The very latest. A lot of action there as anticipated. And a Health Care Proposal from republican senator ted cruz is gaining apparently some traction on capitol hill well have details on his amendment, proposed amendment and reaction from the ceo of mt. Sinai hospital lets get to our jon fortt, shall we, beginning with some big job cuts over at microsoft jon is in san francisco. Jon . Reporter yeah, kelly, microsoft set to cut thousands of jobs as it focuses its efforts on the cloud, reorganizes its sales operation around that. Its going to be less than 10 of its overall sales force of just under 50,000 people, but cant get a lot more specific than that. Also, some corporate functions connected to sales now, most of these jobs are going to be overseas more than 75 of them. This reorganization, think of it in terms of a different way to approach selling cloud to the enterprise, to finance, to health care. Lots of different specific Industries Microsoft trying to have subject Matter Exp
Would still be meetings at the convention with the leading Party Officials and, you know, the candidate would meet with people and so it was a democratic process in the sense that candidate would meet with people. It was a democratic process in the sense there was consultation, deliberation and so forth, though ultimately the candidates decision. I think as its moved away from the convention beginning 1976, its been a process focused much more on the president ial candidate and the people around the president ial candidate. They still consult with party leaders, talk to capitol hill, talk to governors, solicit input. But ultimately the circle of people in the room when the decision is made tends to be the president ial candidate and a few people close to them. Im going to get our questioners ready, a few more questions and then turn to the audience again. Weve referred to, in terms of the convention, that we might have a different kind of year especially on the republican side. Weve ma
I love the agency. Its done a lot of good work. About 35 years ago, their director at the time, vince mckelvy, sat down and pretty much pulled together on his own the idea of Mineral Resource classification. It really hadnt been put out there as succinctly as vince put it out as you see here posted behind me. He said, look, we have two classes of minerals, reserves and resources. The reserves i can identify, map them, drill them, core them, assay that and i can tell you, for example, their measured or inferred value. Versus resources that i havent discovered yet but theyre hypothetical or maybe even speculative. He made that distinction and further divided resources into measured and indicated. In the upper lefthand corner youll see the box reserve, and thats what reserves are. Theyre indicated theyre actually bankable in the oil industry. You can book reserves, take to the bank, its collateral. Same in the Mining Industry. So theres a difference between re reserves and resources. The
Lists of minerals and strategic and critical, they differ from time to time and because of economic conditions. They do infer a supply chain which marc is going to get into here a little while. They also, infer that there is foreign imports either partial or total. So that is of interest to us. And there could be severe economic repercussions if, for shortage of Critical Minerals and of Course National security concerns tells you that mineral is strategic. This is, as i said, one of the best probably sources on the topic and again, the definitions are a little squishy but they say that there are minerals that actually dictate the Economic Health of the nation or Strategic Minerals will always be critical, but Critical Minerals will not always be strategic, okay . Now, here the different metals and element involved in both classes and you can read that. The books get into it in detail. I dont want to belabor too much today. Notice Strategic Minerals include rare earths. Fissionable mate
The stage to speak in frankfurt. We have eu finance ministers gathering and luxembourg. Lets have a look at how we are looking on the euro. Basically flat the fx market is pretty quiet at one dollar 11193. More people are betting that we will not see a rate rise. A 10 probability for this month, whether we see a fed hike this month. December is still below 50 , so clearly, more money in risk. Continuing to look relatively resolute, 49 at the moment. Lets have a look at stocks. Sab miller will be an interesting one to watch. Down 2 . Is this a ploy . Is this a defense ploy, trying to show off how strong it is . In africa, latin america, in the longer term . Is it being defensive versus the 8ab index . The offer could be in excess of 100 billion. It was due to come to us one day after the u. K. Take of the panel put up or shut up deadline. There were reports in the new millerst that sab does not want it and will fight it. A Norwegian Air shuttle is up 3 10 of a percent on the back of str