Out. Didnt mean they were going to eep him. He had republicans and democrats and everyone in the room, the staff, crying because he told the story, im a threetime convicted felon. He was a he was an addict. He was saying he had not touched drugs or alcohol for a year. He gets to see his family again. He gets to see his child again. And hes now up to 22 an hour and hes so busy working he hasnt had the chance to relapse. Its stories like that that need to be part of our lexicon. Its part of the joy that conomic growth is moral. Because it helps and solves so many problems and particularly in our earlier slides. Where itch a where i have this absolute fixation on Retirement Security and our discussion of growing the economy and labor force participation. And technology. And incentives. Bringing that package all together so we keep our promises around Social Security and medicare. But we have the first pillar, that we are living in right now. Thats proof that policy, mollcy can work. Wheth
And possibly easing sanctions on iran. Josh, kind of a quiet market day here interesting rotations going on what do you make of the action today . This week its just been incredible for anything of value versus growth, anything small over large and theres a tend densy when we see these outside moves. For example, russell up 5. 5 over the last week theres a tendency to look at that and say ive missed it or that has to be the top of something. When you actually go back and find examples of this sort of thing happening in the recent past, actually that always had taken place at notable bottoms in the russell 2000. For example, we had three versions of this in the year 2016 where you have just this incredible week for small cap, for value and it wasnt the end of something or a blip it lully was the end of the selling. You can stay with this trade if youre on and. Portfolio tilt for smallend value. After a really long drought of good news. So a lot of people are happy about that take a look
This hour. Yousef first, european governments this week agreed to assemble a Naval Mission to provide safe passage for ships through the persian gulf. That is after iran seized a British Oil Tanker in the region. The act was condemned by the the u. K. Foreign secretary jeremy hunt, but defended by his iranian counterpart. Under international law, iran had no right to obstruct the ships passage, let alone bored her. Board her. It was an act of state piracy which the house will have no hesitation in condemning. Even more worryingly, this incident was a flagrant breach of the principle of free navigation on which the Global Trading system and World Economy the u. K. Ship had turned off it signaling for more than the time that it was allowed to do so. It was passing through the wrong channels, endangering the safety and security of shipping and navigation in the strait of hormuz, for which we are responsible. Yousef we have more with our executive editor for the middle east. Reporter we do
Watching us from the united states. These are your markets. We are seeing a bit of a lift to european stocks, actually, not so much. They were lifting, but now they are flat. About 56. 65 after that opec plus meeting. Gold is down a touch. Remember, because it is fourth of july in the u. S. , treasury markets are closed. Coming up, dont miss our coverage of the boston pops fireworks spectacular, it is a bloomberg special and starts at 8 p. M. New york time. So if youre watching from asia or europe, its definitely worth it. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news. The tanks are ready to go and the fighter jets are set. All part of President Trumps changes to the traditional fourth of July Celebration on the National Mall. The present will speak from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and critics say he is turning the event into a campaign rally. President trump warned iran against stepping up uranium enrichment. Iran says it will restart the model reactor if europe fails to offer
Data check for you. Stoxx 600 pretty flat this hour. Fourth of july low volumes waiting for payroll data from tomorrow. Outperforming. Yields areyear certainly worth talking about. Yields have dropped below the 0. 4 level, below the ecbs deposit rate. Weve got gold still acting as a haven above 1400. The dollar index not moving all that much. President trump doesnt like the strength of the dollar. We will talk about that. Wti not reacting positively to the production cuts extended by opec. Lets take a big picture look at what is going on in these markets now. The u. S. Stock market closed for trading for the july 4 holiday. In europe, equities continue little changed while investors search for direction and await u. S. Jobs data. We are joined now by paul markham. Very good morning afternoon, in fact, here in london. Valentin, lets come to you first. It does feel like risk off is back on. Currencies are outperforming low yield ors. It remains to be seen whether that positive feeling wi