keith wade. >> coming up, the tech world arrives in las vegas.u what -- has to say next. ♪ >> welcome back to "the pulse." >> the news of the day, let's take a look at it. you put money into the stock market a year ago, have you done well or not done well? there is your answer. if you invest into the equity market and stuck it there and left it to see what it is going to do, that is what you have been seeing. not the performance you would be hoping for. as we head towards the u.s. open, this is what we were looking at. looks like we are going to get a negative open. oil the standout story. this is what we have been watching. a massive impact on gulf markets. >> still talking about hangovers. the connection. >> which country has the best bartenders i said it was not italy. i could be about to get a new answer. it is not the italians, it is the robots. >> it is made by an italian company. check this out. we will get back to you. >> don't check this out. we don't have it for you. >> it is a great story about italian entrepreneurs that can make sure

keith alexander is speaking out against companies considering retaliating against hackers. some companies are turning to the offensive tools in their battle against cybercrime. the former nsa director said companies should not be wading into this fight. >> i think it's a national responsibility, a government responsibility, to respond to these. whether it is criminal, fbi or it's a nationstate. you cannot have companies escalate us into a crisis. so i think what the administration and what the government has put out today is in fact the correct approach. companies can do more to protect their networks and that's perhaps something we should discuss. >> he made those comments in an interview earlier today. u2 lead singer bono says he may never play his guitar again. he said his recovery from a november bike accident in central park in new york is worse than he expected. the band is expected to be back on tour with his vocal chops in may. now to the lead, hackers took sony's playstation network off-line for three days after a christmas day attack. this was the single most important days for the playstation. they were supposed to be. sony is trying to make amends giving back to customers and apologizing for the outage. t