pulte group led the way, pulte reports earnings a week from wednesday. k.b. home saw twice its usual volume on today's rally. a move over $16 per share for lennar would break it out of the range its been in for two months. the home builders need to get their supplies someplace. home depot was among the top four best-performing dow components, rallying more than 2.5%. and competitor lowe's saw a bigger move, up 3.25%. quarterly earnings for both lowes and home depot will be in two and a half weeks, on the same day, august 16. you've heard the talk around b.p., but its partner in the well that had been leaking, anadarko petroleum, announced a new offshore discovery today. this one in the deep waters off the coast of ghana. shares of a-p-c closed up almost 4%, but saw very light volume despite the new discovery. volume was a third of normal. the stock is down by a third since the deepwater horizon disaster began. anadarko earnings are due next week. finally, reported better than expected earnings after the close tonight. one to watch for tomorrow's action, profi

thoughts he thought would pult down. it was basically his writings and ramblings. >> and byron. was involving. and police say williams was traveling to san francisco to tell people i do not profit organization. >> we believe he would have been carried out his mission, go to san francisco and commit some violent crimes there. >> williams faces four counts of attempted murder for firing on chp officers. reporting in oakland, kate thompson, fox 40 news. >> what 152 hotel workers were arrested. after taking to the streets of san francisco. 3 was taken into custody. a san francisco police was forced to shut down a section. in front. and many of the hotel workers are being arrest the. >> it has to do with an ongoing labor dispute between the workers and testifying hotels. >>> more than 100 sat in the middle of stockton street in front of grand hyatt hotel. the san francisco police say they knew about the demonstration and asked the workers to stop blocking traffic. since they refused, officers were used to united this em. and the anythingciations with the other hotel. talks have insta

pulte group up almost 5% led home builders. stocks also got a lift from fedex after the bellwether raised its earnings outlook, sending its stock up more than 4% greeted by investors as a sign of growing economic demand. >>> bank stocks got a late boost after an international oversight body said it will drop many proposals on capital and liquidity rules that banks and governments were resisting. bank of america was up 3%. >>> genzyme is jumping on takeover speculation. genzyme surged almost 8% as the "wall street journal" reported glaxosmithkline is interested, while bloomberg reported genzyme turned down sanofi-aventis. >>> united technologies will cut another 1,500 jobs this year. that's on top of 900 already eliminated this year and over 11,000 jobs cut last year. comair, a regional carrier owned by delta, has been fined over a quarter million dollars for violating regulations on bumping passengers. comair also is fighting filing inaccurate reports on the number of passengers bumped. >>> the european union opened two antitru

pulte i think they've got a very strong point and that's why after all these years we're still seeing such dissatisfaction with the efforts of the scientific community it's not that they're not trying but but they're there misdirected their efforts there was a study of nearly nine hundred women in south africa. during a period where they were followed for about eighteen months on average having received half of them receiving this this supposed virus cycle jails and half not and they found that there were ninety eight of those nine hundred women became infected supposedly and of those thirty eight have been treated with this jail and sixteen not which is not a very big difference in itself it's claimed as being a forty percent reduction in the hiv infection but actually that's a very high rate of infection in eighteen months i would see that as a study that that if one were to believe those figures we would say that this was a great failure in fact because of the problems with the hiv test that these people are using i think that the entire study is is misrepresenting what's really go

how much power should the pulte have versus the local bishops?ow should we translate the absolute at the fourth few hours to prepare? stuff like that. -- at the fourth eucharist prayer? this is a catholic baseball. if he asks what gets activists in the global south out of bed in the morning, that is not it. they are concerned with how the church can be an agent of change. the one practical example, if you want to ask a defining concern for a wide swathe of the global south, it is the struggle against corruption, the effort to raise a morally sensitive generation of business and civic leaders who can be inoculated against the tendency to seek corporate leadership or office as an opportunity to enrich themselves. this is because in many societies in the global south, they are all bought off or are basically have no sense of common good. there are organizations around the world who have estimated that basically speaking correction in terms of development, it takes a toll every year on the least developed countries in the world and it is five times g

pressure from congress to utilize pulte lost to its fullest is what is needed. i think the agencies are capable of looking at not only the merger before it, but recognizing tactics and recognizing that companies interact onna strategic basis, and when one goes forward and changes the structure of the industry, the others have to respond. i think that can be taken into accounn by anti-trust, but has not been. >> do you think there is not much more we can do with d.o.t.? >> i agree with the law as it is written is not the problem. there are no obstacles in consideringgthe actual economics of applicants pptitioning for a merger, but they refuse to do that. the deregulation of the airllne industry was designed specifically on the concept that other laws have been applied to all other deregulated industries designed to create a level playing field that detects consumer interests. the problem is the department of transportation has been getting the antt-trust laws -- gutting the anti-trust laws and ordered to respond to the lobbying poopannes. distort competition to u