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let s take a look at some of the market movements now. we are seeing a reversal from yesterday. 50 points at 18,000. moving. the biggest the nasdaq is up .4%. apple hired. google has an event later on today and we may s he a new phone. in terms of other movers today we are looking at currency. is dollar index strengthening once again. stronger by about 17%. you can see the dollar index up today. the pound is that it s lowest in 30 years. as iss being impacted oil. mining is one of the major movers down almost 6%. that s about 30 minutes into the trading session. let s look at where european markets are. nejra: 19 minutes to the close of trading. one of the key things to note is we have had three stock engages in the u.k. they all hit record highs. take a look at this chart. time this hasrst happened in almost 17 years. the last time these three equity gauges hit records at the same time was on the december 30, 1999. in some ways history has been made today. investors pi ....
license. that s the latest. live in west philadelphia, george spencer, nbc 10 news. today s discovery comes nearly a week after three bodies were found inside a philadelphia garage. a police source told us those bodies likely came from at least one nursing home. a criminal investigation is under way in that case. moving on to a developing story. gunfire in a crowded philadelphia park. nearly 20 bullets fly. skyforce 10 over that scene shortly after two men were shot. children played nearby. nbc 10 s lauren mayk is following the story for us and joins us from the scene. lauren? reporter: good evening. this is pretty scary. this is where police believe the two victims may have been sitting. let me show you something. right over here, this is playground equipment for children. we have seen families in this area all afternoon and both police and neighbors tell me someone else could have been hit. erica was a block away when the shots rang out. police tell us two you ....
very conversant with private entities coming to the city at moscone center and other venues to put up trade shows. we anticipate hopefully this would be the case in america s cup and so far i can say it s been a great disappointment. as we speak, if you go down to the piers right now, there are banners proclaiming the america s cup. we are the signage display union. that is what we do. if you see the banners on moscone, we put them up. we had great difficulty streamlining the process so our contractors can get involve in the project, see the plan and understand. we have had one company that has told us that they were in line for a contract with a construction of what look like in a rendition here, you can go to the slide, the front part of this is kiosks and signage. that company is in alameda. that business is gone away. we don t know who is going to build it, we don t know who is going to install t. can you give us a streamline clearchannel so we can tell our contract ....
there are sort of thing we ll need to work with in terms of their confidentiality and proprietary information. and, so, as you heard mr. barkley mentioned, i think they are open to us to coming to their offices and reviewing the actual documents to understand what has been done, what hasn t been done. certainly for the purposes of transparency, i would welcome the opportunity to take them up on that offer and be able to point out on a going forward basis how the performance is going. what i see as the biggest problems, we put these standards in place. and it s our economic workforce development department that is not actually able to followedth letter of the law. we put the authority in a situation where they re telling us, hey, we re doing everything we re supposed to be doing, i m just not informed of all this happening. we believe there is a such a great deal of adobe receipts and i ve asked that we actually have a measurable way of affirming that and we are living ....
and we were at 80% of new entry level hires regardless of salary. another requirement is 30% small business participation. what s small business? i mean, i profess not to really understand that. what have we done if we looked at all of our vendors? 41% of all authority [speaker not understood] is local. we go further. 31% of america s cup authority staff, skilled, unskilled, entry level or specialist, are all local. i think pretty importantly, 51% of all vendor staff are local. if i could add to that, i believe that percentage is actually going to get better because we ve let a lot of the larger contracts, the backfill will be smaller contracts that support the big ones. i expect those numbers to get even better than they currently are. so, in summary on the local hiring, i would suggest the following. firstly, as i said previously, we do not have any obligations. we are doing this voluntarily. secondly, in the spirit of our relationship with the city and what s trying ....