Of the allimportant decision tomorrow. This is the second to last that we will bore you with what the Federal Reserve will or wont do. Still staying a little bit higher today but we saw the dollar weakening ever so slightly after ticking higher up,erday to you had dollar just yesterday. You had dollar up and gold lower. We start to see the supply issues and concerns about inventories just waiting as they slightly slip. Lets look at what incomes are doing. A big move in u. S. Treasuries yesterday. We are now seeing just a slight reversal. It is just rallying slightly today. You see the money moving out since germany to the tune of nine basis points. Lets look at equities. We had some big market moves. Glencoe up 4 . A slight relief that they are managing to shore up their Balance Sheet to pay for the new equity. 1. 6 billion pounds of shares. Helps to protect their credit andng to a slight discount we see in rally today up to 132. 6. Morning,he calls this on the back of glencoe protecti
We continue to watch for amtrak indications that core alqaeda is, in fact, engaged in plotting activities aimed and i can someone. Bubeyond human weve also been watching alqaedas Affiliate Networks and individuals and syria who may be looking to get extra operations against the west a potentially the homeland. But we got some very public successes in terms of a disrupting some individuals involved in plotting from syria, there is cody ford be done in the work continues. Or third area of or third area, last area i will mention is the growing use of simple opportunity to attacks by homegrown violent extremist, we called hves. Hves. That stop the practice could proliferate within the last several years. When you look back to 2000 were seeing less than two or three of those incidents per year. By last year that number was a dozen antedate issued a number of incidents were disrupted plots is a redoubled for this year suggesting that are, in fact, a greater number of transit is transience in
Answer is. Were here just to tell folks the example i use is the fbis not an alien force imposed upon america from mars. Right . We belong to the American People. We have the tools that the American People gave us through you. And our job when one of those tools isnt working so much anymore is to tell the American People, thats why were talking so much about encryption. You see it in the isil cases and kidnapping cases and drug cases and child abuse cases. Theres a conflict in our values that we simply must figure out how to resolve. It is obvious in the case of isil well continue doing the work. Im very grateful as my colleagues are for the high quality product that this committee did on travelers, those responding to the first part of that siren song, that come. Theres Something Interesting happening that i want to tell the committee about just in the last few months we are seeing fewer people attempt to travel to join isil in syria. We have seen six in the last 3 1 2 months. We were
Theyre already in the database that they would be flagged in other words, a terrorist organization suspect going to try to get someone in as a refugee if they already have a public background that you would be able to uncover. Theyre going to get people in the country who have not yet committed a terrorist attack. Dont you think it is likely they are going to try to do that . There is a pretty thorough vetting process of each individual which encompasses a personal assessment of each individual which includes an interview. It is not simply whats in a public record. Does a person have a wrap sheet of any kind. Youre relying upon them and what they say or write out in an application. And you cant go beyond that. So you have to sort of take their way for it. Another red flag is historically refugees have been members of families. Yet the typical profile of a syrian refugee, im told, are young, be single males as opposed to family members. If so, to me that would raise red flag as well. Do
This plunge kicks off the friday morning. Julie we have some breaking economic news. The university of michigan january numbers come in ahead of estimates. Up 92. 9. We see an increase from december. So, just one data point. Earlier, we got retail sales coming in line with estimates for the client. The most eyepopping data point is Empire Manufacturing in the new york area in january down 19. 37 . A 19. 37. The negative sentiment has recurrent returned. We are back down once again. As you look at the brett of the decline, it is broad. All industry groups, all subgroups are trading lower. Energy is leading the plunge. Along with technology, the nasdaq is showing the upside when we are moving up. A big cap on technology after a strong 2015. Financials were also lower despite estimated numbers from citigroup and wells fargo. Financials are also lower. Energy is doing the worst. Oil prices are selling off. Belowe crude oil trading 30 per barrel. Since late lowest 2003. I want to check on t