The talmud teaches that if a person destroys one life, it is as if they have destroyed an entire world. And if a person saves one life, it is as if theyve saved an entire world. What an extraordinary honor to be with us as we honor four righteous individuals whose courage is measured in the lives they saved. One child. O one refugee. One comrade at a time. And who, in so doing, helped save our world. I deliver a lot of speeches. Very rarely am i so humbled by the eloquence that has preceded me. Not just in words, but in the acts that we commemorate today. To my dear friend, steven spielberg, thanks for your moving and generous words. You spoke of the importance of finding your voice and using it for good, and i know that your work, whether a masterpiece by schindlers list or the stories that you have so persistently preserved through the Shoah Foundation is deeply personal. Steven once said is the sho. A shoah is a story he was born to tell, the stories you heard from your family. Stev
The hang seng was up about half percent. And the shanghai up about. 6 . The European Equity markets. This is the early trade. Relatively flat. The dax is flat. Cac is down less than. 2 . The ftsi up about a. 25 . And the italy index about 1. 5 . And spain just over 1 . And up about 0 30 cents. Brent up about 33 cents. Couple of big stories this morning. Bp reporting overnight. Quarterly profits dropping 80 . That topped expectations, oddly enough. The company says it now could cut Capital Spending further as a result. Ceo expecting prices to recover towards the end of the year as pruszers stop work on fields and demand strong returns. Also dupont is raising its full year guidance. The chemicals and seed producer planning to merge with dow chemical but last year regulators needed more time to review materials related to the deal. And today were expecting results from dow components 3m, numbers from Pharma Company eli lilly and hear from its chairman and ceo at 7 30 eastern time. And fac
Well break down all the mergers and acquisitions and wheel talk to miles white about his 25 billion of st. Jude. A strong Earnings Report after the bell yesterday, the company shattered estimates and is proposing a new sale structure. And well take a look at how the day on wall street is shaping up. Lets get to m a. The deal valuing st. Jude at 85 a share. Lets keep a close eye on abbott labs stock. They expect to add to earnings. Wheel have an interview with ceo white. And a crossborder hostile for medivation. We have plenty in the world of health care so to speak. Jim, lets start off with abbott. By the way, they also have this olear deal on tap. That kaem prior to them signing a confidential agreement late in february to get this deal done on st. Jude. Theyre talking big accretion. Im looking at a stock that is down pretty dramatically. Its a cash and share deal. So it is going to have the effect of hurting the overall value of the deal. 4675 in cash and. 8708 shares of abbott. Lets
And now, with the production schedule, ceo elon musk is responding to the naysayers and saying on the conference call, what i find ironic for the naysayers they transition from saying it is impossible to saying it is obvious. I say, wait a second is it obvious or impossible, because it cant be both. Who is right, chanos or musk, pete . Well, in the short term or the longer teerm term, it is chanos, and the reason i is a they is because they have had nothing but production issues for quite some time now, and the delays and the issues and now talking about ramping up, and going from 50,000 to 90,000, and supposedly getting 80,000 to 90,000 this year, and if they can get that number, it is impressi impressive. Phil lebeau has been talking about i, and it is ing a graggro get to that level, and the 500,000 level in two years from now, and it is amazing, scott. We know great drives, and people are going after the model 3, and everybody put the 1,000 down, and maybe over 400,000 now, but the
Certainly my state as well. This also represents a milestone as members of this Committee Work to complete a multiyear highway bill the first time in a decade. And long overdue. With Service Transportation programs set to expire on friday, it is imperative we work quickly to reach a bipartisan and by cbicamybicameral agreeme. A number of issues happened to be particularly important to my state. For example, upgrading the freight corridors and interstate system that moved goods through my state to Global Markets every day and providing Additional Resources for Public Private partnerships and border infrastructure. Delivering investment certainty so we can plan for and deliver the highquality infrastructure that our country and my constituents deserve. This bill is important. But im proud to say the leadership in texas havent waited on the federal government. In november 2014, 80 of texans approved a Ballot Initiative that provides 1. 7 billion to upgrade and maintain the Transportation