Peter cook examines indian prime in thers rockstar tour u. S. Prodemocracy protests in hong kong. We begin with paul sweeney. Ebay splitting off its payments through paypal. Deal for ebay. G the stock is up almost 7 today. Shareholders are certainly happy. Carl icahn who owns about 30 million shares especially. Investors have long pushed for the separation of these two companies. Certainly carl icahn brought this issue to a head earlier this year. Interesting because back in march, there was that tension between the ebay ceo, john donahoe and carl icahn. Mr. Donahoe said. Great and from paypal was not a good idea. Certainly carl icahn shone a light on this issue. That isa transaction good for shareholders in that it highlights the value of the paypal business, which is a faster growing, higher multiple business. A lot of investors thought this should be trading on its own. A separation reflecting the fact that the mobile ecommerce payments business has gotten much more competitive in t
Problems up front back onto the developer . Question. Technical weekend and the tools exist today apply agile techniques not only to the Actual Software Development but to the methodology of the Program Management for software development. We can adopt things like continuous integration and. Ontinuous tests and monitoring think about what this means. There you are as a developer. You are pushing the new code in, and that code is tested. We dont only do functional tests. We look at the other four areas. If you dont pass those tests. If your software doesnt make it in, you dont make it in. You dont get credit for it, and it doesnt go up the ultimate enduser. It is a question less about what software and my delivering then the mechanism by which we deliver software. It is about changing the thought process in terms of Program Management for Software Delivery and project development. Adams opinion, four dollars . Four dollars gets you in a mature right now. On the metro right now. We need
210. Road map begins with the markets. Investors facing this continuing pullback, after the nasdaq broke 5000 earlier in the week. Private Sector Employment data not helping, days ahead of fridays jobs number. Everything must go. Target aiming for billions in cost cuts while abercrombie shares get discounted on mixed quarterly results. Pressure mounting on ges ceo jeff imle. Well explain why thats in the news. Stocks pulling bakken on track for a second straight lower open adp employment below forecast 212,000 workers added to payrolls in february. Thats ahead of the jobs number friday. And after some of the mixed data out of europe and china overnight as well as surprise rate cut from indias central bank, the second cut there of the year. Eurozone, jim, you said yesterday the green chutes are no longer green chutes theyre outright plants and the pmi number, even in france would back that up. Persistent low growth there. I hate the term negative growth. But things are going down there
Two if by sea. Jane wells covering the problems out at the ports. She is live between the ports of l. A. And long beach, and, diana olich is on the land. Surf and turf here. Shes on the land in washington. Interest rates rising. Home Sales Numbers not. Diana, youre first. Well tyler, look spring housing is not getting off to the best start. Higher Interest Rates in a pitful supply of homes for sale are squeezing potential buyers. Now, Weekly Mortgage applications showed just how sensitive todays buyers are. Rates rose to their highest levels since early january. 30year fixed at 3. 93 . Its still under 4 . Even at that historically low level, applications to purchase a home dropped 7 for the week. They are barely 1 higher than one year ago. Rates moved even higher where heed. Does that mean real cash money . Well a borrower taking out a 200,000 mortgage today would have to pay just 42 more a month than they would have if they had bought on january 1st. Now, that might seem like chump ch
Because the matching is really a big deal. Its going to help them save money and i its going to help them get a better quality outcome. Very much so. Youre going to have to get that data down in such a way its more consumer global so people make the right choices. Sometimes you get, present us with the best choice but to cant drive us there. Thats a big chunk. Thats something that employees are also a bit concerned about is privacy as well, as we get more data and start using it more as the nsa incident has shown. Were all very vulnerable having that data out there. I would like to follow up on the point youre making. When you think about quality and cost, the two are related and if are going to attack the underlying challenges of making health care both affordable and high in quality you cant just took out the health care level. Have to go down to what hospitals and doctors are doing. We are seeing some encouraging results. One of our ncos, their physicians have understood the economi