So far very good results. And an amazing thing. It would be interesting to know why he thinks we can do that. So lets bring joe kiani out. [ applause ] u zk our last panelist is Jeffrey Selberg, who heads the Peterson Center for health care which has just gotten kicked off. And this is really important because Michael Peterson who is here and his dad Pete Peterson are great friends of mine. And they have worked for years to get americans to focus on the longterm consequences of unsustainable debt. And how we can bring debt, especially the debt we run up every year consuming, down so we can invest in our future and secure it. And after years of beating their heads against the wall, they looked at the numbers for the federal budget at least and decided that actually all the real structural problems are in health care. Combined with aging population. And they decided that they would try to be a part of the solution instead just sitting on the sidelines, complaining about it. So they are d
We are looking at what this might mean for aggregate demand in a community when incomes of the biggest growing group falls. So and what it might mean for quality of communities. So i am seeing that most people really do care about doing meaningful activities when they retire. All of our friends have the choice to change jobs and change activities so they can control the pace and content of their day. But either youre looking for one of the bad jobs in america, with the worlds leader in the creation of jobs that pay under 20,000 per year, theyre looking for that or theyre looking for kinship networks to get income and welfare, and kinship networks dont work as it turns out, low income seniors often dont have the Adult Children that have an extra bedroom or anything more in their savings account. So people that have children that can help them out are usually people that are better off. So we are in a crisis chip. We dont have the social structure, we dont have longterm Care Insurance we
176,000 for a month ago. Just ahead of todays allimportant jobs report, the ecb will be making its decision on Interest Rates. The bank is expected to maintain its key lending rate at 0. 5 . Ecb president mario draghi will deliver comments from a different venue. Todays meeting will be held in paris around 8 30 a. M. Eastern time. Lets send it over to andrew with another big event today. We have a lot of big events today, becky. The nations top bankers are meeting today. Among the big names headed to the white are jamie dimon and Brian Moynihan. The original theme was, of course, fence mending between the administration and the financial sector. Now thats all the aif. The Government Shutdown, debt ceiling there expected to be the major topics of discussion. Also today, treasury secretary jack lew pressing congress to act immediately to raise the nations debt ceiling. Right now, the department is using extraordinary bookkeeping measures i dont know what that could possibly mean but anyw
That was two cents above estimates. Revenue slightly shy of consensus at about 17. 7 billion. The companys projecting samestore sales growth of about 4. 6 . For 2014. Not 4. 5 or 4. 7. I dont think theyve got that kind of visibility. But probably averaging it out. And it l announced a 21 Dividend Increase to 47 cents a share. And i know you might ask what is the dividend . What is the yield on home depot right now so i know whether thats a good yield . Its 1. 56, had been, and it was yielding 2 at that point. So a little bit over 2 . Whats that . Increasing at 21 . Could someone give a shot of so lets call it 2. 4 now, then. Excellent. Excellent. 47 cents a share. Its interesting, im just looking through the release. They dont say anything about weather because thats been one of the huge you think for them for all these retailers is what happens with weather, how it impacted you go to home depot to get stuff to fix your roof and to fix all the stuff that messes up because of the weathe
Are economic warfare. The eu has accused jpmorgan and other banks of colluding to rig interbank lending rates. Agricole weret also accused. Taking on the ipad. Microsoft is going to take on the ipad mini. Satya nadella expected to unveil a smaller version of the today with a qualcomm processor. Cory johnson is in new york. If you fail to make an ipad killer, try to make an ipad mini killer . Go small or go home. Microsoft has failed in the marketplace with the surface. The push of a push of a push and are trying to the corporate deals and big sales in a large institution. They are spending a fortune on marketing and getting this out there in the public eye. They are getting Product Placement and every possible tv show they can get it into. To make it seem like people are using it but in reality people are not. Fundamentally is it not a good product . One of the things we see havening is market leaders this experience with certain apps and they want to stay with them. The product has no