Earning is the big driver today. Despite that, p g, having a positive impact on the dow. 3m is your biggest threat. Im michelle carusocabrera. Here is what else is on the menu or happening this hour. Ibms board approving Quarterly Cash Dividend of 1. 40 a share and announcing a 3 billion stock buyback program. Consumer confidence taking a big tumble in october, the conference boards number, its index falling to 98. 6. And in the meantime, home prices jumping in august to near record levels. But we begin first with what is going on here with lets get to Tyler Mathisen i see what were doing. Welcome, everyone. Tyler mathisen is with us from cnbcs net net summit at the New York Stock Exchange. Well get to him in a bit. Lets start with the outrage today over health care and your money. The average premium on the benchmark obamacare plan jumping 25 . Year over year. Dan mengin joyn mengin joins us. I see there are some states where they have risen 60 , 100 . Yeah, arizona, for example, that
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
Be able to get Birth Control as part of their insurance plans. So were going to be Building Support around the country. I tell you, ive heard from a lot of young women who find it difficult to believe that in the year 2014 were debating about Birth Control. I think its very important as part of their Overall Health care that they get access to Birth Control from their insurance. Its important to note and people didnt really talk about this but part of i think all of Birth Control is obviously health care for women of childbearing age. But 58 of the people who take Birth Control pills for example, are not even taking it for pregnancy prevention, they are taking it for other things. Other health conditions. All of that could be stopped by employers if we dont pass this legislation. So how do you think that hobby lobby decision in the efforts that youre trying to do over the coming weeks and months will play out at the ballot box in november . Well, i think that as we saw this happen the
And thank you for taking my question. My name is steve we can laer you ghear with yd with your question. Caller my question was before the election each candidate promised the jobs and Immigration Reform and they promised that they keep all of the what do they call that, when you have food stamps and all of that stuff. They promised the old people they would give them their you know, their social programs. You have they promised old people they would protect their Social Security. We dont have enough young people paying into the system to do all of these things. Now he wants billions of dollars to secure the border. They want thats how they get elected by promising everybody everything. But if you have your home bank account and you pay all of your bills and you only get 700 a week and you pay out 6,000 a week how long do you think thats going to last . Well here is the good news is. The good news is that because of the economy thats recovering. I think its recovering too slowly but at
They are written for scientists or technologists or experts in whatever the field is whether its mechanics or fluid dynamics or bio chemistry. And the Patent Office actually encourages you not to put too much background science into your patent, but its all deemed to be there. So, when a generalist judge gets one of these patent cases, they have to figure out what the patent means in order for them to figure out whether the patent is a valid claim of an invention and whether the defendants invention infringes the patent. And often thanks to a ruling the Supreme Court handed down close to 20 years ago called markman, they have whats called a markman hear chg is basically a little mini trial before the court, not a jury, where they decide what the terms in the patent mean. Often you have experts testify. Now, usually in federal court when you have experts come in and testify and the judge decides which expert he believes and which expert he doesnt, that is reviewed very deferential on ap