the dow utilities is almost at a new high along with the dow industrial. that is a little bit unusual, some of these big names, edison, a new high for edison, nisource a new high. look where we are in the major sec to the risk on gain here, the reason we are down here today guys is because of china, what was going on there, their trade deficit was wider than anticipated. you get that kind of thing, you usually see clean decline in the risk on names. >> where did the gold bars go? >> show you very, very shortly, hiding next to big burly guards trailing me virtually the entire day. >> as well they should, too. >> 1.4 million between the two bars. >> great. great. look at those later. fantastic special you have got coming up tonight, bob. >> thank you, maria. >> let's look at the movers and shakers on wall street at this hour. brian shactman at the cnbc exchange with the details. >> has his own secret service, nice feeling to have sometimes. we have florida. ed the s & p 500 but look at this at the real time exchange to see if there is trend or bias, basicall

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you think the dow is overbought. bring up the dow and tell us why you think that is. >> this is the daily chart of the dow jones 30, back to about the middle of last year, we also got the 200-day moving average. this is a great run, this is up about 30% for the quarter. i think that's too far, too fast. we're also extended, we're stretched well above the 200-day moving average. therefore i am looking for a period of reverse. >> ditto for the nasdaq? >> yes, now taking a look at the dow, in terms of targets. if we break support in terms of 750. >> let's talk about support on the dow. >> we have got the dow on, we got supported by 12,750. we take that out, we're probably going to go back to 12,000. >> now the nasdaq, ditto. >> let's look at the nasdaq, this one has also had a great run. this is a weekly chart back about three years. the short-term trend is up. about 35% since those october lows, therefore it's extended as well. in terms of targets, we see a weekly close below 28.73. that's about 20% below the reign hig

the dow at a one-month low. let's take a look at the major market indexes, starting with the dow, now down 1 2/3%. nasdaq off 1 and 3/5%. s&p 500 right now is down about 22 points, or thereabouts. there it is. 23 points at 1341. >> also, we should point out you may be noticing something new on the "closing bell" here on the left of your screen. it is a new effect we're using as we count down to the close. you can also see stocks on the move including citigroup which is down sharply today. one of the big pressures, the entire financials services sector under pressure as once again the focus turns to greece and the european sector. big run-up in 2012, apple for one down sharply, ahead of the tablet event happening tomorrow. investors are waiting new news on the ipad 3. meanwhile, one stock bucking the trend we want to point out today, high volume as well. monster worldwide. the stock is higher after the online recruiting company hired bankers to review strategic alternatives. that is certainly moving the shares. m

the dow trying to get back to neutral. ten-point decline right now, well off the lows of the session. >> and then there's yelp, skyrocketing in the debut today. is this an example of a bubble forming in social media stock. >> financials continue to outperform this market, in "talking numbers" we'll show you which bank stocks still look attractive despite the recent big rally. >> after the bell, what impact will vladimir putin have on russia if he does become president this weekend. gary kasparov, the famed chess player turned political activist will join me live from moscow. >> i dare you to play chess with him during that time. >> i'd love to. >> as we head to the break, here's how the s&p 500 heat map is shaping up for a friday. you're watching cnbc, first in business worldwide. back after this. >>> also ahead, a look at next week's key reports on housing and consumer sentiment. find out what else is on tap in the u.s. and europe that could impact your investments. that's coming up, right here, on the "closing bell." >>>

it's been a leader in the dow. earlier this week saying ibm would hit the 2015 numbers. if they do that, the stock needs to move higher here. what i've been doing for clients right now is looking for stock replacement. rather than own a stock, buy a call. with time premium so cheap historically for call premiums, i want to own something like the april 200 call on ibm. you can pay about $8. all you need for the stock around $2.06 is to move up two bucks from here. above there is all your upside profit potential. at the same time, on the down side, all i'm risking is $8. if we get a sell-off on biflt, we're risking $20 or more on the stock, all i have is the $8 time premium. this is a better risk/reward premium. this is my big blue trade. it's not just because the wolverines are going ahead in the ncaa tournament this weekend, but because ibm is a solid company. >> thanks very much, brian stutland. catch more options action tonight 5:00 p.m., followed by "money in motion" at 5:30. coming right back with the closing c

well, there's the dow heat map. lot more green than red. >>> well couple back to the new york stock exchange. with about 50 minutes of trading left in the session this monday, here is a quick stat check on the dow. industrial average off session highs, even as the market sentiment gets a little boost from apples dividend declaration this morning on the stock buy back. right new the dow industrial average is up 15 point at 13,247. was up 37 at the peak about an hour ago. here is a look at some of the biggest gainers among dow component led by alcoa. cisco and disney all pocketing gains. a good cross section of gains for the market so far this monday. let's get some movers and shakers at the cnbc retail exchange. >> u.s. stocks, as you point out, a bull market. s&p 500 less than 10% away from historic closing high in 2007. as you point out, the dow and nasdaq also trading in positive territory. treasury prices continue to fall and yields hovering at highest levels in more than four months as investors pour money into

the dow continues to go higher. happens is to be seen. but the rising wedge, two in the dow transport certainly suggests or supports that that possibility could occur. whether or not the dow rises as that occurs, it's to be seen. that chart overall is bearish. long as the transports are below 5400 or so. >> thanks so much. >> thank you. >> next trade, march madness. it's in full swing with round two kicking off tomorrow and though no bracket is a sure bet, chicken wings certainly are. last year more than 63 million wings were consumed throughout the tournament. guy had half of them. >> no. that's petey. and all his crazy brothers. >> will this march be a boom for buffalo wild wings? the ceo is joining us now. good to see you. >> hi. >> football is big for wings. is march madness as big? >> march is really our biggest month certainly led by the basketball tournaments. we love march, our guests love march. as you noted by the end of last year's tournament they consumed 63 million wings. with a hundred more stores this

let's just have a quick check on the dow and nasdaq, we started heading back down on the dow a few moments ago. down 17 points, worth bearing in mind that apple is down just over 2%. that is a big component now the nasdaq and dbsp. >> check in with lowe's, has its happened in everything from hoe else to energy. jonathan tisch his take on the state of the economy. what he is finding today. >>> another sign that this rally is running out of steam, the question we will ask moving forward, we will break down the charts in talking numbers. >>> then after the bell we head down to the 32nd annual health care conference to talk with callen ceo jeff solomon to get what trends are he is seeing in health care m and a action. that is at 4:15. >>> here is the sea of red on the s & p 500, half a sea of red, a little under half a sea of again this is cnbc, first in business worldwide. americans believe they should be in charge of their own future. how they'll live tomorrow. for more than 116 years, ameriprise financial has worked for their clients' futures. helping millions of americans retire on their t

the dow was down 107 at the low this morning.e should point out the s&p is back below 1400 today, the first time in five trading sessions that it's been down there. it was dragged lower today by energy and material and financials. and allow me to tee this up for you, maria. check out the new york stock exchange in the past week. zigs and zags there. the longer term trend is a steady decline from a week ago. as we all know, it's been declining here in 2012. don't we know that? >> yes, we do. and when we spoke with the ceo, he's only expecting one month of positive volume. a year which i thought was astounding. we're only expecting one month. >> and i consider this the new normal. >> yes. we're going to talk about that with carry duffy. craig donahue, the cfo since 2004, will step down in december 2012. the board has appointed terry duffy, who is currently executive chairman to the expanded role of executive chairman and president. joining me to talk about that as well as volume in a cnbc exclusive is mr. duffy himself. it's always

outside of the dow.he tech sector, nasdaq triple qs, and that is because apple is a big gorilla within those indices. >> yeah, back up $20 at this point. we're heading to the close, about 17 minutes left in this session. time for a quick market "state check" on the nasdaq itself. the tech sector may be among the top performers today. but that hasn't held the nasdaq composite index after spending the last two hours in the red. it has made a comeback right around break-even. this will be a squeaker on the close. meanwhile, the volatility index making a comeback today after a dip below 14 on tuesday for the first time since june of '07. a few months before the market peaked at that time. now it's up a fraction at this hour. there's the nasdaq down right now. maria? >> thank you so much. >> certainly. >> one of the big names failing those stress tests, citi down better than 3% today. so what do you want to do with citi as an international holding here? john is director of instituti institutional sales at gfi

the dow on track now for a seven-day win streak. it's the best run for the blue chip average going back to july of 2010. also, the s&p 500 traded above 1,400 for the first time in nearly four years. is this another buy signal for investors at this point or are we going into a new leg in this market. first, a look where we stand at the moment. the dow near the highs of the session right now. after a stutter step opened this morning. now up 39 points at 13,233. the nasdaq is up 14 points right now, about half a percent. still above 3,000 at 3,055. the s&p now above 1400, a gain of seven points at 1,401. >> as we enter the final stretch, take a look at some of today's big movers. a stock hit a milestone today. apple is now lower, but at the open it hit $600 a share for the first time ever. one day before the release of its highly anticipated ipad tablet. another tech stock under pressure, that's cisco. the company announcing plans to buy nds group in a $5 billion deal. cisco continues to make a strong push into the world of video servi

so keep an eye on the dow. accelerating a little bit. look at the s&p 500 right here at the realtime exchange. you get a real sense what's in the marketplace right here. advancers outpacing the decliners 9-1. some of the winners and losers, quickly. when it comes to broad-based rally, regardless of volumes, we have it up 5.5%. u.s. steel up 6%. international game technology, 5.5%. broad-based stuff in terms of this rally. here are the laggards. urban outfitters, and darco, cvs and walgreens are all down. this is pretty much the bottom of the s&p 500. a few other stocks we're watching here, include the rare earth names. president obama wants the wto to use muscle so china will ease exports. moly corp is up 3.75%. it's about half of what it was at the highsi inof the day. same with all the other players here. benihana, i want to look at the interday chart here. that's a huge spike. it was negative, now it's up 3.25%. investors want to get in right now. maria, back to you. >> brian, you know, we just are getting the first of what will likel

the 204-point loss for the dow industrials erased almost all of last month's gains, pulling the dow down to its lowest level since february 2. there's weren't many places to hide from the selling. all ten major stock sectors were lower. this trio led the losers, falling at least 2% each-- financials, industrials, and materials, all very sensitive to the u.s. and global economy. with the deadline looming for greece's lenders to accept a haircut to their investments, morgan stanley led the financial sector lower. shares fell more than 5%. volume was heavier than usual, with the stock falling to a six- week low. morgan stanley has been among the strongest bank stocks this year before seeing the recent turn lower. even the traditionally defensive health care sector was hit by selling after drug maker merck's outlook for this quarter was disappointing. the shortfall gets blamed on currency fluctuations. shares of merck dropped more than 2.5%. shares have been trading in a tight range between $38 and almost $40 per share before today's drop. this is merck's lowest close of the year. we have mo

first we breached dow 13,000, and today, how about this?roke nasdaq 3,000, where the averages pulled back in the afternoon, dow closing down 53 points, s&p giving up .47%, nasdaq will be shrinking to .67%. but the assaults on these old levels undeniably powerful. i don't think it's exhausted itself, just as we could use a pause to catch our breath. and maybe this is it. the skepticism surges seems as mighty as the advances themselves. it appears to me if you chatter about these assaults, you must immediately couch it in the context of bubbles, or you'll be dismissed as a cheerleader. as in, well, it's got to be a bubble, doesn't it? it's got to be a bubble now that we're back to nasdaq 3,000. isn't dow 13,000 an invitation to being something bubble licious. irrational exuberance? alan greenspan right before the monumental doubling! so is all of this bubble speak, is it merited? or has skepticism become so thick as to be, well, too thick? can we be so skeptical we descend into being cynical, or corrosive, or perhaps irrationally negative. i

first how the average year plays out for the dow. a spring s&l owl,summ, and th a dp in th rally through the year, but things are different in an election year. what are the key differences? >> this is a seasonal study based on the presidential cycle. you get a pullback in march, and be careful. it could rally longer than the bears want, into april, and 99 nosedive for a couple of months and then have a big rally into september. either way, we're in a period where you have to look for a little bit of a correction. we'll know in a few days whether wee following the traditional or the presidential pattern, tom. but overall, if you look at the model. they're bullish because of the presidential year and because we follow a rally into the end of the year anyway. >> tom: a couple of places where you're looking to make mon sesmith and wesson. swh. it had a niceeral fre3 to $5. where do you see it going? >> minimum target is 7. but i could see it in the 10 on 12 area in the next six to 12 months. there'a big interest inguns d protection, amm

right now, the dow up 1 point. the nasdaq continues higher with priceline and apple sitting higher. >> treasury numbers are falling. we'll hear from the ceo of one of the biggest bond firms coming up, shaun matthews of cantor. >> right now we have a -- we found a dollar bowl. a guy who feels the dollar is going higher from here and how you should play that going forward. we'll talk with rich bernstein coming up. >> stay with us. "after the bell" investor carl icahn with us, explaining why he sold his entire stake of lionsga lionsgate. >> looks like an equal amount of green and red. ha hey, you're watching "closing bell" on cnbc, first in business worldwide. bell," bell," i'm kayte kelly with some breaking news. they sustained losses of 53% last year taking the fund far below the level they need to be at in order to collect performance fees or a measure of performance. as a result, i'm told, john paulson, the founder and ceo will pay some employees out of his own pocket based on their performance just for 2012. in o

28th the dow down 100 points. put up the dow leaders. it wasn't the big names that you necessarily see with the exception of ibm. ibm, another move to the upside there exxon mobile, travels, verizon, defensive names move the market forward. the question now is the fundamental story wit market has risen this year still intact? is the fundamental story still intact? show you the three main points, four maybe. china, of course, issue there cutting the growth targets what is going on today, most of the time today, a tight shot on this make sure everybody see it is carefully, china cutting the 2012 growth target, euro zone pmi weaker. ism services here in the united states still strong but costs were an issue, if you look underneath the hood and greece warning it may trigger the collective action causes that's what weighed on the markets all throughout the day. the main story, the u.s. economy getting better, still very much intact. when ever you have china, worries about china, all the material energy names are weak.

dow industrials up 95 points. up next, the new ipad game changer. >> i'm jon fortt in san francisco. later on the "closing bell," i'm here outside the apple event. it's over, the new ipad is called, the new ipad. we'll talk about what the new features are, how this changes the game for apple and its competitors. >> who's got game? we'll look at whether mobile app makers like zynga could be benefiters from the ipad. >> apple may not have a shiny new ipad, but if you have apple stock today you might be smiling. >>> the dow down 128 points here at the open. >> this is a booking on profits. >> the metals today are getting crushed. i'm relieved to see the pullback. frankly, we got overextended. >> we're getting more data on global growth. indicates a little slower than we thought. >> how about a correction. it's healthy. it's 200 points, 200%, a little bit less. so what. >>> welcome back. we're coming to you from the post of pandora, the symbol p is getting hammered right here in very heavy volume. >> we haven't seen t

in fact, if the dow closes down today, it would be the first time in a very long time the dow has haslosed down 100 points in 45 straight trading sessions, which is the long ect streak since 2006. gold is off 2%. remember when gold used to act like a safe haven? now, gold trades way more like a risk asset. we're sitting there at 1670, off by 33. >>> it's also a tough day for small caps, and even worse week, the russell 2000 down more than 4% in the last five sessions. the small caps telling us the bull run since october is running out of steam. mark, i'm going to begin with you. your job is to buy and profit off of buying small cap stocks. do you think the overall, the macrorun is done? >> i find it challenging to find disconnects between price and value. if you look prior to today, the annualized return for the russell 2000 approximately for small cap shares is at 34% for the last three years. so, you know, it's hard to find things that pem don't love. we've been able to find a few. >> like? >> well, like mantech. ticker mant. it has a 2.5% dividend, mandy. we can pie it for a little

a "state check" on the dow. gaining ground for a second consecutive day as greece looks on track to complete its bond swap to stave off a default. the dow industrials are higher by almost 100 points. almost a triple-digit gain now. that would be session highs with, as i said, with about 45 minutes to go. the biggest gainers on the dow today, alcoa, caterpillar, dupont, cisco systems and general electric. >> the latest jobs claims data setting the stage for tomorrow's big report on the reporting of the jobs numbers for the last month. what's moving the market here. we've got banks doing well, technology among the winners on my screen. bob pisani on the floor right now. and kelly joins us from our headquarters. bob, is it all about greece, or do you think there's also optimism ahead of these jobs numbers before? >> a little bit of both. put up the s&p 500. have you noticed, we spiked up just prior to 3:00. get a closer shot of this, i want to show you this. right here is what you want to look at. all of a sudden,

let's get a quick market check of the dow industrials. bouncing off this morning's 43-point deficit after new home sales unexpectedly declined. the dow is showing a quarter of a quarter of a percent. at the high it was up about 54 points. as you can see, a higher across the board on energy as oil prices again, trade up to 106.91. all showing pretty good gains here. over to you, mary. >> this concerns the venture between the two companies, that being morgan stanley and smith barney. as it stands right now, citi owns 49% and the other 51%. citi would consider selling the remaining 49% to morgan stanley in one fell swoop and morgan would consider this possibility, too. the problem is, and there is a problem here, the way the deal is currently structured would require a whole new set of negotiations for the stake that citi currently holds in one fell swoop. it would require a whole new set of negotiations. as it stands right now, morgan stanley has an exercisable option at the end of may to buy 14% of the joint venture. and as far as negotiat

we saw the dow and s&p log in their best week since december of last year. in terms of the best performers, energy, material and of course the financials. how does it look in europe? >> similar picture here. of course we've had a strong run up for equities recently, so the moves to the down side today, a little bit of a pause for breath. overall the regional index is done by just about half of 1%. we've had the highest it in about eight months or so for many of these national indexes. today coming off those by the tine of 0.6%. cac down by nearly 0.9%. and ftse by just about half of 1%. so just coming off the highs over the past 8 1/2 months. and we've had a strong run of things. certainly year to date it's been a pot set sitive set of session. euro-dollar trading at 1.3148. shifting down by just about a quarter of a percent against the dollar. the dollar did fall pretty hard in the last couple of sessions. in fact euro in the last two days had an over-1%, over 4% hire over the past two months. so again, just represents a little bit of a turnaround from what

the dow would be higher by just about 29 points. the nasdaq higher by 7.5% and so not really seeing quite a change there in the futures this morning. of course we saw a mixed session yesterday, still digesting the results of bank stress tests and seeing a little bit of risk on the table and a little bit of a shift out of some of the safe haven entities like treasuries and gold. let's get you an update on what's on the calendar for the u.s. trading day today. weekly jobless claims data out at 8:30 a.m. eastern time. at the same time we'll be getting ppi figures for february and the empire manufacturing index for march. at 10:00 a.m. eastern time the philadelphia fed releases its survey for march and in the afternoon the federal reserve is releasing details of its balance sheet and money supply so keep an eye on those. also, the imf meeting happening during which the fund will discuss contribution to the second bailout package for greece plus comments from treasury secretary geithner who is speaking at the economic club of new york at

, up 2.3% for the dow.u. >> bob, thanks so much. the business headlines tonight, goldman sachs says it is reviewing internal policies for bankers involved in deals. goldman collected a fee for advising el paso in a $1 billion buyout from kinder morgan. they did not disclose one of the lead bankers on the team owned kinden morgan stock. today's news follows an embarrassing op-ed piece by greg smith who questioned goldman's honesty with clients. >>> the number of natural gas rigs have fallen to a ten-year low this week. nat gas rigs dropped for a tenth consecutive week as producers cut back on gas related drilling operations. a glut in natural gas supplies have sent nat gas prices to a decade low. >>> all this week, we've been looking at technology names with healthy cash stockpiles on their balance sheet. we focus on verizon. let's take a look at the numbers. total assets at verizon, $1.8 billion, with $1.3 billion in cash and short-term investments. the earnings soared in the fourth quarter. does a strong c

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it was the dow's narrowest range in a year. defensive stocks led move the higher today, while financials weighed down the market ahead of this week's banking stress test results, hear from the federal reserve on the stress test. the dow jones industrial average tonight at 12,959, a gain on the session a quarter of a percent. volume extremely light, under 600 million shares traded today at the nyc. the nasdaq gave up ground, 4.66, today you saw sales 2-1 over buying interest. the nasdaq reversing gains and finishing down four points, s & p 500 up, a fraction, weaker financeals held the standard and poors in check. bob pisani with the details. >> four days in a row we have gained on thesome and p and the dow, yet why doesn't it feel like it? the wrong stocks are advancing, the sectors where you get the risk on trade here, your materials, your financials. your energy stocks, consumer discretionary to the downside. what moved the market forward? look at the major sectors, what has been the market leadership so far? telecom, utiliti

dow had been up 15 points. that's a session high. right around session highs right now. >>> healthcare stocks the big outperformers today. all posting sharp gains. financials and tech also doing well. bill? >> goal mining stocks lagged precious metal for the last few years bp we know that. companies struggling with costs, operational costs, even though they help the profit margins. look at newmont, rallying 18% last year. shares of newmont slipped to more than 1% over the same timeframe. talk about that disparity and outlook for the precious metal and a bunch of other things we are very pleased to welcome back the ceo of newmont, richard o'brien. is that a fair analysis? mining shares have lagged. people want to get into the metal them t self rather than shares with people like you. >> i think it is fair. have you physical demand for the physical commodity and i think in both cases, though, it is the opportunity to participate in a bull market and hopefully to get gold leverage and leverage comes in the way of increasing bottom line

the dow is down for a second time in three sessions tonight.cerns about china's economic growth slowing down the main reason in the market today. pressuring the dow. this is, though, at the day's low it fell as many as 116 points. led by bank of america, citigroup, cme, all up today between 1 and 4%, bill. >> if you're looking for gains outside equities, corporate bonds have been on a terror so far this year. issuance close to $250 billion in the first quarter alone and money continues to flow into investment grade and high-yield funds rapidly as a result. in february alone, investment grade volume, according to barclays, was $94 billion with $45 billion in high yield. if they do, what should your strategy be? jim cohan is with us from the new york stock exchange. also joining us is mark banford, syndicate for barclays. gentlemen, good to see you both. jim, this is a sweet spot for corporate yields. issuance is up because yields are as close as they are going to get, huh? >> this is a very opportune time. they have outperformed treasuries subst

13,000 dow is-- >> i agree with that. not as dated as young charles. >> the dow doubled since-- >> and let's look at the empty glass. >> how many birthday parties have i been to. >> and this is the same philosophy that everybody gets the trophy and you then inspire your weakest link. there's a reason why out in the wild the fittest survive. you don't celebrate things like that because it's a-- a little blip on the radar and again, it's a theory we're going to say a c is okay, we want everybody to feel good. >> neil: i can see the argument that dagen raises about we're back to where we were better than where we were really were. >> this is my fear, it's not 13,000, listen, i'm happy made a lot of money for a lot of people including myself. the point, we cheered the auto sales, right? realistic, general motors and ford lost market share and woo cheered 8.3% unemployment as a million people left. i don't want to get sucked into a false sense of security. >> mediocrity. this i could see and agree with all of the above stateme

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johnson & johnson, this is why the dow turned negative. it's mostly the consumer names that have been down on the day. then we've got companies like coke as well. also having kind of a tough day. see that sitting near the lows? and merck, looking very toppy. and has been for a number of days now. there it is, sitting at the lows for the day. >> bob, thank you very much. stocks steadying now as mixed economic news keeps the market in a holding pattern. is the u.s. economy self-sustaining at this point or not? and if so, shus investors be putting new money to work into risk assets? >> chris is chief investment officer at u.s. trust, and liz is chief investment strategist with charles schwab. thank you so much for joining us. your clientele large end, what are you seeing? >> they've been risk averse to this whole process. in 2008 and early 2009, they're willing to look for yield here and there, picking your spots across the whole capital structure. in terms of putting new money to work right now with the run we've made in the last few months,

dow futures are down 136 points renown.g stories we are falling, four people including two children are hurt in a car crash in oakland. it started with the driver of one are being shot and ram into the other car when he lost control. police believe the trucker was targeted. it is windy and cold. wind advisories in effect for the bay bridge and other bay area bridges this morning. >>jackie: there is 8 wind advisory. if you are driving across the bridge, of this leak be aware once you get mid span. gusts are 25-30 mi. an hour. and a higher profile vehicle you will definitely have to be aware of. as soon as you feel the wind, you will feel the cold. the wind and cold will release left in the face. sfax hopper >>james: light showers experienced earlier this morning. right now, mostly sunny conditions with clouds clearing out there. 20-30 mi. an hour sustained winds with gusts in excess of 50 mi. per hour at times. >> we do have with advisories for a number of the bridges. >> the 101 trip to northbound, no delays here. >>darya:

the dow would be lowered by 6.5 points. the nasdaq highered by one and change and the s&p 500 lowered by one, this, of course, after a positive session on wall street. we saw that nasdaq and the s&p and the dow all hitting 52 week highs. the financials were fuelling a little bit of the rally yesterday. some of that post-stress test. we saw the utilities to the downside. how does it look over in london? >> well, remember, we hit fresh 2012 closing lows for both last night in europe. that's after some slim games. once again, it's being relative. just up over 6% for the year. it's up over 21% so far this year. very much mirroring the moves that we've seen in the united states. the other big feature this week is the selloff in fixed inside markets. that is a 10-year yield, now up to 1.99%. a lot of people saying 2% is a big, technological position. well, 2.38, but fresh sort of three and a half month highs. and there we are, the 10-year treasury yield, as well. joining us for more the next hour is jenna godfrey. jenna, goat to

you mentioned key levels for the dow and nasdaq. the dow holding above 13,000. the nasdaq above 3,000. the standard & poor's 500 closing above a key level not seen in four years. 1,400. the dow there. keeping above 13,000. that is strong. let's have a look at the opening levels in tokyo this friday morning. you can see what i'm talking about there. the nikkei and the topix just lower. the nikkei closing higher just two days in a row now. especially after the stress tests of american banks this week. a note of caution coming from asian indexes which we noted yesterday. caution about the path of growth in china and also a bit of a leadership change there causing a bit of concern in markets. let's turn to currency this friday morning during tokyo stock trading hours. the dollar has backed off a bit from the 11-month high of the yen yesterday. with expectations of recovery, the dollar will keep gaining. the wuan will move exporters to that with honda gaining with the south korea markets. ai. >> i hear there are key events for consumers in tokyo today. >> reporter: a

the dow. people or at least the stratfor people who were doing work for dow were really obsessed with one question and it wasn't so much were we going to mount a protest against dow for the bhopal issue they didn't seem to be too worried about that at least there isn't that much discussion about exactly what are they going to do oh no is something coming up it was more are they going to broaden the issue to an overall systemic critique of corporate power they didn't use those words but you know a broader issue question expanding from both paul two other both balls to a bigger question of corporate power of course for a problem they use that word there is lengthy email discussion about that and you have to wonder why why are they so interested not in their clients' thought online per se but in the question of what kind of critique is this going to. turn into and it's not just us that they asked the question about they asked the question about amnesty for example on the twenty fifth anniversary

while caterpillar's loss was the biggest drop among dow industrial stocks, bank of america was the dow's biggest gain, as the financial sector limited the broad market's fall today. b-of-a shot up almost 3%, and on heavier than usual volume, even for it. this is bank of america's highest closing price since july. we have more analysis of b-of- a's stock chart on our web site under the "blogs" tab an nbr.com. the market'socus was on oracle after the closing bell. the business software giant had a much better than expected quarter, earning 62 cents per share, six cents over estimates. even though hardware revenue dropped from the previous quarter, new software licenses, a key area for growth, continued to move up. shares have rallied since the year began, and moved up 1% ahead of tonight's report. while the company has almost $14 billion in cash, it did not increase its dividend. >> i was surprised oracle didn't raise their dividend this quter, actually. they're not a dividend machi but they have tons of cash, and sales have been growing. i'd think they could easily afford to up it. they d