Obviously. Waiting for yankees, the first pitch is in two hours. Welcome to the closing bell everybody, we have exactly two hours to get through this whole show before that im kelly evans, im a big rally day here all right, all you folks in houston too by the way the dow on track for its first close above 23,000 now ibm, interestingly is helping drive this nice rally today after those stronger than expected earnings that came out that you guys have last night. We will get more on that move coming up in a little bit here its kind of astonishing to see ibm up 10 today clearly after the dell, more dow components American Express is going to report along with ebay, well tell you what to expect as well. And so the breaking news today, microsoft and amazon are now embroiled in a new patent lawsuit. And i guarantee the plaintiff ll surprise you when you hear who it is. Thats coming up but lets get straight to the one stock giving the dow its biggest boost today that would be shares of ibm jum
Groups for the First Time Ever so whos getting liked or not . Power lunch starts right now welcome back a nice rally this hour major averages on deck the nasdaq 100 is up more than 1 its led by apple, amazon, microsoft and facebook apple also helping to drive the dow higher you can see more than 1 gains across the board there materials also a winner today. Fr freeportmcmoran helping to fuel the gains. D Discount Shoe dealer dsw soorg about 20 . Coty is down 14 after the company missed 15 on the bottom line thank you. Lets begin with your money. As michelle just laid out, the bulls are back in charge fear is down stocks are up. Technology leading the way lets find out why the optimism is popping back up i think this is mostly about tax policy talk about tax policy finally coming together. Maybe a few other things thrown in as well it was quitely opened and we opened really strong 5 to 1 advancing the stocks. More buyers than sellers the buyers being very aggressive they got to raise the
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Mcdonnell talked about this we need strategies to invest it was brought up over the weekend so im not sure what the funding by the way, a track for equipment and more ball 2350e8dz 3 dont take care of the playground but some investments it has been helpful tool perhaps we mind or want to thank lydia and others it is really helpful in getting into the weeds us and very, very proud of this report. Commissioner mcdonnell. Just briefly a appreciate the report and the diligence around the transparent and the commitment to the accountability it calls for it lob helpful goord not only the mechanism the rhythm of wanting to have ongoing updates for the annually is good so have it closer to realtime like you just did you know each of the parks are so quite candidly to see the parks on the Southeast Side of city and kind of want to win that race laughter and so to have again, i dont know the right rhythm not every single meeting but as Capital Planning happens and heres where parks are in the cu
Edward a chow, Cecilia Chung Judith Karshmer david pating and all those in favor say aye; all those opposed say no. I have one addition. That would be under the gift report and after the comment on the action taken if you would note that if i had said to the chair that we would be sending these notes to these organization it would then record that we actually normally would be doing that. If that is okay. In addition, i see that we have approved the minutes with the addition and just to be sure all those in favor just say aye, all those opposed say no. You have the directors report in front of you. I want to add a couple of things. We want to welcome dr. Lisa pratt, the director of Health Services many of us know her background and were very excited. She is a certified internist and addiction specialist. She works at the cclinic and she has a position at San Quentin State Prison and she is bringing some leadership to us and we are very excited she has given 2 decades us. I want you to