Its also great to be here in to see and see so many friends from the washington post. The post has turned out for me tonight and i appreciate that. Im going to tell you a little bit about the book and how i came to write it and then move as quickly as possible to questions and answers or questions and attempted answers about the book and about the south end of the confederacy and maybe the Confederate Flag if youre not tired of talking about that already. I can hear it again. We will start the questions and answers before the talk. Actually, i was born in nashville tennessee and my fathers family is from georgia, from north georgia in atlanta and my mothers family is from west tennessee around union city tennessee. Then i went to Elementary School in atlanta and went to oregon when i was about 11yearsold and i did my best to lose my southern accent as quickly as i possibly could. Everybody made fun of me because its the kind of thing you were in the lunch line and they say Say Somethin
Of troops or say what their roles will be. Global news, 24 hours a day powered by 2700 journalists and analyst, this is bloomberg. Bloomberg technology is next. This is Bloomberg Technology. Well do a deep dive into the currency market. Hit new high. Whats driving this current crypto mania. Plus, its a date. Apple officially gives a time and place for most significant Product Launch in years. Applediscuss what watchers are looking for. Cfo stepped up to the plate my conversation with Mark Okerstrom on his first order of business. To our lead it has a banner year in the realm currencies. Bitcoin, bitcoin cash. Those are some of the digital arrencies that have been on tear this year seen value skyrocket. Currency is crypto 170 billion and rising. Interest is at fever pitch. More bets being placed on currencies from high profile like mark cuban to some of the biggest banks across the globe will cover some of the issues aroundand the currency market over the next hour. Smootht just been sa
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Banks, although they since recovered from the losses, and are now one of the best performing groups. Coming up, whether a bank breakup is good for the industry, the economy, investors, joined by independent Community Bankers of america ceo, cam fine, and the former ceo of wells fargo. Caterpillar up 10 over the last month and could rally another 20 from here. Coming up, debating whether you should be buying this dow component or selling it right now. But we begin with the old adage as you mentioned, sell in may, go away. Referring to the six months strategy from may to september in which markets historically perform worst than the rest of the year. We look how sell in may has really worked out for investors or not so much lately, dom. It all depends on statistics and looking at the overall picture for stocks because theres any number of viewpoints and any number of time frames to look at with regard to whether sell in may and go away actually ends up working, so we asked our data partn