A coronavirus. Vaccine is a final stretch, but will people in developing countries get a fair shot with your school . Lympics chief thomas buses, athletes at the tokyo games should get vaccinated against covert 19, but they wont be forced to welcome to the program, our top story, the u. S. President , donald trump, will reduce the number of u. S. Forces in afghanistan from 4 and a half 100228 half 1000 before he leaves office, but it wont be the complete withdrawal by christmas. He promised the announcement on tuesday was anticipated, and it was preceded by warnings from military officials. There any significant changes in those troop levels could potentially undermined security in afghanistan and threaten peace talks with the taliban. The number of troops in iraq will be cut by 500. The announcement was made by the acting defense secretary, christopher miller, who was installed in the post last week by january 15th, 2021, our forces, their size in afghanistan will be 2500 troops, or 4
Blowouts record highs for apple and fable. Lets dig a little deeper. Amazon is built for a pandemic they typically pour money back into the business. They made a big bet on Online Grocery. Nay have been preparing for a shift in spending habits and it just so happens that occurred overnight. On the Earnings Call one analyst joked that does jeff bezos no how successful amazon is same store pick up, a number of whole food stores that can pick up deliveries on triple this quarter we are adapting and looking at something that changed and created things for the new vooirs, especially the entertainment area alphabet is more affected by the pandemic you can see the shares are under performing the other tech giants this morning you cant help but note that while amazon is known for groceries and advertising, they are smaller projects, they are still losing money lets bring a closer look at the quarters amazon getting a number of price targets at 4,000 that would apply a market yeah, it certainly
Goals aiming to double the amount of female employees globally over the next five years. My diversity seems to be the next why diversity seems to be the next problem big tex can solve. Ibm purchases redhat. Withas once synonymous mainframe computing. The company is playing catchup market leaders and Offering Software and services over the internet. Bloombergs david westin spoke to the leaders of both ibm and red hat earlier. I think, a lot of times people think everything is going to move to one public cloud. That is not what we see clients need, want, or are targeted to. Estate, like a house, i want to modernize it. Im going to put it where i want and im going to manage and secure all. Betweenthem a platform red hat and ibm, that runs on it and manageure it. That is a distinct capability and that is what i mean by the hyper cloud. Others talk it but they may just have a connection between their public cloud and private cloud. Youve got some other competitors out there in the cloud tha
The dow had been up about 1. 6 , on pace for its best day of the year, nonetheless up 1. 2 now. 500 up a 10th of a percent, both indexes with record highs. Yesterday,down 1. 3 rebounding nicely today as investors are buying mthe dip on the confidence of the mentality that we have seen some much this year. Take a look at the dow. Something else happening. Earlier, when it was up 1. 6 , and it had been the best day of the year, at this point the secondbest extending all the way back to february. After the election we had lots of big rally days, that was one of those days. A very strong day for the doubt and again of the five days in a row. And lets take a look at some of the stocks helping the s p 500. Kroger up 7. 5 . Earlier, up more than 10 . Their best day since 1993. Very positive. They put up a Strong Quarter and they beat earnings by 11 and comps rose. Everybody thought that kroger would be decimated by amazon, but they are doing with a do best, selling groceries and investors the
Sec. Devos thank you so much and welcome everyone. It is great to see you all this morning. Todaysu for attending first of two summits on individually on innovation in education, and a special thanks to those who will present this morning. We are grateful to have so much knowledge and expertise in one room. We are eager to hear from all of the. Before we begin, i want to say a word about innovation. Barked on a am school tour i embarked on a school tour. Continue to travel the country to see the work being done, and i have been inspired by the innovative educators and administrators i have met. There is still not enough. We need more. The reality is that there are a number of challenges and opportunities facing Higher Education, and washington, d. C. Does not have all the answers. Government is not the best at finding new solutions to tough problems. Government isnt the best at being flexible or adaptable to a changing environment. Government isnt the best at questioning the status quo