Graduate of penn state university. During her summer, she spent time as a seasonal historian. Greensboro on to unc were laura and i spent some time for year before i moved on to West Virginia university. Andcompleted her masters has had a very her first job was at stratford and hall, the birthplace of robert e lee. Recently, she is the deputy education director at the Hampton Roads naval museum. She works as an educator and does special event. She also worked at fort munro museum. Today, she will be speaking to shipwreck. Vil war in my seven years here, i dont think we have done any naval operations. She will be talking about shipwrecks of the uss cumberland before she comes on page. Note that laura and her husband have recently published a book. You can see a copy of it just in front of the podium. The title of the book is never. All me a hero me introduce laura lawfer. [applause] afternoon. How is everybody . Good. They went after lunch. I have to start out with a matter of disclosur
Were going to have much more of sara eisens exclusive interview in just a few moments. In the meantime, a lot to look at as stocks hit new highs for the year, about 2 from alltime highs. Bank earnings in focus. Europes mildly positive. Core cpi up 2. 2 year on year and jobless claims hit a new low going back to 1973. First up, wells fargo beating expectations with a firstquarter profit of 99 cents per share, revenues above consens consensus. They say while credit results remain solid, the oil and gas portfolio remains under significant stress due to low prices and excess leverage in the industry. And then b of a exceeded estimates with firstquarter results, put profits down 18 on a doubledigit decline in trading revenue. Not a repeat of the performance we got out of jpl. Going over these quarters all morning, and i have kind of a very simple takeaway, which is that, wow, if these companies were to have a bunch of rate hikes, you know, theyd make a fortune. And if they dont, they kind o
Fight. The latest ahead. Carl icahn tells on neil cavuto his war with ebay is far from over. We meet a former marine whose new mission is to fight extreme poverty and that the same time terrorism. All that and more coming up on this hour of markets now. Connell a good story. The guy who is in the marines. Terrorism as you said, overseas in africa. Dagen did you let them figure out Business Plan . Connell pretty impressive guy. Change you for clarifying all this. One of those days when everything in your head will come out of your mouth liz Nicole Petallides starts us off at the Stock Exchange. Nicole a whole hour ford. The Dow Jones Industrials down 26 points, 50,967. Giving back a little bit of the recent gains we have seen before the week, a winning week on wall street 1. 5 . To kevin nasdaq up 49. 98 a. Posting a gain, everybody continues to follow everything we heard. And yesterday saying she is going to follow up, ben bernanke was on that committee. And will pull back slightly tod
Arrested, according to tunisian authorities, four linked to the attacks, the Prime Minister identified two suspects by name saying on french Radio Station atl, one had been known to security services. The two gunmen killed recruited at a tunisian mosque in september and trained at a jihadist camp in libya. According to tunisian interior official. Who told a french broadcaster tfi the Security Forces worked quickly, killing them before detonation. President obama called asepsi on thursday offering continued support during the investigation. Youre going to see the lowlevel attacks, but highimpact attacks, it will not be long before it comes to the United States because it is so easy for isis al qaeda, any other of these groups to do. Crowds marking it tunisias Independence Day are gathering in the center of the city of the capital here. Its always a big event in tunisia, this year many hope the rallies will also a symbolic gesture of defiance against those they now believe threaten this