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Congress still stuck in a stimulus stalemate not even at work. Turning to markets futures are rallying this morning. Tripledigit gain on the dow industrials, both s p and nasdaq hitting another round of alltime highs. The dow turning positive for the year. Take a look at the markets this morning. Wash, rinse, repeat, House Speaker nancy pelosi breaking San Francisco coronavirus rules getting her hair done in a salon. Where is your mask, nancy . The backlash ahead. Plus a Retirement Plans that starts at birth. Mornings with maria begins right now. Checking Global Markets, european stocks rallying as well following wall streets record run. Look at french and german markets more than 2 , in asia overnight markets mixed, both to plus side. President trump vowing to help the city of kenosha, wisconsin rebuild amid protests. Cheryl casone has more. Good morning, cheryl. Cheryl that is right, good morning. President trump making pledge to Business Owners and Law Enforcement officials there. I
7. 44 . As you noted before the yield curve. Steepening and a rally in the financials you mentioned that june 10 was the high that was the day where the markets had their maximum enthusiasm about the strength of the recovery and how fast it would be that was the peak where the come back of value and cyclical sectors. That seems to be the dynamic and the push for which stocks were preferred and the market seven days in a row of records is not to be dismissed guys the intraday record high in this session and well have to see if this continues . Yesterdays high is around 3,500. Coming up, well talk about the abrupt halt to the sports world. We ha we have fed president s and the interim ceo of tiktok. What a story it has been and a soap opera all week long we are learning more in the details in the sale of tiktok after walmart confirmed it has teamed up with microsoft sources tell us that walmart ineshlly wanted to be the lead buyer together with what was alphabet and soft bank coo and ran
Buying longer on that curve . If so, that will keep rates lower. The path we are leading down is not a good one. What the fed is trying to do is what every central bank is trying to do, which is engineer growth. Tyler george bory is with us now. Talk to me about what you have been noticing, your take on the big reflationary trade yesterday but then a little bit of a comedown in yields again today. George thank you for having me on, always great to be on the show. Powelll question is, is seismic shift, or more of the same . The reality is there are some significant factors here. The biggest is the acknowledgment that there has been a Material Change in the economy. Unemployment can go lower than policy makers expect without causing inflation. They have issue is, also kind of acknowledged there is a limitation of Monetary Policy. Those two factors we view as material. Shift,terms of a policy what they are likely to do going forward, it feels like it is very much same game. The way we are
Good governance to avoid soul sourcing and have many of the earlier activities have been identified to be proactive rather than reactive . Right, and thank you for the question. It certainly its an issue, right, for us, that we dont have the gec on board and we are procuring and we understand why thats necessary to support that. Some have the onall bert benchh perhaps through the Engineering Resources might be able to back receive fill a few areas, but really, we do rely on the gec contract for the majority of the work going forward. As far as the procurements, theres been some need to backfill some of the gecs for the current sixmonth period that were in and in addition, we will be needing to support caltrain and highspeed rail as they procure that operations consultant that steven mentioned for the rail operation analysis. I would rather be proactive instead of catching up with the project. Could not agree with you more and the esc has discussed this as a potential risk item. You hav