Maria welcome, lowes reporting Quarterly Earnings a moment ago, Ashley Webster are. The numbers. Ashley lets get right to it, eps, adjusted basis 141 per share, better than estimate of 1. 35 but revenue coming in just a tad short 14. 4 billion, we were looking for, or at least the street was locking for 17. 68 billion, a little miss on the revenue side, it is reaffirming says lowes, outlook for the rest of the year, in fact, its raising eps estimates which is pretty solid when you consider disappointing result from home depot yesterday, as you can see, though, premarket, lose down 3 , total sales up 2 , but other than that comp sales were up 3 , the outlook or certainly, about where we expected it to be, maybe as comparing this to home depot, maria, a little less on the downside although i wouldnt say that much on the upside if that makes sense, the stock coming back a little bit in premarket, this is not a bad report at all and certainly raising the outlook for the rest of the year ce
Iudad juarez, mexico is a squatters settlement called anapra. In 1980, this was empty desert. By the 1990s tens of thousands of residents have staked out small plots and constructed makeshift homes. Most tie into the power lines illegally and run lamp wires over the sand to light their homes. 1994 we visit Concha Martinez for the first time living in this tarpaper shack. Like thousands of her neighbors, she has no Running Water or sewers, no title to her land. A single mother, concha built this oneroom home for herself and her four children abel, 12, adrian, ten, wendy five, and the youngest, alexi. Their incredible struggle, and a tenar story of this place will illuminate some key geography themes, including scale has several meanings in geography. One is very specific having to do with ratios of distance on a map to actual distance on the ground. But it also has a more intuitive meaning related to the size of the area in question. Lets call this view of anapra a neighborhood scale. A
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Oneway conversation. After this will invite richard and james to say their piece on the book, and hopefully we can get stuck into a good discussion of smuggler nation and its aspects. At that point, we will open it up for q a. You will see it is one fix microphone, and another mobile microphone for this side of the house. If you wish to join the q a, please, if youre on this side get up and stand behind a microphone. We have to do it this way because there is no mobile microphone that we can use for recording for cspan, and we do what your questions and answers to be an integral part of this broadcast. So there we go. Without any further ado i will begin my brief introduction, even though it was kind of redundant because obviously ive just an introduction well as to investing. So, heres the book. There we go. Its bake. Now if you know peter you will know that this is unusual because he tends to reassure books. And theres nothing wrong with that. Its great, but its a bit of a surprise w