i think you re going to want one of these, too. you sit here and knock it. you said the same thing about the blackberry. then you come home, you come back here. i ve driven halfway home and had to come back. there s nothing in my world that i ever had to come back for until the blackberry. it s not fair. you re going to have an ipad, too. just to play brick breaker. in about 15 minutes, we ll alternative to an analyst and find out if there is still more room for this stuff to run. after hours trading session was not as kind to yahoo!. the company posted better than expected q1 earnsing. here is the deal, q1 search revenue fell 14%. yahoo! says larger advertisers are coming back on the display side. we re going to check in with a yoo-hoo analyst in a few minutes, as well. and interesting letter from john paulson looking to reassure investors days after his hedge fund was linked to civil charges. in a letter obtained by cnbc, paulson tells investors his firm s role
welcome back to the floor of the new york stock exchange. it is staggering to think 12 months ago we closed down on the dow jones industrial average 778 points. boy, have we come an awfully long way in 12 months. can we talk about dow 10,000? dare we? as we close out on the third quarter? that has a lot to do with the fed and whether we maintain big injection of liquidity. for today s trade quite well, up 40 points and we learned consumers confidence in america ticked down worst than people expected. good news on the home price front but it hasn t fed through yet and the market got nervous. what is the state of the consumer without injections by the fed? we will get results from nike and the restaurant play darden. this is closing bell on cnbc. and it is 4:00 on wall street. do you know where your money is? welcome back to the closing bell. i m maria bartiromo. here is what we are following, stocks tumbling at a mixed batch of economic data as we come to the end of the