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Look at the other markets as well. Weve got the nasdaq, the russell, and dow transports for everybody to keep an eye on. The nasdaq having a great session, um 1. 25 . Good enough to puck it back at 5,043 for the level the. The russell, the small caps doing pretty well, up almost 1 or 11 points. The transports are lagging a bit, up half a percent. They have suffered this year, especially, coming back a lit there will. In the midst of all this real action, there was a seemingly phony bid for avon. Halted shares of the cosmetic maker. More on that story later. What a crazy story that was midday a...

U. S. But europe playing catch up to yesterdays rally. The gains over there, about 1 . Pmis looked pretty good too. Oil settling back after rising 9 of the past 11 days. Tip years around 1. 91. The first rate hike shouldnt come until the second half of next year. The deal in delivery space. Fedex buying tnt express for 4. 8 billion. Thats a deal that u. P. S. Failed at just two years ago. We do have the ceo of fedex coming up in a couple of minutes. Speaking of deals, also the largest lbo of the year informatica taken private, 5. 3 billion. Samsung sees profits plunging 30 but still better tha...

Outbreak . We speak to the companys ceo, coming up. Also lyft you know, lyft are raising another 150 million right now, the majority coming from carl icahn. Coming up well discuss how much this cash and icahns name can help lyft compete with uber. More of those puns are awaiting us. The story today, bill that has everybody talking from Silicon Valley to back here on wall street. What are carl icahns intentions and what does it signal about the prospects for these two in the markets . Exactly. The dow, well start with the blue chips there, up about 3 points. The s p roughly flat. Remember yeste...

The 17,000 mark, we should add. Pressure across the other indexes as well. The s p 500 up almost 10 points to 1,978 aramafteramaicing new this week. And remember, amazon is about 13 of the nasdaq 100. Lets get more on what was wrong with visa and its responsibility for a lot of the dows decline today. Heres Mary Thompson with that story. Mary . Hey, there, bill. Visa is off the lows of the session, but the Payments Processing giants stock is the biggest loser among the dow 30, this after the company lowered its revenue forecast for the full year. The strong dollar and decline in crossborder pa...

So were watching that closely. Take a look at the tenyear note yield, which this morning is down to 249, below 250. Well talk about that as well today. As for europe, heres how the picture is setting up. Mostly red on the board for the most part except for spain is in the green, one of the few bright spots over there. Our road map starts this morning with amazon shares, down sharply premarket after posting a wider than expected loss, while continuing to spend on new products and technology. Starbucks beating the street. A live and exclusive interview with Ceo Howard Schultz coming up. In anoth...