Yesterday, poor manufacturing data started September off on the wrong note, although a late-day rally pushed the Nasdaq slightly into positive territory. Today, all three major indexes are down, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEX: ^DJI) off about 0.04% and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq both declining 0.2%. Stocks have tread water all day as little headlines have left traders in a holding pattern in advance of unemployment data later this week.

The Dow was not without winners, as both Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Boeing (NYSE: BA) are putting in strong performances. Boeing is up 1.5% after revising upward its forecast for airline demand from China, and executives see a coming wave of consolidation.

The most exciting news is that the fiscal cliff, a poison pill Congress inserted into negotiations to balance the budget, could get pushed back by at least six months. No one fully expects Congress to allow the across-the-board cuts to crush the defense industry, including fellow Dow component United Technologies (NYSE: UTX), but recent Congressional stalemates have left what should be a slam-dunk decision in doubt.

Disney has seen shares pop 2.5% -- best in the index -- as the streaming-video deal between Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Epix has investors seeing dollar signs surrounding Disney's rich catalog of movies. The coming war over online-content domination should see multiple bidders coming to Disney -- and the company doesn't have to strike exclusive deals, so it should be able to negotiate increasingly lucrative deals across multiple platforms.

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