dow up, and lost some ground after the past three days of gains and the 10-year yield hovering at 1.5, and the global trading is around the end of the quarter and the last half of the year to look at what 2013 could bring for your investments. a black eye for blackberry this morning, and the shares are down 20% after the company s quarterly report. how can the smartphone recover or can it? and expectations of weakness in china, and we will break down the numbers for you. and jim cramer talked to some of the top ceos in the country as part of the investment series, and we will get a sneak peek of what is coming up tonight on mad money. and the bulls and each average posting double-digit percentage gains and meanwhile the nasdaq and the s a&p has no had a down month since october, and the dow since november, but those streaks are in jeopardy. the s&p needs to go 17 more to break even for the month, and the nasdaq 54 points which is a decline of 1.5%, and the dow 91%.
the u.s. equity futures are indicated higher. dow futures up by 34 points. s&p up by over 5. early trading, european markets, thingses have barely budged. barely worth mentioning. cac is down by 18 points. otherwise sitting at the flat line. in asia you can see that the nikkei was up about another 3.5%. a lot of volatility including volatility in china where you saw the hang seng up by about 1.25% and shanghai composite up by 1.5%. brian, over to you. becky, thank you. stay with the china theme making headlines. china s central bank taking steps to try to calm market fma. they said that policymakers would adjust liquidity in the banking system to keep financial markets stable. these are his first public reports since a cash crunch last week. speaking of monetary policy. pay attention to another chorus of fed speakers stateside. jeremy stein, richmond fed preside president, cleveland fed president sandra pianito all set to give speeches and bill dudley addressed the market a
legislature. this weekend a surrogate was asked about the contra diction. how about all these cases where they give tax breaks to companies, there was a company in rhode island that they had they enticed to come over and then went bankrupt. in the structure in massachusetts, as i frs it, it is a commission of political appointees that the governor does not have direct control over. you re saying romney was opposed to all of this? what governor romney said when he was governor of massachusetts, we should not have the state investing in private enterprise. we should be reprogramming this money, and he tried to reprogram the money away from those kinds of investments. the record seems to contradict that. back in 2003, shortly after taking office, he acted and sounded like a fan of state investment and enterprise. not a critic. talking about the state s existing renewable energy fund, he said, the trust fund has been growing for years. now is the time to refocus its a
watch. how about the companies that they enticed to come over and then went bankrupt. the structure in massachusetts as i understand it is a commission of public appointees that the governor does not have direct control over. and you re saying governor romney was against this? what i m saying is when he was governor was we should not have the state investing in private enterprise. the fact is we should be reprogramming this money. and he tried to reprogram the money away from investments. the record seems to contradict that. back in 2003 shortly after taking office, he acted and sounded like a fan of state investment and enterprise, not a critic. talking about the state s already existing renewable energy fund he said quote, the trust fund has been growing for years and i believe now is the time to refocus the assets in such a manner that it can become a spring board for the commonwealth by focusing on job creation in the renewable energy sector. in other words, he
take a look. that they had that they enticed to come over and then bankrupt. the structure in massachusetts as i understand it is a position of appointees the governor does not have direct control over. and you re saying governor romney was against this? what i m saying is when he was governor was we should not have the state investing in private enterprise. the fact is we should be reprogramming this money. and he tried to reprogram the money away from investments. the record seems to contradict that. back in 2003 shortly after taking office, he acted and sounded like a fan of statement investment and private enterprise, not a critic. talking about the state s already existing renewable energy fund he said quote, the trust fund has been growing for years and i believe now is the time to refocus the assets in such a manner that it can become a spring board for the commonwealth by focusing on job creation in the renushl energy sector. in other words, he wanted to f