bake cookies. we have more on ben bernanke coming up. that does if for "power lunch," ladies, gentlemen. thanks for watching. >>> welcome to a special edition of "street signs." we are minutes away from fed chairman's ben bernanke's news conference. there is a specific employment rate along with inflation target, there is a lot to talk about. let us bring in steve with more and the fed's outlook, steve? >> i think the story here today is federal reserve despite saying it will spend something like a trillion dollars in additional qe this year or next year is lowering its economic forecast. if you look at the outlook for 2012 through 2015, it actually lowered the outlook from its september forecast. take a look here. tenth off of 2012. tenth off of 13. 15 bases points out of 2014 and 2015. look at what the federal reserve did with unemployment rate.