Im very excited for this week. We will get to that in a second. Pending home sales in february scarlet fu has all the headlines. Scarlett pending home sales coming in much higher than anticipated, 3. 1 gain in january on the yearoveryear basis of a 12 increase when economists were looking for an increase of 8. 7 . Pending home sales track the number of contracts in a given trade, seen as a forwardlooking indicator. Existing sales another report that we give you at times like this, tallied after forwardlooking indicators that could signal a busy spring selling season for the Housing Market in the u. S. We should mention the january numbers were revised lower even in the face of damaging weather here in the northeast. 3. 1 in february month over month the 12 increase on the yearoveryear. U. S. Stocks are higher and remain higher no Real Movement there, the dollar picking up a little bit for the dx why index. The 10 year yield and two year yield and twoyear yield remain lower, no real cha
Red lines are all about. Live from bloomberg headquarters in new york, this is Market Makers, with Erik Schatzker and Stephanie Ruhle. Good morning. It is thursday in new york city. You are watching Market Makers. I am Erik Schatzker. I am Stephanie Ruhle. After a week and a half, you may not be excited about it. Allquote mariah carey i want for christmas is new got a change the topic very quickly. Got to change the topic very quickly. We have an unbelievable lineup. We are already getting calls saying that joe baratta is on, i want to cancel meetings. Then we will be speaking with Alan Mullally. I will share the interview i had yesterday afternoon. Herbalife. Ing lets not forget about bill gross. Who can forget the bond king . For now, lets get to the newsfeed. It is the top business story from around the world. The u. S. Economy grew faster in the thor quarter than first figures showed. Up from the initial estimate of 2. 8 . The biggest increase in inventory since 1998 is the reason.
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Please keep the spirit of lit fest going all year long with a subscription. This year we are also introducing a new digital bookstore. Please take one of our promo cards for information about the app and axis the special book deals. Before they can todays program please file ensure cell phones. You return your camera flash off. We will allow you to take pictures. You can post those pictures online using hashtag printers row. Gives me great pleasure to introduce to you guys are moderate todays conversation, eric banks. Mr. Banks. Thank you. Thank you very much. Welcome everybody. Its good to see you here this morning and its my pleasure to welcome today Monique Brinson demery, the author of the amazing book, finding the dragon lady the mystery of vietnams madame nhu, which has recently been published by Public Affairs books. She holds a masters degree from harvard university, and when she made contact with madame nhu who was the unofficial first lady of the south east government in 2005
Who is the prolific author of some 26 books and about 22 behind, mom. It is these snail mail dispatches from the Eastern Front that reappear lightly edited in parts of the book and they help give the dispatches narrative some Chronological Order from 1975 when i first became, first began working in congress until 2010 when dean Harry Harding blessedly rescued me. Now in editing these papers, the great folks at bancroft press works to encourage me to leave some of that naive enthusiastic impressionable boys in and i did so what you have here are some stories about washington, about moscow, about a meeting with Andrei Sakharov and andre dmytro with jimmy carter, meetings with the nixon family, ted kennedy and with a young senator barack obama. They are stories about freshmen senators guys like howard baker, john kerry and joe biden when they first showed up on the Foreign Relations committee in the senate where i was the leadership staffer working for the committee. And there are stories