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Three indices. The dow, as i mentioned, above the 22,000 mark, higher by 53 points s p up by a quarter of a percent. Financials, the leading sector of the day no surprise given the steepening were seeing of the yield curve and the nasdaq continues its leadership, higher by nine points where do we stand here how do you interpret the jobs report and mix this all together as we enter the final four months of the year i hope its say when im saying im not putting too much importance on todays job report cut his mike. Cut his micro. Steve, get out of here the hook comes outside. Look, we know theres a seasonal issue in august. Look, it was a tepid report. You didnt have the wage growth that you wanted to see but you didnt have sympathetic awful like a decline in jobs or a decline in wage growth you did see the workweek go down i dont like that. Look, put this all together, it puts winds in the sail that maybe you dont actually get that one federate hike this year steve, you can take it from ....
Washington today. Lets start with deferred action, the conversation in the white house about what going to happen with that program. What is being considered at this point . The white house is making a decision of whether to keep that program in place. The white house faces a deadline on tuesday of whether to continue this program for people who were brought into the country illegally as children. Attorneys general have threatened to sue the Trump Administration unless they discontinue this program next week. We think the president really doesnt want to. He has expressed publicly his tortured feelings about this program. He thinks a lot of people have grown to be good americans, essentially, and he doesnt want to rescind the protection isinst deportation, but he facing these lawsuits, so he has a tough decision to make. We are hearing it is probably not going to happen today. Going to talk to a democratic representative from ....
Nasdaq had its ninth positive month out of the last ten. The worst performing sector, energy not a surprise given wtis performance, down about 6 thats the worst month for wti since march. As for the year so far, the nasdaq is leading the way. Its up more than 19 . The dow is higher by 11 the s p 500 is up by 10. 4 check the global markets. Things were kind of friendly in europe not much happening in the asian markets. Japan and the hang seng and shanghai european equities were more positive a half percentage point gain in average in most of the bourses look at the dollar got over 1. 20, back down to 1. 19 the tenyear, 2. 13 do you go straight do you have a gauntlet from your house to your car . Do you get in a garage do you know, it felt like fall was 55 degrees. 56r7b8g 55. Realfeel 50 i walked out in my sleeveless dress, grabbed a sweater came back out. Theres some leaves around. Rustling a bit. That went fast, didnt it. Way too fast. We still have this New York , United States , United Kingdom , Harris County , New Orleans , North Korea , Port Arthur , Pebble Beach , South Korea , Yankee Stadium , Tom Gimbel , Warren Buffett , Hampton Pearson , Randall Stevenson , Dow Dupont , Jeff Bezos , Scott Cohn , James Rupe , Kate Upton , Andrew Ross Sorkin , Craig Asa , Rick Perry , James Lew , Woody Allen , Jack Caffrey , Aaron Judd Sotomayor ,
And we thought, oh my god, this is such a big hotel, we will never get 200 people. We lasted at that hotel only for a year, and we have moved from one hotel to another weve held the convention every other year in washington, d. C. And this year there are almost 1300 folks registered already. [applause] with all those conventions, weve always started in the same way, and that is having an invocation to get started on the right foot. Each of us who have not drank alcohol or use drugs today is grateful, but we remember that seldom do we take credit for that all by ourselves. And two years ago and several other times in our history, deacon ron ely has been wanting to come early in the morning to start us off on the right foot. Deacon ron, could you get started on the right foot . [applause] god bless you, paul, and thanks for the introduction. God bless all of you. Im happy to be here. I dont know how many times, but truly indeed this is a pleasure for me to be here amongst all of you as w ....