about jobs and also trying to raise a little money. jobs were the emphasis last night at a speech to the congressional black caucus. some in the congressional black caucus have been critical of the president saying he hasn t focused enough on african-american issues including african-american unemployment which right now is at 16.7%. listen to the president telling the crowd he expects them to be with him. i m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. i don t have time to feel sorry for myself. i don t have time to complain. i m going to press on. i expect all of you to march with me and press on. let me bring in athena jones this morning from washington. good morning to you. the president last night, some in that room had been critical of him. did he tell them what they wanted to hear last night and what was the reaction afterwards? well, you know, it was a fiery speech and he really riled up the crowd all the way through. he wa
it s not showing an extension of all of that terrible selling in the last couple of days. what s happening? for the moment, it s not, christine. the europe peern markets an mar minutes ago. the markets you said in your introduction showed asian markets losing quite a bit overnight. some of those markets hitting lows we hadn t seen, in fact, since last year or even the year before that. nikkei should point out end of the day up to the tune of about a quarter of 1%. the stock market, same here in europe. losses earlier on to today s session. firmly in the green for the moment. we ll, of course, have to see how the united states market bets trading, sort of dictate the trend heading towards the end of the week, christine. one of the reasons everybody s so worried or perhaps elated, on a positive note, we had the 23 the g-20 meeting. economists saying there seems to be a growing debt between what economists and the market says it should be and what politicians can realisticy d
announced another stimulus measure inform boost the economy. we will get the reaction around the world. hong kong s hang seng index is off 5%. that s a big move for one day for a stock index. japan s nikkei is down 2%. in europe, more of the same. french, jer planing markets all plunging by more than 4%. have you gold down. you have oil down. you have selling basically acro across the board. downside risk, this is an economy in the u.s. and worldwide that s not out of the woods and markets are responding accordingly. we will talk more later about this. sure. cries of injustice and closure for one family after 20 years. the state of georgia executing by lethal injection death-row inmate troy davis late last night. davis was convicted of shooting and killing off-duty savannah police officer mark mcphail, a father of two children. several witnesses that helped put him away changed their stories even while strapped to the gurney insisted he did not have a gun. a crowd of hu