there we go lincoln ellis right along gust scott share it with think or swim. and straight ahead on the show... a native american tribe makes big moves on wall street...why it's decided to leap into the financial services business....that's next. one of the newest owners on wall street is a native american tribe from south dakota. the lower brule sioux tribe is thought to be the first to completely own a u-s financial services firmbuying broker- dealer and asset management company westrock, with about $1.4 billion under management. michael jandreau is the chairman of the tribe. michael congratulations on the deal. why is a native american tribes interested in owning the wall street? first thank you. is owning up part of wall street is generated by the lack of services that exists at our reservation level. for years and years under the treaties that were agreed to by the tribes services were to be generated for health and for education and welfare housing for those activities that mequality and quantity of life. how does this deal considering was brock is in low

we will leave it there will lincoln ellis over at the cme group thank you pal. you bet. still to come the rock band kiss and wal-mart teams up...we'll tell you what they're doing. but first...the newest villian in the credit collapse...the credit rating agencies. they're work is under the spotlight...as their stocks are under pressure., one of the many villains in the credit crisis are three companies with the ability to pass judgment on the creditworthiness. standard and poors, moody's and fitch ratings are the three biggest firms that slap ratings on bonds and other securities which are supposed to give investors an idea of how risky the loans are. but as the housing market collapsed, highly rated bonds backed by risky mortgages crashed, bringing the spotlight to the role of these credit rating agencies and the key role they play in the supply of credit. everybody is still trying to find somebody who is really at fault in their credit crisis fiasco. david ruder used to head up the securities and exchange commission under president reagan. that same agency now is trying

stocks remaining at new highs and gold also hitting thousand dollars an ounce lincoln ellis of the lynn group watching it with the set the cme crew would you make of this market? we're gonna talk later on but big rallies in gold and in stocks. it's interesting that there's been a lot of talk and protect early in the commodity complex about the rally in commodities. you have to remember just like the stock market hasn't been that broadbased. it's really been concentrated in energy and oil and in gold. not a broad base rally in commodities and certainly not a broad based rally in equities. the tissue from commodities that is a dollar driven reaction to the dollar as opposed to any fundamental state. that's absolutely the case and is most evident in the grain sector where you see fundamental demand and a really big harvest coming up in the u.s.. driving prices to malty year lows. meantime spreading over to the equities i know when we talk over past three months or so seemingly everyone time to look for market talk has it been there. i think we have seen since to make beginning of july in f