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Stocks soaring yesterday on all of this news about a potential deal out of washington. Yesterday, the market was up by better than 2 . A gain of 323 points for the dow. Thats one of the best market days all year. The futures this morning after that big rally are actually, believe it or not, indicated slightly higher. Barely up there, but you did see a downturn earlier in the futures that turned around after it looked like a deal was at least a very good possibility. As for the publics opinion on the whole situation, americans are saying fire them all. Theres a new nbc news wall street journal ...

Every morning here since the election. Fiscal cliff, big, big issue. There are now, it seems, growing numbers of people on both the right and the left who would like to see us just go over that fiscal cliff. How big of a problem would that be . That would be a big problem. I actually still believe that those the democrats, the administration, republicans in the final analysis dont want to see that happen. They do understand that not only would that present a problem in the near term as we went over the cliff at the end of the year, but we still then have the whole debt ceiling fight that would...

Years. Companies are showering cash on shareholders. S p 500 companies bought back more than 128 billion of their own shares in the third quarter. Thats the highest level since the Fourth Quarter back in 2007. If you combine buybackes and dividends, you get a total of 207 billion. Thats just in the third quarter. Take a look at the futures right now and see how markets are setting themselves up for the morning. We have some green arrows again. The dow looking like it would open up about 30 points higher, nasdaq looking like it would open higher. We have more on the markets in just a few minute...

American retailers struggle as weather continues to impact sales. Luckily shareholders get a buyback. Credit suisse pleads guilty and the stock is up. Paying billions in penalties for helping americans avoid paying taxes. Your Swiss Bank Account remains a secret. Gopro, go big, go public. Wearable cameras. 1 billion in revenue. One extreme ipo. First up home depot reported First Quarter numbers, 96 cents a share, that was a miss. Revenues shy of consensus. Frank blake the ceo says the quarter was hurt by a slow start to the spring selling season but adds the retailer had solid results in nonwe...

Varney and company about to begin. Right from the get go check the share price of facebook and look at it go, is bringing in a turn of money, 2. 9 billion in the last quarter. 62 of that came from mobile ad sales. That company is now worth the market value of 185 billion. As we said a moment ago they only employs 6300 people around the world. Art laughter is with us on this one. This is the new economy. Looks like it is concentrating wealth, not creating that many new jobs. I see this as a problem with the new economy. Do you . No i really dont. Remember, i still write cursive. You got to know...