Minutes, the dow up almost 200 points. The s p 500 gaining two and higher for the week. It was a bit of a tossup which way we would end but it does look like its a positive number for the week. If this was the dows best day since september 12 and within the different sectors looking at financial and energy, those two groups leading the gains in the s p 500. It wasnt a bad week in terms of volume. You had an average of 10 billion shares. Im going to jump into what happened specifically in the stock market today, looking at a couple sectors that were the winners and losers. We will start with the losers. There was only one group down, and that was the Utilities Group trait i thought it was interesting because if you look below, the staples still gained 94 basis points. A bit of a diverging story in terms of the higheryielding stock. Utilities there are much more projected to the yield play. That is interesting. The Energy Companies doing pretty well, this has been a big part of the marke
Political analyst ryan lizza and propaganda expert kevin kosar, Vice President o policy at the our street institute. So glad to have all of you on. Kevin, since youre the propaganda expert, lets talk to you first. What is your reaction to this hollywoodstyle pitch to north korea . Is this oldfashioned propaganda or is it smart persuasion maybe . It was strange to be honest. Ive never seen anything like this in a diplomatic setting, and i cant tell whether the president is crazy or crazy like a fox. This film was really something because the whole thing seemed to be playing on the vanity of kim jongun. I mean it emphasized that there are very few world histol actors amongst the b of people who are on this earth, and that he had the moment to make a choice to make himself a man of history. It dangled this beautiful vision of what his country could become. Again, ive never seen anything like this. And, yeah, it was clearly propaganda aimed at persuading the north korean dictator. I think