Territory record territory. The nasdaq worth keeping an eye on inching closer to 5,000. Its been the outperformer. We may be talking nasdaq 5,000 by next week sometime. Lets get to the Closing Bell Exchange exchange. Kim forrest is here, so is Peter Andersen from Congress Wealth management. Kevin carrone, ben willis from princeton securities joining us on the floor and Rick Santelli is in chicago. Lets start with Michelle Carusocabrera. Is she there . Im here yeah. So we have an agreement of sorts. Its just an extension, but do you sense were making some Real Progress this time around . Well the headline is that the greeks have caved on nearly everything it appears. They were never going to be subject to more reviews by the eu, the im f, and the ecb. Now theyre going to be subject to reviews by the eu the imf, and the ecb. They were never going to agree to commit to the current program. They have agreed to commit to an extension what happened to all the saber rattling when the new regi
Safe . From hackers and other criminals on the obamacare website . The ants depends on you talk to. The protections that we have in place have successfully prevented attacks. Health care. Gov is not secure today. And nothing is really changed since the november 19th testimony. In fact, from our november 19th testimony, it its even worse. Gerri that was the varying opinions of one Government Official and one hacker at hearings today on the hill. Saying, totally Different Things. So who is right . We brought in our own experts tonight. With more on this is mark, the chief Technology Office and Kevin Johnson ceo of secure ideas. Kevin, you were involved with analyzing the obamacare website and the report that came out today. Who is right on this score . Safe or not safe . Well, first, let me say thank you for having me on. Its a very simple answer. Were not safe. The site has significant flaws in security that will allow you to steal data and take the users of it. Gerri all right. Mark, y
Your own country every day. And media is doing that. Almost every africanamerican has a flagship website thats on top of all africa. So media is playing that role, and it would keep going that way. Okay. Let me i think we have time for a couple more questions. Right here. This question is for akon and amadou. Im a technologist and we have an army of developers in africa. We constantly thinking about creating something to own that content and navigate it through, but because we are so bound into our technology mind, we dont know what to do. What kind of focus what is the media focus we should be basically focusing on . My name is abdel and im from dci. My question to the panelists and you kind of touched about it a few minutes ago but you didnt go deeper. The first fdi from africa to United States, it was here. And so far its not utilizing to its full potential to change what you all are talking about as the narrative about africa. We all in this room have been to all those little of th
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Well, im delighted by my honorable friend managed to slip the point in at the end. I wont urge any i will friends to make their way to support the reelection and the campaign. But the point, the point that he makes is very important, which is we need to look through every aspect of how we welcome people to our country, and make sure why we must to be fair, we must not be a soft touch. So i am making sure we look at our health service, we look at housing, we look at benefits. With that illegally, we look at all other things and make sure proper and tough controls of people who want to come and live here. The treasury was required to [inaudible]. If he believes in openness in the in hs, why has this government allowed the size of its playoff to be kept secret . Well, i will look very closely at this issue that he raises. I know there have been particular issues around Foundation Trusts in the area which he represents, and i will make sure that Health Secretary looks at the issue. Recentl