This year marks the first time in recorded history that a tropical storm has formed in both the east Pacific basin and Atlantic basin before the official start of hurricane season, the Hurricane Center said.

CNN: Tropical Storm Alberto forms in the Atlantic

For example, the payoffs of focusing our priority attention on the dynamic economies of the Pacific Basin and revitalizing economic development in our own hemisphere will likely be enormous in terms of U.S. employment, global economic growth, and enhanced Western security.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

In a paper that will be published soon in the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, he maintains that not only is past economic growth no guarantee of future stockmarket returns, but even future economic growth (could we but know it) is no guarantee of contemporaneous stockmarket returns except in the most transitory way.

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

Ms. DAVIS: The potential for continued fires throughout the Pacific Northwest, the Great Basin and up into the northern Rockies is very high for the next month.

NPR: Western United States Braces for More Wildfires

Union Pacific was no different but increased coal mining activity in Powder River Basin region situated in parts of Wyoming and Montana could reverse the slide in coal freight volumes for the company.

FORBES: Union Pacific's Coal Freight Business Chugs Ahead After Slowdown