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P&L: Deals Mania With GE-Baker Hughes And CenturyLink-Level 3

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It was a big weekend for big deals. Pimm and Lisa talk to Rick Clough, a Bloomberg industrials reporter, about GE merging its oil division with Baker Hughes. Then, they discuss CenturyLink's $34 billion deal to buy Level 3 Communications with Alex Sherman, a Bloomberg deals reporter and host of Bloomberg's Deal of the Week podcast. They also talk to Brendan Brown, chief economist and head of economic research at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, about why Janet Yellen needs to go. Finally, Marc Levine, chairman of the Illinois State Board of Investment, defends index investing vs active investing.

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