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Company earnings. instead they're focusing on threats to the nine-year-old bull market like caterpillar, a bellwether from industrial america, what did cat say? profits won't do any better than they are doing now. shares tumbled 6%, 3m fell 7% after reporting it won't make as much money this year as thought. google parent alphabet racked up lots of expenses in the first quarter. that sent shares 5% lower, dragging down the entire tech successtor. another threat -- sector. another threat, the most widely watched bond rate, ten-year u.s. treasury, hit 3%. the first time in four years. for everyd...

There's traders under every rook and every nook and cranny. they're all over this town, traders. most of them of a certain age, my age, have never seen a bond rate like this ever. >> it's the old guys that say, well, i'm one of them. barney and i talk about paying 16, 17% for a mortgage. the bond rates. they've been so low for so long. who has gotten killed during this period is people that saved. the older people that have nothing back on their money. so they are going to start seeing a better return on their savings. >> so many people for years and year bought certificates of deposit. >> sma...

It. we couldn't figure it out. would it be a black swan event where somebody would heat up with north korea or something. but finally the ten-year bond rate shooting up. the fed saying yeah, we're going to be raising rates three, four times this year popped the bubble. that's when people headed for the exit. >> shepard: our friends on twitter are familiar with that word. they know what triggering is. the goal to trigger somebody to get a response out of them. you never know what's going to do it. we didn't know what would do the trigger with this market. >> bond rates. what would have thought?...

He's not taking over as chairman of democratic governors association until next year but governor dan malloy of connecticut is already on the offensive. in an interview with "time" he took on the role of democratic geronimo calling out chris christie on the issue of pensions. he's in the process of destroying public pensions which way the way comes out of the republican playbook. he hasn't told the truth about what he's doing, but that's what he's doing. the state's bond rate lg pay, perhaps not a permanent price but a long-term price. he'll saddle that problem to some unfortunate democrat who...

Rose garden surrounding himself with college students to make his point. his plan would keep most rates on student loans low by pegging them to the ten-year treasury bond rate plus 1%, so the rate would be about 3% today under that formula. then he would keep them fixed for the life of the loan, and he'd let students cap their payments to 10% of their income to keep them affordable. now, last week house republicans passed their plan. it would peg rates to the ten-year treasury as well but with a 2.5% surcharge, so their rate today would be 4.5%. they would allow loans to -- the rates to be res...