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dog and calls joe bide and buffoon and hillary clinton is scar afraid of carly fiorina. and a slide into second, you see, i do know something about baseball. varney & company is about to begin. match out. watch out. all right, take a look at the dow futures, we re going to be up ever so i m going to call that pretty much flat this monday morning, remember, we re coming off a terrific week, what was it 600, 700 points up last week alone. best for the s&p 500 something like that, a great week. now, this is the largest tech deal ever. dell is buying enc for, wait for it, $67 billion in cash and stock. emc s a data storage company. it shows you how valuable data storage is these days. how about the price of oil sitting just below $50 a barrel and the price of gasoline, well, it took a minor league down turn, 2.31, got it. let s get to politics, shall we? the bread and butter of this program i tell you that. trump, carson, cruz, fiorina, they re all anti-establishment ....
of thousands of migrants. uniformed guards, fences around camps in germany coming soon. think about this, the call of duty people buy the candy crush people for 6 billion dollars. clearly this is real money in gaming. varney & company about to shouting early in the morning. wake up, california, you heard the music, back in the black. that s the dow jones average this calendar year. the best level since the summer, s&p 500 also up for this calendar year, so where are we going to open today? take a look at this dow industrials, the futureses, that is, down a fraction, that s it. a modest loss after a series of huge gains. i want to get immediately to president obama. i m going to say he s doing what he does best, that is criticizing his political opponents, listen to this. by the way, the same thing is true on foreign policy, don t want to keep on going, but have you noticed that every one of these candidates say, obama s weak. he s, you know, putin s kicking sand ....
the s&p is down 0.6%. s&p went negative for the year this morning when it was down a little bit more than 1%. one of the main reason behind the drops was crude oil. around crashing down 7:30. you could see that we had a real recovery in the late morning and now we are sort of bumping along unchanged territory. crude oil drag everybody down this morning. i also want to point out the euro. there is more strength in dollar-euro. if you go from here i m going to bridge over to brent crude that is with the use primarily in europe and trade as a world benchmark. look at my terminal and you will see the spread between let me close this little window i have some pop-ups you can see the spread between brent and west texas intermediate tightening up so much. it is almost at the same price. brent came down below $40 per barrel. take a look at the metals charts . we saw a real drop in prices for iron, copper gold came down as well. if you look at those drops, you can se ....
our road map begins with another setback for chipotle. that e. coli square worse than originally thought. and elon musk s spacex makes history overnight. and an all-star team on self-driving cars. how ford and google could be getting into business together. first up the final report card for third quarter gdp showing 2% growth. that data coming the morning after the major indices snap two-day losing streaks. oil prices trying to rise from multi-year lows. we are starting to think about what 2016 will bring for some of these asset classes, jim. yeah. i ve been noodling over this, going back and forth about what the analogy here. i feel this portion of industrial america that is oil, natural gas, steel, iron, anything that we make, copper, anything that we produce, it s almost like they re folding like the dotcoms. they employed many more people. but the implosion that you re seeing there s a downgrade today of encana. one of the great oil companies of our tim ....
the mississippi river. and prices spike. it s sweater weather at the north pole, 50 degrees above normal. look at this, too, old navy withdraws the t-shirts, artists objected to their profession being crossed out, they re sensitive. i m not particularly sensitive. varney & company is about to begin. that s b.b. king and his gang performing auld lang syne, not my favorite, but we re running it. times square, i ve been there and it looks like a military zone. according to the police commissioner, it s the most secure place on earth with 6,000 police officers. now, a million people are expected to pass through times square today. once you are in, you will not get out. bathroom breaks virtually impossible. a lot of those people wear adult diapers. that s a true fact liz: that s an interesting 9:00 in the morning story for you. [laughter] just a fact. stuart: what you re looking at is sydney, australia. it s already 2016 and they celebrated with a huge fireworks displa ....