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Bob iger is about to join us as disney buys a big chunk of 21st century fox. Retail sales up 0. 8. But we know what the lead is today. Yep, we finally got the deal weve been talking about now for more than a month, of course disney buying those fox assets that weve detailed time and again over this last, lets call it, five weeks or so since we first brought the story to you of the talks between the two it is a large deal, to say the least. Depends on how you want to value the equity right now, at current prices, and if you take into the considerations that minority interests, its about 55 billion in equity. Some 515 million shares of disney will be exchanged for the fox businesses that are going to be sold to disney. Were talking about a deal with an enterprise value of 69 billion. Theyll take on 14 billion worth of debt. Tax liability which i finally got clarity on, 8. 5 billion to fox. That is the spinco, could come down as a result of tax reform, the lower tax rate and that will hav ....