he is the c.e.o. of fireapps. >> tom: here are the stories in tonight's n.b.r. newswheel: stock investors were optimistic today, despite japan's move on the yen. the dow rose 46 points, the nasdaq added 11.5 and the s&p 500 was up nearly four. trading volume was about the same as yesterday's levels on both the big board and the nasdaq. industrial production rose for a second straight month in august, but the 0.2% increase was smaller than expected. the world trade organization has found boeing received over $20 billion in illegal subsidies from the u.s. department of defense and nasa. the ruling calls for those subsidies to be withdrawn. boeing maintains that any aid it received falls far short of the help its european rival, airbus, gets. goldman sachs is being sued for allegedly paying and promoting female managers less than their male counterparts. goldman says the suit is without merit. >> tom: still ahead, the list is in and you're no doubt familiar with the winners. we look at the world's top brands, and what makes them so special. >> suzanne: the recent d

so the c.e.o.'s. and the heads of the number of great u.s. corporations occluding well morgan stanley and bank bellowing j.p. morgan chase and company someone took part in the say in this forum yes well did you manage to turn. looked to see as such a forum and what what's their general impression well i can't i did not speak with the people that you mentioned but i can say that from my daily dealings with our member companies and with many of our c.e.o.'s convinces me that they while they see opportunities. and frankly those that belong to our council those who participate in the form you could say are sort of a self selected group there are those who see the opportunities here and and have made some commitment to it. there are there are others that remain interested but on the sidelines. why. one of their concerns. i could start by saying that. russia is. fighting against a tremendous comparative advantage which is its natural resource and down. companies that have historically had the greatest interest in investing here were in the oil and

he's leo apotheker, and he's the former c.e.o. of the big german software giant, s.a.p. tom, he led that firm to 18 straight quarters of revenue growth. h-p also announced ray lane, a former president at oracle, will the computer company forced out c.e.o. mark hurd eight weeks ago in a scandal involving a female contractor. >> susie: word of the new c.e.o. came after the market close. shares of h-p fell 4% in after- hours trading. joining us now with more on h-p is tom smith, equity analyst at standard and poor's. hi, tom. >> hi, thanks for having me. >> susie: so is leo apotheker the right person for this job. >> hp could have chosen from all across silicon valley and they chose him. he is a guy with some stormy tenure in his last days at hp but he knows software deeply as does ray lane and i think he can steer the company in a useful direction by taking them into software. >> susie: so actually that is interesting. both-of-these two new top executives have software expertise. do you think that means that hp is going to move more in that direction and away from hardware

investigators are searching for the c.e.o. ice ransacked and the car in the magazining lot disappearing after going to work on sunday, the president of c.e.o. of community central bank in michigan, 20 miles north of downtown detroit. like many banks in that state, it is struggling. local media reports community central lost $13 million in the first half of this year. it has a zero star rating. with us now is the sheriff holding up the investigation who calls him a "friend," and the sheriff. is there an idea, something from which to work? do you have a clue? >>guest: what we are doing is making speculation. we do know based on video he was in the building on sunday evening preparing for some kind of a presentation on tuesday. what he then did, throughout the day or while he was in the bank we do not know but we know he left around 8:30 the back side of the bank which is very unusual and when he did he does not go near the car but walked off into the streets. and we do not know if he was meeting someone, distraught over something

i know the c.e.o. of j.p. morgan, he is great c.e.o. >>neil: close to the white house.est: he is progressive. he would do this i believe as a favor or under pressure from the white house, something that a progressive would do. a lot of them are liberal. >>neil: would others be compelled to follow his lead? to follow the lead of jamie? >>guest: listen to them all, they are talking about social responsibility every single one of the c.e.o.'s that run the banks are now, listen ... no thy all say, they all are doing some of the same thing talking about social responsibility. i wish they would come back and say, my responsibility is to run a bank in an efficient way and make loans to people would can afford to repay the loans and get back to basics but we have bank c.e.o.'s part of the political process. this is a step in that direction. if jamie does it, others will do it. goldman sachs had ads about their social responsibility and their initiatives. it is actually stupid that the guy whose are supposed to be in the epi center of capitalism are becoming this politically cor

the job. dade medical college c.e.o. perez thinks that's a short term situation. >> it's a logjam, but it's a logjam that in the not-too- distant future. the dam is going to be burst. we're looking at 1.8 million people in medicaid, that will impacting the state of florida directly by most estimates. when you look at that, we're going to be needing nurses, technologists, physicians. >> reporter: as for our stock broker turned nurse... he shook a lot of hands, and talked with a lot of people, and he's convinced he'll soon find a nursing job. >> without a doubt. i always i'm very glad i made the decision, right around the time when i was 40 to pursue that career in health care. >> tom: we mentioned at the top of the program, wall street resumes its september rally. let's get right to it with a look at tonight's "market focus." it's four in a row for the major averages, four weeks of weekly gains. for the dow industrials, the week was bookended with the rallies that added to the gains up 2.4% for the week. the nasdaq was up

but the c.e.o. now came in as a designer and a marathon runner. he cares about performance, but he is also an art collector and he cares about the style of the shoes. you can go in and be trained and fitted for the exact right running shoe for you. they put a lot of money into innovating on the product side, and they opened up their r & d to other companies, when nike has invented less toxic rub bee. it is a little of an environmental theme here. >> tom: how about disclosures for these three, glenn? >> the street editors and reporters don't own any individual stocks. >> tom: do you wear nikes? >> i don't have any nikes in my closest. >> tom: you can read glenn's article, and you catch it a thestreet.com, and a link to it on our website as well. it is glenn hall, he is with thestreet.com. >> susie: here's what we're watching for tomorrow: the federal reserve releases its beige book survey of regional economic conditions. weekly mortgage applications are due out as well. also, tech takeovers. our "street critique" guest expects buyouts to continue in

there is no the taxpayer is only there for the divine rights of these wall street oligarchs and the c.e.o. titans and here they have to rely on the randomness of one of these all the dark space though in upon them some funds for their own education well i mean facebook gogol they exist because of the people subsidize their existence through the creation of darpa now one of the people got back from that fortune the facebook fortune the google fortune the apple fortune all the digital rights management technology the steve jobs stows upon the public domain in a draconian method of bleeding and bleaching the intellectual integrity out of that society for a quick buck what are they giving back cash wise the big goose egg the big zero burger is just another the next generation of plutocrat wanna be aristocratic meal futile schmucks will use this term again because it sounds so good schmuck acos and you know if it weren't for the taxpayer subsidizing their existence they would not exist so this is a farce that the only way that these school systems can get money to survive is the largest of the

. >> reporter: alex mashinsky is the c.e.o. of groundlink, a company that arranges ground transportation between any two points worldwide. revenues are up 40% in the past year, but he's not hiring. instead the firm has been laying off workers, as you can see from the empty seats at the company's midtown manhattan call center. mashinsky says it makes better sense to invest in technology than people. >> currently, close to 40% of our transactions are done on the web, and it's because we put more and more functionality on the web. and now there are things on the web that you can't get on the phone. >> reporter: there are still other reasons some businesses are reluctant to add employees. many firms think carefully as they approach the 50-worker threshold because they will be required to offer health insurance in 2014. but experts say, above all else, it's register receipts that drive hiring decisions. sageworks c.e.o. brian hamilton expects small businesses will start hiring in the months ahead as the recovery picks up momentum. >>

the c.e.o. of mercedes u.s.a. expects business for the german automaker will stay in the fast lane. >> i think we'll be able to keep that pace. we were hoping for a little bit of an increase, but we're happy if it stays on that level. there is a good chance it will. but we'll have to wait and see what september brings. >> susie: ernst, in this type economy, how is it consumers can buy a new car, let alone a mercedes. >> i think a lot of people are at the point where they do need a new car. they're hesitant, but they need it, and they're looking around and looking for good value and new product, and something which keeps its value. i believe that's why we're on the shopping list for a lot of the new costumers we're seeing. >> susie: are those strong sales because you're offering special financing deals? >> no, susie w-don't do that. we don't go down to 0%. you offer some sort of incentive, but nothing like 0%. >> susie: economists are predicting slow growth over the next couple of years, how will it impact your busi

he is the c.e.o. of a leading financial services company serving the needs of hispanic markets by helping its commerce -- customers build credit and gain access to a better life. he will discuss the financial sector, how it deals with a lack of diversity and how the industry mansion work force diversity data. it gives me pleasure to introduce my good friend, james gutierrez. [applause] >> thank you, congressman. actually i have a couple of slides. i may jump over to where you are and pull those up. i will do my best as we get the technology going. i do come from silicon valley, so i should be able to learn this. [laughter] maybe i will just start with kind of my story as a social entrepreneur in the world of financial services, and then also talk about diversity in financial services and also silicon valley since that is where we are based. my story is i grew up in the inland empire, did walk the precincts, cared about the community. my parents gave me opportunities to go to schools like yail -- yale a

. >> for those financial jobs, for senior executive positions, like the c.e.o., for the h.r. department, for people who have access to the sensitive employee information. >> reporter: at a hearing on capitol hill later this week, legislators are looking at restricting the types of jobs for which an employer can pull a credit report, to try to make sure the recession's credit problems don't keep people from getting jobs. >> we're just dealing with a lot of different types of financial situations that we never thought in a million years we would have to deal with. >> reporter: jamila trindle, "nightly business report," bristow, virginia. >> jeff: so the fed signals that it could soon be time for quantitative easing-- part two. and it was bond prices that go on a tear, with stocks fading away. buyers of bonds just couldn't get enough, once the fed signaled its growing worries about deflation pressures. look at this chart. this shows the yield-- the interest rate-- on the two-year treasury note: a new record low of o.4%. the 10s and 30s also saw lots of buying, although yields ar

andy grove and the point former c.e.o. of intel america thought they could ship all the low paying jobs to china and keep all the intervention but low and behold now china has both the jobs and the innovation well of course the transition from one empire to the next always and ugly as we know world war one world war two was during the end of the british empire and we talked about the ending of world war three which apparently never happened here is world war for chinese japanese relations and chaos amid disputes over currency natural gas and a detained fission captain apparently depan found out that china was secretly buying up government bonds in order to sustain to drive up the price of the yen well you have the that's not there's world war four as you point out between the currency trading that's going to go on china and japan now are openly. battling in the currency pits as we've been talking about on this show for a long time world war of the current world war will be fought in the currency pits i'm rooting for china i

she's the c.e.o. of burberry. she's seen the transformation of the 154-year-old company into an international fashion powerhouse. she grew up in a small town in indiana. she sewed her own clothes and dreamed about a life in fashion. she has fulfilled that dream once associated with the classic trench coat burberry now sells everything from accessories to cosmetics. the luxury brand made $2.2 billion in sales this year. i am very pleased to have heifer here on this program in london for the first time. welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: indiana to london. did you really, growing up in indiana, think, you know, what i want to do is be in fashion and what i want to do is run a great company? >> yeah. (laughs) yeah. i... i'm from... i'm one of six kids and i am right in the mid-sol i grew up in a competitive household and just loved fashion my whole life. grew up living in vogue magazine and hanging out at the mall and i actually didn't dream of london but new york, absolutely. i mean, new york, i would make it if i made

last year the c.e.o. of the company told cbs news all ads are monitored to prevent sexual solicitation. >> erotic category is there for legal operating businesses, escort services and massage parlors, et cetera, that are willing to operate on the right side of the law. >> reporter: but the site came in for intensified criticism when phillip markoff, the so-called craigslist killer, used it to lure his victim. women's advocates say craigslist enabled the victimization of women. >> craigslist was wal-mart of sex trafficking. hopefully, what craigslist has done will serve as an example to the other less-visited web sites. >> there is clearly the very distinct danger that other sites will become sources of these ads, that they'll simply migrate there. >> reporter: craigslist had called it a matter of free speech. now this appears to be the final word. bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. >> president obama will unveil a new plan to create jobs next week. the white house had promised a recovery summer, but une