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For many professionals and corporate managers. Super, super, superduper hot. Its crazy. The 40hour work week is history. Daddy okay, hold on just a minute. 60to80hour work weeks are now the norm. You dont think youre working too much . No. Do you . No. Do you . No. Youre brainwashed. [laughter] maybe were all crazy. Maybe we are. [clock ticking] we have eight weeks of vacation. Eight weeks of vacation . Eight weeks, yes. Like most frenchmen marchand has no guilt about taking so much time off. In fact, its the law. Fulltime workers in france are guaranteed at least five weeks vacation and a max...

Stocks fell yesterday after the release of the fed minutes. The dow dropping about 90 points. You can see right there, 16,040 is the final trade. The s p 500 traded within a point of a new alltime high before falling 12 points by the end of the day. The futures this morning, at least at this point, is weaker. Just barely, though. The dow futures down by 8. 5 points. Dow futures off by 11. 5 points. The Consumer Price index and the weekly jobless claims report, those will both hit the wires at 8 30 a. M. Eastern tim. Cpi is expected to rise by 0. 2 . First time claims are expected to come in at...

Mind about where stocks are going for the long term, and thats higher. A lot higher as a matter of fact. Well hear more from Warren Buffett coming up here. General motors doing more damage control today after a report shows there was a simple fix to the ignition problem that costs as little as 1 a car. The company made a socalled business decision not to spend that money. Today we investigate how a decision like that ever gets made in a company like gm. The answer is illuminating and alarming. It continues to be the story gripping the entire world. More fast moving developments in the malaysia...

From Michelle Carusocabrera in a few minutes, but first andrew is here with the top stories. Thank you, becky. Hope everyone had a great weekend. In corporate headlines we have a big one, netflix need for speed at the center of the big deal. A new deal with our Parent Company comcast. The two sides have struck a deal under which netflix is paying comcast for faster delivery of the video streaming service. This marks the first such agreement for netflix and is sparking speculation that other content providers may also strike similar deals. Were going to talk a lot about this throughout the prog...

To intervene with his country right now and that seems to have taken the wind out of the sails. The dow was up 125 points at its peak today, and now up just 27, and the nasdaq has turned negative. The s p 500 in danger of reversing as well. Well keep an eye on that closely. Yesterday we put in the new closing high for the s p 500 at 1848. Today it looks that could be called into question. Of course, the nasdaq, and this, bill, will be the question, was losing some steam even before this round biotech was pulling back. All of that well get into. If 2013 was the year of the activist investor, is...