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what ben bernanke said yesterday was exactly what the market expected him to say, we know things are weak, we know europe is a severe issue. him saying it even though they knew he was going to say it makes people more worried looking for something to hold on to and a little bit of hope. most people say this is a dramatic sell-off and you might see stabilization. that isn't the same thing as saying we aren't in a real economic problem, we know we are. >> it seems the markets are underwhelmed by the feds latest move to kick start the economy. is there anything they can do? >> certainly...

it's not showing an extension of all of that terrible selling in the last couple of days. what's happening? >> for the moment, it's not, christine. the europe peern markets an mar minutes ago. the markets you said in your introduction showed asian markets losing quite a bit overnight. some of those markets hitting lows we hadn't seen, in fact, since last year or even the year before that. nikkei should point out end of the day up to the tune of about a quarter of 1%. the stock market, same here in europe. losses earlier on to today's session. firmly in the green for the moment. we'll...

what ben bernanke said yesterday was exactly what the market expected him to say, we know things are weak, we know europe is a severe issue. him saying it even though they knew he was going to say it makes people more worried looking for something to hold on to and a little bit of hope. most people say this is a dramatic sell-off and you might see stabilization. that isn't the same thing as saying we aren't in a real economic problem, we know we are. >> it seems the markets are underwhelmed by the feds latest move to kick start the economy. is there anything they can do? >> certainly...

of greece's bailout and concerns about slowing growth in china. china has been a very big engine of economic growth for the rest of the world while the u.s. has been taking a back seat and worrying about jobs here. all these major trends and factors are still in play here. also, moody's downgraded some of the greek banks. so, we're still watching the banking system in europe. still watching the european wildcard and, again, we've been talking to traders and analysts who have been saying to close out a week, a very bad week in stocks at this point, people still looking for some reason...

the debris, but the odds of it actually hitting you, we took this a step further. that's one in several trillion, trillion with a t. chad myers, so the news today, we are now in the strike zone. is that for now or for good? >> that will be for good, until it falls out of the sky and we'll know. we were doing this little tweet thing back and forth a little bit ago about how the earth is not round. the earth is not round. it's fatter at the equator. so this thing will be closer to the atmosphere every time it passes the equator. every time it goes around the earth, it will start to dra...