Sen. Duckworth sen. Burr i would like to call the hearing to order. I would like to welcome our Witnesses Today. The director of national intelligence, dan coats. Good to see our former colleague. Director of the Central Intelligence agency, mike pompeo. Director of defense intelligence, vince stewart. Director of the National Security agency, mike rogers. Director of Geospatial Intelligence agency, robert cardella. And acting director at the fbi, andrew mccabe. Thank you for coming in on such short notice. Since 1995, this committee has met in an open forum to hear about and discuss the security threats facing the United States of america. I understand that many people tuned in today are hopeful that we would focus solely on the Russian Investigation and their involvement in our elections. Let me disappoint everybody up front. While the committee certainly views russian intervention in our elections as a significant threat, the purpose of todays hearing is to review and highlight, to
Director andrew mccabe, cia director mike pompeo, director of National Intelligence dan coats, and nsa director admiral michael rodgers. The answer questions about the rush investigation and the firing of james comey. This is two hours and 20 minutes. Coats. Or dan 2 20 s sen. Duckworth sen. Burr i would like to call the hearing to order. I would like to welcome our Witnesses Today. The director of National Intelligence, dan coats. Good to see our former colleague. Director of the Central Intelligence agency, mike pompeo. Director of defense intelligence, vince stewart. Director of the National Security agency, mike rogers. Director of Geospatial Intelligence agency, robert cardella. And acting director at the fbi, andrew mccabe. Thank you for coming in on such short notice. Since 1995, this committee has met in an open forum to hear about and discuss the security threats facing the United States of america. I understand that many people tuned in today are hopeful that we would focus s
Janet yellen, will she put march back on the table . German fourthquarter gdp comes in weaker than expected but with flat that fast this fastest inflation since 2015. Manus matt lets take a look at where the buns are bunds are. Futures pump pointing to a lower open. Yields down a little bit as investors buy into german tenure debt. 0. 327. 83 twoday chart. Yesterdays trade a little bit of a try rise. This morning, it looks like german investors are wary of the numbers that we are seeing coming out. Inflation number, cpi at 1. 9 yearoveryear. Gdp numbers not quite as strong as may be have been expected at 1. 8 . Guy pretty comparable. You think about the United States, bonds. 3, treasuries 2. 3. We will talk about that for a program. Dollar index, what else is interesting this morning . The yen is trading higher. Tohiba, go thing i want mention as well as iron ore is bouncing around. One of the contracts trading down by 1 to the story we are being paying attention to. The one thing i wa
Doesnt have much room to rise. Is the crude rally done . Welcome to the program. Half an hour until the market open. Good morning, caroline. Lets talk about whats going on in terms of the equity market. After the volatility of the last few days, today looks relatively benign. We are looking for a reasonably flat open, a little bit of the softer side. 1 10 ofutures, ftse 100 1 higher, Everything Else looking softer. Caroline yeah, and the ripples of the italian concerns seem to be failing as fast as asia. Msci down, the first time we have seen a drop in that market in the week. We are seeking a move to new havens. The dollar is trading lower, yen trading higher, yields really pushing lower. U. S. Treasuries near a record low, aussie bond yields of 1. 94 , crashing to new alltime lows as the rba holds fire for the Interest Rate changes and italy yields are just pushing up slightly. Clearly, concerns once again about the banking system, the need for recapitalization and merkels decision,
2013 bill gross says record low yields are not worth the risk. Socgens net income beats estimates and rises over 8 . The deputy sees tells bloomberg the french bank also receiving the brunt of brexit. Today the risks are still very high. Decision is creating an additional uncertainty. Caroline we are less than half an hour away from the european open. We are going to be digging into what we see in terms of the market futures. Overall keep an eye on where we are trading. Are up. 2 at the moment, perhaps not the risk aversion we saw flow into asia overall. We are starting to see some hope looking forward after the significant selloff we saw yesterday in the Banking Industry could what a slump, down just industry and what a slump, down. 3 . Lets have a look at the workers were news with juliette saly. Juliette caroline, thank you. After taking a pounding, Global Oil Prices is set for a violent reversal upwards. That is the story and a hall is telling investors. Story andy hall is telling