On booktv on cspan 2. Good afternoon. I am so glad to see all of you here on this Beautiful Day to join a National Book festival. Mine is in a Community Affairs at wells fargo for the midatlantic region. And so want to be here representing wells fargo is both an avid reader myself. I really dont remember a time in my life when i wasnt an avid reader. I just loved reading. I grew up in a very small town in North Carolina and had the benefit of the library account be an adjacent to backyard. But at the library of congress obviously, but its a wonderful asset to the community. Around the corner to parents to pick out books and am feeling very, very grown up when i got to go by myself to check out books myself. Ive attended here today come you must all know books can take you to foreign lands and give you a different perspective about your neighborhood. They can introduce you to people that came generations before and connect people in real time. My favorite incident happened to me when i
Good morning to you. Im richard lui. We start with double trouble in the skies. A smoking American Eagle plane with 48 people on board was forced to make an Emergency Landing in texas. This happened right after takeoff in dallas last night. A passenger on the illinois bound plane tweeted this saying, quote, im hearing the cockpit was full of smoke, captain and Flight Attendant cant say thank you enough for getting us on the ground safely. Nobody was injured there. Also, severe turbulence on a United Airlines flight bound for newark from west palm beach. A passenger says it was so bad that trays and drinks were flying all around. One Flight Attendant injured there. The plane landing safely late last night. A u. S. Army one star general facing a courtmartial on Sexual Assault charges is expected to enter a plea this morning. Jeffrey sinclair is accused of sexually assaulting a junior officer. He maintains his innocence on allegations he forced her to perform sex acts but his lawyer says
Tune of triple digits, 113 points at 735, also the s p 500 up 3 4 and the tech savvy nasdaq the best of the bunch of 11 4 . We have seen all ten sectors with the arrows including financials and technologies and risky areas continue to do well today so really bucking the trend, moving so slightly into positive territory for the week for three major averages. Not for the russell, the russell 2,000, look at the vix, the third index, the volatility gauge we watched so closely. There is the fullback and a serious one, 10 today. 1545, a little worried, off the table for now. Adam Charlie Brady asking if we could be setting up for another bull run. Thank you. Lori u. S. Employers hired fewer workers than expected in january marking the second straight disappointing employment report but there were some sector winners. Some analysts expected the weather to have impacted construction. That sector added 48,000 jobs. Another big winner, six straight months of gains adding 21,000 jobs in the lates
Decade as corporate profits rise and experts say the impact is showing up in a critical area of the economy. That and more tonight on nightly Business Report for thursday, august 22nd. If you wanted to buy sales of apple, google, intel, microsoft or any other stock listed on the nasdaq you couldnt. The reason, for more than three hours trading was halted because of a major computer glitch. It raised new questions about the safety of electronic trading and the impact on investor and Business Confidence in u. S. Markets. This is the latest in a series of technical snatches that have paralyzed the market like the botched offer of facebook last year and the slash crack of the New York Stock Exchange in 2010. Bertha comb joins us with me. What an extraordinary day. Reporter quite an extra orpd narcoticry day and a lot of folks are saying thank goodness it happened on a quiet thursday in august. Essentially, if you look at the days chart for the nasdaq composite, it essentially flat lined fo
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