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Good morning. It is 7.30 on Wall Street. I'm Michael McKee, along with Tom Keene. We're two

hours away from the opening of trading today with futures flat on the day.

Here's some of the news you need to know from American companies, Home Depot,

fourth quarter earnings per share.

$1.17, better than the estimate of $1.10 revenue of $20.98 billion, better than the

20.4 billion consensus. Forecasts Home Depot shares up by at this point 2.6% in early trading.

Western Digital plans to buy Sandisk for about $19 billion in cash and shares.

Western Digital will pay $67.50 a share in cash and just under a and

shares Western Digital will pay 6750 a share in cash and just under a quarter of a share

Western digital shares down by 6.7%

Sandic shares off 4.7%. United Technology says it walked away from preliminary talks about a merger with Honeywell

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