Michael jordan. Actors tom hanks, Robert De Niro, Robert Redford. Singers, Bruce Springsteen and diana ross. This is about an hour and 10 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, the recipients of the medal of freedom. Kareem adbuljabar. [applause] Ellen Degeneres. [applause] tom hanks. [applause] Michael Jordan. [applause] [applause] Robert Redford. [applause] Bruce Springsteen. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the Vice President of the United States. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States and mrs. Michelle obama. [applause] president obama this is not all fun and games. Welcome to the white house, everybody. Today we celebrate extraordinary americans who have lifted our spirits, strengthened our union, pushed us toward progress. I always love doing this event. But this is a particularly impressive class. [laughter] we have got innovators and artists, publicer is and haves, rabblerousers, athletes, renowned character actors like the guy from space jam. [laughter] we
One of them is asu, going to the moon to try to locate hydrogen. Right. Why is that important, to try to see where hydrogen deposits might be . Geologically, we arent really sure why theres a lot of deposits of hydrogen at the poles. We understand that the pole sort of wobbles over time and we concentrate water at the poles of any planet that has water on it. But the moon is very dry, from what we know. Passing asteroids or comets might shed off water, and that would sort of get deposited in a blanket uniformly around the moon, and it gets redistributed over time. So you get meteorites that impact on the moon and sort of ballistically shoot the hydrogen around and it ends up in the places that are the coldest. Thats the only place its stable. Those places on the moon are these shadowed craters that are permanently in darkness all the time at the south pole because of the topography down there. As the moon rotates the light never gets in and so we know from about two other missions that
Move to raise Interest Rates. Belgium Police Arrest two suspects allegedly plotting an attack in brussels on new years eve. The arrests follow raids in three regions but they are not linked to the paris shootings. Snowstorms and flooding caused havoc for Many Americans during one of the busiest travel periods of the year. Lets check in on u. S. Futures. Yesterday some small declines at the end of it. It was down some triple digits but we managed to recoop some of the losses heading into the close. Checking in on the implied open were above fair value today. S p 500 called higher. Dow jones industrials should be gaining about 85 points at the open and the nasdaq is looking at an advantage of 25. Heres europe, a positive session so far getting an advanced lead from the asia pacific session overnight. The ftse 100 seeing gains of. 5 . The german dax, the france cac 40 and the ftse mib. Lets check in on mining shares since the commodities have been the story for 2015 and the dwindling oil
Howd be affecting the move . Remaining flat. Markets are phenomenally resilient. Greece is one of them. Russia is another. Ryan chilcote calls the talks at the moment small fry. Wait until they get to merkel. Could we get any kind of ceasefire in ukraine . At the moment remaining flat after 20 or 30 seconds into trading. Were looking at some of the stories when looking at the euro. Basically flat against the dollar as we will see. Business coming off of session lows. The euro looking flat. We are seeing a bit of a drop in the oil prices once again. U. S. Supplied actually, we are turning higher. Brent is up. 4 . New shakes in the oil market but it fell that little bit yesterday. The u. S. Supply imbalance with the demand. No real fear or terror happening in the bond market. We are seeing greek foreign, trading down a little bit. Still above 16 . We are seeing money coming of germany. Yields creeping slightly higher. The fiveyear look, we are still getting negative yield for fiveyear ge
This morning after the dow and the s p toastposted their best gains of the year. And carl icahn said one company has the worst Corporate Governance hes ever seen and Steve Ballmer making his first address since leaving microsoft, he did not disappoint coming to you later this hour. But first up well start with the markets, stocks coming off a record session, the s p a record high and the dow and the s p having their best day since december 18th. And adp showed the economy created fewer private sector jobs in february as the cold weather restrains hiring. You said the data has been okay. The durables and the chicago pmis have been all right. We have great data out of europe pmi. How could the economy be good and stocks be good and employment be bad . The economy is not necessarily good its delivering but with the employment weaker and the macromanufacturing come out and continue to amaze and the Mortgage Application number this morning that is strong. If you get russia off the business