anthony chan we noticed a trend in earnings to this point. revenue is a big problem for a lot of companies right now, isn't it? revenue growth? >> it is a problem. whenever you see that 45% of the companies are beating but the historical average is 50, it's a problem. on the earnings they're a lot better. the revenues are short. here's the issue. the issue is we're seeing perhaps a moving away from austerity. the paper is being somewhat discredited. france talking about cutting the capital gains tax. talking about many of the agencies loosening up on austerity. i think all this is going to generate a little bit more boost to the top line and we probably will start to see earnings and revenues doing a lot better moving forward. >> maria? >> jim lacamp, let me get your take on this record move today on the s&p 500. would you be poised to put new money to work as this market goes higher or you think we're going to be slowing down from these levels? >> maria, what's happened here is we've seen individual investors move to pension funds and now to

anthony chan will tell us if there are some positives that we can take away on our friday. reported from this new strain of the bird flu. we will talk about that. airlines are now feeling the pain as well. fewer people traveling to asia. here are some of the winners on the s&p 500. ♪ @ connell: market now. a rough day for stocks. let's go back to nicole petallides. nicole: it is a week therefore all the stocks. i wanted to take a book in the technology sector.. they said they are revenue would be below estimates. take a look at the components. some of these names that are in the same group. these results are below analyst estimates. as a result, you are seeing them to the downside. of the three that we saw, the nasdaq is down 1.1%. it is the worst of the three. connell: thank you. nicole petallides at the exchange. another big story today is the president's budget. president obama's proposal which will be out next week officially will target retirement accounts of upper income earners and savvy investors as well. rich edson is live at the white house. rich: the officia