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A double record run. Both the dow and s p hit all time highs. Despite a dip in Consumer Confidence to the lowest level since 2011. The nasdaq closed higher by 12 points but needs to get above 5,000 before reaching a record. Gold sold off by 8 dollars and oil dripped by 95 cents. In earnings after hours. Linkedin topped wall streets view but the forecast was below range. Yelp reported losing more money as it spends more on marketing. Yelp lost 2. 3 million. And Gilead Sciences came in strong with earnings and full year guidance that beat the street. Shares rose 1 after the close. Its official dell is now a private company. And, sac is set to soon plead guilty to securities fraud according to the wall street journal. All enough men have trading in advantages on. In the seat first this morning is in the trading area of cme group. Good morning to you. Good morning angie. Wh ....
About to speak, an hour from now, the tenyear yield certainly becomes important, at two seven. Interesting. Nothing really nothing. Yeah. Give your ro europe before w talk about yellen and the news of the morning as well. You can see largely green over there. What are we thinking . You know, wheres the focus here when we listen to her an hour from now start her first testimony, in the house and in the senate later in the week . Well try to figure out whether 6. 6 is the issue. The Unemployment Rate. Because weve got so many other contraindicaters of weakness, the employment number, the nonfarm, obviously not that great. I think what she has to do is say, look, were saying the course here. One of the things i liked about it, if it gets bad again were right back in. And unfortunately i dont know how much it matters, david. We keep thinking it matters a great deal, but the ten year is doing its own thing. If you are a banker at on ....
I want to urge you all to access that report when we make it public mar. The Federal Reserve convention requires that i issued a disclaimer, which is that i only speak for the Federal Reserve bank of dallas. Not for any other association with our Great Central bank. This is usually abundantly clear. [laughter] but i have to say that. In many matters we entertain opinions that are very much different than those of our esteemed colleagues. I was the fourth my sentiments freely and without reserve on the issue of too big to fail. I mean no disrespect to others to harbor different views. Everyone and their sister knows that the Financial Institutions that are too big to fail are at the epicenter of the two thousand nine financial crisis. They are known as islan ....