stewart hoffman with pnc financial, thank you so much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >>> one big growth area for jobs, the app economy. apple helped create indirectly and directly more than 100 jobs in the apps industry. roughly two-thirds of those positions are developers creating programs for iphone and ipod device. >>> the most iconic consumer brands with soda sales falling, part of a cost cutting plan. and mcdonald's amid slumping burg sales. >>> crude prices ended higher but not by much. up by 14%. and your international brent and 51 dollars a barrel andrew sorkin a number of businesses besides energy companies. morgan brennan has more on who else is getting squeezed. >> the collapse in oil prices is beginning to take a toll on other industries. the united states deal corporation is temporarily idoling two factories and laying off 750 workers, a direct result of crude's dramatic crunch. supplying to oil and gas drillers is a key market for steel makers and up until now, a bright spot for the hard hit industry. but with expected to slash, capital spending by as much as 20% th