Director team, welcome to the launch of the National Cyber workforce and education strategy. I am a small part of this event so i want to take a few minutes to share what we are going to talk about, who will be talking in first to say a big thank you to the team and those in the room. This is not a small topic nor small undertaking and as a result this will be a small conversation. We have a lot to get through. Briefly my name is trey and i direct here at the Atlantic Council, one of the things that has been most striking for the last few years and many of you who have been working in Cyber Security for longer is that we so often treated as a Technology Problem one of the things i found so strengthening and encouraging about the workforce strategy is this focus on Building Communities and capacity to secure the system focusing on a human problem to address these technologies. It is linked to deeper issues of how we embed and how we confront challenges in education and workforce develop
Plus the ceos first interview in four years. Gen zers are looking for trade schools rather than colleges. Lets start with the markets, though, dom chu, what are you seeing . Were seeing some markets near the highs of the session. So green pretty much, but maybe just fractionally so. So, nothing terribly crazy, but still in the midth of this winding down, still a lot of volatility, but markets are generally holding up. The s p 500 is at 5204, up 17 points are or about one third of 1 . At the highs we were up 21, then down around seven point below, so theres the range the thats are nasdaq, a quarter percent gauge. 16,342 is the last trade there. Theres still a big focus on tech, with the semiconduct trade. Arm holdings, those shares are down 3. 5 right now after a generally positive Quarterly Earnings report, comparability is being parsed out, but revenues are 47 higher than last year, and thats in part for demand for a. I. Again, it was down 8 at the lows of the session, so well off tho
People. Its okay to challenge the ideas and i love you and appreciate you being here. [applause] that is such a perfect way to end. [applause] thank you for coming to the National Book festival. We hope to see you. The cochair, david rubenstein. I got involved with the council that is a support arm of the library of congress that gets its money from the federal government. I chair the council as it is cold and s part of the effort is to try to help with the National Book festival so for the last ten or 12 years or so i cochairedhi this with of the library of congress with jim billington. Is there money that you give towards this effort . I do. I enjoy it. It is a free effort to let people know. We get a couple hundred thousand or more coming every year. The United States is roughly 125th in the world and literacy. 125th. Thats not great. We have a large number of people that are functionally illiterate and a large number who dont readla books at all. 46 did not read a single book durin
Start to see a little relief at the coast, but still hot elsewhere. Youre look outside at the Golden Gate Bridge looking crystal clear. We have 0 fog. 0 cloud cover. That means a perfect view of the parade of ships here in just a few hours. And of course, the air show later on temperatures in the 60s to 70s right now for most areas still comfortable enough to get the windows open, get outside. Enjoy the feel before here in just a couple of hours. Those temperatures skyrocket just enough of an offshore wind to natural way that cool coastal and coastal influence. And thats why or coastal areas will be just as warm if honestly, not even warmer than our inland spots. And another heat advisory now extended through tomorrow night for San Francisco down the peninsula into the south bay, the Santa Cruz Mountains and up to the east bay shoreline. Lot of these areas dont have ac. So if you need a cool spot to get to simple as the grocery store, a coffee shop, anything like that. Something to coo
Stuart it is made day. What a nice day it is in new york city. Sunshine, decent temperature, sunny streaks, thats new york city, makes new york look good on mayday. It is 10 00 eastern, to the money please. On the lefthand side of the screen, not that much, dow is up 8, the nasdaq is down 40, the s p is down 15 points. The 10 year treasury yield keeps going up, you are at 467. The 2year, well above 5 . The price of oil below 80 a barrel, 81. 42. There is the surprise, dropped below 60 grand, coming in at 57,213 per coin it. The latest read on job openings, the jobs report, how many jobs are available in america . Given number. Ashley 8. 48 million, the under the estimate of 8. 46, the lowest reading since february 2021. Perhaps ever so slightly the labor market is starting to contract a little bit. We will see. Stuart news on the manufacturing sector. What have you got . Ashley 49. 2 is the reading. The estimate is 50. Anything above 50 is expanding. Anything below 50 is threatening. S