necessarily seeing that because what the u.s. has had recently, the increases, all that's doing is offsetting other countries that are going down like norway, like mexico. so in the end it's a wash. liz: adam pushed. john, i will push david. david, i look at your more bearish scenario. i get it but yet we also have headline risk. we have conflict in the middle east. we have problems potentially in the straight of hormuz in the middle east that is really, that important artery of oil moving through on the tankers. does that not then indicate to you that one bad headline out of egypt or syria might spike the price? >> oh absolutely and that's all based upon electronic trading. ever since we've gone electronic these moves are overexaggerated by five, $10 of market risk right now. for the first time in about 10 years we have a tremendous amount of players in oil that have nothing to do with oil. yesterday gas rallied, basically on spread buying. it had nothing to do with front month. you have overexaggerated moves in this market. yeah, i have to be honest with you, i would be afraid to be short overnight if headline news comes out, you're right. this market could open up 10, 15, $22 higher. however doesn't mean that's where the price should be. adam: david i i want to push it too because you were in the wrong fraternity at syracuse, my alumni brother. >> we beat you in the greek games. adam: we'll talk about that the chinese government will stimulate. there is no way they let themselves slow down. chinese consumers buy cars at record numbers. will they need oil, is john right? >> he is right to a point. i'm not saying oil shouldn't be high-er, i think we're over extended we should be. we're not at three times the level of intake we were at 2000 two. i did an interview in 2000 two. we had two million barrels off line. we were about to go to war with iraq. we rallied at 25%. we were at $31 oil. 85, $90 oil i'm not arguing with. however 110, $120 oil is really a stretch. liz: john, what is your target for the end of year? >> lii, we don't really put targets out. we think it will be a little bit higher. liz: okay. >> we're near all-time highs, the average, we're going back to 1864, the highest number the u.s. ever averaged in price in oil was $115 a barrel the whole year. we're averaging 107. liz: we saw 147 in july of couple years ago. >> i saw $10.75 years ago average. liz: 1999. >> exactly. liz: i know you are, but what am i. good to see you. thank you so much. john laforge and david greenberg. new data out this week suggests that the china economy, we were just talking about, is slowing down. we've seen a couple of these pieces of data come through but coming up let's talk specific companies and sectors that could take a big hit out of china if the deceleration inside of china continues. adam: airline fees continue to take off with another carrier joining the party at least for the carriers and raising their baggage fees? bye-bye. details coming up next. ♪ i turned 65 last week. the math of retirement is different today. money has to last longer. i don't want to pour over pie charts all day. i want to travel, and it. ishares incomes etfs. low cost and diversified. find out why nine out of ten large professional investors choose ishares for their etfs. ishares by blackrock. call 1-800-ishares for a prospectus, which includes investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. read and consider it carefully before investing. risk includes possible loss of principal. liz: time for a quick speed read. some of the day's other top headlines, five stories, one minute. first up, samsung beats apple this time in mobile web usage and it is the first time samsung has beaten apple on this, accounting for 25.5%. this according to a study by staff counter. apple and nokia rounded out the top three. wal-mart ditching plans for new d.c. stores after the city council approved a bill that would boost minimum wages paid only by larger retailers like wal-mart. the new bill raises pay by nearly $5 per hour. wal-mart says, can't afford it. foreclosure dropped to the lowest level in seven 1/2 years in june according to realtytrac. foreclosures are are on pace to reach 800,000, down from 1.1 million last year. alaska air raising its baggage fee, raising the cost of checking first two bags for $25 for tickets bought on or after october 20th. the tickets for third and fourth bags, $75 each. greece's jobless rate rose to 27.9%. more than the average rate in the eurozone. [buzzer] liz: average rate is 20.2%. adam: very tough for people to live through that. liz: very tough. adam: officials meeting in the nation's capitol for economic talks including economic reform and a halt to cyberattacks. liz: rich edson joins from us washington, d.c. for the late left. it is not enough for the people to say, you have to stop the cyberattacks, right, rich? >> the big economic news, perhaps a way forward for more american companies to sell more american goods in china. the announcement of a beginning of negotiations on bilateral trade treaty. jack lew was announcing a few moments ago a bilateral treaty for the united states is priority and opening markets for fair competition. the commitment made today, stands to be a significant breakthrough and marks the first time china has agreed to negotiate a bilateral investment treaty to include all sectors and stagings of investments with another country. now they have not agreed to that they have agreed to begin negotiations on that treaty and that should be beginning sometime soon. when you look at cyber theft, though, the u.s. says china basically began to make the case, when you look at revelations of nsa spying program, china tried to tie the two, comes to cyber theft and stealing of intellectual property. u.s. says absolutely not. intelligence-gather something much different than state-sponsored cyber theft of intellectual property and giving that to competing businesses. there is still a lot of work to be done on that front, according to the treasury officials. treasury officials say at the very least the conversation has become clearer and more direct. no concrete steps but still the conversation continues with that. the same when it comes to the value of china's currency. earlier today a ceo meeting took place at treasury. jack lew, his counterparts from china, some other u.s. officials along with larry fink of blackrock, ellen coleman of due point and chairman of baidu, lenovo, other companies as well. treasury officials saying in that meeting, businesses raised protection of intellectual property this is coming up all week. property rights, cybersecurity. regulations, increasing exports and climate change is the issues that they discussed this morning. this all wraps up in about the next hour. treasury secretary jack lew will make remarks at about 5:30. shortly thereafter, holds a press conference. back to you. adam: rich edson at the white house. thank you very much, rich. liz: we have breaking news on dell. boy this story to take this company private is far from over. we're hearing news out of bloomberg right now that carl icahn, who had the opposing bid to michael dell and his group, says he will come up with a higher dell bid friday morning. tomorrow morning. he says, you know what? right now the 13 . 65 a share that has been accepted by shareholders, the dell bid, we can come up with something better than that. carl icahn saying once again they will tomorrow morning have a different bid, a better bid for taking dell private. it has been a big battle. two shareholder proxy firms saying to accept the michael dell plan. adam: what does carl icahn see, what value in dell does he see? we saw the pc numbers. dell is losing market share like the rest of them. liz: servers. service? adam: hewlett-packard, a lot of companies are outperforming dell. you know, he has to see some value there. liz: the stock quite not moving on that news. we'll watch it. china's economy in the spotlight because of slowing growth. what will happen to companies and sectors outside of china? maybe stocks you own if china's growth rate continues to slow and grind down? we'll tell you which names could feel the most pain. do you own them? adam: and chinese technology giant, lenovo, is on a role. they're seizing a huge u.s. rival's crown in a key battleground in the u.s. electronics market. we'll talk to lenovo's north american president. you will only see it right here on fox business. ♪ my mantra? 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>> i mean, i wouldn't go that far. anyone who is kind of been in china's stocks last year or two. have seen the bomb blow up. i think some multinationals people have, may be kind of an exposure they didn't know they had, just like a lot of people don't know the stocks in their mutual fund. the same thing goes for individual investments. you should know how the companies make the money. because you own a big multinational headquartered in kentucky somewhere doesn't mean you're not exposed to china. people need to know that. liz: that is excellent point. if they don't want to do the homework, jeff reaves has a job. >> i have a job. liz: what sectors might get hard by a short-term continued move to the downside by china's economic data? >> we've already seen the commodities market has been hit really hard by a slowdown in china. the sucking sound is all you hear is the demand from china's manufacturing. anywhere you look, trade data, pmi. purchasing managers index there, is not as much stuff or demand for energy. whether coal or base metals like copper or iron, china isn't using as much of it anymore. when you add in the fact we have a strong u.s. dollar and inflation is pretty subdued, there is not really a chance of upside in either commodity pricing or commodity stocks. i think we should be very careful. liz: we're looking at several, what, three-month chart of copper. here is the year-to-date picture. you can see how copper prices have fallen. this is simple equation. china uses a lot of copper building skyscrapers because it is in, wiring and all of that but the fact is that if it starts to fall that means there is less demand. jeff, what is the stock that people need to be worried about in this regard? >> i mean the biggest commodity stock people should pay attention to is bhp billiton. a 1 hundred-billion dollar market cap company. head quarted in china. has a lost relationships there. copper is another major player. of all the ones out there, bhp, it is not as agile because of its size. it can't ramp up as things do change but i think narrative is true across all base metals now. liz: it has had a good year but not so wonderful, the camera is in my way. now let's go to what you talked about, that is the auto sector picture. tell me which name, if the chinese are buying fewer autos has exposure here that concerns you? >> i think ford is the one you should look at. ford has been behind the china game. there are people there, other companies already there making a decent amount of profit. ford actually is kind of, doesn't have that big of a presence in china right now. and a lot of people believe -- liz: alan mulally was just on our show saying they were ramping up. i would think this is the time to ramp up when the chinese are more desperate to have this kind of investment. ford looks smart, don't they? >> look at consumer perspective. last year people believed in the china miracle for automobile biel sales. the growth was single digits. 6% of chinese have cars and vastly different culture and consumer class. we can't fall into the trap of thinking if you just build it, they will come. ford does have growth potential but if we see continued slowdown in china. are edge trenched players conceding the market share? i think not. liz: smartphones were the same thing. there are a billion people in china want smartphones. the third name, a company very much in the spotlight yesterday and that is yum! brands with more than 50% revenue exposure to china. >> yeah. i think people might get fooled thinking it is the kind of bird flu thing or regulators concerned about chicken in china. i would caution people and look at the fact that mcdonald's has soon a lot of softness in asia sales. kentucky friday chicken you can blame on the chicken mess, the fact of the matter yum brands seeing softness in sales. so has mcdonald's. a lot of consumer brand believe in the china miracle if they throw off more restaurants they will find more people. to a degree that may be true. number one you can't bank on growth guaranteed and learn with so many stocks, apple the biggest of them all, expectations are more important than growth. if a company like ford is banking everything on asia growth and don't get it or company like kfc with 50% of the its revenue, a little bit goes a long way to affect the investment. be came of the exposure you got. liz: thank you for educating us, jeff reaves. we like the no-glasses look. >> glad to be here with it. liz: jeff is the editor. see you next time. >> thanks. liz: adam? 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>> yeah. it's been a long journey and continue to be a fight. we had a very basic strategy. we said we would protect our strong markets which are china as well as the commercial business and we would attack the consumer business and emerging markets. so that combined with a lot of investment in r&d and new technology and expanded distribution have led to us where we are today in pcs. adam: so let me ask you, you have a little less than 20% of market share in the pc world. >> right. adam: what we're being told pcs are yesterday's news but i would believe you would say no, they're not. why should companies like yours continue to invest so heavily with pcs? >> well, you know, at the end of the day it is still a $200 billion business around the world. we're under 20% of that. we see a big opportunity for profitable growth going forward in this segment. we think we've seen the worst in terms of the market on pcs and we expect it to get better later this year and into next year to see some growth. liz: so much so, you're such believers, you're moving a lot of your manufacturing, that thinkpad, which you bought that business from ibm, to north carolina doing a complete opposite of what say, other companies in the past like apple has done which is farm it out to foxconn in china. tell me how that works for margins in china and why you made that strategic decision. >> we're excited to be a pioneer in doing that. we're one of the first, if not the first technology manufacturers to bring some of the manufacturing back to the u.s. we really did that based on a customer business case. we think there's a couple of advantages to doing that. number one, we can get products to customers faster, just pure logistics time when we make them here in north carolina. we can customize later in the purchase cycle. you know, close to the box services. liz: sure. >> peripherals and adders. there is a segment of the mark that either demand or requires that products be assembled in the u.s., especially the government. that business case made sense for us to start an investment here. adam: when it comes to pcs, where is the market? replacement pcs? are you seeing at least some growth, you know, new purchasers? where are the sales being made? >> well, t's a little bit of both. you certainly are seeing replacement cycles. windows 8, the advent of that, while it hasn't been the boon for the market we had hoped for it certainly has given customers a new reason to buy, a new user experience, that's, significantly different than what we've seen in pc before. and, we're starting to see some of the fruits of that here in the middle of the year and we expect that to continue, like i said. liz: we're talking all pc but you guys do a pretty interesting business when it comes to tablets. smartphones are a priority. how do you ramp up the smartphone attractiveness to say, the 21-year-old college student here in america? >> as much as we're committed to the pc business and believe there's profitable growth there we also understand some of the realities of the market and that is a lot of consumer spend something going to new type devices like tablets and smartphones. so we had a successful business there. lot of people here in this market, don't know that we've launched smartphones in china as well as other countries that make up about 60% of the world's population. as a matter of fact, we're number two in china smartphones already. and so, eventually we will bring that to the u.s. but right now we want to continue to build our brand here amongst the american consumer. liz: right. >> and build our pc strength because the fact remains we're not number one in the u.s. in pcs and we think we have growth opportunities still in that space. liz: jay, it is a fascinating story to watch in lenovo, i followed it for some time but indulge us for a second. there is all this news breaking that carl icahn will up his bid for dell, a competitor which you worked at many years. what does it look at the outside as this battle for dell to be taken private? do you consider them a competitor as today? >> we keep our head down and spending time on our products and customers. if that gives customers a reason for pause, then we're happy to go try to earn their business. liz: good to see you, jay. great to have you on. >> thank you. liz: jay parker at lenovo. adam: thank you, jay. >> thank you. adam: there is big news in agriculture today and it could have a big impact on your grocery bill. jeff flock joins us from the illinois cornfields. jeff? >> you would think, adam, it would be a positive impact on your grocery bill but the market today is reacting just the opposite you would expect it to when they say it will be a record harvest for the corn crop. back in just a moment to explain why the market is acting peculiarly on this year of a great harvest, we think, for corn. stay tuned. liz: new agricultural numbers today could give us come clues where grocery pries you have to pay may be headed. the focus on grain forecasts following last year's drought that decimated crops. adam: jeff flock is in a field in illinois with a surprise. what was the surprise? >> bigger than expected corn stockpiles, a bigger harvest, probably all-time record harvest. look at the record what they think the harvest will be this year. the all-time record harvest, 2009 for corn. last year of course we had a terrible drought. about 10 billion bushels of corn. this year, they think it will be a record but prices are still going up. pete, why? >> well, i think an hour ago i had a different opinion. now, there is not as much moisture in the ground we think there. >> what is happening here? take a look here. that is the tassel. >> this corn is no, sir tasselled. >> no, it is not tasselled. >> the corn looks great. it is moist now. if it tassels you don't get the yield? >> don't get pollen nation and affects the yield. >> look at corn prices first of all in july. that is trading over $7. that went up today, even though you had what should be a bearish report on corn. if you take a look by the way at the december contract, the comparison, one's about five bucks, the other's about seven bucks. >> yeah. that's quite a spread. >> you will see that $5 coming back up if in fact you get your yield, right? >> yeah. we're starting to see some pineappling out here. >> pineapple, what do you mean? >> it is, protecting itself and the moisture that it has. >> gotcha. >> we haven't had a good shower in almost two weeks now. so it is starting to, starting to, it could be affected. >> that is a great point. even for a farmer when things look great and looks like a great harvest so far, if you don't get timely rains could you have problems again. liz: jeff flock, live on the farm. you know, we're all eating corn this summer. it is delicious. thanks so much for the story. make your bets on that one. adam: imagine if you could waterproof your phone, your clothing even your shoes? you can waterproof your shoes. we have details of a new product that can do just that. don't go away. of adam: let's go "off the desk." can this be the end of dry cleaning? never wet is a new product launching at home depot this week that repels water, mud, oil from your clothing and even your electronics. one word, polyester does that. it is a spray that actively repels liquids and deflects moisture better than kim kardashian. it will be sold for 20 bucks and sold at other u.s. stores. liz: i want it but i need to find out what it is made of. so many of you were generous on team fox business triathlon train. this sunday, i am doing the triathlon raising money for the most severely wounded soldiers from iraq and afghanistan. cheryl casone, chris hahn and i are doing the new york city athlon. this is a charity i work with. we build custom built homes for free for soldiers returning with the most tram tick injuries. we build specialized homes mortgage-free to be comfortable. staff sergeant aaron hail got one of these homes. this is the presentation. he is one of "hurt locker" guys, mem better tactical explosive unit. father of four was blinded in afghanistan when, a improvised explosive device detonated 30 feet from him. served one tour in iraq, two in afghanistan. disabled 50 explosive devices during the final tour. there are some like him. consider helping us. building homes for heroes. thank you. >> money with melissa francis is next. melissa: i'm melissa francis and here's what's "money" tonight. the winds are blowing against the keystone xl pipeline approval literally. opponents are planning to use windmills and solar farms to block its construction. one of the men leading the charge joins us. plus an interesting turn in egypt. it has been plagued by blackouts and gas shortages but now all of a sudden that has stopped. were they part after plot to topple mohammed morsi and the muslim brotherhood? 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