It disappointed greatly. About 500 and continues to rise. Delta also had a knockout quarter thanks to do messick demand, lower fuel prices thanks to domestic demand, lower fuel prices. Smile direct club is getting into direct company should with its main competitor. Guy european stocks are up a little bit. Oil acting as a little bit of a drag. Definitely the focus on the u. S. Banks. In terms of volume, we are ok today. German tenure backing away from the zero line. Cpi data out of the United States seems to have given the arrow a little but of a bounce. 1. 11, butl north of only just. Vonnie wells fargos quarterly profits slumped. Citigroup beat expectations on 49 fixed income surge. For more, lets bring in allison williams, bloomberg senior bank analyst. From, say, share Morgan Stanley and other banks . Alison we will soon see. At this point, the numbers are so strong. Jp morgan is the leader in that business. 80 from aup 75 to year ago, depending on if you adjust the number. That wa
The performance of wells fargo, which is proving to be a drag. The 10 year yield in the u. S. Is down to 1. 82 . Wells fargo down more than 4 , one of the worst performers in the s p 500. Plenty of other stocks we will talk about. Tesla is close to that 1 billion valuation mark. Delta boosted on its earnings and also the 737 max grounding, which it doesnt have. We just saw boeing delivery numbers, and for the first time in its 45 year history, it has seen its worst performance against airbus, fewer than half what airbus managed to deliver last year. Guy it will be interesting to see what the 2020 numbers look like this time next year. In europe, volumes are ok today. European equity markets going nowhere in a hurry, up by just 0. 2 . In terms of where we are with the german tenyear, we are now only down by one basis point, so we are a little bit better bid on the bond market today than we were yesterday. But are we going to continue to track back toward zero . 1. 1122. Ar trading to th
Across kabul years before. It just simply was too dangerous. It is still a dangerous place, by the way. I dont want to sound pollyannish here. Things havent is changed for the better in afghanistan and the American People, sadly, dont know it. Relative to the american by way ofy itself part of the story, of course, is the growth in the number of students. When it opened i think it with 53 students. There is now 1,000 students there. 300 of them are women. And they have a broad number of courses. I wont go into all those. On ann a a newd campus an International Campus womens economic. Defense dollars to open up a womens Economic Development school, a. I. D. . t that why is it d. O. D. . Significantly to the security of the country, but i think basically the answer is because the d. O. D. Did a number of things including some of the commanders expenditures which helped the development of that is so essential to its security and this is part of it. At thee story we got American University
Country, which is so essential to its security. , thee story we got American University the town student talks about his life experience. The taliban was there and took refuge with his family. Younger boy at that time. As third soon as the taliban were dripping out he came back. As a matter fact, how to read and to write. Now interviewing as a job as a. Ales manager there are full fulbright scholars at the university in kabul. He wanted me to say thank you to the American People. This is as close as i could come. The Education System and afghanistan. So many of them, the number given to them is counterintuitive. So i do not use it. In terms of the lower grades, before you get to colleges and universities, before the taliban was driven out, to the extent they have been, 900,000 boys. Now a Million Students in school. 3 million of those are girls. None of those who couldve been educated before we got there with our allies. Were 20,000e teachers, all male. Is now 200,000 teachers. 60,000
And met with president karzai. Today, the Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman about improvements in the country as the u. S. And prepare to remove troops from afghanistan in 2014. From the council on foreign relations. Is an hour. Welcome to the foreign relations. Im johnathan karl. A high honor to be here with levin. Introduction. S no interduck carl levin is the chairman of the Senate Armed Services from the great state of michigan and of special interest to me, just back from a trip to afghanistan where he commanders over there and also had a one on one president karzai. Im eager to hear about that and senator levin has some tomarks about the trip afghanistan and then we will have a conversation. Levin . R well, thank you, jon. We appreciate the invitation to join you this morning and look forward to that conversation as well. Just here to share my ideas but hopefully to receive ideas that we all need in this kind of a world that we live in. Mentioned, i recently returned from