now, that's progressive. wall street remains focused on developments out of the middle east and japan. a week ago the dow fell below the 12,000 mark because of those fears but stocks have been rallying the last three sessions. alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange. i heard the bell go off. we're in the plus? that's good. >> yeah. nice way to start the morning. you know what? the middle east and japan are still dominating the attention here on wall street. but what we're seeing is investors are less worried about how things are going to be playing out in japan and in libya. so that means that people are putting their money back into