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Period, the nasdaq has more than doubled, up 115 in that time, carl, and it really tells you how important technology, and particularly those large caps, have become to this market and just how much they have surged this year as we see a Digital Transformation amid the pandemic. Thats a great point. And jon, were going to continue to look for names that are going to perform well, no matter what kind of reopening or reclosing environment were in amazon, one of the top leaders, but so is zoom on teleconferencing and in tuit on payments and those are the markets well be paying attention to. Tech investors have a lot to be thankful for this year in a tough year overall for the world. Lets talk more about the need em Portfolio Manager and chief investment strategist. Guys, good morning brian, where are we now with kind of rationalizing and strategizing around the tech t ....
Insightful with respect to the wall and if we have time at the end i will be happy to take some questions. Let me start with kind of what weve been spending our time on at the department the. This is the operational policy challenges of the department so the first challenge i want to discuss its counterterrorism and as joe and others now counterterrorism was the Founding Mission of the department and it continues to be the cornerstone of what we do compared to 2003 when the department was established the terrorism threat today is more challenging and more decentralized and diffuse and arguably more complex. We are more concerned about the foreign fighters who leave this country and others have traveled to another and take up to the fight and link up with a terrorist organization. They are concerned about the terrorist organizations adapted and skilled use of the internet to publicly recruit and inspire individuals. To prevent th ....
A warm welcome to the pulse, live from london. I manus cranny. Rwe and eon have soared in frankfurt street this morning as the German Economy minister says the countrys Utility Companies have enough funds to pay for the decommissioning of nuclear plants. Hunt nichols is standing by in berlin. Hans, this has been one of the theseppressive issues on for quite some time, so this is a relief. Hans it is a relief but it doesnt mean the utilities are out of the woods. Yes, you see the stocks up over 10 , but when you look at where they are on the year, eon is down 36 and rwe is down almost 36 . These stocks have taken a battering. What theyve learned today is that their provisions along with another three companies, the 38 billion they have set aside to decommission their power plants, is going to be sufficient. That is according to the economy minister, sigmar gabriel. Heres wh ....
Different way. We would not regard success by a al nusra as a satisfactory or acceptable outcome. If i was put on the spot of ranking control i would have to think quite hard about that. Both would be unacceptable to us. We have made that clear to any of your partners in the coalition who have ever been inclined to think otherwise. It includes al musra but other parties as well. We recognize the situation on the ground is not as we would like it to be. It is complex. Sometimes compromises do have to be made on the ground, tactical compromises. You know, the history of warfare is you have to make tactical compromises. The complexity, for example, is everyone. Isnt this an area where british diplomatic capability, the capacity to coordinate in a sense combined with our unlimited hard power actually cant make difference in isolation. Soft power diplomacy is where the nations main effort in trying to bring others together. Thats where our main effort ought to be focused, isnt it . Its part ....
I only make that point to say we live in an environment where we are mitigating all these problems. As much as i would love to live in a world where we could simply eliminate them or get to a place where we eliminate them, realistically we are going to be dealing with strategies to mitigate these problems. I want to, before we open it up to questions, get a little more specific on what the private sector should be able to do, and maybe steve you or anyone else jump in on this. Theres been a lot of discussion of active defense, of actions that the private sector could do in its own infrastructure, honey pots, et cetera or moving outside of its infrastructure to try to get back its data. Is this part of what youre talking about as greater private sector role in deterrence, and i guess from others, are there reactions to that specifically . First i would like to say there is the playbook for cyber events. Some of these issues are discussed there and in a way that is very evenhanded to add ....