or whatever the stock slides. the company has problems. isn t that enough punishment? absolutely, brenda. you know, i m flabbergasted at some of the things i ve heard, not to mention what chris said. oh, my gosh, people are worried. and i asked my wife about this, did you hear jp morgan lost 2 billion dollars and she goes, yeah, so? right, right, how is it going to affect her and us? it s not. they re running a business, they made a mistake, whatever, so what? so maybe it cost them the company. they go out of business. fine. can we live without jp morgan, yes. we re living without lehman brothers for crying out loud. aig is on its last legs and it s not going to pull down the economy. they lost money, so what. brenda: no, it s important to note that this is a trading loss of course, it s not a net loss, they re still doing okay. toby, go ahead. so, this is what really sort of gets me now, is that chris, all due
story, trending online. ines? that s right, tony. on cnn.com you ve got some of the top stories on the oil leak capturing the leaking oil, and also stocks tumble. and the stock market and the april jobs report. those are some of the big stories that we re seeing. terrific, ines. thank you. let s do it. let s get started if economic arrows are moving in the opposite directions today. payrolls in april show their biggest increase in four years but it is not a tonic to calm investors. the stock slides continue down more than 200. nothing compared to yesterday when the dow jumped off a cliff in mid afternoon. the index down almost a breath-taking 1,000 points? and justs a quickly the dow recovered most of the loss to close down 348 on the day. even on today s jobs report has its downside. the unemployment rate crept up the 9. %. that s even after companies added 290,000 jobs. so we ll explain. let s get to cnn s christine