Julie hyman has been tracking. The game we saw last week in changing perceptions about the fed and its Interest Rate increases, people bringing up the expectations for the fed to raise rates in june, but losing a little bit of steam in todays session as investors await a lot of Economic Data from durable goods to new home sales. Groups on the the move, materials l strongly but besides that, some materials at 1. 2 and energy as the biggest drag, even though if you look at the individual groups, the point or the percentage moves are not that significant, not many groups moving 1 except for that material group. Individually in terms of the biggest gains on the s p 500 index point wise, we have apple rising after report from a taiwanese newspaper that iphone seven orders to suppliers are higher than people were anticipating. Theo getting that details of its bid from bayer for 122 a share. Thisll also extending the gains that we saw for that stock last week. On the downside, weve got exxon
I want to talk a little bit about the division of iraq or keeping iraq whole. On the one hand, quh you look at some of these borders in the middle east, they were all done by the colonialists and i have often felt why should we be obligated to maintain those borders . Iraq is not a real state. It was slapped together. Youve got the kurds, you have the shia and the sunni, who really dont want to be part of each other, and so particularly the kurds, who have autonomy now, practically have their own nation, and probably will proclaim it very shortly, so my sympathies would be to say to the kurds, well, why should we suck you back into iraq . You have the right to your own nation. Frankly, nobody has ever explained to me why the palestinians are entitled to selfdetermination but somehow the kurds are not. I dont know i dont think thats fair, quite frankly. On the other hand, we are told that if the kurds break off, theres practically no way that you could stop the radicals from dominating
Which may very well describe baghdad. Do any of you, are any of you qualified to talk about whether iraq should do a Currency Exchange designed to invalidate the many billions of dollars worth of iraqi currency isis seeded in the mosul bank . Well well move on to another question. For what its worth, Ranking Member, i think its a good idea. And i would suggest maybe after a you reflect on it if you could have a written response to the congressmans question. That would be helpful. And let me establish just a policy for this committee. I will yield automatically to any member who wants to say i have a good idea. Wont happen all the time. Its unlikely to interrupt me very often. In world war ii the french lived under any occupation and we regarded those areas as areas to be bombed and constricted. Obviously, you couldnt, the government wasnt allowed to buy argentine wheat and just bring it in by ship across the ocean. We regarded france as an asset of the nazis. Yet, im told in news repor
Me to vote no and to stay in the union. Mr. Darling has been very keen to stress that you should not be relying on oil, but you took our country, scotland, into an illegal war for oil, and scottish men died for that. Yes . S, with the glasses, i think the fundamental difference is the yes campaign scotland, future of and they are fighting passionately for their jobs. I would let you pick it up, first of all. With respect to the lady who just spoke, i will not win you over, because i think you are fairly much on the other side. We need to make the decision, that is why it is important that we make the right decision on september 18. There, i amleman passionate about the case because of the jobs, the opportunities, as well as the security that comes with being part of the union. This i could address gentlemans question about how do we sustain that engagement, i think one possibility for that as a yes vote is the formation of a constitution for an independent scotland. You both very much,
Diplomatic corps alive today. He said, i do. We could have gotten that agreement if we had been a little more persistent, flexible and creative. But what really cost us was the political withdrawal. We cut off highlevel Political Engagement with iraq when we withdrew our troops. There were no senior visits. Very few phone calls. Secretary of state john kerry made one visit prior to this Current Crisis mainly to lecture the iraqis on how bad they were being for facilitating iranian Weapons Systems to syrian Bashar Assad Bashar Assad and we left them to their own devices, knowing if left to their own devices it would not work out well. You have mr. Blinkens comments and juks to pose them with juxtapose them with crocker. Heres what leon panetta said, secretary of defense quote it was clear to me and many others that withdrawing our forces would endanger the fragile stability then barely holding iraq together. Thats from secretary leon panettas book. Then he went on to say my fear is i vo