tomorrow, our iday market monir guest is robert morrow, editor of the institional advisory svice. >> susie: if you'vnoticed your bankccount getting a little gger recently, you're not alone. the federal reserve ys americans' net worth jumd by $2 trilln, up to $53 trillion this spring. that'she first gain in nearly 2 years when householdealth peaked at 5 trillion. net worth is the value of sets like homes, investments d checkingccounts, minus debts like mortgages and credit rds. >> paul: it oks like one of rnie madoff's homes has a ne owner. realtor e corcoran group says a buyer has agreedo purchase the fallen fincier's beachfrontome on long island. the 4-beoom, 3,000 square foot home was up for sa at $8.75 million. and appantly sold above that price. the feds say the pceeds will go tvictims of madoff's massive investment fraud. >> susie: some sayhe current econic recession feels more like depression. but is that reallyhe case? tonight's o ways to play takes a look. here's kevin depew of minyanville and minyanvills kevin depew. >> recently i ran a google search on the words onomic depr

the key september rert on employment iset for release iday. scott gurvey, nightlbusiness report, w york. >> paul: wall stet came out swinging today after loggingts eepest setback in months las we. yers were encouraged by the revival of merger activity a the recent pickup in scessful p.o.'s. a steady advance, the dow ro 146 points by mid-day with the nasdaq up 46oints. the comeback convincedore investors toome off the silines and helped stocks hold most of their gainsnto the final be. >> susieoil prices rose today to $66.84 a rrel. in new york trading, novembe crude futures jumped 82 nts. a lot ofhat oil comes from saudi aria. specifically "aramco," the biggest oil companin the world. recently iet with aramco c.e.o., khid al-falih, in udi arabia. and began by asking him ether world-de demand for oil these dayss up or down. >> oil demand continues to very sluggishn the west, north america d eure. we see an uptick in china, but not significant to offset demand loss that we saw with economic and financia crisis the last year or so. it will take ti

the price tag lues perot at a ry rich $30 a share, or a nearly 70% premium to iday's closing pre. new york bureau ief and tech guru sco gurvey joins us now with a closer look at e deal. hi scott >> reporter: hi suzanne. you know, dell mak stuff and the mol to this story is that you can't make a lot omoney just makinstuff these days. dell makes desktopomputers and lapt computers and server computers. it makes printers aneven tvs. but there's not a lot of marn in most of the products. addition, dell got clobber by t recession because business custome put off upgradintheir hardware. and while delltuck with hardwa, its biggest competitors added software a services. hp bought electronic data system ironically another company started by perot. and ftware and services company oracle is buying hardware maker sun mrosystems. now de is playing catch-up. i talked tod with analyst tom smith at standard and po's who says t dell deal is better late than never. >> dell's move intoervices is substantially smaller than h and also a year ter. so in that sensehey're behind th rival. ibm has been mov

at the istiqlal mosque rectly, about 10,000 worshirs gathered for iday noon prayer. it part of a religious revil that's been taking ple alongside a boing economy in recent dedes. is visible in mosques-and in malls. at this crded shopping center, e most popular garment see to be the head scarf. >> i'm here bause islam tells women twear the scarf. >> reporter: this 40-year-o ccountant began covering her hair three yearago. >i feel ashamed, because i should have been wearingit since i was young, b at least i am wearing now. reporter: islam is making a comeback in indonesialong with democcy that began 10 years ago. for years after indepdence om the dutch in 1945, and th under decades of suharto's dictatorship, region was officially lerated at best. >> islam and theraditional, customaryaws were regarded as being backwa and primarily blamed for, you know,he defeat for many muslim cotries under eopean rule, so that many of the earlienationalist leaders, ny of the educated elite, i fact, turd their back on religion, andmong the younger generation there seems toe a greater wi

weekend, iday, a bit cooler, here saturday into sunday and much cooler, briefly, on saturday into the upr 60s. >> thank you. >>> the ravens are back on the practice field getting ready cleveland browns. against the ralewis had the big hit last weekto save the game against the san diego chargers. however, the talk among the media this week, the fact that the ravens for the first time in the regular season are number one in the espn.com power rankings. most of the players seem to feel that while that ranking is nice the only thing that really hearts is how -- matters is how they finish upe sei . do lot at this point in the season. you still have to play games, win games and, if we can say that later in the season, maybe 12th or 13th game, that means we're in the playoffs. then it will mean something but right now doesn't mean a whole lot. >> i couldn't believe it. normally they don't do this to us. i think we were pretty far behind before this week. it doesn't mean anything unless you're there at the end of the season. that's what we're shooting for. >> we're getting ready to deal with

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