DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN ANCHOR: As we told you earlier, we do have that $2 1/2 billion stock deal today. Sasha Salama's up at the Nasdaq marketsite, where the companies involved trade. Good morning, Sasha.</s>SASHA SALAMA, CNN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Thank you, David and Christine. Maxim, MXIM, does indeed trade here on the Nasdaq, and it's making a $2 1/2 billion purchase today. It's a maker of analog chips, and it's buying Dallas Semiconductor for $2 1/2 billion in stock. Dallas Semi, the ticker DS, does trade on the New York Stock Exchange, and Maxim is paying a premium -- quite a hefty one -- of 46 percent over Dallas' closing price on Friday, which was just under 27. Dallas makes specialty computer chips, and Maxim is saying that it thinks this deal will add slightly to its bottom line in the year 2001. So watch MXIM today. Also keep an eye on Cisco. Susan Lisovicz was talking about how John Chambers is in Davos. Well, over the weekend, Chambers made some comments about Cisco, saying that this quarter is actually shaping up to be worse than he even thought three weeks ago. You may remember that Cisco held an analyst meeting on January 10th, and at that time, Cisco did say that the slowdown in capital spending, especially from telecom customers, was the main culprit for dragging down the whole quarter. Well, Chambers is now saying that slowdown is even worse than he had expected three weeks ago. There you see Cisco's chart. Chambers does say, though, that for the longer term, the outlook looks promising. And as far as earnings this week, keep an eye out for Expedia today, a loss expected. And Amazon.com expected to report a loss tomorrow. Back to the studio.</s>CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR: OK, Sasha, big week ahead -- thanks so much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
Nasdaq Trading Preview: Maxim to Purchase Dallas Semiconductor for $2 1/2 billion