Television companies. It is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Next on American History tv, historians discuss the social and political impact of several events leading up to the civil war. Including the fugitive slave act and abolitionist john browns raid on a federal armory at harpers fairy. Erry. This was part of Yale Universitys Gilder Lehrman center for the study of slavery, resistance, and abolition. This was the most fun to , deciding which events, which problems, which moments of the precivil war era would we represent. Said, thisanna and is one you should moderate. Speak on no, i want to it. [laughter] which is great. Hook herst trying to into being moderator. The shock of events. The passage by douglas at the nation, the way he put it, not educated by theory, they are taught by events. We all know, we lived through events that no one predicts. Who predicted pearl harbor . Some people, sort of. Who predicted the end of the cold war in 89 . 9 11 . Last ye
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Good thursday morning. We again this morning with a round up of this normornings biggest shares report. Southwest saw rising cost for fuel we talked about this the last hour it puts a lot of pressure, especially on our competitors because they toents hadont havw cost structure we have they are a lot more exposed to increased Prices Energy prices are up 20 over the last several months. That could translate into to more capacity restraint. Meanwhile dow components caterpillar 3m helping to lift the dow. You know the cap quarter in and out. Some of these bag locklogs are rising faster than they can make the machines with General Electric we have seen better than we expected the the caterpillar call is starting right,0 now 3m was much better than expected is that profit taking a surprise why do you take properties now with expensing, full expensing now on the hoe rrizon . Such a good question. Stocks are up. Traders saying the valuation is getting a stretch here well have to see what comes
Im Richelle Carey this is al jazeera life and also coming up. When the people of rose up against the crimes of their corrupt to traitor. I did not stay silent donald trump uses a state of the union speech to lash out at iran will bring you the iranian response. Some of these afghan refugees have lived in pakistan for generations but a deadline for them to leave is just hours away. And a military push that made americans question whether the vietnam war could be won a combat photographer remembers the tet offensive fifty years later. The European Union says its increasing its Financial Support to the palestinian territories following the u. S. Decision to withhold funding earlier this month at a u. S. Foreign policy chief fredricka murder any announced an extra fifty three Million Dollars in aid at a session of International Donors to palestine and brussels it follows warnings from the un the gazans economy is on the verge of collapse is live for us and brussels so the dont tell us more
Similar decline for the hang seng shanghai off by 0. 3 then in some early trading that weve seen here in europe, you will see things are higher in most of the markets. Germany is the one counter indicato indicator. The cac is up by a half percentage point stocks are higher in london as well checking out things, the yield on the tenyear, 2. 648 . Yesterday the dollar skidded to a threeyear low after those comments from treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin, embracing potentially a weaker dollar and it would be good for trade dollar down across the board again this morning the euro at 1. 2413 the yen at 109. 01. Oil at threeyear highs. Whoa. 66. 04 for wti, and brent at 70. 78 a barrel. Lets get to the sttop stories. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin making more comments about the dollar in davos. Saying the administration is not concerned about the level of the dollar in the shortterm at a press conference yesterday he said the weaker dollar is good for the u. S then wilbur ross came on our