Looking at strong sales to aerospace and construction customers. Alcoa executives are keeping a cautious tone as worries linger about the budget battles in washington. You look at the businesses, you actually see that the endowment dow stream businesses are hitting new records profitabilities. Another quarter of that and record year. Thats great. When you look t upstream where its basically about the commodities coming down, the cost curve, we are coming down on the cost curve 4 point. On the smelting business, our aluminum business. So thats pretty much what the quarter looks like. Ceo Klaus Kleinfeld said sentiment rather than market fundamentals will be driving a rebound in lump naluminum price its good that we start with alcoa. The earnings season is a shocker, a shocker shock to the system. Yeah. A shock to the system. You ease in, you know, never we reported alcoa but you what if you had to start with google or or apple or you had to know, you with this, you know, 9 billion, smel
JOHN BISSET/Stuff Many riders attended for the first time, “ticking it off their bucket list”. Others lamented the fact it was the final Brass Monkey. “Things have changed over 40 years and as it’s evolved, so have all the costs of running the event.
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Three-year-old Arlo Palmer rode his bike through the gate to get a badge for his first Brass Monkey. “There s a whole lot goes on behind the scenes that they’re (participants) not privy to and some of those are compliance costs.” The first rally was held in 1980 and attracted about 300 motorcyclists. The event peaked in 1990 with about 5000 riders, but numbers had dwindled in recent years.