Good afternoon everyone. On behalf of the archivist of the United States, i like to welcome you all to the theater located in the National Archives building in washington dc. Id also like to give a special shout out to our good friends from cspan2 who are also joining us today. Before we hear from philip about his new book, the cia and the post 911 world, like to be about two upcoming programs taking place in the theater. This friday august 16th, at noon, William G Hyland junior will tell us about a forgotten family father george mason the founding father who gave us the bill of rights. Then on tuesday september 10th at noon, Sidney Blumenthal will tell us about his recently released volume three of his biography of Abraham Lincoln all powers of earth the political life of Abraham Lincoln 1886 to 1863. To find out more about these programs and error exhibits, please visit our website at archives. Gov challenger. Weve also find some printed materials of the lobby about upcoming coming e
Is looking like its biggest handicap. Going global. Worldwideplans a expansion. Shery lets get a quick check of how the markets closed in the u. S. We saw a stock rally with the dow gaining 270 points, while the s p 500 was higher by 1. 1 . We had already seen stocks higher since the morning session after President Trump said the prophets for a deal were better chinaw anytime talks with began last year. The positive sentiment on trade was spurred higher with the presser from president s macron and trump in the afternoon where we heard them both be positive on trade but also potentially no auto tariffs on japan. Not to mention a sit down with iran. We saw the stocks on the s p 500 and the green. Lets be mindful that volume was pretty thin. About 20 below the average at this point. U. S. Futures at the moment unchanged, but this as concerns are still out there on perhaps a recession hitting the u. S. We continue to see the yield curve inversion deeper into negative territory. Paul . Paul
Great decision rate decisions this week. And gun control on the u. S. Agenda after shootings leaving 30 dead in texas and ohio. Lets get you started with a quick check of market close. It was another day of risk off, not just a day but a week of risk off. We have not seen such losses this whole year. In fact we have not seen such massive selloff since december 2018, before the fed did a uturn and turned dovish grid we have taken Energy Leading the declines, the dow at the lowest level in six weeks, the nasdaq losing a percent or we have the lingering impact of new tariffs on chinese goods imposed by President Trump. We had decent jobs numbers but thel 10year yield around lowest since 2016 as there are more rate cuts factored in. U. S. Futures down. 2 . Lets see how we are setting up in asia. Given that context it wont surprise anyone to see we are looking at a down day in new zealand in a couple of minutes. Off a shade, a quarter of 1 but out of pointing lower chicago. Nikkei futures d
Room here. Great to see so many members and sponsors and our board. Thanks for joining us here and welcome to trucon 2019. [applause] i am so glad youre hear with us today and i am especially grateful to those of you who traveled a great distance to be here. Thank you. Before we get underway i want to take a moment to thank those who helped make this event and so much of this possible. Were fortunate to be supported by sponsors in the work we do and the world we seek a create. Bob abernathy, Carnegie Corporation of new york, john d and kathyrn macarthur, and others, and with em to herb to the truman for over a decade. Mr. Sandler passed away and i was happy to have met him a few weeks ago. We are not just grateful for their continued investment since 2008, but the willingness to lead by example in funding and guiding the full fight for likemined organizations. Id like to thank board members, alvin, steven bailey, jake sullivan, john finer, matt spence. Franklin templeton investment. Gu
The nikkei closed up by a half percentage point stocks were mixed in china hang seng down by 2 if you look at whats happening in europe and the early trading, things are mixed there stocks down in london with the ftse down by 0. 6 . Stocks up across the board in the other countries. The dax in germany up by 0. 9 . A gain of a half percentage point in france. Crude prices, wti around 57. 50. We are up another 55. Yeah, market was up 255 yesterday. Think if the market was down 255. Think of what we would do with 160 point observe a down day or 190 as far as the sentiment in this market right now, if the market were to go down we take it in stride when we hit new records. Yeah, the market is going up. Maybe its powell or tax reform. Thats 300 points this morning, if we went down 300, you would be every newspaper, they would have picture traders going stock shot. Stock shot. Is that what they call those . Stock shot. Stock photos. Not about stocks. No. About something that you got on file