eugene peroni advisor and asset management is seeing the tail end of an earnings cycle here. are you enthusiastic about the outlook you're seeing for corporate america? >> i am. generally, we're seeing good performance in the earnings relative to street expectations. the two most important things historically for the stock market are the direction of interest rates and the behavior of earnings relative to street expectations. so both of those things are playing favorably now for the stock market, and i think they will continue to play favorably going forward. >> tom: take a look at the dow jones industrial average. we've seen a lot articulated with the dow. but trending high since the june low. here's tonight. 13,000. you think another thousand points for the dow before the end of the year. why? >> that's right. at the start of the year our target was 13,5,000 to 14,000. the market spent a lot of time trying to withstand the challenging headline news, but today's session is a dmrim glim of what can happen with news more favorable. and with the debates and conjecture about eur