Ing on this very challenging task, he developed and coordinated strategies and policies that advanced Homeland Security mission and protected the American Public through his leadership role in the office of strategy, policy and plans. Mr. Wolf is a recipient of the u. S. Secretary of Homeland Securitys distinguished Service Medal for issues to Counter International terrorism and safeguard american interests throughout his career at the department. Thank you for that. Im glad to be joined by our sub committees Ranking Member, senator tester. We are continuing to consider or beginning to consider, actually, the fiscal year 2021 budget request and look forward to further insight from you, mr. Secretary. Very pleased to be joined by the Ranking Member of the full committee or senator leahy as well. In the fiscal year 2020 bill enacted december 20th, 2019, on a broad bipartisan basis. Our 2020 bill provided 54. 6 billion in discretionary funding and included several significant investments
Journey into positive territory. Like four days . Dow is still in positive territory for the year, up almost. 5 . But it was the story of oil 12in with chevron wiping off points and in terms of the worst leaders, you had devon and chesapeake, the worst performer on the s p. Overall, you had lower gas and an unwinding of risk that we saw. We saw safe havens rally a little bit and saw them come down later, but u. S. Treasuries are definitely rallying. Japanese 10 year government bond. It has reached a new alltime low in terms of its yield. Check out the chart of volatility. It is at a 17 year high because the doj is buying them all up. We get trades, they tend to be quite volatile. You talk about safe haven the dollar continuing to build on its rally. Day for the fomc announcement, the malaysian currency on a tear. 5. 4 . Much as the reason is you can see crude oil, brent has stabilized. See that correlation pretty clearly. Alix and this all leads me to commodities. Across the board, sel