And chair, eddie junior. A conversation on the u. S. Military readiness and the Global Threats we face. Defense Program Senior research fellow, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing u. S. Military strength, a pretty major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Guest we gather all publicly available information we can come across, official testimony from the pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs, general news reporting from the defense reporting community, our own personal contacts in the services and the pentagon and on capitol hill, and we gather all that all year long, go through a several month analysis and writing process, compare last years information to this years information, and then basically issue a report card on the military, and this year on a scale of one to five, we would give it a three, or in the words we use, we call it marginal, and we feel that the u. S. Military writ large is marginally able to meet the demands of u. S
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Christine lagarde says the early resurgence of the coronavirus is a clear risk to the economic outlook. Germany and greece, along with the netherlands, hit daily records. Netflix shares fall in extended trade, missing the streets estimates for q3 subscribers. The groups forecast for the period also suggests the pandemic boom is waning. Have you been painting . Have you been doing household redecoration . If so, you possibly got an akzo nobel product. Lets look at the numbers. Operating numbers operating margin, 7. 7 . The market had penciled in 326 million. Think about the relief we have been given in the u. K. Housing market. The top line margin, annemarie, is a cracking number. The adjusted operating income is a pretty good number. Lets just see in terms of the outlook, because of course, we are going back into a tough winter, as we have seen with the lockdowns and close downs. Thisll keep an eye on statement. It is all about the outlook in terms of whether we endure. Are going to ha
On englands toughest lockdown level. Stocks higher on signs of a stimulus bill before the u. S. Possible. S still nancy pelosi tells bloomberg an agreement is urgently needed, by the white house warns there is still a ways to go. Shill. Etflix shares they miss estimates for subscribers. The forecast suggests the pandemic boom is starting to fade. You can see how the shares have fallen 6 . We are under one hour away from the start of cash trading in europe. Lets take a look at what futures are indicating this morning. Kind of a mixed picture and not a lot of size, no direction or size. Ftse futures are down 0. 10 . 0. 10 . Ures are up take a look at what u. S. Futures this morning after the netflix , ahead of thee tesla results, you can see gains here. 0. 5 . Tures of about nasdaq futures gaining 0. 3 . Anna lets get to the breaking news. We have data coming from the u. K. Inflation numbers first. The cpi number, month on month is a 0. 4 . Survey. St under the that seems to be the theme
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