home prices number. if you remember the news last week the entire industry was revived lower by the national ha soerb kwraeugs o association of realtors. we know how weak the housing market has been since the housing crisis, it was even worse than that. that could be a down note. positive news is on the jobless claims. we had a tremendous improvement. 324,000 people filed for unemployment benefits, best number since april of 2008. that number comes out on thursday next week. that will also be very indicative. jamie: it went from 400,000 to 300,000. there are still a lot of people out of work. they are moving averages. we have stubbornly high unemployment in this country upwards of 8.6%. we will take any improvement we can get. this is the weakest link in the economy right now. jamie: i have to ask you about oil prices and the fact that iran had the war games and they