i m hampton pearson with your cnbc market wrap. stocks ending the week with a sell-off. the dow slides 315 points, suffering its steepest weekly loss since november of 2011. the s&p falls by 33 points, off more than 3% for the week. the nasdaq sheds 54. oil taking another big hit today. crude dropping over 3%, settling below $58 a barrel for the first time since may of 2009. and a steep decline in the cost of gasoline helped producer prices fall more than expected last month. that s it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. ow, i think t money kind of a lot. -money s freedom. -money s always on my mind. credit cards. -mortgage. -debt. it s complicated. it s not easy. i m not a good budgeter. unfortunately, i m a spender. i would love to learn more about finances. so there s questions about the world that all of us have, especially about money and finance. the goal of khan academy
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will be sending vets to private doctors for care, that s something they already did, to the tune of about $4.8 billion a year and some critics say it s something they could have increased much earlier than now. wendell, thank you very much for that flag report. meanwhile as wendell just reported, the president ask after mr. obama took office in may of 2009, the number of troops surpassed 50,000 as fighting intensified. in december of that year, the president gave the pentagon the authority to deploy up to 102,000 troops to the afghan war. in august of 2010, the additional troops were in place as the u.s. force size hit 100,000. and in june, the president announced a withdrawal plan, and in september of 2012, troop levels fell to 77,000 as the final surge of course is
up across the street. we had the big night with jimmy fallon, opening up, taking over for jay leno. then when you look at the ratings and the fact that u2 is on and every celebrity gave him $100, the ratings were pretty strong. but not as strong as leno s farewell. everyone thought it was a good night, 11.3 million people watched monday night. second biggest audience since may of 2009 when jay leno stepped down. that s right. it looks like 14.6 million tuned in on february 6 to see jay leno sign off. the debut was up 71% over jimmy s late night farewell audience of 6.6 million. the big question will be whether or not keep in mind, this is one of the olympics weeks over on nbc. he was delayed a half hour in his first night out. but after all the hype of the olympics, will people still keep watching? the answer is yes, if he s funny. was he funny last night?