Yesterdays session. Among the stocks that soared yesterday united. Shares flew nearly 4 . Thats after united officials rang the opening bell Tuesday Morning including my cousin brett hartan executive vp. And general counsel with the company. A proud moment for me. After the close no reclining for lazboy shares. Last night the furniture maker reported earnings that topped wall streets view causing the stock to rise 6 . And students working on the campus of university of california will stage a 24 hour strike today to support Union Allegations of unfair labor practices. School officials hope cooler heads prevail. Theres our opening bell for today. Larry shover of sfg alternatives joins us on this wednesday. Larry is it a good time or a bad time for a first timer to get into the stock market . A tough question but slow and steady finishes the race. So dollar cost averaging into the stock market, being very diversified, not trying to chase the next best thing should be okay. What hints wil
Emergency landing. This was about 15 minutes ago. The plane did land safely, but we will be talking to the airport spokesperson in just a moment to find out more information and exactly what the emergency involved. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. And good morning im dave clark. Lets talk about your weather and traffic. Steve has your forecast. I do indeed. The big message today and all the twitter responses coming in. Oh, my gosh its cooler out there. The highs 58 to 60. Lows in the 40s. It feels colder than that to me. A system thats clipping the Sierra Nevada is responsible or you can blame it, thank it whatever you want to do. Theres a hint of fog, but most of it i think is going to get wiped out pretty fast. 34 at the napa airport. A little breeze. There are a lot of 40s and you throw the breeze in, oh, my goodness, thats cutting through me. San francisco will start at 50. Ive seen upper 40s. And a high of 62 in san jose. To 44 degrees. Only a high of 65. The highs comi
Hello, welcome to countdown. Reports Goods Company quarterly results. Caroline is here to tell us all about it. This is firsthalf numbers. Rbp is the pharmaceutical unit it might be spinning off. They are continuing to perform in challenging markets. What are those challenges . They are rather sluggish. With russiancerns where they have got exposure as well. Quarter was growth of four percent, meeting analyst estimates. Profit alsolf net in line with estimates. Might be in line with sales. Sales in line. Both under stress with the british pound as well. That is not your cash exposure. When you are bringing your money back from your sales in russia and north america, its going to be under stress when you have the pound being so strong. We are going to look at what happens to the pharmaceutical unit. They spin it off . Will they sell shares . Are pursuing the market. Will they spin it off and potentially sell shares later . Pursue with ato separate listing. Since october of last year the
There are two key lessons. The first is as you complete drilling a gnat wall gas well, the epas equipment is very eventive in capturing the methane, and the second is that the equipment is leaking a lot more than we thought. So where do you go with that information . I think one, it reinforces the importance of the epa regulations that are coming into effect now, and the second is, that we need to work with industry and to find better methods to reduce the emissions. So the epa will have these requirements put on the completion phase but not until 2015. Right now companies have to capture methane, but they can either capture it or burn it. Yes, well start to see a tightening of those regulations, and extend the regulations to oil and gas wells as well. Edf is one of the groups sponsors, why did you think this was worth investigation . We need to reduce the amount of energy reaching the earth s causing climate change. And methane is an incredibly potent gas. And we needed to reduce thos
Any plan that defunds president obamas health care law. About 200 people are still missing in colorado. It could take weeks to search through all of the areas. Jpmorgan chase is paying one of the largest regulatory fines ever for the socalled london whale scandal. It will cost it nearly a billion dollars. And those are the headlines, the news continues on al jazeera next hour. Inside story is next. Natural Gas Production is a booming business, and fracing is a big reason. The debate over safety and pollution, aim mri indications for Americas Energy future. Thats the inside story on al jazeera america. Hello, im libby casey. As america searches for energy independence, natural gas is a big piece in a complicated puzzle. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracing has opened up a vast natural gas resource, but the it is controversial. It releases methane. But a study examined more than 500 wells at 190 sites. The researcher found that while fracing released significant amounts of methane, but was s