Im delighted to moderate this session. World war i spawned the modern American Peace movement. This modern movement advocated both peace and social justice and was characterized by liberal and radical Citizen Peace activists, womens peace organizations and a progressive reformist impulse. Significantly, this movement contained a powerful secular impulse in the post1914 Peace Movement marked an important milestone in what John Chambers and charles moscose termed the shift from safer to secular red to secularac resistance and towards a new Conscientious Objection. Historically peace activism was based on religious motives, although in the decade or so before 1914 secular middle class peace societies emerged, including the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the world peace foundation. World war i accelerated this trend toward secularization. During the war, socialists, anarchists, and other political radicals based their dissent on secular principles, political, philosophical
With our rulses to suspend trading because we wanted to make sure that nyse stocks wouldnt be negatively impacted. Trading on platforms other than the floor was uneffected and despite the halt nyse consolidated volume which captures trading across all platforms was heavier than normal due to the Global Market sell off. Speaking of stocks lets check on how todays session is shaping up. U. S. Equity futures looking for a bounce back after the big sell off yesterday. Dow futures implied with an open plus 150 points. Heres big stories were watching today at this hour. Well start with china. Beijing taking drastic steps to prop up its market there. Along todays move banning shareholders with large stakes in listed firms from selling. It closed up nearly 6 . Elsewhere, south korea rates overnight but did have the countrys Economic Growth forecast. And then of course have to keep updating you on the situation in greece. Meantime germanys Central Bank Warns that greek solvency should not be in
I love that question. If they get a be key getting into friday. Ofathan for me, the bank england leaves forecasts unchanged. The overwhelming majority expecting rate cuts this thursday. Thats going to be fascinating. Alix fascinating communications coming out of the boe. That trickle down into european stocks. Rally into the recent coming off the biggest monthly gains this october. The hsbc Global Equity strategist ben laidler. Lots of red on monday. Thethan lots of green in last five months. The s p 500 has been win, win, win. To kick off this mondays trading is softer in europe, the ftse down about. 1 . The dax marginally in negative territory. Alrightx market, its on this one throughout the week. The cable rate with a weaker pound off the back of some pretty weak manufacturing data coming out of the United Kingdom ahead of that bank of england rates decision. Is coming thursday. The commodity market is just wow, wow, wow. The biggest monthly drawing some down as weith wti kick off a
Yellens comments. Check out the futures this morning. 227 points for the dow. Now down by about 25 points for the dow futures but up 5 points for the nasdaq and down by. 57. The big story is the dollar. The dollar got slammed on this news but the euro surging past 110 at one point. It was the currencys biggest move since march of 2009. Of course you have to keep this all in mind looking at the dollar verses the euro in recent months. The euro is back at 10898. Michelle will be joining us with more on what happened in just a moment. In the meantime lets get you caught up on the other big stories were watching this morning. Target agreeing to pay 10 million to settle a Class Action Lawsuit related to the massive 2013 data breach. Individual victims may receive up to 10,000 in damages as part of the deal. A hearing on the settlements is set for today in minnesota. Apple officially a member of the dow this morning. This is the first day of its membership. The Company Ranks 5th in the price
Schroders group chief executive Peter Harrison will retire next year, but he ll continue to serve as a director while the firm searches for his successor.