we just want to the give a shoutout to ben goldman. he's here. n -- >> look at him. >> i met ben goldman in central park. he met matt. he was in studio 1a when he was 10 years old. he had stage three brain cancer. he came out of it better than ever. he saw me in the park, handed me a note. can you believe this kid is 18? >> no, i thought he was with morgan stanley or something. >> i work for fox connecticut news in hartford. when i saw you running, i said, i have to meet hoda kotb. i watched where why you were running, wrote a note, and now i'm in studio 1a. >> in other words, you're a stalker. >> you got that right. exactly. >> i saved your letter because it was so beautiful. i put it in my little phone thing. >> it's a miracle you found it. >> i save certain things. >> you don't want to show that phone number again. you know what happened the first time. >> this kid is going to be huge. he's like al michaels. look. that's al michaels right there. >> all right. thanks. so it is national underwear day. >> are you wearing any? >> i always do. unles

we just want to the give a shoutout to ben goldman. he's here. running, i said, i have to meet hoda kotb. i watched where why you were running, wrote a note, and now i'm in studio 1a. >> in other words, you're a stalker. >> you got that right. exactly. >> i saved your letter because it was so beautiful. i put it in my little phone thing. >> it's a miracle you found it. >> i save certain things. >> you don't want to show that phone number again. you know what happened the first time. >> this kid is going to be huge. he's like al michaels. look. that's al michaels right there. >> all right. thanks. so it is national underwear day. >> are you wearing any? >> i always do. unless i forget some. >> are spanx enough? >> the only time i have not worn them is when i go to the gym in the morning and look in the bag and say, oh, my gosh, i forgot them. that's happened before. >> do you know how many pairs the average woman wears? >> how many? >> you can read it. it's right there. 21. >> how many do you own, roughly? >> i don't know. i don't count often enoug

goldman sachs international. i want to start with the traders first, ben willis, you were on the floor, tell me what happened when the news hit the tape that russian convoys had been attacked? >> it was the first real shot of a threat of war. russia's ability just to roll over the ukraine, but i need to point out quickly here, the fact of the matter is the comments that were made by somebody claiming to be part of the ukraine government have not borne out, there's no benefit to mr. putin to denying that there was a convoy inside the ukraine, if all of a sudden bombed-out vehicles and dead bodies of russian soldiers appear. that has not happened. that's why i think you're seeing the market recover. looks like this is going to turn out to be a significant hoax, and someone is going to have explaining to do. there has been no demonstration that something actually took place, and the worst-case scenario, maybe ukrainians bombed a peaceful convoy that was trying to bring aid to the russian supporters inside the ukraine. but right now there is no evidence that this is actually a military convoy. liz: bob, i need to get

. >>> goldman sachs telling clients it is backing away from the places like portugal. nowi time to say audios i don't and all reef dinneri, she tried to say. ben, how does the market foo feel to you yesterday you saw the bottom drop out at 1925. this morning we hit 934 this morning. 1911 on the car the volume is okay, but again i'm not sees any great convention. >> away, weigh in on that. how do you feel about it now? >> there may well by more to go. but i think along the way. i think that's encouraging. there was no -- and you want, you know, what does it fik like out there? though the market has very solve wedding -- so we've more people taking vang. and i think that i think we see this is as a buys opportunity. expect for one oil field we're going to continue to see these guys grow. of i think you'll see the same kind of move as we see a stabilization and great earnings in that gripe make money. they're still going to make money. that's our leading group today. the russell 200, what will you be watching four? >> because it is august, lack of participation, you have to keep an i'd on the technical levels. now that we have europe closed intra