S p is now down 2. 25 the nasdaq is off by 40 points that happened after news that we heard from beijing that well tell you about in a moment Interest Rates are a huge part of the market story. Yesterday we saw the inversion of the twoyear and the tenyear yield. So shortterm bonds are paying more than longterm bonds. Historically this is considered a recession warning sign check this out the 30year bond this morning is now yielding below 2 . This is the first time in history weve seen the 30year below 2 1. 99 . Tenyear is yielding 1. 557 . The twoyear is yielding 1. 54 lets look at what happened in markets overnight in asia. Things got a slower start there. The nikkei was down out of the gate it ended down by 1. 2 . In china, stocks are stronger. Shanghai is up by a quarter percent. The hang seng up by three quarters of a percent. In europe, there is active trading taking place, you are seeing some red arrows across the board. The biggest decliner of the three major averages would be t
Happy confluence of Kansas City Public Library programming. Its the latest in our series with the u. S. Army command and general staff in fort levin worth on the marking the 75 years since world war ii. But also it comes in the middle of the librarys partnership, and its from january through may with the eisenhower president ial library and foundation in abilene. And its on the Dwight Eisenhower exhibit thats up on the second floor art gallery here at the library, the mountain gallery. We have a series of programs running on Dwight Eisenhower through may. The next one of those, in fact, is next wednesday. Tonight we focus on eisenhower and George Marshall. The army chief of staff who targeted ike for advancement as a military officer, keen eye for talent. Among others with ike, he spied george patent and omar bradley. And he became one of ikes primary mentors as the army chief of staff from 1939 to 1945. Marshall, of course, went onto become the secretary of state and win a Nobel Peace
I think weve have you here every year since then. We are thrilled to have you. His newest book it was released late may in addition to authoring over 30 books. A columnist and media commentator. And a researcher in the developing world. To the childhood and during the wars centennial. He is working on a novel set during the cold war and is a contributor to the Hoover Institute on the publication or military history in the impact on world affairs. It is terrific, thank you for coming. Many of you would not want to be in this airconditioning you want to be out in the 95 degrees heat. I was also a very bad musician. I was talking about darkness in the new book. In the sense the talk today might have been titled chancellor bill although it has been and is as the latest operational triumph nonetheless that victory was a very expensive one. And i will just give you a couple of fine points right now and then we will do more of the background and the battle. We are at gettysburg after all. The
For the earthbound astronomer, space was a lifetime of study beyond the window of his observatory. For countless centuries the exploration of space remained a dream in the mind of man. Then, on the fourth day of the month of october 1957, it became a reality. The soviet union hurled the first manmade satellite into orbit 558 miles above the earth. The space age had begun. A year Later Congress created the National Aeronautics and space administration, a new civilian agency with parallel missions, to continue research and improvement in aeronautics, and to build a team and Technology Capable of sending unmanned and demand craft to explore the new ocean of space. Today, after a decade of research and discovery, america stands ready for the next step, a journey to the moon. [jet engines firing] this day began on an island of the coast off the coast, a place where man explores the realm of space. Over the past years, scientific instruments have been carried into the atmosphere, gathering d
The civil war in the east from gettysburg appomattox. His newest book is darkness at chancellorsville it was released late may. In addition to offering over 30 books, ralph has been a u. S. Army enlisted man and career officer, a columnist and media commentator, a strategy and security analyst, and a researcher in the developing world. His fascination with the study of our civil war dates back to his early to his childhood entering the wars continue. At the present he is working on a novel set during the cold war and is a contributor to the Hoover Institute publication on military history and its impact on world affairs. Without any further introduction, i give you ralph. Thank you. [applause] its always good to be back here. Its terrific. Thank you for coming. I know many of you would much rather not being this condition him and would much rather be out in the 95degree heat but thanks for making a sacrifice. Tammy, in covering my biography, left out one very important thing. I was als