And the vote is set for 11 eastern advancing nomnation for the u. S. Court of International Trade. Live Senate Coverage is here on cspan2. Thpresiding officer the senate will come to orde the chaplain dr. Barry black will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray holy god, continue to be our strength and shield. Extend your powerful hands to aid and deliver us. Lord, inspireur senators to bieve that you continue to work for the good of those who love you. Let your favor shine upon our lawmakers, and sustain them with your unfailing love. Lord, release to them the pleasings you have stored for those who honor you. You are our god, and our future is in yourands. Remind us al to seek first to understand before we stri to be understood. We pray in your sacred name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and
Crude at 22 a barrel. Guy some of the crude stocks in europe are trading a bit higher. Of the stocks in terms Sector Performance today actually doing a little bit better, but european stocks are down. We are down your session lows, approaching 4 . We are waiting to find out what happens in the senate a little bit later. That big bazooka a little bit of ther on ahead german fiscal story. Theyre going to be turning on the taps over in berlin. Still, maybe more need to be done on a european basis. 38 on the negative 0. 38 on 38 on theenure german 10 year. The pound is back down again now , down only a little bit, but its been battered of late. The euro is still in positive territory, up by over 1 at the moment. Clearly, this demand for dollars still yet to be fully cited by the swap lines put in place. But to be honest, they take a little while to work. All of these announcements we are getting on a minute by minute basis from the and others, they dont kick in immediately. They take a lit
Parts here today. Some are literal. The princess cruise ship is one. Theyre watching throughout the day as it makes its way to the port of oakland. It is supposed to dock around 3 00 this afternoon. Well talk about that, oil off the bat with our buddy phil flynn out in chicago, price futures group, senior strategist at cme. We talked about it last week, phil. You and i were going back and forth about russia and saudi arabia. Now we have the true price war breaking out that has consequences in places like texas and north dakota. Take us through what youre thinking about today . What im thinking about is were learning today, not always is a low price for oil good for everything. There is concerns for banks, oil producers, the general overall market. Having said that, there is some hope, you know, right now with the talks of stimulus. Maybe we can pull off the lows right now. There are old saying in the business low prices cure low prices but this breakup of opec and russia, this opec plu
This is a tiny number of sociopaths who are making these decisions and they dont even notice if we all march outside in. Acts these marches are kind of like those those raids your experience things at airports and restaurants the flight has already been connected to anything ok the powers that be just know that you feel better if you think you gave your opinion that is it although i will say it all the last time i used one of those i did get a response from the t. S. A. At the airport. I was only even half way through taking a dump on the frowny face when the. Guys with guns showed up so the. Point is theres too much money for these corporations to stop doing what theyre doing fossil fuel companies wrist were wasting more than 2. 00 trillion dollars over the coming decade by pursuing coal. Oil and gas projects that could be worthless in the face of International Action on Climate Change they have made a 2 trillion dollar gamble that we will all keep using fossil fuels even as society c
Business not to the colorful large is where we all show up for 2 hours while the politicians go golfing ok im not saying dont do this im just saying our rulers dont k. Or that you did this its like when you address of a baby you address of your baby in a costume im not saying you have to stop but youre only doing it for yourself or baby ok. Ok. Ok. But since i aim to please heres a point for those of you who dont give a about the Climate Crisis the corporations that are screwing your life pillaging your land sucking your tax dollars drive through subsidies and meanwhile paying a warm can of parts in our those corporations are the same ones creating the Climate Crisis in fact its just a 100 companies are responsible for 71 percent of global emissions when it gets even worse the report found that more than a half of Global Industrial emissions since 1988 more than half can be traced to just 25. 00 corporate and state owned entities 25. 00 corporations theyre killing us there smothering u