this one is one vib per second, one hertz. how long does it take in seconds to undergo one complete cycle? begin with a w. - one. - one. okay. let's suppose i swing it at twice the frequency. how long would it take for one cycle? not everybody be seeing what most people be seeing. check the neighbor and see if the neighbor knows what the time is for one complete cycle, when it shook at two hertz. what's the answer, gang? how many say a half? all right, all right. let's suppose i told you i shake it back and forth... [makes sounds] ...seven times per second. what's the frequency? - 1/7. - seven. be careful, be careful, be careful. - do you see what happened? - yeah. [laughter] you all expected me to ask what's the--what's the time. i'm gonna call that time begin with the p. period. period. and you all expected me to ask you that. be careful in school because i didn't ask you that. i asked you a different question. what's the frequency? seven. next friday, when we take our exam, you start to read--"oh, i know what the answer to

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it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. >>> >>> welcome back. companies are still putting their money to work with several targeting aovers. watson pharmaceuticals is reportedly close to buying swiss drug maker to $7 billion, this would be watson's biggest acquisition since it bought aero group for $1.7 million. meantime zynga adds more games buying omg pop. it makes the game draw something which has been downloadeded 35 million times since being launched two months ago. zi joining us to talk more about m&a is vp at intra links. matt, let's talk about it as an indicator for the economy. what does it tell us about the markets? >> as you know, intra links sees thousands of deals out there in the market where people look on leverage our technology to execute due diligence and m&a transactions. and those deals are on our system typically three to six months before they're announced or closed out there in the market, so it gives us a nice early view in to what is going on. and in our most recent deal flow indicator report, we showed a 1.5% sequential

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it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. . . . ten-day parliamentary session mpc with a promise for political and economic forum. but the markets worry that the call for change may spell further pain ahead for investors. cnbc has been following the national conference from the grounds in beijing. what is your assessment after watching this for the past many days? do you get the feeling that china is out to rebalance its economy and that could spell a dose of pain for investors, especially in the mainland? >> reporter: well, thii think reaction that we've seen is very puzzling, especially because investors going into this npc meeting had very low feelings. premiere will be vacating his position and a whole new leadership will be in place by 2013. there was very little direct reference as to how deep and how quickly these reforms maybe, especially on the capital market side during this three-hour press conference with the premi premier. he did have specific comments on the trade balances, especially after the u.s. opened up a case a

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it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. >>> welcome back to "fast money" live at the nasdaq market site. take a look at yahoo after-hours. sending a letter to yahoo saying they're going to launch a proxy fight within the week. what do you think? >> they sort of -- they telegraph that this was going to happen before. but i think they hoped with the board changes going on after yang's departure there didn't need to be a fight. now from the letter -- and this is a toned down letter. this is a -- you know, it's trying to be constructive letter. i think the yahoo board will have a fight on its hands. >> is it going to move the stock? >> i don't know. we talk about the idea of a stuck holder. a stockholder who is stuck. this may be that situation. >> all right. shares of apple hitting new all-time highs every day this week. apple surging ever closer to 600 bucks paed. our own pete najarian saw wild activity. nearly 11% of all options volume today apple. that's extraordinary. >> we traded over 19.5 million contracts total today. 2

it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. >>> good morning. the ball is in ben bernanke's court. an improvement in the labor market lead the fed it to change course. the chairman convenes a meeting today. balls in the court, those are basketball analogies. it's also the beginning of march madness. it's tuesday, march 13, 2012. "squawk box" begins right now. >>> good morning, everybody. welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc. i'm becky quick along with joe kernen. andrew ross sorkin is off today.

it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. >>> good morning and welcome back to >>> good morning and welcome back to "worldwide exchange." it's time for your global markets report. let's start here in the united states and take a look at those futures again and see how we're setting up for trade on wall street. if the markets were to open now the dow higher by 23 points, the nasdaq by five and the s&p 500 by just about two. of course this after a mixed session yesterday, beccy, and that big rally we saw on tuesday. just want to highlight again the dow closed at its highest level since december 31st of 2007. the nasdaq closing at its highest since november of 2000. so still making some stride here in terms of the u.s. equity markets. how is it looking? >> let's take a check. this is the picture as it's shaping up across the region. the stoxx 600 is balanced between the gainers and the losers as we can see from the wall behind me and as you can also see if you look at the interday charts which shows almost entirely flat, in fact

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