Top conservative rival. It is 8 a. M. In dubai and 5 a. M. In london. This is Bloomberg Markets middle east. We do have geopolitical events taking center stage with the launch of the seventh north korean lipstick Ballistic Missile test. The bloomberg dollar index 0. 35 . On friday,ow u. S. Inflation data came in softer than expected. The mix still slumbering the slumbering, reaching 10. 40 on friday. Look at how u. S. A city u. S. Equity markets closed. Down,nes index also nasdaq was of the outlier of. 09 . Lets take a quick look at what is happening in this part of the world. Of the week of the week in the past, the last five trading days, lets chase him the key companies. Retailers, losses coming from insurance stocks. Level, we saw it being the best performer in terms of volume and activity. Upside, surprising sales with Earnings Growth as the rapid earnings season. Lets crossover. Brent crude, 15. 84 closing trade friday. A continuing build in this rig inventories. Apparently it is
moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs statn fr viewers like you. thank you. ifill: tough new rhetoric dominated the presidential campaign during the last 24 hours. it was the latest evidence that the battle for the white house will be no holds barred. the pre-convention presidential campaign has become increasingly defined by acrimony and accusation. this is what an angry and desperate presidency looks like. they are just throwing everything at the wall to see if it sticks. ifill: a w waof wor was launched tuesday, as vice president biden went after republican mitt romney in danville, virginia. romney wants to let he said in the first hundred days, he s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules. unchain wall street. they re gog to put
booknotes collection, visit the george mason university library web site at library.gnu..edu. and this encore booknotes program from october of 1993 political cartoonist herbert block gave his collection of drawings, herblock a cartoonist s life. they had a biography includes over 200 drawings including president nixon holding the gop element hostage, president carter viewing his own tv image and oliver north turning shredded evidence into lucrative contracts. this is about an hour.at what c-span: herb block, author ofif a cartoonist s life. u have t at what point in your life did you have the most fun drawing?h guest: well, i still do have the most fun drawing. i ve always enjoyed it andjoy started doing it when i was ag kid and at school and got a job b early on a newspaper, and i ve just always liked it. was there a time when you were the most angry? oh, well, certainly, depending on what s happening in government. you can get outraged over a lot of things that
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