The presiding officer the senate will come to order. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is expired. On the wiegand nomination. The question now occurs on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 82, the nays are 14. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of thomas t. Cullen of virginia to be United States district judge for the Western District of virginia. Signed by 17 senators. The
That investors will start moving out of bonds. If that happens, that could be the next big rotation possibility to keep an eye on, out of bonds and into stocks. Should that occur, it will suggest the rally we are seeing they have legs and could continue. David take the flip side of that. It is a good point. If we do not have rotation out of bonds, does that Say Something about where the equity markets are headed . Abigail it could, indeed. Equity investors are watching bonds. When bonds were in rally mode, there were people reluctant to get into stocks because they were curious of what bonds were telling them. That was true in the summer of 2018. If we see bonds stagnate, that may suggest the rally we have seen for stocks will stagnate. Right now it is largely about the dollar. That is tied into bonds. The dollar has been week. As we have yields rising, the dollar has been going down. The yield curve steepening, supporting that as we have had the dollar go down over the last several da
Green. Were currently holding onto some gains despite the miserable number out of adp, 20. 2 million jobs lost in april looking at commentary from disney and gm on various stages of reopening in shanghai, here in north america and the nasdaq continues to confound some of the bears as it is less than 1 from going positive for the year. Its actually pretty incredible and speaks to how defensive those megacap tech names have been viewed to be by investors in the market and for good reasoning looking at what weve seen so far where earnings are concerned. The other thing to keep an eye on is crude prices after five Straight Days of gains you have futures up 28 for the month of may so far. Those coming up because of the u. S. Private payroll numbers, that 20 million plus drop in april, which was not unexpected but still obviously so painful, especially when you put it in context of being the worse jobless in the history of the adp report that as you balance the daily data that shows decrease
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