numbers surging despite the backlash. look out in the key state of iowa, ted cruz has taken the lead. melissa: first, the stocks, dow climbing final minute of trading. [closing bell rings] we're now up nearly 100, more than 103 points as closing bell sounds on wall street. here is where we're ending the day. gold trade, look at that risk off down better than 12 bucks. david: we have more on the markets. first president obama at the pentagon today trying to make the case we're winning war against isis. fox news's kevin corke with the latest on president's statement today. kevin? reporter: david, good day to you from the white house. simply the president is doubling down on his strategy against isis. clearly that is his headline from the voice to it the pentagon of the this is the fifth time he has done that in his presidency. once again the president said he would get together and did so today with his national security

team and military leaders for a strategy session on the fight against isis. now the president said among other things, the effort is focused on squeezing the heart of isis to make it harder to pump terror to the rest of the world. >> we are hitting isil harder than ever. coalition aircraft, our fighters, bombers and drones increasing the pace of their strikes, nearly nine thousand as of today. reporter: david this, is the first time since the visit in july when the president visited the pentagon. you remember he said back then this would be a long-term campaign. since that time we've seen islamic terrorism around the world most notably in paris where 100 people were slaughtered and in the state in san bernardino, california, where 14 people were killed by husband and wife duo who pledged their allegiance to isis. analysts tell us a change in strategy simply can't come soon enough. >> initially told us this was going to be a multiyear struggle.

well, now given the fact isis has a global strategy and they reached all the way to the united states, that has bottom to change. he still hasn't changed it. his policy is strategic patience. we'll take strategic patience and throw it out the window. reporter: one more nugget here, david, i think this is somewhat instructive, the president said he will defend his defense secretary ash carter to the region to get coalition members to do more in the battle against isis. often you heard the white house trot out this number there are 65 nations in the coalition. allegedly now the defense secretary will be asking them for a lot more support as the battle against the terror group continues. david? david: kevin corke, thank you very much. melissa. melissa: here with reaction we have general paulville lilly, retired army major general. he joins us on the phone. a lot of people say a change of strategy can't come soon enough. is it possible there is active dynamic plan that we don't know

and we're the public and we shouldn't know those things? >> hi, melissa, from montana. glad to be with you and david. the takeaway there isn't much change in strategy. we were hoping for retired military people, there is dual front. you have the middle east front against isis but you also now have a battle area, a front in the united states where we have the infiltration by isis individuals as well as the development of zest as we saw in san bernardino. i think that is the most important change of strategy he could emphasize. he seems reluctant to deal with isis and radical islammists in borders of the united states. melissa: still he has a plan, or more emphatic, more energized about this than we see about on tv? i'm trying to give i am had the benefit of the doubt. maybe that is just a face he is

putting out there and behind the scenes he is really active. is this any chance of that? >> i don't think so from the feedback i'm getting from washington and inside the ranks is, no, the restrictive rules of engagement have even been intensified against isis targets, with 75% of those sorties not actually taking place and be effective. russians are actually putting together a stronger coalition now for isis than the united states. melissa: in fact you make the point this coalition that he talks about, this broader coalition of 60 nations and u.s. is a myth. >> yeah. melissa: that the russians are the ones actually building it and that in fact lt. general mike flynn an yourself are only senior military officials who really had contact with russia and working directly with them. is that true? >> that's right. joe flynn got back from moscow. and i met with the ambassador,

putin's major ambassador to syria and to the middle east. i met with him a little over six weeks ago. general flynn has told me, others have told me, there has been no interface between the obama administration and state department with the russian ambassador even in washington, d.c. and so when you see what's going on over there, russia is controlling the united states. melissa: yeah. that is really troublesome. thank you so much for coming on today. we appreciate night thank you. melissa: david. david: take a side trip now to politics and high every ground for donald trump. he is hitting a new high. the presidential candidate earning 41% of last monmouth national poll. that marks trump's widest lead yet. fox business's peter barnes in d.c. with very latest. peter? reporter: hi, david. the new poll shows trump climbing or soaring and cruz may

be soaring and carson definitely plummeting. new monmouth university poll, trump surging among republicans and republican-leaning voters jumping to 41% compared to 28% in the last national monmouth poll in october. cruz is up from about 10% recently. marco rubio coming in third at 10%. benjamin carson falling to fourth and 9%, half of what he had in october and jeb bush trailing to 3%. monmouth poll does not actually track a new "wall street journal/nbc news" poll yesterday which shows a big surge four cruz and tighter race nationally between him and trump. trump hit a new high in this poll of 27%. cruz more than doubled to 22% from the last nbc-journal poll in october. marco rubio clocked in at 15%.

carson collapsed to 11% from 29% in the october journal-nbc poll. jeb bush clocking in at 7% in this one. now these and other polls suggest that carson is losing ground and cruz and trump perhaps gaining ground because carson lacks strong national security credentials following terror attacks in paris and san bernardino. that issue of national security has surged to the top issue for voters who are most concerned, issues voters are most concerned about in the primaries there. is good news for cruz in iowa finally. new "fox news poll" out yesterday, shows him topping trump for the first time in iowa, 2% to 26%. david. david: differences in the national polls are huge. 41% versus 27%? big difference of the. reporter: yeah. david: trump going after ted cruz on "fox news sunday." take a listen. >> look at way he has dealt with

the senate, goes in there frankly like a little bit after maniac, you will never get things done that way. look i built a phenominal business. i'm worth many, many billions of dollars. i have some of the greatest assets anywhere in the world. you can't walk into the senate and scream and call people liars and not be able to cajole and get along with people. he will never get anything done. that is the problem with ted. david: [laughter]. all right, cruz as you can guess responding with this tweet, a natural, right, a maniac. in honor of my friend donald trump. good-hearted maniacs anywhere. he include ad link to the seen from the movie "flashdance," using song of the same name. you knew that was coming. melissa: oil bouncing back after six straight lessons of losses. ending the day up 2%, 36.31 a barrel. joe cusack vice president ad trading block, money block.

joins me from the cme. what do you think about the bounce back today? is it temporary thing, is it meaningful? >> i think it is temporary. as a matter of fact when it pulled down do the lows this morning, what you saw stocks started to do get hit. once the buy-stops started to do get hit the move to the upside firmed up. we got above 35.50 level and the race was on. i think the close at 36.30, right around these levels, i wanted to see it above 36.40, if i would see 37 to be challenged coming up with the fed meeting. so i don't think that the bulls took total control after action we saw today at the close. melissa: what do you think is the biggest factor? is it the fed? is it unseasonably warm weather? is it saudi arabia flooding market? what is the biggest thing? >> geopolitical components are probably the biggest thing. the fed has been a long-standing story.

that is really not the move. i think, again with the glut of oil continuing to be on the market, the geopolitical situations and, and uncertainty going on, whether middle east or what is going on in europe with the economy, bottom line those geopolitical moments are really what is pushing oil. melissa: joe, love it. i love it we used to say the geopolitical thing drove it higher. now we say it is driving it lower. unease. that is interesting. david: one thing seems to be happening, they're tracking together. when oil goes up the market goes up. when oil goes down the market gross down. with me is jonathan hoenig, capitalist pig. that happened today again, jonathan, market returned and ended up over 100 point when oil came up. let me ask you about the whole range of forecasts because "barron's" magazine puts this thing together, forecast into 2016. all 10 of their seasoned analysts say in fact it will be

a positive year for. the average was about 10% gain in 2010 on the markets. and most bearish sentiment of all of those top investment strategists was that the s&p would be at 2100 which is 100 point gain from now. what do you think? >> david, if you want to be a contrarian take the other side of that trade and fade all those expert wall street strategists. opinions are like smiles especially about the market. everyone's got one. a year is a long time. might turn out that the market's higher in the first part of the year, lower in the second part of 2016. but, david, what worries me is how it is acting now. despite a great bounceback today, tremendous weakness within indices an internally. 700 new 52-week lows today. only handful of new 52-week highs. the market is still weak it is hard to put your foot out and expect any -- david: the value after company comes from how much what it

makes they're able to sell in the market. when those profits are down how can investment be so high? how carnival wages of the stock be so high? >> well agree to an extent about profits, david, sometimes stocks are terrific, stocks even without those corresponding profits. what we're just seeing in my opinion this risk-off philosophy of the as you started pointing out, oil correlated with the stocks. stocks are correlated with high yield bonds, high yield bonds are correlated with gold. especially when comes to high yield bonds that was really story. people are saying get me out of risk. that is worrisome harbinger. david: some of that liquidity dries up on wednesday with janet yellen finally raising rates a little bit, first time in nine years. are we going to see the markets breathe a sigh of relief knowing one-off or maybe are they going to freak out again? >> david, this is new times. you never really seen anything like this. not only janet yellen's

interventions and possibility of a final reverse of this interest rate policy you about the way the marketplace is set up, since dodd-frank, banks have been unable to buy and sell any source of any major bonds to their own account. what that led to is much less liquidity in the market. i don't know if it will be positive or negative but i promise you see fireworks on wednesday, not just for stocks but bonds and all other assets as well. david: fasten your seatbelts. jonathan hoenig thank you so much. >> david, you as well. david: special fed day coverage and analysis. starts with the fed decision 2:00 p.m. eastern on wednesday. as jonathan said it will be a wild day for markets. you have to stay tuned to fox business all day. melissa? melissa: definitely. this just in. the government accountability office ruling that the epa broke the law engaging what it calls covert propraganda. when the agency took to social media to urge the general public to support president obama's controversial rule intended to better protect the nation's

streams and surface waters. federal laws prohibit agencies from engaging in lobbying and propaganda. david: wow. that is going to be interesting to see. that will go to another court and another court. interesting to see how this court weighed in all right. melissa: how was one of the california shooters able to pass three background checks, allowing her to enter the u.s. after she posted support for violent jihad in public media. the latest from san bernardino coming up. david: i just can't look at those eyes. i can't. everybody here is focused on fbn's debate but there is one tomorrow. ted cruz is surging in the polls. he may give trump a real run for his money. we'll talk about that. melissa: it is getting harder to get your hands on literally the hottest toy of the year. ♪ i have asthma...

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can come into our country like tashfeen without being checked. "new york times" report should be vetted. we're told by authorities here but posted three times but may have been using other names. in i in sense not looked at whether it was her name or somebody else's. the administration says they will look into that. there are a lot of things they don't allow agents to do. that continues to come out as the investigation goes forward of the as for the investigation, here is what we're being told. they're pushing hard on the timeline. there is a lot of investigative work. they are getting ton of leads people remembering things after the fact. we're told they have gone to couple local businesses taken some surveillance video. they finished search of the lake over the weekend. some items are taken out. they won't tell us if they're officially related to this case. as they piece through the entire situation, melissa, the idea where did they go for 3 1/2 hours? one detective we spoke with today, their concern were they went back to the apartment, knowing most likely they would

be traced there. what reason they are trying to determine as well. there is still the whole enrique marquez situation. he is still speaking with authorities. once he stops talking or feel they have everything out of him, they will bring some sort of a charge although we don't know what that is. as you can tell, melissa, a lot going on here. a very, very vigorous investigation going on locally and internationally. melissa. melissa: david? david: here are a few other stories on our radar. a paris kindergarten teacher who claimed to be stabbed by a mask the man with tie isis admits he made the whole thing up. the incident set off a manhunt in the area. tragedy in argentina, at least 41 people were killed when a bus fell off after bridge in the northwest part of the country. officials say it was carrying members of argentina's border police when it fell off a road and flipped into a riverbed.

look at this, massive warehouse fire in columbus, ohio, has been contained. two dozen fire trucks, 75 firefighters were sent in to help prevent it from spreading to other buildings. no hazardous materials were inside the building. it contained mostly lawn equipment, pallets and cardboard. but what a scene, man. melissa: less might be more when it comes to donald trump's campaign. how the billionaire businessman is spending less -- david: than everybody. melissa: the rest of the gop field. well, whatever. new questions surrounding the mystery of the deadly russian jet crash in october. is terrorism actually to blame? details next.

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that terrorism downed russian jet, killing all 224 members on board. russia still sticking by its conclusion it was terrorism. here with his take, lieutenant colonel james carafano. vice president of the heritage foundation. colonel, what do you think. who is right, who is wrong here? >> when the pieces of a puzzle don't fit together, one of the pieces don't belong, these are clearly conflicting things. not just the russians but u.s. also say there is indication for that. i make no analysis for isis taking credit. they take credit for a lot of stuff. david: egyptian branch isis taking credit. >> that is irrelevant. unless in taking credit say something only known to the person that actually perpetrated it, those statements are meaningless. david: right. >> but we, listen to the egyptian statement very closely. they say no terrorist links so far. which doesn't mean there was absolutely none. in these things the physical

evidence is decisive. if you blow up a plane, history tells us we're going to know that. so the question is, have they not looked at everything yet or not doing good -- david: egypt is the lead investigator. they have all the evidence presumably but there is a big question whether egypt is putting tourism and their concerns about that above their concerns about terrorism. do you think that is possibility? >> i think that is something the egyptian will have to address the integrity of their own investigation. the way you do that you open it up to the international community and let everybody see the evidence. david: one final point on the another plane that went down. this is the fighter jet that went down. some people are talking about whether or not turkey did it on purpose because the russians were blowing up those oil convoys, some of which had been paid for bit turks. some people say they are buying isis oil and those convince are going to turkey and headed in that direction. that is why they took down the russian jet. they warranted them to stop

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melissa: stage is set for final gop debate for 2015. governor christie returns to the main stage. we have is sabrina schaefer. judy miller and julie roginsky, former advisor to senator frank lautenberg. all are fox news contributors. sabrina, what is different? >> i think it is interesting that chris christie come to the lead in new hampshire. he visited granite state 120 times since he announced. melissa: my goodness. >> this is his opportunity to shine.

he put all his eggs in this basket. he has lot to demonstrate. he is in many way as establishment candidate. very strong on entitlements. very strong in terms of executive experience, public sector unions, hurricane sandy. he has the opportunity to present himself in new light. that could be very good for republicans. >> julie, we've seen a bunch of debates now. we kind of know how everybody will come out and what they will do and what their tricks are. what advice would you give to go into this one to stand out to differentiate yourself because everyone is known quantity? >> this is will be interesting. this is the first debate, where terrorism become overwhelming issue not just in the republican party, but nationally. outlyer, rand paul, who wants to preserve civil liberties in the face of more terrorism. very interesting to see how they will all try to outdo each other in terms of suspending what rand paul would say our civil liberties in order to score political points.

we'll see where rand paul is. he is a little bit out of the mainstream of the republican party, even more so now on his views of terrorism. interesting to see what he does compared to everybody else. melissa: judy, does it still behoove the group to be so big? is it time to narrow things down? >> i think it probably is, but probably not as far as they're concerned. the one i'm watching, ted cruz. given recent jump, a surge he had today, according to new polls. he is guy to watch. it will be trump v. cruz in iowa if polls are correct. he has to distinguish himself and separate himself from isolationist wing of the party, in light of what judy talked about interest in terrorism and. melissa: less is more. donald trump showing off his campaign headquarters. i thought this was staggering, with fox news's chris wallace a office notably lacking in staff!

take a listen. >> i'm in first place. here is the story. i spent less money than anybody else i'm in first. other people, spent, 30, 40, $50 million, and they're not doing well. who do you want running the country. melissa: julie, kind of staggering walking around with empty office with posters, this is my headquarters. he is winning. you feel like a bit after joke. i'm spending no money and winning. who do you want running country? i don't know. there is something to do that. >> i tell you who i don't want to run the country but not because of his office. melissa: who sunning are office? the. >> every time the man opens his mouth -- melissa: it is called earned media. >> the more and more outrageous stuff he says, more and more we cover him and -- melissa: his poll numb brothers go up. >> and sucking energy out of everybody else. poor jeb bush's pac has been spending tens of millions of

dollars, no traction whatsoever. donald trump says something, everybody covers for free. he doesn't need to spend money. he is playing all of us like a fiddle. melissa: a bunch of different parts of that train you would not think would work. he is spending no money. he says something outrageous and gets earned media. then his numbers go up even further. he continues not to spend money. he says something outrageous. people like it more. you wouldn't think those things would lead to each other again and again and again. >> we have to remember why people like donald trump. that is because he says it like it is. he is not part of the establishment here in washington. and people who like donald trump are already skeptical of the media. so when the media pounces on donald trump that is going to have them double down say i like him even more. i can understand that. because the realy is there is a lot of show men here. i'm seeing ads in virginia for some of the candidates. our primary is months away. why are they wasting money on ads in virginia a week before christmas? makes absolutely no sense.

donald trump is tapping into people saying why are they blowing through money? why are they being weightful? that is how they act when they get to congress or the white house. that is not with we want judy, people who have watched and worked on and run campaigns for years and years, know machine inside and out, ripping out their hair confounded what is going on. pretty much they don't understand what is going on. >> this is great. why you have to love politics and you have to be interested in it. one thing we all said is that money matters, right? citizens united, supreme court decision that gave all of this money -- melissa: guess it wasn't true. >> guess what it hasn't worked out that way. jeb bush raised all money in the world up front. hasn't helped at all. he is disappearing as candidate. donald trump races no money, no ground game, so far, so far, not the problem for him. melissa: thanks to all three of you. amazing stuff. david: i think we'll sort it out. i think we'll sort it out.

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david: president obama trying to sell his isis strategy from the pentagon. the president hardly seemed convinced his own plans to fight terror. he sort of stumbled through a short list of our gains with the terror group without any specific measures to peeve up our efforts domestically or abroad. lieutenant colonel carafano rejoins us with bill gavin, former assistant director of fbi in new york and judy miller, manhattan institute, also a fox news contributor. bill gavin, first to you, i was kind of shocked by the rote way in which the president delivered his remarks.

clearly wasn't familiar with material he was working with. he didn't take any questions. if this was to be reassuring it didn't reassure me. did i reassure you? >> no, it didn't me either. bottom line, this is kind of a system that they're developing lately. not taking any questions afterwards. if you remember last week, when they had, director jim comey over and attorney general introduced him and wouldn't let him take questions afterwards, that is not good or reassuring way to address a horrible situation. david: that seemed to have the battle between the justice department and fbi which is whole another thing. james, what about strategy abroad dealing with isis? i didn't hear anything new, did you? >> no. the the president is committed to incree mental strategy which is risk-averse. i don't want to get bogged down. my legacy i ended two wars. i don't want to get involved in

new one. i will do minimum to get by because of complaints from people i'm not doing enough. david: this is one of pre-holiday sessions supposed to reassure the folks before holidays and president going off to hawaii or wherever he goes. i got the sense he didn't want to do a repeat what happened right before thanksgiving, remember where he said there was no credible threat and seven days later we had san bernardino. that i felt restrained the president a a little bit. did you? >> right, david. he says people are anxious and nervous in all kinds of polls the way people are conducting themselves. he is trying to reassure the american people but actually his demeanor does the opposite. what is scary he is so out of touch with people's anxieties. he didn't talk about homegrown radicalization. all if it is this problem over there somewhere in the middle east. david: right. >> he is sending his secretary of defense. that was basically the lead out of today's news conference.

this does not reassure anyone. all he is doing is interrupting network time to get out a message that doesn't work. david: seemed like before you go on vacation you want to check off certain things that is all he did. a little switch in topicses. u.s. officials said they went through every required screening process when they grant ad visa to tashfeen malik, one of the shooters who killed 14 in san bernardino, but they missed major red flags from her social media posts supporting violent jihad. bill, is there any way to tighten things up so it doesn't happen again? >> a couple of things strike me. number one, looking for some social media contacts overseas, by someone who could conceivably have used a number of different names taking talk on social media in different directions. like looking for needle in a haystack. maybe the program has to be

designed to be a little robust. more importantly they have to get people doing that job, to have a little more enthusiasm. when you ask a question, you don't put on answer down and move on to the next one. david: she was putting downplayses that didn't exist. simple google search would allow investigators to read her stuff and say, wait a minute, this doesn't add up? >> we need a full investigation, if this something went wrong. did consular officer screw up. this is like lemming security. we all race after the next big thing. refugees and visa waiver. now we're on visas. we had at least by our count 75 known terrorist plots since 9/11. most have been thwarted. nothing involved visas. one visa perp within 11 years, entire visa system is screwed up? come on. david: judy, one thing we learned very well after 9/11, the wall that separated the fbi from the cia, we we began to

nibble down the at law. a lot of libertarians had problems with that you have the information services talking to each other to try -- have we lost some of that in the past couple years? >> i think we still have it on paper but i think the sense of urgency about this is simply not there. that is the problem. you also have by the way, three very junior consular officers doing background checks. she not only passed unwith you, she passed three. david: i know, that's scary. >> when we see number of red flags missed here, you have to say it is not one program, not one thing. a combination of from lack of sense of vulnerability. david: bill, the one thing that it says for sure is that those assurances that we were getting from the administration pushing refugee plan we'll vet every single refugee. there is no terrorist connections. things slip buy.

they slip by in the case of this woman and will slip by in case of refugees, right? >> you're absolutely right. to think refugees coming over will go through as the president has said, numerous times over, rigorous background investigation, i'm afraid that is not true. even jim comey when he said that it's impossible to get the information that doesn't exist anymore in damascus to make this a total picture that's a good process. david: can only imagine the record-keeping they have in syria with everything they have been through. bill, judy, coral carafano. really appreciate it. melissa. melissa: twitter has brand new problem on its hands as the social security site steps up security of possible twitter breaches. they issued first-ever warning by a possible hack of state-sponsored actors. for latest deirdre bolton joins us now. >> melissa, as you said this is the first time we're hearing this kind of warning from twitter. we heard similar warn frogs

facebook and from google. this is the first time from twitter. if you got an email from the company you may have been one of the people that had an attempted hack, if you like but twitter is saying so far there is no indications. so just to stress that no indication that any sensitive data was in fact successfully breached. what they do think was attempted, the targeted data, melissa, phone numbers, emails, i.p. addresses. earlier this year we had a high-profile breach. 22 million personnel did have their data accessed. of course those people were working for the u.s. department of homeland security. so the idea as you mentioned is that these state-sponsored hackers are looking for information maybe they can use for espionage. maybe it is information that they can use as far as intellectual property. but in any case, so far, twitter is saying we're on it. nothing's been stolen. here is head's up. maybe just triple check your own data.

melissa: deirdre, thank you so much. we'll see you at the top of the hour for "risk & reward." david: you getting one of those hover boards for christmas? melissa: definitely not. they're deathtraps, are you kidding me? david: if a hoverboard is on your christmas list check it twice. melissa: look at that! david: safety concerns over this year's hottest toy, literally. melissa: what my mother-in-law wants to get the kids. david: never going out of style. how apple is getting a boost from taylor swift. there's something out there. that can be serious, even fatal to infants. it's whooping cough, and people can spread it without knowing it. understand the danger your new grandchild faces.

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david: whether it's on wall street or main street here who is making money and losing money today.apple, tech giant wn exclusive streaming deal with taylor swift to show a concert film from her world tour. apple music subscribers will have access to the film which includes backstage scenes and many musical guests she brought on stage throughout the tour. there she is. losing money in the heart of the sea. the chris hemsworth was unable to find big audience as time warner studio was seeking. it opened to weak $11 million in u.s. and canada according to movie estimates. tuesday is the biggest mailing day of the year for u.s. postal service. they're expecting big records. 612 million packages, letters and cards are expected to be sent today alone. don't send them today. melissa: they're coming back.

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the problem is the lithium-ion battery. same thing in your iphones. >> bursting into flames. >> it is burning your feet and false down and whatevers. no wonder the thing bursts into flames. >> it works properly, incredibly dangerous. i watch people go along go flying off. we all witnessed someone fly off it. kids are getting them this is totally different. look at this, we're seeing video -- is there liability here? >> well, there should be some smart sense from parents if you ask me. >> there you go. >> remember the guy who bought the segway, died on the segway, went off a cliff, remember that? these don't have things to hold on to. you're standing there hoping to heck there is no big stone in your bath you will fall on. listen what is going on -- david: that is by the way when you're not drunk. [laughter] >> one of the things going on here is that these companies are buying cheap chinese batteries and putting them into these products.

if you want your kids on these, okay. but i wouldn't want mine. >> will send this segment to my mother-in-law as soon as this is over. wanted to get it for the grand kids. wrapping this up in a little bow and sending her way. gerri willis thank you very much. david: she loves her grandkids that is it great thing about grandparents. buy things not good for your kids. >> no, no, something nice we all agree on. under pressure to break box office records the new "star wars" movie needs to make $1.5 billion to be considered a success according to "60 minutes." take a listen. >> jj is terrified. there is a lot of pressure on jj to start paying disney back for, you know the franchise they bought from george lucas. >> disney bought lucas film in 2012 for $4 billion. "the force awakens" on friday. they made that money on merchandise in my house alone. i don't know that the movie has to sell. made 4 billion in merchandise. david: it's a moneymaker. no question about it.

attached as you are and a lot of other americans the chinese and japanese, folks in europe, they're crazy about it. so they're going to be buying like nuts too. >> everyone who has seen it loves "star wars," david, that is the bottom line. david: i like it. that will do it for us. "risk & reward" starts right now. deirdre: oil snaps a six-day losing streak, closing near a seven-year low. welcome to "risk & reward" i'm deirdre bolton. we have analysis on oil and your money with the fed rate decision. it affects all kinds of borrowing including mortgages. for more on energy trade we'll take you quickly to chicago because phil flynn is there from the cme. phil, what do you make of the snapping losing streak for oil? >> i think what i make of it, with a very crowded trade. if you look at commitment of traders coming into this week, we had more speculators going short oil than ever in the history of this contract. when you get people going in one