And the Opposition Party says they will allow for over 850 Million People who make their way to the polls in the biggest democracy. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange bringing you Business News from around the globe. Good morning. Welcome to the show. It is merger monday. And they are seeking approval for a 50 million merger. Lafange is the largest company. And next what we are looking at is the deal has finally been sealed after a bidding war for 17 billion euro deal. Well see how that ends. It is now down to three bids despite those offers being backed by the french government. The stock is up nearly 8 . That news had to give a boost to markets in europe. Earlier the squawk box team said a big ticket deal will dominate the deal landscape this year. Emphasis has now moved to quality. So its moved from volume to quality, which is going to translate into much larger, more strategic transformationsize deals. You are going to see doubling in size of intention. So those surveyed said more t
This is the daily show with jon stewart. [daily show theme song playing] [cheers and applause] jon welcome to the daily show. My name is jon stewart. Man, good show tonight. Our guest legendary brazillan footballer pele. [cheers and applause] ill ask him how he feels about achieving his lifes goooooooooooooaaa sarksl [laughter] but first big Campaign Finance decision out of the nations highest court. Breaking news from the Supreme Court. Major Campaign Contribution case. The case was brought by alabama businessman who argues he should be able to support as many candidate as he wants in an election cycle. Jon who is stopping you . I mean its your lawn, right . I mean [laughter] wait a minute, you dont mean support like support, you mean support like support. I think this say fundamental free speech issue about your right to spend your money on as many candidate as you choose. Jon right, right. Im sorry is the whole money seek wall speech as a way to further amplify big donors influence
Jon a car gal, an auto dame, a jel loppy broad. [ laughter ] never has an outgoing ceo promoted change while so perfectly demonstratinging so much further they industrial to go. Have to go but for this horseless carriaged tomato, its looked like nothing but open road. We have a warning for you tonight. Gm is recalling nearly 780,000 older model compact cars. The cars in question Chevrolet Cobalt and pontiac g5s. Jon its a speed bump a recall. Happens all the time. What are are we talking about overdpliewd decals . Vanity light bulb brightness issue . Objects in mirror are the actual distance away that they appear to be . What have you got . Gm admitted the ignition switch on more that two dozen vehicles may move to the off or accessory position shutting off the engine, disablinging power steering, power brakes, the seatbelts and the airbags. [laughter] jon oh, or that. I guess. Or for no reason your car may perhaps form to an uncontrollable 2500 power dead metallic blue cannon ball, sa
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
Peter larson, Vice President of amazon kindle, spoke at the event. What can you watch on fire tv . It has a ton of content. From amazon instant video, primates and video, hulu plus, watch espn, showtime, major league ace ball, nba, the disney channels, bloomberg tv, youtube. It is the easiest place to watch netflix. You can catch bloomberg west on there, of course. The move also escalates a rivalry with netflix and other streaming services that are developing exclusive content. Now, the big question is, who will win the battle for your living room. Cory johnson and i spoke with brad stone about what fire tv really means for amazon. Amazon has actually been thinking about a set top boxes the end of 2011. It has been a long journey. The question was always, what are the big ideas going to be . How will it raise the bar on roque who, on apple tv. Watch james bond movie and by the watch. Maybe that is coming, but version one amazon does not have it. Apparently fire tv has better search cap