For the first time in 17 years the government has plunged into a partial shutdown. At least 800,000 federal workers are furloughed. Another 1 million are working without pay. And the cost to the government? At least $300 million a day in lost economic output, according to IHS.

"America should be furious about this," says The Daily Ticker's Henry Blodget. "I don't care which team you're rooting for, this is just an absurd situation."

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Wall Street has largely shrugged off the DC infighting as the S&P 500 (GSPC) opened higher this morning. In the end, no investors were surprised about waking up to a shutdown.

"Wall Street looked at Washington and saw a group of fighting children, knew exactly what was gonna happen and this is all baked into the stock market," says Blodget.

But the worst is yet to come he insists. "Our government is actually considering defaulting. This is just preposterous...our government has been

It's a tablet showdown: The Kindle Fire HDX, iPad Mini 2 and Microsoft Surface 2 will all be released this fall.

The Kindle Fire will debut its new Mayday feature and the iPad Mini is rumored to come in gold and with fingerprint technology (like the iPhone 5S), but the Microsoft Surface seems confused, says Yahoo Finance tech reporter Aaron Pressman. While other tablets are coming of age it appears that the Surface is stuck in its awkward stage.

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Pressman doesn't think the lackluster projected sales of the Surface 2 even have much to do with the product itself- the Surface 2 actually got pretty decent reviews. Instead Pressman believes the issue lies with Microsoft's confusion over what they want the Surface to be.

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"Microsoft's new commercial has the new high-end expensive Surface Pro and their low-end cheaper Surface that's like an iPad in the same