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J.C. Penney Shares Get Boost from Retail Sales Numbers

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    FBN’s Sandra Smith on the active stocks in today’s markets.

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What we've seen money flow into some of the biggest retailer -- department store chains like JC -- let's get right to Sandra Smith she's apple one touch with some of these names another -- think well there's certainly a lot of investors were looking for that turnaround from JC Penney and maybe this is the beginning of its up Q percent today.

After those retail sales numbers came out this morning it did show.

Strain in the department store chains which JC Penney obviously struggling over the past year or so -- getting a nice boost in today's session after that report.

Kohl's also up more than a percent Nordstrom getting a nice boost.

Also and that report that was considered not really great for retail sales for the month of January grocery store chains did really well Kroger continuing.

It's a really nice run up that -- seen.

So far this year and over the past year Safeway and Harris teeter supermarkets among the gainers in there are also -- wanting to take a look at the Dow thirty right now.

Obviously most of the activity is in the red.

Make -- remains the worst performer on the Dow right now a lot of speculation in the market -- -- this after President Obama last night.

It's proposed raising the minimum rating requirement and that potentially leading to the selloff there that accounting for about a quarter of the Dow's overall losses.

And -- I wanna finish up by showing the commodities markets here has a couple big movers.

Natural gas prices been extremely volatile.

Up a couple percent right now at three dollars 29 cents per British thermal unit.

And then there's silver a story -- talking about today HSBC saying silver's -- to -- that shining star.

2013.

Not kidding you -- but it has been.

Outperforming gold so far this year -- -- -- buying opportunity and a -- it's very -- an industrial -- not just the -- absolutely so thank -- Sandra very much Sandra Smith.

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