c.e.o. john chambers, in an email to employees, says the company has been slow to make decisions, has lost accountability and calls on cisco to be more disciplined as it grows. the share price clearly responding today. cisco and many other multi- national firms have been helped by the weaker u.s dollar. today, the euro hit a new one- year high against the dollar. tomorrow, the european central bank is expected to raise interest rates for the first time since the recession to battle higher inflation rates. and that led to euro gaining today. the weaker dollar helps commodities. look at this trio. copper prices are at a one-week high. demand from china also helps. silver continues to hit new generational highs. and gold also sits at another new high. over $1,400 an ounce. the metal rally is helping alcoa shares shine. a fractional gain today as the stock continues over $18. this is the past 2.5 years. and the gains today put it at its highest price since october of 2008. there it is. it comes just

last week, c.e.o. john chambers said the company would cut back in several areas to stay profitable. >> tom: on the road again. that's where business travelers are going this year thanks to an improving economy. the global business travel association says just over $60 billion was spent on work- related travel in the first three months of the year. and here's something to know if you're hitting the road: this year, the average business trip is expected to cost $551. >> susie: less than a week to go until your federal income taxes are due in uncle sam's hands. we're here to help with our series of last-minute tax tips. tonight, there's good news, and bad news, about the homebuyers' tax credit. here's kevin mccormally, editorial director of "kiplinger's personal finance magazine." >> the first time home buyer tax credit is causing a lot of confusion and grief this year, not to mention some real anger. first, for folks who bought homes last year and had binding contracts by april 30: if you haven't done so alr

earlier today, john kravcik, c.e.o. of hyundai u.s.a., told me about the company's strategy to build on that momentum. >> what's different about hyundai is we've got four cars now that get 40 miles per gallon standard, without any extra costs. >> susie: there's no question with with fast at $4 consumers are concerned about that. but are consumers coming into your showrooms or are they staying a way from buying all tomorrow? >> honestly, there is some confusion, and concern among car buyers right now. part of it is which car should i buy, you know. so a lot of them are looking for a solution that says i want great fuel economy, i would like still a roomy car, and we've got things like that in our lineup right now. so we are capturing those folks who are still looking, many of them, a big percentage of them are coming to our hyundai show rooms. so for us so far this industry seems very strong. >> susie: you've come out with this new hybrid, is this the first of more, and what about electric vehicles, what's your strategy

craziest names we could find and the craziest name was christy mack who is the the wife of john mack the then c.e.o. of morgan stanley who was involved with a company they got a two hundred twenty million dollars loan from from the telfer at a time when everybody else was getting foreclosed on and not being able to get financing and so on and so on all right but not tidy correct me if i'm wrong but these are non-recourse loans which means that if they can't pay it back better have to pay him back clearly that's a deal that everybody in the world would like to have a deal like that plus of course are taking advantage of the artificially cheap interest rates that are engineer ben bernanke the side of the fence and wall street to keep this market this scam going where you can borrow money for close to nothing and if you if you screw up you don't have to pay any back right so a lot recourse loan correct yeah the way this worked is basically if you're christie makar or wayne izing go to you know the owner of the miami dolphins at the time you go to the fed you sign up for the tell program they give you

c.e.o. in the picture on the right in the foreground is john luke detain in fact he's the fact guy and he's a politician who approved this bonus of eight hundred thousand euros to the bank or he's waste centimeter challenge. you couldn't make it with one of those balloons for sure. but keep in mind that dexia and these banks are engaged in this criminal conspiracy and it's not a conspiracy theory it's a should be a criminal indictment i mean that's the difference it's not a serious time for her and gave them a massive rico act massive fraud but it's so big and here's the deal you know they say that we were two days away from bankruptcy well that's a story with everybody in the world because according to basil which is in switzerland the regulations for how much cash they're supposed to keep all their balance sheet it's less than two percent so every single bank in the world is two days away from bankruptcy if all the artificially price stocks to keep on their books drop in value by one or two percent then they're all technically bankrupt that's why there's such a need to do this artificial

c.e.o.'s who want to add millions to private bank accounts good jobs that are the back john mccain the man who is almost president is much of a student of history what's the solution to the libyan war continues to drag on our interview with the press a.f.p. yesterday mccain said i think we could do the same thing we did in the afghan struggle against the russians there are ways to get weapons in without direct u.s. supplied supplies. let's arm the rebels even though we have no clue who they are just like we armed the afghans back in the eighty's that were covering the well with give you know some of them on all those weapons and they eventually went on to become the taliban that we currently are fighting a war against them. i think i figured out john mccain solutions are always about continuing wars not ending. and the very very ugly republican oklahoma state representative sally kirk the state house yesterday passed a proposal to eliminate the from of action in defense of that measure representative sally kern offered and roche's argued about how black people simply don't work as hard as peop

c.e.o.'s would welcome a government shutdown. it would have disruptions in the supply chain. john england, the president of the business roundtable said -- quote -- "business would face the danger of the law of you unintended consequences. are interest rates could rise and there could be turmoil in the financial markets." this would all happen because republicans being held hostage by deepers have tea partiers have rejected spending cuts for this year because they did not get all that they wanted. because they aren't getting their way on unrelated extraneous social issues like women's reproductive rights and enforcing laws on our books to protect our children's health. they simply will not take yes for an answer. because yes on spending cuts isn't really their only goal. spending cuts is not why they are trying to shut the government down. i would remind our colleagues that democratic governments are not about total victory. authoritarian governments do that, not democracies. in democracies we are all fairly elected to represent our constituents. we all have a view. we all have a

c.e.o.'s would welcome a government shutdown. it would have disruptions in the supply chain. john england, the president of the business roundtable said -- quote -- "business would face the danger of the law of you unintended consequences. are interest rates could rise and there could be turmoil in the financial markets." this would all happen because republicans being held hostage by deepers have tea partiers have rejected spending cuts for this year because they did not get all that they wanted. because they aren't getting their way on unreled extraneous social issues like women's reproductive rights and enforcing laws on our books to protect our children's health. they simply will not take yes for an answer. because yes on spending cuts isn't really their only goa spending cuts is not why they are trying to shut the government down. i would remind our colleagues that democratic governments are not about total victory. authoritarian governments do that, not democracies. in democracies we are all fairly elected to represent our constituents. we all have a view. we all have a vote