jackie, back to you. >> thank you so much for that. in the united states we are waiting for president obama to submit his fiscal 2013 budget proposal while john williamsgoing to speak at 9:45 a.m. eastern time. and on the earnings front, some results from diebold. and still with us is ben lick ten steen. ben, a lot coming out this week, not only president obama today and the fed comments potential ly talking about qe3 still on the table. the retail numbers and inflation data as well. what's the main driver out of all of that, do you think, in terms of our markets? >> well, each individual number has a significant amount of performance. we'll look into the retail sales, look for a robust number to, again, just sort of fuel the fire that we've been seeing in the stock product, the energy to the upside. we need to see the consumer joining in in this. it's not going to be this wealth effect, low interest rates, sustained type activity. we're going to need to see some investor type activity, that long-term investor type activity coming through not just trader type energy to the upside and i think that's what we've been seeing. in addition i don't really ex