congressman dan meuser, doug holtz-eakin, stephanie pomboy, mike lee, cheryl casone, thank you so much. 30 minutes away from the opening bell, the dow jones industrial average right now is up better than 30 points. the nasdaq and the s&p are flat. let's hand it over to stuart. "varney & company" picks it up. stu, take it away. stuart: good morning, everyone. this is inflation data week. consumer prices tomorrow, producer prices out about half an hour ago. here's what we have. in april, prices paid by businesses went up a much bigger than expected 0.5%. that is the hottest read sense february. over the last year, producer prices went up 32.2% -- 2.2%, and that's the highest since april of 2023. a strongen inflation report today. here's the market reaction, subdued. when those numbers first came can out, the market went straight down. we've recovered a lot. the dow is actually up 20 points, the s&p is down a mere 2, and the nasdaq down 40 points, that's it. the 10-year treasury yield with, well, that's moved up above -- no, it just dropped back below, it was just above 4.5%, now it's 4.4