U. S. Airwaysamerican. What other ones are in your mind . This was the year of the big deal. Who could Forget Verizon buying the entire stake. Ack from vodafone that was an enormous deal. It helped deal volume spike up a little bit. At the end of the day, the number of deals we have seen is relatively flat compared to last year. The total number was abysmal, quite dismal for bankers and lawyers on the street. They will have to look ahead to 2014 to see if there are opportunities to bump the number up. A lot of private equity firms are waiting this out, trying to make a big splash in 2014. You mentioned verizon. Most of the big deals were in tack or telecom. That is right. We might see a few more going on. This is a mature industry. There are some big deals we could see going forward. Mobile outu have t there that is still a target. We might see softbank make a run for that. They are the majority owner of sprint, so they will have to consolidate to capitalize on that Business Model. Tha
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Started making a new ipad. Bank earnings are looming in the Second Quarter. U. S. Banks posted their second highest profit total in three years, lending money at the high space since the financial crisis. Earnings continue to come out. Is out witha results, earnings coming in at . 83. Pretty much break even. This is the first report since the company spun off its publishing unit from its video is this, a trend we have seen with other video media coverage. Olivia sterns. Tribune media just spun off there Publishing Business following news corp. And scr ipps. Reporting . 83. Sales coming in above estimates, 894. 5. 5 million million dollars. Consolidated revenue sales grew 23 in the Second Quarter, a growth rate the Publishing Business is very unlikely to see, and that is the point of splitting up the company. . 83. Ht beat, well be watching how those results play out in equities. Thank you, olivia sterns. Overseas, a controversial russian convoy is on its way to isaine, and russia says
Register receipts at the retailer. Dont miss the walmart exec on cnbc later this morning at 11 45 eastern time. Samsung is on track to have its worst results in two years. The company says it saw Better Business conditions in the Third Quarter, but cautions it faces slowing Market Growth and intensifying price competition at the lower end and a looming threat of apples next iphone. In other tech news, at t announcing it will be the first carrier to sell the lg smartwatch. It answers to voice commands. It goes on sale friday. I saw this the first thing this morning when i opened up the wall street journal. 125 years. What a great editorial page. Three people, freeway markets, ideas for renewing americas prosperity, really good stuff. Articles by peter huber on Molecular Medicine and paul on getting out and away and, you know, peter darker saying listen to peopler drucker. But really good for the environment were in right now which apparently is spurring young people to become conservati
Own interest of its people, but were not adversaries on every issue. This comes as the u. S. Ramps up pressure on iran, including an alarming new report that the acting defense secretary presented a plan which could call for sending 120,000 troops to the middle east. Would i do that . Absolutely, but we have not planned for that. Hopefully were not going to have to plan for that, and if we did that, we would send a hell of a lot more troops than that. Even mueller, not a friend of mine even bob mueller came out, no collusion. Case open. New reporting that attorney general bill barr has assigned a federal prosecutor to look at the origins of the investigation. Trying to restore the credibility of the good men and women at the fbi, and there are people over there, and we have exposed a few of them that were there to carry out their political agenda. I would hope he roots out those bad apples and restores the credibility of the fbi. I saw it last night, and they want to look at how that w