This weather is imparitive. And instructors use accidents like i cant say what happened in that trailer is comming off the Hawkeye Community college todays high winds were the first time they experienced that added danger. You could be going down the road just fine, one minute and experience marty kroeneckes best advice to his students. Be prepared for the unexpected. You never know when that next gust is going to come, when its going to go down. Riding along i could try handling a semi in 50 mile wasnt easy. Hartman it only took a few minutes of driving the simulator eight hours. Its not only mentally, but its because you are constantly making corrections on the tractor trailer. On days like these semi drivers are trained to take it slower. And as drivers sharing the road its important we give semis even more room than normal around them. So they can react to those sudden gusts of wind. Weve got you covered live in waterloo. Jessica hartman kwwl news. The instructors at hawkeye saying
Fed rate hike might come as soon as june. That is what is pushing down the markets and weak data out of the chinese market. We are off about. 25 there, basically erasing earlier losses. Oil, lets take a look at that. When you look at brent futures, we are talking about higher compared to back then. As for what equity markets are doing, let me show you very quickly what currencies are dollaryen, the yen strengthening against the dollar. The dollar surging on the back of the january jobs report. Evening here in asia. Aussie dollar, . 77. That is a 5. 5year low. Now more bearish options against the aussie than you do against the euro. That is something to watch. Let me leave it there for now and i will be back later. Back to you. Prominent names alleged drug wars, and arms dealers are among people named in secret hsbc files on tax. The documents show the banks swiss unit may have helped wealthy clients pay less than there do. Their due. A report by the International Consortium of investig
It, so welcome to this conversation with p. J. Orourke who has written this wonderful book, the baby boom. He has fashioned this book the only way he cut. It has a lot of oneliners and a lot of information. I was disappointed with that. [laughter] we will forgive you. I love to hear authors reena their own work. I would ask you to start us off with a selection from the buck. A brief selections. And this was actually a first thing i wrote when i sat down to read this book. We are the generation that changed everything. Ours is the one that made the biggest impression on ourselves. [laughter] but that is an important accomplishment because we are the generation that created our self from the darkness of the self and said it let there be self. [laughter] if he were born between 1946 and 1964 you may have noticed this yourself. That isnt to say that we are a selfish generation. That means to concerned with ones self. It isnt something we are just concerned with. We were like our parents an
Hello. [applause] you are such a gentleman. I kept asking p. J. Orourke to proceed me in coming out. So welcome. P. J. Orourke has written this wonderful book called the baby boom. He has fashioned this book as only he could. And it has some terrific lines, great oneliners and a lot of insight and actual information. And i was disappointed that that. [laughter] but we will forgive you. Okay. So id love to hear authors read their own work. So i hope you will indulge us. We have asked them to start us off with a selection from the book. A brief selection. And this was actually, this was the first thing i wrote when i sat down to write this book and ive been thinking about it for a wild. We are the generation that changed everything. All of the air is an epic of america, ours made the biggest impression on ourselves. [laughter] but that is an important accomplishment. Because we are the generation that created this and made the firmament. The lightness of the self from the darkness of the
Nfib Small Business optimism and we will get retail sales at 8 30 a. M. And earnings before the bell. Scarlet fu will take us through jpmorgan at 7 a. M. With earnings. Bill cohan will join us. How many big banks are there . Five or six. We will have earnings all week. We will have a lovely roundtable like states of the bank. Falling revenue. This is a data check. Everything is up a little bit after the fade yesterday. There is a lot of other Global Statistics just as weighty. Vxx was under 12 yesterday. Gold was 1250 when i walked in the door. The chinese currency is strong. Lira moves through new weakness. I dont want to overplay this. This is the beginning of the year and you can see we faded yesterday after 10 p. M. Its not a plunge. Busy yesterday about 3 p. M. And then it got even busier. We skerritt we scoured the papers. A new year, new leaf for congress . We have seen the house and Senate Negotiators agree on a budget through september. They unveiled a 1. 1 trillion spending p