That runs through your mind when you ultimately sell your company. Do i update my resume and start looking for another job . Theyre going to want to make some cuts in some areas, right . I am jeffrey hayzlett, and i am on a journey inside the biggest brands in america. I have been a cmo, a ceo, and a boardroom cowboy. Now i am visiting the executives in charge of the most powerful companies in the world to see how they tackle the challenges of the csuite. I am in carlsbad, california, the center of some of the biggest Scientific Research in the world to visit Life Technologies, a Biotech Company providing products and services to customers doing Scientific Research and dna sequencing. These guys are selling picks and shovels in a genome gold rush. It also raises huge questions. Ethical questions. They will be able to tell you if you are going to get cancer, or if your wife will have alzheimers. Can you even do something with this information or should you . Could it be used in the wron
All the odds, this market rally. Week after week, we have dealt with so many issues. So many headlines, and yet we have persevered and pulled through. Can we do it again in 2014 . That is the question. There is a chart you need to see right now that will tell you what is happening. The s p is not quite there. We are down less than 10 of the point. Way, 5. 5 growth. Look at the 10year yield, it is up three percent, a 30 month high. Finally, the japanese yen, another high, the highest since two thousand eight because japanese inflation is at its highest since 2008, 1. 2 . Lets move on to the big three. Top stock we the have to be watching today. Street it was on, it is down after being downgraded. Stocks are up, however. Making anof jets is accusation acquisition of beechcraft. Finally, a glitch at delta trip fares for six dollars and . 20 to hawaii. Delta is now honoring those fares. Stock is up. Historians are going to look back on 2013 is a pretty impressive year. New record highs in
Weve been looking at it, 2. 51. Did you see all those bond issues yesterday . Europe is back. A whole lot of green. Really it was asia that might be a concern. Japans market off 2. 8 overnight. Lets get our road map this morning. It starts with earnings from economic bellwethers. Procter gamble and ups both seeing gains last night. And dont diskrount old gart of the internet era and amazon posting betterthanexpected quarterly revenue. Were going to start with two companies being known as being barometers. Getting a lift from ecommerce and strong europe export growth. Procter gamble said it earned 1. 05 cents a share. The ceo gave his assessment earlier, jon moeller on squawk box. We held sales in each of our reporting segments, grew 8 in developing markets, we grew 11 in japan and earnings were right where we expected them, why is which were able to reconform guidance on the fiscal year, 5 to 7 earnings per share growth so were right on track. Right on track they say, jim. You believe
Quorum call quorum call quorum call mr. Reid are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are. Mr. Reid i ask consent that it be withdrawn. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent that if cloture is invoked on executive calendar number 456, Alejandro Mayorkas to be deputy secretary of homeland security, all but one hour of postcloture time be yielded back. That when the senate convenes on friday, the senate resume consideration of the mayorkas nomination with the remaining hour of debate equally divided between senators coburn and carper or their designees. And the senate proceed to vote on the nomination. Further that the senate then proceed to a cloture vote on the executive calendar number 459, John Koskinen of the Internal Revenue service as under the regular order. And that if cloture is invoked, all postcloture time be yielded back and the senate proceed to vote on confirmation. Further, that the senate then proceed to a cloture vote on exe
Cases that are decided on the merits. Before he was our Supreme Court justice, john roberts was confirmed to sit on the d. C. Circuit. Ten years ago, when chief Justice Roberts was confirmed to sit on that circuit, the average judge on that court had only 125 pending cases. Today, with three vacancies on the court, that number is 185 cases. Those are the complex cases that are pending. Even if we fill all the empty slots, the judges on the d. C. Circuit will still have more pending cases on average than john roberts did when we confirmed him to sit on the d. C. Circuit back in 2003. So there are no excuses here. We have a finally qualified nominee. 32 Supreme Court arguments, support of the Nonpartisan Group that looks at these nominations, someone whose spouse served in the military for 22 years, someone who raised her kids while he was over in kuwait. And we are going to turn her down . Madam president , that makes no sense to me at all. And i really urge my colleagues to help patty