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23 minutes past the hour. we're minding your business this morning. wall street kicked off corporate earning season late yesterday, first to report aluminum maker alcoa posted better than expect the profit despite lower sales. >> stock futures are a bit higher. christine romans, jcpenney in for a day. >> i thought ron johnson would have been fired by now, quite frankly. he lost a lot of customers. he lost a lot of money. he lost a lot of confidence in this company. shares are up. but they're all over the map this morning in early trading. look, that is ron johnson. this is a guy who was hired ...

Up 87 points. nicole pediledes at the floor of the new york stock exchange, tell us about what we've seen over the last few days, nicole, what's happening now? >> reporter: a much prettier picture today rather than the last five straight days of losses for the dow. over the last five days we lost 548 points. traders were expecting somewhat of a bounce back. we're getting that today, up 3/4 of 1 percent. there's a couple of things happening: number one, over in europe, the ecb is giving a little support, showing that they're there, and with that, the euro gains, the dollar pulls back and that g...

You mentioned china. alcoa is sensitive to china, the aluminum maker. we have had six days with the dow losing 200 points. but we have recovered. if you look at year-to-date performance the numbers are not bad to look at. this is based on the u.s. economy. we hope things are getting better. year-to-date up 4.4%. context is important. martha: long term, six months, a year, what is the outlook. >> reporter: there are a couple opinions that are interesting. the rest of this will be about jobs data. is the u.s. economy getting any better? we hope so. other thing is some analysts are saying we had ...

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