Irish man is based on the true story of Frank Sherrill a truck driver turned hitman for philadelphia mobster russell buffalo. Played by joe pesci. Put him on a fall 8 ok pepsis character once sheerin played by Robert De Niro to take out the powerful union leader jimmy hoffa played by pitino. Well good to meet you too even if its over the phone the irish man is a milestone in movie history the 1st time ever that the great Italian American actors have all teamed up together with the great Italian American director Martin Scorsese. Its like being a tight. End you dont get up there you know you havent met with Martin Scorsese and so you take chances which are like you know about these movies or they have a time when i come out 15 years in the making a lot of that is getting the scripts right getting the act is getting everybody available and then it got to a point where we we took so long with our schedules doing other films and other commitments that by the time we got to do it they could
Speech at Georgetown University on thursday. And the huawei perspective. On 5g, securities concerns and more. But first, our top story. Percent six and a half 6. 5 . S comes after posting the consecutive quarters for slower sales. Line start with the top where there is not enough growth for red hot red hat to offset the cost. This is one word expectations. If you look at ibms core business, they are managing it for profitability as if they can. As people build the hyper cloud infrastructures, there needs in the Core Technology space, those change. They will need to drive efficiency in that area and automate where they can, Deploy Technology that allows them to , so less costs in that area they can stabilize that part of business. To say stabilized is no overstatement. Business was not able to grow in revenue terms. When do you need to see it filtered through to the bottom line . You look closely, we are starting to see it now. What that means is you have a red hat product that is put t
We have more on his appearance, plus reaction. And the huawei perspective. We get thoughts from the chinese telecoms Carrier Business Group on 5g, securities concerns and more. But first, our top story. Ibm fell as much as 6. 5 , the most since october 2015. This comes after the fifth consecutive quarter for posting slower sales. Joined by my am guest. Lets start with the top line decrying. Is there not enough growth from red hat to offset the cost in that core business . Yes. Frankly, this is a question of one word, which is expectations. There are a lot of expectations for red hat that paid a lot for the Company Going forward. If you look at ibms core business, they are managing it for profitability as best they can. But the Global Services segment has historically been a profit driver and a cash cow. But you have to remember as people build the hyper cloud they moveture, as more of the cloud, there needs to be in the Core Technology space that change. They will need to drive efficie
Softbank continues to design a plan for wework despite signs that the startup prefers jpmorgan. Afterflix shares jumping investors concerns are called about a concern back home. We are seeing u. S. Futures unchanged this is after u. S. Stocks fell in the regular session. We had tech and Energy Leading the declines on the s p 500. We also had treasury yields declining today. We have u. S. Retail Sales Numbers that came in and contracted missing expectations. Up the sentiment for potential rate cuts coming later this month from the fed. However, we did see the pressure continued to mount as we also had china saying they would retaliate if u. S. Congress is up to have legislation in hong kong. Sentiment not great across markets. We saw the u. S. Dollar taking a dip. Lets take a look at asia. More of the same with sentiment taking a hit. Take a look at how futures are setting up and asia. We are seeing a mildly positive start when it comes to trading in some parts of asia. We have japanese
Good afternoon to welcome to the seventh annual san antonio book festival. How many have been here all day . Great festival so far. Absolutely. Heres the good news, we saved the best for last. Welcome with Douglas Brinkley one of the authors who was closest to us because he and his family that are here drove down i. 35 from where they live for todays event. Hes a distinguished professor in humanities at history at Rice University but for the purpose of the conversation today, hes one of the great historians in our country and if you are an armchair historian like im, he is a must read, and ive been reading douglas for years, but i, american moonshot is the best work youve done if i can say so. A really terrific book. There are some younger people in the audience, but i am a cold war baby and catholic at that and i can remember them a interrupting school in second gd drafting school in second grade to announce that the commies have launched sputnik and a month later there was a second a