More rate hikes might be upon us. David, the selloff in treasuries continues an asian markets are taking its cue, singapore the most correlated market to u. S. Treasuries. When we will get there and maybe 4 is the new three so lets get to first word news with all allen in sydney aaron. Paul leaving with an immediate effect into inappropriate behavior. An external inquiry found that there was inconsistent product conduct with the companys code of conduct. Controlled isreal being overwhelmed by casualties of a Bombing Campaign by progovernment forces. Hundreds of people have been killed in recent days and almost half a million are being forced to live rough in makeshift shelters. One hospital says they have 17 beds for 80 items. Russia has overtaken china as the fifth largest sovereign holder of gold. The central bank raised its. Oldings to 1857 tons russia has increased its holdings every month since march 2015 while china left reported buying gold in october 2016. The u. S. Remains the
Across the curve in the u. S. We also have some powerful services in europe, bunds one of the biggest underperformers, yields higher. We also have jpmorgan and we are getting some headlines that i wanted to highlight, net to 55t income of 54 billion. They are also targeting, if you take a look at the pretax income compared with 40 in the last year. David it looks pretty good. And that return on tangible capital, we are all projecting broad numbers. Alix and we see them benefit from tax reform. David and in the meantime, discover communications came out with their earnings, 636thquarter adjusted is over the projected 612. , so it Beat Estimates looks like they are having it good day. Alix yes, indeed. They are also looking for some doj clearance and are looking for that information. David it is now time for the morning brief. Jpmorgans investor day begins with remarks from the ceo, no doubt about the things we just talked about. Also 8 00, macys will release earnings. And then we will g
Were happen to see that although there were modifications to the program that the tax credits did survive. So weve filed a part 1 and we have a conversation to have with nps. Great. Thank you. Any questions . Commissioner pearlman . Commissioner pearlman do you know the timing related to the orton project . I believe some of theirs will open late this year and others will trail into 2019. Oh, okay. Theyre in advance. Orton has one tenant in today in building 14. Later this month they will have west side of building 13. Later this spring, the east side of 113 occupied. And 104 occupied. So after the spring, what well be waiting for is for Restoration Hardware and anticipating late this year and early next year and then were in discussions with how to get 102 up and ready. Are they doing 20th street improvement snz that will be part of the port city project. Well take Public Comment. Does any member of the public wish to speak . If so, come forward. Seeing and hearing none, well close Pu
Reproductive health at georgetown millions of dollars to look at the efficacy of fertility beads for Family Planning purposes and there has been evidence now that those do work, they are efficacious and we can fund those as a tool to use to reach our goals in Family Planning. Obviously were going to have a whole lot of other tools. But that particular tool is acceptable by many religious groups opposed to the other tools. And so i think that is one positive story that we might look at replicating. Do we have other questions from the audience . Right here in the middle. Hi. My name is jana carp, im hear from the state department. And it has come up a couple of times in terms of the ebola crisis in west africa but i was wondering if you could speak more generally about the role that faithbased groups could play in pandemic preparedness and response and sort of Lessons Learned from ebola in the past year, two years. Other questions . Again, my name is rosemary, i just go back to the coope
President for research. He previously served heritage as Vice President for foreign and defense policy studies and director of our davis institute. Hes a Founding Editor of the annual index of economic freedom, which has become a signature heritage publication, from 2002 to 2005, he served in the george w. Bush administration as assistant secretary of state for International Organizations affairs. Please join me in welcoming dr. Kim holmes. Kim. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Its a pleasure to welcome all of you here and to welcome our distinguished guests to talk about the refugee policy. We just recently were refurbishing this room, so youre one of the first guests to see how it turned out. The United States Refugee Admission Program has been, as all of you know, the subject of significant discussion and legal battles in the last year. Of course, some of these legal battles have ended up in the supreme court. Which well hear arguments this fall