You wonder people getting out ahead of themselves, and maybe the outcome on the 7th of may is not the out come that happens. That said, were up almost 1 today. We have Gary Kaltbaum for insight. Good to see you, gary k. What do you think happens in france and what does it mean for us . I think the market was concerned about le pen having a good chance of winning. It doesnt look that way at this point in time. You have to realize she wants out of the eu if france goes out on top of uk, things could tumble down and all heck breaks loose. There is a 20point lead. I know trump was supposeddedly down six still won. Defend is a lot. I suspect she will lose and go to the guy they call a centrist. Im not so sure he is a centrist. Connell centerleft. He t wantso stay with the e. U. Which is the bottom line. I will use your term all heck breaks loose what you mean by that . We heard something along those lines before. Whether it would be brexit is and donald trump elected president of the United
Fisher sounded more cautious on tuesday. More voices being added to the flurry. Yields continue to rise today. We have seen the biggest selloff since june in terms of treasury. Alix the yield rally some most since november. Ofaking of the diversion years, Charlie Evans speaking, saying we do not need to hike rates. Eric rosengren saying we can normalize rates. We are nearing our mandates. Federal confusion. Caroline that is going to be our phrase today. Coming up, we will speak about the direction of yields with matthew. Managinggan stanleys director and strategic. He says by the fiveyear the fiveyearbuy treasuries, despite losses. Alix a lot on hold heading into jobs friday. If any action, it will be in the currency market. The dollar is mushy across the board. The pound is higher, moving against the dollar. The yen moving lower. The yen is looking at its first monthly decline versus the dollar since may. Is relative mushiness across the board. Banks doing well in europe. Into the job
Quintanilla. Good evening. The historic wildfire season in california has taken another turn for the worse. This one is called the valley firl north of sacramento, and in just 224 hours its grown to some 60 square mete miles. Thats more than double the size of manhattan. Its destroyed hundreds of homes, gutted cars on the highway, and forced thousands to evacuate. Its one of a dozen major fires now raging across the state, and nbcs Gotti Schwartz is there starting us off. Good evening. Good evening, carl. The devastation out here is absolutely staggering. This right here used to be a row of ten houses. You can see they have been completely incinerated. I also want to show you this right there. You see that. That is natural gas still burning, still flaming. Last night we saw and we heard natural gas and propane blowing up all around us. Reporter the roads are surrounded. Its a town set ablaze. Now, this is main street middletown. You can see theres all kinds of torching going on. Theres
The president hours away from changing the nations laws when it comes to background checks for guns. Tonight how the talk is driving sales in colorado. Four cars, two killed, and now theres new information on the victims and the driver accused of causing this deadly crash on colorado boulevard. She wanted to run for office in denver. The police for using the signatures of dead people and sesame street characters. Boulder puts new rules in force for anyone thinking about renting out their place on rental sites like airbnb. Becoming a quarterback in this league, its a process. And so is picking one for the playoffs. 9news starts now. Tomorrow morning just before 10 00 our time president obama will announce executive orders to clarify and strengthen laws for background checks on gun sales. Among the changes, required checks for guns purchased from unlicensed dealers even if theyre bought online or at gun shows. The president will call on the fbi to help with processing those checks. Hell
To help with processing those checks. Hell ask for 500 million in extra funding for mental healthcare. The candidates talked about the coming changes. Its not going to keep every gun out of the hands of a criminal. It will potentially save lives. We dont beat the bad guys by taking away our guns. We beat the bad guys by using our guns. The president has not even attempted to point to a single mass shooting. These actions he proposes would have prevented. Because there isnt one. The president plans to hold a town Hall Thursday and its expected to be a topic in his final state of the Union Address next week. The biggest months ever for gun sales in the u. S. Happened around president obamas elections and these impending changes to background checks. In november of 2008 when he won his first election there were 1. 1 million guns sold nationwide. In january 2013 were 2 million guns sold. Nationwide last month there were 1. 6 million guns sold as the president hinted at the changes he wante