nicole petallides with duncan neiderauer.cus our camera,, duncan neiderauer came out of the crowd. drinking water and tossing it away. how did it go. >> it went way most ipos go around here. i would have predicted to -- [inaudible] a lot of people i think were paying such close attention to it. a lot of limits were still moving around. you can see how the stock's trading after the opening at 45.10. i think we got it exactly right. customers are happy. investors are happening. we got confirmation participants have their reports. it is all set and should trade normally rest of the day. >> do you think what you did up to this poi right thing to make sure, checking on weekends, you had a conference call early this morning with traders and market make officers. >> we actually thought it would go pretty smoothly. you never want to take anything for granted. what we said to the team is, i know we do this every day. i know we're in the best in the business at it. let's not leave anything to chance. let's not take anything for granted

just spoke to duncan neiderauer who was in the twitter crowd, the first trade as we've been watching here. right now it is at 49.42. that is something. 89% to the upside. everything went smoothly as anticipated. and, we saw it opening around 10:50 a.m. so in the 10:00 a.m. hour. so you can see the stock is up 90% at the moment. so that has been the hoopla of the morning. obviously highly anticipated stock of the year. ipo of the year. meantime, as far as broader markets, the ecb cut rates unexpectedly. the u.s. dollar has been very strong this morning. euro has been tanking. we continue watch other names on wall street. other names are on the move. but the big picture herr the banking index right now is slightly higher. seeing stock market pulling back to a certain extent. we're watching other names. a lot of retailers here. a watching jcpenney on the move. retail focus, last 10 minutes are about twitter. in the crowd there. now we refocus on a lot of our story stocks we've been watching as well this morning. >> thank you, nicole. nicole petallides at new york stock exchange. >> on a

duncan neiderauer will be on board for one year.oard to drive this throughout this year or next year in 2014? and jeff tucker of intercontinental will be running the show so we will continue to follow this story. >> thank you. it is election day. the faces you need to know about the establishment versus the tea party and perhaps predictors of the nation's overall political temperature. big races in new york, new jersey and virginia. and rich edson joins us to explain why today's voting matters. adam: politics watchers say tonight's result may provide a preview of next year's congressional midterm and the 2016 presidential race. across the potomac in virginia clinton ally and former fund-raiser terry mcauliffe told the 46-40 lead over attorney general, libertarian candidate robert star of this has 8%. he is the tea party favored painted as an extremist. >> there is no reason to have that shed down. the tea party use the government shutdown as a bargaining chip. should never be used as a bargaining chip. >> he is the first state attor