Good morning from me as well. Lets get you up to speed on the wall street action. A nice day for wall street. 1 gains in all three indices. Apple another one of the factors, its carrying through asian trade and helping futures. 16 points on the dow and 1. 5 points on the nasdaq. The s p up by eight points. Lets have a look at the chart of the day. Oil on supply discussions. Eia saying share output is expected to drop in june for an eighth consecutive month. And also fires burning around the canadian oil supplies of Fort Mcmurray up again. Up ten basis points but the big move came yesterday with up 3. 3 . Settling at its highest since the 3rd of november. And today a high of 47. 85. Oil prices remarkably strong. Inching towards that 50 a barrel. Its helping markets everywhere. Take a look at asia over night. We did see a gain after the nikkei went to a oneweek low. Also saw gains in hong kong with shanghai comp did close lower by 0. 25 . Gary fink of black hawk make something warnings.
Washington journal continues. Host joining us on the washington journal is dan stein , federation for American Immigration reform or fair. What is fair what positions do you take on immigration . Guest it is an organization that believeS Immigration should serve the national and American Interest and that immigration laws should be enforced and enforceable and we should set them at levels that the low enough level that it does not challenge domestic priorities or confound global objectives. Right now immigration is far too high, it is unsustainable and everybody can see impacts from all across the country. We want to bring it down to 300,000 a year or less and we would like to implement legal reforms to make sure every immigrant is legal. Host how many Illegal Immigrants can come in on a yearly basis currently . Guest a statutory basis would run 750 but is too high. There are administrative techniques in the last two years and we also saw studies the other day, the last two years were
N our panel. [applaus [applause]. A reminder if you missed any of this conference you can watch it online in the video library. Tonight on cspan2, we have been featuring booktv beginning at 8. Tonight, authors featured on after word will be with us. Tonight, beginning at 8 p. M. Eastern here on cspan2. Yesterday, marked 30 years of gavel to gavel senate floor coverage on cspan2. Our special program featured video from the senate floor going back to the first televised session. Here is a look the senate is trying to make the best use of the technology in the 21st century to remain true. It is difficult to forge compromise. Everybody has to give and that is not photogenic. This indeed is a humbling moment for me. I am honored to serve as majority leader. But i recognize the majority is slim. We have witnessed something that never happened before in senate history. The change of power during a session of congress. Watch that entire program looking back at Televised Senate saturday at 8 p.
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