russell 2000 down as well, getting hit hard, down about one and a quarter percent. liz: yeah. david s right, a lot of that is apple. the home builders, though, seeing a big drop. let s see how that impacted pkb, the building and construction etf. you may own them individually, vulcan, home depot and ingersoll-rand, right now down about two and a third percent. david: and let s look at oil. we did see a 3% top today. the u.s., i think we can put the u.s. up there as well which is a trading stock that focus on oil. you can see it got a pop. again, questions about whether this is just temporary or whether it s indicative of something long term, we don t know. if, in fact, there is a correction because of an economic slowdown, these figures might change to the downside. liz: and maybe you felt better about the economy? the consumer apparently pricking up its ears. the consumer discretionary area was the worst performing s&p sector today, but it s actually done pretty well over th
good evening, everyone, i m erin burnett. and outfront tonight, romney dodges, obama spins. it s sort of a new dance move. dodge and spin. while the republican candidate just spoke with our wolf blitzer and when wolf asked him to get specific on tax cuts, here s what happened. even though you re going to lower the income tax rates for people making let s say more than $250,000 a year, but you re going to eliminate some loopholes and deductions, exemptions, tax credits, is that what i m hearing? that s right. i ll bring the rate down across the board. but eliminate or limit, rather, deductions or credits and exemptions and so forth, particularly for people at the high end, because you have to do that to make sure that distributionally we continue to have the high-income people still pay the same share, the high share they pay today. would that add up to the $4.8 or $5 trillion that s been estimated your comprehensive tax reductions would cost? well, actually, the p