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That's the conversation that was really happening. We all know it.
Was anyone else disappointed that the psychic didn't turn to Faye Resnick and say "Nicole is here and she says OJ did it." I was waiting for it. Expecting it. Why invite Faye to a seance if you're not going to ask about OJ?! Total disregard of Chekov's gun, Andy Cohen.
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In the 1946 season, reigning American League MVP Award winner Hal Newhouser struck out 23.4 percent of all batters he faced. At the time, the percentage represented not only the highest mark for any qualifying Tigers pitcher in history, but also the second highest for any AL pitcher since the league got rolling in 1901. For the Tigers franchise, that mark would go unmatched until 2009, when Justin Verlander fanned 27.4 percent of all batters he went up against.
That club reign has proved much more volatile since then, as the game itself has evolved. And drafting along with this reshaping, Max Scherzer has become the undisputed champion for the team in Detroit.
Scherzer now owns the top two marks, with his 29.4 percent in 2012 earning the No. 1 spot. Just last year, Scherzer posted the second-highest percentage, and this season he's threatening to pretty much match that effort from '13. This means we're about six weeks away from Scherzer potentially owning the three highest strikeout percentages in Tigers history.
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In the Tigers' 5-2 win over the Pirates on Thursday, Scherzer fanned a season-high 14 batters in eight scoreless innings.
It marked the third time Scherzer had fanned at least 14, with all three performances coming with Detroit. Those three are the second most for any Tigers hurler since 1914, with Mickey Lolich having eight.
In all three of Scherzer's efforts consisting of at least 14 strikeouts, the right-hander has gone no deeper than eight innings. He is one of 12 pitchers since 1914 to have at least three such outings. Randy Johnson dominates this list, with his 25 even looming over the combined totals of the next four entrants: Pedro Martinez (eight), Roger Clemens (six), Curt Schilling (five) and Yu Darvish (four). The others with exactly three: Steve Carlton, Sid Fernandez, Dwight Gooden, Mike Mussina, Nolan Ryan and Johan Santana.
Scherzer has fanned 28.7 percent of the batters he has faced this season. In 2012, his percentage was 29.4, and last year, it was 28.7 percent. There have been two right-handers in baseball history who have posted three consecutive seasons with a percentage of at least 28.0 while qualifying for the ERA title: Ryan (1989-91) and Schilling (2001-03).
Gordon races into Dodgers' record book
In the Dodgers' 6-4 victory over the Braves, Los Angeles leadoff hitter Dee Gordon provided a significant spark, contributing four runs scored, three hits, a walk and two steals.
With the line, Gordon became the only Dodgers leadoff hitter since 1914 to have a game with at least four runs, three hits and two steals. In fact, only one other Dodgers player since 1914 who had a game with these numbers: third-place hitter Casey Stengel on Sept. 21, 1914.
Gordon's two stolen bases raised his tally for the season to a Major League-leading 54. The total is the most for a Dodgers second baseman since Steve Sax swiped 56 in 1983.
Fiers burns Cubs
Brewers right-hander Mike Fiers fanned 14 Cubs in six scoreless innings and picked up the win as Milwaukee defeated Chicago, 6-2. Fiers entered this game with three career double-digit strikeout games -- all three of them cresting at 10 K's.
Getting K's quickly
|Sam McDowell
|Sept. 18, 1966
|Nolan Ryan
|July 25, 1989
|Kerry Wood
|April 27, 2001
|Randy Johnson
|June 3, 2001
|A.J. Burnett
|July 6, 2005
|Kelvim Escobar
|June 12, 2007
|Max Scherzer
|May 30, 2010
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|Mike Fiers
|Aug. 14, 2014
The 14 K's tied Fiers with Moose Haas (April 12, 1978) and Yovani Gallardo (July 15, 2012) for the second-most strikeouts for a Brewers hurler. Ben Sheets fanned 18 on May 16, 2004.
Fiers is one of eight starting pitchers since 1914 to have at least 14 K's in an outing lasting no more than six innings. Among the eight, he joined Scherzer (May 30, 2010) as the second to allow no runs.
Royals have ruled since All-Star break
The first-place Royals defeated the fellow division leaders Athletics, 7-3. With the victory, Kansas City finished off the four-game set against Oakland having won three of four. The Royals have also won 18 of their past 22.
During this stretch of 22 games, Kansas City is averaging 4.50 runs per game. Before this stretch, it was at 3.97 for the year. The Royals are also allowing 3.09 runs per game over their past 22, compared to 4.03 before.
With their 18-8 mark since the All-Star break, the Royals own the best second-half record in the Majors. Last year, they owned the third-best second-half record in the big leagues. This year, they own the fourth-lowest team ERA in MLB since the break. Last season, they owned the second-lowest team ERA in the Majors in the second half.
Stras' dominance typical for Nats
In the Nationals' 4-1 victory over the Mets, Stephen Strasburg allowed one unearned run and three hits while fanning eight.
Strasburg is part of a pitching staff that owns a 3.08 ERA -- the third lowest in the Majors behind the Mariners and Padres. Nats starters own a 3.20 ERA, which ranks second lowest in the big leagues behind the Dodgers' 3.15.
No Expos/Nationals ballclub has ever finished a season with an ERA as low as 3.08, with the existing franchise low mark of 3.10 courtesy of the 1988 Expos. That '88 team also claimed the lowest starters' ERA for the franchise, with a 3.05 mark. No other season has seen the starters post an ERA as low as 3.20.
Strasburg is one 355 pitchers with at least 100 career starts through his age-25 season. Among this collection, his 10.51 K's per nine stands as the highest mark, ahead of Kerry Wood's 10.40 and Mark Prior's 10.37. Pedro Martinez (9.57) and Sam McDowell (9.54) round out the top five.
Pedroia has double the fun at Fenway
Dustin Pedroia (3-for-5) had one of four Red Sox doubles on the night in Boston's 9-4 win over the Astros at Fenway Park.
Pedroia now has 318 career doubles -- a total that ties him with Carl Yastrzemski and Brian Roberts for the 21st most for a player through his first nine years. Like Yaz, Pedroia has taken advantage of his home ballpark when it comes to the two-base hit. Pedroia is one of 47 players since 1914 to have at least 150 doubles at home through his first nine seasons.
In terms of each player's total number of doubles coming from two-base hits at home, Pedroia owns the fourth-highest percentage in MLB history and is right in the middle of a number of players who were doing their home work at Fenway. Wade Boggs owns the highest percentage (67.0), while, as mentioned, Pedroia (61.9) is fourth. Bobby Doerr (63.9) is second, Fred Lynn is fifth (at 61.2; Lynn had moved on from Boston by the end his first nine years), Yastrzemski is tied for sixth (60.1), Ted Williams is ninth (59.2) and Dom DiMaggio is 10th (59.0).
Roger Schlueter is senior researcher for MLB Productions.


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The Bill of Rights went through many revisions before the amendments were ratified on December 17, 1791. The inclusion of a Bill of Rights was hotly debated during the ratification of the Constitution. There were many who felt that the rights did not need to be stated because they were implied in the Constitution, and that specifying rights was dangerous because it implied rights not listed did not belong to the people. Others felt a bill of rights was necessary to prevent future tyranny. Several states agreed to ratify the Constitution only if amendments protecting the rights of citizens were added.
James Madison introduced a draft to the First Federal Congress on June 8, 1789 that wove the rights directly into the text of the Constitution. After deliberation on what rights to include, the House of Representatives passed a list of seventeen amendments to the Constitution to the house on August 24, 1789. The Senate then cut the list down to twelve amendments. This document shows the cuts and additional edits made by the Senate to the House's proposal. The document edited by the Senate was proposed as a joint resolution on September 25th, 1789 and sent to the states for ratification. Amendments three through twelve of the draft were ratified and became the Bill of Rights. The two that weren't ratified? The first specified the ratio for how many Representatives should be in the House based on population, and the second said members of Congress could not change their salaries while in office (this later became the 27th amendment).
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In my last post, I noted that the third presidential debate did not move the needle in terms of the popular vote. Before the debate, Romney led Obama by 5 points in the Gallup poll and 2 points in the Rasmussen poll. In the aftermath of the debate he leads by 5 in Gallup and 3 in Rasmussen.
Of course the needle might move yet. There could be a surprise external event that affects perceptions of the candidates. Or one of the candidates might commit a serious gaffe. Or, conceivably, voters might view one or both candidates in a somewhat new light as they make their final assessment.
But let's assume that the needle doesn't move. Let's further assume, to be conservative, that Rasmussen's number (Romney plus 3) is correct. Finally let's assume that the undecideds in the Rasmussen poll divide evenly (another conservative assumptions, since undecideds usually break for the challenger).
Can Obama win in the electoral college if he loses the popular vote by 3 percentage points – a raw vote margin of almost 4 million?
This stikes me as an exceedingly difficult feat. As far as I can tell, only Rutherford Hayes, in 1876, ever won enough states to carry the electoral vote, having lost the popular vote by more than 3 points.
Except that Hayes didn't really accomplish this. His opponent, Samuel Tilden, won the popular vote in more than enough states to carry the electoral vote. Unfortunately for Tilden, more than one state deprived him of his victory by simply overturning the result of its popular vote. For example, Louisiana, still under federal control near the end of Reconstruction, cast its electoral votes for Hayes even though something like 6,000 more votes were cast for Tilden.
George W. Bush, of course, also lost the popular vote but won in the electoral college. However, Al Gore's popular vote margin was only 0.5 percent (about half a million votes).
In 2004, John Kerry lost the popular vote by about 2.4 percent (about 3 million votes), yet still would have won the electoral vote had he prevailed in Ohio. But, contrary to common perception (including my own), Kerry didn't come very close in Ohio. He lost the state by almost 120,000 votes. That translated to 2.1 percent, barely better than Kerry's national performance.
It seems, then, that for Obama to win the electoral college based on the Ohio vote, he probably would need to be within 2 points of Romney in the national voting. And even then, a 2 point national spread might very well give Romney a path to victory that doesn't require winning Ohio (some combination of Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Colorado, Iowa, and Nevada).
Still, I don't say it's beyond the realm of the possible for Obama to lose the popular vote by 3 percent and still be elected. For one thing, Rasmussen, though finding Romney 3 points ahead nationally, says that right now Obama has "the edge in the electoral college."
Moreover, Obama has targeted Ohio in ways that Kerry could not, by blitzing the Buckeye State's airwaves with anti-Romney ads during a period when the challenger couldn't do much advertising. To be sure, Obama did the same thing in Virginia and Florida, where Romney now appears to be ahead. But Romney may encounter an extra level of resistance in Ohio because (a) he opposed Obama's auto bailout plan and (b) the unemployment picture in Ohio isn't as bad as it is nationally.
On balance, though, it seems highly unlikely that either candidate could win in the electoral college without coming within 1.5 percentage points of his opponent in the national popular vote.
UPDATE: I should add that this post assumes that Ohio doesn't end up in the Obama column as the result of fraud. Unfortunately, there is reason to believe that the Democrats are engaged in voter fraud in Ohio as I write this.


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What happened to the Iraqi Information Minister? You know, the guy who denied that U.S. troops were anywhere near Baghdad, even as our troops were storming the city. Doing research for an article on the last stages of the very successful Boll Weevil Eradication Program, this reporter interviewed a spokesweevil for the Brotherhood of the Boll Weevil who looked suspiciously like the former IF for Iraq. He gave a strikingly different view of the BWEP. We thought his comments would be interesting.
How would you rate the success of the Boll Weevil Eradication Program?
Information Minister: "We have not lost a single boll weevil to that useless government plot. In fact, we love this malathion the infidels spray on us. You think this stuff kills us, but it gives us strength as we hurl our shoes at the foolish crop dusters."
How many years before the boll weevil is no longer a menace to U.S. growers?
Information Minister (smiling broadly): "We are still everywhere in the fields carving out huge golden palaces inside of cotton bolls and thumbing our noses at your helpless scouts. This fall, after our bellies are full of cellulose, we will burrow into a huge underground bunker and hibernate, alongside a new powerful secret weapon which we have prepared for you. You will be sorry as we slaughter your pinhead squares."
The green pheromone trap is the most recognizable symbol of the program for both cotton producers and the general public. Why is it so attractive to weevils?
Information minister: (laughs) "We laugh at the green chambers of death you place in the fields. We do not flock mindlessly to them and die. We are merely sleeping in them and building strength for our final assault. When we awake from our slumber, we will clean the entire area of these things."
Is the boll weevil doomed?
Information minister: (sneering) "Of course not. In fact, after we butcher your entire cotton crop, we plan to come to your homes and destroy completely the cotton dresses of your women and feast on your drapes, bed sheets and pillowcases. After that, we will consume your jeans and overalls and the caps adorned with the names of your input providers. You cannot hide from our herbaceous hordes. Your cries and lamentations will be very, very pleasing."
Another important key to the program are the aerial applicators. Can you talk about the knot these guys put on your head?
Information minister: (triumphantly) "We have regained air superiority. In martyrdom operations this morning, 50 squadrons of boll weevils forced over 100 crop dusters to the ground. After we bathed in the malathion of the tanks, we devoured the clothes of the pilots. We did not have to torture the prisoners in order to acquire the GPS coordinates of the eradication program committee. Can you say — regime change."
Another important component of weevil eradication is malathion. Does it strike fear in the heart of every weevil?
Information minister: (incredulous) "Your weapon of mass destruction has not wiped us out by the millions, leaving only few pockets of resistance. But collateral damage has orphaned zillions of innocent Monarch butterflies. I have a video of this I will show tomorrow at 20 minutes past 12."
Any last words?
Information minister: "Tell the farmers who pay for this war that we are not shocked and we are not awed. We will fight until they are vanquished. I say thank you for the malathion. I rub my nose in it. See. I feel great. I am not finished. I will be back to talk to you tomorrow. You can count on it. The infidels are doomed. A plague upon your spindly picking fingers. May the fleas … (cough, cough) uh, arrgghh … %$*#@."
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - College Football Performance Awards (CFPA) named Yale sophomore Tyler Varga its "2012 Elite All-Purpose Performer" this week, adding to Bulldog running back's list of honors.
Varga, who led the nation in all-purpose yards (194 average), already earned second-team All-America status, first-team All-Ivy League and All-New England honors and was named the Bulldogs' team MVP.
He did all this despite missing two games. He went over 100 rushing yards in five of his eight games and averaged 116.9 per game (13th in FCS) and 5.5 per carry for the season with 935 total yards. A standout kickoff return man, he averaged 23.6 including a 63-yarder.
Truly an all-purpose player, Varga played quarterback when needed and even started the Columbia game behind center while rushing for 220 yards.
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The goal of the College Football Performance Awards (CFPA) is to provide the
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As a result of leading the NCAA D-I Football Championship Subdivision in all-purpose yards per game in 2012, your performance satisfies the strict criteria CFPA established for annual recognition.
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We live blogged the U.S. stock market\'s action Monday. You can read a wrap of pre-market actions here and after the open, a compact rundown of the stock market in Market Snapshot.
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- 9:33 am
- Red Monday
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Happy Monday morning. Stocks are barely red as we kick off a week full of data:
DJIA: down 14 at 16,933
S&P: down 1 at 1,962
Nasdaq: down a tad at 4,367
- 9:38 am
- Economic data
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Here's a brief rundown of what's on the docket for readings on the economy this week. Remember that Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen re-commited to low-rate policies last week, shrugging off a recent rise in inflation. Will the markets pick a fight with the Fed on the trajectory of the economy? It may depend on the readings we get this week:
Monday: Markit flash PMI (9:45 a.m. Eastern); Existing home sales (10 a.m.)
Tuesday: Case-Shiller home prices; consumer confidence; new home sales
Wednesday: Q1 GDP revision; durable good orders
Thursday: personal income (including PCE, the Fed's preferred measure of inflation); consumer spending; jobless claims
Friday: Consumer sentiment
- 9:43 am
- Early movers
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Here are some of the early movers:
FMC Corp. /quotes/zigman/226750/delayed /quotes/nls/fmc FMC is one of the worst performers on the S&P, down 3.3%. The chemical company lowered its second-quarter and full-year earnings guidance on Monday.
Integrys Energy Croup Inc. /quotes/zigman/438281/delayed /quotes/nls/teg TEG is up 15% after a buyout by Wisconsin Energy Corp. /quotes/zigman/246692/delayed /quotes/nls/wec WEC .
Central Garden & Pet Co. /quotes/zigman/69613/delayed /quotes/nls/cent CENT is up 11% on a buyout by Philip Falcone's Harbinger Group Inc.
- 9:50 am
- Markit PMI
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Stocks are still in the red after a reading of Markit's flash PMI for June, which came in at the highest reading in over four years. The manufacturing indicator rose to 57.5 in June from 56.4 in May.
Next up: existing home sales.
- 9:55 am
- Merger Monday madness
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Merger Monday never looked so bright, with Oracle Corp. /quotes/zigman/19452757/delayed /quotes/nls/orcl ORCL , Wisconsin Energy Corp. /quotes/zigman/246692/delayed /quotes/nls/wec WEC , Harbinger Group Inc. /quotes/zigman/579781/delayed /quotes/nls/hrg HRG , and General Electric Co. /quotes/zigman/227468/delayed /quotes/nls/ge GE all either completing, or talking about completing, deals.
This quarter is already the largest quarter for M&A since those heady days during the fourth quarter of 2007, reports MarketWatch's Victor Reklaitis, citing Dealogic data from Friday. With M&A back, what does that mean for the bull market? He says two camps of dueling arguments are emerging, both of which take away different indicators from the M&A boom about whether stocks can rise further. Read more here.
- 10:06 am
- Stocks rebound
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Some strong existing-home sales numbers has turned stocks mostly higher. Here's where we are after the data.
The Dow is down 11 points at 16,937
S&P: up 1 point at 1,964
Nasdaq: up 2 at 4,370
From MarketWatch's Ruth Mantell:
"Rising for a second month, sales of existing homes grew 4.9% in May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.89 million, the National Association of Realtors reported Monday. A strengthening labor market, expanding inventories and recent drops in mortgage rates are supporting sales, said Lawrence Yun, NAR's chief economist."
- 10:16 am
- Mobius on markets
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MarketWatch's Sara Sjolin caught up with Mark Mobius on the sidelines of a conference in Monaco. The emerging markets specialist sounded pretty bullish, recommending Nigeria and Russia as his big bets. Some background on the executive chairman of Templeton Emerging Markets Group:
"Hosting a Sunday dinner at the exclusive Fairmont Hotel in Monte Carlo, the 77-year-old emerging-markets guru provided insight into his latest observations on the ever-changing environment for emerging markets. After more than 40 years in the game, he still gets excited about new developments in developing countries. But researching from a far is not a great option — many of the "next big thing" companies are unknown, so it takes lots of on-site digging to identity the most inspiring opportunities, he said."
Mark Mobius is not worried about market volatility – a correction is always due, but no need to worry before a 30%… https://t.co/KouhjaKrFp
— Ben Eisen (@BenEisen) June 23, 2014
- 10:21 am
- S&P flattish
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About 50 minutes into today's session, the S&P 500 is essentially showing no change after switching between small gains and losses.
Dow -0.1%
Nasdaq +0.01%
Russell 2000 +0.05%
- 10:26 am
- Reader reaction to M&A
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MarketWatch readers are reacting to that M&A story mentioned in the post here at 9:55 a.m. Eastern.
One reader writes the following about corporate weddings in an email to MW:
"All I know is that the mergers I have actually been a part of meant a lot less jobs. Much of the merging and acquisitions with others is to cut costs and to get innovation and technology that is further along and can often add to the bottomline. I do not like this trend."
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- 10:42 am
- Frederick: Markets ripe for a pullback
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Randy Frederick, managing director of trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab says markets are ripe for a pullback.
"Markets are overbought and are ready for a 3-4% pullback. Last week the S&P 500 hit record levels three times had 6 up days in a row, while the Vix is at extremely low levels.
The picture was too rosy and when there is a lot of complacency, markets tend to flip."
- 10:43 am
- Tesla tacks on 3%
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Tesla /quotes/zigman/118681/delayed /quotes/nls/tsla TSLA was the biggest winner in the Nasdaq 100 last week, with its 10% jump.
It's leading the way for that index again today — last up 3%.
Is Tesla the most important car company in the world? Morgan Stanley thinks so.
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- 11:02 am
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A big merger not supporting stocks. Steve Potisk reports on a big tech merger and some Wall Street weakness.
- 11:42 am
- TIAA-CREF: Correction possible
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TIAA-CREF analysts believe believe a correction of up to 5%-10% is still possible once the S&P 500 breaches the 1,970 level.
"The odds of such a correction appear to have diminished, however, in light of very strong internal market dynamics. Rather than a correction, we could see the index mark time at these levels, perhaps with some rotations similar to those experienced in April and May. Regardless of short-term gyrations, we still see the S&P 500 exceeding 2,000 by year-end."
- 11:45 am
- Browning: Inflation Debate Reignites on Wall Street
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For years, critics have warned that the Federal Reserve's easy-money policies would produce massive inflation. So far, they have been wrong. E.S. Browning joins MoneyBeat.
- 11:50 am
- FX update
- by Saumya Vaishampayan
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The Australian dollar gained against the U.S. dollar Monday, getting a boost from data showing that China's manufacturing sector has jumped back into expansion territory for the first time this year. The Aussie tends to react to Chinese data because China is a major trading partner for Australia.
The Reserve Bank of Australia, however, has said the Aussie is "high by historical standards," so further positive data from China are likely to be weighed with comments from central bankers.
"Moving forward, dovish rhetoric out of RBA authorities may be one of the biggest fundamental risks for the Aussie," Matthew Weller, senior technical analyst at Forex.com, wrote in a note.
- 12:12 pm
- Market update
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Stocks are trading lower, but only slightly. On the benchmark index, industrials and consumer staples are leading losses. Energy and tech stocks are in positive territory.
S&P 500 /quotes/zigman/3870025/realtime SPX -2 points
Dow /quotes/zigman/627449/realtime DJIA -32 points
Nasdaq /quotes/zigman/12633936/realtime COMP -4 points
- 12:32 pm
- Founder Chip Wilson eyes more control over Lululemon
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Shares of Lululemon Athletica climbed 3.5% on Monday as founder Dennis "Chip" Wilson moved to take greater control of the yoga-apparel company.
Wilson, who had stepped down last month as chairman, is working with Goldman Sachs bankers to revamp the board and may even consider a buyout of the company, The Wall Street Journal reported. Wilson owns a 28% stake in Lululemon.
- 12:46 pm
- Japanese automakers annouce massive recall
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Misery loves company and it appears U.S. automakers aren't the only ones grappling with massive recalls.
Japanese automakers–Honda Motor Co. /quotes/zigman/193651/realtime JP:7267 /quotes/zigman/193599/delayed /quotes/nls/hmc HMC , Nissan Motor Corp. /quotes/zigman/202910/delayed /quotes/nls/nsany NSANY , and Mazda Motor Corp. /quotes/zigman/195040/realtime JP:7261 are recalling a combined 3 million vehicles due to faulty air bags, The Wall Street Journal said.
Toyota /quotes/zigman/199376/delayed /quotes/nls/tm TM earlier this month had announced it is recalling 2.2 million vehicles due to the same air bag problem.
- 12:55 pm
- Intergrys top S&P 500 gainers
- by Sue Chang
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Integrys Energy /quotes/zigman/438281/delayed /quotes/nls/teg TEG jumped more than 10% to lead the S&P gainers while FMC Corp. /quotes/zigman/226750/delayed /quotes/nls/fmc FMC dropped almost 4%, one of the worst performers in the large cap index.
See MarketWatch's Movers & Shakers for a summary of stocks in action on Monday.
- 1:06 pm
- Current bull market has below-average number of highs
- by Wallace Witkowski
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For those investors worried that the end of the bull market is nigh, S&P Capital's Sam Stovall points out that this bull market has had a below-average number of new highs, suggesting it may have some gas left in the tank.
Stovall notes:
So far, this bull market has lasted 63 months. It recorded its first all-time high on 3/28/13, or 49 months after the bull market began. Through June 20, 2014, this bull market recorded 67 all-time highs, representing 5% of all trading days. This percentage is slightly more than the average of 4% for cyclical bulls, but substantially less than the average of 9% for secular bulls, and below the average of 7% for all bull markets. Finally, this bull market's percentage of all-time highs is tied with the bull of 1970-73 for 6th place. So history would suggest, but not guarantee, that this bull market has many more new highs ahead of it before finally running out of steam.
- 1:26 pm
- How an improving economy could hurt stocks
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Smead Capital's Bill Smead says economic growth could lead to the end of the market's bullish run.
- 1:40 pm
- Lack of movers as S&P 500 stumbles along
- by Wallace Witkowski
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How flat is Monday's market? Pretty flat when you consider that less than 20 stocks on the S&P 500 are trading 2% from their close on Friday.
With the S&P 500 Index /quotes/zigman/3870025/realtime SPX down 0.2% just below 1,960, 8 companies saw their stocks trading off by 2% or more in recent activity. Those included FMC Corp. /quotes/zigman/226750/delayed /quotes/nls/fmc FMC , Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. /quotes/zigman/77392/delayed /quotes/nls/regn REGN , Wisconsin Energy Corp. /quotes/zigman/246692/delayed /quotes/nls/wec WEC , Joy Global Inc. /quotes/zigman/7601800/delayed /quotes/nls/joy JOY , Alexion Pharmaceuticals /quotes/zigman/59581/delayed /quotes/nls/alxn ALXN , Carmax Inc. /quotes/zigman/311076/delayed /quotes/nls/kmx KMX , Amgen Inc. /quotes/zigman/19815/delayed /quotes/nls/amgn AMGN , and Lorillard Inc. /quotes/zigman/511272/delayed /quotes/nls/lo LO
On the other hand, 10 companies were seeing their stock gaining 2% or more on the day: Integrys Energy Group Inc. /quotes/zigman/438281/delayed /quotes/nls/teg TEG , PetSmart Inc. /quotes/zigman/54520/delayed /quotes/nls/petm PETM , Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. /quotes/zigman/79675/delayed /quotes/nls/vrtx VRTX , Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold /quotes/zigman/154700/delayed /quotes/nls/fcx FCX , Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. /quotes/zigman/86035/delayed /quotes/nls/ndaq NDAQ , Actavis PLC /quotes/zigman/22587972/delayed /quotes/nls/act ACT , Eaton Corp. /quotes/zigman/13017293/delayed /quotes/nls/etn ETN , Forest Laboratories Inc. /quotes/zigman/226825/delayed /quotes/nls/frx FRX , Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. /quotes/zigman/68991/delayed /quotes/nls/bbby BBBY , and First Solar Inc. /quotes/zigman/102025/delayed /quotes/nls/fslr FSLR
- 1:58 pm
- After Hours: Earnings from Micron, Sonic
- by Wallace Witkowski
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There are still a few companies reporting quarterly earnings after hours on Monday.
Micron Technology Inc. /quotes/zigman/75433/delayed /quotes/nls/mu MU is expected to report fiscal third-quarter earnings of 69 cents a share on revenue of $3.9 billion, according to analysts surveyed by FactSet.
Sonic Corp. /quotes/zigman/78022/delayed /quotes/nls/sonc SONC is forecast to post fiscal third-quarter earnings of 29 cents a share on revenue of $149.1 million.
- 2:09 pm
- Nike earnings in focus
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Nike Inc reports earnings results on Thursday.
Andria Cheng has a preview of what to expect: Nike earnings: World Cup spending to be in focus
As soccer fans around the world remain glued to their TV sets watching the FIFA World Cup, investors are keeping an eye on what Nike Inc. is doing in host country Brazil. The sportswear and equipment maker, which only entered the soccer business in 1994, is pushing aggressively to unseat soccer leader Adidas.
- 2:50 pm
- May's existing home sales show improvement
- by Anora Mahmudova
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That almost five percent jump in existing home sales last month brought relief to analysts worried about whether it was more than just winter freezing home sales last quarter.
- 3:12 pm
- Metals update
- by Saumya Vaishampayan
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Gold futures notched their fourth straight win on Monday, adding $1.80 to settle at $1,318.40 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Geopolitical and technical factors combined last week to push gold futures above $1,300. But that could easily reverse, especially as summer tends to be a season of weak physical demand for gold, says Howard Wen, a commodities analyst at HSBC.
"These gains tend to be fast moving and you can…have prices break below $1,300 again as easily as it broke above it," said Wen. HSBC has a year-end target of $1,292 an ounce for gold.
- 3:33 pm
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Fun facts via S&P/Capital IQ: US bull market is in its 63rd month. In that time, $SPX has seen 67 all-time highs, or 5% of all trading days
— Darcy Keith (@eyeonequities) June 23, 2014
- 3:41 pm
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"Many low trading range days came during bullish periods of the market" via @jkrinskypga, MKM Partners pic.twitter.com/Un1GFZbV0B
— Anora Mahmudova (@AnoraJourno) June 23, 2014
- 3:57 pm
- Winning streaks ending?
- by Victor Reklaitis
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With less than 5 minutes until the closing bell, it looks like the S&P 500 and Dow will snap their six-session winning streaks.
The Nasdaq fell on Thursday, so it doesn't have that type of win streak that's at risk.
Dow -0.07%
Nasdaq +0.01%
- 3:59 pm
- Tesla, Integrys pop
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Tesla /quotes/zigman/118681/delayed /quotes/nls/tsla TSLA is set to be the best performer in the Nasdaq 100 with a 3% gain, while takeover target Integrys Energy /quotes/zigman/438281/delayed /quotes/nls/teg TEG is set to end up 12% to lead the S&P 500.
The main indexes didn't change much, but there were some big moves among individual names.
- 4:02 pm
- The close!
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Here's how we ended, according to preliminary FactSet data…
Executive summary: Stocks were flat
More detailed:
S&P 500 -0.01% or -0.29 point
Dow -0.06% or -9.95 point
Nasdaq +0.01% or +0.64 point
Russell 2000 -0.3% or -3.49 point
- 4:09 pm
- That's all, folks
- by Victor Reklaitis
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That's a wrap for today's live blog. Thanks for checking it out.
If you're switching from watching the markets to watching the World Cup (as two games just kicked off at 4 p.m. Eastern), you might enjoy a blog post from MarketWatch's Silvia Ascarelli.
After the heartbreak of the last-second goal by Portugal, here's some good news for U.S. fans: The odds are still high that the U.S. soccer team will advance.
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4 Reasons Conservatives Hate Public Transit
Written by Jason Mark
Once upon a time — in a political environment that seems otherwordly compared to what we have in the United States today — the federal transportation bill was a bi-partisan endeavor. Now things are different. Congress went into spring recess last week and once again left hanging a reauthorization of the transportation bill, which expired two and a half years ago. Congress was just barely able to approve a temporary, 90-day extension of the lapsed law so that current infrastructure projects can keep moving along.
Why the impasse on something that usually wins consensus? It comes down, in part, to a disagreement over how (or even whether) the federal government should fund mass transit programs.
The transportation bill moving through the House eliminates the provision that dedicates to mass transit 20 percent of monies from the gas-tax supported Highway Trust Fund — an arrangement that has been in place since Ronald Reagan was president. It also slashes support for high-speed rail projects, cuts subsidies to Amtrak, and eliminates designated funding for bike and pedestrian infrastructure as well as the "Safe Routes to School" program. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (a former Republican Congressman) called the House measure "the worst transportation bill I've ever seen during 35 years of public service."
Compare that with the Senate version, which passed with overwhelming bi-partisan support (74-22). The Senate's two-year bill, crafted by odd bedfellows Barbara Boxer and Jim Inhofe, would largely maintain the status quo. The easiest thing would be for the House to take up the Senate version, pass it with bi-partisan numbers, and send the law to the president.
But that would rankle Speaker John Boehner's hard-right base. Here's how Congressman Peter DeFazio, a Democrat from Oregon, summed up the situation:
"[The House leadership's] problem is they have about 80 or 90 people who want to kill off the federal transportation program in their caucus. Then they're hamstrung because they've got 20 or 25 [who] are still rational and say, 'Hey, if you're going to kill off transit funding, we won't vote for the bill.' So if they do what the flat earth people want, then they lose the moderates, and if they do what the moderates want they lose the flat earth people."
This legislative train wreck (sorry for the pun) raises a question that's been nagging me for a while: Why exactly are conservative representatives so antagonistic to public transit?
Here a couple of thoughts.
It's an urban-rural thing.
Republicans overwhelming come from rural areas. Democrats usually represent cities. (Leaving the two parties to battle it out for the swing votes in the suburbs.) Transport Politic writer Yonah Freemark sums it up: "Republicans in the House of Representatives know that very few of their constituents would benefit directly from increased spending on transit, for instance, so they propose gutting the nation's commitment to new public transportation lines when they enter office. Starting two years ago, Democrats pushed the opposite agenda, devoting billions to urban-level projects that would have been impossible under the Bush Administration."
I don't know that there's anything wrong with this. Representatives are elected to serve their constituents as well as the national interest. If their constituents live in areas with low population densities that wouldn't be well served by buses or bike lanes, then it makes sense to prioritize spending on roads. One basic reason Republicans are against making investments in mass transit is that those projects don't meet the needs of the people who elected them. Not surprisingly, Congressman DeFazio's whip count of GOP supporters of the Senate legislation mostly includes Republicans who represent suburban areas that benefit from mass transit.
It's a trade union thing.
The transportation bill has been popular in the past because it's a surefire way of creating jobs. There's just one hitch — when it comes to mass transit, many of those jobs are unionized. And of course Republicans don't like unions.
In an editorial last year, the conservative Investor's Business Daily slammed the Obama administration's high speed rail plan as just a payoff for its union backers — and therefore something to oppose. "So who could possibly benefit from such a boondoggle? Unions, along with the politicians they vote for — in this case Obama and California Democrats, who'll be able to trade construction jobs and other union sop for votes."
Republican opposition to mass transit, then, is just old-fashioned power politics: The friend of my enemy is my enemy. I can't say this is as innocent as the rural-urban constituent divide. Not when high speed rail investment is so clearly in the nation's interest — a way to boost the economy, decrease our reliance on oil imports, and keep America competitive in the twenty-first century.
It's all about government-bashing.
Government is good-for-nothing. That foundation of libertarian thinking has become conventional wisdom on the right. If the government does it, the dogma goes, then it must be bad. (The only exception being the maintenance of a massive military.) The folks at the Cato Institute, for example, don't think the federal government should be involved in funding road projects and argue that "transportation markets need to be liberated from government control."
One reason that conservatives fear mass transit programs specifically — and federal funding for road projects more broadly — is that such infrastructure projects prove that government works.
No individual can repair a bridge. No family can build a railroad. Public works projects require, well, the public. Most everyone understands this. Good roads, safe bridges, and convenient transit networks are something that people expect the government will provide. A survey by Republican pollster Frank Luntz found that 84 percent of Americans would pay 1 percent more on their taxes if the funds were targeted for infrastructure.
There's a strong tradition of Republican leaders pushing ambitious infrastructure projects. The Interstate Highway System was build by President Eisenhower. The Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge were both initiated by President Hoover. Many Republicans today retreat from such grand public works projects if for no other reason that they prove that government is good for something.
It's all about undercutting the very idea of the public good.
If you want a peek into the conservative id to understand Republicans' fears of mass transit, just check out this piece written last year by Washington Post columnist George Will bashing high-speed rail projects:
"Forever seeking Archimedean levers for prying the world in directions they prefer, progressives say they embrace high-speed rail for many reasons—to improve the climate, increase competitiveness, enhance national security, reduce congestion, and rationalize land use. The length of the list of reasons, and the flimsiness of each, points to this conclusion: the real reason for progressives' passion for trains is their goal of diminishing Americans' individualism in order to make them more amenable to collectivism.
"To progressives, the best thing about railroads is that people riding them are not in automobiles, which are subversive of the deference on which progressivism depends. Automobiles go hither and yon, wherever and whenever the driver desires, without timetables. Automobiles encourage people to think they—unsupervised, untutored, and unscripted—are masters of their fates. The automobile encourages people in delusions of adequacy, which make them resistant to government by experts who know what choices people should make.
"Time was, the progressive cry was 'Workers of the world unite!' or 'Power to the people!' Now it is less resonant: 'All aboard!'"
Most of this is absurd. Progressivism isn't the same as collectivism, and I don't know anyone on the liberal-left who is determined to undercut people's sense of "adequacy."
But Will is, in a way, right: The car encourages people to develop an overinflated sense of autonomy while mass transit illustrates how we are all, in fact, connected to and reliant on each other.
Driving down the open road is the most American expression of freedom. Wrapped in your own little steel carapace, blasting your music, pushing past the speed limit, you can feel like the master of your universe. The delusion of grandeur (to turn Will's phrase on its head) is perfect. Unless you remember that the road you're driving on was built and paid for with taxes. Or until you hit the inevitable traffic jam. (Notice how car commercials always show the new car model on empty streets — a fantasy if there ever was one.)
Riding the train, the subway or the bus is, of course, an entirely different experience. First of all, you have to share space: you can't blast your music and sing along. You have to — yes, gasp — show deference (Will's word) to other people. Maybe that's annoying. But it's also the basis of civilization, learning to get along with other people.
This doesn't "diminish individualism." But public transit does show the power — the necessity, even — of individuals working together. Mass transit requires many people working together to make it work. The rubbing of elbows and the sharing of seats proves that we're all connected. Public transit, you could say, is human ecology at its best.
Public transit shows that we're all in this together. And for many Republicans — who seem bent on taking us back to a Hobbesian war-of-all-against-all — that's reason enough to oppose it.
This post was originally published by the Earth Island Journal.
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Passionate about their profession, but unnerved and angered by expectations they consider unrealistic. At the mercy of administrators they dont trust, students who wont try and parents who just dont care. New national survey reveals solid support for unions and little appetite for tenure reform-but some openness to merit pay and alternative teacher certification.
New York -- Feeling they have become scapegoats for all the problems facing education (76%) and sensing little support from administrators or parents, Americas teachers see unions and tenure as necessary protectors against school system politics and unfounded accusations by parents and students. Even so, 78% say their school has at least a few teachers who are simply going through the motions, and just 14% say it is easy to remove incompetent teachers.
In a new survey by Public Agenda, a nonpartisan, nonprofit opinion research organization, public school teachers say they love their work and are confident in their ability to reach and teach mostbut not allstudents. But a majority (59%) feels that they are unfairly being held accountable for raising student achievement when so much that affects learning is beyond their control.
Stand by Me: What Teachers Really Think about Unions, Merit Pay and Other Professional Matters is one of the most comprehensive examinations to date of American teachers views on unions, tenure, pay-for-performance, alternative certification and other issues. Public Agendas research consistently finds teachers to be strong supporters of standards, and teachers acknowledge that not all of their colleagues perform at acceptable levels. But a sense of vulnerability, along with fears of politics and favoritism, make them loyal to the tenure system, loyal to their unions and highly skeptical about pay tied to student test scores.
According to Public Agenda President Deborah Wadsworth, Teachers come to the table with an acute sense that few understand the challenges they face and that many outside the classroom underestimate what is needed to improve student learning. For those advocating changes in the teaching profession, Stand by Me gives voice to the deep commitment that teachers feel to their students and to their profession, but also to their feelings of vulnerability and mistrust.
How Do You Measure Success?
Teachers voice strong support for high academic standards and 87% say students should pass a standardized test to be promoted.
But they are clearly grappling with the pros and cons of current testing policies. Most (53%) say that standardized tests are seriously flawed, and 1 in 6 would abandon testing completely. Just 18% say tests are meaningful and their district uses them well. But in the end, most agree that schools need at least some kind of standardized assessment.
Teachers worry about how tests are currently being used. A St. Louis teacher complained, well have students who will come into the high school with an inability to read-they cant add or subtract-and were supposed to perform miracles.
Its just not possible, according to the teachers in the study to single-handedly overcome all of the hurdles that invariably seep into their classroom. Only 11% of teachers are very confident that their hardest-to-reach students will be successful by the end of the year.
Open to Some Forms of Merit Pay
A majority of teachers say administrators need a lot (39%) or a little (17%) more freedom to reward outstanding teachers. And strong majorities endorse paying some teachers more than others in certain circumstances. 70%, for example, support financial incentives for teachers in tough neighborhoods with low-performing schools.
Two in three teachers (67%) believe that teachers who consistently work harder, putting in more time and effort should be paid more. 57% support financial incentives for teachers accredited by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
But tying teacher pay to test scores or other achievement measures finds little favor. Only 38% of teachers favor merit pay for teachers whose students routinely score higher than similar students on standardized tests. Proposals tying pay to student improvement or to a combination of factors such as reading levels, teacher evaluations and classroom tests find teachers about evenly split.
Despite their openness to some forms of merit pay, many teachers worry about unintended consequences. By a 63% to 22% margin, they believe that merit pay would foster unhealthy competition and jealousy rather than motivate teachers. And 52% say that merit pay would mean principals would play favorites rather than reward good teachers (23%). Less than half (42%) favor paying more to teachers with harder-to-find skills such as science or math expertise.
Teachers to Unions: Be There for Me
Teachers support-but are hardly exuberant about-their unions. Just 19% say the national union almost always reflects their values and preferences. But most teachers believe their lives would be far worse if the unions werent there to protect them. Fully 81% believe that working conditions and salaries would be much worse without collective bargaining.
Teachers say they need their unions to protect them against capricious administrators and out-of-the-blue accusations by students or parents. 81% say that without their union teachers would be vulnerable to school politics or administrators who abuse their power. 77% say that without their union teachers facing unfair charges from parents or students would have nowhere to turn. As one suburban teacher observed, We live in a world [where] all they have to do is whisper that we hit them, and were gone.
Teachers acknowledge that getting tenure is neither a long nor difficult process; 73% work in districts that make tenure available after 3 or 4 years. Most teachers (58%) say that when teachers gain tenure in their district, it is no guarantee that they have worked hard and proved themselves.
Teachers also recognize that tenure sometimes protects the incompetent. Nearly 8 in 10 say there are at least a few teachers in their building who fail to do a good job. And over a third (36%) say that it is too hard for administrators to remove any but the very worst.
But again, vulnerability and fear of politics and cost-cutting seem to outweigh inclination toward change. Almost 6 in 10 (58%) say tenure protects teachers from district politics, favoritism and the threat of losing their jobs to newcomers who could work for less. Only 23% think that good teachers dont have to worry about tenure. And only 23% say sometimes everyone would be better off if the union stepped aside and let the administration fire incompetent teachers.
Teachers are divided on their willingness to trade the benefits of tenure for higher pay. Among those who have tenure, 28% would trade it for a $5K pay hike, and the same number would consider it if the increase were a lot higher. Just over a third (34%) would rather hold on to tenure.
New Paths to Teaching
Teachers are somewhat open to the idea of alternative certification. 50% think its a good idea, compared to 32% who say there should be only one recognized way to become a teacher. Of those who know colleagues who have pursued an alternative path into the profession, 65% say these colleagues are good or excellent teachers.
But most teachers reject the notion that anyone can walk into a classroom and teach. Nearly 6 in 10 (59%) say it is absolutely essential for those who enter teaching from other professions or other routes to go through training that mirrors the traditional certification process. A Texas teacher said, I can tell you for a fact, walking into that classroom, I dont care how much college you havewalking in there and looking at those smiling facesTo me its insulting to hear people in the business world say, I can always teach.They may understand how to work a computerbut do you understand how to get under a kid?
Different Circumstances/Different Views
Stand by Me found that teachers with different experiences often hold differing views:
Stand by Me was funded by The Broad Foundation, the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Sidney J. Weinberg, Jr. Foundation.
Stand by Me is based on a national random sample mail survey of 1,345 K-12 public school teachers conducted in Spring 2003. The margin of error is plus or minus three percentage points. The survey was preceded by six focus groups conducted in sites across the country as well as 20 in-depth interviews with experts in the field.
The study was written by Public Agenda Senior Vice Presidents Steve Farkas, Jean Johnson and Ann Duffett, with the assistance of staff members Leslie Moye and Jackie Vine. Full copies of this and all Public Agenda education reports since 1998 are available free of charge in PDF format at www.publicagenda.org. You can order a printed version for $10 plus $2 shipping and handling by calling Public Agenda at (212) 686-6610. Quantity discounts are available.
Public Agenda is a nonprofit organization dedicated to nonpartisan public policy research. Founded in 1975 by former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Daniel Yankelovich, the social scientist and author, Public Agenda is well respected for its influential public opinion surveys and balanced citizen education materials. Its mission is to inject the public's voice into crucial policy debates. Public Agenda seeks to inform leaders about the public's views and to engage citizens in discussing complex policy issues.


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One of the downsides–admittedly a fairly minor one–to living in such a heavily populated country as the U.S. is that it takes the Social Security Administration five months to tally up the year's baby name stats, while some states and other countries put out their results even before the New Year's Eve ball drops on Times Square.
The full UK report will be arriving any day now, but in the interim, there's a survey of 380,000 babies born in Britain in 2008 that can give us some strong clues. For girls, the Top 5 names are Olivia, Ruby, Grace, Emily, and Jessica, with a noteworthy number of nickname names further down–Evie, Katie, Ellie, Millie, Gracie, Rosie, Abbie and Tilly. Names hot over there that haven't taken off to the same degree here: Freya, Poppy, Imogen, Niamh and Maisie. And those rising fastest? Isla, Summer and Ava.
For British boys, Jack is #1, as it has been for 14 years, followed by Oliver, Harry, Alfie and Charlie. Royal names–such as George, William and James–continue to rule, and nickname names, in addition to Alfie and Charlie, are popular with this gender too, as in Archie, Jamie, Freddie, Joe and Billy. The boys' names heard more there than here: Lewis, Harvey and Kian. Theo was the fastest climber of the boys.
Scotland has released its official list, with Sophie, Emily, Olivia, Chloe and Emma, and Jack, Lewis, Daniel, Liam and James in the lead. Some traditional Scottish favorites continued to hold their own, including Isla, Logan, Cameron, Gregor, Kyle, Finlay , Ewan and Angus. To go somewhat farther afield, in New South Wales, the most populous part of Australia, the Top 5 for girls were Mia, Chloe, Isabella, Emily and Olivia; for boys it was Jack (fifth year in a row), William, Lachlan, Joshua and Cooper, while the starbaby influence was felt in the presence of names like Shiloh, Suri, Sunday, Honour (as it's spelled there), and even Bronx. In Japan, the top girls' names were Aoi, Yui and Rin; for boys Hiroto, Ren and Yuto.
One US state that has weighed in early is Arizona, where the top names were Anthony and Isabella. Several Hispanic names appeared on the boys' list: Angel at #2, and Jose, Jesus and Luis in the Top 20. The registrar of Oakland County, Michigan, which includes several Detroit suburbs, is obviously a name buff. Among the groupings she noted in her area: Harmony and Melody; Hope, Faith, Charity and Unity; London, Paris, Phoenix, Aspen, Georgia, Austin, Savannah and Brooklyn; Zinnia, Rose, Lily, Ivy and Violet, and a contingent of ancients: Julius, Marcus, Cassius, Leonidas, Athena and Adonis.
We'll keep you posted as more results come in.