At us, we are at number four. The president , the Speaker Pelosi and treasury secretary mnuchin, they are all on board with a grand infrastructure plan. Leader mcconnell says hold back for now, but it sure looks like a lot more spending is in the works. After all, we are all big spenders now, arent we . Look at the markets. Responding to the jobless numbers and the possibility of more stimulus. The dow looks like it could eke out a small gain of maybe 70. Nasdaq up 17. S p up maybe 10. A fractional gain for stocks despite that jobless number. Look at the price of oil. Up sharply today. The president wants a deal with the russians and saudis and he will meet with Oil Company Executives tomorrow. The oil price this morning is up to, okay, up to just 22 a barrel. Got it. But its higher by 9 . The price of gasoline, look at this, keeps coming down. 1. 97. Thats the national average. In oklahoma, hard to believe, its all the way down to an average of 1. 51. Thats oklahoma. On the program to
Us today. The session is entitled the house that madigan built. The recordha brent of illinois velvet hammer and conversation with joan. Raise the book will be available for sale and signing at the book sales and signing tent and on your map is marked as an end. As a Chicago Tribune Investigative Reporter who has covered indicted ex speaker of the house Michael Madigan for four decades. Also covered two governors i went to prison and a state senator who went to the white house. Lives with his wife peggy in ad inlincoln park. Moderated joe esposito hosts chicagos only progressive radio talk show every afternoon wc pca m820. Heartland signal. Com. Numerous awards and nbc today show. She considers herself a government geek. Thanks much for joining us today. Please lets give them a warm welcome and look forward to sharing more q a to follow as well as a book signing. Lets welcome them. Hi, thanks for coming. Thanks for getting up early and coming. I work afternoons this is still early for
Need to keep rates higher for longer. There is progress on inflation but it is too early to declare any victory yet. What we are tracking this morning as we come online, with japan some ecodata. Broadly we sell weakness creeping through, because exports are up 8. 3 on the year. The estimate had been for 11 . We saw the trade deficit in the latest reading. That is the state of play for japan. Tracking the japanese yen, Holding Steady this morning but still at historically weak levels. The big focus on the japanese 10 year yield because we continue to monitor when it will hit the 1 mark, and we continue to track those yields inching higher. Japanese goodies under pressure in this session, so not that optimism from wall street overnight so far. Korea coming online, and the ecodata to note, april ppi coming out earlier today, we saw it rising 1. 8 on the year. 0. 3 on the month, but it was a pickup in ppi, Producer Price inflation. That presents a headache for the bok. We also watching in
Hurt authorities in park labd, florida say 17 dead after a shooting at a local high school. Police have taken a suspect into custody, nicolas cruz, a 19yearold former student. The Broward County Sheriffs Department responded to gun fire at Marjory Douglas high school a little before noon. Students and teachers were told to stay inside the school and the police cleared the area and searched for the shooter, who was cornered about a mile and a half away. At this hour, investigators remain on the scene trying to piece together what happened while School Officials work to unite all of the schools, more than 3,000 students with their families. Joining me now is bill gavin, former assistant director of the fbis new york office. Bill, you cant train for this, can you . No, david, you really cant. Its such a tragedy. And there are so many Different Things that are going to happen right now. The children are going to miss school for the next week, petrified to go back into the school room. What
Hurt authorities in park labd, florida say 17 dead after a shooting at a local high school. Police have taken a suspect into custody, nicolas cruz, a 19yearold former student. The Broward County Sheriffs Department responded to gun fire at Marjory Douglas high school a little before noon. Students and teachers were told to stay inside the school and the police cleared the area and searched for the shooter, who was cornered about a mile and a half away. At this hour, investigators remain on the scene trying to piece together what happened while School Officials work to unite all of the schools, more than 3,000 students with their families. Joining me now is bill gavin, former assistant director of the fbis new york office. Bill, you cant train for this, can you . No, david, you really cant. Its such a tragedy. And there are so many Different Things that are going to happen right now. The children are going to miss school for the next week, petrified to go back into the school room. What