was there any foul play? david: the commission of the commodities futures going to tell us why he is actually worried about chita traders. and former chairman of the security and exchange commission will sound off on whether the sec is actually losing its focus. he calls it a dysfunctional agency. is it safe guarding capitalism but becoming too political? cheryl: first we're going to tell you what drove th the markt today in the daily download. the moves were not too dramatic crossing the unchanged line more than 65 times. investors weighing better than expected data, the housing sentiment against a disappointing outlook from federal express. consumer staples and health care as the best reformers. ending lower again the second day in a row ahead of tomorrow's inventory report. falling 1.4% settle at $94.25 per barrel, the lowest in more than two weeks. as i mentioned, home builders, the sentiment, confidence rising to the highest level in more than six years. national association of homebuilders and the housing market index rose three points to 40, that is the fifth consecutive games for those of you keeping score. the market action for you, the s&p futures pit, executive vice president for wealth management, and jeff flock on the floor of the cme. let's start with john. go ahead. you have some movement today, while it was pretty peripatetic commie did not see much move for the drama or the depth of it was concerned. >> keep in mind tonight the bank of japan may be joining the global central bank by adding liquidity perhaps taking connotative easing measures self in order to boost economic growth in japan. the market waiting for that. between tuesday, this morning and friday afternoon we will have nine different federal reserve presidents speaking on the latest round of quantitative easing by our fed from last week and new york fed president said it best, the fragile nature of this economic recovery remains such the fed had to add liquidity to the system. kind of a sideways trade, as traders would name it today, certainly the bank of japan. david: we still haven't figured out what happened with oil. we will get that little later, but the question of what happened, and error trade with oil losing money, that would be corrected but today doyle went down again, so when you look at that huge drop, what caused it? >> that is the one thing we have eliminated, david, is the idea it was a fat finger, an errant trade of some sort. i don't think it could have been. everything else is possible. the combination of factors, i have heard all of these traitors, all of them have different theories about what happened. here is a crazy one, soybeans, some people got short soybeans, long soybeans, had to get out, had to sell oil, set things off. and then you had a very small, very illiquid market and eventually stocks got triggered, people that weren't even there started selling and there was nobody there to pick up the other side of that, that was my best guess. not one specific one. cheryl: that is very true. the domino effect and give us a sense of what happened to oil. with go to about actual equities overall. quite a bit of risk. not to mention throw into it these questionable moves in the market retail investor cannot win, can they? >> it is an uphill battle, but the bold move by the fed last week putting a floor under the risk assets. that is a significant as we sort of have the beginning of the end of a growth scare. if you start to see a pickup in economic activity, the fed promised to support whatever it takes rally. that people will begin to go into risk assets. cheryl: you would say the fed wants us in equities and they would do whatever it takes. >> the markets will continue to be higher. some data where the fed expands their balance sheet by more than 7%, it is likely to happen. cheryl: some breaking news on goldman sachs. >> that is right. the chief financial officer stepping down after a dozen years as cfo, will stay on the board of directors. he will be replaced coming up through the investment banking ranks, if you will, also has been the global cohead of the securities division and will be cfo at the end of january in next year. the longest serving chief financial officer of a major wall street firm, there for 12 years, 32 years with the firm and will remain on the board. goldman expecting to appoint additional independent directors to their board in the near term. additionally just crossing the wire, microsoft boosting the quarterly dividend by 15% of the $0.23 per share. microsoft boosting the payout by 15%. back to you. david: thank you very much. let me go back to jim, talk about the economic growth on the market as a whole, it has been pretty miserable for the past couple of months and the latest figures that we are getting are even more discouraging. you understand why bernanke went all in when he did last week when you look at the empire state figures on manufacturing, which were terribly low, much lower than expectations and you look at the fedex warning which led to its own stock going down about 2%. does the fedex warning and the empire state warnings about manufacturing, does that weigh in on your strategy at all here, jim? >> without a doubt. liz talked about the optimism within homebuilding. that is the task in buying mortgage-backed securities. david: with all of these other figures and particularly the ones worrying ben bernanke, is that one reason strong enough to hold up the economy? >> it has been a drag for the last couple of years, a positive of half a percent, that is a big positive in the market. manufacturing will have its ups and downs. we have had our third year of a growth slump into the summertime, but we'll start to see particularly with the fed's activity that growth start to pick up. talk about a moderate growth two, 2.5% in 22,013 on gdp, but the growth nonetheless, adding jobs to thi in this economy, c.l start to see the beginning of the end of that slump in growth, we will see some better news going forward. liz: the goldman sachs and the microsoft news, microsoft raising its dividend, the stocks are not moving too much, but do you expect there will be tomorrow affecting the major indices? >> i don't, liz. first, microsoft. they have so much cash on hand, up in the dividend will most likely expected or built in, maybe a little bit of disappointment, the dividend hike wasn't more. goldman has eight deep bench, lot of talented, well respected firms. marginally just a little bit to the upside given the fact goldman has such a deep natural bench. david: it was only three months ago the stock was trading at $90 per share. when you look at the jump over $30 in such a short period of time we realize when things are good, things are bad, goldman continues to remain on top. thank you, gentlemen. john, we will check in with you in a couple of minutes to see how the s&p futures closed. thank you very much. a crackdown, what really happened to the energy futures yesterday causing oil to fall $4 in minutes. the jury is still out, but says he wants to know if traders could be behind it all, he will join us live. liz: a vote to end the chicago teachers strike. live on the ground with the details and the resulted could have on the report. david: which one of these retailers is adding more than 50,000 seasonal jobs this holiday season? we will tell you which one it is coming up on "after the bell." 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>> i think people want to drown out a couple of things me overnight. the bank of japan may be adding liquidity to the japanese bank against former quantitative easing. hope intentions don't testify between china, japan, or in the middle east. it just doesn't happen, we expect the s&p futures to probably hold 1448 and a quarter. we might see some sideways trading, and upside gain tomorrow and holding steady. david: 4:15 p.m. eastern time. right up to the moment. thank you very much, john. appreciate it. liz: let's talk oil prices, they're extending their fall after plummeting, did you see this, more than $4 $4 a matterf minutes yesterday. we have the regulator investigating the trace behind the plunge. he is a plan to prevent future price spikes. joining me now. great to see you, thank you for coming on to shed light on what is really going on. tell me about the investigation, where it stands. this was an unbelievably heavy trade, and it fell, the price also dramatically people are wondering what happened, do we know anything yet? >> it occurred $4 a few minutes, actually $3 in one minute. whenever you see the market move that fast, that quickly with a large volume, talk about going from 500 trades to over 10,000, whenever you see that, these high-frequency traders, the cheetah traders as i call them, those are the guys i want to look at. what i can tell you is they were heavy in the market at that time. not saying they have done anything illegal, we're still looking at it, that they were heavy in the market and you saw the price fall, that is the kind of stuff look at to see if anybody was mutilating the market. earlier you were talking about whether or not this was a fat finger. i don't think that is probably it's because there were many traders in the market, liz. liz: that is what jeff flock was saying from the floor of the cme. and it was too sustained over a short period of time. 1:53 p.m. eastern time, 500 oil contracts were trading, 1:54, 12,500. so obviously something is happening. how do you investigate a market spasm like this? what do you start looking for? >> it is a normal thing for us to get all the trading information and start slicing and dicing it. our guys have been working very hard at doing that, that is why i can tell you about the fat finger thing i think was pretty much ruled out. i can also tell you the cheetah traders were in massive amounts into the market this time. we start looking at who was doing what. there is also the link between what was going on not just in the west texas intermediate crude market, the trade on the nymex, but also in the relationship between what was happening at the intercontinental exchange which trades brent in london. those things may have some relationship, and we're looking at all of this stuff working in an appropriate sense with our fellow regulators in the uk. liz: same type of picture, but if we were to to compare it to t happened yesterday, pretty much the same maneuvering. the superfast high-speed traders that you speak of, let's talk about them, do they work on rumors? perhaps the obama administration would tap the strategic petroleum reserve. the administration said absolutely not, we are not discussing that right now, but our rumors illegal? it spreads like wildfire. is there something illegal about that? especially if somebody is profiting always? >> the futures market is different than the equities market, there is not even in our market for example insider trading ban. if you have insider information about what you think something is happening, you can trade on it in our market because they're trying to predict what is happening in the futures market. rumors would not move prices like we saw yesterday the matter what rumor was out there, that is a huge price list. one of the things that concerns me about the cheetah traders is we continue to see these things. this wasn't just a one off. we saw natural gas last year dropped 8% in 15 seconds, we saw silver drops 12% in 13 minutes. we even saw earlier this year with the price of crude dropped 10% in a day, but the stuff that happens in a confined space that draws up our antenna as regulators. liz: the spidey sense comes up, but at some point you want these guys to register. does that change anything about their behavior? >> i think so. you can always assume what people will do things, but until they'rthey are actually regulatu don't know. the cheaters are not regulated, we have to be sure the super scary algorithmic programs, they test them before they're put into the live production environment and cause problems, and we need third, a kill switch in case the cheetah programs are off to the races, they actually stop themselves before they do damage to the market and more importantly to consumers. liz: i don't think he is going feral anytime soon. a very important issue here. thank you, do us a favor, when you get more information about what happened with this trade, we would love to have you back. >> sure, liz. thank you very much. david: has the sec become a political troll of folks who want to hamstring capitalism in america? that is what former security and exchange commission harvey pitt is very concerned about. he makes his case why the sec has completely lost its way. liz: chicago's teachers union voting today on if it will end the strike, now in the seventh day. we are live on the scene with the very latest. and how the strike could affect next month's job report and that in turn could affect the market. 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[buzzer] there we go. moving on. liz: chicago teachers striking for a second week as thousands of public students still have not attended classes this school year. david: joining us now, steve brown has the very latest and peter barnes in washington, d.c., with a look at how the strike could impact the upcoming jobs report. steve brown live in chicago. steve. >> liz and david, thank you very much. yes, behind me is the meeting of the house of delegates, congress if you will, chicago teachers union meeting for third time in five days. this is expected, they will actually take a vote on whether or not to end the strike going seven schooldays, or nine days if you include the weekend. interesting comment coming from the president of the union who has been very outspoken and critical of the school system and the mayor, rahn emanuel. said when she began to talk to folks about all of this on the table, she said "i said, look, this is an austerity contract, not a contract we can get all we want. we are in austerity times, there are things they would like to have that they can't have at this moment. further, later she said she will not tell people how to vote this moment." today, if there is a vote. but she says she would vote for the contract comin come as closa recommendation. the appeal on the table that would end the teachers strike and put 355 kids back to school as early as tomorrow. expecting some kind of a vote today. although it is not guaranteed. we saw the same thing on sunday gathering in anticipation of a new vote, talk it over at the school level, and it looks like today is the day. how long it'll take to get to that point, we don't know. the meeting is just underway 20 minutes in. back to you. liz: thank you very much. steve brown. david: a look at how the thousands of striking teachers could change the employment report. >> right in the middle of the election in which jobs are kind of a big issue. let's go through the math. 26,000 teachers who are striking aid under labor department procedures if they are not back to work by the end of their pay. this friday, they will subtract them from all the payroll number for september. with nonfarm payroll 100,000 jobs per month the last six months, that could look ugly when the report is released october 5, a month from the election day. if teachers are back on the job, they would be added back into the payroll support for that month released november 2 giving the payroll number a little boost five days before the election. it is debatable if the monthly swing of 26,000 jobs plus or minus will have a big impact on the election when voters know overall jobs, the picture has not been good. >> the president could get lucky, a few days before the election and have a better report overall. between him and the election. i don't think so. >> think that this point they have a big impact on the election, the job numbers would have to be really, really good or really, really bad for the next two months. sounds like with the vote coming up in the next this afternoon, i had fun. liz: is the security and exchange commission getting too political? here to tell us why he is actually worried they are losing their focus next. david: guess which airline is the worst when it comes to on-time arrivals. we all have our favorites and not so favorites, we will tell you after the break. you can take your guess on our facebook page and let us know what your favorite airline or least favorite airline is. facebook.com/afterthebell. 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