at noon, the dowas down 81 points with the nasd off 16. stocks snt the afternoon nsolidating recent gains and ended narrowly mixed. the dow fell 11.79oints to 9,096.72. but the nasd composite rose 7. points to 1,975.51. the s&p 500 indeslipped 2.56 points to 9762. in the bond rket, the 10 year note rose 10/32 95-13/32 putting the yield 3.69% >> suzanne: president obamsaid today medicare benefits uld be at risk wiout healthcare reform. the present said the medicare trusfund will be out of money within a decade less lawmakers overhaul the system. joining me now with a discsion of the nation's medire program is guest tricia neuman, direor of the kaiser family undation's medicare policy project. tricia, welcome. >> thank you vy much. >> suzan: well, medicare as you know turns 44this week an i guess bihdays are alwa a od time to take stock so i want task you, let's begin with, do you thinkhe medicare ogram is successful? >> i tnk medicare has been enormously successful. if you think about the stt of the proam, at that time, ls an half of all se

whether it be the firms themselves and internal risk management departments, whether it be former nasd and fdc, whether it be the ncse, whether it be state regulators, et cetera, everybody is going to step up their game as a result of this and do a better job. i firmly believe that they will. but again, i think you need the more oversight the better right now. we can't have this happen again and whatever oversight is put into place, i think it's got to get out there. the american people got to know that this is being taken very seriously and not going to happen again. >> i want to point out something interesting that you said. you think wall street firms or if you think wall street firms and banks, anyone out there, are ever going to place regulations above profits, you are sadly mistaken. >> i've been on wall street, 15 years. i will tell you this, from what i have seen, the pendulum does swing back and forth, but my experience has been is that at the end of the day, money and profits rule wall street, rule banking and rule the finance services world. i have never seen anything that t

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the nasd rose more than 6 points to close at 1916.he senateudiciary committee has delayea vote on u.s. supremcourt nominee sonia sotomayor by one week. the rking republican, jeff sessis of alabama, asked for era time to review the judge' rerd. the comttee vote is now set for next tuesday. the full senate is expecd to vote inarly august. pme minister al-maliki of ira departed for a visit to t u.s. toda he will meet with preside obama and secreta of state clinton to scuss iraq's new security pacwith the u.s., and political reconciliati. as he left, a series of mbings killed at ast 18 iraqis and wounded dozens more. in afghanistan, at lst 14 people died in taliban atcks in two eastern citi. up to 15 insurgentssed suicide bombings, nfire and rockets. the taliban also leased a message abo a captured american soier, army private bo bergdahl. the messe called for americans to "makeerious and productive efforts tards ending his tention." the sdier was shown in a taliban videover the weekend, after being captured threweeks ago. nefighting erup

nasd nasdaq, s&p futures higher, as well. we've got unemployment data out of germany, the ten-year bund. the yield this morning has been below 3 1/2 right now. it's moved up to 3.69%. unemployment ticking up in germany. of course, we will get the weekly jobless claims here in the u.s. that could set the tone this morning, as well. they are forecast to rise and we are looking to see whether the third massive offering of debt this afternoon goes any better. the two year, the five year disappointing. we are expecting a $28 billion offering at 1:00 new york time. u.s. economic activity overall, when you look at the data, seems to have begun to stabilize according to the fed beige book. joining us now to discuss what's going on is marco enciatta, from uni credit. marco, we saw the beige book yesterday and it says there are signs of some areas where things are picking up, not just stabilizing, yet the forecast is for things to remain fairly weak for a good, long time. was there any surprise in the beige book data to you? >> no, not

thatould weigh on the nasd with t the guidae from ththe viomaker take two interactive.e. and the s s&p as i ke a look the here,, margilly above fair value.e. the teyear yield likely to move on t that data t today, 3.38 let's bring g back in trevor willms. we saiaid he wasoing to stick around. he is still here. he's chief economistt lloloyd's tsb corpate mararkets. tror, your expepectationstodaya, goldldman is getng a lot of f t how wide hypype day. bu there'smportant data on thee horizon. reretail sales are goi to be closely tched as we try and is figure out whahat's gng on with e consur. >> yh. probably t the mt important figure will be the retail sas, of coue, because a after the disappntment of the unemployment numbers a week or so ago, the fact is that the is a lot of worry thahat this wl cae cononsumer confidence to take a dip, which it did, of course, and thatat dip in conmer confididence wilbe followed by a dip in sale anand the question, really, at e back of people's mds is whetether orot the u.s. authorities mayave to do on the fiscal stulus. i think the e figure