>> absolutely. >> tom: our market monitor this friday, eric ristuben, chief investment strat can gist at russell investments. >> it's encouraging to hear eric upbeat on the markets but investment today was much more edgy and that's why we saw stocks flipping between small gains and small losses, a lot on the worry list-- europe, super committee, you name it. >> tom: the key word there is small. less volatility, a lot less after a chop week, susie. let's go ahead and roll with tonight's market focus. #-r a difficult week for shareholders came to a quiet end today. the major stock indices closed mixed. the dow industrials was the only major index to close in the green, even that was just a fractional gain. this is the past 30 sessions. it has been a choppy november for the index. since the halloween sell-off, the index has been in a 500 point range. leading the dow, hewlett- packard's more than 2.5%. h.p.q. is the dow's best performer this week. boeing also jumped more than 2%. boeing received its biggest commercial order ever-- 230 7-37 planes from the biggest air carrier in indonesia.