Vodafone, did shareholders just get the deal of the century, and what does that mean when it comes to shaking the giant Global Corporate money tree . All of that is straight ahead. Tyler continues on vacation and simon is down at the nyse. Hi, simon. We were up about 118 points shortly after the open. Clearly weve now erased that as weve gone through the session overall. Lets check the figures and see where we are. Its negative 17, as you can see. Nasdaq slightly higher and s p slightly higher. Russell still hanging on to some gains. The tenyear treasuries today are slightly lower. Therefore, the yield is ticking higher, partly because the data is good and also because theres no firing in syria. Gold has resumed its upward trend, as you can see up 7 in a month and were also higher on oil. Were showing the brent, quote, there, on wti we lost three or four bucks last week so thats the bigger picture. Lets bring in Mary Thompson for more on how weve traded down here on the floor of the ny