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consumer sentiment came out as a good number. the number for may rose to the highest level in 2010 thanks to rosier outlook on economic conditions. confidence rose to 84.5, from 76.4 if the month of april. david: we're getting a whiff of this downturn because of another selloff in treasurys. yields rose, prices dropped. the 10-year treasury yield jumping two basis points to 2.14%. yields have been up as much as 7 basis points. it was the fifth straight week of losses for treasurys. liz: a reading of manufacturing activity in the chicago area jumped to the highest level since 2012. ch...
they want yield. they went searching for it on this down day. despite the selloff, four of the five highest yielding stocks in the s&p 500 at one point were higher today. you have windstream, pitney bowes, frontier communications. they all pay yields of more than 10%. frontier communications and centurylink pay over 6%. be careful of short interest on some of these names. people like the dividends. david: by the way a big day people are focusing on for overall economic trends of course friday when we get the march employment figures. we got sort of some bad wind what was happening pa...
you can guess. in spain, moody's downgraded. good housing numbers are. >> good housing numbers for sure. going back to spain for a second, the reason that the market did not lift off of that number is we still know there are problems there. they are just pushing the issue down the road. i am no conspiracy theorist, but it's hard to imagine that the wall street economist can get the number wrong by wall street deviations. if you look at the unadjusted number, they are down month-to-month. i encourage everybody to look underneath the headlines. this consolidation side of the s&p will l...