Alltime high extending its gain into the fourth week as investors cheered corporate earnings. According to Lpl Financial today is historically the best day o the year f stocks and it stts the best sixmonth stretch for the ma det. Toda not disappoint. The dow jones industrtrl average was up to 27,090. Theed nasdaq a 82 and the s p 500 rose 16. And as you know, earnings can often drive rallie but this move higher appeave to be d by whats not being said on all ofhose earnings conference calls. Bob pisani explains. Were coming up on the halfway part of the earnings seas one word investors are not hearing is recession. Plenty of issues out there but the u. S. Consumer which is the engine of Global Growth istill holding up. Weve been scanneding the conference calls. 32 companies have mentioned the wordsion and that along with hopes of a trade deal is the major reaso the s p is hiing record highs today. The consumerer holding up. Bank and credit card ceos in partular have painted healthy pict
And a. I. Strategy. Ceo andy jassy saying surprise from the generative a. I. Business. Inflation seems to be cooling. The pace of inflation came in a 3. 7 for the month of september. Were keeping an eye on the auto industry, mean white the uaw reportedly delivering a new offer to gm. Amazon is up nicely after reporting quarterly results. Ceo andy jassy saying hes been surprised by the companys growth in a. I. You look at the very substantial, gigantic, new generative a. I. Opportunity, which i believe will be tens of billions of revenue for aws in the next several years, i think we have a unique and brought approach thats really resonating with customers. You can see it, you know, with the customers i mentioned that are using us, starting with the workloads for generative a. I i can see it also, the growth rate for us is very fast of course, if they can get ahold of the chips they need, give me your take on the quarter. Okay. So you go through what went wrong with alphabet which was di
Theres a shortage of people to do the labs. Is it so coming to eventually. Your beds. The staff, one of the inputs for the total package of defense. The facilities, the isolation centers, a whole bunch of things. In the chart i sent you yesterday, i set out the planned numbers and actual numbers for how were doing to scale. So, if i can draw your attention to the easiest place to start s is people to start, facilities to be in relax and lodgistics and consumers. The dark line shows where we are at the moment. So, we have 15, basically 1539 total beds and spaces in sierra leone. 750 are currently provided by the u. K. All of those are stuffed. Were opening another suite of those facilities over england the next few days and with each organization weve agreed on, there is a staffing, a populated staffing plan from the u. K. And syrierra leone. So, the issue is to make sure from all the sources, which includes the nhs, for the available facilities that staff, at the moment, that is okay e
So more than doubles. The International Panel on Climate Change has actually put more emphasis in this. If youre trying to hit a 550 target and you take ccs off the table, the cost goes up about 50 or really goes up between sort of 30 and 80 for 550. If you want to hit a 450 target the cost triples. Goes up between 200 and 400 . Thats a lot of money, and its just because in some markets coal with ccs is the cheap option. Not everywhere, maybe not in california, maybe not in arizona, but in a whole bunch of markets, in a whole bunch of places in the country and around the world, ccs with coal is the cheapest option for deep abatement, and if you get rid of that cheapest option, you have to replace it with something more costly or less efficient. The good news is weve made a lot of progress on this. This slide is actually a little old, but basically the lower two bars are stuff thats built and operating or will be operating soon because its being built. So right now were here at 2015, we
Policies toward syria in the fight against the militant group isis. Before heading to his holiday vacation, president obama held a year end News Conference this afternoon saying that sony erred in choosing not to air the including the president talking about the u. S. Response to north korea. Lets talk of the specifics of what we all know. We can confirm that north korea engaged in this attack. It says Something Interesting about north korea that they decided to have the state mount an all out assault on a movie studio, because of a satirical movement, starring seth rogan. And james flaco. I love seth and i love james. But the notion that that was a threat to them . That gives you some consistency of the kind of regime were talking about here. They caused a lot of damage. And we will respond, we will respond proportionally and we will respond in a place and time and manner that we choose. Again, you can see all of todays News Conference by president obama any time on our website, cspan