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banks report earnings and revenue both handily beating estimates. earnings don t symptom there. ibm, and amazon in the next few days. and very close to home, an important week for the comcast/time warner merger, a meeting with the department of justice is set to try to ensure that deal is not derailed we begin a new trading week china s central bank cutting the reserve ratio by one percentage point to stimulate lending. they still, guys a lot of no progress being made regarding greek talks and the deadline that is fast approaches. then of course 472 companies report this week 146 in the s&p. i think thursday is the single busiest day of earnings season this week. industrials, consumer staples and technologies are the three groups up to be watching this morning. so far this morning looking pretty good. even halliburton, which had gotten beat up obviously, managed to post a pretty good beat on the bottom line at least. it s probably worth pointing out that the m ....
i don t know. and the reason i m thinking, you know, the comparison that would make that point best is saudi arabia, qatar, right? i mean, qatar s a very interesting place in the sense that it has no citizens, right? i think it s about 275,000 now, everybody else is an ex-pat. all there is is money, and there has been extremely effective use of that money and qatari diplomacy. and if you compare sort of the last ten years of diplomacy, al-jazeera, qatari use of money with the saudis, you would absolutely conclude they punch below their weight. but if you compare to iran, you know, iran has roughly three times the population of saudi arabia, and the percentage of the population that is in a sense involved in the life of the country, that is, for example, has a decent education, are professionals, women who are active in some way in the economy, iran is a much more, much more modern country than saudi arabia. and it isn t surprising in a way that the saudis would have a v ....
billion dollars. and it s christmas season. thanks to a century old adage that says in some children will be getting special gifts from others. thomas said. violence is spreading between the rival military forces in the world s newest nation south sudan more than forty thousand people have been forced to escape fighting nhk world junior tomato has more. the united nations mission in south sudan. kd injured civilians and staff from the cd of four. it is said to be the scene of violent fighting. the last moment is a capital g and an insult to refuse the human tennis. with data has also spurred on to become independent when the teams and for not get to it. this edition is getting but not that i come and go pop. you and your chariot affairs officers working in south east and save the situation is serious. a trying day when it began the origin of the topic has to wear it across the country at incredible speed. i could pair it with the active site of a kid in particular to th ....
reporter: concord police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who they say hit a woman walking along the sidewalk late last night. and the crash is clear. but the backup remains on the bay bridge. how things are looking if you are headed into san francisco and the other route into the city looking much better. also an early-morning car chase across the south bay. the ending that had officers running through a santa clara neighborhood jst hours ago. mornings on 2 startings now. good morning. well come to mornings on 2. a live look at concord where an investigation is underway into a hit and run the. the victim is dead. the suspect is still on the loose. it s monday, march 17th. i m tori campbell. welcomeback. good to be back. good to see you as well. i m dave clark. let s talk about weather and traffic. the weather is good over the weekend. much cooler. drizzle reports. richmond, marina, mendocino county and lake county. hardly anything here. but th ....
winning battles in many regions the movie although president of the remains defiant. with the city has continued to hold for his tea pots. here in alaska i say this know it sounds all the stuff they do anytime soon. and in the meantime victims continue to show their true eighties he wrote down the steps. and i know more than ten days after typhoon honey and tore across the philippines the head of the world food programme says many survivors still have not received the helping me reality is that we know that there are many more people who have been impacted by the storm with what if we ve reached one point and i mean people that think that there still people that we need to work to deliver food to ensure that we are meeting their nutritional requirements the wfp is just one of many organizations trying to support survivors at least three thousand nine hundred and eighty two people have been confirmed dead more than sixteen hundred people are missing in about four million ....