mark luschini, chief investment strategist at janney montgomery scott. and finally, what's blue, in 3d and showed up today here at the big board? the smurfs! papa smurf, smurfette and clumsy smurf rang the opening bell here this morning. their movie, "the smurfs in 3d," opens today. the big-screen version of the classic cartoon mixes live- action characters with the blue animated creatures. that's "nightly business report" for friday, july 28. i'm susie gharib. have a great weekend. we hope to see all of you again next week. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> be more.

tomorrow: our friday "market monitor" guest is mark lushini, chief investment strategist at janney montgomery scott. we'll also get an update on the economy from our first look at second quarter g.d.p. numbers. and the white house rolls out new fuel economy standards. we'll tell you what they could mean for auto makers and consumers. the ford focus is hot! so hot, ford can't make the fuel efficient compacts fast enough to keep up with customer demand. and there may be another bottleneck impacting deliveries. the associated press is reporting that machinery for a key dashboard component doesn't always work and is slowing down production at the focus factory near detroit. reportedly, the auto maker is even flying in parts from europe. no comment from ford on the report. one of the largest settlements today in the bernie madoff fraud case: $1 billion. hedge fund tremont group holdings has agreed to pay that sum to the liquidator of madoff's firm. tremont was accused of missing warning signs of madoff's ponzi scheme. today's settlement raises the amount of money recovered for victims to more than $8.5

our friday markt monitor guest is mark luschini, chief investment strategist at janney montgomery scott. several initial public offerings are expected to hit the market, including dunkin donut parent dunkin bands and horizon pharmaceutical. monday, we go beyond the scoreboard. our look at the business of sports gets the latest on the $9 billion n.f.l. lockout. >> susie: facebook has won dismissal of a second lawsuit brought by cameron and tyler winklevoss. those are the twin brothers who claim facebook founder mark zuckerberg stole their idea for what became the social media giant. the winklevoss brothers were paid a $65 million settlement, but have sued to increase that amount. their attorney plans to ask the judge to reopen the case if new information that's vital to the case is produced. >> tom: apple may make a play for the hulu online video service, according to published reports. hulu would give apple a new subscription service and represent a possible challenge to netflix. hulu is owned by n.b.c. universal, news corporation, the walt disney company, and other private partners. th

the moment he's tied in first place with mark to lead from chile that both had a sixty five scott colin montgomerie needs a top five finish to qualify for his own major for a twenty second time in a row he's currently two shots back with a whole host of plays including lee donald afterwards westwood said he was happy with his day's work. you have been playing well since the masses really. practice over the last couple of weeks. ago it was nice to refresh and looking forward to the next two weeks and sixty five was a good way to start those who is today now noticeable absentee from the tournament is us open golf champion rory mcilroy he's decided to rest the head of the british open however at twenty two the no norrish prodigy could still be playing in the foul day series which inspired him to become the major winner he is constantly the top off reports now on the youth development programme which has come to moscow to help produce a russian golf champion. british six time major winner cern nick faldo founded his serious in one thousand nine hundred six and it bled through of champions have already