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Well the Dow 's struggled to beat yesterday’s record high. Stephanie Elam is in New York with a look at the final numbers and other business news headlines on this Thursday. Hi, Stephanie.

Hi Richard. It's struggled but it did really managed to pull / out. Stocks ended a little change today. News of big deals and cheaper oil was all set by concerns about the economy. Wachovia agreed to buy A.G. Edwards for nearly seven billion dollars, creating the nation's second largest retail brokerage firm behind only Merrill Lynch. So / take a look at the numbers, the Dow, it was positive but then it turned in a negative territory closing down about 5 points at 13627. But if you look at that percentage what bases at, you know, pretty much flat line there.

The NASDAQ, however, better by / just under half a percentage of 26 or 4 and SMP 500 a new record again but not so much. It’s up less than one point today at 1530.

I'll take it. I'll take it.

Yeah. We'll take it. Yeah.

I'll take it to the bank. Yeah. Hey, two guys at the, used to be, well, figuratively arch enemies, we are talking of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs .They got together last night. How’d that go?

Yeah, you are right. You've probably seen the commercial's, right? For the mach which marks the PC. Well, Ipod and Microsoft who runs software, runs most home computers / of course are arch rivals and not always friendly ones. But the two billionaires who run those companies made nice last night. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates got together at a conference on the West Coast and they reminisced about how they were the youngest guys in the industries when they started out. And they are now at about 50, the oldest guys around in the business. Kinda funny. We didn't think of this that way.

It is, actually. Those guys’ve been the oldest now, used to be so young. Hey, let's take a look at some legal challenges for Wal-Mart now. They seem they can get away by without having something happen to them.

That's probably what happens when are you like the biggest retailer in the world. (Yeah.) People are always watching you. Well, some 72000 current and former Wal-Mart employees in New Jersey say they were denied raise and were forced to work off the clock. Two lower courts had denied the plaintiffs' requests for class action status. But in today's five to one opinion, the state high court said, the grievances of the employee would be best handled through a class action rather than individual cases. Wal-Mart said it was disappointed with the decision but noted that the ruling was not engaged of the case's merit. But simply was showing the decision that / should be tried as a class action.

Um, alright. Well, since we have been talking about the looks GE in the picture here they are also getting a little bit of lawsuit action.

Yeah, that's true. I don't know if they wanna get in that action but they are. Yeah. In this case that S a lawyer has filed a discrimination sue against the world second largest company. L has worked for GE for 13 years. She accuses the company of unfair practices towards women regarding pay and promotions. She is also seeking $500 million and damages and want class actions status to represent about 1500 executive level female employees. S says GE's percentage of high level women executives has not changed in about 5 years. Not surprisingly, GE disputes that and strongly denies her allegations.

That's the latest from New York. Richard, have a good one.

Alright, thanks Stephanie, you too.

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目前占据了很有利的位置
不过不等于其他人没有机会

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