markets before a great bull run started after that. just pointing that out. financials among the laggers today. jpmorgan chase has been down more than 1%. here s what the markets have done today. lackluster trading in the open this morning, then a move lower around noontime. it was around the time that facebook hit open. the dow saw its biggest declines there. the same thing for the nasdaq, down 27 points right now. 1% decline right now. we re at the lows of the session at 2786 and the s&p is down nine points at 1295. one hour to go before the stock everybody is talking about closes in the first day of trading, of course. we have a bet on this. remember that, bill? yes, we do. we re of course talking about facebook. the stock opened at 11:30 a.m. eastern, got a pop out of the gate. not as strong as some people predicted. it almost slipped to $38 a share, only to bounce back and to hold on the modest gains into the close. it could be the most heavily traded ipo on record