U. S. Telecom. Our guest reporter is cat zakrzewski of the washington post. Mr. Spalter, if you could begin by reminding us what u. S. Telecom is and who you represent. Guest thank you very much. Its great to be here. I represent the future of connectivity, members of u. S. Telecom other broadband carriers, innovators and Technology Companies that are all about delivering and Building Networks of the future to all americans. We have Large National providers like at t and verizon and centurylink, wonderful regional providers like consolidated frontier and windstream and Alaska Communications but we also represent a number of our smallest providers serving our Rural Communities across the country. We are proud to know that around our table are seven some most innovative Global Technology Enterprises Like cisco and erickson, nec are also part of our effort to really raised the bar when it comes to this Important Technology which is broadband. Host give us a snapshot if you would of the la
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We have seen some push pull here. Some of that weakness still russellg with the was 2000. 8 . 10year yields continuing to rise. Breaking out of what was earlier 82month trading range between 54 and 78 basis points. Now, incredible the break and we have seen the last two days. Further weakness in the bloomberg dollar index. We are back to weakness that we have not seen since march 11. You wonder how much of that is the feds continued stimulus into the markets. I want to talk about the data that make up this morning. U. S. Jobless data showed continuing claims failed to decline again and instead rose above the forecast of 20 million, to 21. 5 million. The market is reacting to the news as a cast doubt on the hopes of a strong economic rebound. For more, we are joined by nela richardson, edward jones senior strategist. This is one of the first times for the market that it is reacting to the poor Economic Data. Been in your opinion, has driving the weakness of today after what has been a s