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Program: Friday, January 20, 2006

GE, Citigroup, & Oil Prices Touch Off A Stock Slide
GM's New Pricing Plan
How To Sell Your Home During The Real Estate Slow Down
"Market Monitor"-Jim Grinney, Sr.V.P. & CIO of Northern Trust Bank of Florida
"Last Word"-One Woman Pays Her Debt & Yours To Society
Paul Kangas' Stocks In The News
Market Stats

01/20/06: GE, Citigroup, & Oil Prices Touch Off A Stock Slide

SUSIE GHARIB: a massive sell off on Wall Street today. Investors dumped stocks after earnings from Dow components Citigroup and General Electric and a rise in oil above $68 a barrel. The Dow plunged 213 points, its biggest decline in nearly three years. The NASDAQ tumbled 54 points, its sharpest drop in almost 2 1/2 years, led by an 8 percent drop in shares of Google. Suzanne Pratt has more on those earnings reports from Citigroup and GE.

SUZANNE PRATT, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: The news from Citigroup could have been better. Not only did profits at the nation`s largest bank fall short of analysts forecasts, but revenue was disappointing as well. Citigroup earned $0.98 a share in the fourth quarter, matching restated profits from a year ago, but $0.02 shy of expectations. Revenue was nearly a billion dollars short of Wall Street forecasts, coming in at $20.8 billion. Analyst Andrew Collins of Piper Jaffray, which has done business with Citi in the last year, says the company faced a challenging interest rate climate and increases in consumer bankruptcies.

ANDREW COLLINS, SR. FINANCIAL ANALYST, PIPER JAFFRAY: I wasn`t completely surprised by the results. Trading was little bit weaker than we were looking for as was the U.S. credit card business.

PRATT: Aside from the disappointing report, Citi further upset investors when it declined to make projections about this year`s earnings.

COLLINS: Citigroup has made it a policy of not really providing forward guidance. I think in this case they probably would have been better served to have been a little bit more specific in how they`re looking at the numbers going into 2006.

PRATT: Quarterly earnings at General Electric, which is considered a barometer of the economy, were not much better. Excluding losses from a discontinued business, GE earned $0.55 a share in the fourth quarter, up slightly from a year ago and in line with expectations. Sales, on the other hand, at less than $41 billion were better than last year, but lower than forecast. Five of the conglomerate`s six businesses delivered double digit earnings growth in the quarter. But, as expected, profits and sales at the company`s media unit, which includes NBC, fell in the fourth quarter. GE was, however, forthcoming and optimistic about the future. It raised the lower end of its 2006 profit forecast by $0.02 a share and said first quarter profits will be up at all of its divisions, except media. Analyst Mary Anne Sudol, who owns shares in GE, rates the stock a buy.

MARY ANNE SUDOL, INDUSTRIAL ANALYST, CARIS & CO.: There are a lot of investors out there who are still very, very skeptical. And, I think GE will have to put up another string of good back to back quarters and year over year quarters to get their attention and their conviction that the story has legs.

PRATT: It`s clear the stock market is quite sensitive to earnings disappointments. On Monday, look for quarterly reports from American Express and Bank of America to help guide the direction of trading. Suzanne Pratt, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT, New York.


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01/20/06: GM's New Pricing Plan

PAUL KANGAS: Ford Motor Company won`t confirm it, but published reports say the auto maker is turning to new versions of mini-vans to help maximize sales. The nation`s second largest auto maker is expected to announce details of a big restructuring plan in Detroit on Monday. The company has said it is looking at all aspects of its business, on both the cost and revenue sides, possibly closing down as many as five plants. Reports say Ford will move away from the traditional minivan look with its sliding doors and truck platform. Instead, it could base the new vehicle on a car platform, with three rows of seats and a profile that looks more like a large station wagon.

SUSIE GHARIB: Meanwhile, executives of General Motors hit the road this week, selling a new pricing plan to its dealers. The new strategy lowers the manufacturers` suggested retail price on 80 percent of GM`s products. As Diane Eastabrook reports, getting dealers behind this plan is crucial to the company`s success.

BILL STASEK, CHEVROLET DEALER: The MSRP that came with the car when it was shipped to us was $28,135. With the roll back that same vehicle has now been reduced to $27,160.

DIANE EASTABROOK, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: Bill Stasek says he and other GM dealers have been calling for the company`s new low price strategy for months. He says steep discounts over the past five years that ran the gamut from 0 percent financing to red tag sales to employee discounts for everyone made it difficult to control inventory and make money.

STASEK: Everybody was happy to see the floor traffic come through and we sold a lot of vehicles. The fact of the matter though is it just simply made our margins so shallow that it was very difficult to do business.

EASTABROOK: But lowering vehicle sticker prices might not do much to improve dealer profits either. In fact, GM says the lower price program will reduce profit margins between one and three percent for its 7,300 U.S. dealers. That is a big concern for dealers and Merrill Lynch analyst John Murphy, whose company owns stock in GM and has an investment banking relationship with the auto maker. He says with profits so slim in recent years, GM dealers haven`t had the money to reinvest in their businesses and he fears the low pricing plan could continue that trend.

JOHN MURPHY, AUTO ANALYST, MERRILL LYNCH: First, GM dealers are investing less in their dealerships, getting less face lifts, less investment in the back end of the business and in turn if they have the option or they own multiple dealerships, they`ll invest more in Toyota or a Lexus dealership.

EASTABROOK: That uncertainty at GM is one reason Stasek had postponed a much-needed renovation at his dealership. But he`s going ahead with it now.

STASEK: I`m totally confident in General Motors and the product, so we`re getting ready for what we think is going to be a banner year.

EASTABROOK: Other GM dealers admit they are concerned about slimmer profit margins under the new pricing plan. But they also think the strategy shifts the consumer`s focus from promotions to products. And that they say could ultimately lead to better profits.

JOHN BREDEMANN, CHEVROLET DEALER: With this program if you`re able to bring more people back into your showroom, present the car to them, build the business, then the volume will make up for whatever margin loss there might have been.

EASTABROOK: Dealers think it could take a few months before consumers catch on to GM`s new pricing strategy. And for that reason, analysts fear GM could have a hard time resisting a return to steep incentives if consumers don`t block to showrooms immediately. Diane Eastabrook, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT, Wheeling, Illinois.

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1/20/06: How To Sell Your Home During The Real Estate Slow Down

SUSIE GHARIB: As we`ve reported over recent months, there`s more and more evidence that the housing market is losing steam. Home sales are expected to grow by just 5 percent this year, down sharply from 13 percent growth last year. For people who expected to cash in on the rising values of their homes, that`s not good news. So what`s the best strategy if you`re planning to sell your home in this environment? Stephanie Dhue reports.

STEPHANIE DHUE, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: Last spring, in the Washington, D.C. area and other hot markets, homes were selling in hours with multiple bids. But with mortgage rates higher now, there are more homes on the market and fewer buyers. Home seller Diane Plumb says the real estate market is a little bit scary, but she doesn`t see it as a problem.

DIANE PLUMB, HOMESELLER: I expect that at the right price, at a fair price for this market, that I can sell my house.

DHUE: Experts say homes that would have sold in the hot market are starting to sit. The average sell time has shifted from less than a week to a month or two. Realtors say now it`s crucial to have a home be in move-in condition.

NANCY TAYOR BUBES, REALTOR, COLDWELL BANKER: You can no longer rely on just putting a sign in front of your house. You`ve got to get it looking as good as you can and priced as well for the marketplace, because buyers are really beginning to figure out that this market is maybe theirs for the picking.

DHUE: Pricing strategies have also changed. Last spring, sellers could ask and get more than what the last house in the neighborhood sold for. Real estate broker Michael Aronowitz says he doesn`t expect that to happen this spring.

MICHAEL ARONOWITZ, BROKER, HELP U SELL: My recommendation would ultimately be to take a look at the last sold properties and then maybe price it slightly below the market value of that sold property to see if you can generate some more interest and possibly generate competition.

DHUE: Some economists I spoke with recommend being aggressive about selling your house this spring and be willing to negotiate the price. They predict homes that sit into the summer could get caught in what may be the peak of a slowdown. Stephanie Dhue, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT, Washington. <

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1/20/06: "Market Monitor"-Jim Grinney, Sr.V.P. & CIO of Northern Trust Bank of Florida

PAUL KANGAS: My guest "market monitor" this week is Jim Grinney, senior Florida. Jim welcome back to NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT.

JIM GRINNEY, SR. V.P. & CHIEF INVEST. OFFICER, NORTHERN TRUST: Nice to be here, thank you.

KANGAS: Let`s get right to it. Why, in your opinion, the steep sell off on Wall Street today.

GRINNEY: 213 points. It was a lot of things. First of all, this is options exploration day so this market was a little squirrelly anyway. Second of all, you had the lingering concerns of higher oil prices, the issues with Iran. At the same time, you have earnings season and in fact, the earnings were not bad. Of the hundred companies that have reported, 75 percent of them at or above expectations, but company guidance going forward in `06 is trying to direct people to be a little bit more conservative.

KANGAS: So it`s guidance that isn`t so hot?

GRINNEY: Absolutely. Earnings are fine. It`s the guidance that people are concerned about.

KANGAS: What lies ahead?

GRINNEY: That`s right.

KANGAS: Give us your idea as to what oil prices are going to do. Is $100 per barrel oil in the cards?

GRINNEY: That`s anybody`s guess. We have a situation here. This is demand driven. It`s unlike the `70s where you had the cartel controlling it and it was supply issues. Right now demand is reasonably strong worldwide and China is a whole new area that is coming on with strong demand. So prices are at least going to stay at these levels. How high they`re going to go is anybody`s guess..

KANGAS: Tough guess, that`s for sure. Some economists have been telling us that the recent inversion of the yield curve is portending a recession. That is where short-term yields are higher than long-term yields. Do you put any credible belief in that at all?

GRINNEY: Well, certainly it`s something to watch, but at the same time I`d suggest to you that it`s the degree of inversion that has relevance, too. A couple days ago, they had a flash on the screen that said curve inverts and they showed the numbers. It was one tenth of one basis point inversion.

KANGAS: That`s not enough to get concerned over?

GRINNEY: Not enough to get me worried.

KANGAS: All day it was inverted of course.

GRINNEY: I understand. When you look back historically, the real inverted curve that you watch out for is when short rates are up at 7 or 8 and the long rates are down at 5 or 6. That`s a true inverted curve.

KANGAS: We`re a long way from that.

GRINNEY: We`re a long way from that, which is not to say that we`re not going to see some kind of slowdown possibly later in the year. That`s likely.

KANGAS: You predicted that on your last visit with us in late March of 2005. There would be a slowdown and you had interest rates right exactly what they did which you predicted and I compliment you on that.

GRINNEY: Thank you.

KANGAS: So what about interest rates now, topped out?

GRINNEY: Probably the momentum is there for another quarter point hike in the short end but I really think that`s it. We`re going to have a pause after that. The whole economy is growing but not quite as fast in `06 as `05. Inflation is not an issue, despite what oil prices are doing, not yet an issue.

KANGAS: How about recession?

GRINNEY: Unlikely, unlikely, slowdown in growth. We`re growing at 3.5 percent GDP right now, maybe down to two towards the end of the year.

KANGAS: OK. On your last visit with us in late March of last year, you recommended buying two stocks. Let`s see how they performed since then. Goldman Sachs did very well, up 21.3 percent and Air Products got as high as 65 but it`s down about 6 percent. Not bad, you`re ahead of the game on those two overall. Are you still with them?

GRINNEY: Still with them, yes. That`s why you diversify your portfolio, by the way.

KANGAS: OK. I understand. Do you... So you`re staying with both of them?

GRINNEY: Both of these we`re staying with. Full disclosure, I do not personally own them. Our clients do own them.

KANGAS: OK, let`s have some new recommendations if you have some in mind.

GRINNEY: OK, I do, same disclaimer in the beginning. I don`t own them, clients do. The first one is UPS. You see the one-year chart. It really has not done much. That scale throws it off, makes it look a little bit more dramatic, but the stock has been essentially flat for the year. It was a little bit expensive. Earnings have caught up. They`re starting to accelerate. They`re making new markets in China and good story with all of the Internet shopping going through there, etc.

KANGAS: We have time for one more recommendation.

GRINNEY: The one everybody hates, you`ve got to love if, Microsoft. Again, hasn`t done anything for five years. No positive inflated expectations here, I don`t think at all.

KANGAS: Because everybody else hates it, you love it, huh?

GRINNEY: In part. But they have some new things, Longhorn coming out next year, the new operating system. And the operating system that they have is being modified and developed for a lot of PDAs and cell phones, so there`s new markets there.

KANGAS: OK, we`ll keep an eye on it. Jim, it`s always a pleasure to have you with us. Thanks very much again for your input.

GRINNEY: Thank you.

KANGAS: My guest, Jim Grinney of Northern Trust Bank of Florida.

Nightly Business Report transcripts are available on-line post broadcast. The program is transcribed by eMediaMillWorks. Updates may be posted at a later date. The views of our guests and commentators are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Community Television Foundation of South Florida, Inc. Nightly Business Report, or WPBT. Information presented on Nightly Business Report is not and should not be considered as investment advice. Copyright (c) 2005 Community Television Foundation of South Florida, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Terms of use.


1/20/06: "Last Word"-One Woman Pays Her Debt & Yours To Society

SUSIE GHARIB: And finally tonight, the national debt has just dropped by $1.1 million and we all have Margaret Taylor to thank. The Finlay, Ohio, woman gave the money to the Federal government in her will. Taylor died in November at the age of 98, after telling her family she wanted to use her money to help people. The way she chose was to leave the cash to help pay down the national debt. Taylor`s lawyer says she was such a staunch Democrat, who believed the debt should be paid off completely. Paul, the Treasury Department says it may be the largest donation ever.

KANGAS: Of course, the national debt still dwarfs it, but it is a step in the right direction.

GHARIB: We need millions more just like her.

KANGAS: That`s right!

Nightly Business Report transcripts are available on-line post broadcast. The program is transcribed by eMediaMillWorks. Updates may be posted at a later date. The views of our guests and commentators are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Community Television Foundation of South Florida, Inc. Nightly Business Report, or WPBT. Information presented on Nightly Business Report is not and should not be considered as investment advice. Copyright (c) 2005 Community Television Foundation of South Florida, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Terms of use.



1/20/06: "Paul Kangas' Stocks In The News"

PAUL KANGAS: Another factor contributing to the big slide on Wall Street, a big rise in the price of oil. Light sweet crude for February delivery closed up $1.52 at $68.35 a barrel on the New York mercantile exchange today. That`s closing in on levels not seen since September, after hurricane Katrina knocked out a big chunk of domestic oil production in the Gulf. Today, the trouble is anxiety over supplies from Nigeria, where militants are threatening attacks on oil production facilities and Iran, which faces possible sanctions over its nuclear activity.

That surge in oil and the uninspiring earnings and guidance from GE and Citigroup sent Wall Street into a steep and high volume sell off all morning and into the early afternoon. By 1:30 p.m., the Dow was off 152 points. NASDAQ down 43 points. Earnings and oil worries continued to plague the market this afternoon as they went into free fall and closed at their worst levels of the day. Dow Industrial Average tumbled 213 1/3 points, ending at 10,667.39. It fell in three of this week`s four trading days for a net loss of 292.48 points. The NASDAQ Composite plunged 54.11, closing at 2247.70 today. It also rose just once this week and fell 69 1/3 points overall. Standard & Poor`s 500 down 23 1/2 points to 1261.49 today. Over in the bond market, the 10-year note rose 6/32 to 101 5/32, putting the yield at 4.35 percent.

Big board volume leader on a very active 54.7 million shares, General Electric (GE) off $1.31 on those disappointing earnings and guidance.

The same story with Citigroup (C) which caused (ph) a $2.25 loss there. And incidentally, the Dow stocks in general were very weak and the only gainer in the Dow 30 was McDonald`s (MCD), which rose $0.66.

There we see some of the other casualties, American Intl Group (AIG), Boeing (BA), Caterpillar (CAT), IBM (IBM), 3M Co (MMM), all down substantially, hurting the Dow of course.

Then we see Motorola (MOT) down $1.86. After the close yesterday as we reported, the company reported good fourth quarter earnings results, but forecast first quarter would fall below Street estimates. Hence, the drop in the stock.

Pfizer (PFE) down $0.26 today.

Lucent Technology (LU) a $0.03 drop. That was fifth in big board volume.

Ford Motor Co (F) down $0.32, big reorganization plans coming on Monday.

Time Warner (TWX) a $0.43 drop.

Then ExxonMobil (XOM) down $0.97.

Bank of America (BAC) a $0.95 drop.

JPMorgan Chase (JPM), tenth in volume, lost $1.01.

Schlumberger Ltd (SLB), there were gainers today and this was one of the best ones. Big earnings for Schlumberger, fourth quarter, $1.08 versus only $0.55 last year. Revenues jumped 31 percent and the company predicting 2006 revenues will be up 25 percent. Street is figuring only 18 percent rise. The oil services sector on the Schlumberger news did very well. Let`s have a look at a few of the other majors there.

Baker Hughes (BHI) and Halliburton Co (HAL) both doing very nicely.

Elsewhere in the oil sector, Kerr McGee (KMG) up $2.61. JPMorgan upgraded it from "neutral" to "over weight."

Another good gainer today, Blackrock (BLK), the investment manager, up $7.65. Yesterday it was up over $8 on good earnings and today, Morgan Stanley reportedly is in talks to acquire a controlling interest in Blackrock.

Beazer Homes USA (BZH) leading that sector down, off $3.68. CS First Boston downgraded it from "neutral" to "under perform."

AO Smith (AOS), which makes electrical products, up $4.11. A quadrupling in fourth quarter earnings over last year, $0.60 versus only $0.15 then.

Kindred Healthcare (KND) tumbling $6.63. Wachovia securities says proposed changes in Medicaid reimbursements could significantly reduce this company`s earnings results and the whole sector was weak on that.

Russell (RML) was up $1.08 and the athletic apparel maker is going to restructure. It`ll cut 2300 jobs, 1700 of them in the United States.

Finally, Imation (IMN) up $3.21. Fourth quarter earnings $0.52 versus only a nickel last year, so a very nice rise in the stock.

Google (GOOG) had its worst one-day drop both percentage and point- wise today, traded as low as $394.74. The company`s refusing to turn over search database to the Department of Justice incidentally.

Intel (INTC) off $0.64.

Apple Computer (AAPL) falling $2.95.

Microsoft (MSFT) a $0.61 drop there.

Yahoo! (YHOO) fell $0.59.

We don`t see any gainers in the active list here at all. Cisco Systems (CSCO) off $0.51.

$1.80 loss in Ebay (EBAY).

Qualcomm (QCOM) down $1.71.

Sandisk (SNDK) losing $3.94.

And Dell (DELL), tenth in volume, off $0.54.

Finally, Nitches (NICH) up $8.37. The clothing distributor had first quarter earnings of $0.42 versus a penny loss last year.

And those are the stocks in the news tonight.

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01/20/06: Market Stats

		  
			                 
                                     NET    PERCENT  
                        CLOSE     CHANGE     CHANGE

DOW CLOSE             10667.39    -213.32      - 2.0
HIGH                                        10880.71
LOW                                         10661.15

NASDAQ COMP.           2247.70     -54.11       -2.4
HIGH                                         2300.73
LOW                                          2245.20

VOLUME                                       2,124.8
PREVIOUS                                     1,789.5
UP VOLUME                                      340.5
DOWN VOLUME                                  1,773.5

DOW TRANSPORTS         4158.48     -76.43      - 1.8
DOW UTILITIES           421.31      -3.00       - .7
CLOSING TICK                                      +3

S&P 500                1261.49     -23.55      - 1.8
S&P 100                 571.51     -11.00      - 1.9
MIDCAP 400              758.61     -12.87      - 1.7
REUTERS/CRB             345.15      +3.81      + 1.1

NYSE COMPOSITE         7902.27    -115.95      - 1.5
VALUE LINE              423.59      -6.54      - 1.5
RUSSELL 2000            704.60     -10.34      - 1.5
DJW 5000              12714.75    -224.49      - 1.7

U.S. TREASURIES
5-YEAR NOTE 4.25%
Jan. 15,2011          99 26/32      +3/32       4.29

10-YEAR NOTE 4.50%
Nov. 15,2015         101  5/32      +6/32       4.35

30-YEAR NOTE 5.375%
Feb. 15, 2031        112 22/32     +12/32       4.53

LEHMAN BROS.
LONG BOND INDEX        1778.53      -1.55


DOW CLOSE             10667.39    -213.32      - 2.0
ADVANCES                                         971
DECLINES                                        2371
NEW HIGHS                                        248
NEW LOWS                                          34

                                      NET    PERCENT
NYSE MOST ACTIVES    4PM CLOSE     CHANGE     CHANGE
GE    General Electric   33.37      -1.31       -3.8
C     Citigroup          45.69      -2.25       -4.7
MOT   Motorola           22.49      -1.86       -7.6
PFE   Pfizer             24.71       -.26       -1.0
LU    Lucent Tech         2.55       -.03       -1.2
F     Ford Motor Co       7.90       -.32       -3.9
TWX   Time Warner        17.07       -.43       -2.5
XOM   Exxon Mobil        60.53       -.97       -1.6
BAC   Bank Of America    44.19       -.95       -2.1
JPM   JPMorgan Chase     38.05      -1.01       -2.6

NASDAQ CLOSE           2247.70    - 54.11      - 2.4
VOLUME                                       2,398.8
PREVIOUS                                     2,375.0
ADVANCES                                         833
DECLINES                                        2223

NASDAQ ACTIVES
GOOG  Google            399.46     -36.98       -8.5
INTC  Intel              21.76       -.64       -2.9
AAPL  Apple Computer     76.09      -2.95       -3.7
MSFT  Microsoft          26.41       -.61       -2.3
YHOO  Yahoo!             33.74       -.59       -1.7
CSCO  Cisco Systems      18.51       -.51       -2.7
EBAY  eBay               44.97      -1.80       -3.9
QCOM  Qualcomm           46.96      -1.71       -3.5
SNDK  SanDisk            68.39      -3.94       -5.5
DELL  Dell               29.96       -.54       -1.8

AMEX CLOSE             1825.27     + 3.89       + .2

INDEX SHARES
DIA   DIAMONDS TRUST    106.47      -2.19       -2.0
QQQ   NASDAQ 100         41.25      -1.27       -3.0
SPY   S&P DEP.RECEIPTS  125.97      -2.34       -1.8

STOCKS IN THE NEWS
AIG   American Intl Grp  66.71      -1.37       -2.0
BA    Boeing Co          66.49      -1.68       -2.5
CAT   Caterpillar        60.78      -1.73       -2.8
IBM   IBM                81.36      -1.73       -2.1
MMM   3M Co              75.24      -1.67       -2.2
SLB   Schlumberger Ltd  122.25      +7.36       +6.4
BHI   Baker Hughes       73.91      +1.44       +2.0
HAL   Halliburton Co     75.50      +3.75       +5.2
KMG   Kerr McGee        103.18      +2.61       +2.6
BLK   Blackrock         127.00      +7.65       +6.4
BZH   Beazer Homes       75.01      -3.68       -4.7
AOS   A O Smith          43.90      +4.11      +10.3
KND   Kindred Healthcare 20.17	-6.63	     -24.7
RML	Russell		 14.52	-1.08		-8.0
IMN	Imation		 48.81	+3.21		+7.0 
NICH	Nitches		 14.42	+8.37     +138.4











 

 

 

 

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