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Breaking news. markets just opened for the day after the dow dropped 800 points. my friend ali velshi back with me from the new york stock exchange. ali, you seeing green? >> yes, bells just rang. just waiting for the first trade. looks like we'll see about a 150-point increase at the open. that is my guess. that is a very change from what we were looking at overnight which was futures indicating another really bad day after a really bad day yesterday. a 3% loss on the market. the fourth worst point drop for the dow ever yesterday on fears combined, stephanie, of the problems with the trade wa...

Pore than 2%. the same in france and italy, down almost 2%. if we look at some of the reasons behind that, the volatility index, the vix is a very good indication as to how mixed this trading has been. you can see that number rising there at the very ends of this chart here. this is a strong indication of quite how much that volatility has spiked and that is making a lot of people in the market very nervous this morning. if we look ahead to the trading open in new york in the next few hours' time, we can see here nasdaq looking like it will open very slightly positively. s&p 500 with about a t...

Unemployment, 25%. bill: that is remarkable. gerri, thank you. gerri willis. we'll be in contact, okay? >> thank you. bill: trading open. see you at 5:00, no, 6:00, sorry. 9:00 later tonight. 6:00 and 9:00 on "the willis report", fox business network. >> back to politics now and governor romney is expanding his campaign in the final days into several traditionally democratic-leaning states hoping to gain some ground in the path to 270 electoral votes which sfk what you need to win the presidency. so among those states where we are now seeing a push by the romney campaign, minnesota, which has ...

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