dow. >> but christina, this isn't just about u.s. fundamentals. these are companies, look across the board, big tech companies, big auto companies from, you know, gm to hp to ibm to apple, you name it, these are companies that are just as reliant on the rest of the world as they are on the united states. >> that's right. you can't really look at the u.s. in a vacuum, unfortunately, anymore. christine brought up this point earlier, half of the earnings of the s&p 500 companies which is a much broader index than the dow, half of those earnings come fromover sefrom overseas. the major concern is not what's happening today with u.s. economic data and u.s. fundamentals but what happens a year from now, what happens two years from now. do ceos look at that and say if we have a global economic slowdown, what does that mean to my bottom line? what does it mean to how much money i can pay people and how much money i can spend on