sara eisen great to have you with us let s get straight to the markets. extraordinary seesaw session yesterday. the dow up 300 points at one stage in the morning, around about midday lunch time, started selling off, such that the dow ended off 58 points or 0.25% those intraday swings were similar across each of the indices. the s&p ending lower the nasdaq ending down 1%. definitely the same theme throughout the day whether we were at the peaks or troughs that s the selling of things like tech and buying of things that could benefit from a lower corporate tax rate like financials this morning you can see a similar theme once again the dow is higher. the s&p is fractionally higher but the nasdaq is lower. the dow up 8 4 points. ten-year treasury note did rise over the weekend to cross above 2.4%, but slipped a bit yesterday. it is below that level still today, 2.38% on the ten-year. look at what s going on arou around the globe ahsia is mixed but mostly lower. the south korea
retail sector is still under pressure. pandora shares on the rise after activist investment firm calling for pandora to consider a sale. stocks poised to open lower following monday s rally. futures up 0.4 as gasoline, medical care and food prices up. april housing starts up 6.6. well above expectations on a 3.7% gain. economy doesn t look too bad this morning, jim. no. a lot of that increase in cpi is gasoline has come up. that s something that the market likes, which is the craziness of this market. remember we go to $48 for oil yesterday, and we have an explosion. all the stocks of the companies that do poorly when oil goes higher, but that s all right because oil is meant to be a barometer. we keep telling ourselves that. at a certain point it s not a barometer. at a certain point it s back to the inflation rate. but at the same time i don t see a lot of strength. i just see a lot of no volume, algorithmic moves in the stock market. yesterday was one of the worst ex
weak tln weakness there. you did see the dax is down by 0.8%. losses by more than 1% in germany. the cac is down by 1.3%. take a look at the benchmark, ten-year german bund, turning negative, 0.013%. that comes after pressure on treasuries around the globe yesterday. you saw the u.s. ten-year, yelled was at its lowest level for sometimes since 2012. that was 1.6%. this morning, even lower, 1.586%. when you check out the 30-year, 2.58%. and the nasdaq bass down. and shanghai composite managed to hold on to gains, hang seng was down by 0.6%. crude oil looking to decline. wti. and the brexit vote and the most recent polls, the latest yougov poll now giving the leave campaign a seven-point lead if you can believe this over remain. 11% undecided. 4% won t vote. other polls are also putting leave ahead now. two icm polls, one online, one by phone, finding outholding 4353% support. betting aulds on brexit are now narrowing a probability of a vote to stay in the eu fell to 59%. tha
spee2 let s start off by what is economic inequality. i think it s usually equated with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. inequality just means a gap. we can have a gap because some people are getting richer and others are getting poor and we can also get because people are getting richer at different rates. inequality can also rise or fall for different reasons. so one reason might be that some people are being really productive. you have a man and amazon employed thousands of people, creating tons tons of value by pioneering new invention. so he s going to get richer than me then say my wife was a teacher. she is i think a great teacher but she is only providing economic value to a few dozen people at a time. on the other hand, there are things that can increase inequality that are bad. that are unjust that take advantage of people. so bernie made off. he is going to steal money through fraud. so the reason i say inequality is not a problem as well were c
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