Todays winners. Take a look at some of the big names in biotech, staging a comeback. Biogen, among others, leading the nasdaq 100 higher and speaking of health care, you got to take a look at Intuitive Surgical. Intuitive surgical shares, the best performing stock on the nasdaq 100 after its preliminary Fourth Quarter revenue beat street estimates. Then switch over to tech, because tech is the best performing s p sector providing market leadership. Google, expedia, apple, yahoo broadbased gains in tech. Tech is a sector favored to move higher in a rising rate environment. Lastly, social media, those stocks have had a couple volatile days. We are seeing facebook, twitter among others posting gains. Sue . Thank you very much, seema. The trading action here, we are just off the highs of the trading session but the big event in todays trading session is two hawks on the fed are making comments. Richard fisher will make comments shortly but mr. Plosser has made some comments and is talking
Tumbling 110 points. Right now or government is pondering action, some sort of action. We dont know what its going to be. Worse, judging from president obamas conference today, he doesnt seem to know what to do. Something quite ev den from the the subsistence of not ruling out any option, plus, hes saying short term immediate things need to be done militarily to preserve the situation, which considering the immediate decline in the stockmarket, if we spoke, means something could happen as early as this weekend. So tomorrow could be a long day, what will it be . Airstrikes, drones . Iraq . More lives lost in defence of a government that Many Americans hate . Just the good works of our soldiers already seem undone . Thats ularge. We had many overseas issues in enroot years that caused hiccups in the market. North koreans saber rattling, cyber financial closing. Serious insurrection, ukraine. None of these rose to the level of the u. S. Military action. We have no selloffs to strangers to
We are moving into the postwar period and then well be there for the rest of the class. Right . Were gonna start here in 1945 and go all the way until the end of the 20th century. As you know, this is the us survey so its sort of the greatest hits of American History as my job. Todays lecture though is a lecture that you get because of what i am a specialist in right . This is a lecture that maybe you wouldnt get from another professor in this Department Teaching this class. So this this lecture is really going to situate us in the 1950s and really talk about gender and families in that era. And you know as all lectures you should feel free to ask questions in the middle if you want or at the end also and zoom people the questions will be in the chat. So of all the nations in the world at the end of World War Two only the United States emerged stronger and more prosperous in when the war began. Europe and asia of course had been devastated by the war and americas but americas farms fac
We are moving into the postwar period and then well be there for the rest of the class. Right . Were gonna start here in 1945 and go all the way until the end of the 20th century. As you know, this is the us survey so its sort of the greatest hits of American History as my job. Todays lecture though is a lecture that you get because of what i am a specialist in right . This is a lecture that maybe you wouldnt get from another professor in this Department Teaching this class. So this this lecture is really going to situate us in the 1950s and really talk about gender and families in that era. And you know as all lectures you should feel free to ask questions in the middle if you want or at the end also and zoom people the questions will be in the chat. So of all the nations in the world at the end of World War Two only the United States emerged stronger and more prosperous in when the war began. Europe and asia of course had been devastated by the war and americas but americas farms fac
Want to use the companys experimental drug for myscular dystrophy patients. There are signs the fda will give it fast track priority. The main indexes all advanced for a 5th day. That close for the s p puts it on its longest winning streak for the year. Oil settled at a 7 week high. Gold opens at a more than 2 week low. There are reports ford will name its coo, mark fields to be its new ceo. Current Ceo Alan Mulally has said he will retire before the end of the year. And on the 44th annual earth day, comes the question how earth friendly are you . Eco america did a poll. 71 percent of americans say theyre concerned about climate change. A higher percentage say humans can reverse the damage. But would you pay more for environmentally friendly products to help do that . In asia 58 percent say yes. Only 32 percent in the us and russia would buy such products. Things have been hopping and popping in the bond markets. Lets talk with Glenn Schultz with Performance Trust about this. Lets star