Record highs were only ten days ago. I continue the watch bond yields as yields sink so do stocks. As yields come off their lows stocks follow. What are you watching. When you look at internals, technicals, he is with aed on every measure of being shortterm oversold we had already checked those boxing going into today then today thing got worse it was a lesson for investors and traders that oversold doesnt mean the coast is clear. You can always get more oversold what is interesting right now, the s p at its low today down more than 10 . In five days thats only happened four times in history, 2011, 2015, and during the. Com bubble and burst and during the great financial crisis this is very extreme activity. On that point, to your point, bespoke today points out, to understand the magnitude of the drop and the swiftness in which we have seen it if the s p 500 today closes below 3,547. 53 today, tomorrow, or monday, it will be the fastest 10 decline from the alltime high from the s p 50
Rally in the keystone say the. Even though trump embroiled in controversy, his running mate is standing by his side. Governor mike pence rallied in Charlotte North Carolina after trump admitted last night he and his vicepresident ial nominee have not spoken about syria and they disagreed on policy. Pence told the crowd today that trump is a fighter and a winner. Meantime House Speaker paul ryan says that he is focusing on the republican partys hold in congress this election. Political pundants saying this means ryan thinks donald trump cannot win. Ryans office says hes not conceding the out come of the election, but wants to make sure that Hillary Clinton does not get a Democrat Congress if she becomes president. Donald trump responded on twitter saying paul ryan shouldnt waste any his time fighting republican nominee. As trump head to do pennsylvania Hillary Clinton headed to another battleground state and that is michigan. Thats first place she headed after the debate shown spoke wit
And it was really a pleasure to do and its a very, like i said, its a really happy story. Great. Thank you for your time. Up next on booktv, Margaret Macmillan Come International history professor at Oxford University examines the lead up to world war i. This is just over one hour. Welcome everybody to todays council on Foreign Relations meeting. I look back at the build up to the great war with Margaret Macmillan and Robert Massie. Im david amblin, editor of world policy journal and i would like to welcome our National Members participating in this meeting through the live screen. You know, i was sitting at lunch i have a little surprise for our two guests, because i checked 100 years ago today out of curiosity come november 4, 1913, the United States was preparing to muster 500,000 troops and gear up for war against a major power. President wilson had just given an ultimatum to that nations head of state but we didnt go to war. At least not them. That major power was on this side of
Property. And it went to court and went to lord mansfield, famous jurist, who ruled that slavery so odious, that was the term that he used, that it cannot be tolerated on english soil. Crucially, it could be tolerated in the colonies. But thats another story. [laughter] but not on english soil. And the United States, the founders of the country were almost all slave owners. And they could see the handwriting on the wall. If the colonies remained under british rule, probably these laws would apply here, and theyd lose their property. That was surely a significant element of the revolution. And it runs right to the present. I mean, right to this moment the civil war is still being fought. Simply take a look at the electoral maps. Say the map of the election in 2012, red states and blue states. Its almost identical to the civil war. Its the confederacy, can which now call themselves republicans shifted names [laughter] and the rest which was the north. A large part of the motivation behin
Years ago today out of curiosity november 4, 1913 the United States was preparing to muster 500,000 troops and year up for war against a major power. President wilson had just given an ultimatum to that nations head of state but we did not go to war. At least not then. That major power was on the side of the atlantic. It was mexico. And the general was the great menace of that moment. So i found this on the front page where else, the new york times. The next 17 pages of that days paper there was not a single mention of europe. Whether there was any menace in europe whereas our two featured authors today have masterfully chronicled very currently the seeds of a rural world war would that were already germinating. The second balkan war had just concluded to set the stage of that in europe is building a favre rotter and more deadly confrontation. To examine all these routes is my pleasure to welcome margaret at his lead up to the conflict in her new the war that ended peace as she was des