Good morning and welcome to march. Stocks try to finish the week with a climbing to record highs after, oh, a brief weakness yesterday into the close. The sequester deadline finally arrives with no compromise in sight. Plus, in Corporate News, groupon out. Its ceo and in an unusual cliff, wait until you hear the email that andrew mason sent to employees announcing his own firing. Ill ask ben white if politico got this email, too. Its friday, march 1st, 2013. Squawk box begins right now. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Our guest host this hour is zach carabell. Also ben white who is politico chief economic correspondent. Gentlemen, welcome to both of you. Thank you for getting up early. It is a grait great day to have you both with us. Were talking about the wall street situation and washington. We have stocks and the sequester, the s p coming off its fourth straight month of gains. If you take a l
Editor's note: A lot happened this week, so here's your chance to get caught up. Read on for the week's most popular headlines. 1