Good morning, everybody. The hearing will come to order. Today were going to have a video hearing with ms. Sally yates, who was the acting attorney general for a period of time in january of 2017 and was the number two at the department of justice in early january 2017. Ms. Yates appeared before the committee on may 18th, 2017. That was before the Mueller Investigation really got started. It was before the horowitz report about the Mueller Investigation was issued, and i believe much has been learned since may of 2018 2017. And we would like to discuss certain topics with ms. Yates. My view of ms. Yates is that she exercised good caution and legal judgment in january of 2017, and if people had followed her advice, things might be different today, so i just want to let you know, ms. Yates, from my point of view, you analyzed the situation fairly correctly, and we will get into that later on. Whats the purpose of this hearing . Its to ask questions of ms. Yates knowing then what she know
Annualized basis. Slightly less bad in the estimates. They do expect a contraction of more than 20 . Nonetheless, the nikkei up 2 . You looking at u. S. Jobless claims and payroll, adding urgency around stimulus in washington. The snp active futures in the u. S. Up 1 10 of 1 . The dollar still a big story in terms of the weakness. 6. 97 . Offshore at stronger data suggesting the economic recovery in China Remains on track your the bloomberg dollar index flat. This is what is happening with the dollaryen, flat essentially. The pound on a tear. Have a the boe that will meeting thursday and no action is expected. We will look at some of the commodities as well. 56,10 year yield below yelled at 55. Today we are expected to get details around a treasury in cash issuance and the economic recovery plans in the united states. Thats whats happening with oil at 43 a barrel, down 6 10 of 1 . Lets get to first word news with Karina Mitchell in new york. Karina global coronavirus cases have topped
We are looking at currencies, strength coming through for the yuan. Dollar weakness is a big factor. Of the planthe back signed off or agreed to on 0. 1 . Us, the euro is up weaknessollar again, down 0. 2 . Hade is still value to be when it comes to chinas bonds, 2. 96 is the yield the. Is the yield. Gold is closing in on 1900 an its spot price. Future is pointing to 1900 in the near future. Il down 0. 7 demandweakness is a factor. Rishaad lets get some sense in all of this. Joining us is frank benzimra, head of asia equity strategy, societe generale. Thank you for joining us. How was your strategy evolving . The last couple of months europe become bullish on , and here politics is playing an Important Role in closing the gap in terms of undervaluation. In asia we have been reinforcing the view on hong kong liquidity. Our remaining strategy is on china. Is that all down to this Recovery Fund and what that presents in terms of a more united cents in europe and the eu itself . A relation
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