I am an assistant professor of history at the university of maryland. Im going to be chairing the panel. Im going to offer some brief comments, some thoughts and questions i had to start generating conversation. Our threeto introduce presenters. If we are going to go in the order they appear on the program. They will speak for roughly 20 minutes. Our first presenter is going to be Graham Hodges. He has written on africanamericans and labor in new york city. He has written a political biography on underground railroad activities. He is working on a book and we will hear his ideas about the the secondrea printer is going to be as associate professor of history at northwestern university. U. S. After the war and emancipation. Our third presenter is going to be philip prop. Troutman. He is working on a project that essentially explores of the literature and the images of radical antislavery during the antebellum period. We will hear about his approach that combination of literature and ima
Im seema mody in for sara eisen. Im mike santoli in for wilfred frost. Good to see you great to see you. World is a busy place already when you see it this morning record day. We didnt close goabove 23,000, but we did hit it. It looks like the open we might get there. Lets check on the Global Markets. Look at the u. S. Equity futures. They were leeaning slightly to the upside the dow indicated up almost 50 points that would put it above the 23,000 mark if we stayed around there. The s p 500 just modestly above the s p hit an alltime high yesterday. The slow, steady grind continues higher nasdaq also pointed slightly higher seems like the action for the dow, most likely ibm that had the stock popping lets look at the rest of the markets. Tenyear note, we see modest upside to the yield. Back above 2. 3 on the tenyear. Its been kind of compressed people have been talking about how weve not been able to liv state t levitate the tenyear note yield. As the do you tries to exceed 23,000 once
Because of some strong gains from unh, Johnson Johnson and Goldman Sachs. We will keep an eye on futures this morning as we continue to get the Earnings Reports ibm today lets look overnight in asia. We have seen japan close higher. Youre looking at a gain of almost 27 points, 21,363 hang seng closed marginally higher the hang hishanghai was up by a quarter. In europe, in some of the early trading, the dax is the leader, up over 0. 6 cac up by a half percent the ftse is up by a third of a percentage point if you look at crude oil prices, you will see at least this morning crude oil prices are up 16 cents 52. 04 for wpi. Brent crude up by 41 cents ibm shares are jumping this morning on better than expected results. The company beat on both the top and bottom lines but ibm still saw its 22nd straight quarter of revenue declines the cfo addressing those declining revenues on the Earnings Call last night as we said at the start of the year, and reiterated again in july, we said we would se
More on that in a moment. But we begin tonight with a company that is an american icon, albeit today a tarnished one, General Electric. Today the company missed earnings forecasts by a lot, a stark reminder of the work that lays ahead for the new ceo. He summed up the quarter by sayi, our results are unacceptable, to say the least. Early today, wall street agreed. But after falling sharply, the stock made an about face, an abrupt one, embarking on its biggest comeback since 2009 and finishing up 1 . Morgan brennan takes a look at the quarter and what may be ahead for ge. Reporter for General Electric, its all about restructuring. Still, the oldest stock in the dows new Ceo John Flannery says everything is up for review as he begins to make sweeping changes at the struggling company. Ive spent really 90 days exhaustive review of the whole company, so the businesses, our culture, corporate spending, everything at the company has been up for examination, every stone turned, no sacred cows
I will be chairing or moderating the panel. After the three papers i will offer some brief comments, some thoughts, some questions i had in order to make it hopefully start generating conversations for us for the q a portion. I will introduce our three presenters. We will go in the order they appear on the program. The presenters will speak for roughly 20 minutes, and that i will speak for a few minutes and open things up. Our first presenter will be Graham Hodges, the George Langevin professor of history at Colgate University. He has written on africanamericans and labor in new york city, and more recently written a political apathy of david robles, and important figure in railroad activities. He is working on a book that reframes the underground railroad and will hear about his ideas about reframing, thinking about the underground railroad and a larger context if reading freedom making. Kate mazer, associate professor of history at northwestern. She has written on emancipation and wa