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The Dow is up by 29 percent for the year on this penultimate day of trading for 2013. And, Sprint's CEO talks fast data, HD phone calls, "The Three Little Pigs," and a potential T-Mobile merger.

The Dow is up by 29 percent for the year on this penultimate day of trading for 2013.  A check on the markets for the year.

It was a big day Friday for the mobile phone carrier Sprint. It’s stock rose 8.3 percent, amid unconfirmed chatter that it might one day merge with T-Mobile. Sprint’s CEO, Dan Hesse doesn’t comment on speculation, but he is willing to talk to us about all the equipment his troops have been ripping out this year — at the cost of some disruption — to provide data-sucking smart phones with more speed.  

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