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WAL-MART EARNINGS: The retail giant reports earnings before the bell on Thursday and Margaret Brennan looks at the numbers as well as the overall retail climate. The government stimulus checks buoyed Wal-Mart earlier in the summer... but with most of that money long-gone, will the consumer crunch finally catch up?
| TODAY'S ECON DATA: The Consumer Price Index will headline today's economic data. Steve Liesman reports on the latest inflation indicator and also this week's jobless claims.
| VOTE FOR BUSINESS: At 10a ET, the Chamber of Commerce will launch the "VoteForBusiness Bandwagon." What does it involve? Two buses will be heading to key congressional districts to promote issues and candidates important to business community. Hampton Pearson looks at the lobbying effort and what the elections mean for American business.
| NEW STENT, OLD STENT: Are expensive, highly-profitable stents better than older, cheaper heart drugs? A new study and editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine raise the issue again. Are Americans spending too much on the multi-billion dollar stent business when cheap, generic heart drugs instead are a viable alternative?
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