darius, let's continue this conversation. our guest host, is this time actually going to go through? as i mentioned, we've tried this situation before to no avail. >> well, i think that the current market conditions with global growth recovering and the u.s. economy doing much better may provide more favorable background for m&a activity. at the same time, we have seen a big jump for fuel prices. so there is motivation to stream line and cut costs. so it may well be that this time around, the merger attempt will be successful. i don't think that regulators will provide too much opposition. although i would still be concerned about the unions. but i think there is a good chance at this time it will go through. >> hey, darius, moving on to the markets if we may, dow close to 11,000, kind of backed away from it. there's a correction going on in the asian markets right now. what is actually going on right now? are we looking at a big pullback, something more serious, or is this just a blip? >> what happened yesterday and standard