newscaster actually did something live on television with no makeup. and it created havoc. can you imagine? but it was her way of telling the girls, it s okay. we don t need all of this to be the professional person standing up and doing what we need to do. this is our job. again, we ve had some amazing media partners and i want to specifically thank all of our media partners here today and across the country who have been working with us during our 100th anniversary to spread the good message of girl scouting. and they have. we have gotten over 70 million media impressions in the last six months. and it s because, again, our media partners understand at the end of the day we re one community and they can help they have a powerful voice. they get to the girls through tv, through magazines, through radio, and they can help us spread some really great messages and encourage the girls to stay on their path. the boy scouts have been talking publicly about struggling with the
still hanging on to good gains. ftse up 6%, dax up and cac as well. let s hit the roadmap. can the dow stay above 13,000? the last leap say, the dow lost 315 points. fed chief ben bernanke heads to the hill to give his testimony. how will he respond to questions on gas prices, manufacturing, employment and stocks? and the ecb s second low-cost loan program. 529.5 billion euros borrowed by 800 lenders. apple set to open north of $500 billion in market cap today. can the buzz around the launch of the ipad 3 next week keep the stock up or will the law of large numbers kick in? the dow is coming off its first close above 13,000 since may 19, 2008. the blue-chip index up 6.5% so far this year, it s jumped 22% since october. meanwhile, the bulls can only hope today s leap day trading is nothing like the last one. stocks tumbled the last february 29th with the dow falling more than 315 points, about 2.7% drop back then. other major averages chalking up similar losses, incl