Part one was about golden part two will be about silver. He has over 30 years expressed in the field and it runs the gamut from manufacturing, mining, refining, and trading. He has traded it all physical with futures and forwards. You have probably seen him on cnbc, bloomberg tv talking about Precious Metals as well as the print media and reuters and the wall street journal. Last week he did this at the ipmi, the international Precious Metals as to to. He was at that conference and you can follow him on his blog. [applause] thank you, everyone, thank you for coming. A little color about the presentation to add more than i did. In developing these presentations, its mostly history. I actually have to do a lot of research. When i started doing presentations which was for the ipmi, i started mostly about the market. As you start to cover every topic and you are out of topics then what do you talk about . When i had to think of something new, i got curious about the history of Precious Met
Booktv. He recounts president franklin d. Roosevelts involvement in the debate between interventionists and isolation is prior to americas entry into world war ii. This is about 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] welcome back to lunch and learn, im david cowan president of the museum of American Finance, and today were going to hear from Nicholas Wapshott on his book, the sphinx. Nicholas graduated with a degree in politics and then started his career in newspapers. He rose through the ranks of the london times the worlds oldest continuous newspaper to become its features editor which means he wrote profiles of everybody from playwrights to politicians and everybody in between. And then he moved over to the worlds oldest sunday continuous sunday newspaper the london observer, to do a similar thing. Returns to the times, comes over the pond here to be their north american correspondent, and then joins the new york sun as national and Foreign Editor as well as a columnist. So welcome
Lets begin this hour with news on beats. Im joined by eric chemi. Jon erlichman from los angeles. And cory johnson from severn cisco. Jon erlichman, i went to begin with you. Give us the details of this deal. There is 3 billion for the beats business, still relatively a young business. In terms of the reasoning that apple is giving for this deal, there are a few factors. We talk a lot about Technology Companies doing acquisitions for talent. In this case, they are bringing very talented Music Industry players on board. If you think about what beats has been trying to do in its evolution, going beyond the headphones and now into the subscription music business, a business that it feels needed to be reinvented the same way they felt that earbuds needed to be reinvented. If you combine that with what apple has been doing in streaming recently with their radio service, they clearly are trying to say there are a bunch of reasons why we are buying beats. Eric, you have been doing research ab
Secrets to making the perfect toy for children. We discuss all these focus groups, all these tiny workers. Lets begin this hour with news on beats. Im joined by eric cammie. Jon erlichman from los angeles. Severny johnson from cisco. Jon erlichman, i went to begin with you. Give us the details of this deal. There is 3 billion for the beats business, still relatively a young business. In terms of the reasoning that ,pple is giving for this deal there are a few factors. We talk a lot about Technology Companies doing acquisitions for talent. In this case, they are bringing very talented Music Industry players on board. If you think about what beats has been trying to do in its evolution, going beyond the thephones and now into subscription music business, a business that it feels needed to be reinvented the same way they felt that earbuds needed to be reinvented. If you combine that with what apple has been doing in streaming recently with their radio service, they clearly are trying to s
Like to look not just at the ten kwlooer. 2. 629. Japan, france 1. 76, italy 2. 9 and spain 2. 63 to put that in perspective as we look at our tenyear note. For europe, of course, many of which ive mentioned, it is decidedly negative there as well this morning. It was a relatively quiet night. Stocks in asia finished the day more or less mixed. Europe is in the red across the board. News pretty quiet, slow on the macro front. Although there were a number of headlines perhaps impacting things over there. Lets get back over here and start with our road map and it starts with amazon. Some bare knuckle negotiating tactics, its more than books. Why you cant preorder the lego movie on amazon. Com this morning. And whats at stake for time warner. Fresh highs, of course, have been set for the dow, but as you saw futures are sharply lower this morning eric cantor defeat perhaps weighing on the market . We will discuss that. Overseas profits getting attention. Overseas europe investigating tax p