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The fda approving a 5 15minute rapid test the ceo will join us thats a biggie as power lunch starts right now thanks as august comes to a close, its been a stunning summer rally the dow up 13 the s p up 15 and the nasdaq up 25 . Bob has more for us. Bob. August is usually a nothing month. Not this much. Usually august is typically flat to down. Were up 6. 8 so far best august since 1980s. April, may, june and july have been pretty good monthly gains five months in a row. Why is it happening . Everybody wants to think its apple because apple is up 18 . The s p would be up 4 rather than 6 . Its a lot more going on than apple. The pricing are pricing at some economic rebound could see the returns. The dow transports are up. Thats a cyclical group. The russell 2000 is up high yield is the best performing bond asset. This wouldnt be happening if they were projeking iproprotecn economic downturn. The better argument is theres a bull argument thats winning the argument so far. This is the arg ....
Upper 106 level before u. S. Retail sales and trade talks are planned for the weekend. We are seeing dollar weakness in recent days. Gold futures at 1946. It is above 1900, a wild ride for the metal after surging 30 this year. We saw the plunge below 1900 tuesday. Gold is still an of the bestperforming commodities of 2020. 66. 22. 10 year yield at lets flip the page and look at where we are in terms of the chinese shares ahead of a slew of data for july on friday, including Industrial Production and retail sales. The csi 300 is in negative territory, down. 4 . The yuan is at 6. 93. The hang seng is getting some gains. Center, infront and negative territory right now even as it the highest estimate. Tencent also played down the Trump Administration as we check been. Ban wechat the kospi is up on a 52week high. Look at southeast asia, this is asias worst performer ....
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Off your cell phones or anything else that might make noise during the program. Thank you for doing that. We are thrilled to tonight to welcome acclaimed historian mary beth norton, the author of five books and coeditor of several others inn her textbook people n the nation a survey of u. S. History has been published in ten additions and has sold mores than a 500,000 copies. Norton is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and 201 in the 2,018th president of the american historical association. She is the Professor Emeritus at cornell university. Her new book 1774 the long year of revolution is available for purchase following the program. So now please join me in welcoming mary beth norton. [applause] its really nice to be here. I want to make sure the clicker is on. It doesnt seem to be. There it is. Okay, great. I dont want to show that one quite yet. It is in the collections in t ....