every day bets on how companies will do and when the bullish bets overwhelm the bearish once, you get days like today where the dow gained 60 points, the s&p climbed, while the nasdaq inched down .2%, but are these bets informed? or are they just guesses? it depends. sometimes as we know from the confusing minutes released by the federal reserve this very afternoon, it is really difficult to get a good read. i couldn t make heads or tails out of whether the fed thought the economy was getting better or worse. that s largely because the traditional benchmarks and toe tums aren t making sense right now, sometimes even sending us in the wrong direction. yet it s confusing out there. i ve been doing this for a long time. it s confusing. in fact, i think you can say this is a temptations market. we ve got multiple balls of confusing. the most glaring example, for years we ve looked to the direction of interest rates to gauge the economy s strength or weakness. interest rates going
with eurozone partners. apple shares poise for a new all-time high. vehicle integration, watch demand, and lengthy profile on johnny i ve in the new yorker new yorker magazine magazine. starwood, what it means for the company s future. a shortened trading week with the dow above 18000, s&p off the record closing high. futures lower after talks between greece and eurozone finance ministers did collapse. head of the ministers group says greece has until friday to request an extension of the bailout ten days or so jim, until the credit line does go blank. it does feel a lot like the united states and the brinkmanship and we knew there wasn t going to be a deal until after. what i expect will happen the talks will collapse until not the day but a few days after, because there s money found. remember that? we found a little money? i think the talks are about who s going to blink. i still feel there s going to be a stretch-out of debt but you have to hear there were talks,
market. every weekend i go over what stocks are hitting new highs. it s the equivalent of what s hot on the run way and it s startling how often the styles change from week to week. fashion was behind a great deal of today s actions. they started off in the red thanks to greece and rebounded terrifically and the dow closing up 28 points. nasdaq advancing .11%. first the hottest style, the one that is flying off the shelves. the one that cannot be kept in stock, that s the cyber security stocks. it makes sense. ever since the former ceo of target lost his job, the execs of all major companies have focused on this issue. just as no ceo ever lost his job spending money on marketing successful no ceo will ever be fired for spending too much money on cyber security. last week we got astounding report cards out of two highly visible newer comes in the space that showed how executives are throwing money at this problem. fire eye does forensics as well as offering a security package
there are reports and there s a lot of oversight in this subcommittee mark. so i would say while i agree with some of her comments and ideas behind why she wants to see this, i would also agree with mr. turner that the unit cost as come down for us and make date in some ways more affordable as well as for many of our allies looking at some of these buys in order to make sure they are also applied by this. thank you for your time. appreciated. gemmill and from mr. castro appeared i would like to yield three minutes to the gentlelady from california ms. speier. i thank the gentleman for yielding. i have a question or to chair the subcommittee. mr. turner, the fact that the gao, the inspector general and the department of operational testing and evaluation have all said that there are problems and that we need to recognize moving forward we don t even have to ramp up capacity as i believe the gao, do you basically disagree with the conclusions made by those various oversig
we ve been looking at it, 2.51. did you see all those bond issues yesterday? europe is back. a whole lot of green. really it was asia that might be a concern. japan s market off 2.8% overnight. let s get our road map this morning. it starts with earnings from economic bellwethers. procter & gamble and ups both seeing gains last night. and don t diskrount $ old gart of the internet era and amazon posting better-than-expected quarterly revenue. we re going to start with two companies being known as being barometers. getting a lift from e-commerce and strong europe export growth. procter & gamble said it earned $1.05 cents a share. the ceo gave his assessment earlier, jon moeller on squawk box. we held sales in each of our reporting segments, grew 8% in developing markets, we grew 11% in japan and earnings were right where we expected them, why is which we re able to reconform guidance on the fiscal year, 5% to 7% earnings per share growth so we re right on track. right on