mr. pisani. to me it seems like we're where we were yesterday. we have qe3 on the table and twist is extended. >> that's good point. the markets first drop, put up the dow and s&p was we didn't see qe3 and the statement's sell. but then people took a few minutes to read the statement carefully and led the grownwork for qe3. employment growth and fighting inflation. what about employment growth? growth in employment slowed in recent months. what about inflation? declined. what do you want? a road map? the fed said the groundwork is there and i expect at the press conference of hins of mr. bernanke. >> quickly going to steve. you don't think that the market was disappointed? >> first knee jerk is no qe3 and then selling off. the groundwork is there. >> let's go to steve liesman with reaction. this was the consensus view, not the home run others thought. what are some of your observations here? >> i think it's more than the consensus view. there was no actual, you know, to a decimal point consensus. i heard guys talking about extending through septe

mr. dimon did pretty darn well. let's bring in neil wineberg and bob pisani. let's give him a grade on the performance from mr.mon. what do you think, bob? you start. >> everybody came in thinking, sue, that jamie dimon would get the living daylights beaten out of him. he didn't. he answered every question in a short, assured manner. he wasn't disrespectful. look what he did. instead of concentrating on the mistake, he admitted he went forward and ended up with policy discussions. this is a win for him. >> you agree, neil? >> he got to talk about the things that he has problems with, he doesn't like the volcker rule. thinks we have this -- hash spaghetti pile of regulation and kind of turned the agenda in what the banking industry want to talk about. >> i think it was interesting. he didn't lose his temper, wasn't cocky and a couple questions where the senators were not well informed in terms of some of the facts. and he resisted the temptation to fire back at them. >> they don't know -- look. the congress doesn't know how to manage the trades, either. the bottom line is he answered every one of the questions.