For everyone except those earning 400,000 and above. Thats above the 250,000 threshold that the president has been demanding for months, but it is still far from speaker John Boehners request of 1 million. A source familiar with the talk says this is by no means the final offer for the white house. The move by the president was welcomed, albeit with some reservations. We will talk about the latest developments in just a few minutes. In the meantime, the Global Markets seem to be taking note of the optimism. You can see right now that those dow futures are up by 54 points. This comes after a decent rally for the markets yesterday. S p futures at this point are up by better than seven points and the nasdaq futures up, as well, by about 17. European shares rising. Germany is up, the ftse is up, the france, the cac in france has turned slightly down. But, again, this is a marginal loss of about three points. Most of the major asian stock markets were higher overnight. And among the catalys
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