triple jumper, but most importantly, he was mark zuckerberg s college roommate. the 14th person in the world to have ever been on facebook back when it was a college. he lived in strauss hall. a couple famous people lived in emerson tlou obviously many of poorer. what a group. carl, we look forward to that, and much more from the olympic games. meantime how are we setting up in the united states on the u.s. futures? we do have a 1% gain. our road map meantime starts with the waiting game today. the question, will it or won t it deliver or hint at monetary sim lulls? could the stronger than expected adp number foreshadow a better number on friday? google delays its release of nexus q. is this a win for apple which continues its streak of gains. and is wall street going antisocial? electronics arts say social is slowing, but mobile is where it is at. so much to talk about today. but we have to start off with the markets. july going to the bulls. the dow and s&p 500 down 1%
purchase of a quan tiff. microsoft made the deal in 2007. at the time the time they made the purchase to catch up with google in search related display advertising. steve? thanks, michelle. pre-holiday shortened session for wall street today. equity trading will wrap up at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. there will be no trading tomorrow. but the flood gates will lift on jobs data on thursday with the adp and challenging reports. plus the jobless claims. all that ahead of friday s government jobs report. today the focus turns to automakers. the big fear rolling out june sales which are expected to fall just short of 14 million annual rate. this would be the second month in a row under 14 million. the shares are up 21% compared to a year ago. the fdic and the federal reserve are expected to publish the public portion of the living wills of big banks and financial institutions. it will be by the end of business day today. the first group of reports are from bank of america, barclays,
resign, as well. how far is this investigation going to go? it is the calm before the storm today with the markets quiet ahead of auto sales this morning. jobs report friday. oil bouncing with brent back above 100 bucks a barrel. a quarterly loss for microsoft. writes down almost the entire price of acquisition. will the catalyst of windows 8 and the surface offset the strategy miss? friends again? facebook and general motors meets again. is this a start of reconciliation or a new account between the two? barclays the big story this morning. bob diamond stepped down. the resignation follows the libor probe. meantime, reports now say the cle chief operating officer may step down, as well. the coo is jerry delmeciar and conflicts reports of whether he ll stay or go and the times basically says he was briefed on the scandal and did very little to prevent it, although running out of executives to run this thing, david. yeah. i don t know. they re going to conduct a sear