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Host there are a lot of avenues that this could have been done. How does this type of fraud occur . Guest stolen identities of actual people that fraud announcer now live to stacey abrams, moderating a panel of women freshman members of Congress Talking about female representation in Public Office. So honored today to have special guest on our campus. In the form of freshman women from the congress. They are members of the Congressional Black Caucus. We are pleased that they took time out of their busy schedules , the day after the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual conference. As anybody knows, they worked hard during that time period. We thank them for coming to the campus today and for being with us and we look forward to working with their offices, getting more howard students working in internships and more howard students hired in congress. They have brought staff with them today. You can talk to students. If you are interested in careers on the hill, look for the desk
Everyone quiet but you all got quite all by yourself with no direction. My name is jason botel with the department of education. I want to welcome you and thank you very much for coming to the k12 education summit. We appreciate you all being here and looking forward to a great conversation. In just a moment secretary devos oh, but before she does just what wanted to say couple housekeeping things. We have bottled water and coffee in the back seat can feel free to partake. And there are restrooms at the ends of the holes. If you do leave the building you can come back in but you have to go through security again, so just wanted to warn you about that. Those of you who will be participating in the conversation, you have microphones in front of you, you do need to turn the von when youre about to talk. Theres a button that says talk. The red light will come on which will tell you microphone is active. When youre not speaking please turn it off. We would appreciate that and you would prob
Devos will, but before she does just wanted to say a couple housekeeping things. If you havent found already we have water and coffee in the back and feel free to partake. That are restrooms at the end of the halls. If you do leave the building you can come back in but you have to go to security can such as wanted to warn you about that if the take some time. Those of you who be participating in the conversation, microphones in front of you. You do need to turn them on when youre about to talk. Theres a button that says talk. When you turn on the red light will come on which tells you the microphone is active. When youre not speaking please turn it off. We would appreciate that and you would probably prefer we dont hear any private conversations as well. Those are sticking day, we appreciate you being here, we ask you keep remarks to about ten minutes. I will be sitting next to the secretary at the head of the table and ill try not to be obnoxious but i may waive or give an indication
The best week since december 2016. Some of that bullish action is continuing. All time highs. Very small gains. A lack of conviction. Investors taking a breather ahead of earnings season. They had a technical analysis, this is 8605. She presented a version of this chart, and she believes we will see consolidation. This is the s p 500 over the last year. Area sheve a cloud likes to use. We will see the s p 500 pull back down to that. That is less likely and she believes the gains for 2018 will be smaller than 2017. Time will tell but that is an interesting view. Lets take a look at a five day chart. Earlier we were looking at the first declines in five days. In the way. Up 2. 7 . Last week was the best since the end of 2016. The gain may be small but it is a broadbased gain, small rally. We see most of the sectors are higher. Such as utilities in real estate , information technology. Health care is significantly lower. The big drag is the biotech sector. Lets look at the names that are