is it anemic? i mean, what do you call it? that s what i call it. it s horrible volume. that was nice, mary. could you do that again? that was very nice. happy new year, mary thompson. i don t know what else to say about this volume. there isn t a lot of it. lerc 118 million shares changing hands on the big board and as brian pointed out we re seeing weakness in the markets and the dollar has strengthened particularly against the euro. the euro was stronger today and the dollar s been building its gains against the japanese yen and the dollar index, i stand corrected, it has recently turned lower. we have seen it pop up and that basically corresponded with the decline that we saw in the markets today. keep in mind, for the month this is the best month for the dollar index since june and its first gain against the euro since june of last year. we are seeing weakness in the material stocks today. take a look at basically a sampling here. this is the weakest sector in today s
number that we received yesterday which was better than expected? well, the ism immediately released its annual revision which usually doesn t come out until mid-january. they released it today. so the december figures were revised downward to a rating of 58.7 which were still above expectations and that was enough to take 30 points off the dow jones industrial average which as it stands is three points above its session lows. still we re looking at another low volume day at 176 million shares changing hands here at the big board with utilities and pacing the decline as michelle mentioned earlier. when the dow were seeing gains at j.p. morgan and bank of america and disney close to a 52-week high. truckers are under pressure because of good news for one of their competitors. it is going to be avoiding bankruptcy because it s managed to go through with a debt for equity swap issue as a result, conway under pressure and it was expected to benefit in the e fit that yrc would f
the investigation s ongoing. and i spoke again this morning with the attorney general eric holder, the secretary of homeland security janet napolitano and my counterterrorism and homeland security adviser john brennan. i asked them to keep continue to monitoring the situation, to keep the american people and members of congress informed. here s what we know so far. on christmas day, northwest airlines flight 253 was en route from amsterdam, netherlands, doe troit. as the plane made its final approach to detroit metropolitan. airport a passenger allegedly tried to ignite an explosive device on his body, setting off a fire. thanks to the quick and heroic actions of passengers and crew, the suspect was immediately subdued, the fire was put out, and the plane landed safely. the suspect is now in custody and has been charged with attempting to destroy an aircraft. and a full investigation has been launched into this attempted act of terrorism and we will not rest until we find a