zain asher, thanks. still to come, a blockbuster deal could create the nation s largest cable provider. but in a deal worth tens of billions, could consumers get the shaft? christine romans has more. good morning, carol. a $45 billion deal between comcast and time warner cable. what will it mean for your customer service and for the number at the bottom of your cable bill? i ll have that for you after the break.
that s not nothing. the deal came just hours after talks between cano and his agent jay-z and the mariners had broken down. cnn s rachel nichols is with me. nice to see you, my friend, by the way. jay-z, with his sports agent hat, if reports are true, this contract is huge. yeah, it s nice to see something finally going well for jay-z, isn t it? right? rough gig for him. not doing well at all. exactly, so finally, he gets a little money in his pocket from the agent commission. but in all seriousness, this is a very good deal for robinson cano. ten years, $240 million. that s the third richest contract in baseball history. and it is actually very good for jay-z, because this is his first major deal in his relatively new business, being a sports agent. so he got cano this blockbuster deal that sends a clear message to other big-name athletes, you want to go with jay-z, because he will walk into the room and strike you a good bargain.
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the largest one day point gain in a week. we had a rough go of it on worries of a syrian air strike. the markets are all closing higher a contrast to the sell off days earlier. there could be a lot of volatility as this plays out, the u.s. and allies response in syria. we are watching gold, oil and stocks and the bond market. we could be seeing a blockbuster deal in the cell phone business. verizon is talking about buying a 45% stake in verizon wireless. it could be worth up to $130 billion. that s literally a big deal. it could be a big deal and could be announced next week. it brought them together after talks broke down over price several times. the city of san bernardino, california has the green light for bankruptcy. a federal judge rejected an
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