ROMANS: Welcome back. It's 24 minutes after the hour. "Minding Your Business" this morning. Right now, futures for the Dow, NASDAQ and S&P; 500 are all trading higher ahead of the opening bell, but Wall Street is still considerably nervous about fears that Europe's debt problem will worsen. That's worrying investors on both sides of the Atlantic. The latest report from the census says the middle class is struggling in this country. The great recession hurting everybody. The median household income is down for the third year in a row. Household income in this country now where it was in 1996 when adjusted for inflation. Ford and the United Auto Workers Union have reportedly extended contract talks indefinitely. This according to the "Detroit Free Press" this morning, but the UAW continues labor talks to GM and Chrysler today. Midnight is the deadline before the current contract runs out with those two companies. Talk about a hot line. Target.com crashing after Italian fashion house, Missoni, launched its new clothing and home goods line on the Target website yesterday. The site was completely shut down just an hour after the items were up. Service is back up now, but target is warning that some customers may still experience delays due to very high traffic. And Google announced a new flight searching tool yesterday, a move that was expected. The company bought ITA software last year which makes similar products like for competing sites like Kayak and Orbitz. And Princeton and Harvard tied this year for the top spot on U.S News & World Report's best colleges list. Yale took third, Columbia fourth, and an unusual five-way tie for fifth place this year between Cal Tech, MIT, Stanford, University of Chicago and UPenn. Up next, how to get your kids the education they deserve even if it means picking a fight. AMERICAN MORNING is back right after this break.
UAW, Ford Extend Contract Talks