. hickox says the actions against her were politics, not science. she says new jersey governor chris christie was see was being dishonest when she called when he called her quarantine necessary and she has much on any symptoms of ebola and is now at her home in maine. i understand that the community has been through a lot in the past week. i apologize to them for that. i will not go into town and be in crowded public places. i have had a few friends come visit me in my home and that is absolutely fantastic. a judge in maine rejected her request by state officials to quarantine her. one of the world s largest advertising companies is making a big push into digital. the french firm has agreed to pay $3.7 billion forsabient based here in boston. the companies say they have agreed to build a joint platform. the european airline is flying high. ryanair upgraded its profit for the second time this year. any slowdown in the economy could push travelers in its direction. the
both companies make devices. they also work with hospitals and drug management. this is another big m&a deal in health care. investors like that surprise and result. the brazilians rallied and stock rose in frankfurt. we are keeping one eye on an emerging market. hewlett-packard is splitting into. take- meg whitman will control the enterprise business. cory johnson is up early for us. he joins us from hp s headquarters. leo hindery is with me for the hour. former chairman and ceo of the yankees yes network. you know this company inside and out. has said, meg whitman she is not splitting the company. why this turnaround? one could argue that she got the job because of the last attempt to split the company. are, all these years later. they continue to spend money in acquisitions. the turnaround has not happened. it is apparently not happening. they are not going to split it. pcs re going to put the into one division and the rest of the company into another division. alto, this
cut reduction. production. police battled pro-democracy protesters in hong kong. patience is growing thin for the protest. a blow for prime minister abbé in japan. the credit rating was cut by one level. is uncertainty about japan s plans to increase growth and cut the deficit. the economy make the focus of his campaign. had aent barack obama series of meetings about the unrest in ferguson, missouri. black friday fizzled with consumers. consumers did not spend as much as a year ago. this is according to the national retail federation. shoppers were confident enough to skip the initial rush for lower prices. we have breaking news right now. researchers have just released a report stating that hackers with wall street expertise have stolen mergers and acquisitions data from more than 80 companies over the last year. olivia sterns has more. says that areport group of hackers with market expertise have stolen information from more than 80 public companies, more than 100 compan
thank you, commissioner murase. are there any board delegates to the board to report? all other reports by board members? commissioner maufus? thank you, president yee, i want to remind everyone from the city select meeting is this thursday, october 25, at 3:30 room 250 at city hall. it is chaired by supervisor campos and chui and commissioner mendoza and myself and we have one item and that is our ag requirements. i believe that there is a budget committee meeting on november the 8th. president yee, we are waiting for confirmation of that meeting, i believe pending a question about commissioner wynn s availability and the regular meeting of the budget and business services committee would fall on wednesday, november 7th. we have requested consideration of moving that meeting one day later to thursday november 8th, and i believe commissioner wynns is reresearching her ability and rewill finalize it. thank you, we are finished with this section? commissioner? y
assets. what do we know as we look back? we know there was some of the rotation that people were talking about, out of the bond market, into the stock market. if you look at the relative returns of stocks versus bonds, stocks outperforming bonds by the widest margin ever on record. so pay attention. year, whatto the new sticks out? still a lot of optimism going into 2014. not a lot of estimates that returns will be or match the pace we saw this year. obviously, huge gains in stocks this year. but there is some optimism, especially the signal that the market game with the fed saying it would begin tapering and stocks taking it in stride. the fed, what it was doing, what it was not doing. that was a big theme that affected the dollar and gold. that has been a tricky trade. a huge underperformer this year. there sioned the stock does not have bears did not have much to hang their hat on, and those lonely gold bugs out there did not have much success either as we did not