they'll find more excuses and wait for more studies, and in the meantime, china is going to get the oil and china is going to get the jobs. we either want it or not. if you're going to say, i want it but i want the president to decide it, the president has made that decision. the president said he doesn't want it, at least before the election. which means we won't get it. because after the election, it's going to china. so the president has decided what he wants. the question we've got to answer is, are we willing to fight for those american jobs, anyway, even if the president doesn't want them. he's made it clear and the stakes are clear. the canadian prime minister who is a friend of ours expressed how offended he was when the president rejected keystone. we know the steel has already been purchased. it's a fact. and we know that as much as they could get from america they d the rest they got from canada. some they got from arkansas and now arkansas is laying people off. are we going to fight for these jobs and pass the bill, or are there just games played to try to delay this, run th

meantime china is going to get the oil and the job. we've come to a point we've got to say we either want it or not. you're going to say i want it, i want the president to decide it. the president made that decision. the president said he doesn't want it at least before the election, which means we won't get it. after the election it's going to china. so the president decided what he wants. the question we've got to answer, are we willing to fight for those american jobs any way even if the president doesn't want them. he made it clear and the stakes clear, a canadian prime minister expressed how offended he was when the president rejected keystone. we know this steel has been purchased. it's a fact. we know as much as they could get from america they did, some from canada, arkansas. are we going to fight for jobs and pass the bill or games played to delay this, run the clock out and let china get the jobs. i yield back the balance of my time. >> the gentlewoman. >> i yield my time back to mr. doyle. >> i want to make a couple of comme

meantime, china's fourth quarter current account surplus, the broadest measure of the trade balance with the world, also slipped 41% from a year ago. back to you, christine. >> tracey, thank you very much for that. let's get to john for some reaction. no decoupling there but how worried do you think the pboc is when it comes to these figures? >> i mean, i certainly is think there's a reasonable case to discuss about a seasonal distortion is absolutely the case, the number of working days in the last month or so was substantially less and the numbers will look a bit odd. but, nevertheless, that import number was the standout one for me. that mid teen contraction in demand on a broad based demand was quite scary, it kind of compliments the pmi trends we've been seeing. it actually compliments, also, the numbers we saw yesterday in terms of the slump in the producer price indegs. we are getting the sense that demand in china is decelerating perhaps a little bit faster that anticipated and that's going to impact our growth assumptions. >> when you say demand is decelerating, are people in ch

meantime, they're asking china to treat defectors from the north humanely. many south koreans are concerned about the plight of defectors. 23,000 people who have fled the north now call the south the home. about 50 north korean defectors and supporters held a rally tuesday outside the chinese embassy in seoul. they demanded that china stop the deportations. the protesters said if they are sent back, they will be killed along with their families. chinese authorities maintained that defectors are illegal immigrants and not refugees. >>> japan and australia have held their first meeting about whether japan should join talks on the transpacific partnership free trade agreement. government officials from the two countries met in canberra on tuesday. australian officials said they welcomed the start of japan's consultations for joining the talk, but they stopped short of expressing support for japan actually participating in the free trade negotiations. they stressed that a principle of the agreement is that all goods are tariff free including farm products. the t

in the meantime, back home in china, well, we've got the beijing summit kicking off earlier on today. the chinese premiere wen jiabao and also the president hu jintao hosting high-level talks with leaders from across the european union such as france's barroso. the chinese officials are expected to reiterate the country's support for the eurozone while playing down concerns it may try to buy out or deep control the entire euro block. >>> barroso is expected to address the summit in the next few minutes time. let's go to eunice yoon who is following all these developments. she joins us live from beijing. eunice, what do these talks focus on? >> reporter: the talks have been mainly focusing on the economy. one of the big questions here has been how china could really contribute and support the eurozone, ever since the chinese premier wen jiabao made a couple of comments during the visit of angela merkel to china. he said china was considering a way of contributing to the rescue funds of the eu. of course there weren't any details athe that time and there are still no details of what tha

meantime, clinton blasted russia and china yesterday for their opposition to action against syria in ted nations. the meeting was held in tunisia. >>> meantime, one small syrian town near the turkish border is celebrating its freedom. they waved syrian flags, marching and dancing in the streets they marched and protested against the syrian president without worrying about presizals because of a truce between syrian government and syrian rebels. no word on how long that truce might last. >>> yemen has a new president this morning. he took the oath of office today before members of parliament. he replaces the former president who ruled the country for 33 years before leaving office in a power transfer deal meant to end more than a year of political turmoil. hadi says he will continue yemen's fight against al qaeda which took advantage of the country's upheaval to take control of several parts of yemen. >>> doctors say south african president nelson mandela is in the hospital for a long-standing stomach ailment. they say he needs proper specialist medical attention. the 93-year-oldç ant

. >> i even now see obama talking about china a little bit. but in the meantime he has big deals, the president of china comes up and they have a steak dinner for himmism actually heard the other night during the state of the union speech obama saying some negative things about china. it's the first time. it says that sounds like my language. i was very proud of myself. here's the problem, he's not going to do anything about it. >> i think that was one of the least inspiring state of the union, and he rejecttated literally lines he used in last state of the union addresses. they are so out of ideas at this point. here is what i think has to happen. and you are a fighter. you want somebody that's going to get in there and fight hard. for all of the talk about the negativity amongst republicans, grandma over the cliff, all these things, republicans want dirty air and water, they don't care about kids with autism and down syndrome, the president has said all of this. >> right. >> so it this the beginning if mitt romney gets the nomination, are you convinced he's goi

china. in the meantime, let's go to maryland. michael, republican. caller: thank you for the call. this whole thing is a charade. it is robbing peter to pay paul. we're giving people a break on their taxes, but it is just creating a deficit in its social security. it can be explained over and over. obama has continuously filled out these little goodies for people without the people understanding what the detriment is, what the downside is. it just is to be explained that we need to stop this insanity of spending. hopefully republicans in 2012 can stop obama. host: what you think about the republican deal that has been broker? to support what speaker dinner is willing to do? caller: no. i think we just shut the talks down and have a fight over the fact that it makes no sense. and not do it. explain why it does not make sense to give people $20 a week, which is what they're talking about. $40 every two weeks. at the same time, social security is, you know, becoming insolvent here. we are talking about a lot of money. i am not on social security. it does not affect me right now, but i

and foreign direct investment in china down again for the third straight month. >> meantime, the chart on apple raising some eyebrows again today amid more reports about ipad disputes in china. meantime, a big downgrade of amazon over at morgan stanley. >> gm despite telegraphing a strong quarter just days ago misses expectations, declines to give a forecast for when its european unit will return to profitability. first, though, want to get to this story. fed chairman ben bernanke getting ready to address the fdic's community banking conference. mary tamp son is at that event in arlington, virginia, with details. good morning, mary. >> good morning to you, carl. in his speech bernanke addresses a number of issues that are of concern to community bankers. keep in mind, community banks make up 99% of the banks in the u.s. though they only hold about 10% of the assets. bernanke starts off with basically defending the fed's low interest rate policy. community bankers have complained. that's squeezing their net interest margin. he points out it's being maintained in order to improve the eco

. >> meantime the un security council sdruszed a draft resolution on syria. russia and china vetoed the resolution that would have supported the plan calling on syria's president to resign. here's secretary of state, hillary clinton. >> as a tyrant in damascus brutalizes his own people, america and europe stand shoulder to shoulder. we r united alongside the arab league in demanding an end to the bloodshed and a democratic future for syria. >> president barack obama had surge urged the council to take a stand against the relentless brutality. coming up next, spring training is two weeks off, but that did not stop tens of thousands of fans from getting a head start on the season. we will take you to the ballpark for the fan fest. indianapolis is ready to go for game day. we will show you why a high school football team seen here had the chance to tryout the field today. >> we were looking for the next meal more than anything else. >> the remarkable return to the air for one world war ii veteran this week. never in my lifetime did i think i could walk 60 miles in 3 days. if my

heavy jacket required we'll talk to mike about our weather with >>> meantime, apple's battle over the ipad trademark moves to one of china's richest cities. tomorrow a shanghai court will deliver -- [ unintelligible ] a request to halt the sale of ipads across the city. the company says it owns the trademark in china. apple saying it bought the trademark from pro view the chinese company in 2009. a judgment is not expected for a few months. losing could mean shanghai's three apple retail stores would have to stop selling the popular tablet computers unless they work something out. >>> tonight "nightline" will look inside the embattled chinese factories where apple's most product -- most popular products are assembled. workers assemble ipad and iphones working conditions have been blamed for driving some workers to commit]1!ñ suicide. the "nightline" special airs tonight at 11:35 p.m.. >>> you may have heard of a flash mob where people break out in dance in a public place. but a cash mob is that about with? see for yourself, high school students in scranton, pennsylvania are breaking out wallets, decenting -- descending on

he also repeat as promise that china will become more involved in helping the crisis in the rescue fund. meantime in a report today, china central bank argues that the country still needs to effect a rebound. they're going to maintain tools while keeping a lid on inflation and hank has, i think, recently met with chinese officials. premiere xi. i debate whether to call him 11. it's x-i. >> it's not a roman numeral. >> you mremember on "seinfeld" when a guy wanted to name his child seven. >> i have to call him xi, not 11. paulson, he's going to talk china too. >> i think that's his greatest interest. >> i think so too. i want to ask him some questions about china. i understand. i understand there are huge cultural differences and we can't say, well we like property rights and human rights and we take these things for granted. does there come a time where really 1.2 billion people and their government have to face human rights and property rights and it might not happen quickly? >> it's the people themselves who have to seize their own deftyny and do it for them. >> for a while after maybe some eff

china just for those 15 stores. >> there are a let of people there, but you're right. in the meantimea's been the dig story. we opened 75 stores and they're still in the 30% comp range, just a booming story for us, but we'll get there in china. we'll get there in china, nothing huge near-term, but we're definitely putting time and effort into it. >> one last word, you should tell people why it's so big in india. it's because of you catching a big vegetarian wave. >> that's absolutely right. adapting our product for the indian market is very easy. you know, we're selling half of the pizzas over there are vegetarian and so it adapts well to toppings and adapts well to local flavors and panires and mass allahs and we have a fabulous partner that's doing just a bang-up job in india and it's just booming for us. just an incredible market for us. >> patrick, you have rewarded everyone just by doing it the best way, making better pizza and having better technology. thank you very much for coming on the show and congratulations on an amazing quarter. >> thanks, jim. i appreciate it. >> patric

surprising about that but it seems with china america may find itself hostage those interests in a situation where you cannot simply dictate its policies in the meantime beijing's economic clout is growing feeling america's fear i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . u.s. presidential contender ron paul has warned that his country is slipping into a fascist system with a broken government ruled by big business speaking to supporters in kansas city the republican candidate said americans individual liberties were being stripped away radio host and author steve in london says that the vast majority of americans are unaware of how much of their civil liberties have been eroded. america is a fascist state the only thing i disagree with ron paul about is it's not slipping into it it's deep into it i am not a ron paul supporter but i absolutely support is up ization to imperial wars he has got have to the federal reserve the easiest is a repressive group is privately all new upgraded it isn't federal and it doesn't get reserves is ron paul explains is owned by the major base use made legal wall street ones and they use money power to create

want the jobs that are going overseas to china and mexico to come back to the united states and create real jobs again. >> lot of old friends. >> romney in the meantime is working to keep his focus on president obama. he still is standing by his criticism of the government bailout for the detroit automakers. >> my view from the very beginning was that the auto companies should go through managed bankruptcy and get help coming out of bankruptcy. >> michigan will hold its primary on february 28 along with the state of arizona. >>> the battle over the social security payroll tax cut is close to being resolved. congressional bargainers say they have finalized a deal extending it through the year. it will save millions of workers about $20 a week. it renews long term unemployment benefits and saves doctors from deep cuts in medicare fees. >>> regulators focused on the institute of medical education following an exclusive cbs 5 investigation. the school was shut down. it serves nearly 250 students. students are getting conflicting reports on what's going on with their class credits and financial aid. many were upset too to hear about their tuition fees goi

china. and that's all the business of for today the business team will be back tomorrow in the meantime get on the website is r.t. to slash business. the closer she has been to the hub arabs. were the country's mineral wealth starts its way across the ocean. now archie goes to the area. looking to a different character to represent itself. for local businesses are striving to build the aviation capital of russia. for the four by fours are made and can be tested to the limit. welcome to the streets of. russia close up on our. flight from moscow this is top stories now to. an end to the bloodshed in syria will only be found if both the government and opposition forces lay down their arms and that's why western and gulf countries keep up regime change rhetoric and recall their ambassadors from damascus. few in the u.k. is on a tourist terror suspect the spiritual leader in europe. and allowed back onto the streets of london. court of human rights block says deportation. for signs of a rift between the u.s. and post mubarak egypt says washington's threats to halt military aid change its positio

surprising about that but it seems with china america may find itself hostage those interests in a situation where you cannot simply dictate its policies in the meantime beijing's economic clout is growing feeling america's fear i'm going to check our reporting from washington are the. u.s. presidential contender ron paul has warned that his country is slipping into a fascist system with a broken government ruled by big business peeking to supporters in kansas city the republican candidate said america's individual liberties were being stripped away and it's now talk to an issue of ali he's an author based in houston texas so ron paul says the u.s. is slipping into fascism do you agree with that i do agree that something i've been talking about january two thousand and one. is the only candidate republican side talking about this the loss of civil liberties is the. really. and and the illegal is making the connection between imperialism and the loss of rights so i think he's on to something and he is the only one you know in the republican presidential contest talking about that. and it looks as if others agree to it appears that he could have won a c

clever headaches in the meantime the electoral counting will its own little surprises like leap along the way down a fish goes up party. u.s. president barack obama has criticized china's currency policies but voiced hope for a future economic cooperation he also said chinese vice president xi jinping in washington with rising tension between the two because of a u.s. military buildup in the asia pacific region paul craig roberts who served in the reagan administration says there's an uneasy relationship between the two the united states says is responding to china in two ways one it's trying to reduce china's independent access to oil and the united states is responding to china also with increased military presence united states says that the south china sea is an area of national interests to the united states their course that doesn't make any sense it's like china saying the gulf of mexico is an area of national interest to china so the united states is asserted that chinese territorial waters are in any matter of national interest to washington so i think these types of. militaristic statements. encourage china to build up its military and so the americans essent

is out of money for the meantime it will blog any un resolution which doesn't rule out military intervention. the german leader takes euro eastwards as she tries to convince china not to write off the e.u. . is also urging beijing's support for an oil embargo against iran calling on china to use its influence to persuade iran to abandon any atomic weapons. and egypt to mourn over seventy football fans killed in post match clashes rushed onto the field in the seaside city of port after the home team beat egypt's top clubs setting off clashes on the stampede and investigation into the tragedy is under way police action. i do stay with us here on r.t. as we next talk to the senior editor of the new statesman magazine. he tells us that finding a solution to the crisis in syria will not be easy and will not be seen as legitimate without a u.n. resolution this is art. today i'm talking to mehdi has the he's the senior political editor for the new statesman magazine where the me talking about the violence that's going on in syria at the moment and also the developing situation in iran may have found thank you very much for talking to me today now we've seen observers

disappointment at russia and china's veto but said that they would still try to continue working with the security council to try to get some type of resolution passed in the meantime as you mentioned the foreign minister russian foreign minister sergei lavrov is heading to damascus on tuesday to meet with syrian president bashar al assad russia has been very vocal in trying to get hopes sides participating in the conflict in syria to come to the table and start speaking to one another and. using some type of dialogue instead of violence to come to a peaceful approach so of course we will stay on the story and see how it evolves and works out all right are two very important ally for us from new york thanks for that. or a crow's off from the group stop nato says that although russia and china not to allow u.n. sanction for an intervention in syria there's still a chance the country could be barred from outside. what i fear is we may be see a replication of what happened in one thousand nine hundred ninety when the united states and its nato allies launched a seventy eight day bombing campaign against yugoslavia having failed to enlist chinese and russian support fo

china. lending rules and we can see more liquidity from. and that's all the business of for to day the business he will be back tomorrow in the meantime get on the website is r.t. to slash business. the close up team has been to the. starts its way across the ocean. goes to the area. looking to a different character to represent itself. for local businesses are striving to build the aviation capital of russia. the four by fours are made. to the limit. welcome to the. russia. the bloodshed in syria will only be found if both government and opposition forces lay down their. regime change rhetoric. damascus. few in the. spiritual leader in europe. back onto the streets of london. court of human rights. rift between the us. military change its position on the. n.g.'s. i'll be back with more stories more news and love analysis concerning the syrian situation in the next hour. discuss the internet sensation of the world biggest social networking site facebook and its upcoming stock market for taishan cross-talk is next for you here.

meantime over to kayla at the news desk. she's also been looking through. got some details on executive compensation. and also china which of course is a big question mark particularly when you have a company that's valued at what facebook is valued. want to know about international expansion. >> i first want to touch on something jon said about the voting. what they call a super majority. this rattled during groupon. they said you're only putting a small fraction. in the past it'll be interesting to see whether they're willing to concede control. on china from the s-1 but the paragraph closes with we do not know if we will be able to find an approach to managing content that will be accept to believe us and the chinese government. facebook also saying it sees mobile products as key company priorities. the company also says it does not foresee paying a dividend in the foreseeable future. if they're going to make $5 billion plus in that proceeds from this offering, what are they going to use it for? the company says we do not currently have any specific uses of the net proceeds planned. they say they may use a porti

like the arab league plan that china and russia shot down in the security council's attempt vote on that. and whether or not it is successful it is a hard sell. in the meantime violence continues. >> dominic thank you very much . turning to another hot spot in the middle east. egyptian activist toppled the regime of mubarack. calls are to mark the anniversary. more friction between the u.s. and egypt over the aid of workers. senator mccain will be leading the organization to talk to syria. >> welcome, senator, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, i am glad to be with you. >> you are planing to lead a delegation egypt in an effort to end the stand off that remains over the aid workers there. are there indications at this point that egyptian leaders are willing to negotiate with you? >> we planned to go for a longg time before this particular issue became so prominent. i am hopeful that before we get there, we can have the issue resolved, if not, obviously it will be our highest priority. americans not being able to leave the country that is supposed to be our ally is an important issue . and so we intend to raise it in our meetings. >> what indications are

meantime? >> suarez: france and italy have followed the united states and the united kingdom in pulling their ambassadors back from damascus. if they've got russia and china, can syria sort of soldier on as the rest of the world is abandoning it? >> well, don't forget, they also have iran. they have the lebanese militant group hezbollah as well. you know, assad is running out of friends but he still has quite powerful allies. he certainly hopes that he can hold on until the presidential elections. however, it's a question of whether or not the syrian opposition... i mean, we're already seeing that the syrian opposition is becoming more militarized. certainly after the double veto a few days ago, the syrian opposition, all of its varied forms, feels quite abandoned. that seems to be the word that we have been hearing most often from activists on the ground as well as from members of the f.s.a., that i have talked to recently. it's the same word: abandonment. you see in some of these amateur videos that are posted online the chants are, "god, you are the only one who is still with us." so there's a real sense of desperation and also a sense that, you know,

meantime, the u.n. security council failed to pass a resolution calling for syria's president to step down. leland vittert live from jerusalem. what's the vote in the u.n. mean? >> essentially, kelly, chinand russia's veto of this u.s. resolution calling for president assad to step down, in syria. take a lot of wind out of the sails of international community, he was trying to build a consensus against syria, in fact, the u.s. ambassador now says that china and russia will have the blood of dead syrians on their hands for vetoing this. the past 24 hours has brought the issue to a head and this is why, out of homs, unbelievable violence, tragic, tragic astrossties and the french have called it, a quote, crime against humanity as more than 200 people were killed and president assad surrounded the city with heavy army and mortar and fired away through the night and hospitals burned, residential communities burned and they were unable to pick up some 500 people wounded off of the streets because there are no ambulances in the town of homs. at last count at least 200 died and we saw from that daytime video, president assad's assault continues inside syria and while the world is calling for pr

china sometimes, they're damned if they cut rates or hike rates. there's argument that policy is enough or not enough. >> katy, aaron, good to have you on the program. >> in the meantime we're heading to the close. the dow up to 13,015. we might do it today. we might get it done today. >> we'll see about that. we're also getting the outlook for commercial real estate. we have an interview with larry silverstein. >> find out when investors need to be paying close attention to the euro, right now. >> as we take a break, here's a look at the major currencies and how they're trading on wall street. back in a moment. >>> but first, before we go to break, the "dividend." according to net index.com, the average broadband speed in the u.s. is slower than broadband speeds in which of these countries, hungary, malta or romania? the "dividend" pays off after the "dividend" pays off after the break. >>> we asked, according to net index.com, the average broadband speed in the u.s. is slower than broadband speeds in which of these countries, hungary, malta, or romania? now the payoff. all of them. >>> 20 minutes left in the trading day. i'm seema mody. the nasdaq continues to post

china, the future president will be so important. we are hoping are we going to get tracy? should we come back? we'll come back to tracie in a moment. >> meantimethe hearing on president obama's 2013 budget gets under way. the president presented his budget yesterday including a proposal to raise taxes for the nation's wealthy and slight spending increases from last year. several members of his administration will travel to capitol hill to testify in support of that budget. >> it is a love/hate relationship for people who use online dating services. a brand new poll out shows one in five people found romance when finding a match online. 80% of the profiles posted, get this, they weren't really truthful with their posts. researchers found, surprise, surprise, height, age, are the things that people like to lie about. can you get that. on all of the pictures. one third of the subjects in the study say they know somebody whose relationship ended up by an affair that did take place on line. we're going to try this again. president obama invites president biden will sit down with the future leader of china, up for discussion the economy, nuclear thr

china. the cup's manufacturing sector better than expected in january. meantime, a similar hsbc survey showing that the sector contracted at least -- contracted by the least amount in three months. the news is supporting some hopes that the world's second biggest economy will avoid a hard landing opinion guys, that's why we're seeing green arrows once again. >> and one of the big stories this morning, eu anti-trust regularitiers wronging the merger of nyse euroneck and deutsche boerse. the nyse says in light of the decision, it is in discussions to terminate the merger. meantime, it's planning to focus on a stand alone strategy, announcing a $500 million repurchase program. nyse's ceo, duncan niederauer is going to joins. i was with duncan in davos. i think there was an expectation that this transaction would not go anywhere. i'm not sure that there's that time options for them. at the time they pursued this transaction, there was a lot of consolidations. the london stock exchange wag tries to do a deal. none of those deals came together and i'm not sure we're go

in the meantime, we can look at the commentary really in the international press because they're trying to grapple 34r5urly with this decision by russia and china at the united nations. the moscow times, a russian paper, russia aims to block anymore military interventions, but none will be needed because it will eventually be overthrown. that will leave mots cow mourning it lost influence in the region as well as the end of its lucrative military contracts. thus putin's reality has lost realism. the harold tribune focusing on the china story, why beijing votes with moscow. china apparently decided it was better not jeopardize relations with russians and risk losing russian support when beijing might need it in the future. so an interesting perspective there. and the national and united arab emirates looking at the bigger picture here, great game in the middle east plays syria like a pawn. syria's conflict and the standoff over iran's nuclear program are unfolding against a backdrop of intentional strategic rivalry. >> and max, as i told you, we did get one of the activists on the line out of homs. if you want to ask a question, feel free becaus

china have reduced purchases. we'll talk more about oil in just a moment. meantimetake a look at the broader markets this morning. the dow did close higher yesterday, up by 54 points. this morning the futures are indicated up another 38 points which would finally push us over the 13,000 mark it if we were to close there. yesterday we attempted another run at 13,000 and then gave it up. the s&p did come within a fraction of its 2011 closing high. and when i say within a fraction, we mean within less than 0.2 of a point. we're going to be watching that level very closely, too. also, let's take a look at the ten year this morning. we do 0 have a very big day. tim get near will be joining us at 8:30 and we'll see if that has any movement on the notes. the yield on the ten year is 10.998%. you will see the euro at 1.3387. finally a look at gold prices. you'll see now that gold is down by about $6. >> and joining us now, the famous founding partner of again capital and a cnbc contributor. he was saying that it's a vacation week and we were supposed to thank him for being

meantime the big economic data keeps. going. we're going to be bringing you highlights from the bank of england's inflation report with mervin king that. will be live. plus, understanding the opportunities in china and finding bargains in the rubble of the european crisis. plus, we look ahead to what we can expect from the big data points and earnings in the u.s. today, and specifically those fed minutes. and as always keep your e-mails and tweets coming in @jack in @jackiedeangelis at cnbcworldwide. stay with us. stamps.com is the best. i don't have to leave my desk and get up and go to the post office anymore. there's nothing worse than going to the post office and waiting in line. [ male announcer ] with stamps.com, you can buy and print real u.s. postage for all your letters and packages so you'll never have to go to the post office again. they took a post office and sat it on my desk. it doesn't take up any room, i don't have to wait in line and it never closes. [ male announcer ] now you can avoid trips to the post office. go to stamps.com and get a 4-week, no-risk trial. it gives you the exact amount of postage you need the instant you need it. saves me a good 4 or 5 hours a week. it save

meantime, the u.n. general assembly is expected to take up a symbolic resolution today condemning president bashar. trying to convince russia to support this measure. earlier this month russia and chinaeting with congressional leaders. vice president ping telling business leaders that china and the u.s. must work towards building mutual trust. china faced accusations of ma p manipulating its currency which makes chinese goods cheaper. >>> republican presidential candidate rick santorum releasing his tax returns for the past four years. that's the most of any candidate so far. they show he earned 3.6 million in those four years. his highest tax rate was 28.3%, he paid that last year. >>> minding your business, u.s. stock futures pointing to a lower open this morning. dow futures down about 30 points right now. european markets are down, too. all because of greece. the leaders of the european union still negotiating with greece over the terms of the bailout to save it from default. as long as the negotiations continue, we'll see volatility in those markets. >>> that jeremy guy, the new york knicks fenomled his team to a seventh straight victory last night over the sacramento kings. i g