Saturday. That will keep us into this cloudy, mostly cloudy condition, continuing to cool down with light rain. And tomorrow ushering in possible thunderstorms, 60s and 70s with the temperatures dropping. 4 31 am. Still quiet. Not a lot going on, which is nice. Nice early wednesday commute. Lets see what we have on 880 and the freeway traffic looking pretty good. There have been no major problems. Looking at the toll plaza, continuing to be a nicelooking drive on the westbound bay bridge getting into San Francisco. Speaking of the city and financially, looking at the map system, still green on 101 and 280 through daly city, San Francisco and 101 down the peninsula. 4 31 am and back to the desk. A look at the top stories, talking about the warriors, showing their depth at once again and coming back in game two of aden of the western conference, and the trailblazers led bike 17 at one point, but the Fourth Quarter the warriors made the move, winning, 11099, and game three is saturday. Do
Dow logging five straight weeks of gains. A rise in oil prices, decent economic data, and the feds decision to embark on a more gradual path of rate hikes helped power stocks over the past five sessions. Today the Dow Jones Industrial average added 120 points to 17,602. The nasdaq gained 20. And the s p 500 rose nearly 9. For the week, all of the major indexes rose 1 or more. And its not just the dow and the s p 500 that are deserving of attention. Theres another group of stocks thats been quietly outperforming the rest. Dominic chew has that story. Reporter the stock markets made a strong comeback since hitting lows back on february 11th. And that move has taken both the large cap s p 500 and dow industrials back to positive territory for the year. For as much attention as those big guys are getting its the s p 500 midcap index that stages the best performance so far inty 16. Its gained more than 2 since the start of the year. Some investors look toward admitcaps as a possible market
Dow logging five straight weeks of gains. A rise in oil prices, decent economic data, and the feds decision to embark on a more gradual path of rate hikes helped power stocks over the past five sessions. Today the Dow Jones Industrial average added 120 points to 17,602. The nasdaq gained 20. And the s p 500 rose nearly 9. For the week, all of the major indexes rose 1 or more. And its not just the dow and the s p 500 that are deserving of attention. Theres another group of stocks thats been quietly outperforming the rest. Dominic chew has that story. Reporter the stock markets made a strong comeback since hitting lows back on february 11th. And that move has taken both the large cap s p 500 and dow industrials back to positive territory for the year. For as much attention as those big guys are getting its the s p 500 midcap index that stages the best performance so far inty 16. Its gained more than 2 since the start of the year. Some investors look toward admitcaps as a possible market
Eastern, here on cspan2. Thursday a talk on security challenges in the middle east. Former president of the American University in cairo Lisa Anderson delivered remarks at the center for strategic and international studies. That is live at 10 a. M. Eastern here on cspan2. In both iraq and afghanistan, i helped both countries with their constitutions being sort of facilitator of agreement on key issues among afghans. The influence is considerable and has the government anxious to meet with you. Sunday night on q a. Former u. S. Ambassador to afghanistan, iraq and the United Nations discusses this journey. We saw the extremist and how we corrected it toward the end of the period i was there by the surge and reaching out to the sunnis and building up iraqi forces and establishing a government to bring about security and violence was down. But unfortunately we left and the vacuum was filled by rival regional powers. A discussion on the book, the smartest places on earth, looks at innovatio
And europe revitalized their economy when manufacturing jobs moved overseas. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Morning, everyone. Hoping you are well. I am delighted to be here. This is being web cast and we will be taking questions later and they can cstart coming in now. It is my privilege to kick off the very a suspicious. This new book, the smartest places on earth, is just out and if i say so you should all rush to pick out a copy and i think we have come out beyond the back. On the way out, please do that. Also, it finds two experienced economic observers focusing not on the standards of the usual spin cycle but some of us think at brookings there are elements of national wellbeing. I find this a welcome corrective to the disembodied economic debates we specialize on here in washington. Yet none of this gets at the most auspicious aspect, the fact that antoine and fred have actual good news to deliver, imagine that. Good news. I think it is absolutely true, thoughtful, subtle brand