captioning sponsored by wpbt susie: good evening everyone. continuing turmoil in the middle east today pushed up prices on oil and gold. but tom that wasn t the case for stock prices. the major averages fell for the second straight day. tom: susie, oil was the big story. in new york trading, april crude futures briefly traded above the $100-a-barrel level on concerns about supply disruptions in libya. but by the close, oil settled at $98.10 up almost $3. now those same concerns also gave a boost to gold up over $12 to $14.14 an ounce. that s $1,400-plus an ounce. on wall street, the dow lost 107 points, the nasdaq fell 33 and the s&p 500 was down eight. susie: also today, saudi arabia s king abdullah went on the offensive, promising his subjects $36 billion of benefits to deal with housing, education, and unemployment issues. our guest tonight was recently in egypt and saudi arabia. he is the chief executive of pimco, the world s largest bond fund. joining us now, moh