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lind-waldock. call lind-waldock, the premier futures broker, at 800-445-2000 and see if commodities are right for you. we are seeing analysts now become more positive. i love the way that happens a lot of times. we're seeing positive comments after honeywell boosted first-quarter outlook from 45 to 49 cents. they had been at 40 to 49 cents. full-year earnings would be at the high end of the previous range. we continue, according to david cody, we continue to see signs of recovery throughout our portfolio and are encouraged by improving customer order trends in the first quarter, is w...

data -- consumer price index flat, proof price inflation not a problem for now. very interesting number when it comes to inflation. we'll have details from steve in 30 seconds. >> plus, weekly jobless claims falling slightly last week for the third straight week, but we're still not at a point where we'll see job gains. and fedex came in better than expected. it hasn't really helped the stock so far, but you know, interesting, mark, they came out and said they're going to put some of those employee benefit programs that had been cut during the crisis, they're going to start putting...

the street." good morning, everybody. i'm mark haines. >> and i'm erin burnett. and front and center on a monday morning, senator dodd's financial regulation bill. it's going to move forward this week. it's going to be introduced with great fanfare and announcements today. and the big question is, what is actually in it and what got cut? >> i'll bet you i know who knows what's in it. >> mm-hmm. >> house democrats admit they are still short of the 216 votes needed for health care reform, but democratic leaders remain confident they will have the votes when the time comes. and citigr...

>> it might. trebec was in when he still had a moustache. i begged him to be on. someone else did go on. you can find it on the web. >> yes, you can. the federal reserve -- i'll tell you about what paul said later. but the federal reserve rising in the last week, hitting its highest level in nearly a year. it declined earlier this year, but since then, the balance sheet has been growing amid the fed's asset buying program, the central bank's holding of agency debt and mortgage-backed securities has groan to more than $1 trillion. there's an interesting piece in the journal today ab...

investors go to riskier trades. right now the dollar is looking healthier, although off of its best levels of the day against the yen. i mentioned we're seeing weakness in energy and take a look at the energy stocks and broad based weakness across the energy sector today and we got numbers for home prices which were up slightly and seasonally adjusted on a month over month bas basis. it's not doing anything which is down once again today and higher mortgage rates in the years ahead keeping pressure this group. now let's get a check on the tech sector and for that we go to mike huckma...