Aside at googles parent alphabet. Period of17 year long his Senior Leadership. Betty it seems like everybody is trying to ram and all the news before the christmas holidays. Catalonia, google, and of course the spending bill passing the house. All of that and stocks today rose, breaking the today losing streak. We will quickly pull up the boards and show you how the u. S. Markets ended today. The s p 500 slightly higher, and nasdaq also trading a little bit to the upside, but fairly unchanged. Investors trying to absorb what the impact is going to be from the tax reform package. Yvonne yes, just a moderate bounceback. We see some positives as we get closer to the christmas holiday. Lets look at asia, said to track the gains set to track the gains we saw on wall street. New zealand up. And we are Holding Steady. Australia, getting underway in sydney. 6100, it could be a big we will see if it reaches that level. 7702 for the aussie. Treasuries mixed overnight, the curve sharply flatter.
This is Bloomberg Markets asia. Lets have a look at whats been going on. There has been a steeping of the yield curve going on, more flattening taking place. What we have is perhaps an economic slowdown in prospect. Lets have a look at this chart. It goes back to 1986 and it tracks whats going on in the white line into the two to 10 year yield spread. That is indicated by this axis here. Just over 60 basis points between the two of them. The green line is where gdp is. This is inverted. You can the lowest number of growth here, 4 contraction. What happens next is that the yield curve perhaps sees more flattening. We see growth has been improving of late. What happens in the future . We have a strong correlation between the two of them. One of the head scratchers in terms of what we been looking at this year. We had off to christmas break and volatility has been settling going lower, that if we can hold on to the moment in what we are seeing for this rally, we are going to see the asiap
Filed with senator gillibrand about three years ago. This just simply provides more flexibility for our military families. The strength of the military is in the military family structure, and what this does is allow the family to either move early or stay longer at these assignments. Normally they are two to threeyear assignments. Lots can happen in two or three years, but not Everything Else just perfectly works out in two or three years. So for employment reasons or for education reasons, if a family decides it is to their advantage to use the Family Support that the military provides, housing and other, and let the families stay another two months to finish school for a teaching contract to end or some other spouse activity to come to a reasonable conclusion or frankly to do just the opposite, to go to the new assignment that you know you already have, but to do that just a little bit earlier so that it works better for the family, to start school on time, to start a job on time th
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