to hieber date with this arctic weather. it turns out stocks don t just go straight up like last year. dow futures down big this morning, you guys. the dow fell 176 points yesterday to a five-week low. the nasdaq s&p down too. let me give you perspective though on what the start to the year looks like. dow for the year down about 2.3%. tech stocks have been doing better. the s&p down 1%. one strategist saying it s not a bear market, it s a scare market. be ready for a lot of scares after such a good year last year. you re going to see microsoft rise today. microsoft sales, revenue up 14%. company bringing in sbr earnings, so microsoft will be a
market but a scare market. that s according to one strategist, jeff klein tap of lpl financial says growth scares are likely to happen many times this year. where are they coming from? emerging markets trouble, earnings for u.s. companies that are mostly unimpressive or worse? dow futures lower this morning after the dow industrials fell to a five-week low. i want to show you the dow, down 176 points yesterday. that s about 1%. yesterday the trigger was a slowdown in china s economy. the nasdaq, the s&p 500 also lower. in europe right now, stocks of london, frankfurt, paris, following this trend, all down. in japan, the nikkei index falling nearly 2%. here in the u.s., a stock to watch this morning for you, microsoft. shares are up about 3.5% to premarket trading. xbox a big seller this holiday season. 7.4 million consoles flying off the shelves. microsoft s sales were up 14%. that helped the company bring in better earnings. watch msft. another stock we re watching this morning, starb