Optimism has assembled at the meeting on Monday is no longer valid. It is now time for hesitation. At half past one in the opening, the Dow Jones future is at equilibrium: 0.02% at 10,137 points, the Nasdaq future is 0.20% at 1802 points and the S & P fell by 0.10% to 1092 points. The wait looming for this meeting due to a series of bad news from Asia. Firstly, several Chinese banks have decided to suspend their loan in January, reviving fears of a credit crunch in the country. Then, Standard & Poor's Tuesday placed under "negative outlook" rating of the long-term debt of Japan, thereby indicating that it plans to lower it.This decision concerns the recovery of markets for public finance states that have spent heavily to fight the global economic crisis.

In Europe and Asia this morning, the mood is rather low point. Attention and caution are in order before a series of published statistics.

Before opening, 15 hours, U.S. investors will know the price index S & P real estate. At 16 hours, the Federal Housing Finance Agency will publish its house price index. At the same time, markets will see the index of consumer confidence and investors.

Apple supervised

The value to follow today is Apple. The group of Steve Jobs announced Monday night for its first quarter of fiscal year 2009-2010 a quarterly revenue 15.68 billion, up 32% over one year and a quarterly profit of 3 38 billion dollars.After Market Monday, the title had yet eroded as 0.82%, investors preferring to wait until Wednesday and the presentation of the latest creation of the group (probably a touch pad) before deciding. They are also disappointed by the performance of the iPhone which has sold 8.7 million copies against the 9 million expected. On Tuesday, Morgan Stanley raised its price target on Apple to $ 250, same for JPMorgan ($ 240) and Barclays (265 dollars).

Yahoo! will also be monitored. The Internet giant releases its annual results after market payday loans . Google the title should also react.

DuPont has announced a profit of $ 441 million in the fourth quarter against a loss of 629 million a year later.Brought back in action, this equates to earnings of $ 0.48, well above the $ 0.41 expected by the market.

Verizon Communications has announced a net loss of $ 653 million in the fourth quarter against a profit of 1.24 billion a year earlier. The group affected by the cost to attract new customers, however, having seduced announces 2.2 million mobile wireless customers in the quarter, a figure that exceeds the expectations of Wall Street.

Travelers reported, before market, with net earnings up sharply from 60% to 1.285 billion in the fourth quarter. Brought back in action, this is equivalent to 2.12 dollars, above the $ 1.49 expected by analysts.The turnover reached 5.188 billion dollars over the period, down 4% yoy.

Delta Airlines, world's largest airline, announced on Tuesday a net loss of $ 25 million in the fourth quarter, down sharply compared to the 1.438 billion recorded a year earlier. Revenues rose 1% to 6.805 billion dollars, but less than the 6.86 billion expected by analysts.

Texas Instruments has released Exchange Monday after a profit of $ 655 million in the fourth quarter, better than expected by analysts. Side prediction, said the group receiving a high demand on all markets.STMicroelectronics, which publishes its results after the stock market should react in the fuol?e.

Johnson & Johnson has announced a net profit in the fourth quarter above expectations at 2.2 billion dollars.

Amgen reported late Monday as forecasts in line with expectations for 2010 earnings per share excluding exceptional items, of $ 1.05 per track while analysts had forecast $ 1.12 on average.

VMware has announced that its 2010 revenues could increase by 21% to 26% after an increase of 8% in 2009 and reported quarterly earnings well above expectations.