meantime it was dominated by falling housing stocks and was a pretty grim outlook from hewlett-packard. at the end of the session the dow was off by half a per senn and the nasdaq was pretty much unchanged. ending the day just below the waterline. so a lack luster performance. the index was flat. we'll see whether the rally we're seeing in europe today continues when the u.s. markets open, andrew. >> okay. looking at dell, nina, we look to hp earlier. the two heavyweights of the pc world and mixed results for dell. we had pretty bad results coming out. dell says that its pc sales dipped in the first quarter although it still managed to build record earnings, profits up some 16% on the year to some $945 million.