one, bob or ben, was there any story that you think we would have done better to rush into the paper on this cycle? can you think of a single one that would have made a difference if we would have jammed to push the edge? >> that's the thing, i'm actually describing something different. there are stories that you i think on the web today stories are reported in a basically different way. you have stories that have many individual component parts to them. they're putting them together. >> in realtime. >> basically. and i think that has plusses and minuses but it's not just a matter of the ability to rush to print. >> sure. i mean, i think there's a very positive side to it. i think also their also is a down side because you have to step back and say what's the goal? the goal is understanding. and if we'd gone to bradley and said we had one fact, he would have looked at us and said get the [ bleep ] out of my office. >> everybody learned a new word. >> we could not have gone in and said hey, ben, we're going to tweet the following words. it would not have worked. >> we had 140 characte

bob, considering before the opening it wasn't looking so crash hot there for the market. why are we up today? is it earnings? is it economic data? or should we be saying thank you ben? >> you should say thank you ben. i mean, look, the earnings -- this is the first day i have been rather shocked by the earnings numbers. we had some high profile disappointments. initial jobless claims disappointing, the euro weak going into the open. these are the residuals from mr. bernanke assuring the market if things go wrong, he'll be involved. the commodity earnings, the paper company, they came out and talked about lower global prices, dow chemical said the same thing. potash, lowered demand for fertilizers. coal and iron ore producer, cliff natural lower demand as well in asia pacific, look at the nurmbers. rather surprising. mandy, a rise in brent crude today. that's not good for the economy. it's putting pressure on the transports. look at this it started going up for the first time in a wliel. did you notice transports? all down on u.p.s. and higher crude price. you very rarely get a divergence between transports and industrials like we're getting today. >> bob, thank you