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Difficult it will be to get that measure passed. But we do have the story covered. Julia chatterley is in brussels. Michelle carusocabrera is in athens. And Steve Liesman. Well have more from the three of them. As higher up on the news. But it looks like a deal is going to be reached. You can see the dow jones up 125 points. S p up close to 15 points. The nasdaq is up by 37. This is all coming as the markets in europe are higher. Dags up 1. 5 in germany. The cac is up 2 . The ftse higher. Italy 1. 5 . Portugal up 2. 75 . And the dollar is up. The euro despite the news it looks like the euro is kept together. Trading higher at 1. 1075. Part of the fact if you deep greek economies in thats going to add pressure over time. Also you can see whats happening to the yields in the european markets. In greece be the fiveyear yielding 17 . If you look to the bund thats the german tenyear thats trading at. 927 . If you check out whats happening with treasuries here in the United States youll see
Dr. Zupans book look at the sources of national decline. Typically when people think about the sources of national decline they often look outside of government at specialInterest Groups that try to coopt government for their own benefit. However dr. Zupan takes a different approach and looks at the sources of national decline that come from inside government , from government insiders and it may cause even more harm to countries and civilizations than the harm that comes from outside of government we are really looking forward to hearing from dr. Zupan today. The way we will be framing todays book forums first we are going to hear remarks from dr. Zupan and then we will have comments from both Lindsay Cutshall from the Brookings Institute and myself. First i would like to introduce dr. Zupan. Dr. Zupan begin his tenure as the 14th president of alford university on july 1, 2016. Histidine at the Business School at the university of rochester from january 1, 2004. Zupan served as dean a
75, 52week highs, including stocks like alphabet, which well hear from later in the week. And including stocks like apple, which of course is in the dow. You take a look. Apple gets badmouthed a lot. They havent had the best run over the last several months, but looking at the past month, its about the fourth best performer on the dow, up better than 4 . Its doing okay today as well and just about at 52week highs. So despite the headlines about, oh, its over for apple, you know, whatever, peter i guess cant be right about everything every single day, at least not in terms of apples moves in the dow. Well, theres been so much focus today on materials and infrastructure, but tech is actually the second best performing sector this year, second to materials, but theres this sense in the market from traders that tech is the backbone of any infrastructure building that we could possibly get, perhaps besides roads and highway, and there is a question of which companies will stand to benefit w