Hikes he says the u. S. Economy is room is moving in the right direction setting 55 consecutive months of private sector job growth. The canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife paid a visit to the war memorial in ottawa where a soldier was shot that yesterday by an islamic extremist. They laid flowers at the scene which is still covered in Yellow Police tape. The Prime Minister later told parliament that unity is canadas ultimate weapon against extremists. Comcast is reported a four percent rise in sales and a 50 gain in profit in the third quarter. The company is still awaiting approval for its Time Warner Cable takeover added 315,000 new broadband customers in the quarter, helping offset the declining cabletv customers. E parkssales at them helped drive sales higher. Facebook may be officially blocked in china but the ceo is devoting a lot of time to the country. Mark zuckerberg has been learning mandarin and showed of his skills while speaking at beijing university. Chin
Parliament observed a miami of silence today. Drug maker pfizer has just authorized a new 11 billion Share Buyback program in addition to the 1 billion remaining on the companys buyback plan. Their sales have been declining since 2011. They blame generic drugs for stealing sales from block busters like lipitor and viing a rasm streaming Radio Service pandora said sales rose and revenue from mobile grew 52 . Listener hours were up and the companys active listener base grew more than 5 . Still, their forecast for the coming quarter is coming in less than estimated. That has shares trading down. App ook launched a new ios called rooms. It comes from facebooks creative labs and is the companys latest attempt to build standalone apps independent of the social network. Now to our lead. Amazon posted a wider loss of 437 million on revenue of more han 20 billion. The c. E. O. Is still spending, for the pending purchase of twit er to the new kindle fire. Forecast for the Holiday Quarter revenue
With the help of our economic analyst richard gill, well find out on this edition of economics usa. Im david schoumacher. We like to think of our economy as one that runs on competition. For instance, we can choose the brand ofasoline weuy. If one station sets its prices too high, thene can simply go across thet if one station for a lower price. O high, if enough drivers pass the highprice station by, sooner or later it goes out of business. Of course, if in order to attract business a station sets its prices too low and cant cover costs, sooner or later itll go out of business, too. But what happens to prices if one company, or one person, controls all the gas stations . That was what the country faced in 1890. The company was standard oil the man was john d. Rockefeller. This was the infant oil industry john d. Rockefeller saw after the civil war. Drilling equipment was hand and footoperated in those days and available cheap. Anybodcould join the o rh, and anybody did. With thousands
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Its. History you know everyone. Says that if you have to fish that was. Due to africa starts december twelfth. Welcome to global Three Thousand today we meet a young woman driving a chocolate revolution in indonesia. We head to yemen to witness how the war there is affecting children. And we find out why undocumented immigrants in the u. S. Are being deported even those with a job and
a family. Many people dream of seeking a Better Future in the u. S. Most arrive legally but about eleven Million Immigrants in the country are believed to be undocumented they come from across the globe in recent years most have come from Mexico Guatemala el salvador and honduras theyre fleeing gang crime violence and poverty many children on mothers with their children. Around sixty percent of undocumented immigrants have lived in the country for more than a decade. Have at least one child who is a u. S. Citizen by birth and they own their own home. Rose escobar was living a fulfilled life in texas she m