Other professions across the country. Next, on American History tv, a look at the challenges the union faced in fighting for workers rights and the role of minority women in the government industry. The New York Historical Society Center for womens history hosted this hour long discussion. Good evening, everyone. I am valerie paley. I am director for the center for womens history and i am so delighted to welcome you to the New York Historical society and to the center this evening. If you do not know about us, its time you did. We are the first such center within the walls of a major museum in the United States and its about time. [applause] im not going to take too much time away from the panel, but i do want to do a special shout out to our moderator, Nick Juravich, who is a post doctoral fellow in womens history and public history here at New York Historical. Nick is a fantastic scholar and human being and colleague and i am so absolutely thrilled that hes with us at a very importan
Could break 113 straight months of gains. Oil leads on both sides of the atlantic after President Trump says he has a key to resolving the standoff between saudi arabia and russia. Taylor i want to check on how the markets closed thursday. Todayseeing gains on trading session, reversing some of the losses we had previously. There is optimism. You had horrible initial jobless claims, 6 million which is double last weeks 3 million. Million the total to 10. The market is getting some certainty where they can start to quantify the magnitude and speed of the damage. The markets hate uncertainty. At least this data is starting to give us an indication of the economy. The market is using that as a point to rally off of. Within the futures market some of that is turning around. Futures markets have opened up in the last few minutes. We are talking a lot about oil in the introduction. We had an incredible tweet from the president which put oil up 22 and then today we opened up, erasing some of
[applause] thank you, sabrina. Thank you all for being here. As you know, recently there has been a lot more interest in the role banks play in global economies and communities, particularly when it comes to very big mergers. The failure of the silicate valley bank, generated a lot of talk and those of you who have been Community Groups on the front line, and crc on others, have been asking some tough questions about what we are doing to make sure banks are serving the community. More recently, there has been some announcement of big proposed mergers between credit card giants. In february, the Banking Industry sued the regulators regarding Community Reinvestment act. So i thought i would spend a little time today talking about how we should think about why banks serve communities and neighborhoods. I think a lot of people want to believe that banks are serving the underserved because it is charitable. So im going to first discuss some of the history about banking law and that terms co
[applause] thank you, sabrina. Thank you all for being here. As you know, recently there has been a lot more interest in the role banks play in global economies and communities, particularly when it comes to very big mergers. The failure of the silicate valley bank, generated a lot of talk and those of you who have been Community Groups on the front line, and crc on others, have been asking some tough questions about what we are doing to make sure banks are serving the community. More recently, there has been some announcement of big proposed mergers between credit card giants. In february, the Banking Industry sued the regulators regarding Community Reinvestment act. So i thought i would spend a little time today talking about how we should think about why banks serve communities and neighborhoods. I think a lot of people want to believe that banks are serving the underserved because it is charitable. So im going to first discuss some of the history about banking law and that terms co
[applause] thank you, sabrina. Thank you all for being here. As you know, recently there has been a lot more interest in the role banks play in global economies and communities, particularly when it comes to very big mergers. The failure of the silicate valley bank, generated a lot of talk and those of you who have been Community Groups on the front line, and crc on others, have been asking some tough questions about what we are doing to make sure banks are serving the community. More recently, there has been some announcement of big proposed mergers between credit card giants. In february, the Banking Industry sued the regulators regarding Community Reinvestment act. So i thought i would spend a little time today talking about how we should think about why banks serve communities and neighborhoods. I think a lot of people want to believe that banks are serving the underserved because it is charitable. So im going to first discuss some of the history about banking law and that terms co