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believes washington must do everything possible to avoid defaulting on its debt. liz: the adp jobs report came out weaker than forecast. adp said companies hired 166,000 new workers since september. the august increase was revised downward to 159,000. david: we may not get the friday report. so which have to rely on adp. activist investor dan lobe is turning up the heat on sotheby s and wants to out of the man who is both chairman and ceo. lobe says the auction house s leader has failed to grasp the modern art world. liz: the seed giant, monsanto agreed to buy the farm analytics firm farm corp for $930 million. monsanto announce ad deeper quarterly loss as sales dropped. david: reuters, reported that cargo, one of the leading traders is in final stages of the deal to buy archer daniels midland cocoa business. if it goes ahead it would have a price setting global giant. we have a lot of news breaking this hour. after the bell starts right now. liz: look where we ended ....
shovel-ready project. if there were would would have done it. i if we had invested more in modernizing our infrastructure, it wouldn t some of it might still be spending out but that s fine. maybe we might have been a little bit could have spent a little more. could have spent more and i m not so sure we were all right that it all had to be timely. this was going to be a long slog, and we did need the longer run investment. i think this debate has gone on for a long time but the fact that so many people placed so much of the emphasis on the recovery, and the single bill actually revealed the flaw. growth is not a bill. greg greg is a commitment to the kinds of incentives that get people to invest, to hire people and to want to spend money. it s not a bill. if we look at the economy today, the striking feature has always been that the business sector had the financial wherewithal to spend more and just didn t. think harder about better incentives, including d ....
tactic to discourage london s homeless from sleeping on the streets. two that ever years ago the last american combat troops left iraq. tonight that crypt is nearing a state of emergency. the second largest city, mosul, is now in the hands of a group inspired by al qaeda. fighters took over that city in an attack that lasted just a few hours. the group is auld the islamic state of iraq and levante. it has intensified its fighting in iraq since april when elections put their political rivals in power. imran kahn reports on the violence today from baghdad. reporter: in the early hours of tuesday, fight presser the islamic state of iraq and the levante launched you one of the boldest attacks in the north. 1300 fightsers besieged the city and within a few hours took over at least 75% of it, according to local sources. iraq s army and police forces also abandoned their positions. within a few hours then a prison break freed 2,400 prisoners. then the provincial govern ....
region. help us understand what the fourth-largest city in iraq. i thought there was a .errific set of maps find out .t is an autonomous part we will talk about this a lot in the hour. particularly markets on the move in the past couple of hours. lex jack lew will testify before the house subcommittee today. finally, soccer to talk about. italy versus your away versus uruguay. i am enjoying it. i did not think i would. i am a football guy. that we are doing it nothing like the enthusiasm of the mexico coach. those frat functions thursday nights a few years ago. markets havenow? deteriorated in the past 40 minutes or so. euro turns. oil was a 105. it was down when we all came in. back to 106 .98. on to the next screen. was 113.de there is foreign-exchange to keep foreign-exchange hounds happy as well. 10-15s case-shiller back years. this is the good news we have seen. the rollover as well. housing of the question. the rent and buy calculation part of that ....