he's gary motyl of templeton global equity. president obama side-stepped congress today to help small business. today he signed two executive orders geared to spur economic growth. the first measure requires federal agencies to reduce the research time it takes to get commercial products to market. the goal is to help startups and small businesses create jobs and expand operations a lot quicker. president obama also okayed a new centralized website helping companies find information on federal services. the site, business-u.s.a., should be live within three months. meantime, visa wants to pay some companies to do business with it. visa is going after big customers, paying them to continue accepting visa debit cards. usually, it's the merchants that pay companies like visa when a customer uses a debit card. in the last quarter, visa shelled out $576 million in incentives and rebates to keep large merchants using its system. new rules allow stores to use more than one system to process debit card transactions. visa's offer of reb

. >> tom: here's what we're watching for next week: our friday market monitor guest is gary motyl, chief investment officer at templeton global equity. we'll get a first look at third quarter g.d.p. and new home sales for september. monday, netflix reports quarterly earnings. we'll learn more about how many subscribers quit netflix after controversial changes to its service and fees. >> suzanne: there were harsh words for rupert murdoch, both inside an outside news corp's shareholder meeting in los angeles today. murdoch and his sons are facing a revolt at the annual meeting over their handling of the company's phone hacking scandal. investors will vote on the company's board members, including murdoch and his two sons. while the family's 40% stake virtually guarantees they'll be re-elected, protestors have put the company in an unusual defensive position. >> tom: wal-mart is rolling back health care benefits. the giant retailer is cutting health benefits for part-time workers and raising premiums for many of its full-time staff. wal-mart is the largest u.s. private employer in america i

he's gary motyl, chief investment officer of templeton global equity. google is stepping up its competition against the king of the daily deals business, groupon. today, google unveiled big changes with its "google offers" division. it will now gather daily deals from at least 15 other sites, including gilt city-- which concentrates on the luxury market-- and juice in the city-- focused on moms. in 2010, the internet search giant tried to buy groupon for $6 billion but was rejected. groupon is now pitching an initial public stock offering to potential investors, hoping to raise $11 billion. thousands of women want to have a second go at walmart over discrimination. attorneys representing california female workers, past and present, filed a reformulated lawsuit today. they claim walmart denied them pay raises and promotions because of their gender. in june, the u.s. supreme court found one and a half million women working at thousands of wal-mart stores did not have enough in common to be grouped into a single class-action lawsuit. an attorney for walmar