the middle of his presidential campaign? we ll take you there live for the details. melissa: back to the markets. the dow hitting a two week high, now positive for the month. nike the only stock in the dow 30 in the red. phil flynn, price futures group, fox business contributor is watching action in oil and gold from cme. we have lori rothman on floor of new york stock exchange. big rally driving story. what does it mean? we ll close at session highs today with the dow up 228 points, comfortably above the milestone 18,000. we saw a late surge of buying as we saw a spike in the pound sterling. so the pound sterling against the dollar is up about 1.2% and that says something. this market believes that the uk will vote to remain in the eu. let s look at some of the bank stocks. goldman sachs is a leader on dow. no surprise. these guys have been turning positive since late last week. bank of america, jpmorgan, european banks as well are strong, pardon me, i m getting ahead of m
highways, plumbing, electricity in the wall, nitrogen fixing fertilizers, vaccines, clean water available with the turn of another near home. when all these things appear what is undeniable and really apparent immediately thereafter is a wave of improvement and well-being for people. vast portions of the population start getting better, also all kinds of things are opened up. i was certain now was going to happen with digital networking, but it is not exactly the way things went. starting around the turn of the century i started to notice a pattern that was really bothering me which is that my friends who worked in the industries that were most affected by digital networking first, and i m thinking of musicians and journalists and photographers, were not finding the world of new opportunity that i had for so long anticipated would appear. instead i ended up almost every week having to be part of a fund-raiser to help somebody get a crucial operation in needed and they did n
he had a lot of goals in life but those were then enhanced when he met and married mary todd. she also was very ambitious. she said she wanted to marry a man of good mind and hopes for a bright future and to marry a man who would be president. there was something about abraham lincoln that she saw the potential and encouraged it. mary helped to basically showcase what her husband had done and how far he had calm and kind of hinted at where they were headed stating to the world that abraham lincoln had made it and he was ready to move on. he next, alvaro vargas llosa discusses his look global crossings which looks at some of the reasons people migrate to foreign lands even in situations where they might risk their own lives. hosted by the cato institute in washington d.c., this is an hour and a half. [inaudible conversations] welcome everybody to the cato institute. i am the director here at cato. since the beginning of this year immigration has become a burning public
incompetence release them early without any kind of records. there was a big for of a better word freak out in the american media. these guys are deftly coming here and coming to the united states. they re going to wreak havoc and as a result border patrol and these people were eventually apprehended or they faded away and nothing happened but the point is because american immigration enforcement because our immigration laws are so focused on keeping people out for economic reasons or for any other types of reasons a small amount of what they are pulled to do focus on legitimate threats. instead they are more concerned with asking how will an additional worker affect the wages for american tomato pickers? they re more concerned with how one additional worker will affect the labor market conditions or computer programmers in silicon valley. they are more concerned with where a high-skilled immigrants will take a conference call with her is at his home or whether that home is l
disneyland. she had heard exciting things about it but she really couldn t comprehend the magnitude of such a place. figuratively speaking when ying ma and her family emigrated to the u.s. from china she thought she was heading to disneyland. what confronted her with a far cry from the magic kingdom. it wasn t the foreign language and culture that proved the most difficult. rather it was the shocking racism isolation and disdain that she encountered in our own backyard of oakland. ying ma s stories a perfect example of what made america great. the courage to confront hardship and abuse, determination to move past it and gratitude to a country that made it possible for anyone to succeed and discover one s self-worth. i highly recommend that you read the personal account of her amazing journey in her book, chinese girl in the ghetto which she will be selling and signing tonight. ying ma has indeed come a long way from the inner city of oakland. she received her undergraduate