the defendants include samsung, sharp, toshiba, and hitachi. cuomo believes the firms created a secret cartel to boost prices which costs new york city hundreds of millions of dollars. no comment yet from the companies. still ahead, tonight's "market monitor" guest says people who buy stocks today will be happy in the next five years. she mary ann bartels. >> susie: c.e.o. mark hurd is resigning effectively immediately. he is leaving after a sexual harassment allegation regarding an outside contract worker. h.p. says hurd filed expense reports that broke the company's business conduct standards. cathie lesjack will step in as interim c.e.o. and h.p. released preliminary third quarter results, and jeff will have more on that in tonight's "market focus." meanwhile, there is a job opening at the white house. the president's top economic advisory is leaving to focus on her family. cyschristina nomar says she plans to return to teaching economics at the university california, berkeley. and she says he wants her 14-year-old son to spend his high scho

the high-end storage space, and so they can-- where they already have relationships and are putting hitachi equipment into customer's shops-- they can go ahead and start putting 3par equipment in those shops right away. as opposed to dell, who would have to start building that base of high-end storage customers from scratch. >> susie: if h.p. is successful in its pursuit of 3par, dell could still profit. it's entitled to a $72 million breakup fee on the deal. holt thinks dell will take a break from the bidding battle this weekend and come back with a higher offer early next week. >> tom: between ben bernanke's comments and the merger action in technology, buyers came back. let's take a look at tonight's "market focus." stocks shrugged off the weaker g.d.p. number and seemed to be assured by the federal reserve chief's comments. still, the indices lost ground this week. the dow closed back above 10,000. still, it lost 0.6% this week. it's down three weeks in a row. the nasdaq saw more volatility, slipping 1.2% over the past five sessions. and the s&p 500? it fell 0.7%, its third consecutive

bill mccollum alleges the defendants, like samsung, sharp, toshiba and hitachi, conspired to boost prices. last week, new york's attorney general filed a similar lawsuit. so far, the manufacturers have not commented on the allegations. >> suzanne: when it comes to boosting the economy with stimulus spending, tonight's commentator thinks uncle sam should do more, not less. he's daniel gross, senior editor at newsweek. >> the conventional wisdom says president obama and the democrats may be in trouble in this fall's midterm elections because they've tried to do too much on the economy. the stimulus package, health care reform, financial reform-- too much action and too few results. after all, unemployment remains at 9.5%. but the conventional wisdom is wrong. president obama's problem, in fact, may be that he has done too little on the economy-- on both fiscal policy and monetary policy. from the beginning, many economists warned that the $787 billion stimulus package, designed to roll out over three years, was too small, especially given that the economy was shrinking at a 6% annual rate.

group is over one percent higher in tokyo exporters home and hitachi have put on two and a half of said. positive results for costs. and investors are cashing in yesterday's profits in europe sending stock markets they're down but metals join take straw to have a tripling in first half profit in m. and a news gold producer kinross has bought out rival redback and a seven point one billion dollars deal one is almost moved down as i say investors cashing profits that. the ruble has slipped below the psychological benchmark of thirty dollars as the old price continues to rise. energy exporters ruble hit twenty nine ninety seven in tuesday trade off the light sweet broke out of the seventy to eighty dollars brackets of the past three months eighty two dollars a barrel experts credit an unexpected increase in us all supplies for the growth. chinese call make a g.e. has completed its purchase of sweden's volvo from ford the deal which was announced earlier this year is estimated to be worth one point eight billion dollars the new owners plan a new range of premium call models to rival those o

the school burned but it's actually the community came together in fact they got the donation from hitachi library. >> they are still putting fencing around this place they're still asking for monetary donations because according to a system principle they are almost there for the $100,000 deductible for the insurance they still have to drop plans. that will take money as well. they need money for the deductible first they are asking for that. they are no longer in need of material donations they have no place to put that but if you wanna help go to san jose unified school district and drop off donations. it will be helpful for the deductible as well as mature throughout the year. >> lot of the kids are order but he did not have air-conditioning they donated a share. >> we will see a cool down at the end of the week so certainly we will need air-conditioning at that point although outside the golden gate bridge fog is definitely an issue. the fog is looking pretty quickly this morning drizzle as well this morning. this will be the warmest of the work week and will begin to cool down later