right now. reuters is reporting jpmorgan securities and bear stearns are being sued over mortgage-backed securities by the national credit association. this is over alleged misconduct and $3.6 billion in mortgage securities to credit union collapse on losses from those securities. we will continue to follow that story for you. the stock is higher at this point. dennis: stocks now as did every 15 minutes, nicole petallides on the new york stock exchange. nicole: all eyes on washington now discuss the fiscal cliff trying to come to some sort of agreement to make this happen for u.s. taxpayers, americans across the country who are eagerly awaiting a bipartisan decision of some sort end justifies the meeting has brought some optimism to wall street and as result we are seeing the dow up 91 points. focusing on bank of america the top performer on the dow jones industrials. some of the tech stocks are