Look at what to some other action was taking place in the markets. What were you watching, abigail . Abigail im going to talk about the risk assets but on a longerterm basis this comes from bank of America America lynch. He joined us for charting features. What we are looking at and yellow is the s p 500 going back to january, 2018. In blue, highyield bond index. In white, that investmentgrade bond index. We see as the s p 500 was putting an alltime high and a strong january, those bond indexes were sliding. As the s p 500 climbed into its september alltime high, they were climbing a little bit but pretty tepid. Out of the Fourth Quarter bottoming, a huge rally for stocks, investmentgrade bonds and highyield bonds. Believe a steve to new alltime high is ahead for the s p 500. Emma of course, the big move in markets today came in the oil markets. Both wti and brent crudes rising about 4. 5 . Should be able to show you a chart that shows as the highs of brent crude, the biggest intraday
I am the Senior Historian here at the museum. I am also the executive director for the institute of the study of war and democracy. Tonight is the latest installment of our meet the authors series. We like to mention our sponsor, we bring this to you with the generous support of the strake foundation. So, thank you. Many of you have been to our events before. You know we have a tradition at the museum. May i ask, are there any world war ii veterans or homefront workers in the audience tonight . If you would please stand. Or wave. [applause] thanks, folks. [applause] i heard the president and ceo emeritus, and the current president say as many times, we built this museum for you, so thanks for coming to these events. Military veterans of any other era, if you would stand and wave. [applause] we always know that is a large number. I love the waves. People give different forms of waves. Looks good. I like that one. Thank you so much. We would like to acknowledge three special guests in th
Last years revenue went through china. Alibaba moves a step closer to a share sale in hong kong. The impending offer could raise as much as 20 billion. Shery lets get you started with a quick check on how markets closed. The s p 500 finishing at the highest level in five weeks. The nasdaq, the highest level in a month. Reversingtors yesterdays office to gain ground in yesterdays session. Most were in the green. They were led higher by Energy Stocks. Take a look at wti. Wti prices gained as much as 4. 5 at one point. Apparent attacks onto tankers on two tankers building up the tension in the persian gulf and leading investors to get worried about supply around oil. And we saw now on crude, jumping 2 in the last two sessions. U. S. Futures at the moment unchanged. Lets see how we are shaping up to the asian markets. Sophie this friday, were facing a mixed session with type and commodity sectors in focus. Get activity data from china later this morning. Investors will be watching to see i
Own. That is what started my historical brain in thinking, how did we get to this point and did it exist historically . So i started to do that project. This project now is sort of a sequel to the first project. Because i discovered in my first book that the history of miscarriage i stopped right around 1900. I realized there was a lot more to the story because by 1900, we still will were not going to a doctor during pregnancy. I was really curious as to win that started, because i thought it was going to happen earlier. That is why i started looking at the development of prenatal care and why exactly women thought that was a good idea. It was not just doctors saying you should come to us. Historically doctors have tried that for many centuries for a variety of reasons and it does not always convince people. I wanted to investigate why women started going to the doctors while pregnant. Steve they did not go to doctors in the 19th century . Shannon no and doctors were not , even trying
House transportation and infrastructure subcommittee. I ask unanimous consent the chair be authorized to declare recess at any time during todays hearing. Without objection so ordered. I ask unanimous consent of members not on the committee be permitted to sit with the subcommittee and ask questions without objection. If members wish to insert documents into the record please also email documents ti mail. Gov. Several other senators and a press release from senator kramer into the record without objection so ordered. I now recognize myself for the purpose of an Opening Statement for five minutes. Good morning and thank you for being here today. The undersecretary and the administrators before us represents the full scope of the jurisdiction in the subcommittee on highway and transit. However despite the long record of bipartisan oversight efforts, weve not had any administrators before us since 2019. Todays witnesses can help provide clarity on issues related to the Infrastructure Inve