jackie deangeles has more. >> reporter: oil prices in free fall. down 30% year to date. the main issue, a global supply. trying to gain market share and opec players are keeping production levels stable not wanting to lose shares. some analysts and traders are predicting that prices could fall even further. talk of $50 a barrel working its way through the pit. >> realistically, i see it trading as low as $65. the reason i say $65, at that point banks will stop giving loans for new exploration and companies will find it hard to operate with those low prices. >> the s&p 500 energy sector, the worst performer over the last three months, was a drop of more than 10%. amidst this backdrop, oil service companies halliburton are in merger talks, coinciding with costs and if prices go lower from here and stay there. >> it's an interesting time to try to put two of those companies together. oil prices have been on the decline. i would have to imagine that halliburton is looking at this as an opportunity to consolidate at a time when oil field service stock prices have declined abo

jackie deangeles is here to explain with this morning's cnbc business news. jackie, good morning. >> good morning to you, tracy. that's right. history has shown that the stock market does perform well after the mid-term elections. since 1930, if there is a unified congress and a democrat in the white house as there is now. the s&p 500 index is up on average nearly 18% in the calendar year following the election. meantime, the national highway traffic safety administration has opened a probe into whether honda failed to report to regulators death or injuries involving airbags. u.s. law requires automakers to submit quarterly on warranty claims and other incidents. honda has recalled more than 5 million vehicles in the u.s. to fix airbags which could explode and spray metal shrapnel. tracy, back to you. >> tracy deangeles, thanks. >>> well, yesterday morning you had to bundle up, but this morning it's much milder. temperatures are in the t50s to start with. look at boat house row, it is glowing this morning. lots of sunshine during the day and right here at nbc

jackie deangeles looking at stocks that could benefit from the vote on the pipeline. jackie? >> good afternoon, tyler, it's not a done deal yet, but that's right. we are looking at the invester side of it, stock angles to play. there's a lot of names, not giving them all to you, but look at angles and examples. most obvious play, of course, is transcanada. the builder, the constructer of the nearly $8 billion project, but on the gas an exploration side, there's a lot of names in canada that are moving product through the pipeline. one is canadian natural resources. also, consider the refiners, look at valero, benefitting from the lower leg of the keystone that opened this year. they could see action from there. conoco has significant states in the oil sands area, and there's a houston based company, quanta services, an infrastructure play, and there's an operating unit that helps with the construction of the pipeline. a lot of angles to look at this from. i want to note on crude oil, two sides to the story here on keystone. you get the bulls saying, more exploration if this i

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