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About 2. 25 points. The market closing lower once again today, adding to the losses we have been seeing since the election. Is a deal in washington what investors are waiting for to get back into the game . Joining me now is ben pace from deutsch back private wealth management, Scott Collier and our own mandy drury. Good to see everybody. Ben pace, what is behind this selling, and when will it end . Whats your take . I dont think its really economic right now, maria. I think its pretty political. Every pronouncement weve heard over the last four, five days has decreased the likelihood were goi...

What is going on with this market, you have seen selling since the election basically. We are down six of the last eight weeks. Majority of the dow opponents have come under pressure. The vix, the fear index, to the upside. I cannot tell you how many people were asking me about todays jobs numbers. Obviously, we have had Hurricane Sandy to contend with. We have our bed numbers then and they were also disappointing. We are still remaining under pressure. Lori the fiscal cliff front and center this week. Rich edson is in washington with the latest. Rich since the election, they have been staking...

Woodruff we zero in on two topics, starting with the spiraling scandal that forced the c. I. A. Director to step down. Ifill and we assess the administrations postelection agenda with senators dick durbin and Kay Bailey Hutchison. Woodruff then, ray suarez gets the latest on the escalating violence in gaza after israeli air strikes killed the military leader of hamas. Ifill plus, there were new calls today for laws to police pharmacies like the one linked to the meningitis outbreak. Betty ann bowsers update includes the story of one familys loss from the disease. I cant really think of one the...

Sure, maria. Well, tell us, what happened first yesterday at final mediation talks . Was a deal ever close . You know, the judge has a gag order. Hell have my head if i talk about what went on during the mediation, but i think that he wanted to make sure that he did everything in his power to try to find a deal, if there was one to be found. You know, i appreciate the fact that he went through that effort. I was hopeful, but i think realistically that was going to be a tough thing to pull off. How much of an implication it was the fact the union leader did not show up to those mediation talks ...

Issues at play with two special guest hosts. Wharton professor of finance Jeremy Siegel and trusted american businessman steve forbes. Both onset and ready to start this discussion at 6 00. First, though, andrew has a few of the top business headlines. Lets talk about some of the headlines this morning. Cisco systems buying Cloud Network start up meraki for 1. 2 billion in cash. It was founded in 2006 by members of m. I. T. s laboratory for computer science. Joe, i dont know if you take credit for any of that. Bp plans to spend up to 5. 9 billion buying back stock. Last week the oil giant agre...