Hello, welcome back. Were going to get started on the rest of the event. So im very excited to introduce our next panel. Its all about the labor market. We have two great panelists. The first is were going to hear from katia peneva from the Federal Reserve board. Just to provide some context, thats the section thats responsible for preparing the forecast of inflation and wages and prices for the fomc. I have to admit that we were longtime colleagues and i want to assure any lawyers that are here that none of our conversation should be interpreted to constitute my making a request of katia, the Federal Reserve system or the fomc, so were clear. Our second panelist is jared bernstein, a senior fellow at the center on budget and policy priorities and hes been very active for many years thinking about the labor market, inequality and macro policy from his positions both within the Obama Administration and within various think tanks here in d. C. You can read more about his thoughts in his
Points that happened with markets closing at their session lows. Weakness across the board. A lot of different sectors under pressure financials, materials and Consumer Staples all down by more than 1 well see what happens this morning. Futures indicated up this morning. Overnight in asia, the nikkei ended down by about a quarter of a percentage point the hang seng up by. 1 and the shanghai composite was flat and in europe where theres active trading taking place theres green arrows across the board. The biggest gainer of the three major averages is the cac up 1. 4 but you see gains of better than 1 for the ftse and dax as well take a look at whats happening with treasuries. Right now the ten year is yielding 1. 588 . So the yield picking up just a little bit the two year yielding 1. 539. Lowes is solidly higher on the numbers here 215 adjusted versus estimates of 2. 01 on better than expected revenue. A little bit anyway. The revenue is 20. 9 expected and 20. 94 to 20. 99 and then for