Disney, of course, as you heard by now, buying various assets of 21st century fox in a deal worth dl more than 66 billion when you include the debt david faber broke the story weeks ago that the two companies were in talks and lo and behold, its soup now. Congratulati congratulations. Thanks. We were reminiscing about the various deals youve broken over the years. Yes, you and i go back to my first big one, British Telecom and mci. 2 22 billion deal in inflation . Exactly that got to the finish line on this one, bill a lot of talking going on between disney and fox and also our Parent Company, comcast and fox. Thats sort of where we want to begin today as we head toward the later parts of the day comcast did compete vigorously for these assets people close to the company indicate, or people close to all the companies involved, that being the people who were advising and so forth, indicate that the bid from comcast, in fact, did have a higher value than what fox accepted from disney we
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The lowest weve seen in 16 years. Brent crude below 45 a barrel. It is making headlines. Is it a rout or crisis . Remarkable hashtags. Mortgage meltdown and a great fall of china. Of us know what you think the stories. We will start with a look at commodities area shares, commodities, and the bloomberg commodities index the lowest since 1999. Lets head over to sydney. Paul allen with what is going on. What is bad for commodities is bad for australia, isnt it . Paul pretty much. It is a commodity currency. We are seeing data being hammered. Miners, rio tinto back in positive territory. The hp bhp is down a little. A fewe are seeing are savvy investors looking at this as a buying opportunity. The picture for commodities is a great one. A glut and growing glut. The bloomberg commodities index at a 22 year low. This is all thanks to china, the Worlds Largest consumer of grains and metals. No surprise, a slide. Copper, for example, supply exceeds demand by 151,000 tons. A glut in oil with i