our friend david darst joins us. we were just talking during the break. black friday has lost some of the cachschaschet it had. >> people are staying open on thanksgiving, bill. melissa was saying the internet people are shopping online. last year's retail sales were $650 billion during the holidays. $110 billion was online and i expect that number will continue to increase. >> you bet. >> it's good for the package delivery companies. it should be good for the fed exes and u.p.s.s of the world. >> but everybody is discounting so much now. they're cutting deals to gain market share and i'm talking about even the packagers and the u.p.s.s and fed exes of the world out there. they're all scrambling for market share and nobody is making much money. >> deflationary forces continue to roil the world, and i mean people who shop and wait for sales now, many people are continuously offering discounts, and so many people that are in the fashion world, they're waiting for that 40% sale. now it's perpetually on sale. so this i think is a deflationary thing. the thing

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when we come back it's friday of course and that could only mean one thing, the man himself, david darstre at the stock exchange, he will put this week's downturn into perspective and tell us what he's watching for the week ahead as well. stay tuned. >>> let's go back to seema mody for this market flash. >> on that cisco ericsson story we are looking at shares of ericsson coming off their highs as cisco denies any intention to buy ericsson. cisco telling cnbc we outright reject press reports we are looking to buy ericsson. earlier this week we announced a strategic partner but are not buying ericsson. shares of ericsson were high as much as 10% on this report, basically slightly lower now on the day. >> seema, thank you. >>> again, this partnership you read about it, it involves such an integration of these two companies that it's understandable if there was some speculation about a deal being done maybe this happened instead for either economic or regulatory reasons, but an interesting move by these two companies because the speculation has been around for some time. >> we have eight mi

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