Higher, nasdaq climbing. 33 , we keep hearing obituaries for this market will the alleged cause of death will something natural like old age or stocks went up too far too fast given the fundamentals . Will be slaughtered by the disappointment out of washington maybe just maybe the grim reapers being held at bay by a series of positive events closely tied to the nature of how companies are doing, hence the continued sense on both wall street and main street that theres value and then there are hills. Or at least values and then prices just look at broadcoms 105 billion hostile attempt to acquire qualcomm the thing about technology is skeptics dont understand how the industry has gotten so much bigger certainly the stocks are valuable with trading. The tie up with disney and fox, the story broke earlier today where disney will be buying the nonsport part just like broadcom trying to buy qualcomm, a disney fox deal make it so therell be less concentration on one product in this case espn.