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the bulls and bears this week, gary b smith, john lay field, along with has hadly heath manning. john, should fliers be worried? >> no, and i don't think they will be. there's no way to quantify the lossf life and the horrific things that happen. but when you're talking about just the economy, you have to look at what historical precedent and other places that have lone wolf terror attacks. places like boston, places like orlando, london, madrid, paris. those places have rebounded very quickly. and you see little to no drop in tourism. the places that get hurt are places like egypt, like tanesha, where the whole system people feel cannot prevent more terrorist outbreaks. and there you see tourism number drops significantly. as far as a lone wolf, i don't think people are going to alter their travel plans. they may think about it a little bit. but history has shown they're not going to alter their travel plans significantly. >> and, gary, over the holidays, this is the busiest end of day travel season ever. more than 103 million people traveled. roads and air. so it does beg the q

to market analyst gary b. smith. the strategy, gary b., you reminded me over past several years where you struggle to teach me these things where strong he will dollar can hurt multinationals doing business abroad. you don't want it completely trashed but also don't want it leading the world so you need a happy medium. i think these things are overplayed and overtraded. what do you see happening? >> i agree precisely. he is not wrong in that the dollar is hurting us. of course he always goes to the extreme on the hyperbole. it's killing us, yes, it is killing the multinationals as you point out, ibm, caterpillar, that do a lot of exports. that is to be considered. it helps for those doing a lot of imports here into the u.s. neil: good point. >> so the net balance, as best as they can analyze, it may shop off about a half percent on gdp growth. so for growing at 3%, we might grow 2 1/2%. even economists find it hard to really put down the number. i think bottom line is, the president per year comment on the tweets, sho

the bulls and bears this week, gary b smith, john lay field, along with has hadly heath manning.i don't think they will be. there's no way to quantify the loss of life and the horrific

talking to gary b. smith, fox contributor this morning and we talked about bond yields and interest rates over and you and the optimism on the economy and how it is perceived for 2017. we're at 2.40%. we had been over 2.5%. the idea we'll see three rate hikes, maybe four if trump's policies kick i don't have. they're great policies and promote growth and bring jobs, money to america, all that sounds wonderful, however there is still skepticism about that occurring, how quickly that can occur. you know, do we really see strength in the economy? i will say idea, fundamentals are better and earnings are doing better and people love that. it is not just drinking the kool-aid of low interest rates. companies are affecting that. that is one piece of optimism we hold on to for 2017. neil: nicole, thank you, very, very much. nicole petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. it is kind of tepid. volume running a little low heading into a long weekend. markets are closed monday for martin luther king day. we're he

the bulls and bears this week, gary b smith, john lay field, along with has hadly heath manning.