turning to political strife in the ukraine. cyber reports driven by mobile and holiday data continues to trickle in. an upgrade in acquisition and reports in china mobile all amounting to a rise in apple shares. and shipments expected to fall by double digits this year, the most severe contraction on record. and some food for thought as news from yum brands and krispy disappoint. comscore says shoppers have already spent about $20 billion online this year, up 3%. ibm also saying some pretty eye popping figures saying both mobile traffic and mobile sales came in at more than 40% higher from a year ago. the data just continues to add up regarding the strn of mobien mobile, jim. i reiterate this is an apple holiday season. don t want to get too focused on apple. that s the metaphor. seems like people want to buy phones and buy tablets. the pc numbers are dreadful. on the hewlett packard conference call, they know they got to ramp up tablet. they know it but they re m
people may be cheering about. let s look at futures. you can see it is a positive response to this after initially the market was selling off just a bit. no taper of the taper perhaps. let s take a look at the ten-year talking about taper and qe. you can see not much change there either. and over in europe a reaction, not a reaction, how is the day working out? well, pretty well after what has been generally a positive week for the various markets in europe. all right. let s get to that jobs number itself, of course, and talk about it, jim. you know, market reaction now seems to be positive. don t know what that s playing off of. maybe the tiny tick up in the participation rate after being down more or less for decades it would seem. i don t know. when you listen to the coverage that we were hearing before on squawk, mr. dortmund spoke and cvs and said the traffic s not there because of the weather and the weather was the worst nationwide since 1977. now, typically you ve
the crimean referendum, of course, is this weekend. the roadmap begins with continuing global concerns led by china and ukraine. have the markets looking at a modestly higher open this after the major averages logged their worst day since february 3 period. general motors is firing back that air bag failure in recalled vehicles resulted in more than 300 deaths. target admitting it did not take immediate action after security software originally alerted the company to malicious activity after the data breach. and mark zuckerberg calls president obama to complain about the government s surveillance programs. first up, though, thursday, the 13, was bad luck for the bulls as worries about a slowdown in china and rising tension between ukraine and russia helped spark a market selloff. all 30 components finishing in the red. and the s&p has fallen to negative territory for the year and the nasdaq posting a decline for the fifth time in six sessions. the s&p has only had a y