when prime minister mark rutte left the royal palace after handing the queen his cabinet's resignation. his government is set to continue its official duties. the premier drove away from the scene without a word to reporters. the cabinet met on monday to draw up its resignation. the minority government has been in crisis since it lost support for is badly-needed budget cuts. -- for its badly-needed budget cuts. >> and a few decades, the netherlands have showed fiscal, solid budgetary policy and this will not change. >> negotiations came to an abrupt halt this weekend after an attack by it are right mean populist leader. he accuses them of doing the bidding of brussels. >> this is basically for the dutch citizens and the decisions, but the way, have not been taken by brussels. >> to the middle east now. in the coming days pending the arrival of next week's it monitors for the truce brokered by kofi annan. >> it is said that dialogue is the only way out of the crisis. the violence in the country continues. >> plumes of smoke rising to the sky in central syria. this video hints at the reg

mark rutte was trying to decide to cut the dutch budget to levels mandated by eu officials in brusselswas unable to. so politicians there dissolved the dutch government. you have two factors here that are very important to america's economy that you've never really paid attention to before. >>> closer to home, invivio starts to trade shares this week. they make devices that help put video on the internet. you may recall last week, we had three ipos, proof point one, info blocks another, those closed higher on the first day of trading on friday, splunk traded much higher first day of trading. all of those are lower with the rest of the markets today, but another bay area ipo in the works this time for wednesday. >> that makes four ipos in less than two weeks. >> lots of money flowing around. >>> time to check in with meteorologist christina loren to find out what's happening this week. maybe an umbrella? >> maybe. we will get a couple of nice days. we have a nice live shot here, white puffy clouds. they're fair weather clouds and they'll be with us today. we have fair weather. 63 in san

also adding to investor jitters: dutch prime minister mark rutte and his cabinet resigned today, after crucial budget talks collapsed, opening the way for new elections in the netherlands. just another reminder of the parade of leaders from ten countries including greece, italy, spain, portugal and ireland, who have been voted out of office since the financial crisis broke four years ago. >> susie: also some discouraging "economic" news out of europe weighing on the markets today. new data shows that business activity in the euro-zone contracted at a faster pace in april. in italy, consumer confidence fell to the lowest level in 15 years. and in spain, the economy contracted in the first quarter- - a sign that country is far from an economic rebound despite taking tough austerity measures. joining us now with more analysis-- greg peters, he's the head of global cross asset strategy at morgan stanley. >> nice to have you on the program. >> thanks for having me, susie. >> susie: what's your take on these political issues out of europe, and how does this impact american investors? why pay