security forces of not doing enough while victims were trampled and beaten. the country s military government has declared three days of national mourning. leon panetta announced plans on wednesday to pull all nato combat troops from afghanistan by the end of 2013. that s a full year earlier than previously planned. nato s training and support troops are expected to stay in afghanistan beyond the 2013 pullout date. those are the headlines. from cnn, i m juanita raj paul. cnn world business today starts right now. hello. welcome to world business today. i m nina dos santos in london. the top stories this thursday, february 2nd. sony forecasts another eye-watering loss, as the one-time electronics leader struggles to get back into the black. we take you inside facebook s moneymaking machine, as the social networking phenomenon now prepares for its stock market listing. and shares of the australian miner linus jumped almost 20% after the company scores a big rare ear
india, ford s allen moulally. caution has crept in before the week is out. european markets are marginally out, asian markets are marginally down. futures are flat. the predicted number of new jobs is around about 150,000. many say that is better but charles still not good enough. no. i think that s very much going to be what is dominating investor thought really all way around the globe. we are seeing this slight rebound here in europe. there was a bit of a sell-off, i think perhaps in anticipation of a strong nonfarm payroll. maybe as many as 90,000 jobs being created. that s the whisper number on wall street. as that number goes down to more than 150,000, which seems to be the consensus, there s less prospect of u.s. interest rates being moved up soon and perhaps there s pressure on the euro. there is a lot of worry out here behind all of this. we re still worrying about banks. .only credit rights issue a couple of days ago is still being talked about in the markets be