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classes for you. futures in the united states, the s&p 500 on a three day losing streak. look at the euro. 1.08. the politics, the risk diminishes a little bit. a confluence of different pressures taking us there. alix: part of that has to deal with the new pressures. the pound, look at that, 1.24. that is up 0.8%. gold is going nowhere. it is treading water. crude oil is up about 0.6%. jonathan: we start with the french national debate last. macron and le pen coming out on top. our deputy europe chief covers french politics joining us now. let s start with macron. where did he strike his blows? i would caution you on saying this is an actual win for him. he went into this as a potential front-runner, tied with le pen. what he needed to do was maintain that position. it is fair not to say that he maintained that position. two polls since the debate last peoplehow that 29% of thought macron did best in the debate. that is better than anybody else. that is a good thing. ....
i might have met one yesterday, patrick harker. the new philly fed president. has a business background, academic background. went to the university of delaware. interesting guy. has a civil engineering degree and a master in economics. he was trying to be a homer. i know. i got it. i was ignoring it. that s your first meeting with this guy? yeah, it was. he s not as hawkish as charlie plosser. much more down the middle. love charlie. he s on board with a few rate hikes, but not in a hurry to do more. three more or three total? three total. two more. we had kashkari on yesterday. i know. i saw that. you did? i read the transcripts later. you did? yeah. some people with that viewpoint like the interview, my viewpoint. you heard, if you read you know what i was saying to him, i think he s crazy. right. because you re close enough to the statistical inflation numbers to where if you re at all forward thinking at all, now is the time. he ....
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julie: we have stocks trading a little bit higher as investors tried to figure out what to make a friday s jobs report and look ahead to janet speaking, today around midday. the dow leading the gains as the nasdaq is the lacquer lagger. shares up more than 1% as a group and that is the leaving gain in the s&p 500. materials also higher, finance bouncing back from rightist decline, industrials and tech up as well. oil could reach $60 a barrel by the end of the year. they did say the global oil surplus is being worked down more quickly than had been anticipated, oil prices higher by 2.5%, still shy of $50 a in thethe jewish u.s. iron ore miners and miners of other metals are rallying as we see the underlying metals rally. in looking at the bond market, we saw a big drop in yield on friday following the jobs report. this is the first increase that since may 27, up to 1.73 percent and looking at currencies as well, the dollar strengthening versus the euro, the pound a ....
prepared is the market for a hike? financials are the only sector still in the red so far this year. we re going to talk to barclays banking analyst about where there s some opportunity. and our new digital series binge launches today. we talk to marquee names in the world of media for an inside look at what s driving our binge culture. we ll give you an inside look at what to expect. first up investors focused on speech today set for fed chair janet yell. how the future impact interest rate decisions if you listen to some today maybe the chop in the data doesn t necessarily dissuade them from a june move. no, not one month at least doesn t dissuade them. i think the question has to arise exactly how much more data are we going to get before the july meeting that would actually give you assurance that it isn t the beginning of a trend. the fact that markets took it in stride relatively speaking, at least the stock market really just held in there, buying panic a ....