rally. the bond market yesterday saying a bit of buying come back, but not much for printing. 71 basis on the 10 year right now. action pivots over what is happening in the united states. we get to the michigan consumer center. a little stronger than economists seemed to have protected. 74.1, up from 72.8 last time around. 72.8 was what the economists were predicting as well. current conditions, 82.9. that is slightly ahead of expectation which are at 60.5. the expectations number is actually where we are seeing the strain. let s turn to our big story of the day, we have seen that apart from the japanese prime minister shinzo abe, the country s longest serving premier will be undergoing treatment for chronic illness. he spoke earlier today. respond to ready to the mandate by the public. i made a judgment i should not continue my job as prime minister. to step down as prime minister. indicated that he will stay on until leaders within his party choose the successor. that could
apple ceo tim cook the stage in cupertino tuesday, unveiling new iphone models with new colors and three cameras. details on those products and more like the apple watch. and linking up, we check in with linkedin ceo jeff weiner and his thoughts on the company three years after microsoft acquired the job listing site. we begin with one of our top stories. oracle announced wednesday mark hurd, the ceo, is taking a leave of absence for health reasons. this after the company disclosed the move along with quarterly earnings earlier than they said were to be released the company did not specify what issues hurd faces were how long his leave will be, but the executive chairman, larry ellison, released a statement saying, oracle has an extremely capable ceo ending the extraordinarily deep team of executives, many with long tenure at oracle. we will cover marc s responsibility during his absence with support from the rest of our strong management team. i spoke with our bloomberg
obviously, if nafta were to collapse, canada has a bilateral trade deal with the u.s.. what is the canadian priority here? would it prefer to fall back to that? when the minister started talking about arlington cemetery, that was a metaphor for the death of nafta. canada would probably be the least disrupted. it would be a short-term pickup. canada can fall back on the free trade agreement with united states. there may not be that much of a disruption. back-and-forth, the unconditional proposals, make a good agreement better. some of these proposals run counter to rules. and we had the mexican representatives saying we will need to a knowledge we have limits. are we going to be will to resurrect nafta or is the united states justifying a way to get out of this? dollar is the billion question with mexico. we don t know where they are going with this. they have extended the talks. they do want to make progress. donald trump keeps saying it is a bad deal. robert today highli
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