an "early start" on money news. stocks in germany at record highs. record watch here, too. the big number today, anything above s&p 1900, achieved for the first time ever on friday. an important read on housing comes later this morning. you know, home prices have been steadily climbing. we'll want to see if there's a little bit of a slowdown in how quickly they've been climbing. but the rising home prices have helped spur home equity loans. new data shows a 20% jump in new lines of credit last year. still, home equity loans far below 2006 levels. meantime, morning rates are still falling. the call for mortgage rates this year were they were going to go up and up and up. the 30-year fixed rate 4.14%, lowest since october. higher than a year ago, but lowest since october. when you look at the 15-year -- you know, the popular refinancing tool is a 15-year, 3.2% or lower. >> very low. >> very low. >> 39 minutes after the hour. gun battles on the streets of ukraine this morning as