Good evening and welcome to our biggest event so far in 2018. I am Bradley Graham the coowner of politics and prose. On behalf of everybody here at six and i think you so much for coming you know january historically is a rather slow month. Relative to the fever pace of sales. Thanks to Michael Worth dash wolf. They have seemed like a second christmas for many book sellers. Given the surge in demand one frequent question i had been asked is whether or not there is any precedent for this kind of frenzy. Weve had bestsellers before and seen people standing in long lines for them. And normally we are able to anticipate at least roughly how many books to order. But the volume of requests for fire in theory seem to take everyone by surprise. Our event team it was at our new smaller store which kind of accommodated only about a fourth of the crowd here this evening. So lets all give a giant round of applause to the terrific staff here [applause]. They made this spacious venue available and e
Together. You can see all those brake lights. 26 minutes from the maze into San Francisco. Give yourself some extra time heading in that direction. It doesnt look fun. We are tracking slowdowns along 880 heading through hayward. We have reports of an accident near highway 92. One lane belonged at this time. Emergency crews on the scene and reports of looks like a stalled vehicle on the san mateo bridge. 21 minutes 238 to 84. Roberta . Yesterday, we had a forecast high of 82 degrees at sfo. And bingo thats what they experienced with clear skies. This morning the peninsula has no fog so no delays there. Look at the fog as it begins to pushhhh onshore around the Golden Gate Bridge. Not saturating the bay as of yet. San francisco and san jose at 62. Clear and dip to 49 degrees in santa rosa after a high yesterday in the 90s. Now we do have that west wind at 4 in San Francisco. Thats an onshore push buts across the bay, north northeast, thats offshore winds still in oakland. So the areas af
While it may not be as wellknown as the dow jones industrials, it is considered more representative of the whole market, since it is made up of 500 companies as compared to the dows 30. Small cap stocks also hit alltime highs today, as did a leading indicator of the economy, that would be the dow transportation average. When all was said and done, the dow industrials gained 40 points, closed at 22,381. Nasdaq was up a fraction. The s p 500 rose three, enough for that new alltime high, sue. Bill, Washington Republicans were out in force selling their tax plan. There was some pushback. Ylan mui is in our nations capital. Reporter the republican tax plan is out. And now the hard work of selling it begins on capitol hill. The house ways and Means Committee will get the first crack at writing a bill. And white house economic adviser gary cohn said theres one number the president is not willing to negotiate. A 20 Corporate Tax rate. We would have liked to start lower and given ourselves some
S thended at the tycoon hit financial house. Anna a warm welcome everybody to our flagship show here. Donald trump has finished speaking in arizona. Much more about his threats on nafta, his threats about a Government Shutdown in a moment. Re is one market which is not even quietly roaring away. Nothing quiet. Digging Industrial Metals out of the ground or the industry. This is the Industry Metals index. A limited, copper, nickel of 30 aluminum, copper, nickel up 30 . If you are along the subplot here which is energy and the commodities, relative to the base. Addicted to base. This is about the global recovery. Aluminum is capping the longest weekly rally in three years. This is the one to be in. Anna Interesting Research talking about the skyhigh steel prices. The divergence we are seeing between these base metals and presaged metals precious metals. Donald trump has been talking in arizona. Lets show you what that is done to u. S. Features. It has come off the high from earlier durin
Will this, mys speed divorce talks . Waiting for draghi. President speaks ahead of the jackson hole summit. Will he give any substantial clues about the Central Banks next steps . Matt we are less than half and a lower half an hour away from the open. Futures are trading, a bit of a mixed bag in my you see dax futures a little bit, ftse and cap futures down a little bit but not a lot of direction so gains the games we we saw yesterday. Some slight, some bigger, the dax closed up 1. 3 and the cac and ftse were both up almost 14 ,. 8 or. 9 of 1 . Bunds, not a lot of movement, yielding 0. 4 even. See a lot of direction from investors. A lot of investors are waiting to see what mario draghi has to say later on. Digesting markets are what donald trump said and the distance you have to travel between rhetoric and delivery and action. That distance is substantial. Gmm is the personification of that. Aussie stock dipped lower into the close. A rally of 1 predicated on the possibility of tax cu