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From time square in new york city, the new wall street week. Welcome the founder of Portfolio Manager trading as well as ben thompson, advisors. It is great to have you here. Background. Did you always know you wanted to be a bond Portfolio Manager . I couplet in that category in second grade and haven t gotten out. [laughter] i discovered it early on. I worked in the early 90 s that goldman sachs. Now that i have interest in the bond market and Municipal Bond left to form Samson Capital advisors with a number of partners, focusing on fixed income investment, primarily taxpayers. I know a little bit about let s go back to growing up. I decided very early because t a very good student that this would be my my study would be to our charts and learning about stocks in the way markets move and how they react to economic numbers and all the different the market. You decided to leave college street. I called gary three weeks before we were supposed to go back to our senior year at syracuse a
Is no division, there is no stent. I keep hearing people trying to create one. We are united and are working closely together and we all agree that this challenge will not end through military force. He made the comments at a security conference on sunday in munich. The Russian Central Bank is not likely to reverse januarys surprise Interest Rate cut. In an exclusive interview with ryan chilcote, the Russian Central Bank president said the bank will stick to its pledge unless the ruble swing threatens financial stability. She said Economic Policy will only go so far. We need structural reform because neither monetary nor budgetary policy can create stable Economic Growth. She also revealed that she checks oil prices several times per day. Greece is not blinking. The Prime Minister said he will not back off. He rejects the Bailout Program and went so far as to say that germany still owes money to greece from the second world war. He called the negotiations. On wednesday, finance ministe
And new data on how bad the breach was at jp morgan. It was a computer hacking thing. It is a very, very large number. First to sue. We have a very large number on the Dow Jones Industrial average based on the stronger than expected jobs report which is fuelling todays big rally. Just to recap the u. S. Economy adding 248,000 jobs in september ahead of expectations. Also, the prior two months were also revised higher. The surge in hiring driving down the Unemployment Rate to 5. 9 , the lowest since july of 08. Despite todays big rally the major averages facing a second egweek of losses. The s p 500 is up 22, almost 23 points on the session. The nasdaq is up 53. The transports up 162 points on the session and the russell is up 12. Lt oil, though, continuing to plunge. It is on the down side by better than 1 . 1. 25 on brent crude. West texas off. The gold market down 22 almost 2 there. And the year on the ten year up to 2. 45 . More on the trading action. Morgan brennan is at the nasdaq
Colorado. My daughter jill will make. She made a baby instead. So i have a grandson now. And there he is. His blame is a his name is jack michael there. Is jill feeling a lot bert. She has gone home. We hope jack can go home as a preemie, five weeks early, and will be back home with jill and her husband brandon by saturday, what were hoping for. Crossing our fingers, also, so cool, do we have the little shot up . Look at the rocket. There it is. So this should launch into about four minute. And you know what the forecast has been improving. Last night dense fog advisory in effect, lifted it, it is gone. There is rain in the forecast, but not raining now. There it is. Mostly cloudy skies, and 67 degrees for launch time. Moments from now, for our weather by the numbers we go up to seven today. Lot of sunshine, no more rain. We got rid of the rain from yesterday. Bus stop buddy wearing a sixers cap for the First Time Since the season started. Temperatures in the threes, so make sure to bu