Market desk. Just a tad as we head into the last hour. They just about doubled their losses from earlier. Below the 20 day average. Not a lot of activity. This is a theme we have been talking about very frequently. Take a look at the bloomberg. This shows the percentage daily move in the s p 500 and the 21st straight day we have not had a movement of at least 1 . I hoped we would see another big move but we do not quite get to 1 . Not though overall we are seeing a lot of direction, were certainly seeing some big moves in individual stocks. One of them is bid set, the auction house. It is been working on increasing the commission on some of the lowerpriced items. To betrategy appears helping to some degree. And we have deals that have been going on here that we have been watching as well. Holding. Firm that price 64 a share. More than double the close on friday. And we see that move in the stocks because it is a very short stock going into this. About 40 was sold short. Itselfstler is
2 . Road map begins with earnings from hp a big hit from the stronger dollar. An exclusive interview with meg whitman in a minute. Beat from lowes and from target. Those stocks both higher in the premarket. Hawkish or dovish . Janet yellen day two, heads to the house for her second day of congressional testimony. First up, the dow and the s p coming off record closing highs. The nasdaq aiming for an 11th consecutive day of gains. Better than expected results from retailers, target and lowe and yellen back to the hill for testimony, before the House Financial Services committee. Jim, three sessions left in february. Weve had records on the dow, the s p, the mid caps the russell, the dax, the ftse. Whats left . It all makes sense. When youre in a Conference Call like i was, listened to the amazing cfo from home depot, really is the dean of cfos, and shes tracing out a story which says, you know what people are spending much more on their home and we have homes coming off of renting and b