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>> i think you're seeing that, the service companies are the leading indicator because the effort has dropped off. you see the big service companies cutting back. we're having to make some personnel reductions around the world. you see other companies announcing that as well. so yes that's coming and we're all watching to see how long does $50 or $55 oil persist. >> which is why we saw a major deal announced this week, shell oil acquiring bg group for $70 billion in cash and stock, a monster deal by anybody's standards. were you surprised? >> not as surprised. the companies have mutually attra...

Profit outlook, blaming hard drive supply shortages due to flooding in thailand. diamond foods cratered on reports on accounting irregularities. and some m&a activity. martin marietta is proposing a stock for stock merger with vulcan materials, sending both stocks higher. that's it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. now back to "hardball." i always believed that this was a long-term project that reversing a culture here in washington, dominated by special interests, was going to take more than a year, was going to take more than two years, it was going to take more than one term. probab...

Crisis. the dow jones industrial average plunging 247 points. s&p 500 falling 23, and the nasdaq tumbled 52. the german finance minister, wolfgang shovel, dampening hopes that a definitive solution to the debt crisis can be reached at a summit that is scheduled for october 23rd. now that drove the euro lower and it weighed on european banks trading here in the u.s. american banks had some problems of their own today with wells fargo missing earnings estimates by a penny. citigroup slid despite beating its estimates with a 75% jump in quarterly earnings, fuelled by a one-time accounting gain. i...

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