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economy came out just minutes ago. christine roman has those and then zain verjee looking at reaction to a deal made on the debt crisis and alison kosik at the new york stock exchange where your 401(k) could enjoy a big day. christine, let s go ahead and start with you. before we focus on the big debt deal, if you don t mind, let s talk about what this means. tell us about the economy and the good news we re getting. all right, first of all, gdp. how the economy grew in the most recent quarter. the third quarter. 2.5% kyra. that s twice as fast as it was in the second quarter. it shows you there was a pickup in economic activity in the third quarter. and that is the best in a year. so, kyra, that tells us that the economy is doing a little better, it needs to be better than 2.5%, but that is better than it has done in about a year. that is good news about where the economy is going right now. the overnight deal on the european debt crisis. let s talk about how this has im