and a company is investing in exploring what they can get out of asteroids. deep space industries says they hope to be able to mine asteroids for metals and other valuable resources by 2020. sounds cool. now here's your "first look" at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 13,712 after climbing 62 points yesterday. s&p and nasdaq saw gains. the nikkei shot down 222 while the hang seng fell 23. now on to wall street, where apple's earnings will be front and center today. after losing its shine in recent week, traders will be looking for any good news to offset any talks of dwindling iphone demand which could help the tech-heavy nasdaq, one index that hasn't joined the january rally. elsewhere on the earnings front, google was up after a better than expected fourth quarter report. also after hours, ibm beat earnings estimates thanks mostly to growth in emerging markets.