take a look at the cost of an s & p straddle. in both directions out to the end of september that is an implied correlation. all the single stocks came down. for the first four hours of today, the only thing i saw were options sellers. nobody is concerned about anything. i think they are asleep. >> it's a friday in august. dan said that being a permanent bear has been exhausting. it has also been expensive. i think the names we've talked about are some of the names you would hope to make 52-highs if you expect the market to go higher. home builders, tech, energy, those are the names you want to see do well. and mike was right on the money. the vix has just gotten killed. pulled down by the twin anchors of the calendacalendar. there is not a lot of realized volatility. which is what you get when you buy options. it was interesting on monday that the vix was lower on a monday with the s&p lower. that only happened about twice a year. the vix has got know killed it will get killed when people come back from vacation in september. >>

you take a look at the cost of an s&p straddle, in both treks out to the end of september. those kinds of things are an implied correlation. all the single stocks came down. for the first four hours of today, the only thing i saw were options sellers. nobody is concerned about anything. i think they are asleep. >> i think part of that is because it's a friday in august. dan said that being a permanent bear has been exhausting. it has also been expensive. i think the names we talked about are some of the names we hoped to see making 52-week highs. home builders, energy and tech, those are the names you want to see do well. the vix have gotten killed. it's been pulled down by the twin anchors of the calendar, but also there hasn't been a lot of realized volatility which is what you get when you buy options. i think what's interesting, the vixx was lower on monday, and that only happens twice a year. it's gotten killed. it's because of august and it's going to come unwound when everybody comes back from vacation in september. >> people talked earlier this year about a performa

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and the department of public health and human services estimate as many at 47 million people will be affected by the changes. >> so 47 million pay now upfront costs for an obgyn. >> who pay ?sthe everybody pays. the costs are diminimus. preventative care isn't that expensive. in the case of birth control, for instance, the mon they gets saved by not saying for women who g pregnantd is vastly less expensive than to pay for a pregnancy. so generally, that's occur considered a cost saver. most preventive care is not particularly expensive. >> what was the objective here to having these services sf,s? >> the trend is to move towards the ployer. and trying to make it easier for people t getrevent ir ca by making it -- by making it less of a cost up front, and indeed, they found when there is less cost up front, people tend to get preventive care more. >> so the contraception, you mentioned it a couple of times. >> despite the partial exemptions that the president and the administration put in for religious institutions this remains very controversial. what's the status? it does remain controversial. there's several lawsuits pending. the status is that churches -- houses oforship

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of risk is let's buy the s&p index fund. >> explain an index fund to the viewer. >> it is a fund that follows an actual index, a financial index, and it has a low cost embedded into the industrial fund because it doesn't meet an active manager. >> i'm not asking somebody else to manage that. >> absolutely. it's just mirroring a financial index. >> if the s&p goes up, i'm hear. if it doesn't, i'm not. >> is it like a perfect storm sort of, a combination of we mentioned some of the tech ipos, they haven't done as well. some of these other issues with banks. is will this just like a perfect storm of issues that are creating this investor sort of distrust? >> i think in the past five years so much has happened that when we add one more thing, it just cripples them more. and nobody knows what the next thing is going to be, so then the sublime becomes bigger to the investor. >> there's a whole another risk that people forget about is if you do nothing, if you hide out in cds and getting less than 1% interest on your money, you're damaging your own long term financial health. you need to save for retirement or college tuition. >> if you had hung out in very small return

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cost you at 11:00.  >>> four women rushed to the hospital after an suv plowed into them today. happened in columbia heights as a crowd of people were gathering for a food give away. fox 5's john hanrahan has more. >> one of the biggest food give aways in the city happens on wednesdays in a northwest alley called columbia court. as usual, 300 to 400 people showed up. on this occasion, a woman driving a sport utility vehicle somehow managed to lose control and run up on to the sidewalk where people were waiting. >> i have known, what is going on with her? we were standing, minding our business. >> so it could have been somebody's life. it could have been my life. >> d. c. fire, ems reports four people got injured by the run away car to require transport to area hospitals. one of the four women had a broken leg. the driver of the car was given a field sobriety test by police officers, which she apparently passed because she was not arrested. later, that driver was observed hanging her head, apparently expressing remorse for the accident. she declined a reporter's request for an interview. despite the food give away, concerns for the operators of a nearby charter school. >>

enters an industry and partners up, it's almost a double-edge sword for the companies they partner with in that the companies often have to take some sort of costs on, such as subsidies for the teleco-sere do you stand on how this impacts the companies? >> i think the cable companies have had a wonderful chance to watch the movie mostly from the sidelines, though when they have been in the content business, like comcast is right now and certainly glen britt at time warner cable has watched, it they understand how apple works, and they i think will be very cautious and only strike a deal that's protecting their -- their content which they pay highly for, and -- and i think though the key thing here with the cable industry, melissa, is that at the end of the day, it's not getting i think the respect that it -- that it deserves. it's won the battle of broadband. i think the numbers are very, very clear, and this will be a hugely important market in the future as broadband speeds get faster, et cetera, and as a consequence the -- the multiples on the stocks are still very reasonable, and i think what this shows is the cable industry has got a wonderful moat protecting its cash flow and i

an all-time high in this country right now. more and more people are interested in the cost of higher education. the cost of college as more than tripled after inflation since the 1980's. we cannot have students starting their lives with $10,000, 0,000 in debt.0 i now we have these online courses that have been branded by the world's best universes' that are free -- nothing like a freight to compete with $30,000 -- nothing like free to compete with $30,000. host: harvey from new jersey. caller: good morning. i am a retired professor, and i could never hang my head on online education. in my view, to take a massive rip-off by the universities. a higher education is something quite different. are you looking to have a vocational school? are you creating the old fashioned diploma mills? the online education allows universities now to quadruple -- it is a marketing tool. it is a wonderful idea to get a diploma online. but the question is, what is happening to the standards of our certifications? large university in new york's has increase the cumulative averages of their graduating law students so they could get a better job because the grades look better on their resume.