Sponsoring something because its all about boxing and reading and writing. And so are thrilled to present the section on paper or plastic and brother environmental and perhaps some brother choices that will be hearing about from the panel. Let me introduce our moderator and we will get the session going. A couple of logistical things first. There will be a brief signing after the session in the lobby. Library normally closes at 5 00 oclock on a saturday will be holding library open until 515 which is the conclusion of the session. Which means if you are not book site, we ask you to exit the building expediently as possible as there is another if it here this evening to. So to the order of business, barbara is the senior producing editor of environmental vertical. And has also been for the New York Times, technology or review. The boston globe magazine. Vessels producing Television Documentaries for pbs and the Discovery Channel in the History Channel and others. Shes also a former prof
Ever at 16,010 after racing up more than 100 points thursday. The nasdaq pushed up 48 points, and the s p 15. Gold continues to lose shine drifting down 17 yesterday. And oil was unchanged. Apple wins 290 mllion from samsung after a jury agreed samsung copied various iphone features. The fcc considers allowing cell phone calls in flight and reports say ups will raise rates on most ground and air freight shipping by 4. 9 next year. Chris gersch of altimus capital joins us on the show now. Dow 16 thousand. Chris, where do we go from here . Good morning. I think right now, although this is the top, i think that we are going to have a great position this morning to cash in. I think that there has been a lot of momentum coming from asia and weve seen the yen continue to weaken and thats carried momentum all the way into yesterday. I believe unless we have a continued buying spree by the fed, theres more talks of tapering and i think thats really gonna put a top here around that 16 thousand
Good evening, and welcome to tos meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california, the place where youre in the know. You can find the Commonwealth Club on the internet at commonwealthclub. Org. Im Andrew Leonard from salon. Com, your moderator for this evenings program. To my left is Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew Mcafee who are researchers at the Mit Sloan School of management. Erik is the directer of the mit center for Digital Business and andrew is the Principal Research scientist. The two men made a name for themselves a couple of years ago with their selfpublished book, race against the machine, which kind of coalesced some emerging nervousness about the fact that automation is really beginning to replace jobs at higher and higher levels. They followed this up with a bigger book, the second machine age work, progress and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies. And its really, i think everybody in this room will understand how timely this is. In the San Francisco and greater b
Google trades today under goog and googl as the stock is split in 2. And the northwestern Wildcats Football Team is set to vote on a union april 25th. The university has until next week to file an appeal. Everyones favorite stock market bear todd horwitz of average joe options is here good morning good morning. Whats up . The stock market. Thats whats up. The adp numbers showed 191 thousand jobs added. The big jobs number is still to come on fridaywill it be a market mover . I dont think its a market mover unless its going to move the market down. I think the number will be okay. I wouldnt assume a big miss here. I think the number will probably be fine. But again, youre talking about such a miniscule number for what we really need to get better. Lets say they come in with a print of 220were still way short on jobs and still having the same issues. But a good number could spark the fed to say maybe we can raise interest a little bit sooner. But i think the markets are telling us right
After last weeks dive, market losses continued yesterday. The markets open this morning lookin for a little traction. Equities were lower for their first 4 days slide of the year. Strength in technology trimmed nasdaqs losses. Apple was up 1 and a half percent after saying itll start selling 2 new iphones next month. Energy shares were down oil futures fell ending a penny below 107 dollars a barrel. And gold futures, which were up 4 and a half percent last week dropped yesterday. Feels like were in a Holding Pattern . Well, we are. Investors are waiting to see what the fed will do this week. Does ben bernanke have plans to pull back on the qe3 stimulus sooner than later . With the school year beginning, the sequester means nearly 60 thousand low income children cannot enroll in Pre School Programs mostly head start. And 18 thousand head start workers have also had their pay cut. Bond yields, on the rise for months now. Lets talk with doug rothschild. Hes with performance trust. So, wha