Perpetuating the problems of the looking more or just that what we think we can do and not looking squarely at what the country needs to do. Those can be two different things. Does the department do any recalculation of revenues on the chance we could go a bit longer if congress tales to send the president the bill and are there any contingency steps the department is taking in case that doesnt happen . Them when we think about the impact when we think about the impact, it is not a small impact. Internal to d. O. T. , probably 4000 of our employees that would be furloughed. They range from folks on the federal Highway Administration who do permitting work to federal motive carriers. Those are primarily the agencies that would be impacted. External to d. O. T. We send out letters to all of the states and the territories, explaining what we would do in terms of Cash Management in the event that we started to go below the balance. Hes sensually portion of those states and percentages of t
Nuclear related sanctions as the grounds to cease performing. But they are clear, and we are clear, that we have all other kinds of authorities. And let me be specific on that because it is important for this whole debate to be clear. Even with the lifting of sanctions after eight years of missiles or five years or the u. N. Sanctions, it is only the u. N. Sanctions. We still have sanctions. Our primary embargo is still in place. And, i might add, for those things that we want to deal with in terms of their behavior, for instance, has below, has below hezbollah, prohibits the transfer of any weapons to them. That will continue. Mr. Flake i think we got that. I just want to make sure that if we say, ok, what was effective on iran . The sanctions on the central bank because it is more difficult for russia and china and other actors to help them upgrade the sanctions. If we decided we want to impose penalties to deter them from terrorist activities, and reimpose sanctions on the central b
It is an Interest Rate driven parade. Higher largelyd on the strength of Consumer Spending which rose by 3. 5 . Some optimism creeping into the stock market and bond market as well. All three major averages with gains. The gains are pretty broadbased. We only have two groups that are lower today, utilities and consumer staples. A lot of the groups are little changed. Financials gain. You have the big money centered and evenng well better, the regional banks rising today. The bond market today, you will see what is going on here. We have this recent trend of the yield curve flattening. Instead, today, we are seeing a bit of steepening. The 30 year yield going up for basis points. The two year yield up one basis point. After a day of steepening, it looks like theres a relief to some of these financials. We have the yield spreads in order here. The five and 30s in the middle and 10 and 30s on the bottom. The flattening of the various curves and then a bit of steepening today. Looksncrease
It is an Interest Rate driven parade. Higher largelyd on the strength of Consumer Spending which rose by 3. 5 . Some optimism creeping into the stock market and bond market as well. All three major averages with gains. The gains are pretty broadbased. We only have two groups that are lower today, utilities and consumer staples. A lot of the groups are little changed. Financials gain. You have the big money centered and evenng well better, the regional banks rising today. The bond market today, you will see what is going on here. We have this recent trend of the yield curve flattening. Instead, today, we are seeing a bit of steepening. The 30 year yield going up for basis points. The two year yield up one basis point. After a day of steepening, it looks like theres a relief to some of these financials. We have the yield spreads in order here. The five and 30s in the middle and 10 and 30s on the bottom. The flattening of the various curves and then a bit of steepening today. Looksncrease
It is an Interest Rate driven parade. Higher largelyd on the strength of Consumer Spending which rose by 3. 5 . Some optimism creeping into the stock market and bond market as well. All three major averages with gains. The gains are pretty broadbased. We only have two groups that are lower today, utilities and consumer staples. A lot of the groups are little changed. Financials gain. You have the big money centered and evenng well better, the regional banks rising today. The bond market today, you will see what is going on here. We have this recent trend of the yield curve flattening. Instead, today, we are seeing a bit of steepening. The 30 year yield going up for basis points. The two year yield up one basis point. After a day of steepening, it looks like theres a relief to some of these financials. We have the yield spreads in order here. The five and 30s in the middle and 10 and 30s on the bottom. The flattening of the various curves and then a bit of steepening today. Looksncrease