Im with the Salem Award Foundation for human rights and social justice. This is our 25th anniversary. We were formed with the idea of helping to keep alive the lessons of the trials, promoting awareness, empathy and understanding. One of the main ways we do this is by supporting and being involved in educational events, just like today. I think you all have in your folders cards like this, which are an invitation to our commemorative activity celebration at the witch trials memorial tomorrow. Im here today to introduce our keynote speaker. Before i do that, ive noticed that we havent really talked about the people who have sponsored this symposium. Ive mentioned the Salem Award Foundation. Essex National Heritage has been a Fabulous Team player. But i have to tell you donna seeger has been driving this bus. [ applause ]. And i really i know shes pulled the entire History Department along in her wake. [ laughter ] but i wanted to make sure she got credit for the incredible amount of har
Bond yields at zero. Yen this morning, the nikkei higher by 17 points, hang seng higher by 212 and shanghai composite by 21. 5. There you go. Back here in the u. S. , deadly pipeline explosion yesterday in shelby, alabama. One person was killed and five others injured after part of the Colonial Pipeline burst. Colonial shut down its main pipeline after the incident. This is the second time in two months hit to close the pipeline which is a crucial supplier for the east coast. In an update late last night colonial said a track hoe, a machine used to remove dirt struck the pipeline and caused the gasoline to ignite. The october ism Manufacturing Index in september and Construction Spending are due out today 10 00 a. M. Eastern time. Automakers will report their sales throughout the morning but ford wont release its sales figures. Those numbers are delayed following a fire at fords dearborn, michigan headquarters yesterday. They are now expected later in the week. The fed begins a two day
Depravity for the white house stuart usama bin laden was wealthy. Of fort hood butcher had a job if i recall. He was a major in the army. Do you think the guy in copenhagen this last weekend when he pulled the trigger trying to kill a cartoonist, was he screaming jobs, jobs jobs . He was screaming stuart ralph peters 12 hours ago responding to the Obama Administrations suggested we could kill isis but give them jobs. Watch out. The colonel will be here in three minutes from now. Watch out. Lets deal with the markets. It is wednesday morning. The dow industrials holding to the guillotine thousand level. We are within striking distance with alltime highs for the dow. The s p is a little lower today but it reached 2100 yesterday. That is an alltime high. As for the nasdaq, closing in on 5,000, 100 points away almost back to dot. Com bubble levels. Mary kissel, wall street journal editorial board. Any similarity between nasdaq now and nasdaq 1999 . Tech bubble tend to start when you have r
A new report is out on who is paying and how. The share of the bill the parents are putting up is dropping bigtime. Well tell you how people are making ends meet. First though to sue at the nyse. They are talking about that burger down here on the floor, ty, but were going to talk about the s p because right now, as you pointed out, the s p, the dow and the nasdaq kind of a mixed performance. The s p is down about 2. 5 points, but the dow is up 21 and the nasdaq down 13 and the russell off just a fraction, but we want to focus on the s p for just a minute. At the 1692 mark just shy of the 1700 mark. Career to date that means the s p is up a full 18 . If we cross 1,700, what does that mean for all of those wall street strategists who are way under that for the yearend targets . Josh lipton and his team have been calling all the big firms out there and joins us live from hq. What have you been finding out, josh . Hey there, sue. The s p 500 nearing 1700, a big filestone for a market alre
Reality. In the last 24 hours there have been 106,000 cases reported to w. H. O. The most in a single day since the outbreak began. The World Health Organization says nearly 2 3 of the cases were in just four countries, the u. S. , russia, brazil, india. The real number is likely even higher because of delays in reporting. Overnight, global coronavirus cases passed the 5 million mark. In the u. S. , california reported its second highest daily covid death toll as most counties move forward with reopening. Now a new coronavirus model projects spikes in some areas that have reopened early and aggressively. This model by pennsylvania researchers predicts rapid upticks in places like miami, populus parts of texas and parts of alabama and tennessee. Meanwhile, embattled cdc chief warns there might be another round this year. The rapid spread in the Southern Hemisphere suggest a likely flairup. In the u. S. In the fall and winter as seasonal flu coincides with covid19. New overnight. Startli