mike egeck helps the merchandising.oing back to the comcast-time warner deal, there will be no sec objections on this one where there will be several ftc objections. this is a clean deal. >> it looks like joseph bank is dumping men's wearhouse and on valentine's day. breaking up is hard to do. the offer for joseph bank expires on march 28. dayton. some companies are getting together and others are cutting back. >> the insurer is eliminating 1500 jobs. the cuts will come from the top-rated casualty unit which will reduce earnings by $255 million before taxes. >> these cuts at aig should help boost profit, which beat estimates for the last quarter. the insurer also boosted the quarterly dividend by 25% and authorized another $1 billion in stock buybacks. aig giving back to shareholders. >> betty liu spoke to the ceo after the earnings release yesterday. >> it is nothing more than clearly we have got to continually manage efficiency and productivity of our company. we spent a lot of time working on moving people to lower-c