A senator are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer no, we are not. A senator thank you, madam president. I rise today because its my honor to introduce my colleague who actually needs no introduction but still for this speech today. Mr. Hoeven i have the pleasure to introduce kevin cramer who will be thriferring his delivering his official maiden speech to the senate. Ive known kevin for many years. Hes always been incredibly diligent worker for the people of north dakota. And he served our state in many different capacities. He served as tourism director and did a tremendous job promoting our state, promoting tourism, and really promoting the beauty and the history of our state in a way that brought a lot of National Attention and really made a difference in terms of tourism for our state. He also served our state as Economic Development director, something that is certainly near and dear to my heart. Ive always believed that job creations are job one. To me thats the engine th
55 is a fairly encouraging number for stocks. The Service Number does help sentiment. We are seeing a day of risk aversion to kick off this trading week. We had manufacturing gauge, for example on the weekend, 50 points. So its barely an expansion. You are looking in little bit of a shift from manufacturing to what is already a bigger portion of the economy. I just wanted to mention a few other macro themes today. We are also watching the geopolitical concerns on the weekend. That is driving up the value of the yen. On the yenyou more in just a moment. You are also looking at jgb yields. 10year, 57 basis points. You are watching money flow into safe haven at this point. I also want to mention we are waiting for inflation data that comes out of indonesia and thailand. Morning, another key thing to watch out, speaking of meetings inthe npc beijing. That is when the government comes out with growth targets and their plan on how to achieve their targets. Will it reach the 7. 5 . Yen, just