stocks are inching dloe inio their all-time high. the dow now just 1% away from its record high set back in october of 2007. what has investors so encouraged? >> you're in the seat of where folks talk a lot about faith. on wall street, there's faith that even as the clock ticks down to the sequester, those deals, those cuts that have to be taken that wall street will pull off a showdown to avoid that mandatory spending cut deadline. in the meantime, sales today were also in line and looked pretty good. we got good data out of europe. then there's the big deal. ge is the best performing component today after the industrial giant struck a deal with parent company comcast to sell its stake in nbc universal for over $16.5 billion. ge will use some of the cash to