Stuart we have the latest read on the housing industry that just came out. Home prices up more than expected. 13. 6 , up yearoveryear. Im going to label that a pretty solid comeback for the housing industry in 2013. Throughout the day today were talking about the most Interesting Companies of the year. How about the most interesting industry . 3d printing. Obviously it look off in 2013. We actually printed this. This is a small chess piece. We printed it, 3d print it live on the program. The technology is cheaper, easier to use and available to everybody. Jeremy kaplan is still here. You say 3d print something the most interesting industry of the justify your point. This is something that didnt exist for consumers two years ago. Now, bang it is here of the we keep talking about it. Remarkable things you could do. A lot of stuff is still emerging technology. Complex, slow, expensive but it is remarkable. The fact that you can print out a chess piece. Think about the future your kid wants a new action figure. Print out a action figure. Remarkable. Stuart that assumes every home will have 3d device at home to print out small items. Do you see that day coming . There are handful of names. Maker, most people dont know the name. Theyre one of leading forces. 3d systems is a company doing all sorts of very interesting things. This is to be accomplished for this to work as industry. Right now mainly for designers. In the future, not too far off. Well see a lot of very cool things here. Stuart i think the word printer is misused. That chess piece on the air, i dont think that is being printed. That is being manufactured. You have a small robotic manufacturing device. Youre right. Additive manufacturing. Stuart the industry makes it available to you in your home. That was your judgment. The big new industry of this past year . Astounding to see this stuff. 2,000dollar to a printer. 500 next year. Stuart 500 bucks . You might be back with that one. Youre going to the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics show. I know well see smartphones, tvs. Theyre boring. Theyre boring. Stuart they are. Actually theyre not. What about a whole new product line to be revealed at the show . Is there such a thing . One thing ive been watching very closely is the Health Care Space which has been at the forefront of Digital Technology and emerging technologies. Of course. There is a cap called scanado talking a lot of time about the star trek at this corder. Stuart dr. Spock ran it over somebodys body. Finding out what is wrong with the guy. They have been talking about the technology and showing it off at the show at ces. Just a prototype a device you can scan over your body. Measures your temperature, things like that and diagnose it. Stuart this will be shown next week at the show . Thats what theyre saying. They will have a keynote speech where they talk about. It will be a fairly big deal. 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Those three things, what we all needed to do and everybody would be up 30 . Im not up 30 . Really just that. Look what they were going to do, read what they were growing to do and react to it. Maybe we would be better off. Maybe we need to do that with janet yellen as well. Stuart did you do well in 30 knitter . Yeah, we did pretty well. We were faced with all the headline risk of say the government. High frequency trading and algorithms. Obviously unprecedented loose Monetary Policy so yeah we had a lost hurdles to get over. We had a the lo of fun doing it. [opening bell rings] stuart hope you join us next year. Thanks for joining us, scott. Opening bell is ink ringing. Last trading session of the year has begun. We started out from 16,504. The futures, that is an indicator what will happen when the market opens. They were suggesting a gain of maybe 30 points. Were up 12. 16,520 as of right now. How many people who made forecasts exactly one year ago saw that we would be going out of the year at 16,500 . I dont know anybody who got a correct forecast. Of thats where we are. 16,523. Dont pay much attention to analysts on this show but even they are saying target is taking a big hit because of that data breach. These analysts are using words like disaster and breach of confidence. Talking about losing customers, and now, heres the news. 40,000 target gift cards bought over the holidays were not activated. They are worthless. Another black eye, perhaps. So Lauren Simonetti, tell us what is happening with the stock . Well, it is kind of flat, too. Stuart, pulling numbers from december 18th when we first learned about the breach, the 40 million accounts possibly jeopardized, and the stock has not really moved too much since then either. This is just incredible. Youre right. Our fox affiliate in minneapolis where target is based is reporting there is huge give card issue. For this retailer, one black eye after another. Shares are more or less hanging on. Stuart i was looking at the chart carefully, looked to me like target hit a high on december the 18th, right as that breach was being announced that security breach. It has come down from there. That is interesting. With this news today youre not seeing a serious negative for target as of right now. Well track it through the day for you. Here are our most Interesting Companies of 3030. Led of course by big american tech, amazon, twitter, netflix, tesla. A lot of big moves in these stocks this past year. Here is michael robinson. I want to take the Companies One at a time. I will start with amazon. The company suggest that is it will bring in 100 billion in revenue next year. Do you think this is one of the most Interesting Companies of the past year and do you think the stock can keep up with the kind of performance that weve seen, michael . I do think it is one of the most Interesting Companies on the american landscape. It was a big winner in 2013. It will be in 2014. As we talked about in the past, stuart, bezos is a brilliant guy. I love the way they add new efficiencies in there. Buying robotics firms, they bought zappos. They did a lot of smart moves in 2012 and 2013. Stuart Reed Hastings is getting 50 pay raise. They have a whole lot more subscribers joining in there. Is this another, very, very Interesting Company, the king of streaming is what were calling it . How about the stock in 2014, michael . Again i see it continuing to go up. I dont think it will keep up the torrid pace this year. Triple digit gains year after year is difficult for any stock especially haier you get in the price. The Reed Hastings earned the money. The company has done well. Three or four years ago a lot of analysts were writing it off as dead. The move to streaming they wouldnt make the transition. Not only did they make that transition but dominate in the area. There are a lot of Companies Come after them. Obviously Apple Tv Streaming Service but youve got hulu and others out there yet amazon, im sorry the company with Reed Hastings at the helm continued to do well. Netflix is a big winner. I think it will be in 2014. Stuart how about twitter . It was of course a big ipo this past year. It has fallen about 20 , just in the past couple of days. How are you looking at twitter right now . With confusion to be honest with you. I dont have any of date to make a solid case one way or the other. This one corrected quickly quicker than i would expected. Two backtoback ratings on the stock. I dont have enough technical or Financial Data to say what it is worth. I dont think weve quite seen the bottom yet. Again with ipos, it is not usual to see them correct in the first three to six months of trading. Stuart tell me about tesla. I remember it ran up close to 200 a share. Nowhere near that now. How about an Interesting Company and stock for next year . Fascinating company. I think elon musk is one of the brilliant ceos, one of the great visionaries in the american techlandscape of the last 30 years. This guy is into everything. Tesla, first of all, they make great, that is a, that tesla, that model s, is a beautiful car. Showstopper, every time i see it at a gas station or Shopping Center it draw as crowd. Motor trend car of the year. One of the safest vehicles ever reviewed by consumer reports. What is critically important they have a fantastic product the problem elon musk has with the company, operating margins are basically nonexistent. For 2014 i would like to see them get operating margins up there. With 700 sales increase last quarter is massive. Can they keep that kind of growth up . That will be the big question for 2014 but its a Great Company with a great product. Stuart wellsaid, michael. Stay there for second. I have to deal with other business at the moment. Taxman always gets you in the end. New york city suing fedex to the tune of 52 million. Why . For delivering millions of cigarettes, taxfree from an indian reservation on long island. Lauren, tell me about the stock. I dont think the stock will be affected by this but i want to seat price. Not affected. It is up. 2 of 1 . That is an interesting story, right . Probably well see fedex pay fines, maybe 52 million is what im reading. Because of the untaxed cigarettes being sold from 2005 through last year. Stuart okay. Lot of money. Big winter blast headed for the northeast. The word blizzard is being used. Hearing reports of up to eight inches of know in the northeast. Possibly a foot. Most of the snow will come thursday night into friday. Were going to monitor this for you over the next couple days. It could be a big headache for all of us in the northeast. Meantime, heres what we call our goto storm stocks that we like to look at. Shovels and salt from home depot. The stock is up. Backup generator, from generac. The stock is unchanged. If youre stranded at home during a snowstorm, maybe they will motivate you to book a trip someplace warm. Look at expedia. The stock is up. Lets get back to michael robinson. I want to talk gold. This was a terrible year for bullion. But, michael, you think some gold in a portfolio is still a good idea. Go. It is. When i say gold, i also want to make sure that people understand, i use gold and silver synonymously interchangeably. I own physical silver. I own physical bold. I think there is portion in every investors portfolio, if nothing, crash protection. It will break a lot of hearts in 2014. Ii dont see bottom, 850 to 1,000 an ounce. We have to still go down from here. If youre looking gold as bigtime investment to make a lot of money, 2014 is not year to do that. Stuart you would always have a piece of gold, a piece of your portfolio in gold, thats your rule, right . Absolutely. I have physical silver. I probably bought it at the top. I dont care what the price of it goes to. I will not sell that physical silver period. It is there for a reason. Like i have insurance on my car. I have insurance in case of a disaster. Physical silver, i have physical gold. I think everyone should own some. Stuart quickly, may i ask the proportion . A lot of people keep up to 10 in gold and silver. No more than that. How about you . 5 . I would keep it at about 5 . And now when we go back into the bull market that think will come back around 2015, 2016 i have might want to increase it then but right now i put more than 5 in precious metals. Stuart we hear you. Michael robinson, happy new year to you. Well see you in the new year. Thanks, michael. Happy new year to you, stuart. Stuart check the big board, were eight 1 2, nine minutes into the trading session. Were up some more. 30 points higher. The dow is at 16,534. Question, could 2014 be a breakout year for the economy . According to a new poll from fox news the majority of you say, yes, it could be. Thats next. 10. Stuart new years eve. Last trading day of the year. Were up 23 points, look at that 16,528. The price of gold is a different story. Were down 16 bucks this thing is falling well below 1200 a ounce. Look at price of hertzs stock. The, it moved higher. The Company Approved a shareholders rights plan that plan would make it harder for outside investor takeover. Market likes it. Up a buck 21. Was this a good year for your family . Over half of voters feel 2013 was a good year for them of. 54 of them think the economy will be better one year from now. The wall street journals mary kissell is here. Is this 2014. Im asking you for economic prognostication here. Is this the year after breakout with robust growth . I think no is the short answer, stuart. Stuart no . I dont think you will see five or 6 growth next year. We simply dont have the conditions to get there yet on the policy side. To get 5, 6 growth you need a big tax deal, need the regulatory state to pull off. You would need some sort of certainty when it comes to things like obamacare. What is more likely you see the kind of steady growth weve seen over the last couple of years. Really look stuart about 2 1 2 , maybe three . Three, 4 would be terrific. But look, there are some headwinds here in the economy. You have regulatory assault on business. You have obamacare. Uncertainty of the midterms. No big boost. Is immigration going to happen . Will we get a big trade deal . Will we get tax reform with max baucus going to china . I dont think so. Stuart do you think that the democrats could actually run, ignore obamacare, they are going to have to ignore obama care but run instead on new normal, steady as she goes growth. Making progress on unemployment . 2 1 2, 3 growth, much better than it was five years ago, steady as she goes, hold on boys, stay the course were going to be okay . Is that their line . That is what they have to run on because there really isnt anything else they can run on. Stuart how about, give me a higher minimum wage . You deserve it . Clamp down on executive pay, they dont deserve it. That appeals to their base but doesnt appeal to the vast rest of america that knows that setting prices, government saying to business, you have to pay this wage, isnt going to help. Look, the economics on this is settle, stuart. Raising the minimum wage puts people out of work. When you tell a business, you have to pay xamount for this person, what are businesses going to do . They will cut costs. They will not hire the next guy that comes along. Is it likely democrats will run on that . Sure. Its a populist platform. Stuart there is another side to that. The other side says, if you raise minimum wage, people earn more money. That is greater spending power. People earn more money and fewer people in employment. Stuart is that the immediate effect . Yes. It is. Absolutely. Go talk to the head of a fastfood chain where margins are, you know, 1 or 2 . He is going to tell you, you know what . If you raise my minimum wage to 15 bucks, guess what i will do. I will automate services and hire fewer people. Not a great platform to run on. They will try. Look, they cant run on a strong, strong economy. Were not sitting on top of a strong, strong economy. We could be. American businesses spent the last four to five years ramping up productivity, cutting costs. We could grow 5, 6 , we have that capability. I dont think until we have a change in the white house, that were going to see the kind of policy conditions that will