Carol and we hit the red carpet to celebrate the bloomberg 50. It is our annual list of those whose 2019 accomplishments stick out. Jason but first, the biggest ipo, saudi aramco. Shares surged to a market value of at their peak. 2 trillion carol a culmination of a fouryear effort from the kingdom. Talking about this, with a lot of questions. One thing to point out. Now it is publicly traded and it it is an ipo, a publicly held company, but only a small percentage, 1. 5 is out there in the public in terms of the company. Reporter the ipo has not turned out the way they expected it to happen. If you remember back to 2016 when they initially announced plans for the ipo, the plan was to sell as much as 5 of the company. What we really have to look at is what is the purpose of the ipo . It is seen as a means of diversifying saudi arabia away from its Oil Dependent economy, to raise money from International Investors and to deploy that on projects outside of the core energy industry. Valuat
Point. Hang seng was up more and in europe theres active trading taking place with the early hours and youll also see that there are, well, its a bit of a mixed picture. Stocks are slightly weaker across the rest of the continent there. In the treasury yields here in the United States, thats what we continue to watch closely theres questions about what the fed does next and right now the ten year picked up a little bit of steam its 2. 073 . The ten year at 1. 584 so about 1. 5 and then the two year, look at that 1. 558 so no inversion at this point and you are seeing a little bit of gains in the yields. Thats a pretty big move. A quick move back. Right were not following it that closely. And the 30 year is well above 2 i think just psychologically its always like this but we give it to up days not just us but the collective we theres a point we were down 250 but we only ended up down 250. Right. But we did 372 yesterday but its very its the biggest two days of gains you have seen for s