You saw most of the major averages yesterday sitting at new highs. The dow was off by 3 points. This morning green arrows across the board. Dow looks to open up another 60 points s p up by 3. 5. The nasdaq up by a half point. Overnight in asia, look at what was happening there. The nikkei was down. It slipped by 0. 8 the hang seng and the shanghai were stronger. Shanghai up 0. 4 if you look at whats happening in the european equities market. At this point it looks like markets are flat across the board. Ftse is down by a quarter percentage point treasury yields, lets look at that market. Oil prices, dont mow if you saw this yesterday Oil Prices Surging yesterday that will be something to watch. Highest levels in quite awhile check out the tenyear note which at this point is yielding 2. 634 lets tell you about some big stories were watching the biggest here in davos, treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin making headlines at a News Conference he said the United States welcomed a weaker dollar
Lives and works right here in the district of columbia. Thanks again for staying with us, im shawn yancy and im tony perkins. Tonight a big crowd came to district leaders ear an earful about rising crime rates and the search for a new police chief. Marina maracco is live at the wilson building. Reporter six hours in and testimony continues. Chief new ham now up speaking before several Council Members. 69 people signed up to give testimony, including three Public Offerings that interim police chief peter new chamas well as deputy mayor, kevin donohue. Hes deputy mayor of public safety. Now, the testimony was to address the state of affairs as it involves crime as well as the Selection Process for the new chief of police and today we learned that Selection Process for the new chief has actually come to a complete halt with absolutely no interviews taking place for the position. Office saying her priority right now is to pick a chancellor for d. C. Public schools before she makes that pic
Lives and works right here in the district of columbia. Thanks again for staying with us, im shawn yancy and im tony perkins. Tonight a big crowd came to district leaders ear an earful about rising crime rates and the search for a new police chief. Marina maracco is live at the wilson building. Reporter six hours in and testimony continues. Chief new ham now up speaking before several Council Members. 69 people signed up to give testimony, including three Public Offerings that interim police chief peter new chamas well as deputy mayor, kevin donohue. Hes deputy mayor of public safety. Now, the testimony was to address the state of affairs as it involves crime as well as the Selection Process for the new chief of police and today we learned that Selection Process for the new chief has actually come to a complete halt with absolutely no interviews taking place for the position. Office saying her priority right now is to pick a chancellor for d. C. Public schools before she makes that pic
Banks and commodity stocks weighing. The nikkei dropping more than 2 . The index is down more than 10 since the beginning of january. In the u. S. , stocks coming off a wild session. The dow traveling more than 1,000 points yesterday during a very choppy session. This despite a relative ly leve trading range of 256 points. A big move yesterday. Sharply higher open for the dow jones. The s p opening higher as well as the nasdaq. Mike, Deutsche Bank says theyre going to buy back senior debt, potentially. Why would that move the u. S. Markets . Why would that help Deutsche Bank with its capital . You have a bid in the market, especially in the bank stocks, right in the afternoon when you got that report. Clearly the market likes it. It signals Deutsche Bank can do this, that it has the liquidity to buy back the debt. Its almost a signaling mechanism to say, were not so constrained, we dont have a liquidity trap right now, and we can actually do this if we want. Thats one reason. If the co
Affordable housing, who is actually serving, who we want it to be serving, and that think about that with regard to young people because we are future homebuyers. I think it probably relates to a lot of the different constituencies. And i think creating are rounded is ultimately will will give us beyond this sort of debate in the weeds above some of the technicalities and actually have the debate about how we can improve Affordable Housing go beyond where we are right now. And urban Centers Across the country theyre is a move but jen Affordable Housing. I remember the catch phrase was the rate is too dim high. That is about Affordable Housing to be going back into dealing with Older Americans as well, the rental aspect is very important for Older Americans. Many Older Americans have never been homeowners. Many sell their homes and then become renters and affordable rental this point to be is crucial, particularly to a lot of our constituents that the naacp. I do think there are people