Homeland security chief warned mall of america shoppers to be, quote, particularly careful, and yet yesterday it was still hard to find a parking spot at that mall. Why arent American Consumers worried if the government is . Some surprising answers on this one just ahead. Important story there. Another one as well, the president just wrapping up comments about these new rules theyre talking about for 401 k rollovers making sure the Investment Advice you get is good for you and not just for the Financial Planner or broker who is advising you. There are some concerns that people are being steered into investments that have higher fees. Theyre suitable for you, but theyre expensive at the same time, and there are cheaper alternatives. So brokers may be making more on these higher fee investments, and so the president wants to do something about that but the industry is fighting back. So we have both sides of that issue coming up a little later here on the closing bell. Yeah divisive one.
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Tmi. We have breaking economic news. Ism, nonmanufacturing index, has just come in below economist estimates. Michael mckee has the headlines. We are looking for 54. 7. A run ofe had such good economic business. It is disappointing when you look at the numbers underneath the headline. We saw the new orders index fall below 50, which is roughly fit dividing line for expansion or roughly the dividing line for expansion or contraction. The Business Activity index did not move at all. Concern but ite is something to watch. The thing everybody wants to talk about is that jobs report on friday, the unemployment and dekes rises. There may be some good news in this report. We will have to wait five days to find out. Tmobile and Verizon Wireless are swapping airwaves in a deal announced earlier this morning. It may tmobile him more attractive takeover target. Cristina alesci joins us now. It is a wonderful day for bankers. Payinge is essentially 2. 4 billion for low band spectrum. It is a kind
Producers making sure form videos with the discovery channel. Youll hear from ron howard. He looks exactly the same. Welcome to Market Makers. Extraordinary the show from yesterday, but we are going to give it a shot. Breaking economic news. I assume nonmanufacturing ism nonmanufacturing. Michael mckee has the headlines. Havetter news than we expected. Manufacturing getting a little better. We want to keep an i on whether were seeing the new orders come in. Im checking through the numbers at the moment. 53. 1 versus 51. 6. A big jump from february. The Employment Index is what everybody is keeping an eye on as well as new orders. A big rebound there. That may figure into peoples estimations of what we get tomorrow for the payroll report. 47 is contraction in hiring. Nobody thought that would continue. It was weatherrelated. His address we will see betterthanexpected news perhaps tomorrow in the implement report on the Service Employment report on the services side. Good news today. Tha