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days. francine: it is all about the fed, and those odds about them hiking just got that much lower. tom: but i would also suggest it is about the real economy. john norman joins us from bank of america merrill lynch. this is a real economy discussion filtering in. francine: let s get to bloomberg s first world news in new york. isnie: president obama pushing back his timetable to bring americans home from afghanistan. the white house is expected to announce today that they will keep at least 5000 troops there 2016.2016 according the taliban and has stepped up attacks since the u.s. ended combat operations in afghanistan left december. more problems for volkswagen. they see some they face a mandatory recall in germany after cheating on omissions tests. regulators rejected their proposal for a voluntary callback. at majore delays airports across the u.s. last night because of a computer used for terror watch lists. the outage lasted 90 minutes. authorities don t think ....
for purchases made november 1st, to 31st. adam: gerri: getting it across the country. they try to be more generous. short window for electronics, 14, 15 days. best buy 15. staples, 15. target 30 days down from 45 couple years ago. you may have a shortened window for electronic returns. gerri: those are toughest people. at end of the people when we talk about retailers who are most persnickety taking things back. they don t want people getting a hot new digital camera, taking it on vacation and returning after the fact. it does happen. fraud is problem. gerri: what about dresses? wardrobing is a huge problem. this is 9 billion-dollar a year. go to fancy department store, sachs, buy a dress, where it to fancy party witha the deodorant stains, bring it back next day. one in six women admit to wardrobing. 65% of retailers according to the national retail federation experienced consumers doing this. this is a big, big problem. gerri: shoplift is a big problem. we have ....