Cow with that important line so with those banks through canada. And i grew up in the free state. And they took the position here at the university of missouri michigan 2,002. And when i got here i had to learn my place in the midwest because michigan is not the same as ohio. So one of the reasons is because of that international border. So i explored this with my students with the graduates from of years ago but one of the things that we did was go on local history to hers with the africanamerican culture back in an arbor. Said to focus on the underground railroad and then ive learned for the first time just how active michigan has been active in the underground railroad and to recognize in our town of anbar for and arbour i hope you will go there im sure you have been there but hat exhibit but it was very small. So that your we did research and projects that is what got me into local history in this area regarding the underground railroad. That is our starting with the underground ra
Record highs take a look at the percentage gain in the nasdaq more than 1 lets start with the meeting of the minds in d. C as we await comments from President Trump. Eamon javers has the very latest reporter it is as you say a glittering collection of ceos at the white house today. Were waiting for the president in the east room we expect hes going to come in and participate in a roundtable discussion the ceos have been here all day. Take a list at took at the listf prominent names. I was brought into the indian treaty room in the eisenhower executive building the other day to listen to remarks from Jared Kushner and watching the ceos mingle with each other, interacting here in washington, including you saw eric schmidt of alba bet aphabet and google. Talking at the whouite house. Cross pollen nation of ideas thats what the white house is looking at ideas from private sector executives on how to improve government from every way from its i. T. To its services to its performance for the
Are dead following this major weekend storm. How many people are picking up pieces this morning. Plus, hurricane math the yous, does he blow it. Undefeated no more, eagles make a big come back in the the second half only to blow the game at the end. The lions win. How carson wentz is responding to his first loss of an nfl career. Yes, welcome to good day philadelphia on this monday morning. Hello will alex. Hello mike. Hello alex. Hello, mike. Very good. Now come on. All right. Sorry about that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Bob kelly. Cold. Cold. It will be a long week. Good morning, everybody. 7 01. We are looking live at sky fox over a scene of the accident on the roosevelt boulevard, this is roosevelt boulevard right at grant avenue getting word of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle here in the northeast. Of course, boulevard one of the most deadly roads in the the country here in this stretch at grant avenue probably tops the list in accidents but this is northbound boulevard, outer drive at gr
Nothing to germanic word dramatic. Who contributes the most, who takes the most away. The top five index points contributors, four were financials, aig, j. P. Morgan, citi paul giving big contributions. P functionk at the ima on bloomberg, Energy Stocks did the best. Joe on the Government Bond , there continues to be selling the last several days. You can look at the australian a sharp jumpd, ace sharp jum up. Thats keeping with the broader story from g7 developed countries. G7 bond yields at their highest level in five weeks. This is still incredibly low, the average yields across various Government Bonds. There has been an uptrend. Japan is reaching the limit of how much a can buy, people concerned about the same phenomenon happening elsewhere. This is something to keep an eye on, the increase in yields. Scarlet is this a fundamental repricing . A look at currencies and the dollar, specifically the bloomberg dollar index, recovering from a fiveweek low. You can see the low reached in
Nadella and jeff weiner, a megadeal they announced this morning. 26. 2 billion. Microsoft looking to buy linkedin. Satya, congratulations first on this deal. I know you have some things probably you want to say about this deal off the top. But when you approached linkedin with this deal and why buy versus partner with this company if its going to be run as its own entity within microsoft . Thank you, jon. This deal is all about bringing together the worlds leading professional cloud and the worlds leading professional network. If you think about how people work today, its split between these two worlds. They are using office on a daily basis, they are using systems like dynamics for their crm and Human Capital management and then of course, they are using the professional network. The dream that i have always had is how do we make this come together so that we can serve our customers. This is really about completing that scenario and jeff and i have known each other for awhile. We have