The reports polled saying the economy likely added 120,000 jobs last month. Thats the estimate and the baseline to play against. The employment rate is seen ticking higher to 7. 4 and the numbers expected to show the Government Shutdown delayed hiring and forced some workers, of course, to stay home. Also in the news this morning, blackberry will be paying its new interim ceo a base salary of a million bucks, a bonesup up to twice that amount and stock awards potentially worth some 58 million. John chen is credited with turning around sybase in the late 1990s. His shares only begin to vest after three years with the company. And the majority of those will vest an he completes his fifth year with the company. If hes fired without cause, he will be paid up to 6 million. And given that becky still has her blackberry, i think thats a good incentive to keep hers on for a while. Salix pharma will buy santarus for the 2. 6 million. Joe, over to you, sir. Lets start with twitter. The first day
good morning. friday. man, it could. come fast enough, huh? i m robin meade. here s what s going on. the senate has cleared away $2 billion in the cash for clunkers program. u.s. forces may have killed the top taliban leader in pakistan but they still need one more piece to prove it. this guy is so popular, people are fighting over him in court. ahhh. you now have a few more weeks to take advantage of cash for clunkers program. last night the senate agreed to pump $2 more billion into the program. they hope it will help sell another half million new cars. it offers up to $4500 to trade in your old gas guzzler for a more fuel-ee for end car. it s a great thing not just for the automobile industry but for consumerses who will now have an opportunity to buy a car that they otherwise not have been able to do. as of this morning there were 180,000 deals that had been inputted and completed. we know that this will be a great weekend to go out and buy an automobile. we