ROMANS: Welcome back to EARLY START. Minding your business this morning. Stock market is looking to rebound from the largest two-day loss so far this year. Futures are pointing higher at the moment. Worries about consumers, plus some disappointing economic data on jobless claims in housing spooked investors yesterday. So, chances of hitting an all-time high will have to wait until next week. The Dow is 283 points away from that. All right. In tech news, tablets and smartphones are had and PC maker Hewlett-Packard is still cold. Sales fell in almost every HP business unit last year and the results beat Wall Street's super low expectations. So, CEO Meg Whitman says Hp's turn around will not be linear, and she says there are no plans to break up this company. Rival Dell is also struggling and its founder, Michael Dell, is planning to take that company private, a move he hopes will help deal with an extremely competitive market. And Google is stepping up its laptop game. The company unveiled the Chromebook Pixel yesterday. Here's what it features -- touch screen technology, enhanced cloud computing and built-in cellular network. Wi-Fi only models start at 1,300 bucks. And LTE version will cost you $1,450. That's right. The Pixel is available for purchase now. This is a big step for Google. Its previous Chromebook goes for about $250. This move expands Google's hardware business taking aim at Apple and Microsoft. So, watching markets overall, though, today. I mean, we're looking for a bigger rebound in futures but we had a bad couple of days in stocks this week. So, we'll see if it can bounce and --</s>SAMBOLIN: Bounce back. All right. Thank you. Twenty-five minutes past the hour. No rest for the snow weary today. It's a huge storm. It's burying much of the Midwest. We're going to have a lot more coming up. And, folks, if you're leaving the house right now, you can watch us any time on your desktop, even on your mobile phone. Just go to CNN.com/TV.
Google Stepping Up Laptop Game