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Oct.02
7:04 PM ET
Thursday, 2 Oct 2008
Video: Maria Bartiromo's Market Message

Maria Bartiromo discusses Thursday's top business and financial stories, and looks ahead to tomorrow's events.

(Watch her on-air: CNBC TV's Closing Bell.)

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Topics discussed in video above:

- Jobless claims at 7-year high

- Shares of General Electric [GE  Loading...      ()   ] (parent company of CNBC) dropped almost 10 percent Thursday, following the sale of shares to investors including Warren Buffett. The drop raised doubts about the commercial paper market.

- Oil prices dropped

- Gold prices also slid as the dollar gained against a basket of currencies.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Eli Lilly [LLY  Loading...      ()   ] was the "mystery bidder" for ImClone [IMCL  Loading...      ()   ]. Bristol-Myers Squibb [BMY  Loading...      ()   ] had raised its own bid for the biotech, with which it partners on cancer treatment Erbitux.

- Friday's earnings reports:
-- Cigna [CI  Loading...      ()   ]
-- Family Dollar [FDO  Loading...      ()   ]

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