Of bonds versus stocks. We know that as stocks has been rallying, so have bonds. That is interesting because because the correlation between them has been declining over time. The correlation is at the lowest going back a year. But and actually might still be attractive to be buying stocks over bonds. If you look at the chart here inside the terminal, when looking at the dividend yields about the 10 year yield, dividend yield is still offering more return than the 10 year treasury yield. So even though bonds and stocks are high, actually still might make sense to buy dividends over treasury yields. Lets bring volatility and the vix into the equation. What we are looking at is the vix curve. Up, it is this melt at super low levels. The lowest levels we have seen in about a year. Beneath the surface we are seeing the curve steepen. The steepest in three years. Basically what this tells us is even though volatility is low right now, the implied volatility going out further is steepening t
For humanitarian affairs during the Clinton Administration on the National Security council and most importantly on the highest board. He happened to be in the presence of Refugees International and is seated next to the next president of Refugees International is my pleasure to be here today and needless to say, this was a critical time for us to be considering not only the refugee act of the 1980s but also the future of refugee protection in the United States and around the world. At a time when the number of people displaced by conflict, by human rights violations, by persecution is at the highest number in recorded history, governments around the world and the United States in particular and are using a rhetoric designed to appeal to fear and to encourage hostility towards refugees and others who are forced to flee. They are closing borders and making life more difficult for refugees. They would consider refugee protection issues in the context of implementation of the refugee act
Erin . The arraignment is in a courthouse thats already handled hundreds of january 6th defendants. It is those lies that are central to the prosecutions case. The man behind it all, the man who has been a target of a Public Smear Campaign by the 45th President is jack smith. You see him there. Paula reid is outside that courthouse right now. Paula, how will all of this play out, the logistics of this once trump arrives where you are . Reporter well, erin, this courthouse is accustomed to dealing with vips, security details, so he has the option to pull underneath the courthouse in a garage. We may not be able to seen him at all. Once inside, he will be placed under arrest. He will be processed. We expect fingerprints, but there wont be a mug shot. Federal authorities have said they already have a mug shot. And the hearing should be pretty short. He will hear the charges filed against hi and hell have th opportunity, as expecting to enter a plea in florida he had s attorney enter that
Alley. Im john fortt here at post 9 with michelle carusocabrera, mike santoli, carl quintanilla, and sara eisen have the morning off. General electric, meanwhile, slashing its dividend in half. The first cut since the financial crisis, and its shaking up its core business shares sliding right now down more than 4. 5 Morgan Brennan is at ges investor day in midtown manhattan and joins us now ge cutting its dividend by 50 in what is from a dollars and cents perspective the biggest reduction ever by a company excludeing the financial crisis, but the street expected that thats not why shares are falling right now. Why shares are falling, because of the guidance, so new 2018 eps forecasts, a dollar to 1. 07 per share, Free Cash Flow 6 to 7 billion, also disappointing, lower guidance and as one analyst just pointed out to me, the 6 billion in Pension Funding next year is excluded from the disappointing eps forecast meaning, the numbers may be worse than the optics are suggesting so one key d
And Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thank you for joining us. The Trump Administration is defending its controversial executive order blocking immigrants and refugees from select muslim countries from entering the u. S. The white house says since the president imposed the 90day ban on friday, a total of 325 thousand travelers from abroad arrived in the United States yesterday, and only 109 were detained at airports for questioning, because theyre citizens of the banned countries. Those majoritymuslim countries are iran, iraq, libya, syria, somalia, sudan, and yemen, which have a combined population of 219 million people. Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus said today most of the detained