Estate market in the world sees value slide a bit well go to hong kong for the latest. This is your Business Report im stephen bears in the lead thanks for joining us. Credit to embed on the american donald trump all are scheduled to attend the annual World Economic Forum Meetings in davos switzerland which are getting underway monday sustainability and Climate Change are the main topics of the meeting activists like twin bed are putting more pressure on governments and Business Leaders to do more in stopping Climate Change the forum is introducing a scorecard this year to Rate Companies on how sustainably they act. Now ahead of davos American Money Management firm blackrock has grabbed a great deal of the attention of the finance world its c. E. O. Larry fisk announcing that the company would quote exit investments presenting a high sustainability related risk in quote for a start to festing hundreds of millions of dollars from coaling to businesses that could be a big deal black rock
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Good monday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt we start with a win for microsoft, beating amazon, oracle, ibm in that 10 billion defense contract with the pentagon known as jedi. Morgan has been covering this story from the beginning a lot of news over the weekend. A lot of news over the weekend on this. This was a downright dog fight between microsoft and amazon two years, laden with controversy. What is the joint enterprise defense structure. Theyll unite the u. S. Military within a single data framework, an umbrella cloud for all of the militarys current clouds. Up to 10 Year Contract with ceiling value of 10 billion amazon, microsoft, and earlier in the competition, ibm oracle, even google vying for this microsoft saying we look forward to expanding our Longstanding Partnership with dod, support our men and women in uniform at home and abroad. With our latest unique and differentiated azure cloud capabilities amazon saying were