Than 60 of soybean exports before this whole trade war began. Futurespy have rebounded from two years of losses. Trade tensions have appeared to thaw a bit. President trumps tweets earlier that he will sign phase one of the trade deal on january 15 may open the door for more american exports to china. Vonnie thank you. That is renita. Thanks for the entire markets team for the bridge throughout 2019. Our guest,us is eddy. And here with us in studio is bloombergs mike regan. We added 5. 9 trillion dollars in value to u. S. Stocks, to the s p 500 in fact. Hard to believe that number even exists. Mich there it is. One of the real Amazing Stories about this year is the everything rally, whether it be oil, gold, havens, treasuries. The treasury etf is up about 9 for the year. 15 for the year. The Bloomberg Barclays aggregate bond index is up 9 for a return for the year. It is rare to see a year like that were basically everything performs. I think part of it is the fact that we have this hi
Europe largely unchanged the 10year just below 3. 5 road map begins with the second half of the year kicking off in high gear, what to expect for the rest of 17. And north korea launches a missile with the capability of reaching alaska. This as President Trump heads to europe to meet with world leaders. What the growing geopolitical tensions may mean. Is the job of ceo not what it used to be many top executives departed in the first five months of the year than last the look at the changing face of the suite. Heading into the first full day of the trading half the dow off an intraday high, nasdaq looks to avoid a fourday losing streak, wall street awaits the release of the fed minutes at 2 00 p. M. Eastern and investors will be interested not only in comments in future rate hikes but perhaps the timing of the feds planned Balance Sheet reduction. Jim, welcome back first of all journal today suggests they may talk about some timing of Balance Sheet but might get indications of a decembe
And the ecb president mario draghi says low Interest Rates are not to blame for europes bank problem. Does deutsche disagree . We are less than half an hour away from the european open. Whether we expect futures to deliver for us today. We are very much risk on. We are expecting of pop and european equities to the tune of around 1 . Questions still to be answered. I will show you the contract table on oil. But what is happening with canada and australia. We saw them all flying overnight. The yen taking the brunt of this on the downside. Music to abes is im sure. Indepthe you a more look at what is happening. Has toldyellen lawmakers that the fed is looking into what she calls disturbing compliance failures at the biggest u. S. Bank. Ted leonsis review will investigate reaches including mortgage abuses. Yellen was responding to questions about the fake account scandal but would not confirm the fed is considering fed president Patrick Harker will give his first ever media interview here
The 2016 race. Let me be clear. I do not want nor will i accept the nomination for our party. Let me speak directly to the delegates on this. If no candidate has a majority on the first ballot. I believe you have should only choose from a person who has actually par is night primary. Count me out. Charles we are left wondering, could there be a ryan at convention or could someone else emerge. This as john kasich levels his attacks only in the against trump, but also ted cruz trying to disstance himself from both. Take a listen. Some will feed off the fears and anger held by some of us and exploited and feed their own insatiable desires for fame or attention. That could drive america down into a ditch and not make us great again. I say this path shal this pao darkness is the antithesis for all america has meant for 240 years. Charles another chaotic day in this race for the gop nomination. I want to go back to paul ryan. You spoke highly of him. Hes caught in an awkward place where a lo
Officers who are under the supervision of much more experienced officers. I think it is also worth noting we are talking about Foreign Service officers. These are people who have gone through a very rigorous, Competitive Program to be admitted to the service. Many are lawyers or have worked in Immigration Law or have been teachers. Many are former military. Rep. Duckworth by no means are these inexperienced people. They get about the same amount in terms of quantity of training as somebody we are sending into harms way. Im sure you are proud of our officers, and i thank them for their service. We must do everything in our power to protect our country, but we can do it without evolving into demagoguery and focusing on imaginary problems. I agree we must consider any and all options to improve our refugee process, but lets remember these refugees are fleeing the same terrorists we are fighting, isis and the a side regime. Turning our backs on people who are being persecuted and killed th