from france. is france next for a downgrade? who are you looking at that is vulnerable right now? >> we do have friends on the negative outlook. mixed news is coming out despite francois hollande's pre-election metric. he is committed to reducing the budget deficit to 3% next year and signing into law the fiscal compound which would prevent france balancing its budget over the medium term. the concern with france at this point is closing the budget gap by raising taxes and to address issues about competitiveness and getting more people to employment in france they have to reduce taxes and labor taxes which are among our highest in the world and it would see how they are going to do that without public spending and that is something that has been reluctant to do. they have some time to turn that around. liz: lowering taxes improve the picture is what i am hearing you say. thank you for joining us. david riley of sovereign rating saying the triple the-credit rating for spain will remain the same even if they ask for a bailout plan. we are 16 minutes from the closing bell. walmart,

comes out with a 75% tax rate i chased the wealth of france. if you are a high income earner and investor, why on earth would you stay in france and have $0.75 out of every dollar taken away before you got a chance to spend it. almost any european country you could go and do better than that lori: do you think we're facing a similar path and the u.s. or do you expect americans to leave? >> it is very possible. there is some indication that some americans are already looking for ways to protect their income, protect their wealth. and you cannot blame them because of somebody -- i mean, it's the same thing. if i'm walking down sixth avenue and someone comes and says, i want all your money. my first inclination might be to try to save my life. secondly, protect their asking me for. if i can't, maybe of turnover. if i feel like i have a way to beat them up before they beat me up, sure, help protect its in my pocket. this is the government basically being a moderate. they get to do it legally and there is not all lot you can do to stop them. lori: remind me what tax reform should look

," there's an article about the idiot rich businessmen in france who raised taxes a little bit and cut spending and elect the socialist president of france who is now raising their personal income taxes to 75% and their capital gains taxes to 60%, and these very, very smart businessmen who brought this on themselves are running for the borders. gerri: nobody's suggesting that here. in fact -- >> they were not in france either. gerri: even mitt romney in the debate said why not bowles-simpson? it's a balanced approach. you're not in favor of it. >> of course not. he was talking about what simpson bowles says it wants to do sometimes which is restrain spheppedding and have revenue neutral reform. if you read the fine print of simpson-bowles, it takes taxes from 18.5% of gdp, its normal for the last 30 years, to it 2* # 1%, a #.5% increase in taxes of gdp to $5 trillion tax increase over the next decade. $5 trillion tax increase. the spending cuts, of course, have been rejected by obama. he put none of them in the budget. gerri: that's the problem. >> all he wants is the tax increase.

from denmark. tax revenue as a percent of gdp, that's 49%. france, 44%, germany 40%. the u.s. looks like we're on the road to being like the other countries. >> well, if you're not careful, you will be. you have to think that one thing is the direct tax, and the other is what is the deficit rate. in effect, the deficit is tax pressure coming later on. you're probably higher up the list already; right? with the current deficits. think that the 49% sounds a lot, but think about who pays that for an upper middle class citizen, pays 80% of his income in taxes in denmark, not just income tax -- gerri: how much? repeat that. >> 80%. think income tax is 60%, capital gains is 42%, sales tax at 25%. car tax is 200%. it all adds up. gallons gasoline is $10. gerri: you have 20% leftover. >> that's the middle class citizen. gerri: why do people say? >> it's a nice country apart from that. gerri: you can get money from the government; right? >> when you add it up, it runs fast. gerri: you are here to warn us we're on the road to greece, change our ways. >> i'm here to point out, i'm doing a spea

four and detroit tonight. not in a good position, lance armstrong. nike drops the former tour de france champion. they said he participated in doping and misled the company for more than a decade. radioshack also severing ties. he also says he is dropping down as chairman of live strong. he will still be on the board, though. dagen: at the report came out a week ago. armstrong still denies that he ever used them. another big day for quarterly earnings. bank of america out this morning. connell: let's get the trade. sandra smith has it for you. sandra: not helping to bring the dow into positive territory. all the major averages are in the green. you will see where bank of america falls. it did beat expectations and reported an unexpected profit. the stock hitting a slight bump of about two pennies. what is important, if you are an investor in the stock and you have been owning it for a while, it is important to look where bank of america stock has come. it has come a long ways. the average rating is a hold with a price target of 9.51. bank of america shares topping out at this point. the

governing body of cycling stripped lance armstrong of all his tour de france titles. he lost most of his endorsements too but he has not come between. doctor keith at the low will explain the psychology behind him at this point. more sports. the yankees stuck paying alex rodriguez $114 million over the next five years. will other teams look at this and be scared away from long-term contracts? we will ask a leading sports agent. a very unique my take this morning plucked from a weekend shopping trip. it is about how california's craziness affects us all. we want to hear from you. e-mail us at varney@foxbusiness.com and join us on facebook. it is monday morning and i have seven early mover is for you. the wall street journal reporting ancestry.com has agreed to be taken private for roughly $1.6 billion. i expect to see that stock go up but it hasn't. microsoft windows 8 goes on sale friday. full disclosure i own some of it. yahoo!'s first earnings report with c e o marisa meyer at the helm "after the bell" today. stock is up fraction. we mentioned caterpillar. the global economy is weaker

: can we ignore what's happening global? manufacturing in china, the u.k., and france. it's like the same as greece right now. can we ignore that? >> look, like we said, start in china. a couple weeks ago, we spoke about it here. we saw the chinese market drop 5% a week. it was not a blip on the radar screen here. last night, we see this news come out. they are, you know, manufacturing number is not great, but better than expected. that was positive news coming in here. i think what you are seeing in europe, and in france and, you know, we're going to see the same thing. they are not good numbers, but we know that there's just this almost endless support that we're seeing here. we shrug off the not so good numbers, rally on the good numbers, and that's the monetarn the market right now. the traders, the public sees there's going to be support. this qe3, endless qe3, plops off the market. the focus now is on anything that's good propels this market. now, also with the news -- daifd daiftd -- david: scott, let me stop you. the market paired gains around the time ben bernanke -- i don't

countries like spain and france may miss the target. we are falling at a session lows and the dow jones industrials down 71 points was down up off of the floor we have a long way to go to see any green with the dow jones industrials. who is getting hit in your portfolio. we can bring up the dow component name in tell. the biggest lagger after confirmed it would be cutting firms from its security unit. the energy sector because we are always looking for positivity sparking green on the board today. happens to be the only sector in the s&p 500 that is moving hire. the only major sector. the sector's rally in alongside as high tensions in the middle east counter the imf growth cuts. and ignited by a visit from german chancellor angela merkel where she said the austerity package for greece will pay off. it is tough medicine. the greeks don't want to hear that. mostly greek money would be bailing out greece. they get a larger voice here and don't like her that much. things remain -- except for the lovely tear-gas bomb, a couple molotov cocktails but the police were there and you had communis

shutdown and supplies are rationed jumping $0.17 overnight in list of france's says it's a run at a gas so could the recovery. >> you're already getting pinched. people don't have the income they had before. is the perfect storm, power added -- outage, refinery problem but anywhere else they could get the gas on the open market. they have a special cocktail the only kind in california. >> that shows you how crazy it is from a still highest unemployment rate and it is up $4.53. >> the gas station owners says he has to buy it at $5 and $0.5. that is what he pays he can only make money to charge $5.55 so he will shutdown. >> somebody said it is the key to the election but now we're back to where we were even higher nobody talks about this. where is the disconnect or used to it? >> maybe. i am not used to it i felt the car and i could not believe it. it should be a bigger issue without question. >> what i give somebody 100 and they need more. [laughter] there was a low-budget station $5.69 and he put aside close sorry. it is not our fault. it is someone's do they shoot themselves in the fli

research. shocking. he was serving on a religious mission in france for two years. cheerleaders wanted to use bible verses of their banners at football games. the grand -- judge granted an injunction will allow them to continue. the trial is scheduled in june. hotly contested races are running from obama as republicans look to take control of capitol hill. the "a team" right here. but we will bring brad and from washington. good luck. lou: joining me now is the "a team". lis wiehl and former senior staff member from the bush brad blake men. good to have you with us. start-up's of binder. if this fascinates you? big bird and the binder it just reminds people men romney that he hired women and reminds people we spend money on public television. >> binderssfull of women is like a country music song. >> if it offended lot of women. lou: come on. >> he is the ceo for decades in does not have faith. >> he had no female partners that gain capital. he told a lie to the american people the number of all women who were in senior government positions declined under romney. lou: your president lie

of all seven tour de france titles. that just came out this morning. dagen: top of the hour. stocks now and every 15 minutes. we are watching caterpillar. a disappointment. nicole: it really was a disappointment. you see it with an up arrow. when you paint the real picture, the picture is the top global economy, south news going forward. that is where caterpillar is cutting their numbers for 2012 saying 2013 is likely to be choppy and not seeing improvement until the pack of 2013. here is a look at caterpillar right now. it is up about 1%. let's take a look at the broader market averages. the dow is down 13 points. the s&p is lower in the nasdaq squeezing out a gain of just over one point. back to you. dagen: thank you. president obama and mitt romney preparing to face off in the third and final presidential debate. the key swing state proves to be a close battle this year. the latest fox news poll shows romney surging and not leading the president. neil cavuto joins us from that very state. hey, neil. neil: hey, dagen. dagen: what will be the focus of the debate tonight? do you thi

are unraveling, france comes to mind, brinton is in no great shape. i think we have a political environment that has a lack. >> i blame the president for that. i think that we will not be impervious to slowdown the rest of the world. because a good part of our s&p earnings come from overseas. we will not be improving. >> tentative management, by any measurement, not that you're hearing from the economist in their polls, but the deficit is up 300%. national debt is up 70%. unemployment, i agree with, all of the indicators are saying that we are not coming out of the slowdown because they are not solution based. these perilous times -- it doesn't make any sense. there is a degree of arrogance that i find very hard to understand. neil: what are the markets selling us? the trend is their friend and my friend. what he say that? >> i think it is a reflection from whence we came. we had a terrible job in 2000 and 2009. my concern would be, i think, we are more than fully valued here. i think corporate earnings are going to start to wane. i think that we have the risk of a sizable decli

paying attention or deep research. shocking. he was serving on a religious mission in france for two years. cheerleaders wanted to use bible verses of their banners at football games. the grand -- judge granted an injunction will allow them to continue. the trial is scheduled in june. hotly contested races are ruing from obama as republicans look to take control of capitol hill the "a team" right here. but we will bring brad and this is awesome! folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico sure are happy. i'd say happier than a slinky on an escalator. get happy. get geico. melons!!! oh yeah!! wellhat was uncalled for. folks who save hundreds of dollars switching toeico sure are happy. how happy, ronny? happier than gallaghert a farmers' market. get happy. get geico. lou: joining me now is the "a team". lis wiehl ad former senior staff member from the bush ad blake men. good to have you with us. start-up's of binder. if this fascites you? big bird and the binder it ju reminds people men romney that he hired women and reminds people we spend money on public television. >> bind

now? should we worry about america becoming another welfare state like greece or france or spain or italy? it was a very frustrating debate for those of us in the country who worry about the size and scope of the federal government. neil: it wasn't even an issue last night. dan mitchell, thank you so much. well, in 99-cent store on rodeo drive. enough said. enough said neil: all right, here's what you need to know about how dicey this recovery is. in 99-cent store may be coming to beverly hills. it is true. from the land of lost jobs, now rodeo drive is going discount. will this ever be the same? who should know better than someone else who is from there. from beverly hills. our very own liz claman. her blood is so blue, have to wonder whether lives is seeing red. >> i am with wearing red. >> no, no, that would be it. they were the down and out folks in beverly hills. >> all i can tell you is if i hear one person, i've heard of thousands they that is redline. everyone loves a 99-cent store, but they have to, can you imagine, who knows where it's going to be. listen, i wouldn't think

: the reality seems toe our allies have decided to reive, france this administration, deciding not to discuss the implosion round the euro zone again in the name of electoral interest in the namef th kt mcfarland, thank you for being with us. we will be taking it up with the "a-team." new polls show governor romney closing the gap with certain key voter groups. we'll take a look at how romney is turning the heads of women and hian voters in tonight's chalk talk. president obama prepping way for tomorrow's debate, governor romney reportedly skipping debate prep to show up at a paul ryan campaign event. is he getting a littleocky? we will talk to stephen hayes ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you turn an entrepreneur's dream... ♪ into a scooter that talks to theloud? ♪ or tu 30-million artifacts... ♪ into a higtech masterpiece? ♪ whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. lou: governor romney used a resounding first president debate victory to grab momentum in the race for the ite house. stephen hayes will join us in moments on the

to get the economy growing, look at france. an exodus across the channel to london. there's an ex-pat community and it's going to increase and anecdotally about the rich in france leaving france because of the new taxes coming in on the hollande government. if people leave where are you going to get the revenue from. >> you can't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer and by the way, if you tax 100% everybody in the upper brackets in the u.s. only run thee government for two or three months giving the way that spending is going and as for that financial transaction i'm not sure that the unions want to see the tax hitting their pension account. stuart: they want a tax, a small percentage tax every single transaction around the world in all the major-- so if you trade currencies for example, every time you do a trade you pay a very small tax, but adds up to tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars. >> that's right, and again, the investors and paying it, in fact, the-- >> where does it go? >> well, it goes to spending or the government trying to create jobs. >> no, it wou

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have -- the united states or france, they live in the united states of america. they're going to have to get with it. unbelievable. john: i prefer his take to my presidents who spends propaganda , says one thing and does another. he said that, but the first spending bill, earmarks. candid obama criticized hillary clinton. >> she believes that we have to force people who don't have health insurance. john: she believes in force, a mandate. imagine that. be honest. vote for barack obama. just say something like this. >> when i was elected i promise that i would get a handle on the national debt, but i didn't. i sai that would cut wasteful programs, but i did not. i brought together a bipartisan group to recommend how to put us on a sustainable course, but then i did not even try to do what they said. nell i realize that we are on the road to bankruptcy, and i will undo my mistakes to my will cut regulation and shrink government spending. bill clinton levels.

franc. he says medicare should be a voucher. the you think these are popular policies? president obama said if you have such great plans for what you're going to do to replace dodd-frank. >> don't keep a secret. he did not produce. lou: the only thing i actually heard the president's taken i did not hear him say what you just said, by the way. i heard and basically say that if you have a secret it because you don't want it to be heard because it's too good. >> i have heard debate contrivances like that tie just as you have over the course of our career. governor romney was hitting him with fact, programs, and he kept coming back to this $5 trillion tax cut. i can't find that anywhere. can you? >> she has been saying he wants to extend the bush tax cuts. he wants to give tax cuts to people over to -- 250. repeal the estate tax and he said he also wants to increase spending for the defense industry. so i don't -- it's right there. this is what he has been running on. he says this will spark economic revival. >> so we don't know is what the president will run on. lou: we do know. he

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anything. lou: the reality seems to be our allies have decided to receive, france this administration, deciding not to discuss the implosion round the euro zone again in the name of electoral interest in the name of this kt mcfarland, thank you for being with us. we will be taking it up with the "a-team." new polls show governor romney closing the gap with certain key voter groups. we'll take a look at how romney is turning the heads of women and hispanic voters in tonight's chalk talk. president obama prepping a way for tomorrow's debate, governor romney reportedly skipping debate prep to show up at a paul ryan campaign event. is he getting a little cocky? we will talk to stephen hayes next. look, if you have copd like me, you know it can be hard to breathe, andow that feels. copd includes chroni bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva helps control my copd symptoms by keeping my airways open for 24 hours. plus, it reduces copd flare-ups. spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatmenthat does both. spiriva handihaler tiotropium bromide inhalation powder do

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monitor operations, serving clients from france and back, and i have to say the staff are doing a fantastic job covering our clients' needs over three days. the good news is, today, fully operational, serving clients. liz: you assed ceo, this -- you, the ceo, this is what you do in operations like this. looking at the stock exchange announcement sunday that they were not going to open, what was your first thought there? >> well, same thing. first it was, how are we going to handle clients' needs? reaction was to make sure that from a pure operational standpoint, markets open, close, we would be there for inquiries no matter what. liz: were you part of the conversations with the exchanges? >> we have teams constantly connected to the exchanges. >>liz: duncan said some of the g banks, didn't name you specifically, duh didn't test the systems that they could have opened. had you tested your systems with arca? >> well, we've been fully operational, you know, teams fully connected with the exchanges, and whether monday or tuesday markets closed, market open, our systems and regulatory

well in france just today. melissa: the problem is that these governments topple as a result of what's going on financially and what replaces them may be a real problem for the u.s., right? i mean where do you see this? it's going on in greece and where else? >> well, it's not just that they will topple. it's that smart political leaders in power don't want to take actions that they think will lead to their own defeat. so, remember, in, in the aftermath of the stock market crash of 1929 and sinking of the world economy into depression, after that, there were the rise of both left-wing and right-wing parties. some of them tried to kind of combine those elements. remember the nazis called themselves the national socialists. they were not getting a large amount of votes until the german economy crashed. so this specter of nationalist parties is something that's part of european history. that's something, it is ironic to have the greeks talking about neo-nazies rising and threatening the germans with it. remember what is happening now is that merkel is going to be visiting greece. why is s

. lance armstrong officially stripped of his 72 words of france titles. told he has no place in cycling and deserves to be forgotten. last week he step down from his charity live strong. being dropped by nike and anheuser-busch still this has been going on for years. this is a story that will not go away. the french have said this since the beginning. the more evidence reading the report there was an effort to beat the authorities. the duping agencies are of a joke. if he was to this extent why was he not caught? >> i degree with everything. he will be a jeopardy answer but why has the not admitted? are there legal reasons? sandra: if he admits it what else is left? >> he pass to give some of it back. sandra: beyonce and j.c. lost the battle to trademark there baby's name. blue-eyed the wanted to start a line of baby products but a boston event planning company also has the name one the trademark. is that fair? >> what koppel has a baby and trademarks the name? please. enjoy the baby. >> they want the clothing. >> don't they have enough money? they are both major superstars. everything

disent grews between germany and france especially on the terms of this bargain. melissa: yes. but theupervisor of this whole euzonend they're going to un things past this person? sounds like too much operation for me. does this sound realistic to you? >> they y have not agreed to full budget cooperation. melissa: yeah. >> the banking supervisor will supervise 6,000 banks within europe. the ideahere is to be able to recapitalize these banks without ving to lend mney to the countries. that's the key point there, they don't want to make the country's balanceheets look even worse. the problem is how much authority will this banking supervisor have? what will you do with the bad assets thatare already in those banks? but there's also a domestic potical problem for angela merkel. merkel aces an tion next autn. she's being, sort of boxed around t ears by the socialist democrat opponent who made a speech aouple days ago in the german parliament saying tt angela merkel was in effect giving in too much. melissa: that's a huge problem because she is a lynn of pin to is whole thing. if we los

tour de france titles and raised $500 million for cancer. people remember lance armstrong for that. and the latest sponsors predictions next. melissa: you can see metal trading higher across the board, gold, silver and copper, you can see copper on fire on a percentage basis. we will be right back. liz: one week after the doping agency on cheating allegations against lance armstrong two biggest sponsors, nike and radio shack are terminating their contract but with seemingly insurmountable evidence that he participated in dopeing will armstrong and rebuild his land? denis hughes e nelson from s c h a. there are a big bucks from these endorsements so nike dropping lance armstrong, is the door shut for him? >> is. nike in some ways, in more ways has a stronger brand and this is a stronger message than you could ever deliver. it is a government institution. and to make his reputation they are saying we reject what you have alleged. and we no longer want to be associated with you. a massive blow to plans armstrong and the other brand. lori: the analysis you provided, the wife of a teamm

rates. they are in the 50s and we are in the 60s. you have europe and france having 35% less average hours of work. i think this is the result of government policy and people look forward into the future and see what is coming. this has an effect on our economy today. connell: everyone is expecting this new and more energetic and more aggressive president obama to take on mitt romney. will there be a different mitt romney are pretty much the same thing we saw in the first debate? >> hard to think he can get any better than the first debate. connell: does he have to make any adjustments? >> them -- the mitt romney i worked with was the same in the debate. connell: look like them that you worked with? >> asked tough questions and having that information at the top of his head and able to put it all together and see where the issues and some point in your argument are. he does it in a polite way. dagen: if someone goes after him a little bit, it is all very subtle, how does he react? does he have to be careful he does not get a little edgy? i do not know. >> he is a passionate g

welfare state like greece or france or spain or italy? it was a very frustrating debate for those of us in the country who worry about the size and scope of the federal government. neil: it wasn't even an issue last night. dan mitchell, thank you so much. well, in 99-cent store on rodeo drive. enough said. enough said ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you turn an entrepreneur's dream... ♪ into a scooter that talks to the cloud? ♪ or turn 30-million artifacts... ♪ into a high-tech masterpiece? ♪ whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. syou know, i've helped a lot off people save a lot of money. but today...( sfx: loud noise of large metal object hitting the ground) things have been a little strange. (sfx: sound of piano smashing) roadrunner: meep meep. meep meep? (sfx: loud thud sound) what a strange place. geico®. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. and waiting in line. i don't have to leave desk and get up and go to the post office anymore. [ male announcer ] with stamps.com, you can print real