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It's Tuesday February 11th.

Welcome to Market Flory.

I'm Chris Hill with me in studio. Mr. Jim Mueller. Thanks for

being here. Thanks for having me. We've got the bane of my investing existence

with its latest quarterly report. We're gonna dip dip it into the full mailbag, but we're

going to start with the business story of the day. And that is the fact that nearly two years

after the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint was announced, we are, we're not at the finish line, but we are one big

step closer to this deal being finished. A U.S. District judge ruled in favor of Sprint's $26 billion deal to merge with T-Mobile.

And in terms of the stocks, shares a T-Mobile up about 10 percent, shares of Sprint up 72%.

Yeah, well, 72% from a really low number.

Yes, absolutely.

But the T-Mobile pop was...

Yeah, that's pretty significant significant and I like it because it

it shows the market's expectation that yeah this is going to be actually a good

thing for both for both companies to merge into one.

One of the things I found that kind of unusual is that the claim is that this is going to be

job creating from the get-go. Most mergers like this are job-districtor. be job things for instance and but these guys are saying you know we're going to create

something like 3500 jobs I think is the number for the first year and 11,000 over

the next five years that's pretty cool yes absolutely if they can pull that off and it's interesting because they, you know,

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