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"Admires also in Glendale Heights at north and Bloomingdale and slow traffic on 80 94 western from the Indiana toll. To Kennedy Kennedy, Mary Vandeveld, wt on traffic Central and Bob Kessler may or may not use the bathroom during the day. But I've been known to he's been known to. He does know the business are wondering. The Dow Up about three quarters of 1% of 4 34,032 s and P 500 up about one quarter of 1% at 40 to 77 NASDAQ still down just a fraction 3 14,051. And now to a man who very well may be doing the business of food from the bathroom. Steve Alexander not far away. Thank you, Mr Campbell. It's Mr Fizz Friday, and he's talking about vacations. We are planning vacations going on vacations. So what do you do about your garden in your yard and your house plants while you're gone, and there are a lot of things that need to be done outside because you don't want the place look like you're gone. So let's begin with a garden and all that food. You're growing. Find somebody to pick it for you just to have some good friends that own a restaurant here and found And when we were gone, they were very curious and kind to go out and pick as many tomatoes and squash in whatever they could get their hands on as they could get While we were gone. We're glad to have them do that The whole yard needs to have water, and Jim says these next few days may bring some good rain. But that's not going to last forever and long range forecast says that by the end of this month, we're going to be back in the hard drive. As for the House plants, they're a little bit like cats. They can take a week of being by themselves, set them in a cool shaded place in your house. Not until sun. They'll be fine, and you might set them in trays of water or even in the bathtub of shallow water, not deep enough to flood them just deep enough so they can pick up moisture if they need it, And finally there's the lawn. Mow it before you go, and if you're going to be gone for a while, find somebody else to do it. But Mr Fizz says it's important that with all of the vacation help you're getting make sure it's clear what you want them to do and how So you want them to do it? Once upon a time, I was hired by a guy that said, Go cut my grass while I'm gone when I got back is well, I don't do that that way, And I'm not gonna pay you. That wasn't nice wasn't nice. So long time gardening guru, Mr Fizz, Jim fizzle at the Chicago Board of Trade Traders continue to keep an eye on the weather. There's an old saying that rain makes green. But you know, there can be too much of a good thing in parts of Illinois and Missouri. The rain gauges have been full over the last day, or 25 to 7 inches in the past 24 to 36 others hours other areas got little or not to The big mover today as soybean oil down 7% after the Supreme Court ruled some refineries can be accepted from blending renewables like soy oil and corn, ethanol into gasoline and diesel. After Chicago Board of Trade, soybeans are down 17 corn is off about 14 and wheat is down. About nine cents today is National Strawberry Parfait Day. Also, it is national Catfish Day. If I may. Here's a tip from an experienced calf it catfish eater. Don't forget the hush puppies or the dill pickle. That's the business of food on 7 20. W G. M. And I saw a story about that White Sox super fan attending every single sex games since 2000 and weekdays 1 to 4 serious commitment, commitment. Let's get some career advice from those people right there like that item work. Should I be and where I can attend 800 consecutive small kid on W G. M. This is your new home speaking. I know you haven't.
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"On WGN radio. I want to talk about the cost of buying. New and used cars and what people are doing is a result of the high prices these days. Inventory is such They are like Airbnb renting other people's cars for a day or a weekend. We'll get to that in a little bit, by the way, So Mr Reston is filling in for Steve Alexander today, and he says, Okay, he looked up a little bit more about does coins. So what did you did You find out Let me ask you. Do you remember a MIM on the Internet? A number of years ago, there was a dog. You remember that? Apparently, it was kind of a smiling dog. Ay Dios. It's still pops up every now and again. I was not aware of this. But does this coin came about in 2013 to software engineers decided to make fun of Bitcoin. And they started making this worthless coin with the picture of a dog. It really has no value. I guess you could say the same about Bitcoin, but it was started as a joke. As it may 7th before align Musk appeared on Saturday night Live over the weekend Does coin is up more than 26,000%. In the last six months. 26,000% for a joke. A lot of that due to musk himself because touting on Twitter that he's done out toes over the last few months. I know he tweeted just a couple of months ago. One word on Twitter does Right and it took off crazy, which you know, makes it sound like a hustle then, but so, too, is Bitcoin. It's a limited a currency. It's a digital currency. It's crypto. It's a limited number of quote. Unquote coins have been mined, and not all of them have been purchased yet, as I understand it, and the value keeps going up. You have major financial institutions. So like Goldman, Uh, J. P. Morgan. That are adopting Bitcoin. You don't really have anybody. Adopting does coin except for the traders on Reddit, right? But a theory um, is becoming more and more popular even than Bitcoin because from the little reading I've done Bitcoin is sort of compared to digital gold. A theory. Um, is being called like digital oil because of the systems that it runs on various block chains and stuff. And it hit a new high today If you heard the report about 4000 bucks a coin for for which one if you're a thief, theory, um Mark Cuban loves it. Okay. Then you got Tesla A and does coin. Although he the reason we're bringing it up today is because does coin fell 40%. After on that Saturday night Live skit. He called it or they called it a hustle. Well, something like that. I find those centers staying. Ah, line Musk announced a month through a month and a half ago that they were going to put Bitcoin on the balance sheet for Tesla to And then he starts to promote Does coin. You don't see Tesla's and align must putting does coin balance sheet? So which one does he really like? I think it might be Bitcoin. Well, I'm gonna buy some ghost coin today. I've never done this Vicki Croke Uzi and is going to show me how to do it after the show. Well, no, It's like it's just you want to buy it when it's down. It did just drop something That was my because I'm would bothers me is the victory. Anybody that 0.4 cents a coin and it was what was it 76 cents a coin before the show, But they're now you say you want to buy what it's down. It's a relative. As I said, as a base seventh, it's a 26,000%. So are you really buying it when it's down? Or just Well, I'm hoping that we'll get to $84 Trillion and I will be really smart when I bought it in 50 cents. Good luck. That's my genius plan, Fingers crash or hope My wife's not listening. It's 10 14 on W. GM. Okay? Last stories about kindness shown to strangers. Oh, and by the way, Speaking of Elon Musk I want to. I know that Bob Surat featured a little bit of Dylan on Saturday night Live over the weekend when he was talking about this dose coin, a crypto currencies. But he said something else in his monologue that's worth replaying in a minute. Double.
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"Sunshine were up to 51 now at O'Hare and Midway 49 along the lakefront 49 Crystal Lake. It's 52 in Morris. And now with your money on WGN here, Steve Alexander's Sir. Here we go Midway through the first hour of trading. The markets are flat. But before I get to that, let's look at some news just in from pellet on it is announcing its voluntarily recalling all of its treadmills. After reports of injuries and one death, these air all treadmills, the tread plus in the regular treadmills being Recalled by Appellate on as many 500 right now is up about two points. NASDAQ After losing 1.9% yesterday is up about six men. Let's make it three points right now, Russell 2000 small caps up just a fraction of the Dow was down about 32 points. Volatilities measure by the vics of the CBO. We is right now down about 1.5 points and 1.5%. The 10 year Treasury yield is now up. 1.59% looks like the divvying up has begun Cascade, a holding company Bill Gates created with the proceeds of his Microsoft winnings. Assed. Transferred. Security is worth more than $1.8 billion to Melinda. She now owns 14 million Canadian National Rail Ridge Railroad shares and about three million AutoNation shares. The transfer may be a sign that this has been in the works and is already been decided how the fortune is going to be split up. More examples of what we did and did not do during the pandemic. Data from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons shows surgeons were not working as much last year declines across the board in procedures. The biggest drop was in hair transplants. Bo Tox remains very popular and The demand for butt implants. Rose 22%, Rose 22% 22%. I don't understand any of that. Let's go back to see belly that was planning on getting one of those. Uh, you know, A lot of it is like you're living in your house. You got a mask on your face. What's the point of Bo talks and even a hair transplant? I mean, it just doesn't make any sense. Right now. The only thing you see is your butt, so that's not only one. Yes, so somebody walking down the street, but nobody's on the streets. But if you're not satisfied, you've got to remove them. And then what? And then you have a flat, but We're in the middle of a business report here picking go ahead, see? Well, that was attributed to instagram people showing off their posteriors on Instagram and I guess people to settle. I need one of those. Crude oil is 77 cents higher $66.46 per barrel Gold is up about $5 Chicago Board of Trade. Corn right now is down a penny beans or up a nickel and wheat is up six cents. That's your money on 7 20 wtf and ive Steve Christiana John Chicago's very own 7 20, WGN that concludes rear end talk here on WGN Radio. This is John Williams. Good morning, unruly behavior by passengers on airplanes. The wisdom of the pellet on recall in spades. Jokes are all coming your way. Me me. Me, me, me, but also you the Pharaoh fast forwards his favorite born film it but the powdered doughnut..
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"To sum up call or click 811 before you dig and visit safe excavator dot com. 10 11 W. GM John Williams here 31298172 hundred's the phone number. Thanks for listening, calling and texting in. You know that guy that just been jumping in the lake every day, even though now it's just dangerously cold outside. Again. I'm still not sure that jumping into water when it's eight degrees below zero is much more dangerous than when it's 30 degrees above zero. I'm going to find a cardiologists to answer this question. 219 said John jumping into cold water like that has to have some long term effects on the shock to the heart in the system. It can't be good. Other people think it's actually good for you. It's invigorating. I don't know. That Daniel Connor is going to jump in the lake again in about a half an hour. I did buy him a life preserver and a rope. We're going to get that to him today. Then ask a doctor about that. If you're a doctor, give me a call. By the way, you know, we're losing track of some things that we otherwise might have paid a little more attention to the might have even disturbed us a little more. For the pandemic in the election and the unrest, for instance, remember how Much We discussed whether or not we'd be willing to get into driverless cars. Cars that don't worry. We got you. You don't even need you could fall asleep behind the wheel of this thing. The way I will get you where you got to go, and then cars being tested in Arizona in places. Not always without consequence, but mostly going pretty well. I'm not on that bus. I'm not ready to do that. But that seems to have sort of faded. Then moments ago our own Steve Alexander and his business report said that what was it in 2024? We're going to do air Taxi's I'm not getting in an air taxi. United Airlines placed a $1 billion order for 200 of these little better called the E V E T o l aircraft tick. Electorate, vehicle takeoff and landing and they can travel 60 miles on a charge go up 250 Miles an hour, a pilot and four passengers. And that's the way that United thinks people are going to get to the airport. Whether it's still here or midway or any other reporter to the airport. Yeah, so then I live in Schomburg or LaGrange or Chicago. And rather than fighting the Kennedy. I'll go somewhere and get in this drone, and it'll buzz me over, huh? Right? But apparently the plan. Yeah, it's got some big Worley bird things. You know, I don't. I haven't seen a picture of what it looks like A Oh yes, I have seen a picture of what it looks like. It's got the it's got the four vertical rotors right on the wings. So for the vertical takeoff and landing, Yeah. And other than that just kind of looks like a smaller craft airplane airplane with wings or more like just a bubble with the four propellers on either side. It's got the wings and it's just somebody named Timmy with the remote control on the ground, driving it. No, no, there's a pilot inside. So it's not remote control. I guess then the only troubling thing about this is it's electric powered, but it's also I don't know why I'm so nervous about this. It's just I guess it's new technology. And you think Oh, really? Is that gonna work? I guess the power and the batteries will continue to make the blade go round arounds the blades going around. You're good, right? Yeah. Um, you wanna go? I'm a little worried about the other traffic up there. You know, there you will. You will run into Timmy's drone. Yeah, there will be other other of these air taxi's going back and forth. So.
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"Time for Steve Alexander's agribusiness Pretty good Morning and please allow me to be one of the first to wish you a happy National Cream Cheese Brownie Day. I'm sure the egg dairy and wheat and sugar and chocolate producers of America are happy to contribute to your enjoyment of this day. There is a discount supermarket chain in Germany called Ladell L I, d l, which is comparable to another discount German chain that we are familiar with all be in Germany, Lovell decided that the prices farmers were getting for their beef, pork and chicken were too low to sustain the kind of organic and ethical farming practices that Ladell management thought its customers would like to support. So Ladell announced it was raising the price of its meat and would pass along the price difference directly to these farmers. It seems like the right thing to do doesn't have something the ethical and ecological consumer would sure get onboard with. Nine German chopper's headed to the cheaper competitors and the German newspaper reporting. This also notes. Another casualty of the price based consumer is the plant based revolution. It's reported to be stagnating in Germany, and many of the items are disappearing from store shelves. As the paper put it, the consumer has decided And she has canceled the revolution. Yesterday. It was the USDA is was the report the world agricultural supply and demand estimates and the bottom line is that there is more corn and wheat in the world than the Chicago Board of Trade Markets had expected band fewer soybeans So what? The end of the trading day yesterday, beans were up 14 cents. Corn was down. 7.5 and wheat was off six and a quarter sense in the early hours of the overnight trading, corn, beans and wheat were all down about four cents at the Merc yesterday, beef and pork closed out the session higher. Daytime markets open today, 30 and I'll be back with hourly updates right through the win trust business lunch and save a cream cheese brownie for me, will you? That's your money on 7 20, WGN Happy National cream cheese Brownie Day to 5 42. You know any golfers who go out and golf like in all weather all winter. You know any knots like that. They're quite a few and people in the city love to use the driving range diversity.
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"Steve Alexander. Midway through the trading day. The markets have perked up a little. Let's look at some of the big movers right now Till Ray the Canadian pot and hemp company hit 52 week high today up 40% right now, after making a deal to import and distribute medical marijuana in the UK Pains. The T shirt and underwear company is up about 24% locally, McDonald's is at 1.2%. The Walgreens boots is that the percent United Airlines is down 1.8%. Boeing is up 1.6% cat and beer each up about 1/10 of a percent in 80 W Illinois tool works is right now off about 2/10 and let's check in on Gamestop. Shares of the video game retailer continued their retreat from that to read it fueled spike last week. Week before following nearly 17% to trade now below $50 a share of that suck peaked out at over 400 bucks and closed at 3 25 a share on January 31st. Overall, the Dow is up 18 18 points. The S and P s just dipped into negative down about 1/10 of a point. NASDAQ's up 40. The Russell 2000 small cap is up about 18 points. Volatility is measured by the CBO. He's vics is up about 8/10 of a percent commodities. Crude oil is trading 38. Cents higher. 58 35 Gold is trading about $5 higher at 18 39 Chicago Board of Trade. Double digit drops for wheat and corn after the wasabi report came out at 11 o'clock this morning, that's from the USDA showing world agricultural supply and demand. It did not show the drops in supply that the traders have expected and priced into the markets. And we've got corn now down 10 and a quarter sense at 5 53 a bushel beans are up for weed is trading now down about nine and a quarter sense at 6 46 official and that's your money on 7 20, WGN. Six degrees in Waukegan, seven. And Bartlett, It is 13 degrees and Joliet, nine degrees in O'Hare and 12. At Midway. I'm Jordan Burnt Field on Chicago's very own 7 20. W G. N What do you know? A Chicago hotel ranked number three in the world. The win trust business lunches coming up. Little flexibility can.
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"There in Bartlett, an accident 59 Stearns and also in Glen Ellyn at Geneva and Pleasant. Our band about the B G on traffic Central Back into the newsroom. Steve reckons Got an update for you. Thank you, John. A lot of times when you see a Moonshot like we're seeing today and the major stack averages. You get a little bit of profit taking after lunch, but Not today. We remain near session eyes. We have the Dow Jones Industrial Average of about 2 70 right now. The S and P 533, the NASDAQ up. Just over 121 and the Russell 2000 measuring those small and MidCap stocks having the biggest day of all the major averages today, up about one and two thirds percent. Up just about 36 points. That's a look at business. You got to turn on my microphone, I think is really going to help the flow of the show. And now here, Steve Alexander, you know what we need, John? We need more. Steve's radio stations. Good idea. Steve Alexander, Steve Ruxton. Steve Brizan Itch and I'm probably missing a few. Steve Bertrand. Steve. Dale, start a union. Steve Bertrand. I'm sorry, my buddy. How are you hurt his feelings. Happy national him today to you, John. Yeah. Thanks to the 2018 Farm. Bill Hamp has made a comeback in the United States and it was girl during World War two. That's the last time I was grown legally, and that was for fiber to make rope for the Navy. But thanks to its similarity to it's wacky to Backe, cousin marijuana hemp was outlawed for decades. Until just recently, and that's what this gentleman is going to tell us about. The hand for growing now, for the most part for the CBD market. We have bread it to be higher in CBD, so the stock is very similar to what people in the past grew, but the CBD level is higher. That's Jeffrey Ah Rose, Who's the CEO and founder of Flora Fl ur, a company that supplies everything from seeds to harvesting equipment. So to growing seasons behind us, Hap still has not lived up to its billing is a major cash crop. It does grow well here, like a weed to basically, but farmers have found there's much more manual labor involved than expected, and there have been problems getting processing plants online and up to speed. Plus, each state keeps a close eye on him. Growers. Really the big thing is you got to know how they measure THC. And then if you if you have a crop that goes over the THC limit, you need to know what your state wants you to do with it. Some states say mowed down and burn it. Get rid of it. Still the future's bright. David Lightman, who manages the division of Cannabis Regulation at the Illinois Department of Agriculture, predicts that in 5 to 10 years, hemp will be one of the top three AG exports for Illinois right up there with corn and soybeans. By the way, Mr. Like many of the Illinois Department of AG just sent out a notice that there will be a hemp summit on Tuesday. The 23rd It'll be virtual, of course, and you can check out the Egg department's website. For more information on that if you're into hamper CBD all of that, Speaking of soybeans is I Woz Let's go to the Chicago Board of Trade and see where we're at. With beans, Trading three and three quarters since higher at 13 75 a bushel Corn is down a penny and a half of 5 50 a half And wheat is down double digits. 13.5 cents lower. That's about 2% at 6 34 and three quarters at the Merc checking the animals live cattle right now. 82 a half cents higher at $123.27 100 feeder cattle are up 82 as well. 1 39 35 there and Lean hogs. 12.5 cents higher $79.32 101 final connection between farm and fork or spoon. In this case, it is national home made soup day. And is this soup weather or watch? Get out there and enjoy some vegetable soup. Last night I gave my wife a trophy was so good Well, she was really happy to get the trophy and my dad had to write another carrots, but I gave her a trophy. I didn't know they made trophies. First. Boy, Here's some advice for you all. If you see a Housewife trophy. Do not buy that and give it to your wife. That is not a she does not want that from you, but it was really good soup. That's what I'm trying to say. Here. There you go. All right, Well done. Oh, yeah, that thing you do with the NC. That's your money on 7 20, WGN. Dean Richards 10 years ago. 21.2 inches of snow was Snowmageddon Snowmageddon Shutdown Lakeshore Drive. People were just abandoned their cars 10 years ago. 21.
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"Games. They host Columbus tomorrow. College hoops. Bradley at Valpo in the Big 10, Michigan State ends a three week layoff at Rutgers, David W. G and Sports forecast from the WGN Chicago Weather Center. My chances would be mainly sunny for the rest of today, but cold is well with highs in the mid twenties. Feeling more like the upper team mostly clear tonight with a low near 10. Partly cloudy Friday with a high of around 30 mostly cloudy and breezy on Saturday, with highs in the low to mid thirties. There is a chance for some snow in the afternoon that snow becoming one Clean here Saturday night, and there's the potential team several inches of accumulation, with temperatures dropping into the upper twenties. Light snow continues to be likely. Here's we start the day on Sunday, tapering Maurine the afternoon thought. These guys continue breezing highs in the lower thirties from the WGN Weather Center on the neurologist, by Chance, your money on WGN Steve Alexander Hey, Ryan, the markets are roaring back after yesterday's big losses that house have 5 66 s and P's up 67. Yeah, the NASDAQ's up 153 points. The Russell two thousand's up about nine points. Volatility is measured by the CB Ways vics is way off today Down about 25%. A common theme on the John Williams Show. The past week or so has been the difficulties in getting the covert vaccine in Illinois. It isn't just Illinois as the U. S is ranked number five among all countries in vaccinations. Israel is the leader by far with 49 doses per 100 people having been given out Number five is us at seven people vaccinated for every 100 of us, so the public health world is keeping an eye on Israel for signs of vaccine effectiveness in early results are encouraging vaccines, even after just one does appear to be causing significant drops in covert infections. But keep in mind that Israel is far stricter on shutdowns and has been all international flights. Pandemic has crushed the economy did so last year shrinking the U. S. Economy 3.5% the biggest shrinkage since World War two unemployment first time filers last week dropped a little bit from the week before, but still crazy high with 847,000 people applying for benefits. McDonald's fell short of Wall Street's earnings and sales expectations.
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"Here, Steve Alexander Lauren. So many of us have been hoping that we can travel again Sunday. But Boeing's CEO David Calhoun, said today the recovery is going to take longer than expected. He's had the slow rollout of code 19 vaccine shots. Which you have been talked about a lot today, and John Williams show will delay the return of near normal travel until mid to late summer. Shares of Boeing are down about 3% after announcing it lost about $12 billion last year. Overall, the markets are
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"Last year tomorrow from the W GM other center I'm Morgan Coke, My 30. Cloudy skies admit way this morning. Make that at O'Hare, 30 to admit way 32 along the lakefront. The windshield at O'Hare is 19. In Kenosha. This morning. 24 the windshield There is 15 And now your money on WGN here, Steve Alexander. Good morning again. Stephen Mixed bag. As we start the week, investors keep an eye on the stimulus negotiations covert and also get away for a slew of tech earnings. After the first hour, half hour of trading that s and P 500 is up about 15 points. The NASDAQ is up 169. But the Dow's down about 119 points. Russell 2000 is up about 2.7 right now about it's only a 1% volatility is measured by the CBO. His vics is up about 3% right now. In the early going. Boing is down over 2%, caterpillar, McDonalds and Walgreens all down right around 1% Gamestop continues to be one of the craziest stories on Wall Street. Struggling brick and mortar chain picked up steam after some members of the online pet care company chewy, joined the board of directors and shares went from about 2 50 a share to $100 a share of this morning retail traders also known as the Do it yourselfers. I have been looking to make a score. They have been talking up the stock in chat rooms and hedge funds, which had been betting against Gamestop are now rushing to cover their short bets on that stock. And after the opening Bell Today, shares jumped another 50% and trading was halted because of the volatility. That is something that's happened a few times in the past week earning season. Kicks into high gear today. Traders air getting ready for the busiest week, which will include reports from the mega cap tech stocks Apple, Microsoft, Kessler and Facebook and lots of others, like local heavyweights McDonald's and Caterpillar and going checking commodities. Crude oil is up seven cents at 52 34 barrel. Gold is trading down about $2 of 18 54. After Chicago, the board of Trade, There's a big comeback going on there. After a sell off last week. Soybeans are up 23 cents. Corn is back above $5 at 509, up nine cents right now and the week's trading about seven cents higher at 6 41 bushel. That's your money on 7 20, WGN. I'm Steve Christianity. John Chicago's very own 7 20, WGN. Thank you guys. Speed jokes will come your way in 30 minutes, a reason to smile. The Carjacking stories in Chicago are not Few Hank Aaron stories. Few Larry King's stories. Everybody in the business seems to have won and I've got my version of that, too. And some pretty good music on the show today. Does anybody want breakfast? Guys. Let's go. Later for McDonald's in five seconds. Why more that breakfast Stampede.
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"For Steve Alexander and the Agribusiness Brief. Good morning. Many of our friends who make and lose money at the Chicago Board of Trade may want to make sure their stash of Durant Amine is replenished as we begin this trading week. Friday alone was enough to make you lose your lunch, the biggest daily percentage drop for beans since August of 18 and August of 19 for corn March Being features dropped on Friday. 4.4% down 60.5 cents at 13 09 and three quarters. Official March corn fill 4.5% down 24 cents at $5 and a quarter per bushel. We traders weren't missing out either. March, Wheat was off 3.9% 25 3 quarters sense lower at 6 35 a bushel and in the first few hours of overnight trading beans were down another nine cents. Corn was back below $5 and wheat was off three cents. Meanwhile, at the Merc, beef prices jumped on Friday. Live cattle rose 2% $2.45 101 20 to 42 feeder cattle ended 3.5% $4.90 100 at 1 44 05 And lean hogs finished out the trifecta increasing 3% $2.25 100. We'll start today's trading at 76 15. Still, if you look at where beef prices have gone since peaking in January 6 years ago, they've been on a choppy path downward back to levels that cattle producers were getting in the summer of 2011. At the same time, the prices you pay at the store have been hitting record highs. Somebody is making money and it is not the men and women who raised the cattle. One more AG related product I want to mention and that is booze. And if you're doing the dry January thing, you've only got seven days to go. Yeah, but today is National Irish Coffee Day. So good luck. The daytime markets open today. 30 Allah be back after that, with hourly market updates all the way through the wind trust business lunch. That's your money on 7 20, WGN. Always gives us the holiday update. Irish coffee day All right up to send out my greeting cards later, 5 41 right now, a program note here for tomorrow morning. Dr Anthony thought she will be on with us and we will have America's doctor. On the radio after the 7 a.m. news tomorrow, So we're looking forward to that and I am expecting after that interview to be named to the President's covert 19 task force. Any chance you could put in a good word for vaccines for man, But I think that's the first question is, When are we could get some more vaccines. What's going on? It's crazy, isn't it? Yeah, they said in Chicago, the number we where you have one in Illinois. 3.2 Million people are eligible in this new round. This one be and the state is going to have 126,000 doses. I mean, let me write that down so 3.2 million people will be eligible, but we'll only have 126,000 doses next week. So that number the 3.2 million. Those those, uh, that reflects who's eligible starting this week. So that's this phase one B. That's the people over 65 Several groups of essential workers that includes Teachers and firefighters and other frontline workers. Right? Yeah. I was looking at that list. It also includes people like grocery store work. Yes. Yeah. Okay, so And we only have 100 26,000 Vaccines 32 to 34,000 in Chicago. But 26,000 in the state just next week, so we need a lot more vaccine. Okay, I'll get on that tomorrow. Can count on me. Dr Fauci tomorrow morning between seven and 7 30 years here on the radio. And by the way, if you have some suggestions for questions, feel free to text us your email us The text numbers the same is the phone number 312981 72 103 1 to 91 7200. And the email. Here is Bob Show, a WGN radio dot com Bob Show at WGN radio dot com. If you were with US son Friday at the end of our broadcast, we got some really good travel information from Peter Greenberg was always up on the latest travel news. And we will have a replay for you coming up momentarily. Peter is the CBS I am travel guy I and he's on PBS, and he is really the best. So we will hear what Peter had to say coming up and we will have our Monday House call from the chief medical officer at Northwestern Medicine Central, the page hospital today, Dr Kevin most after the 6:30 a.m. news, talk about vaccines and more with him. All the talk is about whether this morning and what's gonna happen the afternoon that's when it'll all start.
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"It here on WGN started with Chris Boden is pregame at 6 30. The Bulls play it, Charlotte going for three in a row. David it WGN sports. And now the WGN forecast. We'll have abundant sunshine for the rest of today. Plenty of cold air as well. Highs on Lee in the lower twenties windchills staying in the single digits for most of us, clear and cold tonight lows down to around nine degrees closer to zero in some of those spots that have heavier snow pack. We'll increase our college on Saturday for hiding the upper twenties could feel little snow during the evening hours. Better potential for life's No. Saturday night and continuing into our Sunday especially the morning hours, maybe a couple of inches of accumulation possible man look for highs and lower thirties more light snow expected here on Monday, but from or accumulation with highs in the lower thirties from the WGN Weather Center. I'm a neurologist by chance. Your money on WGN here. Steve Alexander, who are in the global stock markets retreated today after a resurgence of Corona virus infections in China, and also a rise in cases in Southeast Asia. And as we saw earlier what starts they're usually winds up over here. Hope not. Wall Street markets are following suit with the Dow right now down 171 points, the S and P is down. 11 NASDAQ's down about 20 and the Russell 2000 right now is down about 2 12.5 points volatility as measured by the CBO. We In the vics is now up about one and three quarters percent. Ford and GM have been Avenue stock market run for the ages this month is investors cheer on the company's investment in evey electric vehicles. Ford is taking a breather. Today, though down about 1.4% GM is just a fraction higher as we've heard many times from our group of real estate adverts here on WGN, the housing market continues to be.
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"Text little 5 45 this morning, which I'm up for five minutes now. So like alright, what? Who's on fire? It's a joke from Lou Manfredini, he said. I just bought a horse and named him Mayo. Mayonnaise. I texted him back and said Thanks, Lou. I'll catch up with you later. You mustard This joke on your radio show. Let us talk about it later. I think you'll relish the rest of my jokes. Until then, your onion your own that is very drawn up for 5 45 in the morning. You know, that's Lou Manfredini. Poor Mary Beth. I bought a hot tub without consulting my wife. Now I'm in hot water. What do you call a droid who keeps taking the long way around? That's our to detour. And finally, kids. What's black and white and sings is the penguin. Is it a bird isn't dolphin. Michael Jackson, any of them Thank you, Viki. You take all of the answers. Thank you, Vicky. Was it wrong? All of them were? Yes. Thanks. See, that's why I knew I just had to keep guessing. Dave. Zebra stripes and uber stress. It is good, It's wrong. It's actually better than what I've got. Steve Alexander, That's better than what I have. It's have Zebrette. Carrie okay night. Okay, Fine. Uh, no. Your only hope in the newsroom Steve. Yeah, that's kind of close to mine. I said a penguin in a curio. Keep our What's black and white and sings. The correct answer is Oreo Speedwagon..
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"Very alone Touch. Other day Never G Good morning. 5 38 Steve Alexander's agribusiness brief will be back on tomorrow. The market's closed today in Observance of Martin Luther King Day. So I have something from my record collection and let me tell you this. This is one. You gotta crank up. You gotta turn it way up. I know it's early. This a waking up for sure. You've heard the stories about Phil Specter, who passed away over the weekend at 81. He was a brilliant record producer and the insane guy. No question about it. And in addition to Those early hits he produced with his famous wall of sound like he's a rebel and be my baby and to do run run, he worked with John Lennon and the Beatles. He Did production work on the Let it be album. He also added strings and acquired to the long and winding road of a Paul Didn't really like all of that. I've always been a fan of that. I like all that big wall of sound. Specter also Produced All things must pass for George Harrison and the John Lennon. Imagine album and you know what he used to do. He used to mix the music and then listen to it in the studio on a little bitty speaker. Because he knew that's the way the kids were hearing the music on transistor radios, and he made these rock operas and my favorite Phil Specter production. Is the song we're gonna play for you here this morning. A lot of people think this is the greatest rock and roll record ever. Rolling Stone put it on their list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. And billboard name This the number eight song on their list of the 100 Greatest Girl group songs of all time and if you if you crank this up and pay attention Phil Specter throws in just about everything but the kitchen sink before this record is over the crystals..
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"steve alexander" Discussed on WGN Radio
"To include an all electric crossover or SUV Corvette. 2025 Last with me. I can hear the cries of the Corvette purists, but an analyst for Morgan Stanley's is a Corvette sub brand could be worth several billion in sales to GM. And by the way, there is a Porsche SUV. After all, it's been after several years. Most other stocks are lower today, too, but we are seeing a recovery as volatility has calmed down a bit that the vics the CPU is vics right now is up. Only about 2.3% of the Wall Street. The markets are offered their session lows by quite a bit on the Dow right now is down about 138 points. The S and P is down 21. The NASDAQ is down 73 of the Russell 2000. Is right now down about 35 points locally. Walgreens has been on fire since the first of the year. With shares up about 30% right now, shares are off about a half percent. Boeing shares have been sliding this week. That continues today. Down about 1.6%. Shares of Caterpillar today are down about 2.1% commodities. Crude oil has sprung a bit of a leak this morning recovering slightly from session lows. Still down about 2.1% at $52.36 gold is trading down $22 of 18 29 announced. Chicago Board of Trade is all red with corn down two and a quarter sense beans are down seven and wheat is down a penny and a half and that's your money on 7 20 WGN, and I'm Laurin Latka on Chicago's very own 7 20 wg. And so we were having a fun conversation the other day about those progressive commercials, which Of the life coach trying to keep you from becoming your parents. Some of the luck I Dr Rick. Ah, buddy of my goals. You mean Dr Rick, I go. How do you know that? He goes. I love those commercials. I do, too, but I haven't watched them so closely. I knew what his name was. Evidently Steve Alexander does. I'm really worried about flow. Well, that's funny, because those air two campaigns at the same time for the same company, which is unusual and by the same ad agency. Well, those people from that edges you're going to say hi to us in just a minute. I want to talk a little bit about the If the campaigns and how damn funny they are. Next. Does anybody want breakfast? Guys. Let's go..
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"steve alexander" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Morning, Steve Alexander. Good morning, Steve O. And in the first half hour of trading, we have seen the mixed the markets mixed and flat right now. The Dallas up only six points. The S and P ease up a point of half a point. The NASDAQ's up about 20 points with NASDAQ, the biggest loser yesterday down. Over 1.5% the Russell 500 men. Let's make it the Russell 2000 while we're at it up about 15 points right now, vics, the volatility index of the CBO we is down about 1%. Shares of GM are over 2% higher as word comes out about a two part electric vehicle project called Bright to drop. The first part of that is which will be on sale soon is a battery powered wheeled palette that will take goods out of the warehouse. Two trucks and in the second is an TV delivery. Van. Which will be on the road so late this year with FedEx the company's first customer. Potential market. Drivers today include the November jolts job report. Joel stands for job openings and labor turnover survey. It shows 6.52 million job openings in November. That's pretty much the stays right around there has stayed around the 6.5 million For most of the 2020 and most of those openings air in the manufacturing sector. Also coming out today, the Department of Energy January crude oil output forecast that comes out at 11 o'clock, same time on the egg front. The wasabi report of supply and demand report on the big Three crops, corn, beans and wheat and the markets have risen to six year highs because of a tighter than usual supply. And today's numbers confirmed that tight supply then could trigger another rally in overnight trading at the Chicago Board of Trade, The all three commodities were pretty flat until a few hours ago. When wheat futures jumped on news that Russia is considering increased tariffs on exports right now, wheat is trading buddy 11 cents higher corn is trading a penny and a half higher and soybeans returning eight and a quarter since higher crude oil is up 38 cents of $52.63 a barrel and gold is down today down $8.40 at $1842 an ounce. That's your money on 7 20, WGN news sponsored by 1 20 Life. I'm Steve Grizz an itch on Chicago's very own 7 20, WGN. Busy show planned for today. Spade jokes. Of course. In this hour, we'll play another round with Jon Hansen of Tell me where you're from without telling me where you are from? It also will visit with the Chicago public School teacher who is not in the classroom. Today. Every day people experience mysteries that challenged the laws of nature, like enjoying the Coke. Zero sugar, It looks sounds and tastes delicious. But how does one explain the great taste? If there are.
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"Midway 36 along the lakefront in Waukegan. It's 33. After the page report this morning. It's 33. The windchill is now 25 your money on WGN. Good morning, Steve Alexander. Good morning, Steve O. The attack on the Capitol did not slow down the rally on Wall Street as traders had their eyes on the additional stimulus expected from the soon to be Democratic controlled Senate and house. The Dow was up 1.4% yesterday of the S and P up just over half percent. The only the NASDAQ, where there is concerned about higher taxes on tech companies was lower off just over a half percent. And that rally has carried over to this morning. In a first half hour of trading, the Dow was up 226 points back above 31,000 and 31,055 s and P is up 47 points and 37 95. And the NASDAQ is up a big 258 points at 12,000 Men right at 13,000. Now up just over 2% volatility is measured by the vics of the CBO. We is down about 10% right now. Walgreens Boots announced its quarterly earnings this morning. And it is right now leading the Dow 30 industrials up right around 5% After beating the street on both revenue and earnings. The trade deficit was announced by the Commerce Department short time ago. And the deficit jumped to $68.1 billion in November as a surge of imports overwhelmed a smaller increase in exports overall year to year. There's a better 14% gain. In the trade deficit compared to the same period in 2019 President Trump had insisted that his get tough trade policies with the rest of the world would shrink the deficit. And bring back American jobs. But that is not proven out. Checking commodities crude oil up a nickel $50.58 at the Chicago Board of Trade, Wheat is down about three and three quarters Sense beans are given back about 14 cents. Now 13 make that $13.47 per bushel. Corn is trading off about 3.5 cents. Now, 4 91.5. Gold down there No up now $4.40 at $1913 per outs. And that's your money on 7 20 WGN, And I'm Steve Grizz, Anna Jahn Chicago's very own seven's wanting W GM. We set a little while ago. We know you've got a lot to say You may have questions to ask, but comments to make This is the people's show. Here's the number 3129817 203 129817 200. Good morning. It's John Williams. I'm all ears this morning. McDonald's We're gonna get you today How I shall have the quarter.
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"By Ace the helpful place Saturday morning at six. Beginning January, 2nd. 25 minutes before six o'clock here on the Saturday morning show a sprinkling of snow overnight Maura than a sprinkling in some areas of the Midwest. And the one thing you that I just got in an email from a loser Who said you haven't given the coronavirus numbers yet, because during my career here at W. GM, we've done many numbers like the arrival of cattle, the arrival of hogs at the Chicago Union Stockyards. And now, unfortunately, more recently, we tend to give the count on the corona virus spread. Not going to give all the numbers, but it's interesting because the numbers and these stories on my writer scream that I'm looking at right now. It. Talks about Thailand reporting 216 new cases of coronavirus. Germany has confirmed coronavirus cases increased by 12,000. 690. Then we get the Russian report 26,301 new coronavirus cases. And 447 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, and it goes on and on and on is I go up and down the Reuters screen. Look at the various headlines and just about every other line has a Corona virus count. So be careful and knew what they're suggesting. We do. And aside. I've said too many of my friends. We're a mask. Don't shake hands and stay away from people. That seems to be what we got to follow until the vaccine finally shows it worth. And I remember the polio epidemic of the mid 19 fifties. When you didn't dare go anywhere. You didn't dare shake hands with anybody. And then suddenly, Dr Jonas Salk came along with the vaccine, and it changed life immediately for all of us in the U. S, and in the world. But I still have friends for my high school days who are crippled because of the polio epidemic back in the 19 fifties. Welcome now to Samuelson says, and thank you for putting up with my thoughts and opinions, and you haven't been too nasty. But despite the fact that I tell you, I'm not going to talk politics on, Samuelson says. You continue to say Oh, yeah. You were talking. I could tell in the tone of your voice that you were talking politics, But I go on to say that I'll never tell you who my choices are for public office and S O. I stay away from the political world because that's where so many media people And viewers and listeners are today. But, Samuelson says has given me the opportunity to hopefully generate some new thinking and generate some new opinions and feelings about the way of life here in the U. S. Politically and beyond, and I will miss doing that. But I think I pretty much run my course, and it's been taken over by. Ah lot of people who express opinions. In media and in conversation with friends and neighbors. My dad always haven't wind that he left with me when I was growing up. He said. Don't talk about religion and politics. Because if you do, you'll lose a lot of friends and I pretty much tried to stay with that thesis from my father. Years ago. I am not get involved in political or religious discussions with neighbors and family and friends. Probably a good way. Tonto survive holidays when families get together And you never know what subjects are going to come up. But keep reading and listening and trying to understand And to me. The one thing I've learned about communications is The Fact that I make my living talking. I find that listening is the most important part of my lifetime. Because until I listen to what you're saying, and what you're thinking I really can't respond to you because I haven't heard what you have said so. Give other people the opportunity, Tonto think and react and then don't get into a political fight with him. Those are my thoughts on, Samuelson says at 18 minutes before six o'clock news time here on W G. M. Steve Alexander, who would view you have heard do the reports when I'm traveling and you'll be hearing a lot more because the one thing that well, many things but I'm grateful to the management at next door Media group for continuing to cover the agricultural industry with the reports that Steve Alexander will be doing regularly every day here on WGN radio. So thanks You, Mary, who runs the shop for us and all of the other people that I've had the opportunity to work with. Thank you for continuing to realize that agriculture Is an important part of our economy and an important part of our well being. That is, Samuelson says. And we have the Steve Alexander standing by. He's going to join us here on the Saturday morning show with one of my favorite subjects to talk about safety on the farm. And we'll get to his report and his guest when we continue here on this Saturday morning, so Macy's after Christmas sale is going on now, with an extra 20% off with your coupon or Macy's card That's on top of great deals like 50 to 60% off coats for the whole.
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"Surgery? Michael kopecks going to have to learn and Dylan sees can give him some pointers to White Sox. Minor leaguer went through it himself. And he shares his experience with us this week on white socks weekly common. Harry title with White Sox weekly this afternoon. Three thirty seven twenty WGN. Well, as I said, it's time the dog markets and my dad lives in Chad Colby this week sat down with Mark by the international business group. And so this was Mike Adams first question to our market guest. Mark Mark, thanks for joining us. We have some interesting numbers from USDA this week. Let's get your reaction. We'll start with that court number one eighty one point three. What do you think? Well, it's amazing. We