S p futures down by just over 3. 5 points below fair value. Take a look at whats been happening with oil prices. Yesterday, crude oil settling at an eightmonth low. That was the lowest settlement this year. You can see theyre down once again this morning. Down another 46 cents to 91. 71. Take a look at whats been happening in the treasury market. The tenyear note at this point looks like it is yielding at 2. 516 . That had been the highest close that weve seen all the way back since july 31st in terms of the yield. The dollar this morning, at least at this point, looks like it is down against both the euro and the pound. The euro is trading at 1. 292 up against the yen at 106. 92. If you take a look at whats been happening with gold prices, under pressure despite what weve seen in terms of geopolitical concerns. Gold is down to its lowest level this year. 1,246. 60 an ounce. Andrew, ill send it over to you. This will be the first of the companys sales since last november. Lots of quest
Host already 90 postings on our facebook page. You can also send us an email. Those numbers came out on friday. Touted in the papers on monday. A review of them if you missed them, it was 200 9000 jobs added in july, but because of a multitude of things, the Unemployment Rate ticking up a little bit to 6. 2 . Taking a look of the jobs numbers created, it showed that 200,000 jobs were created. The president used that as the subject of his weekly radio address as he talked about the economy and how it affects the middle class. [video clip] inover 200,000 new jobs july, on top of 300,000 new jobs in june. Adding 200,000 jobs each month, which has not happened since 1997. All told businesses have created 9. 9 billion jobs over the last six months. Because of your hard work and comemination america has farther and faster than almost any other advanced company on earth. The economy is clearly getting stronger. Things are clearly getting better. The decisions that we make now are to keep thin
To the extent there are positive real subsidies to the except that they improve outcomes, they are either very localize to the family or very localized to the community in question. You work on capitol hill. I worked there for a number of years. Every other person who comes here in the door says its a great thing if you gave a subsidy for their industry and how many jobs they create. Thats what shopped around. They are grossly skabexaggerate. Lets think about housing for a second. We all need a place to live. An Apartment Building is not all that different than a condo. It actually takes the same amount of construction workers. Theres Nothing Specific about the tenure that increases jobs. Again, we all have to live somewhere. I think you should be skeptical of those job arguments that you often here. The chart youre looking at here is the lower bar thats the fannie and freddie market share. We hit long term homeownership rates in this country in 1960. The growth of fannie and freddie w
Thats what shopped around. They are grossly skabexaggerate. Lets think about housing for a second. We all need a place to live. An Apartment Building is not all that different than a condo. It actually takes the same amount of construction workers. Theres Nothing Specific about the tenure that increases jobs. Again, we all have to live somewhere. I think you should be skeptical of those job arguments that you often here. The chart youre looking at here is the lower bar thats the fannie and freddie market share. We hit long term homeownership rates in this country in 1960. The growth of fannie and freddie which really in the 70s they had single digit market shares. This he were irrelevant to the Mortgage Market before the snl crisis. The growth of them has seen no long term indrees in homeownership rates. Its fine to say we want to do things for homeownership but maybe we want to do things that do things for homeownership rather than things that claim to do thing for homeownership. The
It is extremely important that an investigation be commenced meal. In the first instance, the special Monitoring Mission should act as a First Responder laying the foundation for efforts by other International Organizations and individual nations including those whose citizens were victims of this tragedy. Yesterday, president obama assured ukraines president poroshenko that u. S. Experts will offer all possible assistance upon his request. President poroshenko has invited the independent and credible International Civil Aviation Organization to join in investigation. International investigators must be granted immediate, full and unfettered access. All of those concerned should agree to support an immediate ceasefire to facilitate access by international investigators. In this regard, we look to the smm also to Reach Agreement with separatists and others in the region to make this possible. All evidence must remain undisturbed and any testifies removed by the russianbacked separatists