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Daily Biz - From the NBR News Desk

posted by Denise Royal, Producer at 6:01 PM on 02/11/08

Daily Biz Title GraphicYahoo says no to Microsoft's takeover bid, initially valued at 44.6 billion dollars. Yahoo says the offer is too low -- but Microsoft isn't backing down. What does all of this mean? We'll get analysis from Toan Tran of Morningstar. Plus, Wall Street's most famous index is making big changes. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is adding two firms.. and losing two. New York Bureau Chief Scott Gurvey looks at what brought on the changes.. and what it means to investors.

Also tonight, there's a huge surge in spending on educational testing. We'll show you as we kick off our new series "The New Business of Education" with a look at what 's behind the trend. And finally, tonight's commentator predicts tremendous challendges for the next U.S. president. She's Alice Rivlin, Senior Fellow at Brookings and former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve.

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