Pieces together. It is truly a privilege to introduce our first speaker, who is a fellow wisconsinite like myself. Our first speaker would be jonathan pliska, and author of the awardwinning White House Historical association publication, a garden for the president a history of the white house grounds. Jonathan will be signing copies of this book later in the day during the reception in the gift shop. You will have an opportunity to meet with him, and talk about how great his presentation was. No pressure. [laughter] please join me in welcoming jonathan pliska. [applause] jonathan yes, hello, i am in fact jonathan pliska. I am absolutely honored to be speaking at this wonderful garden symposium. I would like to thank the White House Historical association, oak spring, and all the other sponsors for having me here today for hosting the event. As well as that splendid reception last evening at the u. S. Botanical garden. Of course, thank you all for attending. I am going to give you the o
During the reception in the gift shop. You will have an opportunity to meet with him, and talk about how great his presentation was. [laughter] please join me in welcoming jonathan pliska. [applause] jonathan yes, hello, i am jonathan pliska. I am absolutely honored to be speaking at this wonderful garden symposium. I would like to thank the White House Historical association, oak spring, and all the other sponsors for having me here the event. Osting as well as that splendid reception last evening at the u. S. Botanical garden. Thank you all for attending. To give you the overview of the first 100 years or so of the white house grounds. Focusing on the various uses of the landscape, as well as its physical development, and to squeeze us all in in a little under 30 minutes. That is a bit of a tall order. Beill rather shall he not able to touch on absolutely everything. I like a challenge. It will be just fine. So, lets start with the basics. I am sure you are aware that the white house
Are a little mixed. Nasdaq is down ever so slightly but earlier, the nasdaq had also been slightly higher. Looking at another round of record highs. Hope surround tax reform and the earnings season really kicking off on friday with some of the big banks. Investors on hold, taking a breather. Highs, relative to checker sector composition, tech lower as well but one of the best sectors on the day, health care. Almost 5 tific up up for the half percent. 4. 5 . Johnson johnson up 1. 9 . Investors liking what they had to say. Retail, a bit of a mixed picture. Season, butiday urban outfitters, not so much, down 5 . That is below what they had guided two, before and we also have under armour down 4. 4 . On brandside ahead risk and i know you love charts. Check out this chart on the s p 500. This is the rsi or momentum indicator on the s p 500. When it goes below 30, that suggests the market is oversold. We saw that back in the mid90s, for the most part in between those two levels, hitting lev
Equities. We will comedo, back to this in a second while we fix this. Vonnie i will check u. S. Markets first because we are 90 minutes into the trading day. The dow is up. 25 . The s p up. 1 and the nasdaq tax reform helping the. S. Profit outlook david from mainstay capital think the trading weve been seeing this year is equivalent to euphoria. Perhaps this wont end well. Theyre interesting when we contrast this to a great chart we have in the bloomberg. We are looking at the number of death without a 5 pullback or greater. We are looking at the number of without a 5 pullback or greater. The s p 500 in blue. We are looking at the number of days without a 5 pullback. We are on day 295. Week,eek, it was last it was day 292. You have to go back to 1965. One of the bestperforming sectors on the day helping the record high, the financial sectors. Citigroup and bank of america higher. We have regional banks higher. Behind this trend, not surprisingly, yields. The 10 year yield is up five b
Of a sideshow bystander standing too close. He gets hit, flips over, nearly losing his pants. And now this. More video emerging from a recent sideshow. Participants say it was in east oakland only this time a sideshow bystander is firing off a fully automatic handgun with a high capacity magazine. When we slow down the video, you can see him holding up his phone inone hand and firing a handgun in the other. How have things changed . Years ago weve always been advocating for safe and sanctioned events. I seen it happen. Reporter back in 2005 this man organized sanctioned sideshow events. Thats not how your sideshows used to start, correct . Absolutely not. A sideshow at its core is a social interaction. It was about men and women. It was about boy meets girl. It was about trying to show off to get attention and there are certain things that you didnt do because you did not want to scare people away. Reporter we showed the Oakland Police department this video. Opd says it discourages ill