cortney reagan live in new york city with more for us. morning. >> good morning, kelly. a fairly active one. it does seem as if a deal is all but inevitable between menswear house and joseph a. banks. the big remaining question is what price? it started in october when joseph a. bank, which is smaller, made unsolicited offer to buy menswear house, which was rejected. menswear house made its own unsolicited offer, which was rejected. although it kept upping those bids over time to no avail until last night when joseph a. bank said it will sit down with menswear house allowing proposed acquirer to do due diligence it requested albeit limited, in order to get a price above menswear house $63.50 per share offer. then there's also that $825 million deal for joseph a. bank to acquire eddie bauer. a judge requiring joseph a. bank to alert men's warehouse ten days. suggested they made the offer for eddie bauer to get a higher price for men's wearhouse. a deal seems inevitable. hedge fund capital, which is a shareholder in both companies supports the deal. i think now we can go a