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Wall street was expecting far more. somewhere in the range of 61,000. this lowers the expectations for friday and shows the recovery can be characterized by one word -- slow. let's check on the early numbers. dow industrials down 14. nasdaq off two. executives from goldman sachs are testifying today -- the topic derivatives. complex financial products that are one of the factors that triggered the collapse of lehman brothers and led to the recession. the commission's goal is to eventually write up a report of what caused the financial crisis and hopefully not repeat it. >> hopefully not repeat...

A year. and we saw the dow plunging 225 points yesterday. today we've come back. we were off triple digits and now we're off 30 points on the dow at 10,895 and the nasdaq off two-thirds of a percent. you see oil prices are down and obviously people are concerned that the issues in greece are going to spread. >> yes. >> portugal. you hear about the pigs. i don't know if you've heard that term, tony, but whether or not portugal could be a problem, italy, ireland. >> spain. >> greece, obviously and spain, right? >> yeah. >> portugal has been put on the standby for another credit rating downgrade ...