characters, as well as many articles. directord as interim at the portrait gallery from may 2012 to march 2013. she received a masters degree in early american culture, and she is a former board member of the print council of america. reaves? [applause] ms. reaves: thank you so much, kendall, and good evening. comealways a pleasure to to this lovely place and a particular honor to be asked to help celebrate george .ashington s birthday i am very happy to share with you perhaps a slightly different picture of george washington then is typical than is typical. thank you all for coming out on such a miserable evening. the exulted lyrics of a federal song in the exalted camp bothled washington snow longer with pride and dignity, your matchless strength at sea, since we, your braver sons, incensed, have soared on. huzzah, huzzah, huzzah! for war and washington! the rebels, the next verse complains, laugh at all of your pomp. cheeky lyrics are printed on a broadsided, adorned
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i m thrilled you are here. a i think you look fantastic today. how was your easter? brendan: i tie-dyed eggs. stephanie: we don t tie-dyed eggs in my house. we have a proper easter hunt. brendan: week tie-dyed them and looked for them. that is what we did in boston. we have breaking economic news in non-egg related news. scarlet fu is in the newsroom with the headlines. scarlet: here we have a read that is on key with what economists have been looking for. 56.5 is the read. anything above that signals expansion. it does signal a slowdown of 56.9 but it was in line with what economists had anticipated. the service sector has remain immune. this shows the divergence between the manufacturing center. manufacturing sector. certainly moving in the other direction whereas services has stayed stable. it is higher so that reflects selling and treasuries. u.s. stocks are holding on at the moment. currently up by 1/10 of 1%. stephanie: the top business stories of the morning. a presi
at the new york stock exchange. nicole: we have the new members today. alcoa, bank of america, hewlett-packard now out. we have seen goldman sachs. financials are drinking on this market. goldman sachs is one of the big lagers on the dow today. i was chatting with mark newton. he was saying that the market is facing some headwinds recently. the banks are weaker. we are watching names like goldman sachs, citigroup, bank of america, jpmorgan. overall, the financials are weaker. dagen: thank you. how much of this has to do with the federal reserve. now we have new york federal reserve bill dudley talking in a speech this morning. he is saying that we have yet to see any meaningful pickup. peter barnes joins us now here in new york. peter: we are here at fordham university. basically because the economy is not chugging along as high as he would like it, dudley voted against tapering. that was, of course, a surprise shock decision to the financial markets after months of hints tha