Tuesday. The major indices have recovered about half the losses they saw on the lows from february 9th. From february 2 chnd to february 9th a big selloff, but weve seen half of that regained lets look at treasury yields. Yesterday the tenyear was sitting at 2. 837 . Once again this morning, tenyear at 2. 84 . 30year at 3. 124 . Overnight in asia, the nikkei was off by 0. 4 . Big gains for the hang seng. Up by 2. 27 . The shanghai was up as well. Check out whats happening in the early trading this morning in europe. Youll see green arrows across the board. The cac, the dax, and the ftse all showing gains of better than half a percentage point. Stocks are higher in italy and spain. Check out the dollar, which set a new low, 15month low against the yen yesterday. You can see that continuing. The dollar down once again, 10 7. 45, the dollar against the yen. Oil prices are actually below 59 this morning wti sitting at 58. 72 brent is above 60, 62. 43 those prices continue to drop. Couple b
Gains and losses for much of the day before surging in the final hour of trading. The dow travelled 5500 points in total when you add up all the moves. With yesterdays rally the dow and nasdaq recovered about half of mondays losses show you whats happening in asia. S generally improved asian markets were mixed, flat hang seng lower by almost 1 shanghai off by 1. 2 europe this morning, positive across the board gains of a half percent generally. Lets go show you whats going on with the yields which has been so interesting in the wake of that wage data on friday the 30year is yielding 3. 03 . Tenyear note at 2. 7 2. 76 we had gotten up to 2. 88 on monday that led to a lot of selling its a key level well talk a lot about as we move through the morning. Fiveyear note at 2. 49 the twoyear at 2. 0. Well have more on the markets as you can imagine in just a moment we have also a breaking Corporate News story making a lot of waves steve wynn is now officially out as ceo of his Company Followin
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The Kansas City Public Library hosted this event. Its about an hour and 10 minutes. [applause] david thank you, crosby, for those very kind words. Welcome to the Kansas City Public Library on a beautiful Missouri Valley sunday. My name is ale paul and i head collectionsal department headquartered just nearbye way in the Missouri Valley room. The program is made possible by a generous grant from the epidocument for the pleasures and it is my to present david wetzel, the author of the new and intriguingly entitled book the vanishing messiah the life and resurrections of Francis Schlatter. This is a fascinating tale of and religious belief in the American West and although the events played out more than storyury ago, i think the possesses elements that resonate today. An anonymous figure suddenly enters the public arena and almost and magically captures the attention of the nation. Iny of those citizens retrospect may have been gullable but they did possess some unfulfilled needs this ch