Yesterday stocks were down for the third time in four sessions. Not far off the session lows. That was just a decline of 85 points for the dow. A loss of ten points for the s p 500 and a loss of 11 points for the nasdaq. Check out what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei was up by a half percent. Mainland china markets closed for that weeklong celebration that they do. In europe, in the early trade, at this point theyre under a bit of pressure. Biggest decline coming in france with the cac down by 0. 8 . Ftse off by a half percent. The ftse has been the big story. Ftse up yesterday. The british pound falling to the lowest several since 1985. Well talk more about that in a moment. Look at crude oil prices. Cried down yesterday in the regular session. It did pick up some ground in the evening session after we saw a surprise draw down in api inventories. 50, right within spitting distance. 49. 44 for wti. Among the top stories, becky is still here. Yes. Im still here. Its interesting a
It. Theres still shells of mature that havent been dug up. For that matter, i dont know if you know but at the National Archives in washington theres a whole roomful of any scrips, medical documents in particular, from the American Civil War that have never been opened. They are in brown paper wrappers tied with a ribbon, and no one is ever looked at them for 150 years, or whatever it is. I mean i have of course the First World War was extraordinary Human Experience on many levels, but i think i kind of missed my window. Im working right now on a book about, another book of course. Thats how it make a living. Im working on a book about what sounds like the unpromising subject of energy transitions. I will eventually be writing about oil. Im sure i will come back to dallas more than once, but right now im writing about elizabethan england when they ran out of trees close enough the luggage be able to afford to transport them. And they had to switch to coal. And they just hated coal. The
There is a few square misses in the aftermath but essentially bad and that i write about the hellenistic period under alexanders generals and at the same time you have the rice of the Roman Republic also arguably established in 510 and i am glad new institutions are being formed and new versions of the tribunes of the plebs and other new roman institutions until essentially it is extinguished with a battle in 20 or 25 years before the birth of christ. Ive read about the early centuries of the roman empire after the birth of christ. Host another one of the ideas, why they matter today according to professor melissa lane is cosmopolitans. Guest this is very interesting because the greeks, politics is really something that took place in the city state bounded by the citys walls and the citys laws. What happens partly with this breakdown with greek city states and the rise about xander the great andes empires and the hellenistic. They start to get empires based in egypt based in macedonia
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Been watching with the euro. A decision is expected around 7 45 eastern time. But the Key Developments for the market could come at 8 30 eastern. Thats when the ecb president mario draghi is holding a News Conference. Well get previews from geoff ket mo c cutmore in europe in about 20 minutes. Jobless claims are seen at falling slightly to 335,000. As for the markets, joe mentioned the dow closing at a historic high. The s p 500 rose for the 16th time in the last 21 sessions, finishing within two points of a record. The nasdaq was not along ford ride yesterday. It closed a little lower to snap a threeday winning streak. You did see some of the high flyers that took it on the chin yesterday. You watch the futures this morning and youll see dow futures indicated open down by 20 points. S p off over 3 points. Andrew, back over on to you. We have a lot of Corporate News to get to. Toll brothers is buying a Home Building business of privately owned chipelle industries for backside 25 billio