Personal spending was a disappointment this morning. We begin with the first trading day of the month after a monster february. With an eye on nasdaq 5,000, will the momentum continue into march . Warren buffett on the record on the economy, ibm and the news that these were places amex as costcos credit card partner. The biggest acquisition in tech. Exclusive with the ceo of nxp in just a moment. And after lots of leaks, it is official hewlettpackard also vying Aruba Networks 2. 7 million when you back out the cash. A bit below the stocks close on friday. First up futures are mixed as we begin a new month of trading. China cut Interest Rates for the second time in just over three months. Here in the u. S. February was a pretty nice win for the bulls. The nasdaq up more than 7 . Its best month in three years. Dow up 5. 6. S p, about 5. 5, each posting its best february since 98. Interestingly, last february was also the best february since 98. So the pattern to the years has been pretty
Will be joining us. But first the top stories. Its nice to see you again. Well do these stories in a second. Well take a look at comcast. It looks like they are beating it looks like they are beating on both the top and the bottom lines there. 79 cents, x items, and then 17. 83 17. 83 billion in revenue. Okay. In the year ago quarter, you had sochi, this quarter, you have the super bowl. So to compare apples to apples, theres a lot of excluding of different revenue metrics. Comcast is excluding olympics and super bowl but Thompson Reuters is not. Most of these numbers look like they are above analysts expectations. We should point out just right off the bat here i think the company is going to there it is Share Repurchases. People were talking about that. Once the deal brian alluded to it when he was on the show. Also combined with the Dividend Increase youd like to send your application to an additional lpder in the future. In some cases the story looked at four or five individual cas
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Want to make sure your child is in Quality Health care, you are going to get a little bit more tax relief or if you have an elderly loved one at home that you want to make sure has quality care you getal little more tax relief. If you are a twoworker family, we scale back the marriage penalties. The democratic budget actually provides more tax relief for working americans while the republican budget provides tax increases to working families. It increases transportation by closing a lot of the tax breaks in the code that actually encourage American Companies to move jobs and capital overseas, we get rid of those loopholes and say lets invest the money here in america. Thats what the democratic budget does. But the rules dont permit us to instruct the conferees to do the right thing and adopt that alternative which does reflect the values and priorities of the people around the country, but there are two Little Things where the Senate Budget is actually min kuhl minusculely better than
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