Economic conditions in low income and distressed communities. Also joining the conversation at this urban Institute Event where Community Advocates you talked about the need to invest in Community Advocates who talked about the need to invest in and rehabilitate neighborhoods without writing out longtime residents. To a very complicated set of conversations. I am excited that i get to have a conversation with another person who has dedicated his career to helping improve neighborhoods. Congressman jim himes is in his seventh term as a member of congress from connecticut. He started his career from the finance sector but became really passionate about access to housing for low and moderate income communities. Full disclosure, i am a very proud member of that organization. At enterprise, he oversaw the financing of construction of thousands of portable Housing Units in the reader new york metro area. That experience motivated his involvements of politics or serving in the commission, bec
Building permits, and housing. 9 45, the Bloomberg Consumer comfort index. Earnings, oracle and red hat after the bell. The senate votes on whether to appropriate funds for the training and arming of syrian rebels. Petro poroshenko is addressing congress. He is going to congress in an appeal for support. Some pageantry there. I thought the headlines were pretty perfunctory out of ukraine. In what sense . Nothing like bombing or missiles are people dying. Will beder what putin doing as Petro Poroshenko meets with obama. There is a ceasefire there and people are still dying. Lets do a data check. Something off of the janet yellen comments. Futures up 8. 10 year yield higher. Currency markets really show the move. Eurodollar 1. 2873. Hydrocarbon churn. Brent crude, under 100. Vix, 12. 68. Weaker 108. 67. A gold, massive support at 1200. On the watch for a break of support of gold. Were t that point. Pairs. The major Asian Financial crisis as seen through the relationship of south korea an
Potato salad. Thats on top of 1500 reservist already mobilized. This comes after israeli launched dozens of air strikes. At least 16 people were killed eight were civilians including four children. Now the air strikes are the first part of what could be a long term offensive, fighting has increased in the past few hours as hamas has a new launch of rockets from gaza. The southern israel, with gaza in the background, nick, whats the very latest . Michael, good evening, we with have seen a very large escalation of rockets into israel in the last few minutes and those rockets are now reaching all parts of israel, and for the first time, hamas has said that it has launched a missle at hifa, that is at least 150 miles from here. Question have never seen that before. Running for shelters at least four rockets were struck, for telaviv, at least two of them we believe were intercepted by antimissle defense systems. Theres a state of jerusalem, the city has opened up all bomb shelters so right
Have chinese central bng. People saying that peoples bank of china injecting liquidity into the system and concerns of underlying the shakiness globally of markets and those macro worries of the chinese economy and willing to we should put it this way. One central bank or another or all of them. Upstaged our own fed. Other thing thats happening is a shocker in the Hedge Fund Industry. The California Public employees retirement industry, the nations Largest Pension Fund and done investing in hedge funds. This, again, one of the first to go into the investing in hedge funds. Saying the results dont justify the high expenses. Speaking to a reporter that broke the story and find out how the Hedge Fund Industry is reacting. Yeah. Could be the tip of the iceberg. Thiss the fear in hedge fund in business. If the biggest goes, would others follow . Well talk about that coming up. A lot of excitement, of course, the alibaba ipo on friday. But our own Herb Greenberg isnt sold on the chinese ecom
Paulson as my partner chatted with him in new york. And on a day when the average is led by housing related names inched higher, the dow up 19 points, nasdaq advancing a point 32 percent, this is a perfect time to expound on the interview because everything thats happened now and that could happen in the feature into perspective and i think it can make us a lot of money. First of all, paulsons been in the Money Management business for about ten years. You probably never heard of him until the housing hey day. He sorted everything subprime housing. It made billions upon billions of dollars. You may have heard about him late. The foreign fund that represents 2 of the gold fund. Even you professionals out there, i know jealousy and many are jealous of this mild mannered man because of his amazing success. Now that you know how he made it big, if you were in the room when carl posed his questions, you could hear a rush because hes the most bullish man on earth. Not only was his first idea,