Feature all of our history tv program from wheeling in one block. [video clip] the first project funded by the federal government for growth production was the National Road that extended from cumberland, maryland to wheeling, virginia. One of the reasons for that was that ohio had become a stay in 1803, the country was moving west, we needed to find a way to tie these Western Areas into the capital. The easiest way of doing that in the early 19th century was to put in a road. It would extend from baltimore to cumberland, to uniontown, in 1818 a came here to wheeling. When it came to wheeling at that time, about 15 years old it would give the community what it needed to grow. The population of wheeling would almost triple. Host make sure you tune into American History tv today to see this and other programs from wheeling, west virginia. You can also go to c span. Org to see all the programming we had done on our c span cities tour. On the Martin Luther king holiday, we are featuring al
It is the biggest deal in the oil and gas industry in the last decade. Shell has agreed to buy bg group for 70 billion in cash and stock. That represents a premium of 50 on bgs Closing Price yesterday. Shelves ceo told bloomberg the deal is a bargain. Shells ceo. If you look at the combination of the two Companies Come out we could do with the assets the fantastic assets that bg has with our capabilities applied to them, we saw a lot more value in that combination than the market. Stephanie the combined company would surpass chevron as the worlds secondlargest oil and gas producer after exxon mobil and would be able to get rid of overlapping cost to help offset the impact of Lower Oil Prices. The price of oil could fall another 15 if there is a final agreement on a nuclear deal with iran. That is according to the federal agent federal Energy Information administration. Economic sanctions would be eased and that means iran could make a full return to the global oil market. Over in mosco
Stanleys adam parker. He will tell us what hes expecting from earnings whether they can spark a selloff in stocks, talk about the words earnings recession have been discussed in conjunction with the First Quarter earnings reports due to come out. And where is howard marks putting his money to work . You will find out in an exclusive interview. Plus Bill Richardson former new mexico governor gives us his reaction to rand paul running for president and what he thinks of the senators plans if he became president he would get rid of the Energy Department and three other cabinet positions if he were to become president of the United States. Well get governor richardsons take on that coming up. You can guess what he would say. We have a lot to get to. Lets start with where we stand. 74 points higher on the dow. The s p 500 up by about 5 points to 2,085. The dow is the outperformer on the session. The nasdaq adding 16 to 4,933. Lets get to our closing bell exchange. Amy wu is back with us so
U. S. Market, especially the nonblue chips will work its way higher perhaps by 20 to 30 in the next year or more likely over two years with the rest of the world including emerging Market Equities covering even more ground in at least a partial catchup. But then he continues, we will have a series of of serious market busts since 1999 and presumably greenspan, bernanke, yellen, et al. Will help happy. And we the people, of course, will get what we deserve. Dow futures down by 11 points. S p futures off by 2. 25 points. It is worth pointing out that we have seen a super strong run since october 9th. Were going to continue to talk about the markets throughout the morning. But first, we heard to some of the mornings top corporate stories. Thanks, beck. I wish we could get someone to look at his recent comments. I cannot remember in recent years him predicting we would get this far. Hes always been pretty concerned, so i dont know. I dont know how to read that. We need someone to look in t
The country making a case for why he should be elected president of the United States. The American Economy was imploding, russia and georgia were on the verge of war, the United States was engaged in direct talks with north korea on the subject of nuclear disarmament. A busy time in america, a busy time in the world. A very busy time in the news business. And in the middle of all this, with all of this more swirling in the air, there was actually a moment in the middle of all this that it seemed that all anyone wanted to ask barack obama about was a cartoon. Cartoon that was on the cover of a magazine called the new yorker yorker. So the title of that new yorker cover was the politics of fear. And that came out shortly after a fox news commentator had wondered alloud on television i they had given each other a terrorist fist jab. That new yorkyorker cover capd that moment in political and media life, the conversation that was happening in our country right then, not just in politics b