interstate transportation of stolen property. it has to be the least used federal statute on the books. buff the diary was never stolen. ashley biden abandoned it. she left it under a mattress in a florida halfway house where she was recovering from her sex and drug addiction. i have a legitimate question: why don t the biden kids ever clean up after themselves? did they grow up with maids? hunter is leaving his laptop at repair shops and his crack pipes in rental cars, ashley is just ditching her diary around a bunch of drug addicts. this is the sloppiest family i have ever seen. it s almost like they want to get caught. talk about daddy issues. we don t have time for that tonight though. but the doj doesn t care. they are making it seem like these two people broke into the biden family beach house and stole it out of the wig guys safe. they accused harris and kerrlander of crossing state lines with stolen property and using encrypted messaging app. to communicate with journ
Were they up, you ask . Lets take a look. Yes, spain and italy, i always like to see the ftse over in the uk, wilfrieds home, the only one that is up this morning. The big outperformer this month as well. Playing catchup for the year more than any other specific factors. But its been a good month the rest kind of flat for the month. Lets take a look at the tenyear yield and of course, oil Oil Important yesterday. Having climbed above that 60 mark for wti you can see its slightly below. Lets call it not much of a move this morning, flat or so and 2. 42 on the tenyear note yield. Lets get to our road map this morning. In it, it does start with those two trading days that are left for the year u. S. Futures are pointing to a higher open, buoyed by gains in the utility and real estate sector and the cryptocurrency tumbling after new regulation talk in south korea. And its the year of the global ipo, 2017 saw the most Companies Going public since the financial crisis a lot of them right her
Extremists use social media, and what is being done about it. Washington journal talks with a federal official who wrote a book about it. Host we continue our authors series, welcoming haroon ullah. His book was published in october called, Digital World war islamists, extremists, and the fight for cyber supremacy. Ullah, before we get into the fight for the digital battlefield first define some , terms for us, especially the important distinction you make in the title and throughout the book about islamists and extremists. Between islamists and extremists. Dr. Ullah thank you i am , thrilled to be here to talk to you about something im passionate about. Part of it is that i think islamists, when you think distinguished from extremists you look on a couple of different dimensions. Do they play by the rules of the game . What did they say publicly about the constitution . Do they use extra electoral means with votes or trying to run for office . The big one is do they use , violence . D
Social media, on twitter, at twitter. Com cspanwj and on facebook, at, facebook. Com cspan. You can start calling in now and as youre calling in, we take you to the front page of the New York Times this morning, an article thats getting a lot of attention with theyre exclusive interview with putt. He is likely to come up during this first hour of discussion on the washington journal. The story in the New York Times has Michael Schmidt and michael shear on the byline. The headline, president says inquiry makes u. S. Look bad. It is an impromptu 30minute interview at the president s golf club in West Palm Beach. He did not demand an end to the investigation but said 16 times that theres been no collusion covered by the inquiry quote. Host the story by shear and schmidt of the New York Times goes on to note that the interview happened in the grill room of the Trump International golf club as the president ate lunch with his playing partners including his son, eric, and jim harmen. No aide
And for stock investors all around the globe, virtually no matter the market you were in, you made money this past year. Sometimes lots of it. Here in the u. S. , the major indexes set records seemingly evy week. The dow and nasdaq had 71 and 72 record alltime high closes respectively. No other year comes close. The s p 500 had 62. And those records led to numbers like these for 2017. The dow up 25 . The nasdaq, 28. And the s p 500, 19 . We delved a lip and h and found some surprises in those numbers. If youre worried these outsized results may indicate an overheated market, youre entitled to feel that way. But consider this. Going back to the reagan administrati that began in 1981, none, none of these gaudy percentage gains even rank in the top five year by year. This years dow comes the closest. Sixth best year since 81. This wasnt even the dows best decade, 2013 was, up 26. 5 . It was, believe it or not, an eerily calm year in the market. 2015 and 16 combined saw the s p 500 move 1