Morning Market Snapshot: January 31st, 2011

January 31, 2011

Good Morning. It's Monday, January 31, 2011. At this hour, U.S. equity futures are higher. Overseas, the Asian markets were lower, while the European markets are down. Alpha Natural (ANR) buys Massey Energy (MEE) for $8.5B, $69.33 per share...Comcast (CMCSA, CMCSK) and General Electric (GE) closed their transaction to create a joint venture, NBCUniversal, LLC...Borders Group (BGP) reported that it will delay payments to certain parties--vendors, landlords, others--scheduled for the end of January.