Huge lines around the world awaited the arrival of the apple iphone. In many locations the six plus completely sold out. We will look at supply concerns and whether the large iphones could cannibalize the ipad. Oracle has been billions on acquisitions and has seen modest gains in revenue. Now that Larry Ellison has stepped down we look into the challenges the coceos will face as they try to adapt into the cloud age. First, to the lead. A historic day on the New York Stock Exchange is Ali Baba Group started trading in the largest initial Public Offering and u. S. History. Trading began two hours and 23 minutes after the Stock Exchange opened and when it did shares were a hot item. Over 100 million trades were reported in the first 10 minutes alone. Shares nearly hit 100 before closing at 93. 89. It is sitting on a market cap greater than 231 billion larger than amazon and ebay combined. Also bigger than facebook already. What do you make of the giganticness of that market cap . I just m
Fuel. Thats what we should be that is what we should be discussing. Not how we increase carbon emissions. We should be discussing what kind of legislation will move us aggressively toward energy efficiency, weatherization and such Sustainable Energies as wind solar and geothermal. We should be having a debate about legislation which makes our trancesportation system more efficient and get cars and trucks off the road. We should be having the debate about how we are going to get automobiles that run on electricity and make them less expensive and how to get cars running on 80100 miles per hour. We should not be talking about transporting the dirtiest oil on the planet. Mr. President , in my view the United States congress in a very profound way should not be in the business of rejecting science. When we reject science, we become the laughing stocks of the world. How do we get forward and prepare legislation if is not based on Scientific Evidence and to say the overwhelming majority of s
Matters. If those three things factor in, are there those. Here on the phone lines 2025853881 for republicans, 2025853880 for democrats agend r independents, 2025853882. If you want to make your thoughts known by computer on do so as well. Roof us on twitter. Send an email to a journal at cspan. Org with the upcoming e leningsz, more stories about what people think and political people think about the future of the senate. I did highlighted in the New York Times this morning. Take a look at kansas. It says the probability forecast models fluctuate from week to week. They are based upon different methodologies. The Huffington Post forecast gave republicans a 54 chance of winning control of the senate. The New York Times model says 66 . The warrant post election lab prediction was 95 . The Election Consortium gave democrats a 49 of maintaining control. This highlights the current rates between pat roberts and greg orr saying here in kansas, the independent greg orman has certain the lead
Paychecks of all americans, not just the wealth of a few. That will be the order of the presentation. Talk about the economic challenge, how current proposals stack up in meeting that challenge and additional action plan that i think that can meet that challenge. So, the economic challenge we face was well captured in the jobs report released last friday by the department of labor. First, there is the good news part of the story. It is very good news. The economy has continued to grow and more americans are finding jobs. Last month, our economy created 252,000 jobs, capping the best year of job growth since 1999. The Unemployment Rate fell to 5. 6 , which meant the Unemployment Rate fell faster last year than any year since 1984. The private sector has now added jobs for 58 consecutive months. 11. 2 million jobs total. Gas prices are down, the stock market is up and the deficit has fallen rapidly. This is all very good news. It would not have been possible without the tough decisions p
And it is, as my colleague from alabama mentioned, the cuban missile crisis wasnt even just that there were Nuclear Missiles in cuba pointed at the United States. Fidel castro was telling kruschev to fire them into the United States. If castro had his way there would have been Nuclear Weapons sent here. So this is the nature of the regime. So what are you doing with this policy . To me i look at it very simply. I think this fact is true. Every single dollar spent in cuba benefits the castro regime. Every single dollar. If it were otherwise, europe doesnt have restrictions most of the other world doesnt have restrictions. Have the cuban people benefited from that . Has their standard of living gone up . No this all goes to benefit the government. And to me this is the worst possible time to throw the castro regime a life line. If you look at whats happening in caracas, if you look at whats happening in moscow, these regimes are buckling because of the decline in the price of oil. So thi