happy monday. september 12th. this is your wake-up call. thank you for joining us this morning. breaking news on the world markets to tell you about this morning. they re taking quite a hit. investors are worried that greece could default on loan repayments. the nikkei closed at a 2 1/2-year low. the hang seng down over 4%. european markets opened over two hours ago. they re all down. about four hours until the markets open here. but dow futures are down 180 points. the nasdaq and s&p are down, as well. sorry. i had to tell you. congress supposed to get its hands on president obama s jobs bill today. but the president will hold a rose garden ceremony, flanked with teachers and business owners. 40,000 bank of america jobs are reportedly on the chopping block today. and today, we re expected to get details from the ceo at an investor conference at 9:00 p.m. eastern in new york. but the l.a. times are reporting most of the layoffs are supposed to come from consumer banking o
the year is kicking off and stocks are kicking up. improvement in manufacturing behind the rally. the dow jones industrial average up 650 points and the main street shows consumers are flipping out over jobs and the lack of them. and lockheed martin cuts 1,500 on the chopping block today. and normally you would see all these folks tomorrow on is cost of freedom but they will not be on because of the casey anthony murder trial and some of you may not be interested in that, so, they are going online to sound off from the market, to the economy, to wall street, to show how jobs are created. so check it out at www.