Changing views on marriage and sexuality. Many, many other challenges too. During these and other periods of stress, especially over the last few centuries some have thought and argued the Catholic Church might become irrelevant. Disappear into the dust of history. My guess is says instead of being overwhelmed by modern times come the churches not only survived as it clearly has, but is actually key agent of change for the whole world. He is george whiteoak, catholic scholar and distinguished fellow with ethics policy centerpiece also wrote more than two dozen books and closing his latest the irony of catholic history how the church rediscovered itself and challenge the modern world to reform. George thank you for being here. Lets start with the book and pick this up right with the title. Whats ironic about the church, the churchs response. Whats ironic about it jerry, is a relationship that started with a lot of mutual head knocking. Vote tear, crying, crush the infini, folks hurling
Ten points. The nasdaq off by 22. Crude oil prices were up sharply overnight, topping 40 a barrel. First time weve seen that in quite a while. That came after the announcement yesterday of a surprise job in u. S. Inventories. However, wti has turned around since then. Looks like we flipped that contract, too. If you were looking at 40 overnight, were now looking at the may contract. Thats a decline of 7 cents to 37. 69. It will be interesting to see how this new contract plays out. We did see a huge gain in crude oil prices yesterday. The other big mover this morning, currency. The dollar hitting a 17 hch month low against the yen. This came after the minutes from the last months fed meeting suggested that the central bank is unlikely to raise Interest Rates before june. There were a lot in these minutes, but most people are looking at the doves comments after what we heard from janet yellen just last week. Brian . Some corporate stories to talk to you about this morning. Just go right
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4 . A drop in inventories this week. And also a drop in the number of drilling rigs hoping to push that commodity higher. Its another down day for the transports. The airlines are bouncing back and weve got the ceo of Spirit Airlines here to talk about fluctuating oil prices and capacity are impacting his company. He looks spirited doesnt he . Ben baldanza. Talk of yet another deal shares of Health Insurer humana have been on a tear in the last hour or so that the company has put itself up for sale. Theyve had interest expressed to them by some rivals. Theyve hired Goldman Sachs and the mating dance begins. The stock up 17 . More details on this story, coming up. Its still breaking right now, as a matter of fact. Big implications across the Medicare Advantage space, of course for the Obamacare Exchanges as well. The dow is down to close out the month, 113 points, just above 18,000 for the time being. The s p 500 down about 12 for the broad index there. That nasdaq actually the outperfo