. -- pace of mega deals.n't think next year will match that pace in terms of the big, mega deals. anna: what are the risk of these trends not materializing? this trend towards m&a begets more m&a. aaron: we have seen a number of combinations. that is going to lead to asset sales because regulators are taking a very close look at these deals and that will create other deals. we have seen trancelike activism in the u.s. coming over to europe. in the smallerre space. small is relative. we are talking $5 billion or $10 billion, rather than the $20 billion. this will be interesting for areas that we have not see much action in, like oil. the pressure on those players to consolidate will only increase going forward. anna: thank you, aaron. seems to still be doing quite nicely out of this. they rise on $1.4 trillion. there were 37,000 deals in 2015. roughly one for every employ ee of the goldman sachs group. the indian prime minister arrives in russia today for a two day visit. what is he hoping to achieve? ♪ anna:

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mega deals pull together that market share to levels that, in fact, you just cannot ignore.hen you look at this electrolux-ge deal. that's one you can't ignore. >> i think they're getting too visual because if they wanted to use that excuse about owning too much of the market, why do they allow all the u.s. air hines to merge together and we only have three big ones to dominate now. >> it's interesting because some of them seem to have a buys. baseball in the united states actually has an exemption from antitrust. >> can this continue even if rates are hiked in the month of december? can it go on into 2016? >> my prediction is that 2016 we have enough of a momentum from where we are right now. it will be higher in the first and second quarters than where we are today. and rates are increasing to a low level from an almost extremely low level. and from that perspective we'll be able to afford them. we're not looking at a steep rate hike yet. at some point in time they might be. now expectation of course is really -- and confidence is what drives the m&a market and that's wher

. >>> it is a mega deal for david price, how does it stack up to some of the other huge deals in major league baseball history? and also we requeue the thoughts of david ortiz after he was hit by david price a couple of years ago. this is a good one. stay with us. sports. boston. he's gonna strike out a lot of batters, win a lot of games when he takes them out for the red sox. dave no browse key part of the deal. a lot of money, for sure. the biggest deal for a pitcher in the history of a baseball. $217 million over 7 years. he's gonna get $30 million in each of the first three years, and then price will actually have an opt-out clause after the 2018 season. he has won 104 career games, a cy from our president: we are at war with radical islamic terrorism. it is the struggle that will determine the fate of the free world. the united states should not delay in leading a global coalition to take out isis with overwhelming force. their aim is our total destruction. we can't withdraw from this threat or negotiate with it. we have but one choice: to defeat it. vo: right to rise usa is respo

. >> reporter: and advertisers are taking notice, signing the viral kitty to mega deals. from fridays i cans -- >> grumpy cat could not care less. >> reporter: to cheerios -- >> not even a smile? uh. >> never thought i would be manl managing a business around a cat. it's definitely fun and interesting. >> reporter: that's brian, tabitha's brother. he's the man responsible for taking and uploading the photo that shot grumpy cat into the spotlight in 2012. that same photo, a mean sensation, shared thousands of times around the web, brian is now grumpy's business manager. >> i used to work for the cable company and i left that about a year and a half, two years ago. and this is my full-time gig now. >> full-time grumpy cat. >> definitely. >> reporter: a petite four pounds three ounces but it's not just her underbite that causes that iconic frown. it's a unique genetic position. >> tell me about this disorder. >> feline dwarfism, it's genetic. it's basically like human dwarfism. it just makes them little. >> reporter: these days pets are they even have their own version of th

apex site, paving the way not only for faraday's billion dollar electric car facility but other mega- deals already under discussion. john lee/mayor of north las vegas: i would hope that every two months george, i could call you forward for a press release on something else exciting coming. lee and his staff started working to land faraday exactly a year ago. for months, they labored in secrecy, but always knew they the governor to seal the deal. some at city hall chafed at media leaks which made it seem as if north las vegas had little if anything to do with the deal, but not lee. lee success has a thousand fathers. failure is an orphan. i'm fine with that. anybody that did anything at all to benefit this process is my friend. it's been a tough couple of years for north las vegas, and for the mayor. the city was hit hardest by the recession and was on the brink of bankruptcy. since he took office, the deficit has been slashed and the city's credit rating has improved, but city hall has taken its lumps from some employees and in media reports. as important as the faraday deal is for the eco

here to break down the deals is spokesperson for mega morning deals megan meenie. go to foxandfriends.com and get ready to find the mega morning deals. >> let's talk luggage down front. >> these are spinners from olympia. they have the 360 wheels on them. when you're running through the airport they will go any direction you want to go when you miss your gate. >> look at that. >> oh, they all do. >> you apparently almost bought one of these recently. today you would get them for $55 to $89. typically they're $240 or $600. so it's 85% savings. travel size, the carry-on, there's the full size, soft and hard case. they're expandable. >> incredible deal. >> everybody needs one of those for holiday travel, right? >> so now i'm seeing some adidas phones. >> adidas. >> oh, sorry. >> fancy. >> adidas. and monster teamed up. so monster has great sound and then you get the adidas. >> that's right. adidas. >> sportiness. they have -- >> in ear ear buds with a hook so nice and comfortable. they are today only $29, up to $39. typically $79 to $99. i always have ear buds with me.

. >> dupont and dow chemical plan to merge in a mega deal that would create one large chemical producerorth $130 billion. dupont has 7,000 employees in delaware, dow chemical has 500 in newark. tim furlong gets the pulse of the community on the deal. >> reporter: in delaware you can drive on the dupont highway, we take our kids to dupont hospital, tee it up at the dupont country club, or get a fancy dinner at the hotel dupont. even paid to put the pretty stone on the rockford park water tower way back in the day. in many ways, they have defined delaware. but now with news of a dow/dupont merger, this company and its role might never be the same. there will be a ripple effect across the state. >> every element of the economy is potentially affected, retail, real estate, schools. >> reporter: the original factory here are now a museum and library but if the merger goes through, there are questions and concerns about the current properties, including the large experimental station over that traffic bridge up there. of course, there are the workers who go to those facilities. 7,000 dupont e

and we begin with a mega deal in the major leagues. boston red sox have reportedly reached an agreement with lefty pitcher david price on a seven-year deal worth $217 million. it's the biggest deal for a pitcher in mlb history and the largest contract in the history of the red sox. the 30-year-old ace led the american league with a 2.54 e.r.a. last season. an official announcement is expected on friday. >> in other mlb news, baseball's embattled home run king could be making a full-time return to the game. the miami marlins are reportedly nearing a deal to hire all-time home run leader barry bonds as a hitting coach. the 51-year-old worked as a guest hitting instructor for the san francisco giants during the past two preseasons. back in april a federal appeals court overturned his felony conviction for obstruction of justice for testimony he gave about his connection to peds. in college sports it looks like the university of georgia has found a replacement for former head coach mark rikt. according to the atlanta journal constitution,

i'm wayne brady, this is mega deal week. oh yes. copywriting that. if they happen to win the big deal of the day then they're eligible to win the mega deal. every single piece of merchandise prize seen on today's show, over $100,000 in prizes.

spokesperson for mega morning deals megan. >> happy merry post christmas. >> is this like a mr. ls icon on the "fox & friends" website to get all these deals for the next few days because you are going want to to shop. this is to clean up after all your christmas parties. it's the shark steam and spray mop. this thing is getting rave reviews onloon. forget the suwannee river, it's all about the shark. comes with a cleaning fliewgd that's the spray. you just adjust it down here on the low earth part of the handle to get the scream going. it's really the energy of the steam that's going to cut through the grease and dirt. it deep sanitizes and cleans hard floors. wood floors, tile floors. >> normally almost $170. >> and today 71% off. so you can get this for 49.99. so highly recommend that with new year's eve coming up. get all that confetti and sam pain off the floor. >> 10 different cents can, gardina, some of them have this beautiful japanese style packaging. it's the gift that doesn't need wrapping. who loves that? i you had 27 gives to wrap the night before christmas. i would

this as crude prices pick up from multiyear low. >> shares rallying as the mega deal with shell reaches the home stretch. vote on the merger is expected to come today. >> swiss drug maker trading higher after getting the green light for its new blood pressure drug. u.s. regulators say the treatment can come to market from next month. >> and the selling in toshiba intensifies. shares drop by another 12% in the asia session hitting a six year low after the company warns of a record annual loss. >> i have u.k. data to share with you. 14.2 billion pounds. that's versus an expectation of 11.7 billion pounds and that's up from 12.9 billion pouns a year ago. so slightly higher number than what people are anticipating. the budget deficit widening in november is bigger than forecast. quick look at the sterling dollar. 148.95. well below the 150 level but higher on the day up by 0.1%. >> glancing on our european equity markets we're a little bit lower. we were called a tad bit higher initially this morning and we saw some green but we just changed tack just a little bit over the last half an hour

now i'm going to go get a mega deal following on this reconciliation. and she did it. she's the next steve jobs in terms of deal doing. they should be afraid of her. >> how much do you think they had to pay though? do we have any estimate? because the tour grossed more than $200 million. >> my guess would be tens of millions of dollars, that would be my guess. bigger than an nfl game. there's nfl games and taylor swift, right. >> you got to pay her tens of million also of dollars to show up at the company party, they probably paid her more than that. >> yeah, yeah. >> bunch of calls on tech. go pro downgraded, morgan stanley. take their price target to 12. that stock's down 15%. square initiations getting out today. square getting a buy or overweight from goldman. and then teslaish ish initiate. offset by an intensifying competitive landscape and high cost structure. go pro has gotten a few of these piper and city over the past few days. this is the time of year where they were supposed to shine. >> they're in a mind. software saves go pro if anything does. they've got

reporter: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell pushed the highway bill as a priority-- and the mega-deal together by usual adversaries, democrat barbara boxer of california and republican jim inhofe of oklahoma. they hashed out a final agreement with house members and the new speaker. >> we're going to have a highway bill which will help families and workers by rebuilding our infrastructure and giving a boost to our economy. >> reporter: it's good news for american drivers, counties and states-- five years of stable federal funding for highways and bridges. but critics question where that funding comes from, and say it may lead to bigger problems down the road. when created in the 1950s, the highway trust fund was meant to rely on the federal gas tax for funding, but with lower gas prices and more fuel efficient cars, the money coming in has dropped. despite less gas tax money, this deal increases highway funding for the next five years. that may sound good, but it does this in controversial ways. one: it sells oil from america's strategic petroleum reserve. that sale won't happen until

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this.s the context around we have seen some mega deals, haven't we, kind of swaying the story for 2015re getting ready to close out 2015 with almost $24 billion in deals globally. highest of those figures have been life-sciences industry, telecom, technology. distorted a little bit by these megadeals. what we saw at the beginning of the year was a slew of megadeals that really drove the value and drove the number of deals very high. that distorts the picture a little bit. i think that we look at these numbers, we have to be a little bit careful about extrapolating too much. i think there is a distortion. anna: if we did want to , would thatanything lead to some sort of correction? >> i think it is too early to say whether we have peace. i think most commentators think we have peaked and that there will be a slowdown. thattably, when you have -- have these megadeals, there will be follow on deals that come with those as regulators but at those transactions, what we may not do is quite so many megadeals. anna: stay with us for a moment. let's bring into the conversation bloomberg's manag

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that would be the largest deal and latest mega deal of the year.ting what's coming afterwards, which is they want to demerge. big guys, $65 million market caps each before this came out, they come together. one company. then they separate into three companies. an ag business, psych seeds and fertilizers. that would be hardest hit by seeds and crop prices and general difficulty in the farming space. have specialty business and commodity business. up with of the chemical pg dupont name. the other the dow name. people don't have to worry they will not know the names and miss these names going forward. one will be specialty. one will be commodity. alix: this isn't the only time m & a deal and after you merge you spin off assets. is this the way to exist and lock up value? way of people trying to be narrowly focused. any time somebody does a deal a outside their sweet spot, 80 some% in some of the area of or ag space, if they go outside of that, beat them up badly. they try to be focused and sole off anything not part of the unthat's a big reason activi

. >> dupont and dow could be make an official announcement today about the potential mega deal. that's next. and glencore surging as it gets more agleszive with degressive e reduction. kate kelly has the details. first though, on this date in history. ♪ >> why are we playing that song? soul cycle is announcing it's going to list shares on the new york stock exchange. it's another win for the battle with ipos. the ticker symbol will be slcy. they did not provide information on the pricing. the offer as good being lead by goldman sachs and merrill lynch. i'm a huge fan. any of you ever done it. >> no. >> soul cycle. >> it's a brand. there it is right there. >> i don't like clubbing or cycling. >> it's fun. >> everybody cycles together. if soul cycle is fun and womanly, fly wheel is like manly, everybody competes and they -- it's different. >> have you tried one of the rowing classes. i wanted to do that. >> i didn't like it. >> too static? are you getting it's a low impact full body workout. i rowed in college. >> but the fun thing about soul cycle everybody pedals together at the

that pales in comparison to mega brands cashing in on merchandising deals. >> we estimate that it can generate about $5 billion in global merchandise for disney this year. of that would generate $500 million for disney. anna: star wars has found its way into your cereal, and a trip to subway could be out of this world. this shop in london is filled to the brim with everything from light sabers to a personal droid. for other brands, it's a little challenge. this year, they got creative. take cover girl, offering a storm trooper look. or hp, which can help even the biggest star wars geek get the girl of his dreams. possibly far-fetched. all of these brands hope the consumers' hearts. marie: last friday, i saw the freeway signs let-up. "if you text and drive, the dark side wins." a hot new christmas item could cost thousands of dollars in penalties. jeff: what you need to know if you want a drone under the tree. marie: and a high school are national football teams for jeff: if a hot item that could come with thousands of dollars to follow federal law. marie: starting today, many drone ow

so keeping that in mind, keeping in mind that you're dealing with such mega-violent people, you want to make sure you're not walking into a booby trap. if you send a robot in, if it triggers something, so be it. no one else is armed. it also gives you the opportunity to send it in and then it can be your eyes and ears inside the house. and once you feel like that it's sufficiently cleared at least maybe the first floor of that residence, then you make a tact cat tactical entry after that. >> potentially a treasure trove of information in that house. >> reporter: all this happening seven miles away from the site massacre. >>> coming up, new details now just emerging about the suspect. our matt gutman is on the scene. >> this special edition of "nightline" brought to you by volkswagen.'re here. here's dad. mom. the twins. aunt alice... you didn't tell me aunt alice was coming. of course. don't forget grandpa. can the test drive be over now? maybe just head back to the dealership? don't you want to meet my family? yep, totally. it's practically yours, but we still need your signature. t

dollars in ticket sales according to nomura but that pales into mparison to the mega brands cashing in on merchandise deals. (tim nollen, senior media analyst, macquarie securities) "we've estimated that star wars could generate 5-billion dollars global in sales for disney this year. for didiey in terms of revenue a 10 percent cut of that which is kind of a licensing fee for a film generating about 500-million whopping 5 billion dollars and the branding really is everywhere, it's found its way intotoour cereal... am your..." and a tripipo subway could d ...well...out of this world (anna stewart, reporter) "is fairly easy for disney to find some merchandising opportunities this shop in london is filled to the brim with lightsabres, darth vader fancy dress, you can even get your own personal droid but for the other brandsdsinding a star wars tie in can be more of a a allenge so this year the ads have got creative." take covergirl, helping you channel a storm-trooper look. or hp - which can help even the biggest star wars geek find the girl of his dreams - with a little help from r2d2 possssly far- fetched...

. >> border politics, idea of putting up border wall, you name it, we deal with mega churches, high schoolootball, childhood obesity, you know, kind of the everything that's thrown the us in every day life. >> actually that guy's name is nicholas gonzalez, i interviewed him, very good looking human, unfortunately, show is animated so we don't see him. will premiere sunday, right here on fox animation domination. >> so if you are looking for something to do tonight, you just want to stay at home and have a little bit of bubble, join us on fox, because we got pitbull hosting the new years resolution, from 8:00 from the bay front park in miami. it will include terry cruz, wendy williams, co-hosting and great performances, we're going to have prince royce, puff daddy, and the family, plus, earth, wind and fire pitbull has got a lot of surprises. >> a well err ray of musical genres, but the one i am really looking forward to and we're lock that is at the end of the show is like a throw-back set of muse take we all use today jam to. so that's what i'm, me personally, i'm big fan of. >> this i ca

mega floods. >> world leaders are hailing this deal in paris as a milestone to keep planet earth hospitable for human life. >> whooo! (cheers and applause) look how excited they are! i've got to say... that's setting the bar about as low as it can go. "as your president, i promise you: something will live." (laughter) but whatever they've agreed to, it's about time. it was nearly 70 degrees this weekend in new york, and i found out about the agreement when i was out christmas shopping in flip flops and a halter top. (laughter) here's what they agreed to: over the next century, this deal limits the rise in global temperature to 3.6 degrees farenheit. or, as it says in the official agreement, two degrees celsius. so it's already lowering the numbers. and the deal gets even more stringent later this century-- a time period we can now at some point between 2050 and 2100, the countries agreed to limit greenhouse gas emissions to the levels that trees, soil, and oceans can absorb naturally. which is a fine goal, though it will put a lot of pressure on the last remaining tree. you can do it, piney! br

. >>> mega merger to close out a record year in deal-making on wall street. $130 billion transaction. combining the firm's into one that will be called dow dew point, it'll save $3 billion a year. rob, back to you. >> another merger, mary, thank you so much. >>> well three astronauts are safe, back on earth after spending more than 140 days at the international space station. landed in kozic stan shortly aftehe kr 8:00 this morning after a three-hour decent to earth inside a space capsule. the three men will be replaced by nasa astronaut tim cobra, british astronaut, and a russian cosmonaut here in the next four days. 140 days in space. must be something to see. >>> well, we got weather the our of this world right now. >> 56 degrees in september. >> and we're on our way to the 60s again, rob. >> amazing. >> the interesting thing is there's no sign in the short anywhere. the warm trend continues. let's walk over to the weather wall. ll show you the details. as i go over there, let's go outside and take a look at the beautiful rink at rockefeller center. and the tree, so many visitors f