To the civil war when the nation was very clearly divided into two political camps. We live in a politically divided time, although i dont want to imply we are headed for civil war. I dont know what we are headed toward, but there is resonance in the way we have red and blue states today. There were northern and Southern States than that were fundamentally divided over this giant issue of slavery. There are other things. The 1840s and 1850s was a time of enormous technological change. Within a few years of the invention of the telegraph, cities east of the mississippi were connected and there was National Conversation which becomes part of the story i tell. It turns out these communication devices that were designed to bring people closest together drove them farther apart. They were horrified by what people on the other side were saying. There is that, there is also just the fact that it is a story of america. It takes place in the same cities we know today. Sometimes even in the same
About one mile visibility but a drop in novato and some patchy fog. Be careful if you are headed out with current temperatures showing a few spots in the 30s. Napa, they are dealing with fog and it is tough to warm up with 30s going on and 40s in berkeley and 50 in San Francisco. A quick look at the stormtracker with low clouds and we will see things get sunny and bright today with calm wind and looking pretty good. Looking at the forecast, 60 degrees at the coast and low 70s as we get inland. Talking about the extended forecast, we will talk about that in a bit. For now, over to sal. The commute has traffic moving along okay if you are driving on 80 westbound from crockett to hercules. No major problems on the benicia bridge heading to concord and the commute looks good toward the macarthur maze with a look at the Richmond Bridge having traffic off to a good start. 5 01 and back to the desk. Production is ramping up in San Francisco on the side of matrix 4 with crowds gathering over t
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Speech this morning. And alibabas ambition. The chairman tells bloomberg the Company Needs to embrace a to globalmindset expansion. Matt less than half an hour from the start of stock trading here in europe. We are already trading bunds. Futures down across the board. You dont see a lot of enthusiasm for risk assets there. If you look at bunds, you see a little buying but make change ofs screen to a oneday shot what has been stuck in a tight range. 0. 407. Still at just a tiny bit under where we were at the close yesterday. Arent really moving, equities arent really moving. In fact, from the korea story, it doesnt seem like anything is moving. It is still the bank of england pushing markets around a little bit. Guy i think the market had anticipated we would get this missile fired at some point. We thought it would be last weekend, we got a risk rally round of the fact it didnt happen. The market got used to the idea and when the missile was finally pushed into the air, as a result, we